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2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

However in my opinion it still goes back to basic intelligence because if Black people have been in this nation for hundreds of years and occupy power at all levels of the society and government, we have the power to exact punishment and other consequences.  We don't need to wait for White "permission" to do what's already well within our power and authority.

Why do we need a "voting rights bill" when the Constitution gives ALL citizens (which clearly includes us) the right to vote?

That's just it...Black folks do not have real power anywhere on the planet as long as they're afraid to come together like a transformer and exert it. Fear renders one weak and powerless. 

Here in the USA. white folks make the rules and laws. They give permission (empower) others to act on and enforce them within the system of racism white supremacy. 

AfroAmericans need a voting rights bill regardless of the US Constitution because every politician we've had from past to present has either ignored or failed to codify it. White folks haven't given them permission. 

Surely, several factors beyond intelligence determine the outcome of one's life (family, environment, education, self-esteem, drive, determination, opportunities and luck to name a few.

We have a responsibility as human beings to insure that those who need the most help get it. That includes those who have limited mental and/or physical abilities. 

The choices one chooses to make is a different kettle.

Regardless of circumstances, if one has been provided enough nurture to grow and they know better but choose not to be productive...the onus is on them. 

The blueprint for success has already been codified. Many AfroAmericans have worked it to positive effective in their lives individually. We just haven't translated it into ownership collectively i.e. wealth. 

The system of racism white supremacy is very real. It does not absolve AfroAmericans from doing whatever it takes to dismantling it.  Mastering capitalism is a step in that direction.

45 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Are you telling me that most people in this society can simply wake up and CHOOSE their occupation at will?

No. We don't get to wake up and choose an occupation at will. 

A person's aptitude (intelligence) plays a part in determining their altitude (profession/occupation/career). 

The 1st 18 years of one's life are usually formative. It's during those years that education, knowledge, skills and abilities are developed that determine what they can do in life.

Of course, it's up to the individual to apply themselves to becoming whatever they aspire and desire to achieve. 

There's no shortage of obstacles in a system of racism white supremacy. No doubt.

But, there are many self-inflicted gun shots i.e. lack of  preparation that keep people from becoming productive and/or reaching their full potential too.

There's plenty AfroAmericans working in every type of profession/occupation/career. The problem is that we don't own enough of it (capitalism).

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Just another example of the lack of intelligence so many of our people suffer from.

 

You got some REAL hitters up in Buffalo New York. 

I still think it's fear more than a lack of intelligence.

AfroAmericans instinctively believe killing white folks is an automatic death sentence or life imprisonment. 

@Pioneer1, AfroAmericans have been in Cali for a long time.

Like everywhere else in the USA, it's unfortunate that our folks didn't build an economic infrastructure out there.

AfroAmericans should own a huge chunk of the entertainment industry and ancillary businesses feeding from it. 

I believe sista Britney Grinder will be freed when the politicians decide to make a deal. Everything else is a sham.

Considering the number of AfroAmerican politicians we've had from past to present including a POTUS, I cannot help but to wonder why none of them undertook championing an effort to change the 13th amendment. 

22 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Latinos have been expressing their hatred and racism toward AfroAmericans for DECADES in California.
Maybe this will be the final wake-up call needed for Black people to pack up, get out of that racist ass state, and let it drop in the ocean.

Our ancestors invested 400+ years and counting of blood, sweat and tears in this raggedy azz country.  There's no reason for AfroAmericans to leave any state in which we choose to live.  We should be fighting racism wherever it confronts us. 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

The brother was smart....but foolish and immature at the same time.
He was in his late 30s and should have known better than to do some of the shit he was doing.

You can't trust many of these niggas to have your back or repay you the loyalty they owe you...

 

But trying to form a "brotherhood" with some of these fools is out of the question.

Again, I'm not surprised. 

There are many AfroAmericans who are growing up in environments that foster the illusion that society is colorblind.

