I’m wondering when it is that Black peoples, particularly Black Americans, are going to get serious with their war mindset. It seems to me a lot of people focus too much on talk, debate and celebration, when they should be focused on war, strategy and actions. For example, one can hardly ever get Black Americans to do or support anything— not saying it never happens, but… they just don’t seem to have that same magnetic urgency that draws them to a cause like certain other groups. Can we brainstorm this?

Cookie Chris Opens in Short Pump



The smell of cookies wafts through the hot pink and electric blue storefront that is Cookie Chris.

“We bake them fresh daily,” says Chris Knight, 19, owner and namesake of Cookie Chris.

Cookie Chris opened in Short Pump last week at 11571 W. Broad St. The shop, which sells cookies in a number of varieties, is the second brick-and-mortar location for Knight, who opened his first location in Williamsburg.

“Cookie Chris started when I was 16,” says Knight. “It started when I was [playing too many video games]. My parents told me to go outside and get off the game, and go do something.



“I’ve had a love of baking since I was young—my grandma put that into me—so I picked that back up during COVID, just baking chocolate chip, sugar, basic things. Then I started branching out doing different flavors— I think one of my first ones was Oreo—and people had said it was really good, that I could take this somewhere. So, I started selling them in school, through Instagram and Facebook online, and the Williamsburg community was really supportive. I saved up enough money for two years to [lease] my first store.”

When you could bake anything, sticking to one item and perfecting it is a classic method of differentiation.

“Cookies are my favorite dessert, and since it’s my favorite dessert, I just wanted to mess around with that,” says Knight. “My grandmother had me make all types of things, cookies, pound cake, but cookies are the one thing that stood out to me, to try to make it more creative than basic chocolate chip and sugar. Some of my specialties are the strawberry shortcake and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The banana pudding cookie went viral.”

The cookies are sold individually or by the dozen, arranged in a custom box bearing the Cookie Chris logo. As a bonus, they’re super soft, warm out of the oven, and last for four days after purchase.



Behind the counter is a commercial kitchen where the paper plate-sized treats are made by a staff under the careful direction of Knight’s mother, Fran Knight. “We are very proud,” she said. “He keeps a 4.0 grade point average. We’re just supporting his dream. He worked every weekend and saved his money, and his business is really going somewhere.”

Knight is seeing where his new venture will take him as he plans to return to Morehouse University in Atlanta for his second year as a pre-law student studying philosophy and psychology.

“Right now, I’m letting God’s plan take its course,” Knight said. “When we started in Williamsburg, we had a lot of people from Richmond and from out of town in the tourist areas, so we decided to open in Richmond.”

Two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which academics for two millennia have thought to be impossible – are being encouraged by a prominent US mathematical research organization to submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal.
Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, who are students of St Mary’s Academy, recently gave a presentation of their findings at the American Mathematical Society south-eastern chapter’s semi-annual meeting in Georgia.
They were reportedly the only two high schoolers to give presentations at the meeting attended by math researchers from institutions including the universities of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana State, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech. And they spoke about how they had discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem.

America is going straight to hell— this is why America, Europe and the West are fools not to fight Russia or China directly. They should’ve played a stronger hand, now the World views them as weak, pathetic and enraging:

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I call cap. 32 raggedy outsiders took over a whole apartment building in Chicago?
AND THEY DID IT ON THE SOUTHSIDE?



I guess the Venezuelans will take over Brooklyn, North Philly, and SE DC next.
Man, if these MAGA agents don't GTFO with this mess!

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I've been asking this same question for a long time.

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Two wings on the same bird is right. Dems want to smoke us out and Republicans want to shoot us when we step outside.

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