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NotTodayMichael Harriot
4/02/19 5:36pm
THANK YOU. I was hoping someone would write this article. That herbalist mf didn’t die under mysterious circumstances - he died at 82 from pneumonia which kills people younger than that all the time. He did not cure a single person with AIDS. First of all, he wasn’t an MD, DO, or PhD so he wasn’t a doctor. Secondly, he won his lawsuit on the technicality that he wasn’t diagnosing people, he was selling herbs which is unregulated. He was basically every MLM scammer on FB that you went to high school with. Only he was capitalizing on the fact that AIDS was vastly under-researched and preyed on a vulnerable population to make a buck. Lastly, I keep reading the same retort to anyone who questions the “doctor’s” abilities: big pharma doesn’t want you to know there’s a cure so they can make money off of you. This is willfully obtuse. So people won’t pay any amount of money for an effective treatment and/or cure?? So there are cures to all these diseases and some big-shot like STEVE JOBS dies from the same cancer that took my grandmother? Live patients make pharma companies money, dead ones don’t.
All the people on social media sharing this nonsense aren’t helping Nipsey’s legacy. He was killed by a killer, let’s make sure the killer is held accountable and follow in Nipsey’s good work rather than share uniformed screenshots on the ‘gram. Also, open a fucking biology book people.
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  NomadicNotToday
  4/02/19 5:51pm
  Healthy patients do not make money for big pharma. Big pharma is not in the business of curing people.
  Goldman Sachs analyst aks “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”
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  myopicprophetNotToday
  4/02/19 6:02pm
  A true conspiracy theorist knows* that AIDS was never even real. I mean C’MON!
  *Believes
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ElusiveCupcakeMichael Harriot
4/02/19 6:08pm
Question for the racist fucks who keep polluting this and most of the other threads on this website: If you hate Black people so much, why do you spend time you will never get back on a website in which most of the writers and commentators are Black? Why do you, as grown adults with the freedom of choice, habitually go places/do things that you hate?
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  Mr.DuckSauceElusiveCupcake
  4/02/19 6:10pm
  They want black people to pay attention to them with their white tears, that’s all they want, attention, they weren’t getting that shit at home so they have to make it someone else problem to look at them.
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  ElusiveCupcakeElusiveCupcake
  4/02/19 7:20pm
  Turns out the one who appropriates a common Southern phrase that means “Fuck you” is an insecure idiot who doesn’t know what an IQ is or what the test measures. Quelle Surprise. I hope it enjoys the dismissals I’m about to issue.
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iculookinMichael Harriot
4/02/19 5:12pm
Thank you for this, Michael. The amount of “Conspiracy Brotha” shit I’ve seen in the last few days has been utterly stunning.
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  Mr.DuckSauceiculookin
  4/02/19 5:31pm
  A drive by shooting in southern california....some dumb fuckers that is so low on the IQ scale might as well be on the ground with their dumbass inability to stand up as it takes so much neurons.
  Those are the type of people who says, shoot a black man in southern california is a “conspiracy” rather than this being, the life of a man in which this shit happens on the daily for the less famous. Fucking morons.
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jystadMichael Harriot
4/02/19 7:08pm
The amount of Hotep and Hotep-adjacent theories surrounding Nipsey’s death approaches a dangerous level. On the one hand, he was putting his money where his mouth was, and doing what he could to improve his community, but he was still about that gang life (or repping ties to it). That we lost another artist, and human to this type of violence is the true loss here, and linking that loss to a farfetched conspiracy to elevate him to some sort of Tupac-esque martyr just turns the wheels for this to happen again with another artist.
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  blacklove844jystad
  4/02/19 8:23pm
  Classic wypipo logic, thanks Chad.
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  jystadblacklove844
  4/02/19 8:56pm
  Classic Hotep of The Greys is classic. You have a nice day LaTron.
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Texan2203Michael Harriot
4/02/19 8:05pm
Thank you!! I’m tired of all the Facebook and tumblr posts about Dr.Sebi. That dude was a crook. Period. He preyed on people who were in their weakest moments after being told that they had an illness. I was diagnosed with kidney failure and I had friends tell me to take herbs to get them working. Stop doing that shit!!! Let them go to the doctor and get treatment. It’s tragic that Nipsey was killed but stop with the conspiracy bull shit.
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BadOmbreMichael Harriot
4/03/19 2:13am
A gang is a conspiracy. “Stop snitching” is a conspiracy. Complicit silence is a conspiracy. Glorifying death and violence as masculinity is a conspiracy. And perhaps the biggest conspiracy of all is to applaud a motherfucker for acting like a shark and then acting like it’s a mysterious coverup when he’s killed in a shark attack.
