The new 2D Beat-em-up will feature the original 1980's voice actors except Shredder RIP James Avery. One of my most anticipated games of this year. Hopefully it comes out in June but I feel it will most likely come out in August. I honestly can't wait
I'm not sure if everyone's going to agree with me on this point that I'm about to make but I just want to get thoughts.
So when preparations are talked about most people think cash payments are just simply getting a check.
I view it a bit different. While cutting a check would definitely be my first option, I am willing to consider other options as well.
If you look at native Americans they get lots of fringe benefits.
I will be willing to consider free college, government back housing loans with easier qualifying standards, subsidies for housing and rent, civil service preference for government jobs and making black people a protected class.
The thing about it is I'd want pretty much all of those things though. One or two of them wouldn't be considered reparations to me. I'm sure there's a lot of other things that could be given to us as reparations that I'm not thinking about right off hand but those are just some of the things that I typically think of.
What are the types of things to you guys think would be good as a reparations package? Or do you think the cash only is acceptable?
The Child Welfare System is Just as Important as the Criminal Justice System
With the recent release of the book Torn Apart by Prof. Dorothy Roberts, I finally felt the inspiration to write this. As a child welfare affected mother, longtime pro-Black child welfare reformer and abolitionist, I can say with certainty that too many of our families are being permanently split up and too few of us are pissed off about it. I understand why there are countless criminal injustice reform activists and more importantly why there are so many of us pissed off about the murdering of Black men, women and children by the white supremacist police including the recent killing of another Black man Patrick Lyoya and we should be. We should be taking to the streets about police brutality and the murdering of Black people by white police officers. However, that’s not the only wrath worthy issue that we should be up-in-arms about. The child “welfare” system is just as important to us as a people as the white supremacist criminal injustice system because it too is also a matter of life and death for countless Black families. This is an important issue because it deserves to be. Our families continue to be systematically targeted, our children removed en mass and our babies forcefully adopted out to mostly white strangers.
The Numbers Don’t Lie
According to NSCL.org, in 2018 Black children were 13.71% of the population, yet 22.75% of children in foster care were Black. Moreover, Black children also make up a disproportionate number of children identified as victims by child protective services and children waiting to be adopted.
White, Asian and Hispanic children are all underrepresented in the child welfare system.
58 percent of child welfare social workers are White, 24 percent are Black, 15 percent are Hispanic, and 4 percent are another race or ethnicity (Dolan et al., 2011).
Prof Roberts states in Torn Apart that, “72 percent of Black children in Los Angeles County will endure a CPS investigation during the course of their childhoods” (Roberts. D, 2022).
More than HALF of Black children are subjected to at least one CPS investigation at some point during their childhoods — almost twice the lifetime prevalence for White children.
Per Casey.org, Black children are MORE likely to be reported for maltreatment, have their case investigated, substantiated and stay longer in foster care. Meanwhile, Black children are LESS likely to reunite quickly with their families.
The (il)legal Destruction of the Black Family is Real
I could go on forever about who, what, when and how this all happened policy wise but for now I’ll briefly concentrate on the Adoption and Safe Families Act (also known as ASFA). This blatantly racist and repugnant piece of legislation signed into law by Bill Clinton continues to destroy thousands of Black families annually and has created what I like to call mass removal of our children. ASFA is a federal law that promotes and removals and adoptions of Black children to mostly white strangers with financial rewards. The Adoption and Safe Families Act is the 94 Crime Bill of the child welfare system, it’s that detrimental to Black families. The negative affect to Black families has been and continues to be so devastating that I and many of my fellow child welfare reformers and abolitionists have accurately likened it and the system to which it belongs to as modern-day slavery and rightfully so.
The great teacher and prophet Malcom X (who along with his siblings was removed from his mother by a white social worker at 13 and placed into Michigan state care supposedly due to his mother experiencing a nervous breakdown after years of struggling with single parenthood after the murder of her husband Malcom’s father, Earl Little, by a white supremist group the Black Legion) also referred to the child welfare system as modern-day slavery. Too bad no one listened to him way back then, if enough people had, countless other Black families, including my own, would have been speared the same fate.
“I truly believe that if ever a state social agency destroyed a family, it destroyed ours” (Malcom/, Haley, pg. 26).
It’s Time to Abolish CPS
I have spent so many years speaking out against the racist as hell child welfare system, ASFA and the black cultural genocide that its created and it’s been a lonely fight. It’s time to punish CPS, their agents and the entire system itself for what it has and actively continues to do to us. We need to take it further than just policy change (although I will continue to push for the African American Child Welfare Act and repealing ASFA). There is a small be dedicated #AbolishCPS movement and we need your support. Our families, our children need to be protected from this insidious and white supremacist institution that has been structurally and systematically oppressing us for almost a century. During chattel slavery the white masters removed and sold our children and the American child welfare system is the same thing (even more so since ASFA). There is NO acceptable kind of chattel slavery therefore there is NO acceptable kind of CPS, at least not in its current form. For those interested in learning more, please check out my blog where I have written several articles that go into much greater detail about ASFA and the child welfare system, how it operates and why it’s so dangerous.
I guess that selfish woman expected her man to not have a good time just because her immune system is weak. Misery really does love company, smh. One monkey don't stop no show! Party on, king!
