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Every once in a while, I say some funny $h!+.

As I mentioned in the other thread, among our small number of regular posters, consider it a pat on the back that you weren't challenged.🤣😎

ProfD They're still free. Well..... Free means unrestrained or unrestricted. Isn't a casket quite restricting? A dead body is SELF restrained...lol. Would you choose to be a slave to another man? You may find my answer appalling but, it depends. It depends what MY situation is at the time and what that man is TRULY (meaning he keeps his word) offering me in exchange for for my bondage. Does being a slave to a particular person offers far more benefits to me and my family than walking around free as a bird? I'm not some bearded White man walking around with an American flag tattooed on his chest yelling and waving "live free or die" flags and shit. That's a lot of dramatization and cosplay. I prioritize happiness and comfort over simple freedom. Especially when it's not real freedom to begin with.

And, of course, in the "Game of Thrones" TV series, the "Red Woman" brings Jon Snow back to life by speaking a spell!! 😮 I do believe you can weaponize words. Up until this past year I spent a lot of time on FB arguing with right wing conservatives and on those threads, out of all the anti-Trump posters, I would always be the one these MAGAs responded to because I infused my words with so much venom, this stung them. 😠 Speaking of stung, with the advent of freezing winter weather, village workers came and removed the dormant wasp nest from the now bare tree in front of my house. 😬

See, I don't think I'm getting enough credit for my prediction.

I called it, but where is the credit....lol.

Nobody I know uses the term "Afro-American". As far as I'm concerned, it is an obsolete label like - "jive-assed nigga". Over the past 50+years, "Black" is the most common word used when referring to America's slave descendants. Previously, Whites soliciously refrained from publicly calling us what was considered a derogatory term until we started calling ourselves that via the "Black is Beautiful" slogan embraced by the Black Panthers who took their cue from Malcom X. This all took place back in the late 1960s, and from that time forward we, as a people, proudly became "Black" with a capital "B"; going from an adjective to a noun. The idea of blackness being "a state of mind" also came about during this era, presumably to promote inclusiveness, especially since such dynamic activists as Huey Newton, Angela Davis, and Malcom, himself, were light-skinned. In the present, calling negroid Immigrants "African" suffices, because that is what they are, and nobody is confused as to what segment of the American population is being referred to when using that description. This applies to West Indians as well.