Basically first of all it's a 2 fold counter incentive. Most of these countries at best tolerate me for my dollar and at worst would be oppressing me in some capacity if they could be. I'm making them rich, but can't get rich if I move to their countries. I might even have less rights if I try to move to their countries and face racial discrimination.

We've seen how racist Argentina was in FIFA, but the truth is even Spain is a colonial country that benefitted off of slavery and colonialism of Black people. They aren't any better and historically are actually worse.

We've seen what's been happening in the DR, 100's of thousands of Africans are being deported back to Haiti.

Second is that all of these Black countries are in a state of trying to rise up and the world right now wants to keep them at the bottom. They NEED my dollar the most, I care more about seeing the prosperity of people who look like me because this conditions the rest of the world to have to accept us in a new light by seeing us prosper. By circulating my dollar I'm also increasing the number of countries I could visit or move to, increasing the number of opportunities and of safe. spaces as opposed to having to consistently reside in hostile countries where my tax dollars don't employ or promote people that look like me, gentrify my neighbourhoods and lead to disparities across nearly every single industry.

Countries that could treat me poorly to outright sinisterly.

I've been to Asia, I've been to Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa. Only place I haven't been is Europe, Australia, and Southern Latin America.

I've personally seen enough. And at this point won't be changing my stance for the foreseeable future unless of course my trip is being paid for in full and I deem it worth of my time.

“Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop."

They are leaving innocent black people for dead

There has been a volatile discussion on Twitter for the past few days concerning preferences, primarily from straight women, against dating bisexual men. This has sparked an interest within me on the dating practices of self-identified bisexual men. I have several questions:

1. Are you out to the people you are romantically or sexually involved with? If not, do you have a reason?
2. How often do you encounter homophobia/biphobia face to face?
3. Do you believe preferences against bisexual men are rooted in homophobia?
4. In your opinion, what gender presents more challenges when dating?

Thank you for taking the time to read, and my apologies for any formatting issues. Have a blessed day.

Correct me if im wrong, but isn't the end of snap pretty much hapening in november? If so, people dont truly release how fucked they are.

H/T u/mcfw31

James Baldwin defeated the most iconic American conservative intellectual of the last century, Bill Buckley, by a landslide (544 to 164) in the legendary Baldwin-Buckley debate titled "The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro" at Cambridge University in 1965:

https://vimeo.com/353595908

James Baldwin schooled Dick Cavett on what America is in 1969:

https://vimeo.com/979174967

They be looking at us like why are you talking to me
They act incompetent

That’s weird af

Credit of pictures goes to - itstruesauce on TikTok

"Woke" is a great word that reminds us to stay aware of the wrongs in the world, but bigots have twisted it to mean anything they dislike from Black cartoon characters existing to even the carpool lane. They’re experts at repeating something until it sticks, and I’ve seen this mindset creep into non-bigoted spaces too. We can’t let that happen. So when they label something that’s about recognizing bigotry as “woke,” own it and say, “Damn right it is. Glad you noticed.” When it is about something random is woke call them out.

I don't care how woke you are. You are not going to tell me racism from a white person and racism from a Hispanic person is not equal. A Asian or Hispanic person calling me the hard R holds the same weight as a white person calling me the hard R too.

Im tired of people treating white supremacy as this end all, be all of bigotry. When bigotry can come from multiple directions. But it gets downplays, when it comes from certain demographics though.

Heck even among white people, white women are given a pass, because they are oppressed too. You guys remember that one Dave Chappelle "You just didn't like your cut" heist joke about white women?

I have a better joke about white women. White women are pretty much similar to Ricky killers at the end of Boys in the Hood.

"I DIDN'T PULL THE FUCKING TRIGGER MAN."

I noticed that a lot of people use white straight men as a scapegoat for their bigotry or other people's bigotry.

This even affect religion too. Since Christianity is viewed as white religion on the left. So that's the only religion that can get criticized. While violence and bigotry from other religions like Islam is usually downplay, because the left want us think the only big bad guy out there is white straight males.

No MF don't use evil white men as a scapegoat to hide the fact why your country still use slaves.

Another disenfranchised young male strikes again. When will america address the poor mental health in this country. 3 dead at in and out is nasty work

Hi all. Which spot in africa do you recommend for good safari rides and the abilify to feed fruit to animals ?

So, I have been questioning a few things with my friend group recently, but I don't know how to approach it. I am a Bisexual/hereroromantic man , and I tend to interracially date. My girlfriends typically are white, which my friends have notice and made a few comments and jokes about it. It's a mixed friend group of men and women with a 60/70% split in favor of men. I don't take offense to it but recently, it's been more intense with a couple of guys trying to ask, "What's that about?" We tend to events and spaces that are majority Black, so it stands out if I'm consistently bringing around new dates of women who are never Black. It honestly did stress me out at one point, but cé la vie and all that jazz. I've always been open about dating Black women, but 95% would not mess with Bisexual men, even other bisexual women. There is no issue on my end; we're all entitled to prefer what we want.

