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I believe Hip-Hop music had a lot to do with embracing young white folks and making them more comfortable around Black folks to include what they say and do. Most white folks will *grow out* of their Hip-Hop phase as adults and assume their natural place in society. Those same white folks who were bumping Hip-Hop as young people will get jobs and start white families as adults. Every now and then, they'll blast an old Hip-Hop song when they're driving alone. Otherwise, around their family and friends, they'll be listening to Rock, Country or Pop music. Many Black folks who grew up on Hip-Hop music do the same thing. As adults, they listen to R&B and/or watered down Jazz. It would be hilarious if the white dude who yelled the racial slur was so drunk that he had a HipHop flashback; said *nigga* and FAFO and got his folks beat up.🤣😎

I have to say you critique and various comments about my personality and other had a profound effect on me. I think even Pioneer made a comment that actually had value for me. @aka Contrarian i feel a stronger affinity to your position since I am less interest in the outside world and more interested in the inner one. Which is making me se the falseness and certain realities in the external world. I also seem to have more synchronicities and magical moments. In addition just listening to people and them telling me who they actually are beyond the mask. I have said this before you are an unconscious Magician I have only met a few. So when you get to the other side pop into my dream and lets have a conversation,. If I am still interesting.

By the way, anybody that worked the job long enough to retire from it and raise a family is not “lazy.” You are human. Many people have driven themselves to an early grave stressing over this thing or the other worrying about money keeping up with the Joneses stressing over what other people think of them. During one of my first jobs out of school, someone from the HR department told me that their pension fund was quite strong because the average retiree only collected a pension for four years. Even in my 20s that stat alarmed me. I felt like there had to be more to life than being some corporate tool. 30+years collecting a pension and living comfortably— That is great!

@aka Contrarian, thanks for contributing your perspective, thoughts, opinions, zingers and insults, etc., to this coffeeshop on the internet that is AALBC. I always enjoy the exchange of perspectives regardless of whether we agree or not. That goes for each every one of you who contributes regularly. Of course, the coffeeshop would be incomplete without the hilarity that ensues from virtual dust-ups.🤣 Regardless of age, each and every last one of us is getting closer to the finish line than starting a new race. 😎

I Love You ❤️ Am I the only one on this forum who has ever met you in person? I’m still kicking myself for not spending more time with you that evening in Chicago almost a decade ago. Even when this picture was taken, you had been participating on the forums for 12 years! I think you’re the only person here who has firsthand knowledge of that guy named Thumper. After more than two decades of participation, here I believe other than myself, you have the longest tenure of any active poster. In my opinion, you have enriched this forum in many ways and more than any other person. You also set the bar high demonstrating what a 90+ year old person can do when it comes to technology, writing, keeping up with pop culture, politics, and despite a little cynicism maintaining a sense of humor. It is hard to imagine how quickly time has flown by and how fleeting life is. Happy birthday!