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@Troy I like your site. It has a nice atmosphere. I do agree that we need more. But more importantly, we need to learn to embrace Black businesses, products, services, and yes... black websites too. As far as many brown Hispanics identifying as white, we got a lot of Black brown people who also identify as white, egyptian, israelites, indian and the list goes on brother. I do agree with you about race being more of a social construct. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. In this reality, race is used to control conscious Black social behavior. Think about it, if our people are messed up socially, then how can we ever get anything together on any other higher level? If we can't cooperate with ourselves socially, we won't be empowered enough to run anything else, not even our own businesses. Before I make my next point, let me say that I love going to Black businesses because they support me the most, and I get the feeling that the owners and people who work there see me more as a person than just dollar signs. Black businesses are also least likely to rip Black people off, despite many of our people exclaiming differently. They had a bad experience with one or two Black businesses and then so easily decide that Black businesses are the worst on the planet. Once upon a time when I worked with mortgages, surprisingly a Black woman called up and asked me if I was Black (I assumed she was searching for a Black person to do business with), but when I verified, she asked for someone white and told me of her experiences dealing with Black people and how she was preyed upon. No problem. I worked out the commission anyway and made more money on the deal than I would have made if I didn't send her to a fellow white coworker. But the point is, when we are racist against our own, it backfires every single time. Now I do notice that some (a very small number) of Black businesses don't value their Black customers. And to me, that's buffoonery and coonery. These same businesses who didn't value or treat their black customers like people are the same ones that will complain that Black people don't support them. I feel that we need to honor our businesses that look out for the people and make more of an effort to connect with our own, for the good of all Black people everywhere and humanity itself! Scientifically, there may only be one race, but in this reality, we have acknowledged racial, cultural and ethnic identities exist and that affects the fabric of our existence on this planet. I would love for us to be in a position someday where we can embrace everyone. But that day has not come yet. Until Black people learn to embrace themselves, everyone else will not respect us as a collective. We will continue to be looked down upon as a group and continue to be treated the worst. The first thing Black people must learn to do again is what everyone else does... embrace our own and stop trying to be content serving white people, or our race will be doomed forever.

I hear you man. It is human nature to believe something that makes us feel good or better. I was raised a racist I grew up believing white folks were evil and could not be trusted. How could it be otherwise. Everybody I knew, that was Black, lived in a ghetto, white people lived in fine homes had cars and did not have to deal with crime. At least that is the way it looked on TV... For some religion help deals with the evil we've been dealt, for others it is some brand of Black superiority, for me it is science and ideas which is why books are important and forums like this where people welcome their ideas being challenged are vauable. I used to buy more into the Black superiority thing, but not so much any more--it is no longer necessary. I never did buy into religion--even as a child..my brain simply does not work that way. I should not have said most hispanics are white. I was trying to make a point using sloppy terms. Your statement: Illustrates why I don't like using race. Scientifically there is only one race. When we talk about who is Black and who is white we really are left to our own subjective devices. As a result there is no definitive answer for who is white or Black. There is not genetic test for this either... Hispanics come in every color imaginable. Many brown hispanics self identify as white. Here in this country some people we would describe as white self identify as Black. Walter White and Jean Toomer look like white boys to me, but we embrace them as Black. Those racist terms have as many definitions as there are people. I shouldn't use them but it depends on who I'm talking to and the situation. I run a site celebrating Black culture as reaction to how we are treated. It would be nice if sites like ours were not necessary but as far as I'm concerned we need more.

@Troy It is possible that the article was written from an emotional perspective more than a logical one. Nevertheless, the findings speak for themselves. I only present a mere 'what if?' Could this be wishful thinking on my part? Yes, it very well could be. Once you read something like, https://www.nubianplanet.com/history/king-leopold-ii-heinous-barbaric-genocide-people-congo/ you start to want some revenge, much less, right in America, we faced https://www.nubianplanet.com/nubian/buck-breaking-heinous-act-purposely-erased-history/. Our history has been brutal. But you know what, I don't hold what happened in the past against the whites of today. As they say, they are not responsible for what their ancestors did. I despise them for how they still treat us even though they pretend that Black people have it the best and invented this illusion they call Black privilege to take the focus off of white privilege. Some tricky evil monsters. Am I racist? Perhaps, but the deeper question is probably whether or not I should be. Is it my dream to see white people magically die off and leave the planet to us? Nah, truthfully, I know better. The next people in line to rule the planet wouldn't be us. In fact, as it stands now, we'd be last in line to rule anything, and I am not convinced that the Chinese wouldn't be more brutal with us than white people are now. I honestly don't feel Black people are ready to rule the planet. I wish I didn't feel that way, but that's what my gut tells me. As far as Latinos being white, I think I would disagree with that. Not saying they are Black, but most have a higher mixture of Black. That's probably why they are socially treated about the same as Black people. Behaviorally, growing up around Latinos in the hood too, you can't tell the difference. I don't think this is all social behavior, but genetically imprinted behavior. Besides, I believe we mostly see white Latinos on media and in the states, but as I understand many of these Latin nations and countries are heavily imprinted with African Latinos. White Latinos are about as much Latino as white Indians. The report about unwed mothers is staggering and shameful. This also speaks volumes about exactly what's happening in the Black social construct. It is perhaps the biggest problem that we face as a race and culture. Cause these Black boys without dads around are now becoming grown. Not saying single Black mothers can't raise Black children, but my common sense tells me that's not going to work in Black people's favor.

