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  1. I concur equal pay for equal work.. Name them? True Today....who knows what tomorrow brings Question are these cooking and cleaning Jobs paid work? Originally only the rich got married....as in Arranged Marriages to ensure the security of wealth status and class - Power Marriage among the common people was is set up to benefit the Male Party in the relationship.....this is rapidly changing. Today Romantic Marriage is based on a couples love for each other....as women begin to enter the work force the Need for a Man was replaced with the Want for a partner This has not been my experience. One of the reasons you do not see so much videos of white doing "stupid things" on youtube may be because it often does not turn deadly or no one is arrested and or charged.....in other words the Officers are more Circumspect and Prudent. - Restrained. I would never support the enslave of anyone. White Slavery is rampant in America.....It's now call Sex Trafficking - Pimps come in all colors and sexes. Those trafficked come in all colors ages and sex. We are free to live where we please...afterall we continue to make it better for everyone Were???? what happened to them?!?! So you are Black Why so hostile toward your fellow Blacks? Not to worry that still happens today... Since the Fall of Matriarchy women have been considered property....Misogyny Many blacks today use the Racist system against their fellow Black......are you one of those blacks? When you live in a racist system it is easy to be socialize into becoming an oppressor....the system will reward you if you oppress the maligned marginalized and neglected.
  2. Lol..... I knew what was going to happen and STILL ended up laughing. What's up with the other grandson sitting on the other side of her rubbing her back but wasn't doing a damn thing but nodding his head in support.....lol.
  3. I will try to find a photo of the eclipse but it will not be visible in north america i think
  4. Does that mean you might wear a frilly blouse for a woman.
  5. @Goldsteinberger you obviously have not read the entire conversation. Consider reading everything that @frankster posted on this subject. But given the fact that you "don't even care why at this point," means you probably won't. It also reveals you are satisfied with a superficial and biased understanding of the subject and, as a result, know very little about it. But your ignorance has not stopped you from making unfounded declarations. We live in a society where people don't care to understand, but worse some are aggressively rejecting attempts to educate others. Municipalities across the old slave states, in particular, are actually preventing educators from doing their job by banning books and preventing the teaching of the truth by deriding it as "woke culture." Since you are beyond querying deeper by asking why, you'll never understand any of this. We can agree on one thing; debating you on this subject would indeed be "silly."
  6. @richardmurray your comment was on topic and on point. It looks like that was the actually the name of the song. I'm sure I have the CD laying around here somewhere, I guest I never read for forgot the tunes name. Zora never saw the publication of Barracoon due to her unwillingness to change the written way the formerly enslaved African Lewis spoke. Hurston's "translation" was readable and understandable. "Falettinme" seems more like being playful that an accurate representation of Black English which I one might write as "fa lettin' me." 😉
  7. @Pioneer1, there is no shortage of individually successful AfroAmericans who have taken responsibility to ascend the ladders and cross the bridges to wield varying degrees of power. AfroAmericans have come a long way since the 1960s. At the same time, there is no shortage of dysfunctional AfroAmericans too. For a number of reasons, some folks just can't or won't get right. Nobody should have to put their lives and careers on hold in order to help people who have no desire to help themselves. Survival of the fittest. Black politicians as elected officials do have a responsibility to serve their communities from the poorest to the wealthiest. That is the job they signed up to do.😎
  8. I saw a cow enter a temple no one was concerned. However once in aa Tuk Tuk my driver whacked this cow with a stick. I asked, "I thought cow were sacred?" His reply, "Not all cows." So there is a caste system even for cows.
  9. Of course this has always been the case. White racists have been dupped into believing the most marginalized people in this country are the problem. One would have thought after seeing 600,000, mostly poor white people used as canon fodder to defend the wealth of the oligarchy things would be different today. White boys are beat by the police too, but that does not work with the narrative, so it is ignored. White men are frustrated. The are committing suicide at record rates, addicted to opioids -- their life expectance has gone down in recent years. The anger of racists is misdirected. Again this is by design, but since this is not taught in schools. A poorly educated population is easily distracted, manipulated, and abused. The protests against the war in Vietnam, in reaction to all the senseless loss of life, was one of the few times white boys recognized they were being abused... Racists never learn. It is astonishing white racists continue to believe Black people are their problem. The same ole tricks continue to work.
  10. This crazy video showed up on my channel and caught me off guard. I thought it was pretty funny though. Grandma gave the Jada Pinkett glare and off went her grandson...

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