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  1. Thinking about thinking

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    It's not the stilt part of his name. 

    Well a good man is hard to find and a hard man is good. 

    Cynique woman may feel the same way about men watching porn.

    It can make you feel irrelevant or perhaps its mot feeling that you are the soul source of your partner's pleasure. 

     

     

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  5. Another Controversial Time Magazine or Can Black Women Catch a Break

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    On 6/8/2017 at 7:34 AM, Troy said:

    Del I'm talking about the most popular rappers like Little Wayne or Snoop, not the Q-Tips.  The rappers that the majority of the world know and regularly see.  I agree, rappers span the gamut and there are a great variety of them.  I was NOT indicting rappers, I was indicting the media images which depict grown men behaving as boys and the adverse stereotypes and they create and the resulting behavior the result when Black men mimic the images they see.

     

     

     

    Little Wayne and Snoop are selling negativity. Although I don't know how relevant Snoop is. I mentioned the different types of Rap which one sells. That's my point.

  10. Thinking about thinking

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    Pioneer you are sounding like you are s bit confused  about your sexual preference. You enjoy the idea that you are sexually attractive to people on order to rebuff them. You're an attention whore. Which is explains you kicking it with a guy who had zero interest in women. It's like those religious people who engage on secret homosexual activity. You even admire Dr Umaar. Whose rhetoric doesn't match his actions. 

  14. Another Controversial Time Magazine or Can Black Women Catch a Break

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    Troy i can imagine a March inspired by McDonald's and Coke. Because both have supported Black History Month because it is a hood business decision. 

    Did yoy see Watts Stax. Yeah in his prime Jackson could have done so.  Sharpton is a bit like Spike Lee. He is vocally pro black yet attracts the money. My Aunt had an interesting take on Sharpton. She felt he wasn't polished enough. Yet he is the only one giving a voice to the voiceless. So again I have to separate my personal feelings about the man to look at the situation using reason not personal prejudice  

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  15. Another Controversial Time Magazine or Can Black Women Catch a Break

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    Del

    I didn't consider they could be gay. Until it was suggested that they and me by extension could be gay.

    It's not relevant. What is interesting is that liking art makes one gay. We'll all rappers are gay because they are poets.

    Come on man, almost anyone over 30 almost automatically associates men who perform ballet with being gay.....and justifiably so.

    Just like Cynique wondered if Viola's male hairstylist was gay.



    Liking ballet, poetry, art, ect....doesn't necessarily make one gay.
    But some professions are just dominated by women and gay men.

    Not sure why so many male hair stylists are gay (or even if they are), but I suspect that most male ballet dancers are gay because it would be harder for a straight man to squeeze and grab on so many women all day without getting an erection.
    You are diminishing Black Gay Men. And your statements are similar to that of a Racist. No gayness has been as destructive.

    Ta-Nahesi Coates is one of the most important writers of our time. He wrote for the Atlantic  , he wrote a few issues of Marvel's Black Panther comic book. And he says he was influenced by James Baldwin's brilliance as a writer. It didn't make Coates a homosexual. Even though Baldwin's writing was informed by both his Blackness and gayness. Coates could see the brilliance of Baldwin's writing. 

    Prince is probably one of the most influential and revered musicians of our time. And was bisexual at least in the early part of his career. He didn't see borders or restrictions. He saw musical expression. 

    Perhaps people who are fluid sexually also are fluid creatively. Your dislike of the other,  mirrors fundamentalist and other racist/prejudiced people.  Which in  the absence of White Supremacy does not bode well for Black Unification. 

    I believe Prince and Miles Davis were brilliant musicians. But not socially intelligent. I can separate the art from the artist. The activist from their actions.  People have flaws and i can't vilify their success even though i dont find their character inspiring. 

     

    i admire any individual that can move confidently in a field that discriminates or  tries to exclude them.

    i don't follow Baseball but i can acknowledge the importance of Jackie Robinson. Why  because he is an inspiration to other people to fight against opposition in the quest of self expression. 

    I don't want my thinking fettered by prejudiced.  Some small minded people will see me as gay. Which isn't my problem. Why does someone's sexuality matter, unless you are attracted to them on some level.

    So my lack of discrimination or lower prejudices enabled me to be the only person to answer Mel's question , "Name two Black Men that have helped women? " To the satisfaction of both Mel and Cynique. The beauty was that Mithchell was from Harlem the Black Mecca but didn't come to mind. Since we were focusing on obvious social and political activist. Cultural activist may be the more important of the two.

     

  22. What's Wrong With This Picture?

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    On 2017-5-28 at 2:51 AM, Cynique said:

    In Hamlet by Shakespeare, this Prince of Denmark is advised:

    "This above all to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man."

    Yeah I'm constantly checking myself. To not become a sexist greedy racist homophobe. 

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  23. Another Controversial Time Magazine or Can Black Women Catch a Break

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    Troy you say that the media is portraying this stereotype. Then you say to Cynique that middle age rappers dress like 20 somethings. Q-Tip said he shops at Kmart. Nelly said it best when speaking on a panel about negative images in hip hop. I would love to make videos with positive images. But the public won't buy it."

    You have a few categories of Rap 70's through 80's.

    Party Rappers , Hustling Rappers, Social Justce, Political, and Philosophical and Super Hero , Everyman , Under Dog and Top Dog. What sells is negativity. 

    Hey Twin. You consistently say what i feel but more eloquently. Cynique you are wealth of knowledge and a treasure. 

    Thank you,

    Del

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