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Has the Compulsion for Conspiracy Crippled the Black Community?
Covid-19’s ability to exploit Black America’s overexposure is no conspiracy at all, it’s simply one of the many consequences of a corrupt culture.
A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an occurrence or an event that rejects the standard explanation and instead credits an influential organization, group, entity or person for its undercover orchestration. What makes it a conspiracy is the covert, unlawful nature of its conception. What makes it a theory is the uncertainty of its occurrence as theorized. The formation of conspiracy theories are a regular component of human curiosity, if you can believe that. Psychologists argue that finding simple answers to otherwise unanswerable questions is at the core of our sense of stability, in doing so we establish a casual congruence with the outside world. And ever since the internet turned us on to fake news, anything constitutes conspiracy and anyone curious enough, a theorist.
Some conspiracies have stood the test of time, like the one circulated about the 1963 assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 36th president of the United States. On the afternoon of November 22nd, the presidential motorcade left Dallas Love Field Airport and traveled its scheduled 10-mile route through Downtown Dallas and on to Trade Mart where the President was scheduled to speak at a…