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AIDS was created and spread through minority communities like drugs. Of course, there was collateral damage i.e. sacrificial white folks. First, they came up with a drug cocktail that allowed folks to live without HIV becoming full blown AIDS and deadly. Fast-forward to present and now they have a drug that allows people to enjoy alternative sex without contracting the HIV virus. Follow the science, er, I mean the money. Every plandemic is about someone getting paid and maintaining white supremacy. I believe Eazy E was killed by his business partner/manager/lawyer/friend, Jerry Heller. Eazy wasn't gay or an intravenous drug user. So, how in in hello Pete did he contract AIDS. He was poisoned. Oldest trick in the power/money grab book. In the 1970s, affirmative action neutered the Civil Rights struggle. Black folks had arrived with good paying jobs, affordable houses in the suburbs and good schools for their chilluns. Black consciousness really took a nosedive in the 1980s. N8gglets were dancing and signing happy rap songs with no sociopolitical substance. PCP and Crack dealt the KO blow. It wasn't until Public Enemy came out with "Fight the Power" that black dudes started wearing X hats. The Native Tongues (Jungle Brothers & A Tribe Called Quest, De LA Soul, etc.) had dudes wearing medallions and Afro-Centric attire. That lasted for a year or two before Gangsta Rap exploded on the music scene and took off. Except for a handful of conscious rappers, most of the music glorified life in the prison of white supremacy (selling drugs, killing, getting high and sex). So, it's no surprise that what we're seeing today regarding a lack of sociopolitical consciousness among AfroAmericans are seeds that were planted and germinated several decades ago. 😎

I guess it depends on where one lived in the 1980s. When the AIDS epidemic came to light in 1981, it temporarily suspended free sex for about 20 minutes in my hood. Once AIDS was considered a "gay disease", heterosexual folks jumped right back in the sack. Proof is in the population. A helluva lotta folks have been born since the 1980s.😁 Between population growth and alternative forms of sex, I think the revolution is still going strong and it's being televised.😎

************************************************************************************ I said he was gorgeous to look at and that he was too small for me. I never even said he was sexy. But he had that swagger, the way he wore his clothes, his hats, and his cute little high-heeled shoes. Why are you so jealous? Just BOTHERED!!! ************************************************************************************

In the latter years of his career, jazz legend Mils Davis and Prince became friends. During the MTV era in the 1980s Miles, looking very Princesque, even made a video playing his version of Cyndi Lauper's, 'Time after time". Jazz purists were miffed by Miles' cross over into the pop domain, but he brushed them off. ''So What?" is vintage Miles, and a phrase that could sum up his approach to life. Also appearing on this video another jazz icon, John Coultrane. https://fb.watch/8pW5Nyh5Hm/

Miles Davis was at the forefront of major changes in Jazz. Jazz stopped changing when he wasn't there to change it. I am not certain who made that quote. I was a Prince fan and more interested in Miles Davis as a personality. Although I heard him play live in the late 80's. He was one of those musicians I wanted to hear before either of us died. I am not a Jazz head but I have heard some of the greats. and some of the newer musicians

************************************************************************************ @Pioneer1 AIDS started in the Caucasoid community with the gay flight attendant. It probably entered our community through some downlow brother that was getting down with fruity whitey. I cannot believe you weren’t a ladies man as smooth-talking as you are now. How often did you stroll through those Canadian malls? Enquiring minds need to know. @ProfD “Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s campaign slogan. ************************************************************************************

IBM has a division devoted to AI called Watson. One of the projects was to teach AI how to become an Astrologer. Some Astrologers believe that AI will usher in a New Age in Astrology. And that computing power will result in a wedding of AI and Astrology. Not until AI becomes intuitive or we learn what is consciousness. So probably not.

