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@Delano. Hi guy. We haven't conversed in a while. I'm still dangling in the limbo of my paranormal void. This thing called Life continues to mystify me. Gotta birthday coming up in August. Wonder if I'll make it or will I be - set free. Not only do I sense your serenity but I admire it.

In my ongoing quest for abbreviated wisdom, I'm sometimes reminded of how golden silence is...

Finally got around to reading the above BS, having previously exercised my will power to resist the temptation to get the last word in the dialog between me and what's-his- name. But, curiosity got the best of me. Which is more than I can say for Piognat's tantrum. Maneuvering through this turd exhibit did, however, bring about a realization. What I was beholding was the portrait of a desperate, ego-consumed, arrogant, hysterical fool doing one of the few things he does best;regurgitating specious arguments full of irrelevance and lies. In his pathetic, deranged attempt to do damage control, Piognat succeeded only in exposing how mentally unbalanced he is. I don't feel the need to respond to any of his befuddled cherry-picked claims and accusations, knowing that I will simply be providing a crutch for this crippled strawman.

Or, as the unnamed people you mentioned,Maher could just consider himself not to be a racist and publicly declare that he isn't. I'm sure that Maher thinks it's implicit in his liberal stance that he is not racist. Black critics expect a lot from white people when blacks, themselves, can't even rid themselves of colorism. Bill Maher is not perfect but he tries to be fair by criticizing the Woke folk progressives as well as the MAGA maggot conservatives. I'll take him over a black Retrumpican any day.

@ProfDWhat does Bill Maher have to do to PROVE he's not racist as a white male in a country founded by white men? Is there any white person you can point to who has proven he's not racist and is willing to - turn this country over to Blacks even if they're not united, cuz y'all loooove America so much. 😉 As to whether my dislike for Muslim/Arabs extends to their women, I've never developed a liking for them because they're just female versions of their menfolk only they wear wear things on their heads and aren't promised well-hung males after they kill infidels and go to heaven.

Did Nostradamus make any predictions. 🙄

The response to this demonstration seems to be generally favorable. The cackling hens on The View approved it. So there's that...

Maybe not in practice because they can rarely enforce it, but in spirit I believe black people are racist. They have no problem disliking and disparaging white people and devote a lot of time to doing so. And, as MLK implied in his "dislike for the unlike" phraseology, everybody is xenophobic inasmuch as Humans are instinctively suspicious of strangers. I also think there's such as thing as "benign" racism. This can be exemplified with a simple roll of the eyes gesture by a black person exhibiting tolerarance or amusement with the foibles of a stupid white people. White people who condescendingly claim to be "color blind" are benign racists because they think they're doing you a favor by ignoring the "blemish" of black skin. To me, Farrakhan is a blatant racist. He just out and out hates white people in general and Jews in particular. I don't think Bill Maher is a racist because he can afford to not be one I personally don't like Muslims. I find them grim, rigid, sneaky and of course misogynistic. And the Koran tells them to kill anyone one who doesn't worship Allah. Even promises that 40 virgins await any male who does this, when he arrives in heaven.🤪

@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.

HoHum. And the slippery eeI rides again. I don't agree with your convoluted subtefuge. The slang term "bougie" is what it is:Pop culture lingo. The sociological concept of the Black Bourgeoise dates back to 1903 and W.E.B. Dubose's Talented Tenth concept and has nothing to do with all the Marxist ideology you cited. Connecting the boule to the Beyond the Gates soap opera is a stretch. Attending boule has no direct connection to being wealthy because you don't have to be rich to become a member of a fraternity or sorority. And why didn't you make all your claims in the first place instead spouting a lot of the "useless information" about some 1990s movement?? Why? Because you didn't know what I wasl talking about till you looked it up.

Oooooh, puleeze. "Bougie" is short for Bourgeoise", which is the French word for Middleclass. Blacks adopted this shortened term around the late 1970s when they began to graduate colleges and enter professions and own fine homes and fancy cars. Nowadays, it has a somewhat negative connotation, referring to extremely materialistic black folks living high on the hog.

Because, like I said, "Beyond The Gates " is a show case for the "bougie" lifestyle not the "boule", which is how you labeled it in your disparaging post. Do YOU know what "bougie" means and what its origin is?Dummy.

