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1 hour ago, Chevdove said:

Keep going... Now I see HOT PINK hair, GREEN hair, Blue hair, etc.

In the past, I only saw these kinds of WIGS during the Halloween season and in specialty shops where halloween costumes were sold during the season.

Now, it is like, status quo style. People are going to work in office environments with these hair and wig styles.

Yep.  That's why I think it's beyond ridiculous.  it's not just wigs. 

Women and men are dying their natural hair different colors too.   

Round up these n8gglets and their heads will make them look like a bag of Skittles.  

No wonder Moses dropped or threw away 75% of the Laws of Ma'at.  He knew saved and sanctified people would have a hard time following 10 commandments. 

1 hour ago, Marty1960 said:

But not hiring me because I’m old and black is not right.  White folks shouldn’t be able to be racist and get away with it.

That's two strikes.  It affects many folks here in America. 

Companies can hire younger people and pay them less than they would someone with more experience and fewer years left to work. 

Boycotting and protesting only works up to a point. It's usually the point where Black folks get *tired* of boycotting and protesting and falling back in line to the status quo.

As @Pioneer1 mentioned above, the best way to *fight* racism and discrimination is for Black folks to create their own opportunities and become more self-sufficient. 

America owes AfroAmericans reparations but that's another kettle and a source of circular debate mainly to obfuscate the issue.

Individually, white folks don't owe us anything when it comes to who they choose to hire into their companies and businesses.  

9 hours ago, Delano said:

I think I will go back to just posting links and minimising my position. I desire less conflict and angst on all of my interactions.

I respectfully ask that you continue to engage in the discussions. 

Please do not let others mute your opinions and perspectives and contribution to the forum. 

@Pioneer1, as we say in the hood "you tried it" with that generation definition or leap. 

If there is an age difference of 20 years or more, it's a different generation.

IMO, it's a very cool thing to have generational separation because it gives us a living historical perspective.  

However, not to be ageist but I don't agree with people over 70 years old running the country. I think they should be consultants sought out for knowledge, wisdom and guidance...if they have any left. 

But, there is no reason for POTUS Papa Joe Biden to be falling asleep at the podium while trying to read the teleprompter and stumbling around nor should Rep. Nancy Pelosi be modeling her outfits as Speaker of the House.

H8ll, there's a reason our social security system provides full benefits at 67 years old.  

Happy b'day @Cynique and wishing you many more.

I know you get tired of reading the SOS (same ole sh8t) from some of us. 

Still, it's a blessing to have your presence, perspective, wisdom, wit and cynicism here. 

You make this forum an even cooler place to hang. 

Enjoy whatever you decide to do on your day.

1 hour ago, Chevdove said:

This recent video had me almost in tears from laughing.

The video is hilarious on several levels especially to someone like myself who finds humor in d8mn near everything. 

It's amazing that Black folks hold on to the goofiest BS left behind by their colonizers.  Those wigs have always looked ridiculous even back in the 1700s. 

Unfortunately, AfroAmericans are spending a sh8t ton of money or hair and wigs nowadays.  Many of them look just as ridiculous. 

In as much as some things change, a lot of it stays the same.  Thank goodness I'm totally comfortable in my baldness. 

Black folks should not be applying for jobs with companies that are overtly  racist and discriminatory. 

The interview process contained enough red flags to warrant getting up and leaving immediately.  Imagine working there. 

As evidenced by history, leadership does not require a significant degree of competence or knowledge. 

Leaders surround themselves with people capable of fulfilling their agenda and enforcing the rules. 

The Pareto principle more commonly know as the 80/20 rule applies to most everything. 

IMO, leadership which is having the ability to make people get things done (cooperate and produce) is a higher quality trait.

It only takes a handful (20%) of leaders to produce desirable outcomes from the masses (80%). 

On 8/13/2022 at 5:46 AM, daniellegfny said:

I am voting for Trump even if he is Jail. It’s Trumped up charges designed to distract from the horrible things that the Biden Inflation bill is going to do to Americans. Bad things are happening in America and people are being manipulated right into serfdom and slavery. 

I stand with Trump 

To vote for someone who's jailed reads like a wasted vote.  Might as well write-in someone else or not vote at all.

The Inflation Bill will  help lower prescription medication costs and force corporations to pay higher taxes. 

Don't feel sorry for and/or worry too much about corporate CEOs.  They will still get big bonus checks every year. 

It's unfortunate that the Florida teacher chose to resign instead of stand and fight.

The Sunshine State is an appropriate nickname only due to the weather. 

That whack a mole azz  governor is running Florida like a can of mixed nuts. 

Folks are threatening FBI agents out of fealty to the former POTUS and he hasn't said anything to denounce their actions. He can't even pretend to be a statesman. 

@Cynique, the back and forth between you and @Pioneer1 is funny as h8ll. Definitely makes the forum more lively and entertaining. 

@Delano, I'm not your financial advisor but I wouldn't place that bet.

From never showing tax returns to the Russian collusion investigation and being twice impeached, "mishandling" government documents will not land the former POTUS in prison. 

The GOP will do everything in its power to insure that nothing happens to this dude considering the amount of influence he has over them.

59 minutes ago, Cynique said:

You all speak of the past in the present. Your explanations and suspicions and accusations about the  black dilemma are familiar ones. Familiar because I have been hearing them for over 50 years. How ironic that  I, in the course of counting down to my 89th birthday in 4 days, speak of the future.

 

Society will  transform itself through adjustments. Skin color requires no high tech science to change. Sexual fluidity is a natural form of population control.  Survival is about evolving. That's not opinion, that's reality.

 

But believe whatever makes you comfortable. Makes me no difference. Why should it???