In the Detroit it was considered more of a biological weapon designed against Black people....and I STILL think it is, btw. To a lesser extent it was considered a "gay disease" right up until 1995 when Easy E got sick and died from it, and then it lost that stigma. Today you hear less conspiratorial talk among most young Black people. They allowed their White "friends" and co-workers to talk them out of believing anything they didn't hear on CNN or Fox News. As far as free sex goes........... I wasn't TOO MUCH of a ladies man to begin with...lol...so I'm not the best one to judge how easy or hard sexual access has changed over time. I go by the stories the older Black men...Baby Boomers...told me about how easy it was to just go to any bar, pool room, or hamburger joint and in a couple hours you could have 2 or 3 women in your bed getting busy with all of them. This was especially the case in White communities in urban areas. I'm not sure about that but what I HAVE witnessed is how easy it is to get sex in places like Canada and Western Europe as compared to the U.S. At a time when you had to have good conversation, get a phone number, and go out on atleast a date or two before having sex with a woman in the United States.....back in the 80s and 90s a simple stroll through a shopping mall in Canada would guarantee you a wet willy...lol } "You want me to come over and sit next to you? Who? Me??? Are you SURE you're talking to me? Naaaah.....stop playing girl! For real???"

Lol...I invented some new cuss words. Wanna hear 'em?

IMO, Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will never be able to replace and/or mimic that which makes us human. Technology will always be tool that makes certain tasks easier which in turn will make humans lazier and more expendable in the workplace. AI will be able to entertain humans on some level but it will never provide comaraderie or companionship. No amount of programming and algorithms can produce genuine emotion and spontaneous action. My dad taught me how to play Chess and card games in my youth. In those days, we played Casino, Koomkang, Spades, Tonk, Rummy and Whist. However, Bridge wasn't on the table. Like everything else, from farming and music and books, new technology has supplanted the way we get things done. Because they're already being groomed with it, the current generation and future of humanity will be perfectly fine with AI in whatever form it takes up to a point. Social media has already created a society of people who seem perfectly comfortable interacting through a computer. But again, computers (AI) will never replace that which makes us human. Eventually, folks have to emerge from their digital cocoons and press flesh. It's just a matter of time before folks will rediscover how to work with their hands and entertain each other in person. Folks might even get back to having card parties and playing Bridge again. I know musicians realize the importance of playing together versus using computers. I wouldn't count Mankind out just yet. In the meantime, music is the ultimate opiate. 😎

So do you think black jazz masters are not on a par with Beethoven, Mozart. Chopin , Shubert. Handel, et al, whose works are timeless and who hold permanent places of honor in the annals of white classical music? I absolutely do think black Jazz masters and their works are timeless on a par with and held in high regard within the Jazz community just like their European counterparts of classical music. Why do you think vintage jazz artists and present day ones can't co-exist and be judged on their individual merits??? Vintage Jazz artists and present day musicians do co-exist. The former are canonized. The latter are judged on their individual merits within their ability to interpret the music and keep it alive. Within the Jazz community, musicians do honor and respect the legacy of the past masters both in the way they play and as evidenced by the fact that there are plenty Jazz tunes (standards) that every Jazz musician should know. Jazz musicians past up to present are still playing and recording standard tunes. A Traditional Jazz musician should be able to hit with other players on any Jazz gig, anywhere on the planet without a single rehearsal based on their common knowledge of tunes left to us by the giants of Jazz. Why does it have to be one or the other when it comes to listening to them? That depends on the listener(s). Jazz is America's classical music. But, it's also an acquired taste. When someone says they like Jazz, it helps to know what kind of Jazz they like. John Coltrane and Kenny G are worlds apart. Traditional Jazz was a popular form of music from the 1930s through the mid-1960s. It's popularity began to wane as other styles of music emerged in the 1960s and beyond. As I mentioned, Miles incorporated new sounds into Jazz which led to different styles of it. As a result, listeners moved accordingly. Like Brussels sprouts, a small group of folks still listen to and appreciate Traditional Jazz. I think most Jazz listeners nowadays prefer the McDonalds version of it. 😎

I never said anything about Prince being "sexy". This was something that pioneer implied so that so he could try to make a point that had no merit. Let the record show that I liked Prince's music but he was not my romantic fantasy; more like a rebellious son with a Napoleonic complex. When it comes to "types", people like who they like, and there's no accounting for taste...

