Black people are in an increasingly desparate situation as this administration destroys many of the legal and social advances that were made over the past 50 years. As one famous lawyer recently stated, Trump's judges don't believe in the Fair Housing Act, Immigration and Nationalization Act, Voting Rights Act, Equal Rights Amendment, Medicare Act, or any of the other advances of the 1960s and Black people are in a very dangerous place with these judges.

After listening to some of the questions on the CNN townhall with Kamala Harris, it seemed to me that some of these college students are "extremely-online" as they say on twitter. People asking about Reparations and Legalizing Sex work, as if there was actually going to be a House and Senate that would pass these things. I know that I'm a radical but how does reparations get more airtime during a cable TV townhall than gentrification, Stand Your Ground, the educational achievement gap (hell the entire whitewashed US educational system curriculum), Mitch McConnell's stolen Supreme Court seats, Anthony Kennedy's son being Trump's financier, the extreme hate emanating from the Right Wing Media, etc.

I get that we're so online now that we're going to talk about "integration vs segregation" before we can even get to a discussion about the Black community in America making electoral demands. I actually think that I should add "Creating a modern information/news ecosystem" into the poll because really Black people under 40 are being radicalized online by Russian propaganda while their parents are being inundated with Trump 24-7 on MSNBC and CNN.

It's wild having to actually hear Black boomers discuss Ilhan Omar as if she was a anti-semite.

Poll result (19 votes) Abolishing Prisons (0 votes) Vote Reparations for Black Americans (8 votes) Vote Education Reform (2 votes) Vote Impeaching Trump/Removing Trumps Judges/Jailing McConnell (2 votes) Vote Medicare for all (4 votes) Vote Universal Basic Income (3 votes) Vote

https://youtu.be/qVMW_1aZXRk?t=330

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Ugh I actually didn't even watch the second and third debate because the first one was so sickening. Hillary was getting trashed and she didn't even have a come back for his troll ass.


America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

Huh? That’s not happening.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

I mean, abolishing prisons is an aspect of ending mass incarceration.

I think that the abolition movement is too literal to fully encompass the philosophy and theory behind restorative justice but it hits hard and could be useful because the violations associated with the prison system are so harsh. Also, the concept is based off of the fact that the 13th amendment still allows slavery for crimes, so the history of abolition is embedded in the fight.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

Has ANY candidate come out with a strong plan for that ?

R.I.P. Loud But Wrong Guy
Dec 29th 2009 - Dec 17th 2017

I think people are expecting the FBI to do the work when the FBI is rife with racists. I think the issue of online radicalization is so deep that we need a Black cybercommand to address the issue. Clearly Anonymous was a Russian frontgroup because their bitchasses bluffed their way into oblivion.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

>that we need a Black cybercommand to
>address the issue.

--- praying for peace, love, and power

Issuing international red letters, nicknamed "Kanyes" on white supremacist trolls and the black people who support them.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/36sVyej7BnQ/hqdefault.jpg

--- praying for peace, love, and power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Wasow#/media/File:Omar_Wasow.jpg

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

HOME OWNERSHIP is the number one way to build wealth and secure financial leverage to do just about everything needed to create freedom.


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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ~ Albert Einstein

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

>HOME OWNERSHIP is the number one way to build wealth and
>secure financial leverage to do just about everything needed
>to create freedom.

Though it is one way to build wealth, it's not the only way.

--- praying for peace, love, and power

>>HOME OWNERSHIP is the number one way to build wealth and
>>secure financial leverage to do just about everything needed
>>to create freedom.
>
>Though it is one way to build wealth, it's not the only way.
>
>

Anyone that doesn't want to own a house/ real estate doesn't understand economics and how powerful owning land really can be to helping create generational wealth.




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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ~ Albert Einstein

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

>Anyone that doesn't want to own a house/ real estate doesn't
>understand economics and how powerful owning land really can
>be to helping create generational wealth.


Broad strokes, Counselor?!?!

Also, one can own land but still choose to not own a home.

Edit: And man, I ain't arguerin' witchoo. Everytime I see someone attempt it, I think of Adrian in Rocky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvcee2Dqk4I

--- praying for peace, love, and power

Also, people can learn to code and create apps that can generate income or opportunities, but they need to obtain an education.



