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I hear you Cynique. I see Colin in a different light now and will monitor his progress with less cynicism. Is Black Live Matters a "movement?" I think my real problem with Colin and even Black Lives Matters is that these two entities are internet memes to me; social media creations that are only as effective as social media allows them to be. But this, of course is my bias that may be clouding my judgement. Still, I will never, ever champion anything done on a corporate site that is purported to uplift us--because that is impossible.

Sure Pioneer the video sends all kinds of crazy messages. I completely understand why the Hotep crowd, the religious right, and prudes would be taken aback. This is Viola Davis time cover taken to another whole 'nother level. But Maybe it is just a fun video and ain't all that serious... How would you make the video differently? Would you have Minaj wear a burka?

@Troy No need for anybody to apologize about not keeping up with pop culture. It is a lot of vapid blather. I just follow it so i can hate on all the phony, air head celebrities, - and participate in the conversation when others discuss it. I've always tried to be a well-rounded person, conversant on a broad scope of subjects. This is a throwback to my 1950s up bringing, back when girls were always advised to be this way in order to hold a boy's interest. It was considered having a good personality. But it didn't necessarily work with guys who were more interested in loose girls with big boobs and fine legs.

)@TroyWell, i'm saying what sports pundits are saying about the players who have been chosen over Kaepernick. (notice i've finally gotten the spelling of name correct.) Kaepernick's back story is what gives him some credibility. He's a bi-racial child who was adopted by a white couple who are now very non-plussed by his demonstrations against racism. He apparently had an epiphany, "aided and abetted" by his girlfriend who is a woman of color, and he became inspired to embrace his black side. He may have gone overboard in doing this but i like how he is spreading his money around for black causes and how he has the courage of his convictions. I actually think he has accomplished just as much as the black lives matter movement which hasn't been very effective.

Pioneer is a "stick in the mud". Pop culture is not his strong suit. He's always trying to "intellectualize" trivia. Art imitates life. This video is not sending messages; it's reflecting what's already out there in the mix.

Malcolm X was very fond of saying that black people can birth albinoes but white people cannot produce a black offspring. Black anthropologist Frances Cress Welsing talked about white mutants being driven out of their black tribes and banding together and migrating north to cold climates. She also claimed, rather facetiously, that white mutants never recovered from being shunned and exiled and it's in their DNA to resent black people. I have a fair-skinned blue eyed slave descendant on my mother's side and a coal-black slave descendant on my father's side. My mother's father was born a slave but was freed as a child. My father's grandmother was born in slavery but was freed as a middle-aged woman.My father's mother was half Native American. Having a DNA test is on my bucket list and i better hurry up and have it done.

Who says that music videos can't be political and provocative ???

Why is it so hard to accept that white people are mutations of black people, a natural phenomen.. Every species has mutations that evolve into their own kind.

I really liked this month's newsletter! I didn't realize it was because it was shorter - I just liked the stories.

So far there's no evidence of this... what evidence does the NOI have? - Have you seen a drawing of this man or reconstruction? Are there remains? How old are the remains? What is the genetic make-up. The facial construction of early modern humans look nothing like anyone living today . Further people adapt to the climate they live in - we take on the phenotype of our environment. It's the environment that cause genetic mutation - this is why Y-DNA isn't reliable for tracing genealogy... It''s subjected to the the environment. That alone makes the NOI theory a bit suspect without evidence, that is. Again I'm not sold on there being in europeans or 'caucasians' in my family tree before I extended a branch to one. Any genetic memory of the place we call Rome would come from my maternal lineage -whose origins was about 80, 000 -104,000 years ago. As I mentioned they're not the oldest modern humans, according to genetic research they come from the oldest as they set up shop in East Africa. Your environment mutates your genetic code - so it could have been cooler in this area -due to the white Nile in Egypt that flows into the blue Nile in Ethiopia, Further, just because they set up communities in East Africa doesn't mean they didn't travel the world.