Those AfroAmericans either don't believe in or they don't know anything about racism white supremacy until it punches them in the face as if it was Mike Tyson. 

Regardless of how smart they might be, there's no honor or loyalty among ignorant n8gglets. The penitentiary, grave yard and unemployment line is filled with them. 

Some AfroAmericans have been so mixed up they're just like that box of chocolates from Forrest Gump. 

So, whether it's giving advice to or trying to form a brotherhood and anything else with fellow AfroAmericans, they have to be vetted first in order to know what you're dealing with and what you can expect to get from them. 

59 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

This is why you've heard me repeatedly question the intelligence of many of our people....lol.

A couple of the same Black folks who were complaining about him and calling him a "snitch" and "Sambo" because of his position.....NOW want to know why me and my group didn't come to his defense and keep him his job (as if we really could anyway).

Just like VGQ, what you encountered falls under n8gga sh8t. 

You tried to talk to the brotha while he was high on the horse.  He gave you that patronizing "I hear ya Black man" and half a smile response thinking you were a carry over from the 1960s.  Then, his azz got terminated.  Wonder who's crying now.

Tell the rest of your coworkers to STFU because they might be on deck. As Main Source said...it's just a friendly game of baseball.

17 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Lol....brutha, there are Black folks who RAP AND SING about killing other Black folks!

 

Gangsta Rap music has been among the best sellers of music for the past 30 years or so!

That tells me that there ARE Black folks who seem to get a great deal of joy from killing or FANTASIZING about killing other Black folk, lol.

There's a huge difference between what these n8gglets rap and sing about versus what they will really do. 

As NF Jr. mentioned, sure enough, there are n8gglets who will shoot you dead over a pair of tennis shoes or less. 

But, tell that same n8gglet to kill the white boy who shot up the supermarket in Buffalo or play his loud music in a white neighborhood and watch the fear spread all over his ashy face. 

7 hours ago, Sani Nassif said:

Family, I know alot of the time this is looked over or Love is thought of as lame, and not what it truly is, what brings us freedom, happiness, inner and world peace, but why do so many of us in this world keep talking about murdering, killing, fear, why not emphasize more on Love, connecting and uplifting eachother? As promoting Love is the only thing that will bring us freedom and peace, and promoting murder, hate, and killing will only trap us, and we will never be free. Let us understand freedom comes from Love, and if we are hating, we are disconnected in a bubble and not free.

 

The only way out of hate, is to Love, is to educate wrongdoers and help them remember hey, you are missing out, we are here to Love. There are many ways to do this, all we need to do is remember to do that, instead of letting ourselves get trapped in hate. 

@Sani Nassif, as a human being and a musician, I totally subscribe to the belief that love is the ultimate healer for mankind.  We're just not there yet.

Unfortunately, due to the religion of racism white supremacy, love is not going to keep white folks from controlling Black folks even if means killing us.  So, we have to be able to defend ourselves on multiple levels. 

Martin Luther King Jr. tried to use weapon of love and white folks still assassinated him.  Under the guise of law enforcement and racist white supremacists, they are still killing our Black brothers and sisters with impunity.

White folks have colonized the planet due to willingness to kill and superior weaponry. 

Black folks have been trying to love the h8ll out of white folks for several hundred years now. So far, it's not working.

5 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

And why didn't the other BLACK AFRICAN nations help their fellow Black Africans in South Africa militarily like the Whites did?

This is where INTELLIGENCE becomes more of a factor.

 

Why were the Whites intelligent enough to know how to help THEIR own but most of the other Blacks...who are the clear majority on that continent..didn't have enough sense to do the same?

 

That's why I keep saying it boils down to INTELLIGENCE and White folks simply outsmarting Black folks for the past 500 years or so.
 

@Pioneer1, you're not going to believe this and I probably shouldn't type it but here's a secret...Black folks do not enjoy killing as much as white folks do. 

White folks love to kill sh8t. That's why they stockpile wespons and hunt for sport. They stay in killing shape in the event Black folks ever rise up.

