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@Pioneer1 Blah, blah, blah. You could never be accused of being an original thinker. You 've offered no new explanations for the behavior of young black offenders. You just parroted what others have been saying as the same criminal behavior persists among a certain element of black youth, - getting your panties in a bunch, and trotting out a lot specious arguments because I quipped about equal opportunity when it comes to committing crime. Rant on! If you hate it, I love it. 🥱😴

ProfD Dr. Ben Carson is smarter than a whole lot of white folks. There's a whole lotta Black folks who will run rings around white folks intellectually. Dr. Carson is one man. A "whole lot" doesn't mean the majority. Yao Ming was a tall athletically gifted basketball player....does that mean Chinese in general are? I knew you were going to mention gang members & African killing sprees. You should have, because it's so obvious...lol. How many of those people kill non-Black people? Good question. Shows you how silly and foolish they are.....killing up their own like that. How many of them start world wars killing millions of people? None. Most of them don't have enough sense to come up with the technology TO fight wars on a global level. Too busy killing off a lot of their smart ones...who don't flee and run to the West for safety. How many of them have gone on killing sprees to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy? Few. Again, a testimony to how silly so many of them are. Don't want to fight their REAL enemy...just eachother. Military members are paid by white people to kill or be killed in the spread of racism white supremacy. Correct. The racists pay them to kill their own. The question is, how much money could one of THEM pay the racists to kill other racists? How many Africans can bribe or manipulate Europeans to ride around on bikes killing eachother and destroying their countries? Take a guess where I was born & raised. I'm good money there. You're thinking about your childhood back in the Shalimar and Run DMC days...lol. Them little niggaz running around with dreadlocks and purple lips smelling like shunk in "Soufees" today don't know who you is! All them old school rules done got thrown out of the window. De'marcus and 'em ain't trying to hear all of that shit about you coming from the same place he is....lol. Speaking of Soufees D.C.....have you met of an activist out there called the Irritated Genie? If so, what do you think of his movement?

ProfD If you see a dude with Rasputia... Oh no NOT NORBIT....lol. It's so funny to me because I have a cousin like that. Like that old school song, she can't wait to get in public infront of people and clown on him. Even at family reunions and get-togethers she clowns on him. And it's HIS family! Training to be a fighter doesn't require any more intelligence than being a weightlifter. Just matter of discipline & getting in the gym & repetitions. You said it doesn't require any MORE intelligence, but it does require a DEGREE OF intelligence. A stupid person is unlikely to learn those techniques or appreciate the pay-offs of the hard work, discipline, and practice. Those fake weed smoking, gun-toting wannabe n8gglets could be your distant cousins too. Distant? Some of them are my FIRST cousins! Just the other day one of them got into a fight with his brother-n-law because he came over to his house for a visit and he caught the clown in his garage using his tools trying to hack off his leg tether...lol.

ProfD Sure. A person can definitely make decisions that lead to being poor under the systems that control resources. Poverty is a condition of human design. Some may argue that poverty is actually a social construct. Especially given the fact that many people don't even know they're poor UNTIL they compare themselves with others more well off. The anger comes from knowing wealthy people aren't necessarily smarter &/or harder working. Inherited wealth is a great example. In other words, some of that anger is actually DELUSIONAL and unfounded? Because the fact is many wealthy people ARE smarter and harder working than many poor people. Not everyone inherited their wealth, some are self-made. But a poor person full of excuses will push that narrative to avoid taking responsibility for their lack of smarts or poor work ethic. The West exploits other countries. True Many of the leaders of those countries seem to WELCOME that exploitation. They would argue their culture isn't failed. It's just different from ours. I would argue both. Not only are most cultures in Third world poverty stricken nations DIFFERENT than ours but they are also INFERIOR to ours from a financial point of view. I would also suggest that the West COULD be considered more SOCIALLY and MORALLY advanced than a lot of these nations because sexism and slavery was the cultural norm but eventually banned and outlawed in the West....but still exists in full force in many of these other nations. Those cultures have been living the same way for thousands of years. Facts And evidence of this is there lack of advancement for thousands of years. Many of them...like the Afghans...are still living in the stone age. Meanwhile the West has been constantly progressing not only financially but technicologically for hundreds of years and especially since the Industrial revolution. How did the heirs amass that fortune? They inherited it. Usually from family members who thought enough of them to actually leave them something besides a car note, lol. ....or a long lost brother they never knew existed until the funeral, lol. Nope. She self-medicates to temporarily escape the reality of being poor. Or she came from a middle class or working class family, fell in love with the wrong boyfriend and started smoking crack with HIM. Plenty of cases like that too. Many poor people didn't come from poverty, they came from wealth and fucked their lives up with terrible decision making and rebellious attitudes. One of my favorite Richard Pryor punchlines. My man got so many of them.....lol. In that one performance alone! Troy I fell prey to peer pressure wanting to run the streets chasing women, gambling, and drinking. It's hard for me to imagine you shooting dice and drinking cheap wine....lol. No wonder you flipped on the old White woman at the dollar store and cussed her out over some wine! 🤣 What was your favorite: Ripple or Thunderbird?

