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Know Your Price: Black Property Devaluation In A Nation Built With Our Hands And On Our Backs – I recently shared with a friend why I believed diversity and inclusion efforts at corporations were bullshit. I already belong here. I’m not interested in incremental efforts to try and make me more comfortable. I want to…

No. 238 – A New Poor People’s Campaign

Apr 12, 2020

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In typical fashion, Chamath Palihapitiya went on CNBC last week and shook things up by saying that corporations and hedge funds should be allowed to lose their shirts as this recession continues to set in: This is a lie that has been purported by Wall Street. When a company fails, it does not fire their…

No. 231 – On Resilience

Apr 5, 2020

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It’s not fear that grips him. Only a heightened sense of things. Narrator from 300 In the scene embedded above, a young Leonidas is out surviving in the wilderness as part of his training to be a Spartan soldier. The scene above tells the story of him crossing paths with a wolf looking for a…

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