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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77192746 United States 06/30/2021 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | remember folks not a single billionaire made it on this planet without fucking wsomeone else over.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78236647 aka FUCK ALL BILLIONAIRES even your pride and joy elon musk.. they gain money off others misery so fuck them all billionaires definitely need to to pitch in, regardless of "race". They're the real exploiters. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77192746 United States 06/30/2021 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | remember folks not a single billionaire made it on this planet without fucking wsomeone else over.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78236647 aka FUCK ALL BILLIONAIRES even your pride and joy elon musk.. they gain money off others misery so fuck them all billionaires definitely need to to pitch in, regardless of "race". They're the real exploiters. |
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User ID: 21983498 United States 06/30/2021 11:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | well he can use some of his billions to help a brother in need .. right? maybe a case of swisher sweets and some malt liquor.. if he is so concerned with the plight of his brothers? walk the walk or shut the fuck up Last Edited by Grove Street on 06/30/2021 11:10 AM Grove And this is why we can't have nice things. |
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(OP) User ID: 76388104 United States 06/30/2021 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is interesting.... Brett Pulley wrote a book about Johnson. He's not a very nice person! Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly BET founder Robert Johnson blasted through social and economic barriers using his intelligence and charm, first establishing himself in the realm of Washington politics and later in the media business. One might think his rags-to-riches story would be incredibly uplifting. But in this unauthorized biography, Pulley (a senior editor at Forbes) reports that Johnson's methods were anything but noble. Though he created the first black-owned and -operated cable company, Johnson had little interest in raising the quality of the programming that BET offered to the black community, despite that community's loyalty to his channel. (In Canada, blacks even lobbied to have BET carried on their cable systems.) From the very start, Johnson's goal was to become a billionaire, period. And he realized his dream when he sold his company to Viacom in 1999. Along the way he shed friends, associates, and even family members who ceased to be useful in carrying out his business plans, and he also refused to compensate, or even to thank, many of those who helped him in moving forward, including the man who gave him the business plan that he used to find his original investors. [link to www.publishersweekly.com (secure)] Last Edited by nutmeg on 06/30/2021 11:16 AM |
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User ID: 24262777 United States 06/30/2021 11:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lol... Quoting: Psychedelic Mashed Potatoes As I sat here thinking about this for about 60 seconds, I suddenly realized something of GREAT significance that no one has addressed. If we give all this money to black people for being black and all the white people are suddenly poor as a result, the crime statistics will catapult the other direction so hard and so fast, it will in itself become a revolution. White people will "steal" all that money right back lol. The disproportional amount of crime blacks commit has nothing to do with poverty. They are poor and criminally minded for the same reason. If Whites were suddenly made poor they would just work hard to not be poor. |
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User ID: 12645833 United States 06/30/2021 11:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Black Entertainment Television (BET) Quoting: nutmeg America’s first black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations — and he wants his check just like everyone else. “Reparations would require the entire country to … admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism.” “And for that reason, black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying black people of all stripes — the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle — out of our pocket.” [link to nypost.com (secure)] Never will get a dime from me. My ancestors died freeing them, price us been paid. These people make me sick, always a free handout wanted. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79117936 United States 06/30/2021 11:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Black Entertainment Television (BET) Quoting: nutmeg America’s first black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations — and he wants his check just like everyone else. “Reparations would require the entire country to … admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism.” “And for that reason, black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying black people of all stripes — the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle — out of our pocket.” [link to nypost.com (secure)] They are doing a great job at further alienating other people. Blacks don't have the resources to push this current trend. Black everywhere seems to be a plan. Either way I don't want the reparations. That should have been taken care of LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG ago. The 40 acres and a mule was nonsense. Most American agreements were broken with other races. It is what it is. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80057775 France 06/30/2021 11:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lol... Quoting: Psychedelic Mashed Potatoes As I sat here thinking about this for about 60 seconds, I suddenly realized something of GREAT significance that no one has addressed. If we give all this money to black people for being black and all the white people are suddenly poor as a result, the crime statistics will catapult the other direction so hard and so fast, it will in itself become a revolution. White people will "steal" all that money right back lol. The disproportional amount of crime blacks commit has nothing to do with poverty. They are poor and criminally minded for the same reason. If Whites were suddenly made poor they would just work hard to not be poor. Exactly. That’s why if reparations were paid, that money would come back to whites in a matter of months/years through paid goods and services. In fact, one could argue all the welfare spent on blacks through the years is already more than enough in reparation. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76739291 United States 06/30/2021 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is interesting.... Quoting: nutmeg Brett Pulley wrote a book about Johnson. He's not a very nice person! Jeez, surprise, surprise. A study of sociopaths not long ago found them to have traits that easily fit the typical "lefty." The author of the study, probably of the left himself, tried to pawn off those traits as being typical of conservatives versus liberals. So along with his mentioning a Joseph Stalin, he added the names of Donald Trump and Brazil's right-leaning president Jair Balsanaro. Something about "progressivism" makes for a useful facade for a lot of rotten traits that "leftys" are guilty of. Johnson is merely Example # One Million. |
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