But, there's one small impediment...Black folks are afraid to kill white folks. 

Surely, Black folks will kill each other but that's having been conditioned to hate themselves.  It isn't a natural instinct to kill.

That's why regardless of where Black folks live on the planet, unafraid white folks can roll through and take their sh8t.  Fear is powerful.

5 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

My only issue with The Turkey Leg Hut is the same as I have with Roscoe's Chicken-n-Waffles......
It's not enough of them.
They should go NATION WIDE.

The problem with a lot of soul food restaurants is that they don't want to expand and make soul food global like other groups.

Going nationwide requires a huge capital investment.

If Black folks took every dime they spent eating in non-Black owned fast food joints and restaurants, they could franchise a Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles or

Turkey Leg  Hut in every major Black city in America. 

4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

They've been inserting the LGBTQIA+ agenda into most Black televison shows and movies for the past 15 years or so and Black folks have been going along with it and many even justifying it.

Not just Black. Hollywood has been inserting the LBGTQIA+ demographic in TV shows and movies across the board. They have a lot of power in Tinseltown. 

A war against white folks doesn't have to be a violent confrontation. Black folks can start by not giving money back to them. 

Black folks have enough knowledge, talent and resources to build a parallel system and be completely self-sufficient.

Unfortunately, Black folks are afraid of more than being defeated in a war.

The fear of white folks and respect for them reduces Black folks to an inferior almost child-like position.

Then, there are those Black folks who believe the white man's ice is colder and will do whatever it takes to protect it. 

10 hours ago, Troy said:

It is a blessing to have a job that you actually like and one for which you do not have to sell out or compromise your personal values.

That's the key to life and we should be teaching and passing it down from one generation to the next. 

There's an adage that says getting paid to do something you love you'll never feel like you've worked a day in your life.

The other saying is to find a job that you love so much that you would've done it for free. 

We live in a society that encourages people to strive for careers that pay a lot of money regardless of personal satisfaction. Gross consumerism and consumption will take care of that. 

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

 

Overwhelming most Black people worldwide know slavery is far more than shackles.

 

And besides, like the land we black folks need, it is up to people like me to do more than talk, or suggest. 

 

It may sound unfair, but at the end of the day, what Black people need is someone to give a ton of money to our causes. That will solve things, maybe for not all black folk, but for many.

@richardmurray, I keep reading you state basically that Black folks including AfroAmericans need to break free from the shackles of white supremacy. I agree. 

As you've mentioned, Black folks in other countries and on islands are essentially being enslaved by white folks from afar. A bunch of them leave their home countries and come to the USA. 

Then, there's Black folks who have a whole continent that is Africa. Yet, they don't totally control it either. A bunch of them also leave their home countries and come to the USA. 

Yet, very few of those Black immigrants really wants to build and connect with AfroAmericans. In fact, many of them look down on AfroAmericans. 

Black immigrants come to the USA and jump feet first into acquiesing to white supremacy under the guise of building a better life. Something they could or should have done in their home countries. 

As I  mentioned in another thread, South Africa has a population of 59 million people. 55 million of them are Black.

Yet, there was a time when those 4 million white folks ran South Africa. One must ask the question...how were they able to do that.

We can discuss what Black folks need to do in order to break free from white supremacy from a diplomatic and philosophical perspective.

I have sprinkled it through some of my posts here but I try to remain civil/diplomatic on a public forum.

But, let me just type that for the record, so that there is no misunderstanding about where I'm coming from...

The reality is the only way Black folks around the world will ever be free of white supremacy is going to war against it.

Black folks have plenty of money if they pooled it. Black folks could have land too.

The problem is that Black folks aren't organized in their beliefs nor logistically.

Black folks do not have a security force or militia to protect us from those who wish to do us harm. 

The tie that should bind us is our skin color and knowing that we're all victims of racism white supremacy. 

Unfortunately, too many Black folks all over the world are waiting on a white savior to set them free. 

