I get it, really I do but why? Is this why China gets a different TikTok? Either way, fake it til ya make it eh rebels?

The Most Desperate TikToker| Bahni & Klyde Reacts
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My questions are:
1. Is this a concern or not enough of us Black males for it to be a concern?
2. What percentage of us do you think are like the white boy incel (Involuntary Celibate, etc)
3. If it is a problem, what are the solutions. We can discuss various root causes but if its a problem, what are the solutions?

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Robert Hadden who worked at 2 NYC hospitals during his rampage of sexual abuse of patients is going on trial starting this week. Apparently between the late 90's all the way to 2012 this perv put his lustful behavior ahead of his patients. 200 patients came forward including the wife of mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. A pay out by these institutions totals at 236 million dollars.

So this kendall qualls person wrote a piece for the ny post undermining the reparations movement, he went to bad mouthing folks such as ourselves who supports it. He truly believes in his peas size brain that Systemic Racism have put us in the condition we in. 😡

In tandem with our latest article, it's time that we make a community playlist. Here are the rules:

• No double-posting. You MUST wait for another Sixer to post before you do.
• The song MUST be Jazz, it can be any form of Jazz but it needs to be music you can relax to.
• Prop all the songs you like.

Next Monday we will compile the tracks with the most Props and make the official "Relaxing Jazz Music Playlist for 2023" In the meantime read our article:

I've been sitting in a Twitter space that suppose to be about reparations but continues to bring up personal beefs. This is why I stayed off the platform. Is Twitter Spaces a tool or a place for ego??

A week after passing out on the field from a heart attack, Demar Hamlin returns home to Buffalo. Congrats Hamlin.

Here is my latest blklist item.. I had my eyes on this for a while, and I finally got it.. I'm officially part of the Benson collective!! Rose gold is my favorite!! This is the Benson by Marcel, a black owned watch company!! Check him out he has some beautiful timepieces.. I'll will post on the blklist.. #GotMyBenny #JustBuyBlack , I did!!😁😁

I guess Apple has been working on a VR headset for a while now, and they're expected to unveil it this spring with it being available for purchase in the fall. It's reportedly being called Reality Pro.

I'm curious to see how well it compares to the big ones on the market and the ones like the Meta Quest 2 which are more mobile friendly. With Apple I can see them pricing it pretty high, but then again, I think they'll price it fairly among the top ones on the market. I feel like Apple products come out to about the same as most premier phone products on the market anyway.

They've had a long time to develop their VR headset, so it should be good. I know Microsoft was working on a VR headset thing too, wonder whatever happened to that.

Occasionally Cases or instances of missing persons are solved & this a good and noteworthy occurrence.

I gotta say, the Lions defeating the Packers last night was pretty funny, especially since the Lions were already out of the playoff hunt. All the Packers needed to do, was win this final game to get to the playoffs, but they blew it, especially Aaron Rodgers who tossed up two INTs in that game. One of which came right at the end to secure the Lions win.

I think the Packers were even talking trash up to the game, expecting to win. idk, maybe the Lions are starting to get better. Didn't expect to see that happen anytime soon.

Balsonaro supporters in Brazil pulled a January 6 people! This is them at a rally seig heiling the day before. Passport bros, It ain’t worth it my dude!

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I like that he had the heart to speak up. He was careful with his words bur he spoke out against it

"Tens of thousands of people have poured into Ghana's iconic Black Star Square of Independence to witness the maiden edition of the Black Star Line Festival."
Black Star Line: 50,000 descend on Ghana for diaspora festival
Vic Mensa And Chance The Rapper Launch The ‘Black Star Line Festival’ In Accra, Ghana

Putting on these type of events can show Ghana, and Africa in general in a different light.

Does anyone besides me feel really effing proud to be on 6zeros when that ad plays during TBA’s broadcast?

I love it here ❤️✊🏾🤸🏾‍♀️

Why does it hurts so much family?

