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The Secret Life of Bees 2008 reviewed by Movies That Move We
Troy replied to richardmurray's topic in Black Literature
Well thanks for sharing a link to that old film review. Back in 2008 I had a guy who is the write movie reviews and interview celebrities. He interviewed Alicia Keys about this film as well. The reviewer died several years ago. I haven’t posted a film review since then. i’m sure the sisters who created the video review. Appreciate you sharing their videos as well. @richardmurray Do you have a connection to their platform or are you just a fan? -
I read the AP story posted in the NPR article @Pioneer1 shared, “Trump says some migrants are 'not people', and warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses.” I mean again, this kind of article will it attract more attention, Trump’s message a very different headline could’ve been crafted, but this headline attracts attention. The media can’t help themselves they play right into trumps game act like this kind of story is gonna hurt him. NPR should know better.
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As soon as I hear one chirp, I change the batteries to all of them. yeah, I saw a video with that guy who used to advise women on men. I forget his name, but he died recently. At any rate he told one woman she definitely didn’t have a man in the house because he could hear the smoke alarm chopping during their conversation
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Asians seem to be docile and subservient. Because they were not enslaved by white folks, they don't seem to mind being a cheap labor force to white countries. In turn, the Chinese are using their money and labor to do business in and develop certain parts of Africa. China is enriching itself by extracting resources from Africa. Non-white countries are not 1) inherently evil enough to see work domination and 2) do not have the military might to defend themselves against super power countries. Their best strategy appears to be cooperation. China and Japan have enough muscle and/or backing to exploit weaker countries. That is their panacea to coping with racism white supremacy. Black countries can see the game being played against them. Unfortunately, being naturally peaceful is a curse more than a blessing. If Black countries got on code and built strategic alliances among themselves, they could end white domination in a matter of years. The *problem* is Black folks have been brainwashed into waiting on a white savior to deliver them the evils of this world. Go figure.
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Mayor adams just said a simple thing
ProfD replied to richardmurray's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
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I've noticed it too. It's ridiculous. I've got about 5 smoke detectors. As soon as I hear a chirp, I'm tracking down the culprit amd changing the battery. It's a cheap and easy and quick fix. No excuse to let it persist. People are lazy.
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Mayor adams just said a simple thing
richardmurray replied to richardmurray's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
@Pioneer1 I don't concur. In my travels outside the usa, humans attacking other humans similar to what you call "urban american'. well, you said the goal is 100%, and unless you are going to have citizens shackled in nyc, then no law enforcement organization is ever going to stop 100% of all similar situations in a city with a populace the size of New York City's. What I want for New York City, I will not answer. But Haiti is poor. I find it telling that you think the situation in haiti warrant a mention in similarity to nyc. at least I see your mind For me, none of your four questions has any role to his murder by law enforcement who supposedly are trained to handle situations to reach non violent conclusions. If two of said supposedly trained, while armed with guns, law enforcements have no other recourse than to shoot to kill, that is an indictment on the entire development of law enforcers in the nypd. For the record, simply cause Pioneer said it, I never once said I was an expert in law enforcement. I never also made any connections between the usa side haiti. I also never suggested anyone else think like me. I also never suggested I am prosyletizing to anyone. I also never said to someone who has been aided or saved by law enforcement to share my opinion towards them. Please any who read my words remember these last statements. -
That's one helluva bridge bro. POTUS Obama did the job Democrats selected him.to do. No more or less. I don't believe POTUS Obama was/is responsible for the rise of Orange Julius. Yep. POTUS Orange Julius (POJ) is the personification of the extreme right. Almost half the country or more rides with him. Black folks don't stand to gain or lose much if he gets re-elected. Maybe he'll pass out more stimulus checks.