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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ~ Albert Einstein

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

From 2002 to 2014 the federal government devised a method of providing cheap loans for nontraditional borrowers (black and brown people) that ended up with a massive loss of wealth and a foreclosure crisis. the democrats and tim geithner decided the government should provide a glidepath for banks to siphon off billions while homeowners were given nothing.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

I'm leaning more so towards Reparations with Education Reform being part of the package.

Education reform and affordable housing would definitely need to be included.

--- praying for peace, love, and power

because right now the schools have basically resegregated to pre1970 levels and white people are basically abandoning affirmative action. While charter schools are terrible for Black people because they're so poorly managed, they might be a saving grace for school districts that are so deep under the thumb of white ruled state legislatures (like baltimore is under the state of maryland). They are actually more independent from state restrictions on curriculum.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

I'm just brianstorming.. BUT....

1. Free College or Trade school via $0 Full-Ride (housing, food, books, etc) scholarships to any school that a student qualifies to enter.

2. Mortgages (validated by income) with 0 Intrest for the first 15 years and ever to go above 2.5 %


3. A $5000 per month, per houseold, until the 3rd Generation as long as the Primary Care provider or Head of Household remains gainfully employed or is attending a College or Tradeschool while not employed.





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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ~ Albert Einstein

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

- Poverty
- Drugs
- Criminal Justice Reform
- Crime
- Building Generational Wealth

are these ranked at all for you?

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

Any black person who think they will actually get any real money from the United States Of America is dumb as bricks; by real money I mean more than $500.

This country is like a melting pot of culture & racial mixing that it's a shame, there would be so many people who have never claimed to be colored, negro, black, african-american who has never claimed to be one in their entire life come out the woodworks to be apart of that collective to claim a check.

The only reason they are bringing this subject matter up is cause of how black people only pay attention to politics when it's about money & jobs they could receive, or a break on an illegal matter; they know it's just to get you riled up, but all they plan on really doing is just creating a committee or organization to look into the matter with no plans of actually going thru with any of it, you know the response... "You know that's a real good question, I'll look into that, might form a group or committee to come up with a possible solution" and black people fall for it every damn time.

It's like when a politician brings up welfare, confederate flags, prison reform, legalizing marijuana, equal employment opportunity, social security, etc. to peak interest to get people to follow & vote for them during election time, then as soon as elections are over you don't hear shit from any of those people who got elected.

https://tinyurl.com/y4ba6hog

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"We in here talking about later career Prince records
& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

The only reason this shit made it to a cnn townhall is because journalists and college students are so engulfed in the twitterverse.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

Nice vote of confidence.


>Any black person who think they will actually get any real
>money from the United States Of America is dumb as bricks; by
>real money I mean more than $500.
>
>This country is like a melting pot of culture & racial mixing
>that it's a shame, there would be so many people who have
>never claimed to be colored, negro, black, african-american
>who has never claimed to be one in their entire life come out
>the woodworks to be apart of that collective to claim a check.
>
>
>The only reason they are bringing this subject matter up is
>cause of how black people only pay attention to politics when
>it's about money & jobs they could receive, or a break on an
>illegal matter; they know it's just to get you riled up, but
>all they plan on really doing is just creating a committee or
>organization to look into the matter with no plans of actually
>going thru with any of it, you know the response... "You know
>that's a real good question, I'll look into that, might form a
>group or committee to come up with a possible solution" and
>black people fall for it every damn time.
>
>It's like when a politician brings up welfare, confederate
>flags, prison reform, legalizing marijuana, equal employment
>opportunity, social security, etc. to peak interest to get
>people to follow & vote for them during election time, then as
>soon as elections are over you don't hear shit from any of
>those people who got elected.
>
>
>

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>Nice vote of confidence.
>

Giving up without trying.

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Black people will never get any monetary compensation from the US government. They didn’t get what they were promised during the Lincoln presidency and they won’t get anything now. We didn’t even push Obama to give reparations to black people, so you think in that mind of yours that it’s going to happen? The days of believing, waiting, and seeing should be over and done with for black people but it’s not.

