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  1. Obviously you love it, because it seems to be an object of your affection and attention. However to be precise..... It wasn't the statement itself that was incomplete, I just didn't quote it in it's entirety. I quoted the part I wanted to comment on....not being able to figure out HOW to break free from the oppressor. The second part of her statement....needing or wanting help to get us out of our oppression....most of us acknowledge and accept. Most of our people would GLADLY welcome somebody else to come in and do for them what we SHOULD be doing for ourselves, which is one of the reasons why so many call on Jesus. However the FIRST part.....not being able to figure out HOW to overpower your oppressor and break free from them.....is one very few of our people would ever admit to and have a very hard time accepting.
  2. There is still possibly 3 years left on the clock.🤣 Considering the amount of turmoil the current administration has undergone in 10 months since the 🤡 was inaugurated, the wheels could fall off the bus before the next general election. The question remains how much collateral damage will be done before the circus bus goes over a cliff or crashes and blows up. Maybe it just comes to a slow halt. Either way, I do not believe there will be another reality show POTUS. America has already experimented with a Black man. Right now, the country is being run by someone HB Barnum may have been proud. The next POTUS will be *normal*. Regardless of the administration in power, America seems to maintain its balance between haves and have nots by expanding the middle. Enough Americans are surviving well enough to keep the lid from blowing off. That's why there are no real protests of any *problems*. A civil war won't happen anytime soon either. I still believe the real threat is AI. It is not a different person to worry about. Race, gender, s8xual orientation, creed, etc., won't matter. People will either have a marketable skillset or they will have to go on welfare i.e. Universal Basic Income (UBI). The challenge will be determining who gets the UBI and how much they receive. The clown Elon Musk has already stated that in the future work will be optional and cash won't be relevant either. That's easy to say for someone in line to become a trillionaire. Young people will have to figure something out if the wealthy continue down this path. It would be a d8mn shame for them to be left with a dystopian existence.😎
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    They aren't going to fight White folks, even for a fellow Indian. Maybe if she said "Candy Man" 3 times, he'll come walking out of the nearest restroom in a long trench coat to save the day....lol.
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    ProfD One of those dudes looks like he could be the VPOTUS son. Lol, maybe from a PREVIOUS relationship with a White woman. Cuz' none of them look like they could have came out of brown skinned Usha....lol.
  5. ProdD This carrot would be a one-time payment similar to those pandemic checks. Ok, just as I figured...another gimmick or publicity stunt. Right. The net benefit is zero especially if folks are going to spend it on BS instead of investing it in something that actually makes more money And the REAL kicker is they're probably going to put up all kinds of limitations and exemptions on it to where half if not most people wouldn't even qualify for that money anyway. If you're a felon...can't get the money. If you owe back taxes....can't get the money. If you owe child support...can't get the money. If you have outstanding parking tickets...can't get the money. If you didn't vote Republican....can't get the money. If you aren't working...can't get the money. How tall are you? What was your highschool GPA? How long is your dick? Do you put rum in your egg nog? Lol.....any excuse.
  6. Troy Hummm that doesn’t sound right there are many ways to benefit a person than directly giving the money which has a high likelihood of being spent on crack. While that's true, why would I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure that out without knowing the person's background? It's much easier and more efficient (on my end) to simply give them some money and not judge or assume the worst in them. Why should you get Karmic credit for that? Why "shouldn't" you??? Even human beings have figured out that rewarding good deeds incentivizes MORE good deeds; do you think the Divine doesn't know this already? Why am I even arguing the point of this? As if there is some type of cosmic justice Are you atheist or agnostic? Now THAT'S an understatement.....lol.
  7. That is an understatement. Hummm that doesn’t sound right there are many ways to benefit a person than directly giving the money which has a high likelihood of being spent on crack. Why should you get Karmic credit for that? Why am I even arguing the point of this? As if there is some type of cosmic justice 🤨 @richardmurray do you type all of your responses from a computer keyboard? They are very long. I was just curious I dictate most of mine, including this one. it’s far from perfect.
  8. richardmurray In your experience it seems black people who are , what some call, devout, gardless to the religion they adhere to, fit a lifestyle model you accept as positive. ok I didn't say "gardless" or "Regardless" of their religion...lol. I specified CHRISTIANS. There are Muslims who are devout who believe in KILLING people who disbelieve or reject the faith. Most Hebrew Israelites tend to be very devout and quite HOSTILE to people who disbelieve in their faith also. That's not to say there aren't Christians who believe in doing the same thing, but among most AfroAmericans....most devout AfroAmerican Christians aren't violent. Hey brutha Rich, if you don't mind my asking...how old are you?
  9. @ProfD that isn't true in the usa. 1980 was when slavery ended in the usa. it isn't about the laws it is about the environment. The great tragedy of tulsa in my view is that black people living today will say the black people during tulsa's time were free, but that is freedom? yeah start business, go to college, and at any moment the white populace could wipe you out and every single municipal level from the federal government to tulsa city council would be in on the coverup. that's freedom? we weren't free in our choices. MLK said it best himself. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/356-mlk-jr-day-good-news-calendar/ what non humans are you referring to? nonhumans trust nature to do that. they don't do that. I know exactly what happened, in one of my posts posted or one I have set up but haven't had time to share, the chinese government allowed the sale of the extra children illegally, meaning illegal in chinese law like when the usa federal government allows illegal immigration, through traffickers who made a fortunes selling chinese kids to white people all over the world, who were not orphans. The chinese government shut the majority of traffikers down, using some of the biggest offenders as scapegoats, ala madoff in the usa similarly PLUS opening up the child allowance. To me the traffikers made the mistake of thinking this would last forever. that is a foolish hustle to think will last forever. I know that in eastern europe the traffiking of blondes is big to all the rich asians who are looking for.. various things, but they don't go too far, or the governments will step in. The governments already know all the crimes but they all allow certain levels of all crimes under a cap or within some limit. Some chinese traffikers got too greedy, were too confident governments wouldn't step in. @Chevdove Well the issue is centrism. Many, not most, black people want to be centrists. It is the old adage, I married a white woman, went to harvard, live in the hamptons, but I am blacker than black still. Many Black people in the usa, and definitely descended of enslaved fear the internal shame, not external, of being a white agent. The slave revolts prove, most black people have a distrust of black people who have a positive or more positive relationship with whites or the usa but how else can a black person succeed in the usa absent a positive relationship with the usa or whites:) So, it becomes an impossible task. But one many black people venture to, and thus modernity. As I have said in this forum many times, most black people want black betterment but the problem is the intricacies of how said black betterment is defined. As frederick Douglas said, https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/418-frederick-douglass-our-composite-nation/ Profd + Pioneer say today. It isn't a new thing. The problem is, nonblack peoples actions have always made it very challenging for a majority of blacks to trust nonblacks or the usa. And absent trust to non blacks or the usa, a black person tryin the middle will never be trusted by most blacks. This is why I try to emphasize black people in tribes do more in those tribes. Cause most in any tribe are similar thinking so the trust is there. If a black atheist goes to a black church it will be very hard to regale on anything.

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