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  1. This will probably be my last post for this forum. The title is not a statement of me being ultra hotep or black nationalist. It is just a fact. Unless there is an event in the next 100 years or so that causes a catastrophic loss of life such as nuclear WWIII or the second coming of Jesus Christ (which both are very possible), black people will be in the majority on planet earth. Why do I say this? Humanity's population in general is decreasing, but this is particularly true of non-black races. People of white or European origin are declining rapidly. This is one of the reasons there is an increase in far-right wing white nationalism and white supremacist groups both here in America and in Europe. They use terms such as "replacement theory" and "white genocide" to describe their demographic problems. The population growth rate of Europe on average is 0.12%. That is below replacement level. The rate of growth in Britian is 0.40% In Sweden, its 0.6%. In Germany, its 0.0%!! In Spain, its 0.1%. In Italy, -0.6%, and Russia -0.4%. If these numbers are true, then Europe is dying. In America, the decrease may not be as sharp; but the white(non-Hispanic) has decreased from 74% in 2010 to 64% in 2020 to 47% by 2050. And that number is expected to go down even further. Hispanics and Asians are the fastest growing groups in America. But they might redefine who is considered white in the US. Believe it or not, Southern Europeans and some Eastern Europeans were not considered white during the 19th and early 20th century. Demographers may decide to reclassify such groups as Hispanic, Arabs, and East Indians as "white." Some Hispanics are white, but most of them are of mestizo or mixed-race origin. Arabs or Middle Easterners, on the other hand, are of the Mediterranean branch of the Caucasian race. East Indians are also of the Mediterranean subgroup but display strong Australoid admixture, especially the darker-skinned Dravidians of Southern India and Sri Lanka. The term Australoid refers to the aboriginal race in Australia. Some Dravidians and Veddoids in India might be related to them. Continental Asia is also experiencing a future population collapse. The population growth rate of Japan is -0.5%, which is below replacement. In large part due to the One Child Policy, China's population growth rate has shrunk to 0.1%. I understand that they have reversed this policy to allow women to have up to three children. North Korea's population growth rate is 0.4%. In South Koreas its -0.2%. Myanmar is 0.7%. Thailand is 0.38%. Indonesia's growth rate is 0.74%. The Philippines has one of the highest growth rates in Asia of `1.54%. This is next to India at 0.81%. China and India will be the most populus nations for some time to come, but their PGR(Population Growth Rate) is decreasing all the same. Lets go to the Middle East. In Algeria the PGR is 1.7%. In Morocco it is 1.0%. In Egypt 1.5%. In Tunisia, it is 0.8%. In Iran, it is 0.7%. Iraq is 2.7%. Syria population growth is 0.24%. In Turkey, it is 1.09%. The Middle East seems to have the second highest growth rate outside of Sub-Saharan Africa. la Next up, Latin America. The two largest countries in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, used to have very large PGRs. Today, Mexico probably still has one of the higher population growth percentages in Latin America but sometimes it is not very consistent. It is higher in some years than it is on others. From the 1980 to the late 2010's it ranged from the 2.0%s to 1.0%s. Today it is 0.75%. An almost identical situation existed in Brazil, the second largest country in the region. In 1980, Brazil's PGR was 2.38%. Today it is 0.75%. Part of this decrease is due to the fact that half of all the women in Brazil were sterilized to cut down the population growth. In Colombia, the growth rate is 0.41%. In Venezuela, it is 1.9%. Honduras is 1.5%. In Nicaragua, its 1.4%, and the Dominican Republic -1.1%. Bolivia has the highest birthrate at 2.5%. Uruguay has the lowest rate at -0.9%. Las,t but not least, Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria growth rate is 2.53%. Currently, the country has a population of over 200 million people. Demographers predict that by the turn of the next century it could be over 1 billion. This would make it the third largest country next to China and India. Niger has the highest birthrate in Africa or the world at 3.8%. Exponentially, that is six children for every woman of childbearing age. Mali growth rate is 3.16%. In Angola, its 3.24%. In Gambia, it is 2.5%. The PGR in Burkina Faso is 2.66% The countries that I just listed are the largest growing ones in the world. Phenotypically, these people are not just black the way Americans consider being black. Because we look upon people who are clearly mixed and sometimes damn near white as being black because of the one-drop rule. These people are truly black with dark skin, 4c hair, full lips, and wide noses. It is estimated that half or over half the world's population will be in Africa. This does not mean(despite the title of the blog) that black people will be the only people on earth. at least not for the next 