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To even consider paying for that is beyond ridiculous and another slap in the face of AfroAmericans. Ben Mumble Crump should be making a beeline to the White House to get our gotd8mn reparations. 😁😎

I hated certain teachers on my team. The other science teacher was a long time tenured White man and he did mot help me at all but whatever... I passed my nationsl teachers exam with above average scores so i did my own 'thing'... I had to teach 2 subjects as new teacher. So i walked in and sat diwn in back of other team teachers. Quietly they handed me a printout of our student's math end of year exam scores... 1=fail 2=low 3=average 4=highest above average. My mouth dropped open---can this be true!!! My eyes enlarged. I slowly looked up and all of them were staring at me! OMG! All of my Black boys scored 4s with only abt three that scored 3s. I had 2 math classes with a Spanish male an Indian male a Jewish male and about 6 girls out of abiut 60 students--- YEAH It was the first year that svhool made Governors Report Card score RECOGNITION. Governor Mike Easley because of my students. So I love this thread!

@DelRegarding your current deconstruction of time, to me and some others, it seems as if time, or what I perceive as time, has sped up. Tempus fugit! It's like we just celebrated the advent of 2021 and in a blink of the eye, the year is almost over! This perception trickles down into other representations of time in my life. I identify a day as being Monday, and then before i get oriented, it's the week-end! Just recently, I lost a whole day! When I was getting my recyclables together to put out on what I thought was Thursday, my daughter informed that it was Friday. My advancing age probably has something to do with this and the fact that I have no schedule to keep. I am inundated with free time. Trying to encapsulate this thing called time into a calendar is, for me, an exercise in futility and I am at a place now where day and night are all I observe. In between them, I am in limbo. I live around the clock, sleeping off and on. Yet, never before have I so appreciated the concept of time not existing. Accepting this is liberating. Instead of my time running out, i'll just make a transistion. For the last 5 or so orbits around the sun, i have made it a point to be appreciative of the seasonal changes, telling myself each one may be the last I enjoy on this earth as I soak up the warm weather, or watch snow fall - and the next thing I know, Wheee! I'm in the midst of another summer or winter! When i was young, it seemed like it took forever for my expectations to become a reality. Now I have to catch up with what I was expecting because it is already upon me. So, I have just surrendered to an existence where one day merges into another. My clock is just a set of numbers especially this time of year when, for instance, it displays 5:00. If drowsy, I have to orient myself as to whether it's 5 o'clock in the evening or 5 o'clock in the morning. My TV is always on, - a connection to the world, and whatever program it's showing will help to determine what hour it is. Posting on this site can often be perceived as a waste of time - if time existed. 😉 Late at night if I shift into another zone, I actually feel as if I am levitating, defying gravity. If my room is dark, I often have a sensation of transporting. It's like I become a personification of E=mc². I feel special to be able to observe all of this which, in the context of quantum physics, makes it exist. Me and my spiritual alter ego are appreciating the wonderment of it all. Well, Del, I have a hard time processing your dissertations on time markers and symbols but it's starting to make more sense as I high-jack your excursion into the mystery of time. So, give me a good date to dissipate the muck the seeps into some of my cyberspace sphere of activity. 😁 BTW, now that the weather has turned chilly, I won't be going out sky gazing as much. But I will, at your recommendation, just try to hear Jupiter in between my heart beats. Oh wow! It's that time of the year! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

************************************************************************************ Why would you pay illegal aliens anything while we have U.S. citizens that need all the help they can get. This President is the WORST. Biden Considering Awarding $450K Per Person to Families Separated at the Border ************************************************************************************

No. The real question is why is the US quick to pay everyone else it has wronged except the ADOS. I have a table reservation. I'll have broiled shrimp stuffed with crabmeat, a loaded baked potato and broccoli. Hold the compassion and empathy. I'd like a pitcher of your finest Haterade. 😁😎

Were. They. Having. Bible. Study. Or. Christian. Prayer. When. The,Demonic. Dog. The. Murderer. Came. In. And. Murdered. The,People. In. The. Church? Their. Christian. Faith. Did. Not,Protect,Them. .They. Said. They. Forgave. Him. So. Why. Do. They. Need. Money. ? Christianity. Is. White. Supremacy.....

