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Listen to these LOVERS of America bitch and moan because also being shuckers and jivers who, between constantly objectifying women, crow about black men being superior to males of other ethnicities, and who are now sulking because their fellow chauvinists can't control their "much-envied" sexual prowess the way certain other black men are able to do, thus providing newsworthy material for the dreaded white media which is controlled by the deep state racist conspirators plotting to demonize black men in order to keep them from acquiring the power they are too inefficient to acquire in the first place. HoHum. Same ol, same ol. What black folks need to do is ,,,.go find a deserted island and start their own country so they can fight amongst themselves without interference from dem bad ol white folks who have no intention of sharing their power with a sub culture of colorists debating who's black and who isn't. Obviously I'm not trying to win a popularity contest here. Since I've turned in my black credentials. I can spew the narrative of my tribe and keep on truckin'. What a wise man who should've said nothing, once let slip: "It is what it is."

He can Pray....sincerely!

Ok....well now we gotta get Samuel L. Jackson......or David Alan Grier....to play THAT role.....lol. "Now stop all dat cryin' massa James 'lease we'z still breathin' and 'bove da ground!"

Let us not confuse popularity with NOTORIETY...lol.

In addition to The Matrix. On the subject of AI, I would also recommend the movies Ex Machina and Her. If you have not seen either one I highlight recommend them. @umbrarchist I have ordered the book Two Faces of Tomorrow.

You mean you’ve heard of her outside of this forum? Yeah she was a regular one of the most prolific posters this forum has ever had, but she got on Thumper‘s last nerve at one point. I set up a separate forum just for her to try to keep the two apart. That didn’t work very well, she needed a foil. Eventually, she ran Thumper out of here… which killed the online book club which was a loss. my problem with Ms Boof is that she would do things in the real world and that really took things too far for my liking. Well @Pioneer1 as incorrigible as you can be, folks should know, for the record, that you are financial supporter of the website and your last contribution will in fact cover the forum’s software subscription for a year. The reality is that anybody who takes the time to post here provides true value to the website in general and this forum in particular. Your time is valuable so thank you for sharing it here.

??? Lol...you mean Kanye West wasn't lying when he sang "Jesus Walks"?

The latest Pope Mobile is a $500k Mercedes-Benz G Wagon electric vehicle. Considering that Jesus had to walk everywhere, it looks like the church has come a long way.

Troy Well it should be know that @Pioneer1’s voluntary financial contributions actually fund this discussion forum. Now, I'm sure those few money orders I've sent in wasn't nearly enough to fund a discussion forum as sophisticated as this one...lol. Infact, I think it was 3 or 4 years since I had last gave anything. If this site had to wait on ME to fund it....let's just say Cynique would be spending a LOT more time at the local community center....lol. He has never boasted that himself Honestly, I didn't mention it NOT because of some sort of moral or religious "humility"; but because I really didn't see a need to. I didn't see any incentive in doing so. Trust me, if I thought I could get some sort of financial...or even sexual...incentive for saying I gave money to support a Black website, I would have said something YEARS ago, lol. Humility isn't part of my moral code. I don't care if people know I give money or if it's kept a secret; as long as it ends up in the right hands. But I'm not religious so I don't believe there's some "special benefit" in keeping any good deeds you do a secret. It's a matter of personal choice. Now obviously that has not stopped me from disagreeing with him, nor has my agreeing with him been a condition of his support. Facts. If my support for this site only went as far as your agreeing with me I would have stopped posting on here YEARS ago. But that being said, I'm not above "bribing" people to try to get some sort of support for what I want...lol. Like I said, if there's some sort of financial or sexual (not from you...lol) incentive and benefit, I WOULD consider bribing and bragging...lol. Real talk. But I really do want to see my brother do well. I sincerely hope I get the opportunity to contribute even more over the years. Kola Boof was another story altogether. I knew that name sounded familiar. I heard stories about her years ago being a mistress to Bin Laden or something like that. She was (is?) a Sudanese feminist who liked to pose naked to make points...lol. So she was a regular poster on here, huh? Cynique Pioneer uses this board as a receptacle for his trash. He should pay you a fee. You're not too far from the truth...lol. For years I'd post on this site but I didn't buy any books...the very purpose OF the site. I felt a little "funny" for doing such so I decided that if I'm not going to buy any books, the least I could do send in a little contribution to show my appreciation.

