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Hey. This was cool. Y’all be safe.

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This new Kendrick will allow me to comfortably ignore the Jack Harlow wave that’s forming.

do you give a fuck about kendrick lamar? what do you think about his new video? im sick of seeing it all over my timeline personally

I love Kendrick

For as much absolute *garbage* we have to endure in rap, we should allow space for one of the best lyricists of our time to cook and have his moment in the sun.

He'll disappear for another 5 years in between projects anyway.

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Why…why did I even bother opening this f*****g site again?

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In New Orleans, there’s okra gumbo and seafood gumbo. We all know this.

Get serious.

There’s something that’s been bothering for a while now & needs to be discussed amongst the Afro diaspora. …If there is no okra in your stew, it is not Gumbo. Okra is literally gumbo, you like stew or sauce not Gumbo.

Okra in gumbo looks and feels like a slug fell in the pot and died

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I feel what he’s saying, but on #1, I can’t relate. I hate those mfs. 🤣🤣

Your adversity started early on in life. From childhood poverty, through trials after trials and incessant setbacks. And you were still able to make something beautiful out of it.

1) are you filled with resentment when you see people who've had it easy all their lives and never experienced similar setbacks?

2) how were you able to navigate all these endless setbacks up to this very moment without giving up? What was going through your mind during these setbacks?

3) what next?

1. No, and yes.

No, I don't feel any resentment toward people who have had an easy life. An easy life is the goal for your children. I want my kids to have an easy life too. And I've met enough "people with means" to know that a good amount of them are incredibly unhappy. So what is there for me to be mad about.

Also, material possessions or not, easy life or not, most niggas are not built like me. It is what it is.

Yes, I hold resentment toward my parents for not making my life easier growing up. It's not all about money, there were a lot of tools that cost nothing they could have given me.

But I know they were just hood niggas who were a product of their environment and had children too young. I can only hold onto that for so long.

2. Because I don't want my child (if I ever have one) to ever have to answer the question I just answered. It's that simple.

3. Being as physically and mentally healthy as I can, going on vacations, stacking bread.

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I used to watch hours of EYL , then they started bringing in a bunch of celebrity guest who financial input I do not care for at all, I don’t care what Jim Jones has to say about crypto, (nor do I care for crypto), guest who do not have good reputations with their customers, now Rashard walk around dressed like he from Star island in Miami, with a questionable Beijing beard. I think I’m a move on from them.

I completely agree, and I'm in the same boat. I used to watch every single episode but now I drop in every few weeks or so for the exact things you mentioned.

I've battled with myself to give them grace and let them live out their dream. But for me it's HARD for them to be so unabashedly capitalist. They're completely agnostic about investing in unethical companies, bigging up unethical people, shit they even let quearionable guests come on the show and shill snake oil. They've let scammers like Jay Morrison and niggas like Him300 give illegal advice.

Black Americans always default to "But white people do it too!!!" when it comes to calling out Black scammers, or even criminals in general (Talk about R. Kelly and Bill Cosby with Black people and they'll say "what about Harvey Weinstein?" eventually).

Allowing the worst white people to be our barometer for what's acceptable is gross, and it should be beneath us.

But ultimately, this is America. The only thing that matters to Americans is money. Poor people are treated like shit, exploited, and are at risk of dying earlier. The United States has no soul outside of Black people and the indigenous, and neither one of us are in control.

I think there's a decent amount about the EYL niggas that's seeming a little unsavory. But I can't fully shit on them because, ethics aside, financial literacy is a survival tactic in 2021 America. This country will absolutely leave you behind.

I'd recommended Mark Monroe. He's worth a follow.

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Passed through for like 2 minutes, until ig returned my call.

Don't coming crawling back to Tumblr nigga. 😒

Don't worry, IG is back up.

Tumblr has returned to being my 5th string hoe

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This is amazing.

still thinking about wolf 21

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Lol. Ask me that question after I block yo ass.

