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  1. Black folks have the same problem all over the planet. They have to decide whether they're going to serve their own greed and self-interest under the system of racism white supremacy or work to overthrow and replace it. Africans aren't exempt. In fact, they might be worse having a whole continent and not controlling it from top to bottom. Instead, a handful of them are *selling out*. They're being oppressed by remote control. Look no further than a country like Nigeria where a handful of dudes brag about being rich but they're driving luxury cars and trucks on pothole-filled streets and spraying money from helicopters. N8gglets just can't get right nowhere.🤣😎
  2. Told you they'd pull some shit out their asses at the last minute. Some fake ass "deal" they were planning to propose all along but needed an excuse to implement it. Some MANUFACTURED CRISIS to get the people all panicky.
  3. 🤣 @Pioneer1 I believe that you are flirting with me! You are too much, you made my day!
  4. White folks have been sounding the alarm about the world is ending and that humanity is coming to an end for THOUSANDS of years. Even back during New Testament times you had folks running around half naked with their hair nappy and beards grown out screaming and yelling that "The Kingdom of the Lord is at hand....the End is near!!!" "Repent! Repent! The kingdom is at hand!!!! The end is nigh....repent!!!" And that was THOUSANDS of years ago. NOW look at the fool: "Well.....I thought it was near......." With all of that shouting and warning....their bodies are just a pile of bones somewhere and the world STILL hasn't ended. 2000 years later people are STILL running around on this planet fighting eachother and acting a fool. People ain't gone nowhwere YET. With all of the gloom and doom folks are still getting drunk, having sex, pushing out MORE babies, and doing what they want to do. Now you have a NEW group of White folks running around trying to scare you. "Hey Josh....look'it! The edge of this iceberg is 10 decimeters shorter than it was last year! The world is surely coming to an end! Humanity only has 10 more years left...at the most! Sound the alarms! Put it in the Wallstreet Journal and on CNN! Everythings about to end pretty soon!!!!" Many of them CLAIM to be atheists. So hell, if they think humanity is ended and there is no hope...why are THEY still hanging around here and sounding the alarm? Why don't they fuck all the women they can, get drunk, and then jump off a damn bridge somewhere and die happy? They won't do that, but instead what do they do? .....they go to school, getting married, and having children THEMSLEVES....bringing children into a world they CLAIM is going to end pretty soon. Why? Because THEY don't believe the garbage they are pushing on the rest of humanity, themselves. Stop letting these white folks scare yall with their false religions and NOW their false science (which is really just another false man made religion). The Earth will be here and HUMANITY will be here and THEY know it.
  5. richardmurray 🤔 Thank you for this song, I actually find it very interesting for a number of reasons. I didn't research it but it sounded like it was recorded in the 50s and I've noticed a few observations of the lyrics: 1. Sam is talking "jive" to Jimmy's wife This lyric suggests that even back in those days it was common and even comical for men to mess around with other men's wives. I wonder how common WAS this in our communities back in the 50s? 2. People were having fun and "high" at the fish fry Although it doesn't necessarily refer to being high off of drugs, the fact that he puts people being "high" in a song lets me know that people back then were aware enough about what it meant to be high. It makes me wonder how common were drugs and getting high at that time. 3. The party was raided by the police Makes me wonder how common was it for Black parties to be raided by the cops back in the 50s. And why....or what excuse was given...for these raids. 4. People were carried off in a "Black Mariah" This really got my attention because just a week ago I was listening to someone....it may have been Tariq Nasheed but I'm not sure....who said that police paddy wagons used to be called "Black Marias". I didn't pay it too much attention until it was mentioned again in this song and I took this as confirmation. For decades I hadn't even heard of the term "Black Mariah" before...not even from the older cats I used to sit and listen to; and now all of a sudden I hear about it. You live and you learn. Chev I would love to visit too. If you do go, then please let us know of your experience! LOL...if you weren't married (or atleast didn't talk about your husband so much...lol) I would say LET'S GO TOGETHER. We'd sit there all day munching on greasy turkey legs and arguing over who the real Israelites and Caucasians are....lol "Guuuurl stop playing..... You know damn well Moses didn't sit up and write that shit!" But instead, I'll settle on your advice and take some pictures and maybe even a couple videos of the TLH if they let me next time I'm in Houston....lol.
