After some time off, I am back, for how long I do not know. This time around, thanks to Destee's feature which allows you to choose a different name, I changed my username from istlota to thePreacher. In the interest of transparency, I am making that known.
My past concerns over the direction Destee seemed to be headed are documented elsewhere. So ... why did I come back ... again?
One reason involves a heightened awareness of certain strategies which the 21th century version of COINTELPRO is using to control the Internet. COINTELPRO stands for COINTEL Program. COINTEL stands for Counter Intelligence, the idea being to counter intelligent thinking with idiotic misinformation.
For years, I have been speaking truth to power all over the Net. And for years, I have been frustrated by the apathy and/or inexplicable squabbling from other Net-personalities over what seemed to me transparently obvious and easily confirmed facts. I would work for a couple of days on a post covering minute details of why what seemed and felt like Black Truth was really pure BS.
And I got back either dead silence or ridicule. Whatdafuh? How can anybody be that dense, to think that getting pee-ed on was champagne rain from heaven? I would think.
And I still feel a lot of that. Americans, including Black Americans, are remarkably clueless these days. So easily distracted from important things to silliness like Kim Kardashian's baby bump or what white woman Tiger is laying up with this week.
But, I am now more cognizant that much of that is actually the consequence of sellouts who are intentionally pushing buttons on black Net sites in exchange for either a paycheck from the feds or as part of a deal to avoid prosecution for crimes they got caught doing. I can now think back to a couple of particularly annoying brothas I exchanged words with towards the end of SCAAM and I now know exactly what was really going on: