Alpha Black Vegan Men

A little over a month ago I went to this great **Black owned** vegan place in Baltimore, MD called Grub Factory. I went with two of my friends and we had a blast! While I was there I had the cheese steak, at the top, which was absolutely huge btw, some mac and cheese, and some tots. I order a chicken sandwich and cinnamon roll to go to eat the next day.

First of all, that was the best cheese steak I have ever had in my 25 years of life. Did I mention it was huge? It was huge! So huge I couldn’t finish my sides so I had plenty of leftovers. The vegan steak was delicious, the cheese was delicious, the mayo was delicious, the bread was delicious, everything about the thing was delicious. The mac and cheese was also delicious as well as the tots.

So that’s a part of our human journey as black people and as human beings. The difference between then and now however is that internet and social media has amplified these voices. It used to be that if a person was ignorant like this he was contained within a community however now that ignorant dude gets online and finds 20 other ignorant dudes from different parts of the country and together they formed their own little online community of ignorance and their voices are now amplified. In the real world it is still 1 dude in Seattle, 2 in Chicago, 3 in New York, 5 in North Carolina and 3 dudes in Wyoming. However online when they get together it feels like a hundred because they’re constantly tweeting, blogging and putting up these ridiculous people memes and images. And let’s not forget the work of those in “digital black face” where white people use Googled images of Black ppl as their profile pic and start tweeting all manner of anti black shit that we attribute to black men. I often wonder how often we fall for that as well? Add to that the anti-blackness in Asian, Hispanic and Native cultures who take these words, add to them and spread them like wildfire and yes indeed those 20 guys from around the country feel like 200. Back then during all black power movements if it was 5 dudes in the city, it was 5 dudes against 50 non ignorant, pro black dudes and so the 50 pro black dude could easily drowned out those 5 asses. Not so much nowadays.

For those who yell “The End Times”—why do you relish this idea so much?

When you find out your man is cheating on you, first thing is you want to know everything about the “other woman”. You literally pour over all of her pictures on social media, looking for and enjoying every single flaw.

Being cheated on can tear you to emotional shreds and you have every right to be mad as hell. If you want to tear that woman down, you’ll tear her down. What you shouldn’t do is to keep blaming her for what you man did to you. That other lady is little more than a stranger to you. Yeah, she’s got to be pure evil to steal another woman’s man, but that’s really not the point. She’s not the one who committed to you and promised to be true to you, and then cheated on you. More importantly, if it wasn’t her, it would be someone else. As a woman, when you are cheated on, it feels natural and comfortable to focus on the other woman instead of your boyfriend. You would even want to reduce her to just another “Becky with the good hair”, haha.

Hating her doesn’t cost you anything except emotional real estate. Letting go of your hatred for the other woman will force you to confront the terrible truth that you invested myself in a man who would never invest in you.

Here’s another fun story: My boss decided to slap my work phone number on all the ads we post looking for newspaper carriers. So I receive a bunch of calls from people looking for jobs. Working only part time, I’m not usually there when they call, so they have to leave a message and I take their info to pass on to my boss. Sometimes it can be weeks before my boss calls any of these applicants back, if at all. How the callers respond to not getting a callback varies. Most don’t do anything, but some call again. If the person sounds young, they may leave another message clarifying their qualifications and reaffirming their interest. If the person is old, and I can always hear it in their voice, they respond by getting mad, threatening to cancel their newspaper subscription, and occasionally swearing. The older generation is used to getting a callback, and an immediate one, so they throw a tantrum when they don’t get what they want.

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Let’s help a brother out and spread this so he can get more customers ✊🏾✊🏾

This is so damn pathetic. Don’t pay attention to these sorry ass claims that black youths are attacking white people for seeing Black Panther!!! Imagine lying about a serious matter for the sake of demonizing a race. People are fucking terrible. 

Here’s the proof that they got this photo from the internet: 

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