  6. Chev I personally didn't notice it. But you know what....... I have firm convictions and standards for men and women....especially AfroAmerican men and women.....however those standards aren't based on Western chauvanistic and sexist values. I don't mind that the sistas names appeared first at all. Simone is more well known than Jonathan, and Rihanna is more well known than HER man too....so I see it as normal or natural. But even if the dudes were just as popular, it wouldn't bother me holding the sistas out front. Putting CERTAIN women on a pedestal doesn't bother me one bit. Women acting like MEN and trying to BE MEN does. Or men pushing women out to do the fighting and confronting does.
  7. @ProfD thank you for saying that the bill can't be called in. If you give your life savings to the local mob boss and get a deal to get interest, the mob boss will not be afraid of you even if he stop paying interest. The USA military is the answer , positively or negatively. @Pioneer1 In NYC many people still have years of unpaid rent. The problem Pioneer is the usa has an unlimited budget and can't have its debts called in, but it also wants to keep the illusion of financial honesty or sincerity.
  8. So it seems there are various levels of Truth. One level is the most convicted....in other words - Faith. Reality is What We agree on and is molded by the hands of Conviction Can you elaborate? This base on the Idea of OverSouls.....Anima Mundi. Humanity has a Archetype to which all individual Human beings are but a part. As such there is a level at which we are undifferentiated....At that level deception is Impossible. Echoes of this Oneness is experience when we can tell by looking ....exactly what someone else is experiencing by their expressions(tells)
  9. I understand your point of view. I realize you're not impressed with the readership here. Again, I'd be slightly curious to know what makes you come back to this particular discussion forum.😎
  10. OK. But, I'd be slightly curious to know your reason for trying to pick up women in a bookstore.😁 If you were looking for a *smart* woman to be your wife or significant other, a bookstore could be one spot. But, I would think a university or college campus would have provided access to *educated* women too. Otherwise, if your objective was to find a woman to smash, there were plenty spots besides Barnes & Noble.🤣 Overall, you're right in that most people have to find their lane(s) when it comes to making those connections. However, the shortest distance between two points is still a line. Be direct. Saves a whole lot of time, energy and resources.😎
  11. richardmurray That was quite a history lesson you dropped up there! Thank you sir! Chev Mussolini did not have a problem being a supremacist! Later, he joined up with Hitler. It should be understood that many if not most Italians (especially in the north) actually ARE White folks. Just as White as Germans, English, or anybody else. And people like Mussolini appealed to them because his fascism promoted a "cleansing" of the nation of it's darker people. We don't have to point at the Italians, we can talk about how many brown and even Black Latinos hold "white supremacist" ideologies! The dude who just shot up a shopping mall right outside of Dallas killing multiple people was a tan Latino who swore allegiance to the Nazi party and promoted "white supremacist" beliefs. Going back to WW2....not only did Hitler have Mussolini on his side but even had TOJO of Japan....and Japanese man...on his side. Like him, Japanese are nowhere NEAR White but they try their best to side with White nations against their yellow brothers. If most Jews were ALMOST White and Hitler didn't like them, I don't know WHAT the hell he or even Musollini were thinking...lol....but they didn't care.
  12. @Chevdove ...OMG, these are HILARIOUS!!!! Got me laughing so hard that I'm slobbering! OMG, my stomach hurts! Reminds me of the 'where my Vaseline at! days...ROFL! WE BACK IN BUSINESS, BABY!! These are great! Thanks for the laughs!!

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