Why do you block people? Are you afraid of open discussions & debates? Closed systems only collapse on themselves remember that.

Only people I mostly block are neo Nazis, anti sjws, their followers and certain shippers, so if you’re block it’s deserved.

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I haven’t posted anything in a while. Here, have a little #Choshi https://www.instagram.com/p/CASfShPn0JRtSermNtDAlsvLyG9iXhJOqiSg300/?igshid=dgibwd1r4m7f

#choshi

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It's low key hilarious how quiet you are on China racially targeting Africans over Covid-19 and trying to make black people the face of this virus when it originated in China. Yet when when it was being called China virus you made sure to be outraged over that. You claim you're pro black but are always oddly silently when it comes African issues or black people dealing with racism from other "POC". And since u have little regard for us Africans then stop objectifying our women.

Before I respond to your absolute DRIVEL, let me provide some critical context for those reading:

Months ago, I don’t remember how long ago, but it was definitely before COVID. There was a news article showing Asian-Americans in the U.S. having racist things to them done by white people. The responses and comment section were the typical race-to-the-bottom / low-hanging-fruit fare you typically find from people who would be better served not speaking up on social issues at all.

So I jumped into the comments like “Yo, why are y’all rejoicing over the hardships of other POC”??? And the response I got was about how solidarity is a myth... blah blah.

So here we are many months later, and there are reports of landlords in China kicking out African immigrants over Covid.... which led this poor soul into my inbox. 

1. Donald Trump referring to COVID as a “Chinese Virus” is a political tool used to deflect the fact that tens of thousands of Americans are dying due to our leadership being unprepared for this crisis. Any time you call it a “Chinese Virus”, you are aiding him on that mission. How does this benefit Black people? This is not a rhetorical question, answer it.

2. The United States brand of White supremacy is the one of the most destructive and powerful forces in human history, why are y’all so hell bent on sending Black people on a suicide mission to destroy this force alone? When I call for solidarity between POC, its not out of the goodness of my heart. It’s because its going to take everyone working together to win. WE. NEED. TO. WORK. TOGETHER. TO. WIN. PERIOD. 

3. Using context clues from your ill-conceived message, I’m guessing you’re African. But let me speak to Black Americans for a second. 

Black Americans want everyone else to use all the context in the world when it comes to how they view our people. But we are not willing to extend that same courtesy to others.

For example, when it comes to the plight of Black Americans, our incarceration rate, our income, etc. We want everyone to understand there has been a system set in place by the White Power structure for us to lose. Everything from slavery, to Jim Crow, to COINTELPRO, to racist drug laws. And all of that is correct and true.

But the Chinese people in China have lived under a brutal and oppressive system that has taught and indoctrinated them since birth to hold some of the ignorant ass views they have about Africans and Black people. They don’t even have access to a free and open internet to educate themselves to the level that we do. 

If we want people to understand why Black Americans don’t always make the best decisions, I think its fair to have that same consideration for another marginalized and oppressed people dealing with their own crisis with their own government. 

4. I didn’t speak publicly on this issue because I didn’t feel I needed to. What do y’all want me to say? CHINESE GOVERNMENT BAD.

Yeah, no shit. Water is wet. Of course the Chinese government is a piece of shit.

I don’t have the authority of speak on African-Chinese issues the way I have authority to speak on American issues happening in America. 

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In conclusion:

The most unsophisticated way to bond with your own race is to rejoice over the destruction of another race. That’s low hanging fruit that appeals to the most basic parts of our brain. 

Before someone takes this out of context. I am not suggesting that Black people go march in the street on behalf of chinese people. 

All I ever suggested is that we NOT celebrate their hardship because it does not serve our mission in combating White supremacy.

How is this controversial?

I swear to God I would block your ass on Instagram for even making me have to open my laptop to type this.

Loud and wrong. 

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This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

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If any nurses/retail workers/doctors/... are following me, I just want to thank you all for your service. I know you're overworked and probably underpaid, but without you, this outbreak would be even worse.