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Everything that happens is already determined…
frankster replied to Troy's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
Not sure if you are? Yes...On many different levels True Yes........Religiously Evil is foremost a matter of Disobedience Biblically they are both Sinful..... To me Evil involves Intention....to do harm. Only because all possible actions have already been taken. All actions are deterministic in that they all have a corresponding reaction....outcome Before you take action nothing is predetermined....Once you take action the result is determinable and no longer under your control Your intentions are influenced and programmed Evil is a Social Construct.....it is real only in societies Symbiotic relationships are considered a type of social cohabitation in and among species of fauna and flora in a biome...in effect a Culture or Society of sorts Thanks -
ProfD It is commonly known in the occult that vampires can't come into your home unless you INVITE them. Haiti won their independence from slavery. They didn't conquer those nations. True. Perhaps they should have....lol. Maybe Haitians should have chased Napoleon and 'em all the way to France and see if the other European nations would have gotten involved. Hell, they got involved ANYWAY. Maybe Haiti...with the help of Voodoo...could have taken the entire continent. Lol....but a serous "what if" at the same time. Sudan and Somalia are examples of what happens to isolated countries. Both Sudan and Somalia are strongly Islamic nations. Even though they aren't colonized by European Caucasians...the Arab Caucasians still have strong influences on them, their culture, and their economy. Strong militaries allows the US and other leading nations to keep a thumb on Black countries. One of the reasons....yes. But the question is why can't those strong militaries do the same to China and North Korea and little Vietnam and other Asian nations? They aren't White....nor do they have the military might of the West. And White folks are woven all through those nations like they are in Africa....yet these nations don't look like African nations. One reason is that the people in Asia are busy working and working and grinding to support their own economy along with allowing White folks in it. But they aren't the main players driving it.
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Has anyone else noticed something that seems to be more and more common when you talk to a lot of people at home lately? It seems that a lot of people are simply letting their smoke alarms beep and chirp. They aren't changing the batteries. They are just letting them chirp and ignoring them and if you say something about it they will either act like they didn't notice or get annoyed that you even mentioned it. It's like going over someone's house with roaches. They are all over the place but you're supposed to "pretend" that you don't see them...lol. I started noticing this 10 of 11 years ago and then started noticing it online when people were doing videos from their homes. People are just chatting away with a timed "beep" in the background that you'd think they didn't hear because they seem to talk right over it without so much as an eye twitch. I don't know if it's the fact weed or some people are just biologically programmed to "tune out" certain things or have trained themselves to do so but the trend is disturbing. Not because the sound is annoying...but because so many people have chosen to ignore or "tune out" something so easily fixable such as replacing the battery in their alarm. The "disturbing" part is what this says about them and their psychological state.
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The US decided they owed it. Haiti won their independence from slavery. They didn't conquer those nations. Haiti was independent from slavery. Still, 21 years later that tax showed up to pay for what France lost. Many of the elites are mixed. Same goes for the Caribbean and Africa. Independent of being ruled. Colonized by remote control. Sudan and Somalia are examples of what happens to isolated countries. Strong militaries allows the US and other leading nations to keep a thumb on Black countries. A huge part of being an independent country is being able to defend against aggressors. just like real life, either know how to fight to defend and protect yourself or build strategic alliances.
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I thought you weren't Black anymore? You lost all privileges to use nigga.....uh....the "n" word....lol. Now you gotta re-apply for it.
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ProfD Beyond religion and voodoo, historical perspective and facts provide context too In Haiti, the religious and Voodoo factors ARE part of the facts and history because they are woven into what happened and not only how the Black folks got enslaved but also how they got their freedom. Right. Since 1825, the US and France agreed that Haiti owed the equivalent of $4 billion per year for the country's freedom. Sounds like ransom or extortion money....lol. I thought Haiti FOUGHT for it's freedom. If they whooped France...and not just France but England and Spain and the other White nations...then as the Bible said they were FREE INDEED. So how the hell they end up "owing" money? If you are in school and a bully has been taking your lunch money and you finally whoop his ass and run him down the block, what does it look like for you to start "paying" him again next week to keep him off you back? If you really whooped him once...you could do it again. Haitian leaders have been selected by foreigners. I wonder when did this start. For a long time Haiti was truly independent from Western/European powers. The Haitian elites have been stealing money and using it to enrich themselves. I can believe that. I wonder if those elites are mixed raced as well as foreigners who come in to exploit the local population. It hasn't worked out too well over the past half-century and counting. It hasn't worked out for the same reason Integration and Affirmative Action hasn't worked out too well for AfroAmericans..... Because so many of our people are too lazy to MAKE it work. Just like what Farrakhan told Black men at the Million Man March....the message is fine....it's the EXECUTION of the message that was delivered that is the problem. Did we follow the instructions? Just like Integration and Affirmative Action COULD have just been the icing on top of a healthy cake of Black independent businesses and farms that were already thriving PRE- Integration and Affirmative Action ....if the niccaz would have kept working on their own businesses and farms instead of quitting them to go work for White folks thinking they'd get more money, we'd probably be on top by now. The same PROBABLY could have been said for Caribbean and African nations who gained their independence from their former European colonizers. Once independent, they COULD have cut off ALL ties and decided to get out in the fields and work for themselves to farm, build, ect... Some would say if they cut off contact with Europe then they wouldn't have gotten the technology they get like cars, tractors, and construction equipment....but look at what they're doing with it now? I really wonder what would have happened to Haiti and some of these African nations if they decided to quite White folks cold turkey and live totally isolated (except for trading among eachother) from the West. I think our creativity would have excelled and the nations probably would be MORE advanced than they are today. Correct. It's hard to build an infrastructure when greed and corruption has people working against themselves. Much of the greed and corruption comes from 2 major reasons: 1. Not being TRULY independent which means generating their own economy complete with their OWN currency. Instead they rely too much on White folks (and now Asians and Arabs) to give them money and run their economy. You wouldn't NEED to beg France for money if you didn't start relying on it and basing your economy around in in the first place. 2. Trying to operate and live by Caucasian moral standards instead of their own. This leads to confusion and disagreement on what is "right" and what is "wrong". For example.... Taking bribes is considered "corruption" and "wrong" when in most cases it is justified and correct and nothing morally wrong with it except maybe for a breach of the "oath" of office.