@Cynique, you're right especially considering you've heard some form of the same thing for well over a half century and counting.

Instead of being delusional and/or wasting our keystrokes pontificating about what would make life better for AfroAmericans, it probably does make more sense to acquiesce to the status quo and let the chips fall.

I'll wait until your b'day arrives before officially recognizing and hoping it's a happy one. 

10 minutes ago, Troy said:

I've been advised more that once that discussion forums are played out, antiquated, and that my time could be better spent doing other things.  But like you I find value in these conversations and the format. 

Again, I'm thankful that you continue to support and provide this space for discussion.

I haven't been around here as long as everyone else but I do enjoy reading you all and I'd hate to see this discussion forum shrivel up completely and/or go away. 

I watched the entire video. 

First, I find it incredulous that white folks like to ask Black folks why their problems exist and whether or not any of it still has to do with racism. 

The interviewer couldn't get anybody to grant an interview but he found an articulate Black doctor. The doctor did his best to do what Black people try to do in these interviews.

The doctor gave well meaning and thoughtful answers to the questions. But, he never flat out laid the blame where it belongs which is the system of racism white supremacy.

The doctor did correctly state that white folks have colonized whole countries that were once inhabited exclusively by people of color. The history of Australia is mind blowing. I digress....

The area through which the interviewer was driving once inhabited by black immigrant farm workers.  Their white employers made a sh8tload of money and built affluent Palm Beach communities.

Nothing was invested in those once working class and now poor communities. The people who live there are left to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and survive by any means necessary. Sports is the best escape route.

It's the same affliction that affects AfroAmericans all over America. Our people have been replaced by Hispanic folks as the working class. 

With no economic infrastructure in place and no reparations, AfroAmericans are expected to compete with white folks for education and jobs on an uneven playing field. 

The doctor mentioned that there are only 400 AfroAmericans in his profession out of a population of 40 million people. That's a microcosm of the problem. 

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Well.....

 Perhaps things NEED to "come to a head" so to speak to clear the bad blood.

In other word, perhaps stirring up these violent racists so that we can identify them, pull them out, and nail them is LONG over due in this nation.

In his wisdom, a few years before he died, Dick Gregory talked about it.

When the former POTUS was elected, Dick Gregory  basically said white people in America would start losing their minds and doing dumb sh8t.

When asked what AfroAmericans ahould do...Dick Gregory said "do nothing...this ain't about (you) Black folks".  

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Collectively speaking, so far AfroAmerican men have indeed failed...

On all fronts. Only AfroAmerican men can unify and protect our people. We've allowed white supremacy to keep us divided. It's not that we don't know any better. We're just not doing enough to overcome it.

IMO, we have no idea of how the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by slavery could have been passed down to and could be the source of all forms of dysfunction among AfroAmericans. 

@Pioneer1, my complexion is  dark-skinned...no confusion.

I'm that n8gga white folks loathe and love for several reasons.  But, knock on wood, I've only gotten mad love from my fellow AfroAmericans across the skin tone spectrum for as many reasons.

I've written about how the Willie Lynch syndrome has affected AfroAmericans over several hundred years and counting. 

Skin color is one of the attributes that has been used to divide and conquer AfroAmericans.

Doesn't matter. We're all still prisoners of war.

Then, we have nerve to be fighting over who makes the most bread crumbs and who should get the biggest piece of chicken in the prison. 

Right. The government has always maintained a bead on militias and white supremacist groups but it doesn't stop them from stirring the pot and acting a fool. 

The government doesn't fear these clowns but the people do.  They have stormed the Capitol and executed Black folks and have more guns and ammunition than a small army.

Locking up the former POTUS could potentially cause a bunch of brush fires all over the country started by right-wing clowns. 

Just like January 6th, law enforcement will be told to stand down and they'd better not fire a single shot endangering the lives of those American patriots. 

@Cynique, IMO, regardless of how the mixed race population grows they will still be seen as people of color and treated accordingly. Same goes for any minority group.

One of the benefits affirmative action was to further divide AfroAmerican men and women.

Providing opportunities to and promoting AfroAmerican women at a greater rate would insure instability in their relationship with AfroAmerican men. 

The system knew that AfroAmerican women as breadwinners would make it harder for them to meet equally yoked AfroAmerican men leading to a power dynamic in a household.

Most definitely, AfroAmerican women could turn to non-AfroAmerican men in order to create balanced households based on incomes.

However, AfroAmerican women won't control the power dynamic in that relationship because non-AfroAmerican men are raised to be the head and not the tail.

Similarly, AfroAmerican men could turn to non-AfroAmerican women with whom they are less likely to encounter a power dynamic because of how non-AfroAmerican women are raised. 

Several years ago, the US allowed a mixed race man to become POTUS and serve the maximum number of years. It didn't move the needle one bit towards a colorblind society.

White supremacists have mastered dominating other groups regardless of their population size. I doubt that will change in my lifetime. 

The bandwidth of this forum can accommodate topics that lead to healthy discussion/debate.

The religion threads is an example of a topic that some of us do not post leaving it up to those with more knowledge, information and interest in it. 

I posted a humorous comment in one of the religion threads and sista @Chevdove piped up. 

A topic of high intellect discussion could automatically separate the chaff from the wheat. 

@Pioneer1, the fear of right-wing extremists going crazy is one of the reasons the former POTUS won't go to prison.

Another reason is fearing the right-wing base could grow larger if he's imprisoned. The GOP would reclaim the House and Senate and eventually the White House. 

The main thing they're trying to do is keep the former POTUS from running for political office again. Democrats like their chances of winning against anybody other than him.