Satchel Paige was one of many of the Negro League players who was exceptional at baseball. Contrary to mainstream understanding, the Negro Leagues were every bit as professional and talented as the major leagues even though the major leagues won't officially recognize them even until this day. There is scoring box data to prove it. In direct competition between the two, the Negro Leagues beat the major leagues 52% of the time. The Negro Leagues were also reportedly far more entertaining. They were well organized  and profitable. Satchel Paige, a Negro league player, had his own plane his team would travel on, in the 1930's!

Unfortunately, when integration occurred Black Players fled from the Negro League to the Major Leagues causing this Black Owned economic industry to collapse. Once they got to the Major Leagues, many of them became MVP's season after season.

MLB to this day refuses to acknowledge them as professional even though they've acknowledged other professionally organized leagues of the time.

The priority of owning your own and not caring about another groups acceptance has never been more vivid than the rise of the Negro Leagues and it's demise due to Black's seeking approval and acceptance from those that don't care about them.

If our modern day athletes came to this conclusion we could have our own industry and financial engine nearly overnight in same fashion as how the Jews did with Hollywood.

The following quote brought up by Governor Andrew Cuomo sums up the decline in America we are seeing first hand.

There are fewer shared realities now than any point in our nation's history and that is the real danger to our democracy. It continually gets worst. There's no use in trying to convince anyone of anything. You can hope objective facts become the cornerstone of these ideologies, but they often don't. Objective facts are far too often viewed through pre-colored lenses. Statistics and data too frequently get drowned out by convenient conclusion jumping and dot-connecting. I try my best to avoid these seductive traps even though I know I'm not perfect. Nevertheless, individualized information echo chambers will be the fall of the US more so than any conspiracy theory. For all of China's numerous and grotesque faults, one thing you can say is the majority of their population is on the same page in regards to social beliefs and collective participation, even when they rebel. Not that we should take cues from China but even when losing a fight to the devil she gives you tips on your weaknesses that you must transform into strengths.

​Here are a few facts about the release of COVID-19 from China.  Before going through these quick bullet points I want to make it clear that there is absolutely no evidence that the virus was an engineered bioweapon or a "premeditated" act of aggression on America or any other country. Also, any act from the communist party of China does not necessarily represent the sentiments of the citizens of China, many of whom are repressed by that same regime.

-COVID-19 could've been a natural release from a lab by accident. They had several high-level biological labs in Hubei province with various strains of the disease present.

-However, China knew about this release in late November/early December 2019.

-Dec 15th the US trade bill with China was signed. 6 weeks later the trade truce was signed with an out clause that said if there was any kind of act of god or pandemic then China didn't need to make good on what they had committed to buy from the US. Within days of signing, they announce the first coronavirus.


-China's leaders didn't admit to the world the prevalence of COVID19 until Jan. 20th even though we were struggling with it since likely early December.

-From Nov/Dec to Jan 20th China tried to convince the world it was NOT human to human transmissible.

-The WHO tweeted on Jan 14th "Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission."

-At this same time, Bejing was working hard to stop countries from imposing travel restrictions on China.

-China under-reported all data from the beginning.

-WHO also insisted China's number was accurate.

KEY POINTS:
-China was clearly experiencing the pain and death of COVID19 in December.


-China gave themselves an exit from their trade obligations citing a pandemic as a factor that no one but them knew existed at the time of signing.

-China deceived the world on how this virus was transmitted.

-It made sure travel was still permitted from other countries into China which spreads the virus around the world.

CONCLUSION: CHINA INTENTIONALLY LET COVID-19 SPREAD TO TRY TO GAIN A GLOBAL ADVANTAGE
-China took a localized national epidemic and intentionally let it loose across the world.

-WHY? Likely because this gives them a geopolitical advantage if every other country is sick too. Misery loves company. If the whole world is sick, then they have an advantage instead of them being the only nation with a disadvantage.

-Why isn't this being discussed more in the mainstream? Too many American elites make themselves wealthy from their business dealings with China and do not want to talk bad about the hand that feeds them, even if that hand just tried to cut their throat.

-This is criminal, a crime against humanity and an attack from one country against every other country in the world which is unprecedented.


-China is no stranger to human rights violations as they currently have concentration camps with an estimated 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 people, mostly Muslims in East Turkestan.

-China represents 17% of Global GDP so it's difficult to punish them without a worldwide ripple effect, and they know it.

-Lastly, the Chinese people are not our enemy. The Chinese communist party seems to be our enemy and also the enemy to the Chinese people.