100. There will still be non-black human beings on earth mainly in China and India, but their populations will be getting older while Africans will be younger. Economically speaking, it is where the youth is that counts. If the world last another 200 years, it might mark the first time since the Tower of Babel (I do believe in the Biblical account of creation and the evolution of races) that there might be one race of mankind. Many people believe that blacks were the very first people at the beginning of the world and could be the last as the world comes to an end. But what you have to understand is that in most developed countries that have moved from rural agrarian to urban industrial, the population growth generally tends to go down. This includes all of Europe, Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, China (even though some of them are Communists), and The United States of America. Sub-Saharan Africa, with the exception of a few large cities such as Lagos, Nairobi, Abidjan, and others, is largely Third World, rural, tribal, and undeveloped. Women in such countries tend to have more children than the ones in First World countries. However, if Africa becomes more developed and industrialized, the birthrates will begin to decline there as well. But, I hate to burst a few hotep and pro-black bubbles. . Although African countries do have high birthrates, they also have high infant mortality rates also. Even though the people are black, this does not mean that they are going unite and get along. We know that civil wars are common in some of those countries like South Sudan. There is a lot of rivalry and conflict among the different tribal factions. There is political strife between Marxist and those who are perceived to be loyal towards the former colonial powers. And there is religious tension between Christianity and Islam, both of which are growing at an equal rate. Of course, there is famine and widespread diseases such as Ebola which wipes out a lot of people. It was rumored that AIDS and Covid originated from Africa. But the birthrates are so high in Africa to maybe these factors can be offset. Finally, just because Africans might be a majority on the earth someday does not mean that they are going to control it. After all, South Africa had a black majority and it was still controlled by the British. Over a hundred years from now, white people may be on the verge of extinction but that does not mean that they will not still control the world. Let me explain. The few white people who are around at that time in America, Europe, and elsewhere will be some of the wealthiest people in the world. They will probably be trillionaires!! These families and individuals will be a part of the global elites that will have such wealth, power, and influence that they will literally have the global domination many of them have been seeking for decades if not centuries. No longer will there be poor or working-class whites. When these people are phased out due to low population growth, the white elite families will be wealthier because assets of the 99% will go to the very top!! This is the reason you see so many lower quality whites on the economic level at Trump rallies. Because even though Trump is a billionaire, he stands up to the globalist with his nationalist rhetoric. If you want some idea as to who these families are, just type in the Google search engine "the families who control the world." Remember, it is not the majority population that ever has the most power. It is usually the oligarchs who control the resources and assets who have it. And, they are usually in the tiny minority. This is true in both capitalist and socialist countries. There may be a sinister reason why population control is never implemented in Africa as in other less developed parts of the world. The world's white elites will be wealthy enough to buy back what China has invested in Africa and recolonize the continent again. If Africa is still an underdeveloped continent at that time, they could re-introduce slavery again. I do personally think that most of the world will be enslaved someday. That is because most of the world will be black. As a disclaimer, if the people of Sub-Sharan Africa start to take advantage of the vast wealth and resources of that continent (with the help of China), that would be a major game changer in their favor. Think of Wakanda in the Marvel Studio movie Black Panther. A Also, on a more positive note. African influence will be more prominent in terms of culture, food, music, and beauty standards. e