I'm not one of those AfroAmericans waiting on a sky fairy. I'm trying to be diplomatic in dismantling the system of racism white supremacy. But, I'm also strapped up and ready for war if it comes to pass. 

10 hours ago, Troy said:

I had not considered the comedic aspect, but making fun of gay dude like that is so politically incorrect I can't imagine that was the reason...

I don't think they filmmakers set out to make fun of gay dudes but there was no reason to include him in the film either. His role didn't serve a purpose.

Everything about the female warriors made sense to me in the context of the movie. They trained like a military in order to take  care of business on the battlefield.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

It seems to me that the Whites in South Africa were successful in ruling the Black majority so thoroughly and for so long was simply because for what ever reason....they outsmarted them.

Well bro, this is where we have to disagree.

White South Africans did not outsmart the Black majority. 

White folks were happy to coexist among the Black folks in South Africa. 

When white folks from outside South Africa visited and saw that Black folks were in charge and had whites working for them, they felt it was wrong.   

A delegation came through and convinced White South Africans to subscribe to the belief that they belong to a master race as theorized by cats like  Arthur de Gobineau and  Alfred Rosenberg.  That set in motion what eventually became Apartheid. 

Of course, it was easy enough for white South Africans to receive military backing from other white countries.  That's what gave white South Africans the power to rule.  It was not their intelligence. 

White folks have no problem with taking over by force and using violence when diplomacy fails.

H8ll, for a long time now, the British, French and Dutch have been running black nations with only a handful of white folks actually living there.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Just like the U.S. controls the so-called "United Nations", headquartered in New York....lol.

After WWII, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established in the US too.

 NATO is the worldwide repository of military power.  It is headquartered in Belgium but everybody knows who really runs the show. 

Ticking off another demographic box and/or throwing shade was the only reason for a flaming homie in the movie.  He was so out of place that I found it comedic.

Otherwise, I do believe the film deserves a few Oscar nominations.  I think we're going to be p*ssed off if only those two white women win it.

@Pioneer1, I understand.

Unfortunate that it went down that way.  But, dude isn't the 1st and won't be the last n8gglet to play himself.

"My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge... (Hosea 4:6).

One can talk and preach until they turn blue but if the listener(s)  is incapable of receiving the information for whatever reason, might as well be talking to a rock.

Regardless of one's position in their system, there is no protection if/when they decide to make a change i.e. hire, fire or whatever. 

NF Jr. has a brilliant commentary on POTUS 44 and how they could have snatched his azz outta that seat whenever they felt like it.

Minority supervisors are usually the worst because they constantly feel a need to prove themselves.  As a result, they are harder on their subordinates.

A minority can turn a department around and increase production 837%.  White supremacists will  1) steal the credit and  2) codify and pass it to themselves.

Black folks will never win by toiling in the system of white supremacy and subject to its whims.  Black folks have to break free and become self-sufficient. 

There is nothing inherently *wrong* with being *right*.  Well...except it doesn't replace the system of white supremacy with justice.  That's why it doesn't feel good. 

 

8 minutes ago, Troy said:

Again, the film was fiction. Plus, you can't insert modern sensibilities into that culture.

Right.  That's why it's odd that they made a Black man effeminate in the movie.  Even if he was a eunuch, there was no reason for him to be that soft.

All things considered from what you've written, I'm not surprised 1) that he didn't heed your warnings and 2) he got fired.

More often than not, younger folks do not listen to their elders.  They think they're smart and know better especially if they're in a higher position.

Folks in positions of authority and/or greater responsibility makes it even worse.  In their minds, only higher ups on the totem pole can tell them anything.

White supremacists will make an example of out anybody.  Firing a Black supervisor who is a rising star in the company is a subliminal message to keep everyone else in line.

Your former co-worker was a sacrificial lamb.  Do not feel sorry for him. 

If he was that good, he'll land on his feet elsewhere.  Hopefully, the lesson he learned from racism will be a humbling experience.