To be clear, I'm not advocating that anyone, rich or poor, should get away with violating someone else especially if they're under the age of consent. Celebrities really have no excuse because there's no shortage of ready, willing and able, consenting adults. More importantly, celebrity Black men should *always* believe folks are scheming on that bag. In fact, they should only deal with folks who have money too. As the referee tells every boxer...protect yourself at all times. They had a 10 year toxic relationship. She should've gotten away from Diddy after the 1st time he carried her sideways. That hotel incident probably wasn't it. Yet, something made her stay with him. I don't believe it was fear. It's absolutely Diddy's fault. He's not a dumb guy. He knows how men get taken down. Ego is killer. No doubt...the individual brings heat upon themselves. However, the white media takes great delight in reporting from that potential gravesite especially when it's a Black man. OJ is dead and gone and they're still talking about him.

In October, I lost my youngest twin daughter to breast cancer. She didn't have health insurance when she found out. Still, she got health insurance through Obamacare (Affordable Care Act.) Several months after cancer treatments, she went into remission after treatments. Still, she refused radiation because there was a possibility of leaving her mentally and physically disabled. By then, the cost of her treatment was nearly a quarter of a million dollars, a poisoned and mutilated body. She lost so much, but she refused to give up her way of life. The cancer treatments didn't extinguish her light, though. She was still helping others see what a gift life was to them and how they could use it to lift others up. When the cancer returned, this time to her brain, she again chose life, submitting herself to brain surgery and another quarter of a million dollars. She came through with flying colors, and two days later, we were sitting across from each other at this beautiful restaurant. A month after her brain surgery, my dear BabyGirl was brain dead. Before the doctor removed her breathing tube, her family, friends, and her former boyfriend made it to her bedside. We had her funeral right there, and a month later, my BabyGirl's Twin sister and her best friend threw the most incredible Celebration of Life for her. We miss...I miss her terribly. However, it didn't change how I feel about the way the establishment treats cancer. It is a money-maker for the healthcare industry at the cost of lives, whether we survive for a few years or die. In January, a month after what would have been my daughter's 33rd birthday, a debt-collecting attorney for the hospital sent a bill for $300,000 to her estate. I've always given cancer treatments the side-eye. I'm not even into the SGK "pink" tober bullsh*t. I wondered what was the point of all that poison, disfigurement, mutilation, and radiation that ended with my daughter's untimely death. Btw, I don't say "eff cancer" because cancer cells are very personal - cancer is your DNA which is why no one can catch it from another. And just like you want to live, so do your cancer cells. Kill cancer cells, and you will most likely kill your noncancerous cells, too. Cancer cells are just doing what any living thing does, which exists and even thrive. Except cancer cells eventually kill their host. So, keep your cortisol low, and take your wealth and health treatment seriously. Your health, wealth, and quality of life are on the line. Below are three journalists, two of whom have tackled breast cancer differently. Ananda Lewis, by the way, decided to do nothing in the beginning and is also against mastectomy and is in stage 4 cancer -(which means cancer has spread throughout her body - death is imminent.) However, she's still here, and she did alternative therapies. These three women express many things I want to share in this post, but they deliver it way better.

My condolences to you and all who suffer from the transition of your beloved child @Mel Hopkins

My sentiments exactly!!! YES!!!

Twin, thank you.

African civilizations, as great as they were, share one thing in common with all civilizations --- they rise and they fall. As "great" as America is -- it will crash and burn too. The prospects of America lasting thousands of years as Arican Civilizations have is truly a testimony to how great they were, Scholars, throughout history, have known western civilization came from the Greek, and the Greeks learned everything they know from Africans. Greek Civilization is in ruins, and they no longer have influence, the same is true with Italy, Spain, Portugal -- all is western Europe, including the Bristish Empire, is a shell of itself. No one wrings their hands over the fall of these civilizations. The fall of African Civilizations has been explained in many books including: Africa: The Mother of Western Civilization by “Dr. Ben” Yosef Ben-Jochannan How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads by John Henrik Clarke Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James The Real Facts About Ethiopia by J. A. Rogers African People in World History by John Henrik Clarke When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilizations by Robin Walker Enjoy!

My Condolences @Mel Hopkins I apologise for not sending this earlier. I didn't see you original post. It was Aka's post. It was only today that I went back to see the original.

Absolutely. Part of learning how to fight is self-defense...knowing what *not* to do in order to avoid getting jammed up in BS. Just because they're Black doesn't mean they are their brother's keeper. Johnnie Cochran type dudes don't come a dime a dozen.