My ideal job is doing readings remotely . All I need is a laptop and a communication link. I have a growing body of clients who I have never physically met.

I remember reading about that incident when it happened. They didn't let him get killed though. 😎

Agreed when I get emails I'll sometimes reply the reaction is universally positive. People say they understand, but I'm not sure if it translates into changed behavior. Actually I had not considered the fact that the post was straight up spam (I did not check). I usually allow these posts if the book looks legit (book cover image and useful description, but I'll remove the hyperlink to Amazon. Did y'all know, that Amazon does not allow links to other sites? Did y'all even notice? Amazon is the antithesis of the what WWW was supposed to be.

Oh d8mn... Let me go trolling a black-owned site with my BS. 😁 As we say in the hood...f8ck outta here slim. 😎

This is true, in fact I'm one of these people and have been living this lifestyle since 2008. I still teach a college course in New York City and have not set foot in Camaous since March of 2020. In the program I'm in, here in Oklahoma, Tulsa Remote, one of the requirements for participation was being a remote worker. There are about 1,000 people in the program today. There are programs like this all over the country. The pandemic has only accelerated this lifestyle. Who knows, but the percentage of people who are doing this is probably much higher than you think. There is also a percentage of people, who would not like this lifestyle and would never do it. But it is indeed a lifestyle that is continuing to grow. Imagine having a silicon valley salary but living the Tulsa.

Guest Franklin, what would it take for you to send people to a Black-owned bookstore to buy your book? Imagine if I went to your business and told people to go, not just to a competing business, but a competing business whose mission it is destroy your business. How can we talk about Black Excellence and do what you have just done? How about: NO more going to Black-owned Bookstores and telling people to go to Amazon How about that dear Brother? ------------ Sorry about that y'all, but I said that to illustrate a point. I get an email or a post like this every day. I even disallowed the use of the word Amazon this site (in "*" in the word Amazon is inserted by the forum's software) Even Black people who are purportedly supportive of other Black people, don't have a clue on how to do it. We have so much work ahead of us...

Right. Ties back to the picture you posted of n8gglets sitting around skinning and grinning with the former POTUS. Instead of photo-ops with politicians, AfroAmerican leaders should be all business when it comes to getting reparations.😎

I just mentioned that piece of trash murderer in another thread. I hope the multimillion settlement helps the families in their healing process. I also hope they use the money for greater good in preventing future tragedies perpetrated by white supremacists.😎

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Not exactly. We can decide how we move through space. We can't change the rate or the direction we move through time. However I have found that time has signatures. And we can choose when to start and this has an effect on the experience. For instance some days nothing works, you say you got up on the wrong side of the bed. There seems to be a daisy chain of bad luck. So my thought is that when you decide to start has a bearing on the outcome. I am finding ways to choose the best time for the optimal results of both internal and external states. What I am suggesting is we can choose the moment of time because , I have mapped the quality of time.

Really listening is a skill.

I think both the Kenosha police department and the sheriff's department need to be investigated by the Feds for why they were allowing those armed racist militias to walk around intimidating people. There are videos of Kyle walking around with the weapon and his hands raised and the cops riding right past him to arrest someone else.

I've heard of SANTA CLAUSE and the EASTER BUNNY too. But that doesn't mean I believe in them....LOL

It's not enough to spend MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of dollars flying racist sexist Afgans to the United States and putting them up in houses and giving them spending money to assault U.S. citizens . Now he's want to give MORE money away to non-Black immigrants to sweeten the deals he's already made.

I've been following this young brother around for a while now. He's extremely intelligent and wise for his tender age of 22.