Anything Blacks fight for as a group will come with those Blacks who speak against it, discourage it, fight it, and sabotage it. It's always going to be those paralyzed with fear that say, don't try, fight or challenge anything. Yeah forgot reparations and focus on pulling up sagging pants , that's the big picture. Fighting slavery and lynching a waste of our ancestors time. What was wrong with them.




>Black people will never get any monetary compensation from
>the US government. They didn’t get what they were promised
>during the Lincoln presidency and they won’t get anything
>now. We didn’t even push Obama to give reparations to black
>people, so you think in that mind of yours that it’s going
>to happen? The days of believing, waiting, and seeing should
>be over and done with for black people but it’s not.

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>Anything Blacks fight for as a group will come with those
>Blacks who speak against it, discourage it, fight it, and
>sabotage it. It's always going to be those paralyzed with fear
>that say, don't try, fight or challenge anything. Yeah forgot
>reparations and focus on pulling up sagging pants , that's the
>big picture. Fighting slavery and lynching a waste of our
>ancestors time. What was wrong with them.
>

We had 8 years with a black face in office and we said not a word. Too many were just satisfied with having representation while we got no results. Blacks on a whole didn’t even push the issue with Obama there, so we are supposed to mount a charge now? How asinine to think that we can get something of this magnitude accomplished.

And changing our mindset and getting out of the prison mentality is the big picture.

This is more of the same. First state that it will never happen then direct your strongest criticism at Black folk. It's cowardly, IF you are black and business as sop if you are white.

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>This is more of the same. First state that it will never
>happen then direct your strongest criticism at Black folk.
>It's cowardly, IF you are black and business as sop if you are
>white.

because if we can’t rally together then nothing will get done. Folks like you are steady giving black folks a pass for what we’re not doing. Yet and still we are falling behind while we’re fighting whitey to give us reparations. No one can seem to understand that we had 8 years of Obama and our community got zero, but hold him up as some hero. If we continue to fail to look within and address our own matters then things will not change. So you can stay delusional about the status of black people here, and keep fighting whitey on things that we can change and control.

>
>because if we can’t rally together then nothing will get
>done.

Yeah part of "rally together" is not giving up.

Folks like you are steady giving black folks a pass for
>what we’re not doing.

lol is that what folks are doing ?

Yet and still we are falling behind
>while we’re fighting whitey to give us reparations.

We get ahead by quitting before we start ?

>No one
>can seem to understand that we had 8 years of Obama and our
>community got zero, but hold him up as some hero.

Hmmmmm the Obama thing is a strawman, I'll explain it below.

>If we
>continue to fail to look within and address our own matters
>then things will not change. So you can stay delusional about
>the status of black people here, and keep fighting whitey on
>things that we can change and control.

Your words

"blacks still won’t get anything if the attitude was different"

"Black people will never get any monetary compensation from the US government. They didn’t get what they were promised during the Lincoln presidency and they won’t get anything now."


and you follow up those comments with this

"We didn’t even push Obama to give reparations to black people, so you think in that mind of yours that it’s going to happen?"

"We had 8 years with a black face in office and we said not a word. Too many were just satisfied with having representation while we got no results. Blacks on a whole didn’t even push the issue with Obama there"

See the problem with that ? Why would Obama do anything about reparations and why would we say a word or push the issue when "Black people will never get any monetary compensation"

I mean if you were consistent and "genius" you wouldn't question why Obama did nothing and we didn't push.

I never said Obama was a hero and I never gave anyone a pass. Using that is just a strawman.

