This is the full open letter by Nasir Jones to the Trump Era. 
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The only way the black man gets a little piece in America is if he takes the O.J. stance: “I’m not black, I’m O.J.” When you ignore the shit that’s happening to people you can live in this fantasy, this American fantasy that you belong to… who? You ignore what’s happening, and that gives you peace. Because what’s going on is enough to make people insane.

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It’s been two years that Turk has been home from the penitentiary and says it’s all love to be home all day everyday grinding. “God first, family second and everything else falls in play.” YNT Empire is the label. YNT comes from Young N Thuggin, his solo album with CashMoney. While locked up, he was thinking of ways to brand himself as empire. YNT stuck out because he started the Young N Thuggin movement when he was with CashMoney so he shortened it up and it became a movement. It sta...

There is no illusion that athletes in college and university levels produce the world's greatest National Basketball Association (NBA) stars. There is also no illusion that University of Connecticut Huskies only graduates a quarter of their NCAA Basketball Athletes and the NCAA Basketball as whole graduates 66% of their male athletes according to a report by Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY. Some of these athletes leave school early to pursue a career as a professional athlete. So one may wonder if t...

There is no such thing as failure (Michael, 2012). Failure is a quality of thought that must be discharged and eliminated from a person's psyche if the person has put forth effort. The only true failure is the non-attempt to attempt to improve in ones creativity. Personally, I believe that the second attempt a person gives is really the first try. Another one of my favorite self-motivating mental messages is, "I never claimed to be perfect, I only claimed to be me." If a person keeps their go...