From my perch overlooking the big picture, certain things seem apparent to me. Society is what it is. American culture, over the centuries, has sorted itself out into patterns that make up the hive. When assessing this , it is necessary to suspend all abstract notions about equality and justice and redemption. Race may be a nonexistent physicality but breed is not. Random circumstances give certain breeds advantage over other breeds, and gradually those with the ability to dominate, do this. Other breeds for whatever reasons are relegated to finding their niche in the mosaic of circumstances. Everybody can't be a winner in the game. Those at a disadvantage that Fate has dealt them, end up as "also rans". Individuals are left to get in where they fit in. The Negroid breed in America is fragmented and polluted and, as a force, has devolved into a state of inertia because of how others groups were able to impact on it. These societal patterns may very well have a parallel in the animal kingdom and the law of the jungle. In a more relevant setting, black people are consumers, and how bad is this? They let others do the hard work required to provide them with everything they can afford or even not afford. Removed from the arena of stress and cut-throat competition, all the negroid breed has to do is enjoy the luxuries, conveniences, amusements and superficial recognition others provide them with. Ambition on their part reaps paltry rewards that rarely earn a place at the big table. Incentive is eroded. In the breakdown of this country, the Chiefs dominate and the Negro tribe takes the easy way out. Can this situation be reversed? Will the dominant breed maintain and perpetuate their authority? Will the flaws of the negroid breed continue to be its undoing? Who knows. An awareness of how your breed ranks and why it is where it is, is an ongoing dialogue that does not trigger change. What is the solution? Well, who says all problems have solutions? Maybe making your sphere of activity the parameters of your world and taking pride in the small achievements is an option. Stop stressing about the unattainable described in platitudes and cliches, about holding on to your dreams and about triumphing over adversity. Yeah, right. Luck is fickle. Enjoy life even, if this does call for you to be a consumer from time to time. These thoughts that flowed into my head are obviously the credo of a pragmatist. To others, i say: "Dream on." Meanwhile, i prepare my den for hibernating as we wend toward the darkness of the next solstice. Winter is coming...

So here's a link for IPCC. And here is what they say about their own models page 826 https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter09_FINAL.pdf Inevitably, some models perform better than others for certain climate variables, but no individual model clearly emerges as ‘the best’ overall. On the other hand, many studies have failed to find strong relationships between observables and projections. Whetton et al. (2007) and Knutti et al. (2010a) found that correlations between local to regional climatological values and projected changes are small except for a few regions. Scherrer (2011) finds no robust relationship between the ability of the CMIP3 models to represent interannual variability of near-surface air temperature and the amplitude of future warming.Raisanen et al. (2010) report only small (10–20%) reductions in cross-validation error of simulated 21st century temperature changes when weighting the CMIP3 models based on their simulation of the present-day climatology.

@NubianFellow, neither of these articles spoke to a reduction of sperm count in white men compared to Black men The Dailymail's (a tabloid) article is based upon information published in the Washington Post (virtually plagiarizing them), the Washington Post cited this study; http://www.nber.org/papers/w22849#fromrss, which speaks to in increase in mortality due to trade with China. The Pew Center's article discussed birth rate and the increase in crease of hispanics and their increase cover whites and Blacks. Since many hispanics are white, it is not clear why you would select this article to support you point. As an aside; the Pew reports says that in 2009 73% of black birth were to unwed mothers!. That is a staggering statistic and speaks volumes to the nature of Black families....

Pioneer the differences you are attributing to race are a function of culture or evil. White people marched across Europe during the crusades killing other white people, directed by the leadership of the Catholic Church. Shoot, white folks killed 600,000 of each other here in the United States, duped into believing they were fighting for states rights when in fact the were fighting for rich people. Evil people think very differently than kind people. Middle class educated Black people in Harlem think differently than poor uneducated people in Harlem. Black people whose families have been wealthy for a few generations have more in common with rich white people than you or I have with each other. This makes sense if you understand there is only one race. Now that does not mean that people, like you, who attribute meaning to race, that has no foundation in reality. I also understand that people who subscribe to these "Inherent" racial difference and go so far as to believe Black people are an inferior "race" can create serious problems for me and other Black people. Indeed it is one of the reason I fun this website. It is people misunderstanding of race that is problematic. Maybe if people really understood that there is only one race they would also understand how silly their beliefs are. White people are not inherently evil, Black people are not inherently less intelligent, Jews are not inherently stingy, Black women are not inherently good in bed, Asians are not inherently good at math... right?

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