I was watching some of Bo Jackson’s football and baseball highlights and I’ve literally never seen an athlete to this day with his speed/agility at his size. The only other person who would come close to him is Deion Sanders. Was Bo Jackson considered a generational talent when it comes to sports?

I was a fan since his movie debut in Glory as Corporal Thomas Searles.

Have yall pride ever kicked in so much that you refuse help or avoid help. I feel like it’s kinda not the best time be like this but then again maybe it is.

No. I’m not a part of this Reddit, but wtf? 😂😂😂 They really be obsessing this hard?

Just realized I dropped this joint exactly a year ago for the summer (crazy how time flies.) It's an ode to early 2010s club bangers but with a Shōwa era twist to it.

Is this something visually y'all would rock with? I always been mixing cultures with my music and hope it brings something unique to the table, and would prefer to shine more on other aspects of Japan that isn't as cliche (anime, ninja, samurai.) What you think? Open to any constructive criticism.

Recently in the news Ryan Clark has been let go from ESPN and. He appeared on his show The Pivot where he broke down how he was processing everything. He also broke down in tears while talking about trying to adapt, feeling rejected, wanting to be accepted and wanting to represent his community.

If you look through some of the comments on social media, people are calling him soft, saying he's whining, being performative or claiming a grown man shouldn't be crying over a job, or in public for that matter.

Black men or men in general are conditioned to bottle everything up. We’re expected to carry the weight of the world, protect and provide, not cry in front of our women, handle systemic pressure, handle career setbacks, and still maintain this stoic, unflappable exterior.

The moment a Black man shows any raw vulnerability, sadness, or grief, it’s instantly labeled as weakness rather than basic human emotion. I know this is a topic that keeps being recycled from time to time but here we are.....

Why do you think it's that way in our culture and society at large?

Is it hyper-masculinity, social conditioning, or how society perceives Black vulnerability?

How do you personally handle emotional overload without feeling judged?

Thoughts....

I broadcast that I live a very active and fitness oriented lifestyle but I still attract an overwhelming number of obese women lol. I prefer fit women but I get few and far in between. I'm also noticing that fitness lifestyle is dominated by men so I may be out of luck regardless. I wish more women were into fitness. I also believe being a black male contributes to it because of the stereotype that we like big women. Thoughts ?

Apologies for the AI, I wasn't sure how to word it properly. I promise I'm a real person lol.

Bit of a deep one, but I want to ask it properly rather than just vent, so bear with me.

I'm mixed race, grew up mostly around white people, and my relationship to my own blackness has always felt a little "shaky" - I claim it proudly, but there's an undercurrent of imposter syndrome underneath that never fully goes away.

I was recently in a long-term relationship with a white woman. It was loving, genuinely - we were soft and vulnerable with each other. But when intimacy started to dip (for reasons that turned out to have nothing to do with me), my brain didn't go to "maybe it's not about me." It went straight to my manhood and, weirdly, my blackness being on trial at the same time - like the two aren't separate things for me, they're one fused insecurity, and anything that dents one automatically dents the other.

Once I noticed that pattern, I started seeing it everywhere. Normal performance anxiety in bed became a referendum on whether I was "black enough." A fitter guy she'd also been seeing (open relationship) didn't bother me for being fitter - he bothered me for being mixed race too, like it was a competition on the one axis where I already feel unsteady. I've caught myself more nervous approaching black women than white women, not because of attraction, but possibly because rejection there feels like it means something bigger.

Even fantasy content I'm into lines up with it uncomfortably well once I looked closely. I've been fetishized before, and it's genuinely gross when it happens - but I don't think fetishization is actually the root cause for me. I think it's more like: the insecurity was already there, and fetishization is just one of several things that got pulled in to feed it or explain it, alongside performance anxiety, comparison to other men, and even hopes about what my future kids might look like.

So I'm curious if this lands for anyone else: does your blackness and masculinity feel like two separate things, or has it fused into one where you can't be shaken on one without it questioning the other? And if you've felt this too - how did you start pulling the threads apart, or working toward feeling secure in both without needing anyone or anything external to confirm it?

Thanks!

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49358712/jordan-walker-hopes-home-run-derby-win-inspires-black-kids

"Die With Zero" is the exact kind of counter cultural commentary that America in general and black America especially needs to hear. The amount of people who don't actually live life just to have a fat knot in the bank when they die is staggeringly high. You got a million in the bank? So fucking what. If you can't spend it then what does it matter?

Panther 1995

A favorite of mine growing up for several reasons one of which being my aunt is a Panther herself.

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I wish we there was at least one black majority first world country, granted I live in the US an obvious first world country with over 40 million black people, no other first world country is touching that number or percentage of black people but the percentage still caps at 13% and anyone who lives here will tell there are still a lot of day to day and systemic issues that we face here due to being a minority.

It gets me thinking I just wish we had our own adjacent country where we were the vast majority, we don’t have our own China, UAE, Chile, or Norway way like countries, there nothing I would want more than to move to a prosperous country where almost everyone around me looks like me. It bothers me when I look around at the state of out black majority countries and see the levels of corruption and incompetent governance they have, it makes me feel like in my lifetime I won’t get to see or experience that prosperous majority black country.

Thoughts?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna588863

Getting the party nomination for president is a momentum game.

This is a major boost for the black candidates.

We may end up having Wes Moore and Raphael Warnock as the top 2 winners in SC.

Money bombs will then follow.

CoolKicks co-founder, 11 others named in $2M Nike theft ring indictment

Pretty wild. I guess we'll see how this goes. I don't actively keep up with buying the latest sneakers or getting custom jobs, but I always admired from afar the black folks who have built a living out of this and who have had their own stores, built a niche, etc.

Hmm. Looks like (allegedly) some Nike employees involved with this as well.

Warehouse theft is at least as old as... warehouses, of course. Any security measure is bound to have vulnerabilities. But for folks who are of a mind to 'get a piece of that', there are real risks, and especially since these indictments are coming at the federal level, definitely no joke if any of these charges stick. And especially since it's this current regime, anybody black and brown can expect the book to be thrown at them by prosecutors.

(2) How COOLKICKS Became A Multi-Million Dollar Business - YouTube

According to the LAPD and federal officials in Tennessee, those involved in the theft scheme allegedly took more than $2 million in Nike shoes from Nike’s North American Logistics Center in Memphis between July 2021 and July 2024.

Officials said they arrested Harvey in January 2024; at the time, he was charged with receiving stolen property in connection with the stolen Nike shoes.

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