Yes woman

i wouldn't label someone who longed for the black music of yesteryear, as being a "grumpy old man". i'd call them someone who rightfully wants to preserve and respect the legacy of jazz classics that gave rise all the variations on a theme that followed the original. You must be a Millennial. LOL i never heard those rumors. i have no idea whether they might be true. i tend to think Prince was straight. i did hear that Miles was HIV positive something he could've gotten from his heroin addiction and the exchange of needles. It was also rumored that this was the reason Cicely Tyson dropped him. i also heard later that he actually had sickle cell anemia. Whatever. May they both rest in peace.

Why do you think that is? Old school Farrakhan. I wonder if he would be so harsh today? I think he got it wrong though. Women appreciated Prince’s music more than his looks. In fact, it did not matter what Prince looked like.

The Sex Revolution and Free Sex movements ended before I was entering Highschool in the mid-80s. I had heard about it from my uncles and some of the older men, but it appears that the AIDS crisis of the 80s put an end to the days of "free loving". Around '84 or '85...if you saw a woman under 140 pounds...you were looking at her side ways wondering "what if".

I do not believe there's any truth in that tea. Of course, I have no proof. However, I can imagine the mutual respect those two mercurial cats would have had for each as musicians.😎

Excellent list. At one point, I thought it would be great to have a safe haven state exclusively for AfroAmericans with arable land and a moderate climate. But, I'm not so sure about the state thing upon thinking about how easily it could be polluted and destroyed. I would hope that we've got folks with military and law enforcement training to protect it but I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling there. I still think we need large segments of land INSIDE the U.S. that we can call our own and have jurisdiction over. It just doesn't have to be as big as a state. Some people think it should be down South but I think we need to own large portions of land in EVERY REGION of this nation. We don't want to be concentrated in one little area....like what's happening in Georgia where Blk folks from around the nation are flocking to Atlanta. Blk folks from around the country from the Eastcoast to the Westcoast started flocking to Atlanta in the 80s and 90s and now that they're concentrated there...half the young men down there are switching down the street with dresses on. No..we need to have a strong representation in EVERY region of this nation. Which is one of the reasons I INSISTED on moving back to Michigan and staying here after having lived around the nation. We need to get back to our Midwestern roots in places like Detroit, Chicago, St.Louis, ect...and not just leave and abandon it to gentrification. Reparations can be done. Apparently, America hasn't been given enough incentive to atone for its original sin (slavery). It can be done, but INTELLIGENT Black folks need to get together and organize for it to happen. You can't wait on fools and the stupid among us to go marching down the street banging on drums and twerking infront of city hall in hopes of THAT working. If you're waiting on the foolish and backward of our community to get on board and help us with a Reparations Movement, you'll be waiting a MIGHTY LONG TIME. Jodeci said " I'm still waiting" Leave the fools behind to do what fools do, while the righteous and intelligent among us MOVE FORWARD and take care of business. Mzuri If we ever get any reparations, it's going to be a one-time payment and that is all. It depends on who's doing the asking. If you let some of these mush-mouth idiots in Congress right now ask for it...you won't even get THAT. "Now wait a minute now... Now HOLD ON now... You go GIT yo' money...just hold on!!! We gotta have a meeting 'bout it first though. We have to do a Reparations STUDY" But if intelligent FOCUSED Black folks on the ground level sit down and map out exactly what we want and how we want it, there is no such thing as impossible. A proper Reparations Package takes a GRASS ROOTS effort that works it's way up into the halls of Congress. Not the other way around. It'll take years to properly plan and map out...but it can and WILL be done eventually.

Moviestar on Tutu was written by Prince. Just found this.

