Author: Nikko Payton
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What happened to the game I Love?
The year is 1992. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are arguably the three greatest basketball players in the world all playing for the United States Olympic “dream team.” This team went around the world that entire summer obliterating the rest of the world’s basketball talent. Everything was going well, basketball became a global…
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Steve Bannon says its 1860 all over again?????
Steve Bannon says that the year 2025 is “1860 All over again”. Bannon, who was Once Donald Trump’s right hand man and chief campaign strategist, this self-proclaimed “political prisoner” who was sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of congress because of his refusal to comply with the House Select Committee investigating the January…
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What’s Beef? Tech Bros Vs Hillbillies
Random black eyes, shots fired on Twitter, name calling and the exposing of secrets. Sounds like an episode of Bad Girls Club, Jersey Shore or Flavor of Love but Nope. This is the latest drama fresh out of the White House. Not even 6 months ago it seemed like Elon Musk and Donald Trump were…
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Drake VS Kendrick. The 2009 Kobe VS Lebron finals we never got
In todays United States, everything is Polarized. Whether it is Music, pop culture, sports or politics, Americans are more divided than ever before. This is not always a bad thing. This heavy polarization has led to a lifetime of exciting rivalries in sports, nuclear bombs of diss tracks from rappers aimed at one another and…
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The Ruthless Exploitation of Black Americans on Wall Street
“Wall Street got black slave blood stains. Which means, we built this city. And never got scraps while the devil got fat. In fact, reparations for niggas in desperation. Fuck money, get my kid a real education. Blood money spills had a real revelation, Southside make you realize there’s still segregation.”- J Cole on the Song “New…
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Kendrick Lamar’s “Watch the party die” is a painfully truthful assessment of current Black culture
The kids live tomorrow cause today the party just Died” – Kendrick Lamar in his song “watch the party die.” (ANYTHING IN BOLD IS A QUOTE FROM THE SONG) This song holds a dear and special place in my heart because of its meaning and message. As we look around today, in the Black community…
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Supreme Court… the guardians of racism?
Racism is a group-based phenomenon based on power. Racism is more than individual prejudice and bias. Racism is structural, institutional and systematic. Racism is oppression through control over resources, control of policy and law making and re-enforcing that certain groups benefit from racial hierarchies. Nothing that has happened in America has been by chance or…
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Black and Palestinian intersection
Since the early 1950’s there has been a connection in the intersection of Black American and Palestinian activism. The historic alliance has been rooted in the global fight against racism, imperialism and capitalism. While I do believe that no one in the history of the world has faced the same struggles and challenges that Black…
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Integration: Good intentions but wrong idea
There is a national cognitive dissonance when it comes to integration. The majority of Americans claim to support integration or the idea of integrating. But what does this mean? This is not the reality that most people live. Most of us do not share life space with other races or classes. And we struggle to admit…
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Dangers of Traditional Conservatism
The United States has now positioned itself in the middle of an ideological and philosophical crossroad. In a very messy, complex and almost impossible way to understand, the country has been divided into 2 factions. Left winged liberals, and right winged conservatives. It is true that not every voter fits and falls into these two…