New variant XBB.1.5 is ‘most transmissible’ yet, could fuel covid wave​

Between the 467+ year old anti-Black racism pandemic and this covid pandemic that is now 3 years old, I can't.

They said "this too shall pass", but are we sure they didn't mean, "you too shall pass?"

Despite all that we as black men have to endure here in America, a majority of us are making it.
If you look at the way the media paints it they would have you believe that the majority of us are destitute. While it is true that it is more likely for a black man to end up in a bad situation the majority of us don't.

"Nearly 6 in 10 black men reach the middle class or higher by middle age, a nearly 20 percent increase compared to 1960. And the share living in poverty has dropped from 41 percent to 18 percent over the same time period."

Despite a portrait of race relations that is painted especially about black men, truth is that most black men will not be incarcerated, are not unemployed, and are not poor.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. While those numbers are horrible considering we aren't the larger portion of the population that still means that 66% the majority do not end up in prison.

The vast majority of middle-class black men (93%) are free of health issues in their fifties, yet about three-in-ten of the same-age black men in poverty have health issues that limit the type of work and other activities they can do.

There are also things about these black men that are less easy to observe: These men scored higher on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT), a test measuring their general knowledge. And when it comes to what is driving their lives, themselves, or their environment, these teenagers or young men scored higher on an agency scale that tapped whether they believed they had control over their lives rather than being driven by fate or their environment.


Marijuana is always touted as a talking point by politicians. Truth is the majority of African Americans do not use marijuana. In 2020, around 27 percent of African Americans (both male and female) aged 18 to 25 reported they had used marijuana in the past month. For those above age 26 this percentage dropped to 13.3%.

So while a majority of black individuals decide to not involve themselves with such activity a small margin does and that is what the media shows and highlights.

Decisions to involve one self in illegal behavior have an effect on later life outcomes.

By midlife, only 28% of black men who had contact with the criminal justice system when they were young have moved into the middle or upper class, compared to 52% of black men who had no contact with the criminal justice system at a younger age.

As of Jan 1, 2023, the average annual pay for an African American in the United States is $78,967 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $37.96 an hour.



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My point is this. Don't let the negative stereotypes portrayed in the media get you down. Don't let politicians playing on those stereotypes in hopes of getting a vote change how you see yourself. Despite everything the majority of black men are doing well. Your focus should be on being part of that statistic. Not letting politicians tell you life is hopeless unless they help you.

Politicians have done very little to help black men specifically. Most anything that was done was something done for everyone. It's just simply a matter of if one chooses to take advantage of those things or not.

Myself for example. I grew up in rural Louisiana. The area was very racist. There were few good jobs and the ones that there were it was difficult as a young black man to get a foot in the door. I knew that if I stayed there odds were I'd end up either dead, in jail or destitute.

I took and scored high on the ASVAB and went into the Army. I never really planned to stay in the Army. While I was in I ran into lots of racism. One sergeant I had was racist and didn't like me. He tried his best to get me kicked out. Luckily I was restationed. I finished out my 4 year term on Active Duty. I served another 3 years in the Army Reserves.

I took advantage of everything available to me from that. I was able to get VA disability afterwards which guarantees me a monthly check for the rest of my life (so long as the US government stands). I used my GI Bill benefit to go to college and get my nursing license. I used my civil service preference to land several federal government jobs (as I write this I am serving in my 9th federal government appointment). I used the VA Loan benefit to buy a house in a good neighborhood.

I'm not sitting here waiting on politicians to do something. I'm doing it myself!


Four Facts About the Economic Well-Being of Black Men in America

If you use NYC computers,laptops and networks you're in for a surprise when to attempt to access Chat GPT the text AI that has taken over the computer world. You're going to get a 404 forbidden 🚫 notice. Why, you ask? Simple, you can use ChatGPT to give you answers in real time, write everything from poems to term papers & just about anything with text.