ProfD I'm only illustrating that poverty has not increased over time. Yes, I know what you're saying. My point is...I think it actually has, but they're playing with the figures to make it seem like things are getting better. As we have already discussed, there's a reason for more homeless folks on the street. Closed institutions and shelters in favor of prisons. Right. Same people in poverty. It didn't reduce...it just SHIFTED from the streets to the prisons. Job opportunities and lower interest rates and inflated credit scores have allowed more black folks to take out mortgages. I think the lower interest rates and inflated credit scores along with the mortgage loan scandals prior to 2008 deserves more credit than more job opportunities...lol. Good paying blue collar jobs have been outsourced to other countries since the late 1980s. Robotics are taking over here in America. Facts The new blue collar worker is in a warehouse or driving around making deliveries. Otherwise, more folks are sitting in office buildings shuffling papers around. More facts. And both of those blue collar jobs you mentioned require LESS workers than an assembly line. 🤔So LESS blue collar jobs available...but the population has increases dramatically since 1990....so how does the poverty rate go DOWN with fewer blue collar jobs? Another reason poverty is down is because many folks who could be classified as such are shacking up and living with family members, friends, relatives, etc . Then I must give the same reasons as was given to the homeless to prison explaination. That means that the population in poverty hasn't gone down...or even remained the same. That simply means it has SHIFTED. From struggling alone....to struggling together. But the poverty rate remains the same. 1) why are there so many people living below the poverty line in a wealthy, developed country Because they need a constant supply of cheap labor. Both on the outside and in the prisons. 2) what can Americans do to lift their brethren out of poverty Another New Deal like Roosevelt had. 3) do people in poverty want a a better life and what are they willing to do in order to realize it Some do...some don't. But it's the government's responsibility to have the necessarily programs in place for those who DO want it to take advantage. The fact that poverty hovers under 10% of the population leads me to believe it's being managed like a business. I personally think the poverty rate is MUCH higher than that. Look at how many MILLIONS of people have recently been evicted for not being able to pay rent, and the millions who were just kicked off of unemployment. I think it's closer to 20% of the population or perhaps more. Mzuri The Census Bureau doesn't even have an accurate method of counting the homeless, they count people who show up for a meal somewhere, and then they try to count the people who live in tent cities and such. Clearly they are missing all the people that are sleeping in their cars and wherever. Then there's all the homeless people who have jobs, who counts them. 👏Exactly! You go to a Walmart in the morning and you'll see so many cars in the parking lot with people sleeping in them. Even many of their WORKERS are homeless and sleeping in their cars! But you have others who are just homeless and living out their cars in the Walmart parking lot and other parking lots. I don't trust most of these government statistics. At all. I don't either. These people are KNOWN liars with a reliable history of lying to the people. It's even worse than we thought, the article I linked below says that half of all American workers made less than $35K. That puts people squarely IN the poor category....even if they have no children. Unless they are living with someone taking care of their bills OR living in a very cheap area...$35,000 a year is BARELY enough to take care of yourself and live independently. Mr. Snarky Lol..... but what makes your arguments weak is that you based them solely on your personal anecdotes. In my opinion....if the person is trustworthy...that makes an even STRONGER argument. I'd trust the information coming from a person who has a reputation for being honest and telling the truth, before I'd trust it from a bunch of numbers and stats that come from who knows where. I'm not gullible enough to believe everything the government tells me. What is odd, to me, is that folks would completely reject the government's numbers in favor their clearly limited personal observations. Because a personal observation MIGHT be correct, or close to it. When the governments numbers might be completely fabricated. They have a habit of lying.

That is correct. Mainly wishful thinking on my part.😁😎

Sounds like some creepy cultish type of shit to me. Looks to me they already had the name ready and wanted to make the change and were just looking for the right excuse and opportunity to make the move.

I've heard of it. But I doubt that 90% of the population can actually make a living that way.

I have to stop lecturing and getting bogged down in the wonky details. It was interesting to hear her describe the fact that you can learn from anyone and that everyone is a an expert in something. I always believed that that is one of the reasons I want to hear other people opinions. I hear you. In the real world this is easy to do because these are boring conversations.

I am laughing at your response @ProfD but I am also infuriated at Pres Biden as an African-American DOS.

Excellent video. Right at an hour long but totally worth watching especially if one wants to develop better communication skills. I really enjoyed her covering the importance of listening. 😎

I've not heard if either of them but it was so refreshing to hear! I could tell you some stories! He is so right. They need to be taken out if that environment. I don't even know where to begin on this subject... Years back as a new teacher in an inner school district they threw me 'what they thought was a failure' in every sense if the word. That was a uppity school but was changed to accommodate lower income Blacks. The white people were furious and because i was new i did not know. So i had a classroom full of black boys that scored low. It was rough because i didn't get any support. However by the end of the year...SURPRISE... Early in the morning the principals as usual are called by local news to give exam results. I did my usual got out of my car walked to my classroom prepared to unlock door and was greeted by principal, a Black man. I thought nothing of it. Then I kept getting strange greetings all morning, teachers peeking in my door to say hi... I was like--What in the hell is going on? I was given a bad review earlier and felt so abandoned. But I knew 'my stuff'! I used my own money for xerox paper, dissection frog order, earthworm order, etc. Finally my team lead came to my door and announced team meeting for lunch to review our student scores...