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A lot depends on whether or not the powers-that-be want America to remain the leader of the free world. National pride and tradition wiil play a part. Altho Trump is a meglo-maniac, he's an isolationist when it comes to global affairs. He just wants to be America's dictator. And if elected, he is salivating over the chance to punish all of his political enemies. Then there's the question of preserving democracy. America is not handling well the idea of an all inclusive society that has spawned a cancel culture and political correctness. It is basically a tribal nation full of bigots and religious hypocrites. Democracy has become expendable. Maybe things will sort themselves out and if they do, niggaz will have to settle for maybe moving up a notch on the totem pole. Forget reparations.
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Everything that happens is already determined…
Pioneer1 replied to Troy's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
Troy and frankster I need you two to help me out on something......... My understanding of evil (based on the religious concept) was that evil involves both behavior AND INTENT. For example..... If you kill an innocent person by ACCIDENT it's not "evil" however if you kill an innocent person with the INTENT to kill them...it is. So now if all actions are PRE-DETERMINED and it was already part of the script TO kill someone, then the killer is acting BEYOND their will right? If every action is already PRE-DETERMINED then how can any action actually be "evil" since they are simply just acting out what they were programmed to do? If this is the case even your "intentions" were programmed and pre-determined in every action. So how can "evil" truly exist? As Gi-Ants. Lol...pretty crafty play on words. -
Everything that happens is already determined…
aka Contrarian replied to Troy's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
Am I making myself clear when I compare humans and ants? The simile I was trying to make was as a child, I wondered if there are entities observing and controlling the fate of humans the way humans can look down and affect the fate of ants - an infinite scenario that makes humans both omnipotent and insignificant, depending where they are in the pecking order. -
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Not at all. Beyond religion and voodoo, historical perspective and facts provide context too. Right. Since 1825, the US and France agreed that Haiti owed the equivalent of $4 billion per year for the country's freedom. Haitian leaders have been selected by foreigners. The Haitian elites have been stealing money and using it to enrich themselves. It hasn't worked out too well over the past half-century and counting. Correct. It's hard to build an infrastructure when greed and corruption has people working against themselves.