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>Yeah part of "rally together" is not giving up.
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>lol is that what folks are doing ?
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>We get ahead by quitting before we start ?
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Actually it is... you need to understand that reparations will never happen. If our grandparents and great grandparents never received it then we sure as hell won’t

>Hmmmmm the Obama thing is a strawman, I'll explain it below.
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>>If we
>>continue to fail to look within and address our own matters
>>then things will not change. So you can stay delusional
>about
>>the status of black people here, and keep fighting whitey on
>>things that we can change and control.
>
>Your words
>
>"blacks still won’t get anything if the attitude was
>different"
>
>"Black people will never get any monetary compensation from
>the US government. They didn’t get what they were promised
>during the Lincoln presidency and they won’t get anything
>now."
>
>
>and you follow up those comments with this
>
>"We didn’t even push Obama to give reparations to black
>people, so you think in that mind of yours that it’s going
>to happen?"
>
>"We had 8 years with a black face in office and we said not a
>word. Too many were just satisfied with having representation
>while we got no results. Blacks on a whole didn’t even push
>the issue with Obama there"
>
>See the problem with that ? Why would Obama do anything about
>reparations and why would we say a word or push the issue when
>"Black people will never get any monetary compensation"
>
>I mean if you were consistent and "genius" you wouldn't
>question why Obama did nothing and we didn't push.
>
>I never said Obama was a hero and I never gave anyone a pass.
>Using that is just a strawman.
>

Which is why I make the point that blacks will never receive reparations from the government. So my question to you is that why do black people continue to push whitey or even not support a white candidate who doesn’t want to give blacks reparations? Yet no one put the fire to Obama in his 8 years in office. There is the hypocrisy with us. Because you won’t acknowledge the fact that Obama could’ve done more on the front of helping black people in terms of monetary compensation is giving him a pass. There is nothing wrong with what I said or the example that I gave. Blacks don’t hold our own to a higher standard because we know that whites won’t get it done for us, and then the black politicians skate on by with no criticism. Black politicians know that they will receive a majority of the black vote. They don’t do anything special or work to earn the vote that they get.

#1 Voting Rights and Election Reform
The direction of this issue boils down to a nefarious conversation and political struggle about citizenship. Who is. Who isn't. And how much of one a person can be. Tale as old as time.

#2 Education Reform
1,000%, education reform should include required citizenship courses for K-12 and undergraduate students *AND* required information literacy instruction for K-12 and undergraduate students.

#3 Health Care
This is an issue that as a whole, we may take for granted. Extreme health disparities and outcomes, especially for Black mothers-to-be, are alarming. A cliche, now, perhaps, but as Audre Lorde says: “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

In any other given year, my top 3 might be different. Currently, my #1 & #2 switch places, depending.

I'm not sure if people--myself included--quite get the full implications of the sobering gains the judicial and legal system has usurped since the beginning of the Trump administration.

without that then nothing else matters.

theres a reason that mlk called voting 'civil right #1'.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTmTN4ZVwAAMz5T.jpg

And is the quickest & best way to flip the field for ys.

Ok

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

And rehab, and mental care.
Think bigger than just a check. But a check should definitely be included.

I'm a staunch prison reform advocate, believe me, but an adequate reparations package will include that

Or a added component. I have admittedly not followed the most recent reparations debates due to the overall threat to even more basic advances. I can see how after the civil war we may want to include reparations in the black marshall plan.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

Will put a lot of those brothers right back in the system, quickly

Knowing how our country has always ripped people off by rewording & stating contracts and laws, they probably will never actually put any of the following words or types for reparations: negro, colored, black, afro-american, or even african-american; they probably will include minority or non-white-british descent (which means all other races will be able to collect such as latino, jewish, irish, italian, asian, native american, islander, arab, etc.), also what about all the black mixed race people in this country that are half or a percentage of a caucasian, do they meet the requirements or just a percentage?

I ask this cause this is how loopholes are put in place to benefit those who suppose to not receive anything, but always seem to, lawyers are great at doing things like that.

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

VOTE AGAINST TRUMP AND ANY REPUBLICAN.

If they stay in office you are so so fucked.

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Ain’t happening

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

if it works the way I think.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

i don't want to hear that "it's not feasible" mess. they come up with solutions
for every goddamn thing else. for instance, they could tax the top 1%ers more.

Small business grants
Home loans with awesome rates

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

that grant better be huge, funds is dried up for you. i see more pupusa places than
anything, it's too far gone. i mean how many do you need? boom and bust.

home loan better be 0%

"just print more money!"


>Small business grants
>Home loans with awesome rates
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>they come
>up with solutions
>for every goddamn thing else.

lol

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America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

anything else is a band-aid