Athlete 🏀 | Optimist🙌🏾 | Crypto Enthusiast⛓📶 | Wife 👩‍❤️‍👨 | Mother 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 | Thought Leader💭 | Gamer🎮 | ♾ | Reparationist | ❤️ Order my cookbook: https://amzn.to/3QcwtlX 🚨🚨TODAY’S THOUGHTS🚨🚨 The unfortunate truth is that a lot of people are intellectually stunted by the adoption of frameworks that were embedded into their psyches through the research of others. 👉🏾”Group think” is the enemy of intelligence. 👈🏾 (Read that last line again) People who operate under a group think ideology memorize a few speaking points to give off the illusion that they possess the fortitude of a true philosopher. On the contrary. If asked to offer thoughts that go beyond these few points and the sit in silence or stare. Behind the silence is the realization that they truly don’t “have the range” to have the discussion.🛎 I would argue that most people fit into this box whilst loudly attacking true logical thinkers of their community. Not realizing that it’s communal self sabotage.🤦🏾‍♀️ They place labels on us, like pan-African, wield meta pitchforks and seek to get others to agree with their envious branding. We live in an era where people who use scholarly processes to provoke thought are attacked or called “elitists”. All of this is a passive admission of their own ineptness. (Read that again) These words are just a brief exploration of the more simplified term “monkey-see-monkey-do.” Before you come off your mic to talk to me, ask yourself: “Am I a monkey?” Are your thoughts your own or were they given to you????? Explore yourself.🎬 🏀MJ, Kobe and Lebron. IN.THAT.ORDER. ✊🏾 https://socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/INSIGHT_Still-Running-Up-Down-Escalators_vF.please