DarkCaesar

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Love should have kept him off that stage: A deep dive on the Will/Rock Affair #slapgate

Love should have kept him off that stage. A man does not protect a woman by acting violently. He protects a woman by shielding her from all violent situations even at the cost of his own ego. If Will Smith’s ego was hurt and his gut response in that moment was to respond with violence to the source of the hurt, his love for his wife and his concern for her safety should have been what restrained him.

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I just read an article that messed up my day

Sullivan claims CRT seeks to awaken people to the fact that liberalism is a lie. He is wrong. CRT seeks to awaken people to the fact the liberalism has been infected from the start with hatred in the form of white supremacy. That liberal ideals while worthy of reverence, have not been implemented properly. That Liberalism that elevates the ideals, perspectives, and experiences of one group of people and seeks to erase all others is in fact illiberal.

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Hot Take!!! The cop pulled the trigger, but the system murdered Ma'Khia Bryant

We may look at the killing of Ma’Khia as justified, but that is because we’ve been indoctrinated with certain preconceptions about how police must act in a certain situations. We must re examine and reconsider these preconceptions.

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The Recurring Trauma of Police Brutality

Even if Chauvin is convicted, justice for Black people is far from achieved. The evidence of this is the ongoing disproportionate murder of Black people at the hands of law enforcement for very trivial offenses. It is the ongoing disproportionate imprisonment of Black people altogether. It is the increasing feeling of terror that any single engagement or misstep could lead to loss of life or liberty. It is the systemic lack of accountability in police departments.

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Personal Take: Progressives must address racism to enact their agenda

Progressives must face the truth. The only way to truly enact their agenda is to take racism head on, because all of their agenda is inextricably tied to racial equity. This means they can’t simply choose a strategy of economic argument while diminishing or ignoring the racial arguments.

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Marvel's Continuing Examination of Race from Black Panther to The Falcon

Both the Black Panther movie and the Falcon series expose a through line of racial unrest that exists just below the surface of the MCU.

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Personal Take: Lack of inclusion in Public Education makes minorities more susceptible to Disinformation

the realization and knowledge of being misinformed in school stunts a student’s ability to buy in to the educational experience. Additionally, it stunts student’s ability to perform research because instead of schools teaching them to rely on primary sources of information, the school experience teaches minority students to be distrustful of primary sources, making them more susceptible and vulnerable to “alternative information” or disinformation.

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White Supremacy is a problem for White People

Black people have suffered under the boot of white supremacy, but it is a problem for White people. Minorities can help them identify and define the problem, but they must root it out and destroy it. This means White progressives, liberals, moderates, independents, and conservatives must do something they have often neglected to do. They must check themselves.

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Joe Biden doesn't support student debt cancellation...and he's right (Part 2)

As much as anyone, I would like to take advantage of $50,000 less of student loan debt, but I can’t overlook how it favors people who are in higher income brackets. For anyone truly interested in reducing income inequality and increasing equal opportunity for all people, making all public college and universities free is definitely the better proposal.

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Biden doesn't support student debt cancellation...and he's right

In the absence of a sensible Republican party, the Democratic party is now arguing with itself about education priorities. The sad part about this is the so-called Progressives are arguing for the Conservative policy, while the alleged middle of the road Democrat is arguing for the Progressive policy.

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Hot Take!!!! Conservatives can exist without the GOP

Principled Conservatives need to leave the party. You don’t have common cause with Democrats fine, but that requires creation of a new consistent Conservative political party. They have to support the implementation of policies that actively deconstruct white supremacy and acknowledge that institutional racism is a thing that actually exists instead of trying to mindlessly preserve the status quo. They need to be pro faith, pro truth, pro intellect, and anti-discrimination.

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The broken faith of Thanos

Infinity War encourages us to grapple with one of the foundational questions of faith. If God is good, why do bad things happen? Thanos chose the path which led him to only focus on what he had lost. In doing so, he mistook his grief and trauma for purpose. Led by his hate he actually became the very thing he thought he was fighting against. He became a false god too consumed with his own despair to register the value of life.

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HOT TAKE!!! Why I oppose the Great Gamestop Rebellion of 2021

Short selling as a business practice is abhorrent, since it’s basically people making money off a company going out of business. However, the actions of the reddit revolution are dangerous and short sighted.

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The Persistence of White Supremacy (Part 2 of 4)

The Constitution of the United States and the formation of Congress could only be secured by compromises with white supremacy. These compromises embedded white supremacy into the foundation of America. From 1788 until 1861 America engaged in the fool’s errand of maintaining a middle ground between establishing freedom for all and keeping Black people as slaves.

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The Persistence of White Supremacy (Part 1 of 4)

The United States Government was ill equipped to deal with a racist insurrection because American has yet to recognize how widespread and embedded white supremacy is in the American cultural psyche. Ever since the beginning, America has been two nations. It has been a nation that aspires toward a diverse and inclusive democratic melting pot where all people are treated equally, but it has also been an exclusive anti-democratic nation based on white supremacy.

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Dark Caesar: Bad As She Wanna Be

One of my main concerns about Hip Hop is that it is dominated by males and a lot of songs and videos address women that we might want to spend a night with as opposed to women we would spend our whole lives with. As men we focus on the materials or money we have and look at that as reason for a woman to be with us, as opposed to trying to understand that a lot of the women we want are looking for men with strong character. It is my belief that a person of strong character will eventually be a prosperous person as well and by just focusing on getting money by any means we are actually putting the cart before the horse. A man that focuses on getting more money and more toys at the expense of everything else, will usually find himself with a woman who prizes those things above all else and that’s not necessarily a woman that will stick around if and when times get rough. As a result, we tend to focus on the type of woman we don’t want as opposed to honoring the ones we do. I’d like to see more diversity in the types of messages we send to women.

“Bad as she wanna be” is my effort at honoring the type of woman I find most attractive. I am just as attracted to a beautiful woman as any other man, but I only wanted to address that in passing so that I could focus on the kind of character that makes a woman a queen.

A queen is a woman who is a visionary and looking to fulfill her own purpose in life. She has big ideas and she strives to bring her dreams to life. Not every woman wants to be married, but for those that do, they understand that marriage is a partnership and they want to be full partners with their husband. She engages with her man’s plans and helps him accomplish his goals and he (being the king he should be) does the same for her. A queen knows how to plan for the long-term and is an asset in all situations because she can provide clear insight to what is going on. She acts as an advisor and a second set of eyes. She is spiritually centered and that allows her to add stability to everything around her. These characteristics make her a comfort in times of stress, and an equal and indispensable life partner.