Boston racism (or the broader New England) variety is exactly how you speak.  They’ll welcome Black people so long as they can “redeem” you.  Plus, there’s this whole out of sight, out of mind mindset they develop about Black folk.  Not only do they ghettoize hard, but then they’ll pretend that you don’t exist except…

Yep!  Boston sucks indeed!

As a Yankees fan, I believe it.  You could have replaced all the Alabama references with Yankees/New York references, and I have had the same conversation before.

That sounds like life as a Yankees fan.  One moment, you might be talking about obscure Yankees of the 80s, then the next you find out that dude wishes Giuliani had a 3rd term.  Sigh...sports brings people together in random ways.

If you’re looking for a perfect hero, you mind as well give up. Everyone has *something* in their past. I knew Nipsey from the music, but I didn’t know about how he was putting money where his mouth is and funding co-working spaces, startup incubators and STEM education. Considering that he was putting his resources…

I’m actually agreeing with you and showing the limitations of his practice.  Slow down.

That #3 should have been #1 to me.  If people knew how much doctors get pressured to prescribe XYZ drug.  When you offer top of the line meals and free vacations to bullshit “medical conventions” in the West Indies, that’s a lot of motivation to prescribe some dumb shit.

Here’s some real shit on Dr. Sebi.

This is the story that keeps on giving.  Thank goodness no one in my family is that sheltered from reality.  LOL

There already is one such suit going as we speak.  I know the colleges are desperate to settle that one, if only to avoid discovery. 

What if I told you that the average college athlete is richer and Whiter than your average college student body as a whole? There’s a tendency to look at the big revenue sports as see how many Black people and working class Whites there are, but forget about the lacrosse and golf teams filled with well-off White kids.…

That said, do you want to sacrifice your kids life on the off chance that a kid you’ll never meet might could have a better life?  That’s asking a lot, and bringing it up to compare even to mommy and daddy giving a major donation check to a college is a bit rich.

Love ya Champ, but you’re dead ass wrong.  Being solemn in evil is giving in to them.  R. Kelly has a long history of intimidating people into accepting his predatory BS.  They want you solemn so that they’re afraid of them.  With all due respect to his many, many victims, he needs to be exposed as the pathetic fool…

The obsessive and often anti-black focus on black consumerism obfuscates substantive assessments of the largest obstacles facing black business owners, which is lack of access to credit and start up capital.

He had a couple of (legitimate) publications, including one in Nature. He also worked for a few big name labs, particularly in the STEM hotbed of Boston. He could have been fine. He just chose fame over hard work.

What’s rich is that on his own legitimate record, he could have gotten into a top notch PhD program or worked in industry pretty much anywhere he wanted.  Now, thanks to his clout chasing, his career is pretty much done.  I don’t get where dude was coming from on this.  What a shame.

I’m far from trans, but I salute what you’re doing man.

I’m curious to read it as well.  I might have to actually buy a book instead of borrowing it from a library.

Well said about how Newark looks at New York. I also know how New York looks at Newark as some rural backwater, to the point where people would rather drive to DC then hang out there. Fools.

Harlem Black folk != NYC Black folk.  You ain’t the only one who has messed that up.  But Brooklyn has more Black people than Detroit has people, so there’s that.  And Queens and the Bronx has their own cultures.  The Bronx gave the world hip-hop and Queens is one of 2 counties in the USA where Black people are…