Sure it does. Every effect has a cause. Just because your EXPLANATION of it doesn't make sense, doesn't mean the behavior itself doesn't make sense or can't be understood. I contend that their behavior isn't "senseless". It's an obvious product of a number of ingredients in various combinations. Among them poor parenting, mental illness, drug use, etc......

We saw this coming in that trial. Especially given the jury demographic. This was rather quick though.

Well, it only took the jury less than 2 hours of deliberation to issue a guity verdict. Karmelo Anthony is now facing 5-99 years in prison on a murder conviction. The sentencing phase lies in the hands of the judge. To be continued....😎

Wyatt Outlaw was a Black American hero that history has tried to forget. I’m trying to get my new novel, The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw, listed on AALBC but so far haven’t figured out how. It’s available on am*zon, B&N, Ingrams, and other sources. Little is known about Wyatt Outlaw’s life, but his tragic death is well documented. My novel imagines Wyatt Outlaw as a son, husband, and father. The novel is framed with the murderous events that occur in Graham, North Carolina, on February 26, 1870. The atmosphere is thick with political tension and impending violence. Wyatt Outlaw, a Black town commissioner, master carpenter, and Union veteran, is marked for death by the White Brotherhood and KKK. Born the unacknowledged son of a white planter and an enslaved mother, Wyatt is sold to protect his father's fragile public image. After years of working as a slave on a tobacco farm and then being brutally beaten by a patroller or “pattyroller,” Wyatt's world improves when he meets Rachel. Because marriage is forbidden for slaves, their romance culminates in a secret jumping-the-broom ceremony. They begin a family, but when a violent clash with a pattyroller—to defend Rachel—forces Wyatt to make an impossible choice to flee North, he joins the United States Colored Cavalry to fight against the system that enslaved him. Following the Civil War, Wyatt returns to Graham a free man and a proud combat veteran. With the help of his strong mother, who takes care of his three sons, Wyatt attempts to create harmony out of the ashes of the Civil War. He builds a successful woodworking business. He is appointed town commissioner and becomes a leader in the Union League, working to forge a political alliance between newly enfranchised Black voters and poor white farmers. But this coalition is a threat to the old Southern aristocracy, and the planter class unleashes the White Brotherhood and KKK to crush Wyatt’s organizing efforts through terror, triggering a ticking-clock countdown leading to the Kirk-Holden War. The narrative is followed by a Book Club Discussion Guide that offers readers and book club groups a profound look at what it costs to build a family and community when the world wants to forget you.