  2. @Pred007... And as for the vast majority of shootings are committed by gang violence, here are the numbers on it. Unless these gangs are shooting up their workplaces, you are sadly mistaken. Again, look up what you getting ready to say before you say it dude. Seriously it took me two minutes. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/public-mass-shootings-database-amasses-details-half-century-us-mass-shootings Locations of Mass Shootings Locations of public mass shootings, by percentage of all occurrences in the database, were: Location Percent Workplace 30.8 Retail establishment 16.9 Bar or restaurant 13.4 Residential location 8.1 Outdoors 8.1 K-12 school 7.6 Place of worship 6.4 College or university 5.2 Government or place of civic importance 3.5 With the power of the Internet at your fingertips, which, by the way, a black man invented the first search engine... It should be easy for you to know this information. The second attachment is some other Internet pioneers that are black that you probably didn't know. Two minutes of research dude... Two minutes of research... 🧐 SMH https://daily.jstor.org/alan-emtage-first-internet-search-engine/ https://www.childnet.com/blog/black-inventors-and-pioneers-who-have-influenced-the-way-we-use-the-internet-and-technology-today/
  3. @Pred007... Bottom line is until your numbers are zero you don't need to be on here making these statements about anything. Like they tell you when you get on the airplane, put on your mask first before you put on the mask of everyone else. Handle your business and then you can come talk to us...LOL
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    The U. S. spends billions of dollars in Ukraine and other places around the world but won't solve the problems in America.😎
  5. @Pred007... Where are you getting your information from? Please put up some links to this BS you are talking, because that's not what the FBI report says which ironically stops when a certain president was in office because it didn't ring the bell he wanted it to. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43
  6. @frankster You are wasting your time with these puerile racists. I have no doubt some may actually be Black, but they definitely hate and disrespect their own kind. More than two years ago, I posed a thread alleging that White Supremacy had not dimmed and was still lethal. I was surprised to receive blowback and opposition from several posters, one of which was Troy himself. This was the time shortly after David Duke and the Klan had been supplanted by Donald Trump and his myopic and racist “Make America Great Again” crowd. So, I began posting a series of news stories about horrible racist incidents and there were many of them. This was when I was greeted by a pure clown who called himself Nels. He began posting nonsense from right wing websites and the Washington Times, which used to promote Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. Nels was not the only one. The sad reality of many of these posters who attack the Black Race continuously is they ignore the multitude of micro aggressions that Blacks must contend with every day. Which are actually crimes of racial harassment. There actually is no shortage of really silly and illogical people in this discussion group. Which is why I spend much of my time on other forums where the writing is far superior and numbers of intelligent posters with logical and plausible explanations always defeat the racist crazies. All the best to you. @daniellegfny Good to see you, my man.
  7. This is very true.👏🏿 Black folks should be demanding a LOT more from Democrats instead of allowing them to 1) pander during election time and 2) deliver nothing when they' have power. However, the first thing Black folks need to do is come up with a real agenda i.e special interests to which politicians can be held accountable. Believing politicians are going to solve problems within the Black community has been an Achilles Heel. The Vice POTUS was supposed to be getting involved in the border crisis situation. Mainly to help countries solve the problems causing their citizens to leave. She seems to have disappeared from that effort. Meanwhile, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, that poor fella is floundering around like a fish out of water in trying to provide answers to the border crisis. The GOP led congress is two minutes away from trying to impeach him. Neither political party gives a d8mn about Black people. But, if Black folks are going to religiously follow Democrats, they should demand to get something in return. Even a trick expects to get paid.😎
  8. My suggestion of Blacks involvement is with the Continent wide struggle against White Racism... Blacks have a unique perspective often not shared or known by Continental Africans....We live in the belly of the beast. The Current struggle and ongoing violence in the Sudan is best addressed by through the AU..... for an immediate cessation of hostilities - AU PeaceKeeping Troops is our best bet...
  9. Someone tell me what the status is with the Green Comet. Can I take off this bent, folded and torn tin foil hat? I do not believe there are any aliens living among us. The vast distances between Earth and other stars is too much of a hurdle to overcome. And scientists and astronomers have concluded that the fastest an object with mass can travel - is the speed of light. But I do believe the Earth is undergoing major environmental changes and nothing can stop this from continuing. But no heavenly body, except the moon, can exert visible changes on Earth as it does with ocean tides. The sun can slam Earth with all sorts of radiation and geomagnetic storms as plasma erupts from the sun's surface. But unless it's gonna grow arms and yank our planet to its bosom, we're going to be okay.