They wouldn't have been allowed to do this 50 or 60 years ago. They would have been afraid to come amongst Black people if they had. Might as well stay in Hollywood where it's safe, because if they came back to the hood.......lol. But today, they have conditioned so many of our people to accept and tolerate anything...step by step....generation by generation...that some of our people are willing to tolerate ANY type of behavior as long as White people tell them it's appropriate. Each generation is CONDITIONED to accept more perversion than the previous one. They don't do it all at once....but step by step. Like Neely Fuller Jr. said...he saw back in the 60s that they were gonna start having Black men bouncing up and down the street in dresses. He also said that they were gonna try to make Black women obsolete to the point that so many Black women will start signing up in the military and dying overseas in the arms of eachother as lovers.

ProfD I agree with your assessment that he "flirted" with androgyny. He was heterosexual but he acted so feminine in his demeanor that a lot of people assumed he was gay. Cynique & Mzuri I can respect Prince as a talented artist, but as far as him being sexy....I must ask you two ladies....what was so sexy about that man? Mzuri you mentioned you like a particular skin tone. My issue with Prince isn't his skin tone, but his overall physique, demeanor, and his hair. I remember back in the 80s where it was a thing between who was the best artist...between Michael Jackson and Prince. Why in the WORLD would a heterosexual woman find a man who ACT like a woman, attractive? Minister Farrakhan broke it down excellently in the first few minutes of this clip when it criticized Prince: How many Asian women are jumping up and down clapping for Asian men who act like women? How many Latina women are clapping and peeing on themselves for Latino men who act like women? Hell...how many White women do you see doing this?? The ONLY women deranged enough to find men skipping around on stage in "frilly things" attractive is a few of the AfroAmerican women who have been conditioned NOT to seek masculinity in their men but "prettiness". There's a lot to be said about the state of our community when a petite "pretty" man is considered attractive by so many of our women.

That move by Russ Westbook and Lil Nas X's "pregnancy" all in the same space and time was just further proof that these young nigglets are totally ignorant.🤬😎

Agreed. The timeline you provided is crucial to understanding the modern day buck breaking. Even athletes aren't exempt. Some of the biggest, strongest and most powerful Black dudes on the planet are made to dress in such a way that it softens their masculinity. I'm a huge fan of NFL football. Breast cancer awareness is a big deal. But, the fact that NFL players have to wear pink accessories during breast cancer awareness month is another example of buck breaking. This past summer an NFL player announced that he was gay. The league ran with it faster than they acknowledged police brutality. Don't be surprised to see NFL players having to wear some rainbow socks or wristbands and run onto the field with the Village People's "Macho Man" blaring from the speakers. Former QB Cam Newton was often shown in his post game attire. He always looked like a muscle bound version of a cross between a pimp and Mrs. Doubtfiire. Then, so many black boys are being raised without strong fathers and other black male roles. Growing up in a house full of estrogen has to be toxic on some level. 😎

ProfD RuPaul, Billy Porter, and Lil Nas X are all TOOLS that racists use to "buck break" Black males and make them look weak, effeminate, and humiliate them around the world. It's really aimed less at the adults but more at the children. Just like those In Living Color skits where Jammie Fox dressed up as "Ugly Wanda" went around acting a fool in the 90s. And even Tyler Perry and Martin Lawrence movie where they dressed up as Black women and acted a fool....which was more humiliation. You didn't see the effects IMMEDIATELY, but after about 10 years or so you saw Black men switching down the street acting JUST LIKE the characters we saw on In Living Color. Even "Men on Film" characters. While this is seen as "innocent entertainment" to the adults, to the Black children and especially the Black boys watching...a SEED is dropped into their head that if they want to get along in society and appear harmless, dress up like a woman and everyone will laugh at you and love you. RuPaul and Billy Porter are getting older, so now they have to have come up with NEW tools to use for their diabolical purposes so they're training Lil Nas X to be their new guy. Problem is, Lil Nas X claims he misses women....lol. Lil Nas X Says He Misses 'P****' After Breakup with Guy from Music Video (tmz.com) 🤣 He "misses" it??? How was he GETTING it in the first place to even miss...if he were actually gay? Why would a gay young mad have even been INVOLVED with women in the first place unless his entire identity has been a fraud to begin with and the racists are PAYING this fool to disgrace himself as Black men?