@Del at the risk of being repetitive, the community where I spent my formative years is what shaped my identity and influenced my approach to life. The suburb of Chicago where I was born and raised during the Depression was unique in many ways. It was racially integrated to the extent that Whites, many of whom were Jewish, could and did live anywhere they chose, but because of restrictive convenance regulations, Blacks could only live in a certain area, - not by the railroad tracks surprisingly, but in the middle of town; a little black "island" surrounded by a Caucasian "sea", where the interracial population co-existed and where it was not unusual for Blacks to have white neighbors who didn't flee their homestead when Blacks began moving in. This quaint little village had, overa period of time, become the final destination of Negroes leaving the South seeking a better life via The Great Migration. Although ny father was from Missouri and my mother from Tennessee, most of the slave descendants in my hometown had roots in Mississippi, Alabama. and Georgia. Because Colored and Whites observed an unwritten rule of staying in their own lanes, at that time there was very little racial strife in my town. I always suspected that this was because we Blacks were comfortable and content in our own community which could be described as a carbon copy of its white counterpart, and we were secretly amused by the idea that, in our own special way, we could match the white initiatives when it came to any civic or social undertakings. And we did. No separate but equal scenarios when it came to education, however. Whites and Blacks all attended the same high school, which back then had the reputation of being one of the best in the state. Therefore, an excellent education was ours for the taking and what I learned during my 4 years there, benefitted me throughout the rest of my life. Amongst ourselves,we black residents of this town, also had our own codes and customs. Colorism, for instance, was incidental, superceded by achievement and accomplishment. Those 2 assets were what took priority and gave status, and they always remained at the core of my value system. Nor were we deluded about the plague of the racism that sent our elders fleeing from the South. But we had the luxury of humoring our antagonists. We snickered at their notions of racial superiority and this somehow neutralized them, an approach that I use to this day, arguing on Face Book with MAGAs. Incidently the "we" I refer to, consisted mostly of the circle of people I grew up with during the 1950s, an era often described as being "bland", something that may account for the compromises that defined our lives back then. These folk are all dead now but they remained my friends throughout the years, as we always kept up with each other, always finding things to laugh about, always reminding ourselves of the carefree days of our youth, forever marveling at how we somehow managed to circumvent discrimination, always removed from turmoil which is why I do not claim that my upbringing was typical or ideal . It was, what it was.... I cite all these examples of how growing up where I did, influenced how I later maneuvered through a world where I gradually realized that Life is a crap shoot. Sometimes you get lucky. I am truly a child of the 1950s era. I was very much influenced by the music of those times; both the modern jazz and the luscious melodic ballads and the poetry that was their lyrics. I loved the wry intellectual humor of the comedic satirists popular back then and the film noir movies that always had an ironic twist. The fads and trends that followed temporarily captivated me, but they never replaced my affinity for those idyllic times that first enchanted me. zzzzzzzzzzz

Senseless behavior doesn't have to make sense.

I would’ve been better served if I was in fact more like Preach when I was a boy I loved to read and learn, but no, I fell prey to peer pressure wanting to run the streets chasing women, gambling, and drinking. I did ultimately pursue athletics and academics — trying to be “balanced.” I did sport classes like preach so if you saw me, you probably thought nerd:-) until I was about 19 when I started wearing contacts.

If you see a dude with Rasputia... It shows men stay for similar reasons.🤣 Training to be a fighter doesn't require any more intelligence than being a weightlifter. Just matter of discipline & getting in the gym & repetitions. People of average intelligence accomplish a lot. In fact, their hard work enables others to become millionaires & billionaires. Those fake weed smoking, gun-toting wannabe n8gglets could be your distant cousins too.🤣 Nat Turner is a hero. Agreed. Neither group should let the most ignorant represent &/or be its spokesperson. The intelligent among the groups should set the record straight instead of hiding as if they are in the witness protection program. I feel the same way about silent white folks who don't call out their racist brethren & the system of racism white supremacy.😎

Gotcha. I'm just going by the fact it hasn't happened in a couple thousand years & counting. 😁 Dr. Ben Carson is smarter than a whole lot of white folks. There's a whole lotta Black folks who will run rings around white folks intellectually. I knew you were going to mention gang members & African killing sprees. How many of those people kill non-Black people? How many of them start world wars killing millions of people? How many of them have gone on killing sprees to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy? Military members are paid by white people to kill or be killed in the spread of racism white supremacy. It is impossible to control an environment without owmership. Asking for resources versus stealing is a better decision to make. Again, debts have to be paid. Debtors have to be willing to pay up however the lender wants their money back. That's why they say be neither a lender nor a borrower. Haiti doesn't control the money it generates. That debt to France goes into perpetuity. Take a guess where I was born & raised. I'm good money there.😎

My father & mother. Music & books allowed me to see a world beyond my own environment & expand my knowledge respectively. Life experiences & traveling & meeting & kicking it with different people.😎

No That couldn't be it, because it makes no sense.