PREACH. Say it again for the people in the back, Mike-Mike.
“It be your own niggas...”
Sometimes.
Most of the time. You said it yourself. The truth about murder in America is that people kill people near them. “It be your own niggas” most of the time, just like most white people are killed by other white people. Doesn’t make insidious race-based murders any less evil, but it’s not sometimes, it’s most of the time.
In any case, thank you for writing this. This conspiracy theorizing is one of the many scourges on the community.
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  Ad_absurdum_per_asperaBadOmbre
  4/03/19 2:47pm
  Yep. To bolster the conventional wisdom, government agencies like the FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics tote up the figures on this and slice and dice in a variety of ways.
  Contrary to what is portrayed on TV dramas, most murders that are solved turn out to have been quite mundane acts committed at the juncture of commonplace passions and underdeveloped coping skills,* and involving people who’d had at least brief prior interaction and sometimes an ongoing relationship.
  There are exceptions, just enough to get the wheels spinning in people’s minds.
  There’s a broad variety of circumstances and motives for homicide, but a picture emerges of a typical murder in the US: a crime committed, likely with a gun, by a youthful male from a disadvantaged background, who is of the same color and community as the victim and had some recent interaction (and possibly an ongoing relationship) with him or her.
  * I think of this as the heart of the matter. There should be a better way to solve almost any problem than killing someone.
  That makes me think of a point that if I recall correctly was made at some length in Jill Leovy’s book Ghettoside: that inability to trust civic institutions as a source of law and order and justice is the climate in which individuals and ad hoc groups take matters into their own hands (for whatever good or bad reasons).
  An interesting sidelight of the book — visible also in, say, the Chicago Tribune’s focus coverage on recent problems in their own city — is that the toll of interpersonal violence (which in the US mostly means gun violence) needs to be measured not only in tombstones, which are easy to count and represent the worst outcome, but in wheelchairs and ostomy bags and other aspects of lives that go on but are hugely set back.
  Circling back to the original topic, a recent episode of This American Life focused on conspiracy theories, occasioned by the new book. One segment had to do with theories about the deaths of several people connected with the Ferguson, MO protests. A contributor rejects conspiracy theories with the argument of parsimony, saying that the constant background of potential violence in some downtrodden communities is all the explanation that is needed and should be the focus...
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Freak0nautMichael Harriot
4/02/19 6:20pm
I kind of feel like white people have something to do with the creation of that neighborhood and the fact that fucking guns are everywhere in this country.
Those are the real conspiracies.
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JadeMichael Harriot
4/02/19 8:24pm
This article was much needed. People couldn’t wait for Nipsey’s body to be cold before rushing to spout ill-informed conspiracy theories. They were willing to ignore the obvious because they each wanted to seem like they knew something that the rest of us don’t. They don’t care that their conspiracy theories are hurting the victim’s family. They just want likes, clicks and attention.
I don’t know anything about Dr. Sebi and right now, he’s not the focal point. Nipsey’s death is. And I’ve gotten so pissed about people making this out to be something it isn’t that I’ve been avoiding social media like the plague.
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  Guy in Long BeachJade
  4/02/19 10:28pm
  ^This
  There are a few conspiracy nuts at my job. They come off as know-it-alls. Seems like they are willing to be wrong a hundred times, so the one time they are right they can say "See! I told you!".
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  BadOmbreJade
  4/03/19 2:20am
  The problem is that this happened because Nipsey peddle in all kinds of conspiracy theories, himself, so I wasn’t surprised how quickly his followers jumped to them after his death. It’d have been shocking had they been more rational.
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ScottGreenMichael Harriot
4/02/19 7:10pm
whenever my cousin says something along the lines of they killed dr Sebi for curing AIDS cancer herpes and whatever else, I just ask him to name one person. There has to be at least one person right ? That usually ends the convo right there
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GinAndTonic, Potential GrizzlyMichael Harriot
4/02/19 7:13pm
(But wypipo will take out your eyeballs and put them in the freezer to use as ice in their whiskey tonics.)
LMAO
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  adjectivebearGinAndTonic, Potential Grizzly
  4/03/19 11:12am
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  YouGottaBJokingadjectivebear
  4/03/19 4:30pm
  Gotta give that one to you...sure, homie might drive by your house and unload a Mac-10, but that quiet nice guy next door might wear your skin as a dress. It’s truly fucked up.
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