Tyler Perry's claim to fame was Madea, a black woman played by a man. The character is basically a crude patchwork negative sterotypes that gets played up for laughs.

Everything is antiblack, except being antiblack.

If you move with a purpose, instead of being a user or consumer of spaces, you will participate in the creation of spaces. You have to own your life and be intentional. Street credibility shouldn't be a factor. Every race has it's street element, but why do you need that?

The woman in the video raised valid points, but is being labelled stupid and lazy by the "financial literacy" crowd. I'm looking at the responses and its clear the people mocking her don't understand the issues she's raising.

Historically, black people weren't recognized as fully human by law. Couldn't testify on our own behalf, etc., but were expected to follow the law, even when it was unjust. We fough for change, but the system is still flawed. Do we submit to the rule of law and hope the best?

In the USA we have an adverserial legal system and in an adverserial system there are only winners and losers. You can debate the "facts" all you want, the truth won't set your free. This is the American way.

I'm not sure what increasing the marriage rate would accomplish at this point. Much of the damage is baked in now. We would need a cultural revolution to make family a priority again.

I've met young people, some still in college that try to give advice. It's strange because a few times they were trying to enter a field that I have experience in and instead of asking questions they tried to talk as if they were seasoned pros. Is curiosity dead? Maybe its me.

Black people, arguing with racist white people about merit based admissions and hiring is a waste of time. They assume that by the time you turn 18 the system will have already cut you off at the knees so they keep the conversation focused on what comes after that.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole look into the history of the song "Mack the Knife." Europe has a history of making violent music. The moritat, or "murder ballad," was very popular in Europe.

Funk, with songs like "One Nation Under a Groove," promoted unity. Groups like Public Enemy, De La Soul, Digital Underground, and X-Clan sampled it and kept it positive. Then Dr Dre pushed g-funk, associating funk with gang culture, pimping, etc., for a whole generation.

Dating and sex discourse on social media is a window into the lower class. The higher up the ladder you go the less likely you are to see people talking about their personal life on the internet. The ramifications of this are not always obvious when you're from the bottom.

Milton Friedman's greatest regret. The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous. Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time. Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude. This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

Le monde qui a enfanté @ylecun n’est pas celui d’Albert Einstein. Einstein n’avait pas la revue par les pairs ni la National Science Foundation et ses mécanismes de financement bureaucratiques. Dans la première moitié du XXᵉ siècle et jusqu’à la fin des années 1960, la plupart des percées fondamentales sont venues d’environnements relativement autonomes, souvent des laboratoires industriels ou de chercheurs individuels : - Relativité restreinte (Albert Einstein, 1905) : rédigée alors qu’il était simple employé au bureau des brevets à Berne. - Mécanique quantique : développée presque entièrement par des chercheurs individuels ou de très petites équipes dans des universités européennes modestes. Planck (1900), Einstein (1905 et 1917, alors au bureau des brevets), Bohr (1913), Heisenberg (1925), Schrödinger (1926) et Dirac (1928). Pas de gros financements d’État ni de comités de pairs centralisés. Transistor (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain et William Shockley aux Bell Labs, 1947). - Circuit intégré (Jack Kilby chez Texas Instruments en 1958 ; Robert Noyce chez Fairchild Semiconductor en 1959). - Laser (Theodore Maiman chez Hughes Research Laboratories, mai 1960). Son principe fondamental remonte à l’article d’Einstein sur l’émission stimulée de la lumière publié en 1917. L’informatique moderne suit exactement la même dynamique. Alan Turing pose les bases théoriques des ordinateurs universels en 1936 alors qu’il est chercheur à Cambridge (travail individuel). Claude Shannon établit les fondements mathématiques de l’information aux Bell Labs en 1948. Les ordinateurs deviennent réellement pratiques grâce au transistor inventé aux Bell Labs en 1947, puis au circuit intégré développé dans des entreprises privées à la fin des années 1950. Même Unix, qui influencera profondément toute l’informatique moderne, est créé aux Bell Labs à la toute fin des années 1960 par Ken Thompson et Dennis Ritchie. À compter des années 1970, l’Occident a émulé le modèle soviétique de planification centralisée et de bureaucratie scientifique (revue par les pairs généralisée, panels de financement, cycles de subventions). Une longue stagnation dans les percées fondamentales a suivi. En ce sens, @elonmusk s’inscrit dans une longue tradition d’ingénieurs visionnaires qui ont osé l’impossible et transformé le monde malgré les sceptiques. Les frères Wright ont conquis les airs quand tout le monde affirmait que c’était impossible. James Watt a rendu la machine à vapeur efficace et a lancé la Révolution industrielle. Les pionniers du moteur à combustion interne, de Lenoir à Benz et Daimler, ont changé la mobilité pour toujours. Comme eux, Musk ne se contente pas de rêver : il construit, itère et livre. LeCun se limite au modèle linéaire de l’innovation : la recherche fondamentale, bien financée par l’État et les agences, produirait mécaniquement le progrès technologique. C’est un modèle simpliste et indéfendable, construit à compter des années 50 pour justifier le financement public massif, et largement démenti par l’histoire. x.com/lemire/status/19331712…

Did Wahida Clark fet backlash for her thug love books? Those books may have been more influential than music for a lot of young black girls. I tried to read one and couldn't do it. The sex, written from the woman's POV, was violent and graphic. Girls loved those books.

Grok is basically Elon. White people are most represented in leadership and professional role due to their "qualifications and attainment." Grok presents this speculation/characterization as fact and fills the thread with white victim talking points. x.com/i/status/2062080798631…

This must be rated by vibes. Altanta was known as black peoples San Francisco for the longest, the black LGBT capitol. Obama launched his career in Chicago instead of Atlanta or DC for a reason.