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@Pioneer1Hummm. i just noticed this latest example of everybody's favorite strawman making irrelevant false equivalencies, - as usual. But at least you didn't accompany your conundrum with another picture of yourself in drag, babbling away. Although i must admit your female alter-ago really captures your essence; especially when it comes to babbling. (Tyler Perry/Medea would be proud of you.) Your duality does your afro-americoon image great justice. Taking on a female persona becomes you. And i will give you your props by reposting your picture. pioneer showing his true colors

Chev Yeah, and crouched down with her hands curled looking like a monkey. Barefoot and looking at her hands from side to side like some animal caught in a trap. Looks like something off of Planet Of The Apes. That's what that jumpsuit reminded me of. Maybe they were trying to show support but........I didn't care too much for how they did it. But I LOVE my man GoBlack2Africa! I watch his shows and get a lot of inspiration from his travels.

I already am I haven't look at 2023 although I am sure it would be more challenging than 2022, unless you adapt. Although I feel this will be a very good year for me. There are a few things percolating. I have been going more deeply into my experiments with time. I also have a Saturn Return. Which happens every 30 years or so. I am doing some meditation and magical excercises. I can't speak for everyone but for me I am certain time doesn't exist. What we call time is simply the movement of objects. Which we correlate with some counters, then we use other counters to check the accuracy of the counter. However the real arbiter of time is the Sun and by extension the seasons. In Australia the sesaon start at the beginning of the month not close to the 21st. Which is when the Sun enters the cardinal sign. Which are the following months Mar Jun Sep Dec. A day is from sunrise to sunset, which is the rotation of the earth. A week is one phase of the Moon The month is a day or two less than the revolution of the Moon. A Year is an orbit around the Sun. So I say that time time doesn't exist, but the measurements of clocks are informative no matter the type, analog atomic or Astrological. I find only goes quickly if I am working on a project.

I learned something new today! Thank you @Stefan

Troy sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. I am 54 years old. I'm a factory worker. In college and as a young adult I was involved in activism and protest for racial and social justice.

She was closer than you were bruh.🤣😎

We shouldn't be giving them any money to fight a war they have no chance of winning. Oh...that's right..the US by proxy got them into that mess. 🤣😎

Yep. Majority party in Congress gets House Speaker. That's Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is the Minority Leader. Democratic Rep. Katherine Clark is the Minority Whip since Rep. Jim Clyburn stepped down. GOP Rep. Steve Scalise is the Majority Leader. GOP Rep. Tom Emmer is the Majority Whip. Those positions are important because House Speaker is 2nd in line as POTUS in an emergency. 😎

Probably because we are trying to combat by boredom by filling all of our available time. When I take public transportation nearly everyone is on their phone. I have also seen a few people having conversation while texting. Or scrolling through tik tok clips and then texting. So while we are filling the time I don't get the sense that it is fulfilling. The availability of something doesn't make it feel more precious. So we are stimulated more but we may be reaching our saturation point. We are living in the age of instant. So everything has to be done in minutes. If our clip doesn't load instantly we are annoyed. So technology has acclimated us for instant or near instant gratification. Which also means we have to do everything quickly. A good example is binge watching. We can get to the end more quickly. However like sex it's the journey and and anticipation that is thrilling. The ending is literally anticlimactic.

Yes, you are confused. Hakeem is the "Minority Whip" - as in the guy who leads the Democrat congressmen.

Chicago activist, Ida B. Wells, journalist, and charter member of the NAACP, much to the chagrin of the men who wanted the females to stay in their place and do secretarial work, protested tirelessly at the risk of her life to keep focus on the lynching of black people in America. And she did this to the day she died in 1931. Chicago cherishes her legacy and her most recent honor was having a main thoroughfare named after her. Black women have always been in the thick of the battle.

Thanks for that @Stefan Your story explains the importance of books in a meaningful way. I will reference your comments when I share information about the book (after I get my copy). Ginzburg's book was first published over 60 years ago and is kept in print by Black Classic Press. They too understand the importance of books even obscure and old ones. 100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg Publication Date: Nov 22, 1996 List Price: $14.95 Format: Paperback, 270 pages Classification: Nonfiction ISBN13: 9780933121188 Imprint: Black Classic Press

It's a great question. I've asked myself this scores of times. I don't believe It will ever end. And the reason why is because the god of the ancient Israelites allowed Slavery, mass slaughter and tiered social strata. So, why wouldn't adherents of that god accept the same principles to guide their behavior?

Apologies, Chevdove. I meant Sunset Laws. Such rules meant Blacks and other groups of non-Whites were restricted from being seen in certain towns and counties after dark. While many could work, transit goods, even toil as house cleaners, stable hands or handymen and maids in the daytime, they had to leave when the sun went down. It's how lily White counties, even large portions of certain states - remained all White. Believe it or not, some locales still have such laws in place and they are enforced unofficially. Sundown Laws are often misconstrued with Sunset Laws because they are basically the same - when it comes to race. But Sundown laws usually place an expiration date on public study groups that use taxpayer money. The Jan. 6 Commission had an expiration date. How to battle racism in the future? The most important way is to stop ignoring it which so many on these forums are wont to do. I could not believe that some on here in the past actually claimed that there is no more White Supremacy. Which is absolute bullcrap. Sundown and Sunset Laws were part of White Supremacy

It wasn't really about self reliance or independence Booker T. Washington was trying help black people survive in a hostile violent social setting. He and his white audience knew most black people didn't own land or a business and never would. The lack of resources and violent white opposition prevented that. Washington helped himself and black people by stopping black protest and any criticism of Southern whites treatment of blacks by Northern whites. He knew that and white people did too. After the violent suppression of Reconstruction and its attempts at legal equality for blacks, whites in neither section of the country were supportive of racial justice. They wanted tranquility and commerce with each other. Any demand for black rights like the struggles by unions and agrarian populist for economic justice had to be repressed. Booker T. Washington was brilliant hard working former slave who built a successful black school. He was just what the white power establishment needed to shut blacks up about rights and equality. I can't get on board with his rhetoric, but I completely understand it. Survival and making the most of hopelessness is what we have always done. But regard Washington with a critical eye.

@ProfD, I'm old enough to recall the days when men were men and women were women, so to speak. The gender roles were well-defined. However, things have changed. I think the benefits offered to nonbinary people have been good for those people. And the complete liberation of women is obviously a great benefit to women. However, these changes have created confusion about what it means to be a man in contemporary America. I think the changes have been even harder for cis-gendered, heterosexual Black boys. These young men, especially those under 30, aren't performing as well as the girls in school and ultimately in the job market. It has always been hard for us. In my day, growing up in an all-Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood, all of my primary school teachers were Jewish women (two were Jewish men, one of whom was ultimately convicted of pedophilia). In all of my school years, I never had a Black male heterosexual teacher -- that includes 8 years of college! I don't think this is a good thing, on a variety of levels. Again, because of the nature of the media anyone inclined to point out this problem is marginalized and ignored. Sidebar: I heard Umar Johnson has secured a building for his school 😉

Well, as an old alpha-male, I hate the changes I'm seeing in the decline of masculinity and chivalry especially among Black men. 😎

Of course, it depends on the person, but culturally the man is usually expected to take the lead. The woman can smile or make her interest clear but it is the dude the walks over and offers to buy the drink. I do appreciate that is changing for the younger generation.

Only if the pool is restricted to peers. Eligibility increases if an individual is willing to cast a wider net in terms of age, demographic and expectations.😎