Which do you deem as better? The Samsung 22 Ultra has so many features, I can't even count. Even the case & the screen protectors provide ultimate protection. iPhone may have updated & even new features. My turn off is having to pay for every app, even if they're free on other phones. If you forget your unlock code, you're done! I'd like to hear from everyone in here, especially the techs.
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I was just sitting here pondering on a question I wanted to ask the family. What is killing our people more White Supremacy or Rap music? Because if you think about it deeply rap music plays a big part in the demise of our people, and we already know how WS works.
Hundreds of Texas state troopers will need to shrink their waistlines by December or face discipline from the Department of Public Safety, according to DPS documents obtained by the Dallas Morning News.
The department wants its 4,000 officers to maintain "command presence" by keeping waistlines below 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women. Those who exceed the threshold are required to start recording and sharing their weight loss with the department.
Over 200 officers have failed the requirement – though all except two had passed the department's other physical fitness tests, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Those who still fail the requirement by Dec. 1 can't be promoted or take on side jobs in uniform, according to documents shared with the Chronicle. Some will also be barred from working overtime or removed from enforcement duties altogether, taking them out of the field at a time when Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying state troopers to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Operation Lone Star.
To avoid those sanctions, officers have pledged in their individualized "fitness improvement plans" to prepare their own meals and drink less diet soda, among other goals.
The waistline rule began in 2019 and drew a lawsuit that year from the Texas Department of Public Safety Officers a*sociation. The organization, which represents 4,700 DPS employees, criticized the policy as "demeaning" and unrelated to performance. After pandemic delays through 2020, the department began using the new measures to evaluate officers last September.
In a statement to the Chronicle, a DPS spokesperson said the department would reevaluate the rule in August but pointed to the department's overall fitness policy to justify the waistline requirement.
"There is not a great deal that others can do to improve an officer’s level of health and fitness," the policy objective states. "Unfortunately, good health and fitness does not 'just happen'; therefore, personal goals must be established and effort must be put forth to achieve them."
This is something my brother got into. He is younger and thinks that if Elon Musk buys Twitter, he will use DOGE on the platform in some way since it is a "meme coin" and considered to be an internet coin for younger generations.
He bought some. I mean I am hoping this happens cause it would be good for him but I have doubts.
Anyone else here think this coin will ever become something worth investing in?
First she came out as pansexual now she’s nonbinary…who and a what now?
“I’m nonbinary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely. I feel all of my energy. I feel like God is so much bigger than the 'he' or the 'she,'" she said. "And if I am from God, I am everything. I am everything. But I will always, always stand with women. I will always stand with Black women. But I just see everything that I am. Beyond the binary."
The Memory Librarian author, who did not declare her preferred pronouns, went on to say that she sees other people for their "energy" rather than their gender. Most importantly, identifying as nonbinary has allowed her to explore relationships in different ways.
"I feel like that opens you up to fall in love … with any beautiful spirit," she said.
“I’ve been doing a lot of healing. I’m sure most of us have since we’ve been in the pandemic. When you have to stay in, you go in," she said. "I was thinking back to when I first started and I was like, man, as free as I was onstage, when I came off stage, I was still that scared little girl. Like, 'I’m not good enough.' That was always in the back of my mind. 'Will they love me?'"
Although Black lives do matter, I cannot and will not support that fraudulent organization. They are more about serving the lgbt than they are about protecting Black people. I hope the scammers in that video burn in hell for exploiting and profiting off of the murders of Black men, women, and children.
I haven't investigated the source which is: healthresearchfunding.org but I'm concerned with the number being so high. If we take these numbers at face value we have to ask:
Are we lying to each other regarding monogamy? Is it against human nature?
Do we live in a generation where people want to have their cake and eat it too?
Are people getting into monogamous relationships for the wrong reasons?
I think it's a blend on 1 and 3. I think SOME people lie about their ability to be monogamous and that some people engage in monogamous relationships for the wrong reasons.
I guess this is up for debate, I was always under the impression that being exclusive meant only you two are seeing one another and no one else. But isn’t that what being in a relationship means? The labels? Yet being exclusive doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in a relationship with that person…
Congressional Candidate Reverend Summerville (CA 42) drops by to speak on his agenda for Black America. We also spoke on the importance of faith in his mission and why he felt compelled to run for office.
I have to say that this is the best example of how flight could work in a Supes game I’ve ever seen. I can feel the speed and power in the flight and also when he lands. The biggest issue Supes has is his strength. How can you have him face adversity but still be Super? If you disable his powers then you get none of the fun of Supes. But if you make it like Arkham Asylum it makes no sense because the average bum can’t beat supes. The narrative would be the toughest part and you’d also have to build a big ass map too.
It’s pretty common knowledge that most African Americans are not 100% of African decent due to our ancestors experiencing rape from slave owners, mixing with native Americans during colonial times & modern interracial relationships.
I am curious to see the genetic diversity my brothers on here have. Feel free to post your results as well.
My background: raised by a single father Black-American father from Tampa, FL & Venezuelan mother who was considered morena (nick name for brown skinned Latinas with black hair).
I never really got to know my mother but it’s interesting how much African ancestry latins have on average, I was surprised to learn she was 25% black. My dad didn’t even know she was black til I showed him these results haha. The media doesn’t show black Latin Americans so before traveling to South America I thought most people here were white but it’s actually extremely diverse.
63% African, 22% European, & 15% Native American is my ancestral mix.
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