LeBron

 LeBron, how much more trouble or difficulty in opening a BOBO coffee shop in your hometown.

I have a feeling it has to do with the fame of the name, the make money potential of course return on investment ROI, but you know what I think we can do the same with a name given the opportunity.

Let's GROW or is it easier to jump on a train already moving?

Let's plant some seeds, sprout some roots, or is that just too hard.

Immigration

 The east coast is all African

The South Hispanic

The West Asian-Indian

The North White/Foreigner

We moving to Paris, Europe, it's gotten to ethnic here in the U.S.

Diddy the Diabolical

 I think he was taking advantage of the entertainment industry in a genius way that kept anyone from taking advantage of him. I've heard someone say that information is most powerful, a bid in the entertainment industry can be made or broken with something on you, if someone has something on you, they can make you do whatever they want. We all have felt and we know the extreme frustration of everyday life, can you imagine what it's like for these people.

An only child. He went to college, did someone say he was smart, used more of his brain power than most. He was always the smartest in the room, right? There have been humans in history taken over by this...Alexander the Great, Ceasar, they are described as powerful.  Though no one in recent history has been as exposed with such detail as this one. The schematics, the players, the baby oil, over a period of 20+ years, Wow! genius! Shakespearian even.

 American Trivia

Q:   In 1865, Henry Brown, a Virginia slave                                                                                                mailed himself to freedom in a 3' x 2' x 2" x 8" box. How long did it take, and where did he arrive?  

A: 26 hours, At the Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia.

Q: Who was the grandson of slaves, raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was 7 years old during the Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre, and wrote the American novel, The Invisible Man

A: Ralph Waldo Ellison

All of a Sudden

 Enter search term here

then a message saying Democrats can't govern.......

wow technology google style 

there is always something going on that encroaches everything and everyone

A Thousand Blouses

 I have clothes I haven't worn for a year now. I wore everything I have the last year I worked in 10 months time wearing never the same top twice.

Wing Tips

 Chicken is all the rage, but the wing is the thing. 

First imagine this, the white people are in the position of black people, they were the slaves and the the "black" people have all the money, they are the wealthy, wasteful and when it comes to chicken wings they call them Dings, they only eat the flats and the drums, but the tips go to the white people. Here is how the dream I had one night went:

 We were driving around an area outside of where we live, lost. We got hungry and decided to stop in this unfamiliar territory for something to eat. We came to notice all these places that were advertising wing tips, braised, barbecued, fried, lemon pepper, sweet & sour, and other familiar flavors of the Dings we were accustomed to, we wondered, what are wing tips? We had no clue wings even had tips.  

We were afraid to stop and venture out in the hood with the white people hanging around outside the places but we were curious enough and hungry enough to give this overwhelming attraction a try so we stopped at a place called Tips & Dips. 

People Human Beings

black

[blak]

ADJECTIVE

black (adjective) · blacker (comparative adjective) · blackest (superlative adjective) · Black (adjective)

1. of the very darkest color owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.

   "black smoke" ·

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   "her hair was black"

   synonyms:

   dark · pitch black · as black as pitch · pitch-dark · jet black · inky · coal black · blackish · sable · Stygian

   antonyms:

   white

   • (of the sky or night) completely dark owing to nonvisibility of the sun, moon, or stars.
     "the sky was moonless and black"
     synonyms:

     unlit · dark · starless · moonless · unlighted · unilluminated · gloomy ·

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     dusky · dim · murky · dingy · shadowy · overcast · crepuscular · tenebrous · Stygian · Cimmerian · Tartarean · caliginous
     antonyms:

     clear · bright
   • deeply stained with dirt.
     "his clothes were absolutely black"
   • (of a plant or animal) dark in color as distinguished from a lighter variety.
     "Japanese black pine"
     synonyms:

     dark · pitch black · as black as pitch · pitch-dark · jet black · inky · coal black · blackish · sable · Stygian
     antonyms:

     white
   • (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream.
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     "Doyle took his coffee black"
   • of or denoting the suits spades and clubs in a deck of cards.
   • (of a ski run) of the highest level of difficulty, as indicated by black markers positioned along it.
2. of any human group having dark-colored skin, especially of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.

   "black adolescents of Jamaican descent"

   • relating to black people.
     "black culture"
3. (of a period of time or situation) characterized by tragic or disastrous events; causing despair or pessimism.

