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Originally posted by The Original Ape
the following events impact you? What would you do?
1. If all of the states of Africa united and became THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA, with a senate and congress.
2. If the economy got so bad that we entered into a depression like the one in 1929.
3. If you received a check in the mail from the US government paying you for reparations, and the amount was a flat amount of $15,000
4. If YOU were elected president after a major overhaul of our present electoral college.
5. If YOU discovered by accident a cure for cancer, aids and lukemia; but you were tempted to sell this cure for $100million dollars to a pharmeceutical company that would not use it--on EVERYBODY that needed it.
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1) I'd say that someone did a whole heap of diplomatic work to get countries to relinquish their status as a nation to submit to the will of a larger governing body. I'd also hope and pray that democracy works better for them than for us.
2) I'd hope that I saw it coming and cashed out by stocks and bonds. If I didn't have advance warning then I'd move to my grandmothers farm and live with her. I would start growing crops again and buy some animals from her neighbors until the depression was over.
3) I'd respond like Lil Jon, WWWWHHHHAAATTT. Cuz clearly they've forgotten to add interest. I'd hope that a prominent Black American would have developed an economic plan where we could use our money collectively to build an industry that we could control and our $15,000 check would give us a share.
4) I'd focus all of my energy and resources on making the US a better country. Diplomatically I'd let the rest of the world stand on their own two feet and let the chips fall where they may.
5) First stop patent office.
Second stop Kinko's.
Third stop Post Office to mail the formula to every non profit, charitable or indepenpendent medical research organization that I could find and give them first dibs.
Fourth stop home to make a website clearly detailing the formula.
Fifth stop to the graves of my relatives taken by cancer to tell them we did it, NO ONE else has to suffer anymore.