  10. @Troy Thank you. Some common sense is finally brought to this issue. The mother did need to be arrested as well as the person who sold the firearm to her. I feel for her. My niece is a teacher for the hard-of-hearing. She loves her job and taught both her son and daughter to sign. Chevdove is a teacher. We do not need childhood instructors harmed. I don't remember being six, Troy. That has to be back in the Mesozoic Era
  11. Chevdove, thank you. If I lack facts, then I find some. Claiming one is posting a response to a crucial issue minus details or data is fine and dandy for many. But not for those who want a fully nuanced and credible retort. I had to look a several news stories and three websites of analyses before I hit my keyboard. And I'm still not happy.
  12. Six years old. What is that first grade? This little boy got a loaded gun from his house, safety off, carried to school in his Ninja Turtle back pack, pulled it out, aimed it at his teacher , pulled the trigger and shot her! Sorry, the mother, and the person she brought the gun from, should be imprisoned. Anyone remember being 6? How many people did you shoot to kill at that age. They better keep an eye on that little kid. He is dangerous.
  13. I agree that the only reasons they mother is being charged is because both her and her son are AfroAmerican so they can essentially get two birds with one stone. I figured the child was Black because they kept talking about it in the news over and over again and since they couldn't show the kid.....being so young.....they had to let the world know they were Black somehow; so they decide to show the mother as much as possible to let you know the child was Black. Not just in cases like this, but even in cases where mothers have suffered from the loss of their children these racist prosecutors often STILL end up charging them. Look at all of the cases where a space heater is accidentally knocked over and starts a fire killing nearly all of the children. They could care less about the guilt and depression and grief the mother is going through after just losing all of her children. Their focus is on getting the mother snatched up off the street so they can confiscate her belongings and even the house if she owned it.
  14. @Chevdove I will answer the question , how will Sudan get better? Elsewhere in this forum I asked about leadership in the black community in the usa, what type of leadership is majority in the black community in the usa and I realize the importance of starting there. Why? How any human groups leaders want to lead is what has to be improved. The people who aren't leading are all talk. The people who are , no matter their quality or style, are key. Cause all people's need leadership. Simply because you need someone or some group to take an idea and push it through all the individual desires in the larger group. What is the majority black leadership in the Black community of sudan? Generals. Ok. Generals are kings without crowns. Kings are generals with crowns. ok Generals do not go by rule of law, they go by rule of arms. Fine. The next question is, where are they failing in their leadership as generals + how can they improve? Well, I see two big problems for the generals of sudan. 1) they all seem to want it all but none have the means to get it all. Nothing is wrong with wanting to win all the spaces in the chessboard but you how long do you play stalemate? 2) none of them have the ability to gain external assistance to win the battle of generals, nor do they have an ally in a nearby general in kemet or aksum, commonly egypt or ethiopia who will aid them. How can they improve ? 1) The simplest but most vital thing is to develop a terms of long lasting peace. I didn't say elected government. The leadership of sudan or anywhere else, doesn't need to change styles but quality. If Rich runs the south east, then its time to make that official. If Troy runs the north east and Chevdove runs the central west it is time to make that official. All were doing is wasting time battling each other when we can't gain ground. None have the means to break the stalemate. So apply the lines on the map. Each general rules in their zone. And then... 2) be better generals. The funny thing about human history is most ideas have been tried, and have examples throughout all humanity of success or failure. The generals in sudan, you each have an army, but where is your logistical chain, where is your supply chain, what are the defenses to your domain? How is your internal management? What is the quality of your soldiers? what about your training for potential new soldiers ?many questions. I bet if I knew those answers for all the generals in sudan, my grade for the replies will be , poor at best. so each need to make a better army which will improve, infrastructure/schools/health. An army is to kill. But, an army kills better when it is fed better, housed better, clothed better, heals better, learns better.

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