   "five thousand men were killed on the blackest day of the war" ·

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   "the future looks black for those of us interested in freedom"

   synonyms:

   tragic · disastrous · calamitous · catastrophic · cataclysmic · ruinous ·

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   devastating · fatal · fateful · wretched · woeful · grievous · lamentable · miserable · dire · unfortunate · awful · terrible · direful

   antonyms:

   joyful

   • (of a person's state of mind) full of gloom or misery; very depressed.
     "Jean had disappeared and Mary was in a black mood"
     synonyms:

     miserable · unhappy · sad · wretched · broken-hearted · heartbroken ·

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     grief-stricken · grieving · sorrowful · sorrowing · mourning · anguished · distressed · desolate · devastated · despairing · inconsolable · disconsolate · downcast · down · downhearted · dejected · crestfallen · cheerless · depressed · pessimistic · melancholy · morose · gloomy · glum · mournful · funereal · doleful · dismal · forlorn · woeful · woebegone · abject · low-spirited · long-faced · blue · down in the mouth · down in the dumps · dolorous
     antonyms:

     cheerful
   • (of humor) presenting tragic or harrowing situations in comic terms.
     "“Good place to bury the bodies,” she joked with black humor"
     synonyms:

     cynical · sick · macabre · weird · unhealthy · ghoulish · morbid · perverted · gruesome · sadistic · cruel · offensive
   • full of anger or hatred.
     "Roger shot her a black look"
     synonyms:

     angry · cross · annoyed · irate · vexed · irritated · exasperated ·

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     indignant · aggrieved · irked · piqued · displeased · provoked · galled · resentful · irascible · bad-tempered · tetchy · testy · crabby · waspish · dark · dirty · filthy · furious · outraged · threatening · menacing · unfriendly · aggressive · belligerent · hostile · antagonistic · evil · evil-intentioned · wicked · nasty · hate-filled · bitter · acrimonious · malevolent · malicious · malignant · malign · venomous · poisonous · vitriolic · vindictive · shirty · stroppy · narky · ratty · eggy · malefic · maleficent
     antonyms:

     pleasant · friendly
   • archaic
     very evil or wicked.
     "my soul is steeped in the blackest sin"

NOUN

black (noun) · Black (noun) · blacks (plural noun)

1. black color or pigment.

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   "a series of paintings done only in grays and blacks"

   • black clothes or material, typically worn as a sign of mourning.
     "dressed in the black of widowhood"
     synonyms:

     black clothes · widow's weeds · weeds · sackcloth and ashes · sables
   • darkness, especially of night or an overcast sky.
     "the only thing visible in the black was the light of the lantern"
   • the player of the black pieces in chess or checkers.
     "Black's king's defenses are somewhat weakened"
   • a black thing, especially a ball or piece in a game.
2. a member of a dark-skinned people, especially one of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.

   "a coalition of blacks and whites against violence"
3. (the black)

   the situation of not owing money to a bank or of making a profit in a business operation.

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   "the company just managed to stay in the black"

   synonyms:

   in credit · in funds · debt-free · out of debt · solvent · financially sound ·

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   able to pay one's debts · creditworthy · of good financial standing · solid · secure · profit-making · profitable · unindebted

   antonyms:

   in debt

VERB

black (verb) · blacks (third person present) · blacked (past tense) · blacked (past participle) · blacking (present participle)

1. make black, especially by the application of black polish.

   "blacking the prize bull's hooves"

   synonyms:

   make black · darken · make dark/darker · dirty · make dirty · make sooty · make smoky · stain · grime · begrime · befoul · soil

American Africans

Repeat after me:

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, 
with liberty and justice for all". 
They'll see how beautiful I am 
And be ashamed-- I, too, am America. Langston Hughes--REPARATIONS NOW!

Black People

ob·se·qui·ous

[əbˈsēkwēəs]

ADJECTIVE

1. obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

   "they were served by obsequious waiters"

   
   

   servile · ingratiating · unctuous · sycophantic · fawning · toadying · oily · oleaginous · greasy · grovelling · cringing · toadyish · sycophantish · subservient · submissive ·
   

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con·sci·en·tious

[ˌkän(t)SHēˈen(t)SHəs]

ADJECTIVE

1. (of a person) wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly.

   "a conscientious and hardworking clerk"

   synonyms:

   diligent · industrious · punctilious · painstaking · sedulous · assiduous ·
   

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2. relating to a person's conscience.