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Everything that happens is already determined…
frankster replied to Troy's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
We Humans are constrained by Time...but an Omniscient Being is outside of time For this Being you have already made your Choice....Whilst to you - you are still pondering it. Yes....Fast Forward or Rewind for us. Yes...To this Being all that could possible happen has happened already This Being probable Experience's Time akin to how you watch a movie... The Timed constrained being is bound by past decisions.....future decisions are to be made and so remain unbounded. Once a Decision has been made you are now bounded to its Outcome.....Free Will ends at decision/choice making. Evil is its own punishment....Every action has its own reaction - they are bounded together in one continuum Evil is a Cultural Construct and does not exist outside of Culture/Society....That which is considered evil is not Universal. True. Yes the past is fixed because both the choice and outcome has been made and experienced....The corporeal being is bound by Time Time is Illusory and we are Constrained by this Illusion....To those Constrained within/ by the Illusion -They See many choices or decision To the corporeal being the future is unknown and unfixed..because the decision has not been made To the Omniscient Being There is no Time....So it is All happening - Now To the Omniscient All these decision are One....... All outcome is One The Form the Illusion of Time takes is that of Many where there is only One...Shattering experienced in sequence. - One Focalisation Once you have a past and a future that is a Reality that's based on or in Time. Every Reality has its own Rules... it all depends on your level of illusion. Yes...if i am understanding you right....basic science - A certain set of circumstances usually leads to a Specific outcome...Repeatable. All The Above and more is possible Yes....Free Will and Know How Yours it the Decision as to how high you lift the Illusion or what you wish to experience and how. The Illusion limits your Senses to create or curate a Reality befitting your Knowledge Yes So do I .....but i just love to postulate or am i pontificating At this point you wonder if it all matters.... Yes it's debatable Consciousness is the Field of Infinite Creativity - Pure Potentiality where All Possibilities Reside True Only because we have chosen(default) to by the illusions we accept or our senses curate for us.. As Gi-Ants. I guess to them it is a pretty mundane occurrannes.... As we should...the web of life -
ProfD I STILL blame Obama for Trump being in the WhiteHouse for 4 years and probably getting back into it for 4 more years. That man committed so many crimes ON TELEVISION live before a studio audience...and the Obama Administration did absolutely nothing. Didn't even investigate the bum. Just LET him dance on up into the WhiteHouse and as soon as he got in he turned around and tried to prosecute Obama! Reminds me of that old African fable about the snake and....something....lol. Anyway, as soon as he helped the snake out the snake turned around and bit his ass and told him "You knew I was a snake and how I was. It's in my nature to bite you fool."....lol. Trump and the other White folks are doing what White folks do....seek power so they can dominate and mistreat. No surprises there. I think the only surprises are on the part of the White racists supporting Trump. I think THEY are surprised that instead of fighting and opposing them....so many Black folks are actually SIDING with them and seeking to JOIN them! You see more niccaz walking around with red MAGA caps than a little bit.
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I guess the explanation I gave earlier in this thread as to why Haiti is in the condition it's currently in is too simplistic to be accepted by most...lol. ProfD Haiti successfully gained its independence from France. But, it has always been indebted. If they were truly liberated from France they wouldn't be indebted to them or owe them money. Haitian money and French money would be totally different and couldn't match eachother. I believe they WERE truly liberated from France and from the global White system entirely right after the 1804 Revolution; however some of the later leaders of Haiti brought the nation BACK to White folks begging them for help and acceptance back into the "global system" and as a requitement for membership again.....the White powers have been punishing them and keeping them in turmoil since. Foreign governments including our own has insured the long-standing suffering of Haiti. Haitian leaders have also helped them by SUBMITTING themselves to these governments for the suffering. As I said before, it's a tropical nation with plenty of sea food, plenty of vegetation, all types of rocks, metals, and timber to feed and cloth themselves and build their infrastructure. If it were 1 person or 100 people or even 1000 people on that island....I could easily understand why they wouldn't want to be isolated and would want to seek help from the world. But not when you have nearly 10 MILLION Black folks! That's WAY more than enough brilliant Black brains to come up with inventions and plans to build the infrastructure of that nation and keep it independent and self sufficient. No amount of aid the West sends will be enough to bring peace and "order" to Haiti because of the internal conflicts they have that I've mentioned earlier. The extortion and exploitation of Haiti has served as a warning to other Black countries who refuse to cooperate with the system of racism white supremacy Back in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam taught Black people something so profound. Instead of working for White folks AND crying and complaining about how they are treating you....LEAVE them and DO FOR SELF. Haiti and many of these other Caribbean and African nations are WILLINGLY participating in a White man's system and literally BEGGING them to be apart of it....yet at the same time complaining about their poor and abusive treatment within it. Most of these people do NOT want to work and build their own nation. They want White Daddy to swoop down, come in, and GIVE them money and build their nation for them while they stand on the side looking.
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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/1239019225/trump-says-some-migrants-are-not-people-and-warns-of-bloodbath-if-he-loses Regardless of context, this kind of rhetoric would have gotten a non-white person kicked to the curb immediately. Yet, former POTUS Orange Julius can spit all types of vitriol and grievance and vengeance while white folks shake their heads and shrug their shoulders. Of course, the MAGA crowd and GOP fully support this clown. As @Pioneer1 mentioned above, the left side plays good cop bad cop. As I often mention here, these political parties are two sides of the same coin. Their primary purpose is maintaining the system of racism white supremacy. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.