I can't believe it. That makes no since imo.

Beyond the minutiae of who's being counted or not, whether its 38M or 50M or 100M people living below poverty, maybe we can agree that it's way too many people. Then, we have to ask the questions: 1) why are there so many people living below the poverty line in a wealthy, developed country 2) what can Americans do to lift their brethren out of poverty 3) do people in poverty want a a better life and what are they willing to do in order to realize it The fact that poverty hovers under 10% of the population leads me to believe it's being managed like a business. As mentioned in another thread, social services thrives off the poor, homeless and helpless. So does the criminal justice system and others.😎

Why don't you take your own advice. Mr. Snarky.

Is my point accurate regarding the homeless? That is what's stated on the Census Bureau document entitled, "How the 2020 Census Counts People Experiencing Homelessness" Which I posted a link to. On top of that, the Census takers only devote 3 days to the effort of counting the homeless, so I doubt they are getting accurate numbers. Besides not wanting the citizens to know, the U.S. government probably doesn't want other nations to know how abysmal things are here, and how mismanaged and clusterfucked the government really is.

@ProfD Thank you!!! @Pioneer1 Thank you much!!! Gosh! This is why I love this community! Thank you @Troy Believe me, you-- I understand. I think when we try to go back so far, back thousands and thousands of years and try to understand history, it is "extraordinarily complicated" for any one to understand because of so much deception and script manipulation. I might have to make a correction on this point because I quickly responded. I had meant to go back and address this. However, I can comment now a little from another reference point: [1] Because the Israelite day changed about 4000 years ago, therefore the actual NUMBER is distinctly different than the actual DAY of the week-- I will explain in more detail. [2] Last year I wrote about the THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY and how it was THURSDAY and aligned with the Day of Ascension and this is one major confirmation of the actual day of Crucifixion. [3] The other major reference point is the beginning of the Passover--it is always on the 14th day and runs for 8 days. [4] The Gospel specifically pinpoints that particular Passover Crucifixion occurred on a HIGH SABBATH DAY, that means Saturday. So, these are some of the elements to determine the actual day. But I cannot remember right off hand whether it was Thursday or Friday. I will have to get back. [5] The other major point was the total Solar Eclipse that occurred, which means that it had to have been a new moon and this also is a factor in this ancient record.

I am focusing on having less pointless two sided monologues. Interesting so far

************************************************************************************ @Pioneer1 and @ProfD The Census Bureau doesn't even have an accurate method of counting the homeless, they count people who show up for a meal somewhere, and then they try to count the people who live in tent cities and such. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/factsheets/2020/dec/census-counts-homeless.pdf Clearly they are missing all the people that are sleeping in their cars and wherever. Then there's all the homeless people who have jobs, who counts them. I believe that the government fudges the numbers on those types of statistics so that things don't seem so bleak to the rest of us. As to those living in poverty, you can't just go by income because you have people making a good salary but for whatever reason they are still broke and living like they are poor. I don't trust most of these government statistics. At all. ************************************************************************************

Even the insults were tasty. @Cyniqueyou have all the time in your world. Fare thee well, Mr Neptune.

Yessir. It's great to see young cats like King Randall putting in that work. He's the face and voice younger folks need to hear especially when their parents are dysfunctional. Big up to Kwame Brown too. The NBA tried to ridicule and trash that brotha. He quietly took it on the chin and made his money like real G. Then, a couple thirsty n8gglets came for Kwame and what did they do but awaken a giant who they thought was asleep. I didn't know Kwame was keeping tabs on life to that degree. Kwame Brown has been putting simple, stupid azz n8gglets on blast ever since they tried to come for him. He tried to told them, I ain't the n8gglet to f8ck with but since you did...azz whuppin. Here again is the reason for my eternal optimism. There are young, intelligent black folks who are putting in work to uplift and empower our people. They just don't get as much shine as an athlete or entertainer. 😎