   "the act does not provide exemption from service on the basis of personal conscientious beliefs"

White People

Why do white people need us to be around them and be in there lives, why do they need to be up all around us? It's because we are better people. They need us to run that bullshit they run to alleviate the guilt they carry for all that they are not.  They know what they have done to us makes us afraid to not trust them, can you believe that , they trust us not to challenge them, because we are good people.

"Watch my back while I go out here and fuck up, that's what it's like. We gotta stop that, stop letting them use us.

 

Reparations

Reparations
The owner of Jamaica abolished slavery in his sugar plantations 30 years before the US of America, He admitted it would cut into is wealth, to end slavery in the sugar plantations he owned, but he was so rich and sugar was HERE TO STAY, going no where ever, it had made it's mark and he nor his descendants would ever not be rich, very rich for generations to come.

Reparations should have been paid then! And we should have been left alone, just left to evolve on our own, as we did even though we were bothered constantly, with policy, and laws and the almighty Racism tactics. Enough to drive you insane, like 1,000 arrows being launched at each and everyone of us all at the same time. We mad, dammn right we should be. Just give us what you owe us and LEAVE US ALONE!

Maryjane & Barbara Ann

Maryjane is the oldest child of James and Mary Joseph, she is a good person, just feisty, non-conforming, outspoken, a great cook, generous and a strong believer in treating people fair and honest. She is not a gossip, a deceit monger, a smart aleck or a know-it-all just a natural born woman whom God made, from her perspective.  Barbara Ann is the youngest, she is the quintessential definition of a daughter from their mothers' perspective, their father once called her "strange".

Therefore, the two of  these sisters are not very close. They would have to agree to disagree on most things to get along.  The way life has dealt with them is quite opposite of each other.  The youngest, is employed for the establishment after many years, is now a wife with one child. The oldest, once a wife has three children, is very independent in employment, nothing permanent, but able to survive, by taking the advantage gained by way of the establishment and her built-in ferocity necessary to stay whole minded. She is totally against violence. Her mother called her "rude".

From the age of 14 Marjane has let it be know what she will and will not tolerate in every way. Barbara Ann, not a word, more of a go-along-with attitude.  Their mother prefers Barbara Ann. Why?
Because she herself is more of a go-along. She loves her children, but she bends over backwards for Barbara Ann and stands cemented against Maryjane. Barbara Ann is always right, she make good money so she is the better of the two, from her perspective. She is the one she regards as a perfect person because of her life. She is committed to be a part of the life of Barbara Ann. Maryjane is no more than a good cook, and neither her nor her children can be trusted.

Mind you, Maryjane has done nothing to anyone, she is so honest, she would admit it if she had. Barbara Ann, has many secrets, she shares them with no one, perhaps her husband depending on what and when. She is agreeable with him, on his perspective of others and life in general. She isn't too self-confident and believes she needs him to guide her. She has trouble defining or explaining to understand why she is how she is except, when it involves her big sister.

Her and her mother are armed and ready to attack Maryjane, behind her back and with others. The two of them together could never win against her to her face. Their attempts have failed, leaving them both defeated and scared. They set blockades and defenses that totally enable them to continue to look at her in a negative way, when they both look up to her.  They feel her life is one they could not handle as well as she does, but at the same time in a negative way,everything is her fault in her life.

If there was a billion dollars to be had, neither the mother nor Barbara Ann would  let on at all to Maryjane, not that she would care, but how it would help her tremendously. They keep secrets between the two of them. Their mother would prefer that Barbara Ann and her husband take the whole lot because she would be able to reap the benefits in her own way, selfishly and wasteful.  The both of them, because they can, shop and buy things they already have over and over again, when they have their use of them, or way too many of them, they offer them to Maryjane.  Maryjane often excepts, out of need and appreciation. There mother once said, We give Maryjane our junk.

Their minds are set that she is not on their level because she has not been dealt their hand in her life, yet she is still on top, she is not what they imagine she is in their minds, but that is how they treat her. She has forgiven them all these years for that, but they still expect her to eat their failure. She is good enough for that, but nothing more.

Sisters, they do love one another, inside. Their mother would rather have one over the other be her caretaker, when it comes to that, however, the hand of God is the ruler. When ever Barbara Ann tries to express compassion or concern for her big sister, their mother sabotages it, being negative, unsupportive, untrusting, it is hatred, straight out  for her first born and her grandchildren, but "she can cook a mean pot of greens". Barbara Ann is silenced and agrees with her Mom, "she sure can".

