I have met the man in this thread a million times. Some of the Black male discourse #onhere is blackfishing sock puppets. Some of it bears out as actual people & how they actually talk in real life.
There is something to a Black man with more than one degree but fewer than three, who has never been married by age 45, and who also smokes cigars that’s just a very specific socal location. That’s all I can tell you.
That man is absolutely going to talk *at* you for two straight hours, generally with his response to every Black twitter and Black Facebook “debate” he has ever seen. Thus the rundown that feels like one long Facebook comment about $100 dates.
Not you, of course. You’re perfect and divine.
Something about social media ruined us.

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