traestar;5760777 said:
Ioniz3dSPIRITZ;5759275 said:
white715;5753433 said:
This white girl at work thinks that racism is over I just told her the other day it's still around it's just covert now so much so that you might not even notice it when it's right in front of your face.
We need more black people behind the camera and in positions of power in Hollywood so that we can control our own image.
Anyone who could make such a statement obviously doesn't know what racism is. Racism in it's essence is one group of people exerting control over another group of people for their own benefit. Racism has to still exist or else whites wouldn't dominate and control most of the worlds resources. A white boy calling you a nigger to your face isn't racism, it's bigotry. Most blacks don't even know what racism is and neither do whites despite benefiting from it from the the time their born and until death. And some how whites have convinced us that we can be racist. Again how can that be so when we don't own anything? True, blacks can reach high positions within THEIR structure and exert power over others but ultimately he/she will
ALWAYS be working in the best interest of whites. They'll allow us to be military commanders and even presidents as long we serve in the best interest of white society.
If power is what we truly desire then we need to create our own and cater to our own. We'll never have control over our own destiny or image if we don't build for ourselves.
Even though I am outraged at the whitening of black celebrities I'm not surprised. Whites have to pull these types of shenanigans or else they couldn't be who they are and where they are. If young black women are sub-consciously being told to feel ugly because of their blackness it creates confusion. Because if women like beyonce and jessica lucas can be represented as the epitome of a"beautiful" black women, what does that make the average dark skin girl with naturally kinky hair? The purpose of white supremacy now is to re-define blackness as something so abstract that we as blacks will begin to confuse ourselves over what constitutes as black. And in the end the true blacks will become more and more irrelavant in a society where we are already at the bottom.
We don't practice group economics to begin with because of this. Every other race does but us, and this was no accident. Claude Anderson says it in Powernomics and so does Umar Johnson here...
Does this guy know the story of how Nike Started? I stopped listening after he said the banks won't give you capital to go up against a Nike or Reebok
Nike was started out of a trunk of a car and the first treads were designed with a waffle iron.
You don't need a billion dollars, just an idea a plan and determination.
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The Nike athletic machine began as a small distributing
outfit located in the trunk of Phil Knight's car. From these rather inauspicious beginnings, Knight's brainchild grew to become the shoe and athletic company that would come to define many aspects of popular culture and myriad varieties of 'cool.'
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am483_97/projects/hincker/nikhist.html
http://www.newser.com/story/113125/...nds-iconic-waffle-iron-that-inspired-his.html
Newser) – Nike has back in its possession what the Oregonian calls the company's "Holy Grail"—the waffle iron that inspired co-founder Bill Bowerman to design his first innovative sole. Bowerman's son found the relic buried on his late father's property near Eugene, and the family gave it to Nike. (The company made a "generous" donation in return to the local high school track team where the family lives.) "It truly is the headwaters of our innovation," says the company historian. "From a historian's standpoint, it's like finding the Titanic."
As the story goes, Bowerman and his wife were making waffles in 1971 and talking about how to make a lighter, faster shoe. "As one of the waffles came out, he said, 'You know, by turning it upside down—where the waffle part would come in contact with the track—I think that might work,'" said his wife in a 2006 interview. Bowerman then used that same waffle iron to test his theory. It worked. For the full telling, see the