MUCH LOVE

Don't worry about anything, pray about everything

FAMILY

via GIPHY

Family-The basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children; also: any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family. A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.

A race or group of peoples from a common stock. Synonyms: variety, stock, strain, line, family, type, kind, sort, class.

I know, I know, I shouldn't have started with Family, but I can't help it because, that is what everybody can relate to. Although some have not claimed it, don't know it, have come up without it as most of us know it, but at sometime somewhere in their lifetime, they certainly have used the word... right?  They, She, He is "like" Family or, We like family. 

Okay, how about this: All the descendants of a common ancestor. 

Synonyms: ancestry, parentage, birth, pedigree, genealogy, background, family tree, descendant, lineage, line of descendant, bloodline, race, strain, stock, breed, dynasty, house, forebears, forefathers, antecedents, progenitors, roots, origins. A group of people related to one another by blood or marriage because through marriage the children they birth will have blood from both parents and their families, wont if they don't have children together?  Then the families are more like "friends."  

"We can't turn him away, he is family. Blood relations, brother, sisters, aunt, uncle, cousin,  relatives, kinfolks, the breakdown goes even deeper and how you know where you stand can take on an identity that actually separates rather than bring together. Limits, "Don't be telling them my business when you go over their house for the holiday."   "Not my flesh and blood."

."Individually speaking, however I 'm not feeling the support. I can't deny the connection.  Isn't that what it means to us, some where with those who understand you , at best nearby, so you can run over ther just  to see them. It's like that, it's sad though when it's all really you can go there for, cause "You don't come by unless you want something."

That thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright, or together like: maintenance, "you must earn your keep", sustenance, subsistence, food, accommodation, contributions, backing, donations, money, subsidy, funding, funds, finance, capital, backing, help, assistance, aid, votes, endorsement, sanction, approval, blessing, patronage, advocacy, backing, promotion, championship, espousal, defense, recommendation, argument for, enable to function or act, suggest the truth of, corroborate.   

You don't call "unless you want something. "Of all of us and I mean ALL of us in this "family" need something, right? What, you got everything you need? Even with technology their is the support of a computer or operating system that allows the use of a program, computer language or device.

I have everyone convinced that... you ain't'..., you so..., you don't know what you talking about..., you talk can't keep a job..., Oh you can get one, but you can't keep it!you , you, you... that's  just ignorant! Where is support...in the form of family, well you name it, we know what we ain't got.  FAMILY. 

WANT

They took our "want" from us, how do you do that ,we couldn't even want nothing!   Sam Cook wanted to help his people and all he "wanted" was his own record label and he was 33 years old when he was murdered for "wanting" something. The most we want for now is  a particular food dish , " I want some fish" I couldn't dare want something to change my lot in life, like my own business, my own home, something my heart truly desires for my family, for my people. This is the source of our inability to unite and it should be our one reason to unite.

They know this, yet they pretend they don't know what is "wrong" with us. When they are the cause of our ills. They are the ones who are not us, the ones who took us into this darkness, fear and misery to many lands from our homes, from our families, from everything, they took our "want" from us, even our want, they know who they are.

Not even being able to "want something". We have since managed to deal with a heavy heart, sad eyes, mad voices, and closed minds.   We are still here! and our "want" isn't gone. Our ability to keep putting our want on the back burner, pushing, and covering it until it becomes just a dream, not even that, not even a thought anymore, never a reality , but still there in there, and never forgotten, we just sort of say to ourselves and at times others, we good, until we need therapy. Denial is the same as lying.

We want to own our own homes, I want If you want and believe it can happen, even if you don't really know if you believe it can happen you still want it and you make effort to try and get it
and you look around and you don't have it, then it ain't you that's keeping it from happening, You know for sure it ain't you. We know it ain't us to blame for us not getting what we "want", someone else decides for us, that we can't have it, whatever it is, it could be the smallest, little thing, but you can't get it so why even "want" it. STOP, given the situations, we've faced them, we even learned to speak Spanish, we never give up, never. We got big Cojones. 

