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  • BangEm_Bart
    BangEm_Bart Members Posts: 9,503 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    bbkg79 wrote: »
    Dump your girl. She forgot to tell you the most IMPORTANT part. " DO NOT SHARE IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA"

    I got it, mom dukes passed it on.
    So ? y'all in advance.
    My girl told me, it's a text telling us to start putting our money into black owned banks, boycott Target and minute maid products. I'm doing it but I don't get why boycott minute maid or target.

    Nvm got the text.
  • BangEm_Bart
    BangEm_Bart Members Posts: 9,503 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Mister B. wrote: »
    So, if I'm black, and didn't get ? , should I feel some type of way?

    Just wondering.

    I think it's cause I have a white name
  • High Revolutionary
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    At this point the cats out the bag anyway.

    It's not like text messages are secure. Still I'm loving the idea, it's about time we exercised our economic power.
  • BangEm_Bart
    BangEm_Bart Members Posts: 9,503 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I mean, it's still not out there unless some racist white dude joins this forum and starts clicking spoilers and seeing how we feel about bigots. I'm following suit of it but it's not like a lot of ppl will do it anyway.
  • Arya Tsaddiq
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  • Arya Tsaddiq
    Arya Tsaddiq Members Posts: 15,334 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Judah Back wrote: »
    BlackCat wrote: »
    So ? y'all in advance.
    My girl told me, it's a text telling us to start putting our money into black owned banks, boycott Target and minute maid products. I'm doing it but I don't get why boycott minute maid or target.

    This is it? You guys made it sound like a guerrilla
    welfare operation or some ? smh
    There got be more.
    BlackCat wrote: »
    This is it? You guys made it sound like a guerrilla
    welfare operation or some ? smh
    There got be more.
    BlackCat wrote: »
    You guys made it sound like a guerrilla
    welfare operation or some ?

    BlackCat wrote: »
    made it sound like a guerrilla
    welfare operation

    BlackCat wrote: »
    sound like a guerrilla
    welfare operation

    BlackCat wrote: »
    guerrilla
    welfare operation

    BlackCat wrote: »
    guerrilla
    welfare

    Yo....

    This is hilarious and unintentionally racist af
  • AP21
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    EmM HoLLa. wrote: »
    I've actually looked into putting my money in black owned banks.. The issue is..

    1. Customer Service.
    2. Not enough branches convenient to my location.

    I would love to support black banks and black businesses in general but my time is valuable. I can't be spending x amount of time to get to the bank then spend x amount of time waiting in line to see a teller etc..

    I'd rather pay the premium for convenience..

    this

    the homie knock twice sent me some info, and these places are WAY on the other side of town where i MIGHT go 2x a year. Not worth it for me to spend money to save money if that makes sense
  • AP21
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    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are
  • AP21
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    D. Morgan wrote: »
    AP21 wrote: »
    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are

    Everything ain't for everybody regardless of how cool they might seem or actually be.

    thats a lil short sighted is it not?

    if they are genuinely just as disgusted as you are, i dont think it matters if they have to have had the same experiences as you to empathize for your struggle.

    they speak openly about injustices all the time, so if they decide to pull their resources as well, doesnt that ultimately achieve the same goal?

    not everyone who doesnt look like us is against us fam
  • Dupac
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    EmM HoLLa. wrote: »
    I've actually looked into putting my money in black owned banks.. The issue is..

    1. Customer Service.
    2. Not enough branches convenient to my location.

    I would love to support black banks and black businesses in general but my time is valuable. I can't be spending x amount of time to get to the bank then spend x amount of time waiting in line to see a teller etc..

    I'd rather pay the premium for convenience..


    debated this earlier...told dude i'll hop ship in a heartbeat, but i ain't hoping on no icecream stick to navigate an ocean...

    it's one thing working hard to acquire..and it's a whole different monster trying to maintain... anything not built on strong foundation will crumble.. there's enough power black men in ths country to build something that can support our people if they really want to spark this climate change...

    i'm selfish as ? .. my family is ultimately more important to me than the rest of yall.....no apologies that's just my truth, i need assurances.....

    you break this ? down to me, and make me understand how i can still support and provide the best future for my family under this new direction, and i'm all for it...

    the seeds have been planted, and if dudes really serious about the ? ... it will all grow in time...but i will not risk my future on a whim, i'm patient enough to make sure whatever it is i'm placing us on is sturdy enough to handle the transition.....

    after i'm convinced it's whatever.....

    but dudes gotta realize business 101 is marketing, and convenience

    people don't bank where they bank, and spend money where they spend money solely out of loyalty...they do it because it's marketed the best and most convenient to their needs...

