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Outstanding and salient piece. However, when I consider the overall context, it exhibits to me the inability of this society to confront its Anti-Blackism. "Racism" is what other non-Europeans experience, but Anti-Blackism is a specialized, vicious and pernicious form of racism. From U.S. not being humans, but property (as articulated in the U.S. Constitution), to enslavement, to voter suppression, to lynching to police murder, the society has a problem being honest in that WE are subjected to things no other group is. For instance, you, quite accurately, point out that "Blacks" are the reason why there is no national health care. Logic, and reality, must extrapolate from that that sans Black People in the United States, there would exist such a thing (for Asians, European-Americans, Latinos, etc). Which is true. That is why those other groups will refer to a Black Person in the United States as a "nigger" in a heartbeat.

This tragedy will never be eliminated because of the manner in which we arrived here on "The Island." So, as Donald Trump promises to "deport" millions, I suggest he "deport" those of U.S. who wish to leave. Now, many on "The Island" (or plantation) love Massa and would opt to stay. But I guarantee you a whole bunch of U.S. will take the offer. The fact that the largest deportation in the history of the planet was what is, in Whiteyspeak, "the North Atlantic Slave Trade" of Alkebulanians to North America from crime to time notwithstanding, why does this country not rid itself of its problem?

I'll be on the first thing smokin'.

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There were Blacks in the ghettoes of Europe. Some were included in the Holocaust. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/afro-germans-during-the-holocaust

I think I've told you previously that my dad attended Geneva College when eugenics was a required science class. He learned that our people are inferior, have criminal tendencies, are often feeble minded, and can't benefit from a liberal education. Guess who got the top grade?

I also remind you that during the early part of the 20th century, many states had eugenic programs. The targets in many places were Melungeons and Lumbee "Indians." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon

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And your point is what?

There isn't a black M.F. anywhere in the United States that has a casino. Though we, singularly, gave it its so-called "wealth." Lastly, I don't know you and you don't know me, we have never had a conversation and I am unaware of who "our" people are. Ergo, you don't "tell" me anything.

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There are several Black-owned casinos, including the Richmond Grand Resort & Casino in Richmond, Virginia and Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana:

Richmond Grand Resort & Casino

A $562 million casino project in Richmond, Virginia, developed by Urban One Inc. in partnership with Churchill Downs Inc. The casino will include a 250-room hotel, a 3,000-seat concert venue, media production studios, and a 55-acre public park.

Majestic Star Casino

Located on two boats in Buffington Harbor, Gary, Indiana, this casino features keno machines, live blackjack dealers, and R&B and hip hop music. Don Hamilton Barden was the first Black casino owner in Las Vegas, acquiring Fitzgeralds Las Vegas in 2001.

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Majestic Star was taken over by Europeans in 2018; November to be exact. In November 2018, the company agreed to be acquired by Spectacle Entertainment, a new firm owned primarily by two Indiana-based investors. Richmond does not yet exist. Eugenics, like all racism, including many holocausts, is a European construct executed by Europeans and was considered "science." I cannot tell if you are Jewish, homosexual, heterosexual, Atheist, Christian, Agnostic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or effing monk...by looking at you (potential garb and adornment notwithstanding). I trust your considerable intellect arrives at the desired destination.

So, again, European-American, you come with false equivalencies. Then you have the temerity to suggest you are something other than that in the amorphous mass of electronic nothingness known as "cyberspace." Funny how you people will hurry up and claim, as in Snow White Elizabeth Warren, that you are "Native-American," but nary one of you ever claim to be Alkebulanian (one drop rule, can you dig it) and a bunch of you ARE.

My ORIGINAL AMERICAN ancestors (Choctaw) were at home before my enslaved Alkebulanian ones arrived to The Island. They, therefore, were familiar with the geography, the topography, the flora, the fauna, food sources and climatic conditions. Matter of fact, the Original American is the only M.F. in the so-called United States that is not an interloper. The DIFFERENCE, for U.S., is that WE were forced to come to THIS "shithole" which could not exist without the other "shitholes." We remain treated accordingly.

Now, you have received ALL of the attention I might muster whilst you drown in your denialistic intoxication.

https://rohnkenyatta.substack.com/p/a-note-to-our-audience-and-the-european

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