Pioneer, I lumped trans into the sexually confused. But, dealing more specifically with transgender, that's been ongoing for just as long as the rest. Throughout history, boys and men have either by force or choice, dressed like women. The most widely recognized head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, is widely rumored to show up at parties dressed as a woman. The funniest thing is that while this dude (Hoover) went after the mafia (soft peddling) and completely destroyed every progressive black movement through COINTELPRO, nobody ever outed him. That's how white supremacy closes ranks. I *hate* that the alphabet soup movement in which T is Trans, co-opted the Civil Rights movement to advance their own platform. Transgender folks benefit from the protection afforded by the alphabet soup movement. They feel free to flaunt their BS. The saddest part to me is that RuPaul, a nigglet, is allowing white supremacy to put him on the cover of the movement. This dude is winning Emmy awards for that BS he's pushing on TV. White supremacy has instructed that from a child to an adult, anyone who identifies as Trans, non-binary or whatever, has the right to do so and protection under the law. 😎

ProfD You're correct that these behaviors have gone back THOUSANDS of years. And you find it not only in Greece but even in India you can find certain castes where this is common. ....sex with animals too. I think you may be talking more about homosexuality....which is PART of the Alphabet-crew. But I'm speaking more specifically about the TRANS aspect of it. This goes beyond sexual orientation and into more outwardly displays of certain behaviors. White supremacy opened the floodgates for the alphabet soup movement and as Diana Ross provided the soundtrack And they piggy-backed off of the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements to do so. Back in the 80s they started tying in being anti-gay with being anti-Black and kept using the same wording over and over and over again so when you heard one you heard the other. They lobbied the Democrat party with so much money that they became included as core member of it. And the Transgender/sexual community is seeking to do the same thing. But I personally draw a distinction between the homo/bisexual movement and the trans movement. One is pretty much what a person does in the bedroom in the privacy of their own home, but the other is more about forcing you to accept them based on what they claim they are...often against your own free will. Further, the trans movement is being used to "cover up" the catastrophe that environmental toxins are making out of humanity. So many chemicals are being added to the food and dumped in the water to change the vary nature of humanity itself and these movements are being launched to make these mutations seem "normal".

Mzuri This would mean that they aren’t really transexual at all, they are just looking for a way out of a miserable existence and entering into another miserable existence by disguising themselves as something they are not, when people don’t fall for their new identity anyway. Well I draw a distinction between trans-GENDERED and trans-SEXUAL...although both are part of the "Trans Movement" A trans-SEXUAL person is a person who has the full operation to go from a man to a woman or vice versa and has the plumbing changed. A trans-GENDERED person is a person who merely DRESSES and ACTS and THINKS like the opposite sex...but physically, nothing has changed on them. Gender = mentality Obviously most people are trans-GENDERED because it's the easiest way to transform yourself. A man can just put on a wig or dress and do your best to act like a woman, or vice-versa for a woman. Besides that, being a Black woman isn’t easy either. Why do men think that life is any easier us, that’s a big misconception. If there are any Black women who have had some charmed life, please let me know. These confused Black men figure they'd have less problems out of society if they appear less "intimidating" as a woman. Even in the most gang infested territory, women often get a pass where as a man is constantly having his manhood challenged by other males. Stray bullets DO hit women often, and women DO get into fights...but they don't experience as much serious violence as men often do. When it comes to the police encounters..... Women are often beat up and killed, but not AS MUCH as what happens to men. You grow up routinely hearing about how woman get out of traffic tickets and other negative encounters from the cops by showing a little cleavage or acting dainty. A lot of boys hear this and it's ingrained in their minds that the more feminine they act the less harsh their treatment will be. The racists of this society clearly see Black males as more threatening not just because of their strength and aggression but their sexuality and ability to have sex with White women and reproduce other people of color. Evidence for this is how so many are castrated and had their penises and balls removed as part of the lynching process. Many if not most Black boys instinctively know this growing up, and some have decided to "show the world" that he no longer poses a threat or challenge to White Supremacy nor does he have any desire to screw a White woman. They do it by putting on a dress and lipstick and switching down the street like a gap legged fool or getting on television to do the same.