My Thoughts...

​The Chinese communist party is an enemy to humanity. The current level of human atrocities right now from having millions of Muslims in concentration camps to the oppression of Hong Kong is proof enough. Chinese people in general are a parasite to the black community in the US. They setup businesses, selling us low quality food they themselves won't eat, taking dollars out of our community to go use to invest in their own, never giving back to the people they prey upon. That's a cultural practice. With individual exceptions, they are one of the worst enemies to black people and we should treat them as such if we ever want to rise from our oppression. They will never shed a tear when our brothers and sisters are innocently shot down in the neighborhoods where they suck the money from us. Why on Earth would even look twice in their direction when they get exposed for the selfish blood suckers they are. Black People need to mobilize as a group and stop trying to sympathize with others who are hell bent slitting our throats as soon as they get a blade.

This is a difficult yet fascinating concept to wrap your head around, but once you do, you realize you have more freedom than you thought.

It's called Intersubjectivitive Reality...

First, let's look at what subjective reality is. Subjective reality is one's personal experience. It's from their perspective. It's how they see the world, interpret the world and choose to interact with the world. Their subjective experience has nothing to do with how other people see the world or how others operate in the world. How you interpret someone's gaze at you is subjective. Whether you find someone attractive is subjective. Whether a song is good or not is subjective. If you believe someone's good or evil is subjective. If you think going to war with the middle east is good or bad is subjective.

Let's look at objective reality. It's something that exists regardless of whether you believe it or not. It does not require belief to be present on anyone's behalf to be true and real. It exists in nature and can be categorized in the natural order. A tree in the forest is an objective reality. A crocodile in the lake is an objective reality. Mount Everest is an objective reality. Sand in a desert is an objective reality. The moon, air, human beings, tigers, water, bears, organisms, rocks, the computer I'm typing on, the phone in my hand are all objectively real. It requires no one's participation to currently exist. If they are destroyed, however, they will cease to exist. If I take my phone and smash it on a rock several times and rip it apart into little pieces, it ceases to be a phone. Things that are objectively real can cease to exist as well as be created.

Intersubjective reality is a reality in which enough people believe that even if one person ceases to believe in it that reality, it doesn't go away from existence. It's a shared imagination that we put into place in order to facilitate what we think is a better world.

For example, if you play spades you know the rules. You know that a certain number of cards are dealt to each player. You know it's played with cards. You know that you can't look at each other's cards. You know that you have to "win" something called "books". You know what it takes to win a hand. You know you have teams playing against each other. You also know that if you cheat there are consequences. This is just one example of something humans made up. The game of spades and the rules of spades are not recognized by anything else other than humans. Spades is an Intersubjective reality. Spades does not exist anywhere except in the minds of humans. If one of the spades players at a table decides to not play by the rules, that does not affect any of the other spades players in the whole spades playing community. If that one player decides to change the rules of spades, he may be successful in an isolated game he is playing, but, the rules of spades as a whole will be unchanged. The only way the rules of spades change is if a large enough group of people in the spades community that have influence decide to change them. The game of spades cannot be studied under a microscope. Yes, the cards can, the table can, the players/humans can. They are all objectively real. But the game itself only exists in the minds of the players.

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Let's look at football. Football is a game like Spades. However, it's played on a field. It also uses teams. Each team has a certain number of players. The game also involves a ball. The dimensions of the field and the markings on the field are always consistent with yards. The rules of the game are known by all that play just like Spades. There are consequences for breaking the rules, just like Spades. Football has a referee who enforces the rules. Football is controlled by an entity called the NFL. The rules of the game are governed by a commissioner. If one person on the field ceases to play by the rules, that will not affect how the game is played. In fact, there are rules for changing the rules. There are rules for who is allowed to change the rules. Most people watch football because they understand the rules of the game and can appreciate players/humans who can operate within those rules and become successful, based upon what success is by order of the rules. Football like Spades is an intersubjective reality. It doesn't exist anywhere except within the minds of humans. Yes, the players/humans are real. The field is real. The ball is real. The referee/human is real. Even the commissioner/human is real. But all of their actions and power are governed by rules that are not objectively real.

