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Unjust laws will only change when people are brave enough to stand together against them.
It's disappointing to me that Epik's bravery is so lacking on this front.
I think I am missing context. Perhaps unpack this for us. What law did you wish for us to fight this week?
Brad explained it perfectly.I think I am missing context. Perhaps unpack this for us. What law did you wish for us to fight this week?
Rob and Epik put themselves in this position with their (poor) decisions.
Take accountability. Take responsibility. Take action to fix it.
Brad
Judge not, lest ye be judged. See Matthew 7:1-5 for context. Or you can learn it the hard way. Your call.
First of all, we are all works in progress, including Epik, its staff and me. The industry is also a work in progress. Did anyone expect this one today?
If your objective is to turn this positive thread into a struggle session for Epik, I am likely to disappoint you.
The point of the statement is to engage with compassion and love.
We can do all more of that, including you.
As for Wikipedia, there is a dedicated thread about it.
As for right wing sites, we don't court them. In fact, we turn many of them away.
If you want to have a call to discuss specific cases, happy to do that and report back to the group, as I surely lack context, e.g. never heard of "Charizard".
Here was my related comment:
Did anyone expect this one today?
If you have unbiased data to support what you're saying, then I hope your article will be objectively exploring why this is happening.My stance on the racially-charged state of affairs in the US is a rather controversial one. I maintain that the tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement are absolutely pointless at best and preposterous at worst. I have never met a group of people pervaded with as much self-hatred as blacks. If your life matters, show the world that it does instead of telling them. For starters, stop killing each other over worthless crap. I am writing an extensive article supported with data that will most likely garner a substantial number of enemies in the Black community. What I have to say, while offensive, is the truth that MUST be said. If the spirit moves me, I'll go further and make a documentary.
If you have unbiased data to support what you're saying, then I hope your article will be objectively exploring why this is happening.
Without the "why", the "what" is nothing more than a barometer to show us that there is a problem.
My post made no reference to your race at all.I am guessing that you have no idea that I am black...more so that I am African, born and raised in Ghana.
I spent a good part of my youth in the country where the Transatlantic slave trade began 500 years ago. We still have the slave castles that we helped build for the Europeans to remind us of the horrific treatment we subjected our own brothers and sisters to. My family was right smack in the middle of it all. I am ashamed to say that we amassed generational wealth by facilitating and brokering slave transactions over a period of 400 years. After the slaves were sold, they were 'stored' in dungeons for months awaiting the arrival of the next cargo vessel. In spite of the grossly inhumane conditions under which we saw our people being kept on our own shores, we still provided and ensured safe passage for the slave ships.
The article I am writing will thoroughly illustrate how the very state of mind that made slave trade more convenient for the European settlers over a 400 year span still exists today. It will shed light on all the ways in which we are STILL selling our own people into psychological. Until stop taking dumps in our own houses, we can't point fingers at others for dumping in our houses.
You don't sell someone a mule and expect them to treat it like an eagle.
I am a documentary filmmaker by day. I can inbox you my name so you can research my background.
My post made no reference to your race at all.
Sounds like an interesting article. Would have been a lot less inflammatory sounding if you had led with all that detail.
I haven't done enough research on the topic to discuss it properly.Race has been the subtext of this discussion. Why would I lead with that and diminish the shock value?
I find knee-jerk reactions before facts are gathered rather interesting. You were actually very diplomatic in your response in spite of not having that pertinent information.
I have lived in the US for the last 25 years. One of my greatest regrets I have was attending a historically black college. 95% of the discrimination I have faced in this country came from African Americans. I was ridiculed in class on several occasions because of my accent. This was always my response: "Your mockery of the way I speak glorifies the very process that led to your becoming American." Most of these kids had IQs too far below room temperature to grasp the insult.
Listen to the lyrics in RAP music. Pay attention to how the verbiage demeans their women. Also pay attention to all the products that are being promoted in them. Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, etc. These dumb kids get brainwashed by this garbage. They then go out and rob each other for these brand name goods at gunpoint often resulting in the death of their victims.
On a monthly basis, blacks in the US kill far more blacks (over 4k) than the KKK has since it's formation. If you start a chess game by taking out all your black pawns, how does that increase your chances of winning?! Until we put well executed radical reform programs in place to demonstrate that our lives really matter, we just need to shut up. We do more harm to ourselves than the police ever does to us.
Take a look at this video:This is one of the many black owned businesses that were vandalized under the guise of protesting against police brutality. Will someone explain to me how one can rationalize this stupidity? How does this illustrate our value for our lives? How does this alleviate our economic disadvantage?
You cannot mandate that other people treat you better than you're willing to treat yourself. That is just downright ridiculous.
If you profess to be a black man and you write all these, ( don't let me to call it trash) you must be having a screwed perspection of Africa affairs. Before you continue with your article, go and read wide on how the West looted, and are still looting African resources till date.My stance on the racially-charged state of affairs in the US is a rather controversial one. I maintain that the tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement are absolutely pointless at best and preposterous at worst. I have never met a group of people pervaded with as much self-hatred as blacks. If your life matters, show the world that it does instead of telling them. For starters, stop killing each other over worthless crap. I am writing an extensive article supported with data that will most likely garner a substantial number of enemies in the Black community. What I have to say, while offensive, is the truth that MUST be said. If the spirit moves me, I'll go further and make a documentary.
I haven't done enough research on the topic to discuss it properly.
Maybe the things you suggest are part of the problem. However, I think that the way you're making your points is also part of the problem.
Anytime you're willing to cast blame on an entire group of people, you demean the wide variety of individuals in that group. You also give an easy out to all the other people outside that group who have a part to play in making things better.
These issues are caused by individuals, the choices we make alone and in groups, the policies and systems we create... We're all responsible.
If you profess to be a black man and you write all these, ( don't let me to call it trash) you must be having a screwed perspection of Africa affairs. Before you continue with your article, go and read wide on how the West looted, and are still looting African resources till date.
The evil structures that they have set in motion in various African countries that the worst of us will always rule over the best, so that they can always pave ways for them whenever they come to steal African resources to better their own lives in the West.
Whenever they see rising stars such as; Nkurumah, Awolowo, Nelson Mandela etc, that will challenge their hegemony they will quickly orchestrate their evil machinations called coup to topple any government that will do the will of the people.
Since the time they have set their feets on African soil, till now, Africa have not know peace. We have never for ones been allowed to govern ourselves. It as always been black faces with white powers in all our governments.
It is only God that can deliver Africans.