I can't resist pointing out that pioneer's faulty visual perception is also why he can't relinquish the idea that I secretly find him - "special". Fact is, I would zero in on him because I have a childish habit of wanting to get the last word. I couldn't stand letting him get away with smugly perpetuating the false idea that I liked him better than the others guys here. Eventually I came to really dislike him for arrogantly encouraging this impression. I tell you he's a case history narcissist. And I wouldn't be surprised if his wet nurse Mzuri isn't feeding him these fabrications about why I went on hiatus. Maybe Troy has some recollections.

I know what the boule is. It is a gathering of all the black Fraternal and Sorority organizations. Not an adjective to describe a black soap opera,

You never said that. Just another of your fantasies. You're seriously afflicted with cognitive dissonance syndrome.

And the fabricated figments of pioneer's ego saturated imagination keep coming as he continues to try and control the narrative, putting his spin on everything. blah, blah, blah. Talk to the hand.🫷🖕

@TroyI hadn't seen Denzel in a movie in quite a while and when I saw him recently his hair and beard were gray. I guess he was made up for his appearance in the GLADIATOR sequel. "Aging over night" in a moreorless a figure of speech. Just like people "getting better with age". That's what my husband used to tell me because I was scrawny when we got married. But I laughed at his jokes and smiled when we kissed. What's up with pioneer?? He's all over the place, like dog shit, barging into conversations with a lot of effusive drivel, spamming the post with Gayle pictures, obviously trying to prove something. Too bad I don't have a can of RAID. Thinks he's so hip, and the square assed clown doesn't even know the different between the words "boule" and "bougie". Pathetic ol windbag.

Every word of the above quote is TRUE. Troy and I have remained friends for 20+ years, always kept in touch by email, bringing each other up to date, sending holiday greetings. At one time, we were even going to collaborate on a book about this site. When he came to Chicago for some kind of conference, we had a chance to meet and even took a picture together. We have disagreed about things on this discussion board but have never fallen out, never had cross words because he is "a cool guy. A gentleman and a scholar" as opposed to being a petty envious slime ball like pioneer who is desperate to maintain his fantasy about being something other than a dufus who I detest more with each passing day. Everything pioneer just posted here in his attempt to besmirch the friendship between Troy and me is, as usual, a made up LIE, not based on fact but malicious speculation being spread by a disgruntled wanna-be cool guy. I was stunned by the distorted version of why I simply stopped posting here as I do from time to time - because I simply become burnt out. The obnoxious gnat who is really trying to fool everybody is pioneer who cannot process the idea that there's NOTHING about him that I like. He wants everybody to think that when it comes to all the really cool guys who post here, my snubbing him was a mistake. It wasn't. OK back to the debate over pioneer's claims of perfect vision which, as everyone soon duscovers, only proves that he's nothing but a myopic strawman full of specious arguments reeking with false equivalences and non sequiturs. I could discern this even before I had my cataract surgery.

@ProfDI just saw an interview with Smokey Robinson. He's 85. And quite lucid. About to go on tour. But he looked like he'd been embalmed, and men just can't pull off wearing make-up. Denzel seems to have aged over night. He just turned 70. And so it goes...

We go waaay back, Troy. You've always been a gentleman and a scholar; a really cool guy.

I find it amusing to observe the exchanges here that pit subjective egotistical obstinacy against the knowledgeable critical thinking of those with a full command of logic. Ironically, it is my "personal observation" of their challenger's delusions of omniscience that puts me on the side of Troy, Delano, and ProfD. That, and the fact that I like these 3 cuz they're really cool guys. 😉

That's why the person formerly known as "Cynique" posted that meme. Ain't quite sure what this charade known as "Life" is all about! 😵

To me, in his show last night Bill Maher's body language and attitude hinted that he's been taking a lot of heat for the critique of his visit with Trump. He did revert back to ridiculing and criticizing tRump and his MAGA buddies but insisted that hating them accomplishes nothing... He is learning that talking out of both sides of his mouth is a slippery slope. But his comic relief bits still crack me up.🤣

Gravity is some powerful shit. And it doesn't cost anything! 🤤

If Jesus did exist, I believe he would've had an appreciation for irony. After all, his Daddy offers free will as an option. But exercising it can get you in a hell of a lot of trouble. 😏