The Greeks learned from the Africans, not vice versa/ Kemet Mysteries Schools come from us, as does the tradition of a tiered learning system. Although it is unspoken, the Greek lettering became associated with learning and academia for this reason. Because of the Western attempt to erase all of what we have given civilization, the Divine Nine, keeping with tradition, just went along with the established system of using Greek lettering, is my guess. It's kind of like how we use the Arabic numeral system. I don't know why everyone agreed to use those numbers, but we know Africans were the first to develop maths. ->>> The Lebombo Bone: The Oldest Mathematical Artifact in the World – African Heritage

Blah,blah,blah, - more blather from Piognat, that well known authority on nothing. I'll take Mel's explanation about the sorority/boule alliance ANY DAY over that of a second rate, self important wanna-be who, himself, is not a Greek, nor a college graduate, who is nothing more than a garrulous blow hard warehouse peon with a god complex who thinks he's infallible and that his half-baked opinions are the gospel truth. But his transparency becomes more evident by the day as he struggles to be relevent @TroyAnd he's certainly not one of a kind! He's just another example of the anxiom about "a little bit of learning being a dangerous thing"; a fool who knows not, and knows not that he knows not. Pitiful.

@Pioneer1As usual you invoke your straw man retorts by contradicting what i didn't say. What I did say was, "bougie" is simply pop culture slang. And I did not deny that the boule had a connection with the DuBose talented tenth. What I further pointed out was that just because you are a Greek or belong to the boule doesn't mean you are automatically wealthy so the connection between boule and the well-off family on the Beyond the Gates soap opera wasn't a "given" as you implied. Furthermore, Sororities are members of the Divine Nine so they do have an affiliation with the boule, something you denied. Moreover in 1951, my first year at the University of Illinois, I resided in the Alpha Kappa Alpha (Gamma Chapter) sorority house, and I and the girls in my pledge group remained bonded and friends all of our lives. And, incidentally, I can tell you that there was no worship of Greek gods there as you falsely claimed. Finally, my father and brother were both members of the Jeptha Lodge chapter of Prince Hall Masons. And my mother was an Easter Star Worthy Matron of Dorcas Chapter, #92. So stfu. You didn't school me on nothing. All you did was emit a lot of superfluous hot-air like the wind bag that you are.

Thank you so much. As I mentioned earlier about remembering the ancestors' way to honor our loved one's transition, questioning our place in the world when one departs is one of those rites. Cheyenne told me that if anyone in our family had to get cancer, she felt that she was the best one to handle it. When she was eight, she told me, "Do what you desire before your heart expires." And when I say she lived - she did. When Cheyenne transitioned, I wondered who would fill her space and who would show up and bring joy to others as she did. Not a day goes by that I don't wonder why Cheyenne? Or I wonder why my father didn't survive that bullet wound. Plenty of people survive getting shot. Why do some of us have longevity and not others? I think we forgot our power. This is why these systems use us, abuse us, and drain us. We have the power to choose when we arrive when we depart, and how we live in between. I trust our timing and our agreements with ourselves. Thank you for being here.

Thank you, Pioneer. Yes, she's my daughter, my baby girl. She loved it here. She told me before she passed away. She also lived life - she was courageous. She was on a mission, and by the turnout at her Celebration, she touched a lot of folks with her light and life. One of her high school classmates learned of her passing and came from Seattle to Cincinnati to say fare well. He told us that when he was friendless, Cheyenne became his first friend. Cheyenne wanted to be treated by traditional medicine - and she was. However, she had to push her initial health caregiver even to test her when she told them of her symptoms. Cheyenne didn't take "no" for an answer. It was after the treatment that she realized that the treatments were inadequate - more for money and destabilizing than curing. This is what she wanted everyone to know. What I learned during her experience, as@ProfD alluded to is that many pharmaceuticals could heal and possibly even cure, but those treatments are reserved for the wealthy. Two days before Cheyenne suffered seizures, the doctors prescribed a therapy that could reach her brain, but they had to wait for her insurance provider to approve it. They did the same day she transitioned. Oddly enough, they could have prescribed the medicine before her brain surgery. - My daughter and I are not separated. The part of her who is eternal is still with me. I don't remember the skills to engage with her as I did when she was here in the flesh. I do, however, remember how my ancestors processed the transitioning of our loved ones, and it is a lot different from how Western civilization deals with the death of the body. So, while I miss her physical incarnation, her soul is boundless. I made this post because I want us to think about our health care—especially as Black people, we must reach back to our ancestral ways to maintain our health. Despite my daughter's paternity—she got her mtDNA from me—mitochondrial DNA, which comes from the mother to its offspring. The mtDNA houses ATP, also known as the God cell, that gives us life and our cells' energy. The medical establishment knows this even though lay people don't. As Prof D said, cancer has been around for millennia, we must remember the ways of our ancestors to survive.