I was a fan of his in his early career. I thought he was a wholesome dude. Had family values and everything. I really felt like he was truly an NBA player younger people could look up to. I noticed since he went to LA though, a lot about the dude changed. The one thing that really soured me on him was the issues with Hong Kong. Like I know, we are not expected to be helping people in other countries as citizens but to stand with China while they were abusing, killing, locking up, and enslaving those people... It just rubbed me the wrong way. I lost any respect for him that I had left. I used to be harsh on Kobe (RIP) because of his actions with his wife and some of his friends over the years but that was nothing in comparison. He did some stupid stuff but he never sold out.

What are your thoughts on LeBron James? Do you think he changed?

I am so sick of seeing Hollywood "blackwash" characters who were formally white just to make things "less white" or more minority friendly. They do this with men too, making them into women. There are so many powerful black figures throughout history that can be made into movies or TV shows. Same with comics... Why can't new characters be made? I know a lot of people who love the Black Panther and the story behind him. I feel like they are so empty with original ideas, they are just doing stuff for the sake of making money off social politics. It is kind of insulting to take an established character and just paint him black as if it makes things okay or something. Then you look at BET original movies like that Karen movie they did recently. WTF even was that? I don't know a single person who watched that crap. It was like a Get Out ripoff or something. I know other people notice this stuff too but they won't dare say anything about it cause they will get targeted, harassed, or banned from social platforms.

I noticed a lot of brands go downhill over the years. The quality and styles just aren't the same anymore. I tend to just find random brands I like that are more affordable and make comfortable clothing but I still have my preferences. Like for shoes and whatnot, I almost always buy Puma. For me, they have made some of the most comfortable footwear out there and if you find it on a deal, you aren't paying much for the quality.

Are you team playstation, xbox, or PC? I tend to lean towards PC but I wouldn't mind having a PS5 at some point. The PS5s were so hard to get last year I gave up lol

I used to try to hit the gym a couple times a week before the pandemic hit. I bought some weights awhile back to put in the garage but I think they got used once and that was it lol I think I just lost motivation with the shutdown and it hasn't come back yet.

Aside from the normal stuff like being trustworthy, I don't like when someone makes a point to be negative in every situation. I get that not everything can positive, but if you're constantly focusing on the negatives, it frustrates me. I want to be able to excited about something without worrying about your negative opinion.

I am not trying to be disrespectful, if you love yourself the way you are more power to you but past a certain point of weight gain... It just isn't a good look. It isn't healthy either. I keep seeing this being pushed on women, especially women of color. How is this a good thing long-term? Like yeah, you feel better about yourself and I am happy for you but do you want to die in your 40's? Do you want to struggle with health conditions your whole life and live miserably? I don't know man. I feel like this is doing an injustice to women. Loving yourself means you want to take care of yourself. There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health for your own sake. Having some extra weight is one thing but once you are obese, it just isn't good. Maybe this is just me.

I left the platform. I just wasn't feeling it anymore. People argue over stupid things, act like they know it all, and cancel everything. It makes no damn sense to me. Like I used to enjoy reading through the posts but most of what I was seeing was politically charged and designed to make someone look bad for something. Got sick of it and just decided to wipe my account and leave. This was last year. I haven't been on it since. I would much rather socialize on forums like this one.

Over the years, my family kind of went their own ways. Once my grandparents passed away, we seem to have mostly just stop celebrating a lot of holidays. I mean we do birthdays still, summer cookouts (4th of July is a real banger every year), Christmas... But that is about it. I don't remember the last time we celebrated Easter or Halloween, even Thanksgiving. I think 2020 put the nail in the coffin for those completely as we had plans but they fell through. Which holidays do you and yours celebrate?

Not trying to be political here but I definitely think the pandemic has influenced my feelings toward the general public. I was never a people person before but now I feel like that's even worse lol Has it affected you?

I'm hearing that we may be required to get a booster shot after we get our vaccines (if you haven't already). I feel like covid is never ending at this point. Does the vaccine even work if we need to get more of the vaccine? Seems weird to me. Are you guys going to get the booster shot if you have to in our area? Or will you wait it out a bit first?

Any fans of this show? I like that they always do something different every season, and the most recent season had Chris Rock as one of the main stars. I watched it recently and I thought it was great. But so is every previous season of the show. I wonder what the next season will be like. I hope they keep making new seasons going forward. I like how they always mix it up each season.