ProfD Money, love, laziness, low self-esteem, children, etc. I can't argue with you there. Money and children will make some of the smartest women stay inside an abusive relationship. The majority of people here in the USA have the ability to learn according to literacy rates. Yeah, how to roll a blunt with one hand....lol. Nearly everybody can learn, but everybody's CAPACITY to learn is different. Meaning some people can only learn to keep their fingers off of a hot stove....while others can learn how to read...while others can learn and get a PhD. It varies depending on ones exposure and intelligence. That woman was trained to be a fighter. Correct. Which means she had to LEARN how to fight...which involves intelligence. If she's stupid, she wouldn't be able to. Most people are not of low intelligence. They can be taught &/or trained. I agree. Most people are of average intelligence. That's why it's called "average" intelligence....lol. Of course they are human. I don't believe that's why you have a soft spot for them especially considering your disdain for n8gglets Aside from being human, they are my distant relatives. There's an ancestral connection that can't be and shouldn't be denied between AfroAmericans and Africans. He needs to man up & handle that situation. Many have tried. And many have ended up laying in a field somewhere with their mouths open and wild mushrooms growing in them. Some Black immigrants bring that smoke on themselves by talking sh8t about AfroAmericans. True. You have ignorant and trouble makers on both sides. We shouldn't let THEM represent our communities. How foolish is it to let the loudest and most ignorant of our people represent or speak for us on a global scale? How much more foolish is it for them to let their loud and ignorant do the same? Trading insults back and forth like a bunch of middle-schoolers.

ProfD Right. Neither a deity nor drugs will save Black people. Lol, which is why I called it an atheistic/agnostic approach. It is not that binary. You have 2 groups: Black people and White people I suppose an argument can be made over identity and who identifies as what, but in theory...2 solid groups. Scientifically speaking, there is no way they can be the exact same in intelligence. Either one is more intelligent or the other is, even if it's minimally or on a microscopic level. The can't be the exact same 100% Because white people have proven themselves to be extremely violent when necessary & don't mind dying to protect their power & beliefs. Black folks are afraid to die regardless of their intelligence level. Most Black folks are afraid of guns & violence too. You have thousands of Black gang members who have killed and even rap about it. Hundreds of thousands of Black people in the military and thousands in special ops who have killed people by the hundreds. ....and that's in the United States alone. OUTSIDE of America in places like Rwanda and Haiti you have Black people who have made entire rituals out of killing people wholesale by the hundreds and thousands. How do these facts reconcile with what YOU said about Black people being afraid of death and guns and violence? Absolutely not. Mainly because I'm willing to neutralize them. Sounds to me like you're intelligent enough to recognize a threat when you see one and deal with it. Just like the tears & T-shirt protests nowadays, back in the 1960s after the assassination of Black leaders & 1992 after the beating of Rodney King, n8gglets burned up sh8t in their own communities. Does that sound very intelligent to you? And on top of that, many of them were MOVED OUT of those very communities and replaced with Latinos and Arabs. Taking benefits from another man is a debt to him. It has to be paid one way or another. I don't think it's ideal, but...... Neely Fuller Jr. actually said that as a last resort a Black person should beg White folks for money or food. Rather than stealing and ending up in greater confinement. Most of it stems from the greed & corruption in Haiti It's a tropical island where vegetation grows almost overnight in some cases. Are they not intelligent enough to produce enough wealth and resources so that nearly everybody can live a peaceful prosperous life without imposing on his/her neighbor? I know plenty ex-cons & street n8gglets. I tell them to their faces they're lazy. Yeah....uh...be careful with that, lol. You start wandering around down in South East D.C. and get in the WRONG nigga'z face and we won't hear (read) from you in a while....lol. "Nah...we ain't lazy. And just to show you we ain't.... We 'bout to go to work RIGHT NOW on yo ass!"