One might argue that the power the commissioner has is real because it's given by the NFL which is real. Is it? The NFL is a corporation. What is a corporation? It's a legal construct that we as humans decided has the power to own things, conduct business and have limited liability for the owners. A corporation may own a building,  but it is not the building. It may own a car, but it is not the car. It may own documents that bear its name, but it is not the documents. It's an intersubjective reality. Is the NFL observable under a microscope or telescope? Have physical properties we can measure?  Is the NFL objectively real in the real world (not the things it owns)? If the president of the NFL ceases to believe in the validity of the NFL he's likely to be hauled off to a mental institution. One person ceasing to believe in the NFL does not destroy the NFL. The NFL only exists in our shared agreed upon imaginations. The term in law is "legal fiction". Even though in the US corporations are people too, the law makes a distinction between "legal person"  and "natural person". The only thing that could affect the NFL is the legal system.

​What is the legal system? It's a set of rules, laws, codes, ideologies that govern our world. It has customs and hierarchy. We bestow great power on this system to govern many of our other systems. But is it real?  The law has it's agreed upon customs we all respect and bestow power on. In some cultures, if a person deemed a high priest does a certain chant and cuts an animal carcass in a certain way, then waves it over his head according to a special custom... Poof the villager gets the right to own two fields instead of one. For us, if someone we deem worthy of being an attorney writes certain words on a paper, then takes that paper and files it a certain way, then gets stamped and verified by a judge or other official... Poof! like magic, we have a new corporation! Judges/humans are real. Attorneys/humans are real.  The robes and suits worn are real. The courthouse is a real physical structure. Documents with ink on them are real. But can you put your hand on the corporation or legal system itself, not the place where its customs are conducted? If a courthouse is knocked down, does the legal system vanish? No. If all the courthouses in a town are destroyed or turned into ballrooms does the law cease to exist there? No. If you break the rules of the law are there consequences? Yes. But can you objectively observe the legal system (not the monuments and buildings that represent it), because as we said, if the monuments and buildings get destroyed tomorrow, the legal system will be unaffected. You cannot. It's an intersubjective reality. If a judge decides to disobey the law, the law does not cease. The legal system only exists in the shared imagination of humans. If enough people stop believing in it, it ceases to exist and gets replaced with something else, or the government can change the legal system.

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What is a government system? The power a government has only exists in the minds of humans. Governments have come and gone many times over history. There is no observable item you can put your hand on and say this is the government. Only items we collectively agree on that represents it (Constitutions, White House, Capitol building, etc...). Those collective agreements only exist in the minds of humans and nowhere else. The borders between countries are not objective realities, they are collective agreements. Can most people definitively say today without research where the borders of the Roman, Ottoman, or Mesopotamian Empires were? They are as real (or not real) as the US / Mexico border. You can simply walk across most borders and see no difference in the land on either side. These borders are man-made ideas. They have changed many times over hundreds of years without an observable topography alteration required.

Spades, football, corporations, the legal system, governments, and a nation's borders all only exist in the intersubjective reality of humans. They cannot be touched, weighed, viewed or examined in the physical natural world except for the items we say represent them. 

An apple doesn't need something to represent it. It simply is. A human, donkey, rock, mountain, tree, crocodile or grain of sand doesn't need something to represent it in order for it to exist. It simply exists on its own merit without any human belief or recognition required.

We create most of what we call reality in only our minds. These imagined systems can be so powerful as to direct and incentivize humans to affect or destroy the objective world like accelerating climate change. They are very powerful shared imaginations, but they are imaginary nonetheless.

While all of these systems are not objectively real, they are nevertheless indisputably important for human beings in order to create order and cooperation. Many large systems are flawed and need to be replaced, particularly criminal justice in America. All it takes is enough people in a system to want to abolish that system to replace it with something new in order for it to be real. Ideas that gain momentum that threatens these systems are always a threat to those that benefit most from the system, and fearful to those that don't directly benefit from the change in systems. By remembering that most of our challenges are in our intersubjective imagination hopefully you become less fearful to change it and realize if you change enough minds anything is possible.

Black unemployment fell to a record low in August, helped by a jump in the number of black women on the job.

You have to give credit to Trump when credit is due. If unemployment rate went up, ya'll would blame him for that too, but it went down, so he deserves credit.

With that said, just because more people are employed, doesn't mean they are experiencing desirable qualities of life. Simply being employed has nothing to do with whether or not you have any financial sustainability. 


DATA:
The unemployment rate for black workers fell to 5.5% from 6%, according to the Labor Department data. The previous record low of 5.9% was set in May 2018. The unemployment rate for black women fell to a record 4.4% from 5.2% in July. The unemployment rate for black men crept up to 5.9% from 5.8%. But the previous month's rate was a record, so the rate is still near its historic low.

Unemployment among workers who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino also fell in August to 4.2%, which matched a record low set earlier this year.

Source: CNN ARTICLE