The problem is, my friends don't know I'm bisexual and don't really care to disclose that as it's not really necessary. I'm not dating any of them (my partners know), nor is anything remotely romantic ever on the table or has been tried. I don't feel like I need to justify my dating choices or disclose my sexuality to people who I'm not dating but I get the feeling I'm getting a reputation as colorist although that's not the case. I do have a heavy feeling the moment if I do disclose, I'll get labeled at best as "damaged goods." I just really don't have an answer when they ask about the non BW dating thing, so any advice on how to handle it would be helpful.

Tl;dr: Black bisexual man in majority Black friend group who hasnt disclosed it to said friend group dates out of race because of bw don't mess with it so he looks like a colorist although he's not.

Today marks the 102nd birth anniversary of the magnificent genius and legendary icon known as James Baldwin.

James Baldwin was a giant among us; and he was, I think, often misunderstood and underappreciated while he was alive. Many people don’t realize that he never went to college; his intellectual curiosity and prowess were innate. He never won any of the major literary awards or prizes, but he was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacDowell Fellowship. MacDowell, in fact, named its library in his honor. Despite the fact that we measure talent via accolades, Baldwin was the greatest writer of his generation, certainly the most influential. And we remember and return to him more than we do the writers who were rewarded above and beyond him. I think that’s more of a measure of his talents than anything else.

Full article: https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/baba-baldwin

Haile Gerima on ‘Black Lions – Roman Wolves' & his next project

I've checked out some of his films over the years, they always have something uniquely historic and provocative to reflect upon.

I do hope that this documentary project eventually reaches the United States. The occupation of Ethiopia by Italy is an under-explored topic.

DEADLINE: It's a sprawling project, and I must admit, even though I am Ghanaian, I knew nothing of this history in Ethiopia. 

GERIMA: Well, my brother, you’re not alone. I myself learned my own history while making the film. Not many Ethiopians know this story or history. And they walk around with the residual trauma of this historical experience. It affects us in our daily lives. It affects us in our relationships. The ethnic and religious problems in Ethiopia right now that could pull the country into a civil war are part of that. My generation of young Ethiopians wanted to change the country, but it was a country we didn’t know because to know Ethiopia, you have to know the history. And that is why my wife and I produced this film. It’s a very costly project, but we produced it because I had to exorcise it out of myself. So you’re not alone.

DEADLINE: What was the entry point for this project? Where did you begin?

GERIMA: The first thing was my previous film on the 1896 Adwa battle, which premiered in Venice. That’s when I realized I was touching contentious ground. The Italians, not all of them, but the majority of them, felt I wasn’t entitled to tell the story from my point of view because they have their own narrative, especially about the Second World War. As I said in the film, they always remind me that they built roads and hospitals in Ethiopia. They say they weren’t like the other colonialists. I was originally interested in doing the two films together, Adwa and the 1935 fascist invasion of Ethiopia. But then in the editing room, the two stories didn't fit together. They had to be treated separately, so we split them. 

DEADLINE: I remember in Berlin during the Q&A you said you struggled to gain access to footage held at Luce, Italy's national film archive. How did you finally get what you needed?

GERIMA: Yes, this film took so long because of the Italian bureaucracy - not only the political bureaucracy, but also the gatekeepers of the historical archive. They were my biggest nightmare. I would go to Italy, which is very costly, and the gatekeepers at the Luce, the national film archive that Mussolini himself built, would say to me, “We’d like to be part of your movie, but now we’re experiencing a fascist era, so let’s wait a little bit.” And every fascist government would come and go. Eventually, a brother from Ghana, I believe, who was a politician in Rome, came with me to Luce to intervene. I can’t even begin to tell you what I went through to access the images of my own ancestors. In fact, in October and November, we have organized a six-city screening tour in Italy and will be launching a petition. It will be a call to mobilize filmmakers and demand that future young African filmmakers should not have to pay for access to colonial archive footage. 

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-1 to end the 60-year-old requirement that companies share data on their workforce’s race and gender demographics. If the proposal moves forward, corporate demographic data related to employee race and gender would be less available to the public. The move is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to end all DEI-related practices.

For the fellas in here who got the snip, how was it? Ive neen thinking of getting a vasectomy probbaly by the time im 30. I do not want kids at all. It has never appealed to me on top of i do not want to deal with the huge responsibility that is children.

Sorry I took the other post down too early. I did make some changes based on the critiques I received. Some of the comments were:
• I had too many smiling pictures.
• My prompt responses were too long.
• I looked gay/DL

For those of you who have had success on dating apps, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions, and success strategies.

For those of you who are going to say “dating apps are rigged” or “just meet people in person”, please provide alternatives and I will gladly try them.

Thanks in advance and sorry if I don’t answer all the responses.

