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I'd like to read about the life of Curtis Mayfield, one of my favorites. I rarely read music biographies. But his music was so good...

ROTFLMBAO! Yeah I hooked up with a white woman from the 18 century 😉

" Yo hold up....uhh ....did he just say "poppycock"??? " You must choose a different word than "race" to the describe the phenotypical and psychological differences of people. Lol, And you're gonna have to choose a different word than "poppycock" if you don't want me to question your "Blackness"....lol. *You must have gone ahead and married that White woman even when I told you not to. I KNEW she'd change you....lol.

@Pioneer1 poppycock! You must choose a different word than "race" to the describe the phenotypical and psychological differences of people. Every educated person knows there is only one race and the all the dimensions you use can not be universally applied to all humans. This is junk science, filed in the same draw as the flat earth idea.

Thank you @Chevdove if nothing written here prompts you to consider your current views or exposes you to new ones, then you missed the point. Too many people get mad because of something someone typed. I was trying to figure out how I missed you being a Black Israelite. I figured, if true, you must have gone rogue cause I don't think I seen a public facing female Black Israelite. As Pioneer says, welcome back we missed you.

White people like most people aren't monolithic. There are differences some people you can reach with reason. However in my experience I can't say what characteristics leads people to be reasonable. Travelling around the US you will experience different types of racism. In the South people were more polite even a hustler and homeless person were polite to me. So manners are really important n a place that had slavery. Whereas in NYC specifically between 1977 - 1999 the pecking order revolved around style ability and innovation. Leaving the US it is amazing to not feel the weight of race. I am not saying that racism or discrimination doesn't exist but the layering is different. If I were to weigh the joy versus the pain, I would still choose to be alive. However I have been incredibly fortunate and lucky, to have a good support network around me.

I've never heard anyone else describe the war between the states as an indication of white unity. It is like debating whether the earth is a sphere or flat. I don't even know where to begin. I get the focus on Brown people -- this site is a reflection on that. What I'm trying to understand is why you are so hard on Black people. White Americans rebelled from the British, then from the northern and southern states, and now between the republicans and democrats, the Jews and the gentiles, and communists versus capitalists. They have never demonstrated unity locally or globally, but you easily dismiss this in order to make an assertion that Blacks lack unity. Listen, I'm not auguring that Black people can not use more unity -- especially today. What I'm saying is that Blacks are far more unified than white folks. We had to be. We would never have survived the American Holocaust otherwise.

Well you already know the gentic differences between Black and white are insignificant, so much of what you describe as innate characteristics of Black people I ascribe to your prejudice and stereotyping. So no, I do not believe that Black people are any more genetically sociopathic than white people. I traveled in UT, AZ, OK, KA and CO the past two weeks and the number of white homeless people i saw begging for money was depressing. This juxtaposed with the extravagant homes owned by white people would suggest to me that it is white people who do not care about other white people. The apparent lack of caring you are observing is a human characteristic not a Black one. Man, you just mentioned Greenwood, OK, so how can you make this statement? I this country we will need white people to defeat white racism.

@Pioneer1 you make it sound like Black are different than any other group. White folks have already stopped marching. We are working really hard to make the planet unihabitable for humans and no one really seems to care -- at least not enough to do anything about it... The problem is not one of a lack of caring. I think what you are observing is result of hopelessness. People feel, indeed may actually be, unable to do anything and are depressed as a result. When you go to any poor neighborhood what you are seeing is a group of people suffering. they have their own problems and if they spend more time at the liquor store trying to get through life than you approve of ... well try to show a little compassion.