I despise this capitalist society so much.

Sylvia Rhone accepted the Ultimate Icon Award at the #BETAwards on Sunday. During her speech, she made it clear that honoring Black creativity also means protecting it, especially in the age of AI. Her message to the industry was direct: “We make the algorithm. The algorithm doesn’t make us.”

I want folks to remember this when they get on here sharing those text/comments to song tiktoks. The AI used to steal from artist is trained by feeding it those comments & text for a viral moment.

The whirlwind I experienced having to realize that this was, in fact, not an ironic come back. He’s dead fucking serious with his “there’s more of us than them” profile pic. I need to go lie down.

Exactly. I also really see what happens to schools. They tend to encourage charter school and private school attendance, rather than working with the communities they enter to improve the schools in those neighborhoods.

2/2 the neighborhoods they prey on for cheaper real estate, they then replace with unaffordable housing and "cute shops" that the neighborhood can't afford? Their $10 organic goat milk soap that no one can buy? Or those homeowners who can't afford the reassessed, increased property taxes?

“A 27-year-old woman named Tonea Nicole Miller was found hanging from a tree in a Miami park on June 18, 2026, just one day before Juneteenth. Tonea was originally from Flint, Michigan, but traveled to Florida for the holiday weekend.” www.distractify.com/p/what-happe...

Real "cool"* that the law that says we need a digital police state that erases all queer people from the internet "to protect kids online" has a little note in it that nullifys all state laws that ban using AI to generate sexual images of children. Truly the Epstien legacy shall outlive us all.

What white nonsense is this?🤨

Why do I always see this on posts about things that affect black and brown people? Because those are the people that predominantly lose their homes to gentrification and modern colonization. It's such a wildly conservative position from people who claim to be progressive.

What happens to the gentrified?

My is being marketed as a "makerhood" due to being close to an artsy spot and originally being colonized by artists and musicians.

Local governments will quite literally rename neighborhoods in hopes of changing the demographics.

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These are the types yall swear are going to get us closer to socialism

Maybe the reason you're getting so much pushback is because, maybe take this into consideration, you're wrong? Maybe the reality (not your idealistic version) of their lived experiences on the other side of capitalism, colonialism & gentrification trumps your research.

This is the "AI" conversation all over again. A CEO will bloviate about how "AI" is a ✌🏽good thing✌🏽. Start rattling off percentages & their research & "it's just a marketing issue" etc.... Then you have people physically living in Memphis saying "uh, the methane gas generators are killing us".

pro-market types like to pretend that “gentrification” is some ill-defined, just-vibes concept, but gentrification has a very simple meaning: it’s when the people living in a neighborhood are replaced by other, wealthier people. if you think gentrification is good, that’s what you think is good.

Spoken like a gentrifier. It’s amazing how displacement always looks acceptable from someone else’s front porch. He gets paid to spew this shit??

I am and always will be skeptical that any market-based housing iniative won't be a net negative for poor people. The idea that we can simply build our way out of this problem (no matter how we build) does not pass the smell test, for me.

only now he's started a bunch of "philanthropic" foundations telling everybody he's HELPING US. with a bunch a nggas on the commercials hugging each other and smiling and thanking him.

Sounds like what Dan Gilbert wants for Detroit. He's tried all of these.

Still pisses me off today that there are ppl who moved literally right next door to Howard Theatre and the 9:30 Club and still had the nerve to complain about the noise

I’m still mad about the cell phone store near Howard that had to stop playing music out front

Gentrifiers in DC? They go, ok we're here from Nebraska for our cool job as a politico. Wait what the fuck are Black people doing here. Them playing their music is illegal now. Them hanging out outside is illegal now. We're also kicking them out of their homes to live in them.

Capitalism and racism are intertwined.

And that is by design and what capitalism is all about. To horde resources forcthe few, especially for white (aligned) people and groups to endlessly profit off of until they wither cant, or don't want to anymore. "But, Black capitalism is how we save each other.", please miss me with this

I’ve been around long enough to realize that the lack of resources in predominately Black poor and working class neighborhoods is intentional.

Your city and state government tells you it doesn’t have a pot to piss in. When some developer or corporation needs your tax money for the next 50 years then it finds a solid gold piss pot encrusted with diamonds.

and when you work in certain positions you see evidence first hand that it's being strategically and intentionally done. i don't mean they have to be high level or even upper management level positions, either!

And again, niggas know this but they fake like they don’t when it comes time to live out their overseer fantasies.

Almost every highway in every major metro is a monument to robbery of black wealth.

How the allocation of wealth is spread makes the difference

Group economics is quite literally NOT capitalism at all LMAOOOO

Never said it was anti commerce Jesus Christ you’re stupid

You know what. You got it big dog. I can't help someone that lacks critical thinking skills. Go on and keep thinking that capitalism will save you. That black capitalism will save you. Best of luck.

I did the work for you since reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. Here is an incomplete list limited by the length of my phone

Revenue and profit are not the same thing. Revenue is all money made before expenses, profit is money made after. And economics isn't a binary system. It's not either capitalism or chaos. That's literally propaganda from capitalism that makes you think that. Commerce can exist without capitalism.

I legitimately dont think you know what the words you're saying means. Please Google them and how they can exist separately from capitalism. Investing without looking for profit is how you fix black neighborhoods. Social programs, education, access to food, etc all can be done nonprofit

I say black capitalism because the image I quoted spoke about black people talking about how to fix poor black neighborhoods. Capitalism especially in its current form is an arm of systemic racism. Its meant to exploit the poor for profit. So black people exploiting the poor for profit will not help

Capitalism is not a buzz word if you know economics. Capitalism's only goal is profit. That's in the definition. When you are helping people, PROFIT shouldn't be anywhere in the equation.

There are literal books about this. He's too educated to be this obtuse unless it's on purpose.

Do not let stress sit in your body.

Try nurses and hospital techs in any major metro. In NoVA, you cannot be a nurse as the primary breadwinner for a family of four making 100k and own your own home…unless you plan on a 50-90 minute commute

In Durham North Carolina the answer is no they can’t afford to live here Gentrification for Durham North Carolina means that educators cannot afford to live in the city they serve

Wait for it… can the teachers afford the cities they teach in?

Here’s a better question… Can workers at the restaurants grocery stores and shops Afford to live in the places they serve?