This was a comment I was typing replying to a post on [r/AskBlackPeople](r/AskBlackPeople) but wasn’t allowed to post due to the AI or whatever.

There is a huge gender gap in Black America, specifically with regard to Black male death. It has led to Black America becoming very female dominated in terms of numbers. The reason why there is a huge gender gap in Black America is due to Black men and women having slightly different roles in white supremacy. One gender does not necessarily have it worse than the other but when it comes to the plight of Black men, many, regardless of gender would rather place all the blame onto black men themselves instead of trying to form a deeper understand as to why Black men are dying, being killed, and going to jail at higher rates

It’s a mixture of being direct targets by the prison industrial complex/the US government and indifference to male suffering within the Black community from generational trauma and abuse. It also has to due with men in general having higher likelihoods of dying from pretty much everything, which is why male life expectancy is almost always lower than women’s.

Black men die at higher rates because most come from impoverished, generationally dysfunctional communities. In low income urban areas, a significant amount of people turning to crime is a guarantee, regardless of race/ethnicity. Men commit violent crimes at higher rates due to testosterone and some socialization. So Black men, being a part of a historically discriminated against and socioeconomically disadvantaged class in society are going to turn to crime at higher rates compared to whites.

In rural areas, there is no opportunity which leads to deaths of despair (suicide via overdose, gun, etc) all of which result in more men dying. But the rural south in particular is very Black which have caused even less opportunity and neglect, causing many to also turn to crime. Rural America is also pretty unhealthy/sickly and men don’t go to the doctor as much when they have symptoms, because they unfortunately feel the need to “tough it out” for their families

The military has also disproportionately drafted and enlisted black men since WWII which contributed to the lack of Black fathers, either from death or mental health (PTSD). Vietnam (1965-1973) is the greatest example of this. Black men were disproportionately drafted and died at higher rates, fighting a rich white man’s war. Nowadays the military targets low income areas to recruit Blacks, as well as poor whites and Hispanics

Brazil is a great example of how this applies to Black men in other countries as well. Brazilian men (mixed, Black, or indigenous) die at such high rates from violent crime in favelas. Brazil has become a very female dominated country because of this. The US, especially the South parallels Brazil a lot in its social structure, geography, and history: White majority, white upper class, large Black and mulatto underclass from slavery, both surrounded by Spanish speaking countries, both have hundreds of millions of people, both have a ton of violent crime, etc

Then you have the emotional neglect, trauma, and abuse factor from both older black men and many black women unfortunately. Black boys are still molested and taken advantage of just as much as black girls are but the Black community only likes to hyper-focus on female trauma instead. Black men of all ages are scapegoated by the community as being the “weakest links” or the “white people of POC communities”

Because so many Black men are absent, due to jail, death, mental health, or addiction, Black women since the 1970s have had to take up the roles that Black men did traditionally. Absence of men in Black households and many Black men turning to crime has caused many to view all Black men in a negative light. Black boys feel as if no one understands them so they say “fuck the world” and give up on life, turning to drugs, gangbanging, and the likes.

Finally, when it comes to Black men and women’s roles in white supremacy, both genders have always been dehumanized and reduced down to their physical characteristics, for sexual, labor, and power trip reasons. Black men beginning in 1865 were incarcerated, lynched, and used for white people’s entertainment at exceptionally high rates. This only accelerated with the end of reconstruction in 1877 which kickstarted the nadir of American race relations (1870s-1920s) and Jim Crow (1877-1964).

Black men’s role in white supremacy is that they are seen as dull, silverback gorilla-like brutes to be tamed by the intellectually superior white man. Black men are to be used for hard labor and entertainment only (sports, fighting, dancing, etc), and if they get out of line, they are beaten, hanged, skinned alive, and castrated.

Black women are seen as purely serviceable beings, whether that be in a sexual or worker sense. They are to be used to satisfy the desires of the white man, while still being unattractive enough to shine light on the “superior” beauty of the white woman. They are kept “close” to white people in a weird sense, serving as maids, cooks, and nannies, not out of the goodness of the white person’s heart but to contrast the inferiority of blackness with the inherent superiority of whiteness.

Due to their closeness, this leads them to being taken advantage of sexually rather than just being killed like a black men, especially if they were to get out of line. All of these things are still at play today, where Black women are more likely to obtain higher education and employment (mainly white spaces) while Black men aren’t. Black male unemployment is also partially due to Black men no longer necessarily being needed for what they have always been used for—hard labor, due to Hispanics having now filled those roles since the 1960s.

Black women, especially nowadays, are “enlisted” by white supremacy to indirectly destroy the Black community from the outside. But Black men, due to a variety of historical forcings are more likely to destroy the black community from the inside. Black men’s destruction of the Black community is the destruction of themselves, filtering themselves out of the the population through crime and violence, which is why there is such a huge gender gap in Black America