Our Men

I believe our men are envied, by all other men. I think all women want our men not their own.
Women all over the world have admitted a strong attraction to our men over their own. Our men are the epitome of a man, a real man. A woman, who is not in denial feels like a piece of metal would feel being drawn to a magnet. Our men don't think about this they know it already. The woman is very powerful, all this talk about the woman having the power over the man because she is a woman does not apply in the case of power. Women want to relinquish power to a man who can handle it, and that's what they see in our men, someone who can take over and let us just be women.

Women want to be women they want a man who knows they are women and that understanding does not to be explained. If you understand this then you know what I mean and you know the other men are not on that level.

I notice how other men seem nervous when near our men. Now, I'm not saying all immediately send that vibe, but somewhere in their mind they are fighting the feeling that they are not what our men are. They know their women, deep down, want our men.
 

GUCCI

"I ain't got nothin against nobody"
"You should"
"Why?"

3,178 Murders

Alabama

Many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators, including elected officials and prominent citizens for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person.

County votes for Trump: 90.0%
State votes for Trump: 62.9%
White pop.: 94.3%

Arkansas

A total of 284 lynching’s were recorded in Arkansas. 237 lives were taken during a massive attack on sharecroppers and laborers. When Black sharecroppers came together in an attempt to become unionized, white landowners and the elite saw this as a serious threat to their own financial growth and prosperity.

County votes for Trump: 80.4%

State votes for Trump: 60.4%

White pop.: 88.7%

Florida

There were 282 reported lynching’s in Florida. A 1993 article by the Orlando Sentinel explains. “Now, a sweeping new study of lynching in the South has found that blacks were more likely to be lynched in Florida than in any other state. For every 1,250 Black people in Florida between 1882 to 1930, one was lynched. This is seven times higher than the rate for North Carolina and almost twice the rate that was in Georgia.

County votes for Trump: 87.9%

State votes for Trump: 49.1%

White pop.: 87.3%

Georgia

Georgia had 531 lynching’s. New Georgia Encyclopedia entry reveals that there was at least one mob killing of a Black person every month.

County votes for Trump: 88.5%

State votes for Trump: 51.3%

White pop.: 92.6%

Kentucky 

205 people were lynched in the state of Kentucky. They all met with unbelievably inhumane deaths. A glimpse of just how much terrorism Blacks faced in Kentucky can be found in the March 25, 1871 letter sent to the U.S. Congress asking for protection from the government.

County votes for Trump: 89.4%

State votes for Trump: 62.5%

White pop.: 98.6%

Louisiana

Louisiana had a recorded 391 total lynching’s. the entire state was more focused on creating more systemic ways to protect white supremacy rather than taking a violent approach, instead sugar and cotton planters  manipulated plantation arrangements and the criminal justice system to ensure the maintenance of white supremacy.

County votes for Trump: 88.8%

State votes for Trump: 58.1%

White pop.: 83.2%

Mississippi

With well over 581 lynching’s, Mississippi tops the list with the most total lynching’s, according to statistics provided by the Tuskegee Institute.

14-year-old Emmet Till’s body was found with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.

County votes for Trump: 88.0%

State votes for Trump: 58.3%

White pop.: 87.9%

South Carolina

With 160 lynching’s throughout the state, South Carolina had the 10th highest number of lynching’s. According to Tuskegee Institute’s data, most of the victims were innocent. Anthony Crawford simply got into a verbal disagreement over the price of cottonseed, according to Elizabeth Rauh Bethel’s Promiseland, A Century of Life in a Negro Community, which was published by the University of South Carolina.

County votes for Trump: 73.9%

 State votes for Trump: 54.9%

 White pop.: 86.5%

Tennessee

Tennessee had 251 confirmed lynching’s that led to the deaths of at least 204 Black people. According to The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Lynching’s took place in 70 counties throughout the state with most happening in Shelby County. The Memphis Press even described the burning of one Black prisoner, Henry Lowery, as an “outstanding lynch success.”

County votes for Trump: 86.2%

State votes for Trump: 61.1%

White pop.: 90.7%

Texas

Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) revealed The Lone Star state had a total of 493 recorded lynching’s. White mobs hoping to “restore white supremacy” would frequently seek out suspected slave rebels and white abolitionists.

County votes for Trump: 90.5%

State votes for Trump: 52.6%

White pop.: 68.8% (85th of 254 TX counties)

*These numbers represent the recorded number of lynching’s and don’t account for the many Black victims who were lynched secretly before their bodies were burned or disposed of without any official record being made.

3,178 Murders