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I have been toying with this notion in my mind for several years. I no longer want this site to be considered a “Black” website.

Yes, we will still own and publish the articles that appear on these pages, but should the racial designation of the website owner determine the racial ethnotype of virtual community? I mean, what racial ethnotype should be assigned to the binary code that comprises the info contained on the server that feeds DP Dot Com? I thought that the internets was the first place that none of our racial designations mattered anymore.

That’s not totally true either. Racism still matters, but I was hoping that I could hide my Blackness on the internets. I wanted to sneak into your computers and create rants about society in general. Not from a Black man’s perspective but from a clear thinking man’s perspective. Clear thinking people hold no racial ethnotype. They simply see and understand our world better than others.

The real reason I have wanted to shed the notion of Blackness is because it describes a second class citizen in American society. Poor = Blackness. Undereducated = Blackness. Criminal = Blackness. Victim = Blackness. There is nothing good in the American diaspora that Blackness represents except maybe popular music, but even then I find that pop music has to exist in one of the sub-categories listed above.

Trying to change how people think of the words they use has been too difficult a task to implement. Therefore I choose to simply bow out of the entire racial blogosphere. You won’t see any banners posted here about DP Dot Com winning the Black Weblog Awards. Thankfully, we weren’t even nominated. Unlike OhWord, which is definitely a bigger and Blacker weblog than DP Dot Com.

I fucks with eBay directly and by extension through my use of PayPal since eBay own’s that website. PayPal is a convenient way to trade money for goods and services because the website looks so damn officious.

Quiet as shit is kept PayPal is also a bastion for thieves who have figured ways to manipulate that system as well. I’ve learned my lesson the hard way that you had better keep your tracking slips and shipping receipts for a few months after a transaction so that in case your buyer files a complaint you won’t get your account shut down.

eBay makes a grip off handling people’s money through the PayPal service. So much so they have decided to mandate a PayPal account for ALL of their users beginning in October. I feel a kind of way about this news. Checks, and by extension, checking accounts are being phased out of consumer transactions. Debit cards, with the function as credit cards are the norm for most people’s transactions, mine included. Cash is now firmly holding the stigma as the method of payment for only poor folks.

The truth is that I would use cash if I wasn’t so poor my damn self. I have $25 in my account before payday and I will be damned if I give $2 of that away to another banking institution as a transaction fee. Keep in mind that my bank will also be taking $1.50 of that total for their “out of network” fee. reminds me of the time I only had $21.48 in my account and I did an inquiry from a bank that didn’t hold my account. The bank charged me $1.50 and that dipped my balance below the $20 mark so I couldn’t even make a withdrawl when I did get to my bank’s ATM.

As shit gets more fucked the fuck up economically we need to be vigilant for all of these services that extract fees for no good gotdamn reason. These banking bastards be charging us to hold our money. At least a check cashing spot tells you what they are going to take from you the second you walk across the threshold. These banks and fake ass financial services companies live off the people that don’t read the fine print. I’m one of those people. Not so much anymore since the fine print is all I have to read other than the negative balances in my account.

The party doesn’t stop this weekend as the PARDONMEDUKE.com family puts it down in Flatbush.

Bring your own bottle Brooklyn.