More than anything, my parents shaped my views growing up, but after a certain age it was school and reading. My parents were religious and not racist, and I don't recall ever hearing the "N" word from them, but they grew up poor in the South, with separate water fountains and facilities. They held distinct views about minorities, especially Black people. Our humble home was right next to what my parents called a "colored" neighborhood. So I frequently saw colored kids but was not allowed to play with them (and I don't think they wanted to play with me). There was only one colored girl in my high school class of 400. As I became a teenager and exposed to the news on TV and reading, I realized there was something fundamentally wrong with our society. Now that I'm am older white man, I see our country recently going backwards towards more unacceptance and hatred of others, especially minorities. It’s scary. To me, MAGA means pull minorities down or send them home to make some white majority greater. That's one of the reasons I wrote my novel, The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw. It tells the tragic story of an enslaved man that history wants to forget. The novel is framed with the murderous events that occur in Graham, North Carolina, on February 26, 1870. The atmosphere is thick with political tension and impending violence. Wyatt Outlaw, a Black town commissioner, master carpenter, and Union veteran, is marked for death by the White Brotherhood and KKK. To me, Wyatt Outlaw is a hero who overcame great odds to become successful. To me, our country has made great strides in accepting people who are different, but we still have a ways to go. I hate to see us going backwards. It would be nice if, on our 250th anniversary, we could celebrate for all Americans, and not just for a select group.

The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey.....#1

Who or what shaped your values growing up. How much did media films music and books influence you? Also what if anything either influences you or has made you change your world view?

Right. Neither a deity nor drugs will save Black people. It is not that binary. Because white people have proven themselves to be extremely violent when necessary & don't mind dying to protect their power & beliefs. Black folks are afraid to die regardless of their intelligence level. Most Black folks are afraid of guns & violence too. Absolutely not. Mainly because I'm willing to neutralize them. Of course not. That's why they have so many guns. Just like the tears & T-shirt protests nowadays, back in the 1960s after the assassination of Black leaders & 1992 after the beating of Rodney King, n8gglets burned up sh8t in their own communities. That's totally different from attacking the real instruments & sgents of racism white supremacy. I already wrote it. Taking benefits from another man is a debt to him. It has to be paid one way or another. Most of it stems from the greed & corruption in Haiti. I know plenty ex-cons & street n8gglets. I tell them to their faces they're lazy. The same effort they pour into dumb sh8t could be more constructive in building for our people.😎

That's interesting. I've never seen people getting high &/or wailing away outside an abortion clinic.🤣 Money, love, laziness, low self-esteem, children, etc. Maybe so is he's not lazy. The majority of people here in the USA have the ability to learn according to literacy rates. That woman was trained to be a fighter. Most people are not of low intelligence. They can be taught &/or trained. Of course they are human. I don't believe that's why you have a soft spot for them especially considering your disdain for n8gglets.😁 He needs to man up & handle that situation. I would prefer that we either get along & cooperate or have no contact. There should not be any confusion or confrontation across the Black diaspora. Some Black immigrants bring that smoke on themselves by talking sh8t about AfroAmericans. Fear & laziness are two major obstacles. White folks have imported Asians & Arabs have to keep an eye on them & serve ss a buffer group. No doubt...there's no shortage of lazy n8gglets. 😁 Of course, I don't place any stock in one's religious beliefs.🤣😎

Could be that constantly preaching about racism sends a subliminal message to young Blacks that behaving anyway they choose is a way to demonstrate their equality.

How myopic the above observation is. Nobody here denies the existence of the human race. That's a curious accusation coming from a "forked tongue" patriot.

Sure. A person can definitely make decisions that lead to being poor under the systems that control resources. Poverty is a condition of human design. The anger comes from knowing wealthy people aren't necessarily smarter &/or harder working. Inherited wealth is a great example. Criminals are heading into the system of greater confinement &/or the cemetery.😁 The West exploits other countries. They would argue their culture isn't failed. It's just different from ours. Those cultures have been living the same way for thousands of years. How did the heirs amass that fortune? Nope. She self-medicates to temporarily escape the reality of being poor. One of my favorite Richard Pryor punchlines.🤣😎