    you want the people to support your business, make sure you business supports the people's needs in return...

    i will not be guilted to support out of an obligation...my obligation is to the future of my family.....that's what's most important to me....if i feel confident that will be protected...then i'm all for it
  • Dupac
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    Lol @ people putting out a covert message that says the same thing that people been saying for decades openly.

    marketing
  • AP21
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    Judah Back wrote: »
    AP21 wrote: »
    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are

    Chill bruh


    https://youtu.be/ArHhMabjWwg

    and yet, his OWN people were the ones who plotted to ? him

    c'mon brah
  • Black Boy King
    Black Boy King Members Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AP21 wrote: »
    Judah Back wrote: »
    AP21 wrote: »
    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are

    Chill bruh


    https://youtu.be/ArHhMabjWwg

    and yet, his OWN people were the ones who plotted to ? him

    c'mon brah

    So the moral to that story is white people are more trustworthy than our own?


    If we get crossed by our own, ? that's life. Always a Judas Iscariot slithering around. Any and every group has to watch for that

    But if you get crossed by an outsider, ain't no one gonna feel sorry for you. Especially with their history of double speech and crocodile tears
  • AP21
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    Judah Back wrote: »
    AP21 wrote: »
    Judah Back wrote: »
    AP21 wrote: »
    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are

    Chill bruh


    https://youtu.be/ArHhMabjWwg

    and yet, his OWN people were the ones who plotted to ? him

    c'mon brah

    So the moral to that story is white people are more trustworthy than our own?


    If we get crossed by our own, ? that's life. Always a Judas Iscariot slithering around

    But if you get crossed by an outsider, ain't no one gonna feel sorry for you. Especially with their history of double speech and crocodile tears

    if thats what you took from my response, then there is no need to continue this dialog

    have a good day fam
  • Koltrain
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    I plan to participate even though I question how effective this will be.
  • The Lonious Monk
    The Lonious Monk Members Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Koltrain wrote: »
    I plan to participate even though I question how effective this will be.

    I wonder how effective things like this can be too. Walmart and Target are big employers of black people (even though they are both ? companies, especially Walmart). When you hurt those organizations, ultimately you'll be hurting black people too. I get the concept, but there really aren't enough black alternatives to really go all out on these kinda boycots. I guess that's why the message had it all split up by day.
  • S2J
    S2J Members Posts: 28,458 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My girl told me, it's a text telling us to start putting our money into black owned banks, boycott Target and minute maid products. I'm doing it but I don't get why boycott minute maid or target.

    stanley-the-office-o.gif

    We are grown ass men and women and we are fighting back with a by-invitation-only boycott of JUICE?!? Juice, ? .... JUICE .
  • ReppinTime
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    I got it this morning and shared it with all my white friends later in the day.

    Why he not banned for this post? ? modding
  • xxCivicxx
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    AP21 wrote: »
    Judah Back wrote: »
    AP21 wrote: »
    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are

    Chill bruh


    https://youtu.be/ArHhMabjWwg

    and yet, his OWN people were the ones who plotted to ? him

    c'mon brah

    ? the CIA and the Mob were behind that ? just like with MLK don't even do that
  • BangEm_Bart
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    AP21 wrote: »
    serious question tho, why couldnt someone like Kat, vibe, or biblical atheist be included in this? they are about as apart of the culture as we are

    Actually Lou got traded to our race for Stacey Dash in the draft last year. I forwarded him the text cause he's my black friend.
  • Black Boy King
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    S2J wrote: »
    My girl told me, it's a text telling us to start putting our money into black owned banks, boycott Target and minute maid products. I'm doing it but I don't get why boycott minute maid or target.

    stanley-the-office-o.gif

    We are grown ass men and women and we are fighting back with a by-invitation-only boycott of JUICE?!? Juice, ? .... JUICE .
    Swiffness! wrote: »
    Lol @ the secrecy like ya'll got this ? through encrypted channels.

    dead @ thinking the authorities can't read your txt messages.

    Cops had my ? txt messages for selling weed back in the day. NICKELS AND DIMES. But ya'll out here acting like you maintaining radio silence and operational security about subversive activity by not talking about txt messages on a ? message board lol foh

    Learn how to use encrypt w/ TOR and communicate through the darknet anonymously if you truly bout that life..........

    Because all you message board revolutionary ? are already on a list. Believe that. Especially after this weekend.

    Took 4 pages for some good sense to emerge, and I disagree wit these dudes 98% of the time

    And more ? could be said but like I said
    Judah Back wrote: »
    I'm not even gonna go in... Cuz if this is true, I quit

    I still got faith in my people tho. That ain't the real message, they prolly laughing at us in the ?