What is your favorite food? I am going to go cliche here and answer pizza. I love pizza dude, it's my favorite, and I could honestly eat it a lot. Which looking at my habits, is probably a bad idea haha! I buy a lot of frozen pizza, and even order once in a while. It's addicting isn't it?

But what is your favorite food?

These days I kinda steer away from social media, because it's just a mess of dumb people arguing about politics, covid and other such things. It's a big reason I left Facebook, because so many of my friends and family just talked nonsense about stuff and i got tired of it.

Do you guys even bother with social media anymore? I wouldn't count streaming or doing videos (Youtube), but facebook and twitter for sure.

Its cuz of this idiot.

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We have train tracks downtown Dallas and people either try to beat the train or end up stopping dead on the tracks waiting for a light to change. Common sense tells me to not roll on a train tracks if I don’t have a clear path across it but common sense ain’t common.

I don’t think I could trust myself on it let alone a tesla. The visibility going up has to be terrible, it’s like a San Francisco street on steroids.

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YOOOO!

Any Common fans here? Looking forward to hearing what he's putting out.

Common Announces New Album + Shares Black Thought Collaboration 'When We Move'

This is kind of a controversial topic but for the men here, do you expect a woman to submit to you without you having to be accountable for results? It seems like a lot of men in our society feel that submissiveness from a woman is a right, I disagree. I feel like submissiveness is a privilege and you have to earn it by being a provider and protector that creates emotional, financial, and physical stability in the household. A woman is unable to bask in her feminine energy when the basic tenets of survival are unmet.

This is why our Black American women typical display masculine traits because they have been dealt a bad hand over the past 70 years. Their men have been overly arrested, overly charged, overly Incarcerated, and denied jobs which culminated in a environment where Black American women had to be the tentpole for the family. To make matters worse, the Man was UNABLE to come back into the household if the woman was on public assistance thus reinforcing the Black woman having to hold down the household.

So I say all that to say this, understand masculinity and what woman expect from you as a man. Be a leader, a provider, and protector and she will choose to lock onto your plan if it makes sense. Will there be women out there unwilling to do so? Yes. But for every bum ass woman is a bum ass dude…don’t let their darkness mask your light.

Submissiveness is a side effect of you being a provider and protector…don’t expect it if you ain’t doing your job.

I'm still a little undecided. I do like that they kept the original actor from the first one but for some reason, I can't really get into it. I'm sure I'll check it out at some point but I don't know if I'll rush to see it in theaters.

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I hear a lot of stories about people trying to make long distance work but I don't think I could personally do it. It seems to take a certain type of personality to even attempt it and even then I don't know that it works every time. That's just my opinion though - What do you think?

Peep the pic below. Do you still believe in gender roles??? Should the woman make the plate or should he get his own plate? Was it rude for her to sit without getting a plate for him?? What if she never makes his plate at home, should she have at least made his plate this time around???

This is something so frustrating to me, it’s the biggest bitch move in the world. I understand if they’ve tried to communicate to you a few times and you‘ve brushed them off or you’re lagging in deliverables but on the first notification, it’s BS. I didn’t attach a technical item to a document and this person instead of coming to me to rectify, airs me out with a Director and my boss CC’d…I’m like…yo you couldn’t reach out to me to resolve first? I’m a great worker but this place I’m at has a culture of people CC’ing your superiors all the time…it’s annoying. I hate that I have to think this but I wonder if it’s because I’m one of 2 Black people in the whole company. CC’ing my boss is their version of calling the cops on me when they want me to be corrected. There’s a white dude from Texas that does it non-stop to me for no reason…always quick to escalate on me even if it’s been 20 minutes…shit is crazy.

Off top a cooking forum would be fire. Of course a gym forum as well.

About 4 years ago, I had to address the fact that my budgeting skills sucked. I basically had no budget. I just spent how I felt. I would at least check my account balance periodically, but I was stuck in a cycle of overdrafting my account and rushing to switch from savings to avoid the overdraft fee. So basically outside of direct deposit into savings I was always ending up broke and my money management was sloppy.

I had to change it up. I did my online research and got put onto using a rewards credit card for every single purchase. The catch is you have to keep a zero balance. I zeroed out all of my credit cards and haven’t used a debit card other than at the atm since.

My question is who else on this site is doing this. I wondering if we can share ideas on techniques and what’s the best card to use.