Pioneer provides a logical reason on the motivation behind transgender folks. I think it goes deeper though. Sexual confusion is thousands of years old. In fact, the old Romans and Greeks weren't confused at all. Look at the pictures. Some of those dudes looked trans on the regular.😁 Several decades ago, we knew dudes who were sexually confused. Most of them were in closet. White supremacy opened the floodgates for the alphabet soup movement and as Diana Ross provided the soundtrack...they've come out in full force. It has to be accepted or else. I know folks in the alphabet soup movement. They've said to me, why would I choose this way of life. In their minds, they were born that way. It's not my place to dispute or argue against their position. Selfishly, I just figured the alphabet soup movement meant more women for me. Well, except for the woman who wears bigger watches than mine.😁 😎

Mzuri That’s so interesting because I always thought of Hermaphrodites in the traditional sense of someone having deformed genitalia as a birth defect. Because we all start off as female and then we either stay female or develop into a male, but with the Hermaphrodite, something went wrong during that process. Yeah, a hermaphrodite doesn't NECESSARILY have deformed genitals. Although that's often the case. But they have BOTH SETS of genitals for both the male and the female. Usually one side dominates over the other, but they are equal ENOUGH to be considered a disorder. In some ancient cultures Hermaphrodites held a high status because they were thought to be "special"; being able to relate to both sexes. Also, they usually didn't get married, so they could joint the priesthoods and dedicate their lives to religious endeavors. But I am certain that the ones I have encountered were not victims of the toxic environment, they were either off or just seeking attention. That's true. Most transgenders people I've met seem to have mental disorders. It's all in their minds. They don't have 2 sets of genitals (that I know of...haven't seen them with their clothes off) but have psychological issues. A lot of Black men choose to be "transgender women" because the pressures of being a Black man are often so harsh in this society that they feel their lives would be easier if they were a woman. Especially if you grew up in a rough neighborhood where you were forced to join gangs or are harassed by the police....if you're a male. ...just become a female and avoid the hassle. If this is what the world has become, we are doomed. Well as I said on the other thread.... Just because THIS world..the Caucasian world...is collapsing in on itself, doesn't necessarily mean our world has to. Their world isn't our world. We have OUR OWN world that we should be building to take the place of this collapsing one. Infact, if you are religious....you should REJOICE at the doom and collapse of this world. The Bible says "Behold I make all things new" I'm not religious....but I would think a good Christian would look FORWARD to the collapse and destruction of this current world. nels I'm a solid conservative. Can you flesh that out a little more and go into detail as to EXACTLY what you mean by a "solid conservative"? What one person considers "conservative" the other person might consider just plain common sense with no political attachment to it. Also, what is accomplished by referencing "Caucasian Conservatives"? Caucasian Conservatives have traditionally been the ones who defined Conservatism and what the movement stood for. It wasn't Black people. Black people began IDENTIFYING themselves as Conservative sometime in the 80s, but it was the Whites who invented and pretty much defined the term. Alienating them doesn't seem to bring anyone closer together. Perhaps the goal is NOT come "closer together" with your racist enemy but to SEPARATE from him and become INDEPENDENT of him. Why would a person want to come "closer together" with a racist who hates them and wishes to destroy them and their children??? Should Jews seek to come "closer together" with the Nazis of Germany?