🙄 See....told ya. Yall THINK yall know Cynique....but you really don't, lol. Cynique I wasn't about to leave and make everybody happy Your leaving wouldn't make ME happy. I'd be disappointed. As if one of the toys that I like to play with got lost...lol. you sound like somebody who is using pioneer to make Troy jealous Well if she is....lol...I'll enjoy it while it lasts. I've been used a couple times to make other men jealous. By the time it was over....the women walked away wondering who REALLY got taken advantage of...lol. Maybe the guys will be lining up to kiss your yellow ass. but Don't underestimate what SOME Black men are willing to do to put their mouths on a yellow ass...lol "You wanna do what????"

We definitely need an online presence to stay on top of modern technology. However I don't want to see Black people putting the cart before the horse. Online businesses and investing are careers of REFINEMENT. These are careers you engage in when your INFRASTRUCTURE is already build, solid, and sound. The housing is intact. The plumbing is straight. The roads and fixed. The population is healthy. The basics of society is already established. Now you can go into your nice well built home..sit at your desk....and get online to engage in web-based activities. White men have a full well rounded diversity of men who can do these things. But if you're broke and homeless like a lot of our people are, with no construction or medical skills. You have to PRIORITIZE and focus on what needs to be done the most. Let's keep it real. The reason you, me, and so many of our people can get on the computer RIGHT NOW and mess around....is because White men are keeping things running. They are keeping the lights on, the heat going, the roads fixed, the grocery stores stocked with food, ect.. So Black folks don't feel any need to learn how to do these things. But when they run out...and all you know how to is swap currency on the internet....what are you gonna do?

@Mzuri is absolutely on point. Nowadays, fewer folks want to show up in a office building to work, restaurant to eat or store to shop especially if they have to see PJs, bonnets, sagging pants, azz crack, eyelashes, Crocs and catch COVID.😁 @Pioneer1, I know you're a proponent of brick and mortar businesses and folks putting on overalls, rolling up sleeves and getting their hands dirty. There is still a huge need for that kinda work too. But, it takes a vision and a considerable investment to make that happen. Jeff Bezos is proof positive. His business is predicated on both.😎

@Mzuri, obviously, we don't know each other from a can of paint and I'm new around here but as I mentioned, I enjoy everyone's contribution to the discussion. Regardles of our views and opinions, it's all about the dialog, jokes and laughter too. 😎

Troy I didn't take her post as a farewell. I took it to mean she's not going to engage with me or Mzuri any longer....not argue with us atleast. I don't BELIEVE it....but that's how I understood it, lol But I guess she can clarify...if she's still here. If I was Mark Zuckerberg, I would use my algorithm to prevent you from seeing Pioneers posts, but alas that is not possible. Problem is...she WANTS to see my posts, lol. Nobody is forcing her to interact with me or talk about me...she WANTS to do that. You're looking at things like a big brother who is concerned about his little sister going crazy chasing around some abusive dude who mistreats her. But that little sister is 35 years old and a grown woman who knows what she's doing and why she's doing it DESPITE how you feel! *And before Cynique says anything.....I don't mean "chasing around" as in sexually interested. I mean chasing around as in desiring the fun or excitement. Looking for friction....drama.

Not a total sidetrack bro as I think @Cynique enjoys stargazing. 🌌 Thought that planet discovery could be more interesting than another dust up.😁 I definitely enjoy reading Cynique's contributions to the forum. Same goes for every one else. Hilarious. 😎

@ProfD talk about side tracking a convo LOL! @Cynique We need your voice, don't let Mzuri or Pioneer impact your decision to stay or go. Think about Del, Mel, ProfD, and me 😞 Your brief return has renewed the energy of the forum. Some personalities have that power; yours is one. If I was Mark Zuckerberg, I would use my algorithm to prevent you from seeing Pioneers posts, but alas that is not possible. No matter what you decide, it was great reading you again 🙂

A Federal holiday is a day declared special by the U.S. federal government. A National holiday is one any nation on the planet may observe to celebrate it's independence.

She can identify herself however she wishes but a Black Irish is a type of white Irish person, not one of Negroid descent. Who were the Black Irish, and what is their story?