ProfD The alphabet soup movement is being used by white supremacy to marginalize other groups and issues. You're absolutely right, and I'm glad you also see this. The LGBTQIA+ movement was orchestrated by the racists in order to be used as a COVER for their racist behavior. If you notice, a White organization can't just call itself "White" anymore because that would be too obvious. So they have to choose another identity to focus you on...often along religious or sexual preference or political lines. So instead of seeing it as the White racist organization that it is....you'll see "Queer Association of Greater Boston" and assume it's about sexual preference and not racist policies. This also allows any criticism of the organization or accusations of racism to be DISMISSED as homophobic. Since the 60s, racist Caucasians have been looking for a "cause" of their own to be able to wear that would "shield" them accusations of racism, so they made up several little "protected class" groups that allow them to hide inside. "Excuse meeeee...... But how can I be racist when I'M a person of color too? My people are oppressed too!" Mzuri The trans rights movement has many causes but ONE of the reasons is because of the massive amount of sexual confusion that exists today...especially among a lot of young people (under 30). A lot of young people are inter-sexed, or HERMAPHRODITES because of hormonal disruption. Many boys think like girls...many girls think like boys. Many young men aren't fully developed and have breasts or wide hips....and many girls are growing facial hair and large clitorises. The foods and even water supply have been so polluted that it's literally changing and disrupting the body processes of so many young people. So now many of them don't know WHAT the hell they are. They don't know what category they fit in. Scientists saw this early on decades ago when the frogs and fish were growing male parts on the female animal and vice versa. They knew it would only be a matter of time before we saw the same among humans. So many young people are so confused, that instead of demanding that the foods and water and environment be CLEANED UP of these toxins that are disrupting them and turning them into freaks...their solution is to just GO ALONG with the changes.

Mzuri I do not care what other people do, I just wish they would keep it to themselves. And I don’t want to encounter any weirdos in the ladies room. Is that too much to ask? Absolutely not dear sister, and this is why I say I DO NOT support the Transgender movement. Now don't get me wrong..... I support the right of a woman to CALL herself a man and dress like one if she wants to. I support the right of a man to CALL himself a woman and dress like one if he wants to. It's all a part of freedom of expression. However when you try to MAKE ME call a man a "woman" when I don't believe it...now we have a problem, because you're infringing on MY rights. Also when you give a grown man the right to walk around naked with his goober swinging from side to side in a room full of females (including young girls) at the gymn or spa...as long as he IDENTIFIES as a woman....you're codifying PERVRSION. A lot of men who aren't even trans will take advantage of this and do it under the guise of being "trans" just to get a cheap thrill. I don't know why "trans rights" became part of the Progressive Agenda. It wasn't always that way but I think enough of them PAID the Democrat Party and certain Progressive circles enough to influence them to let them through the gates and sit down at the Progressive table. Now they play a prominent role. ProfD IMO, the last "tie" that bound black folks (those who identify as AfroAmericans to co-opt brotha Pioneer's term) As much as I'd like to take credit for the term, I can't. The term was coined before I was even born actually. Brother Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) coined the term in the mid-60s. Absolutely. Part of the code would be to identify the folks who are least constructive in our efforts to move forward. I've said for years that we need a major separation in the AfroAmerican community where the INTELLIGENT and DECENT Black folks separate themselves from the fools, thugs, and ratchets and organize among ourselves to first identity our common goals (like we're doing in this thread) and then set about ACCOMPLISHING them. As a community I know beyond a shadow of doubt that we'd make far more progress at a much quicker pace if we dropped the dead wait that has been slowing down and even holding back our community for decades. One of the reasons our community hasn't made more progress than it has is because too often the smartest and producers of our community have to constantly stop to help the fools and ratchets catch up and keep up.

Mzuri Ok....lol....I removed the picture of "Wanda". They've been putting Black men in dresses and lipstick since back in the 60s with "Geraldine". @nels ??? Conservative?