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Delano

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  1. I have noticed that the twenty somethings date a person not a gender. The thing I think about the most is legitimacy and credentials. White people live in a different world as do men and women , or another group. And that does seem to be the nature of things. There is a pecking order and there is one chicken that gets pecked by all the other chickens. I think success is a chimera or it is something that we can't attain rather others confer it on us. I also have been thinking about the metrics that we use to gauge other people. I feel that is a prison that is difficult to break free totally. I saw a movie called American Pimp. To be successful is to make money literally off a women's back, give her only clothes, food and shelter. Yet not build any wealth but to be a conspicuous consumer. I am trying not to judge other people, even criticism comes easily when it is about other's deficiency instead of your own. My father said different ethnics groups control or run certain areas of life in New York City. The Irish police it, the Italians have the Mafia, the News have the Diamond District and the Blacks enjoy it. I think it's important to know what game you're in and what your time is in that game. And while I hope you find 5he answers you seek. I am glad that you are not yet bored with life. I have been experimenting with time and magic. I believe in order to be free you have to have freedom of thought. Which I think requires immersion in fields that are foreign to your natal culture or field before turning 30 or so. I am bored with life but I am interested in the nature of time and people.
  2. Yes but will there be any classes or teachers.
  3. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republicans-usual-embrace-of-trump-muted-following-criminal-referral
  4. Prof D you are wasting your time. Some people have funhouse mirrors at home. Making a complaint about complaints is like meta complaining. From a person that is constantly complaining about other not being able to write, or being able to see he has the solutions to systemic problems. I can accept criticism from Mel and Cynique, not just because they write but because they think and they are offering a critque not a criticism, that is mean spirited. Denigrating people to lift yourself never works. I have met a few writers they all seem to have a common thread. The writing is supported by intellectual accuity and the ability to see from more than one perspective. I am not going to name names but there is some confusion with being a writer, a reporter or typist.
  5. Free Radicals by Michael Brooks. He says scientist are seen as cool headed and rational. Which isn't the case.
  6. Dialogue is lost on monologuist
  7. You resemble that remark. It's not the first time your criticisms apply to you In a thread about unity, you make ad hominem attacks and make emotional statements.
  8. How can you talk about race unity and make divisive personal comments? Ego and unity appear to mutually exclusive. Using that same argument would you discount Frederick Douglas's contributions?
  9. I am amazed that reparations were paid to slave owners, to compensate them for their loss of income.
  10. We have been divided for centuries.
  11. Divide and conquer still works. I think quite a few people are complex and some are complicated.
  12. Great article she is an amazing storyteller.
  13. @Troy a former partner was a writer and I went to see her perform. It would have been circa 1989. I went out once or twice a week from 1986 until 2005. Then I got married in 2006.
  14. Is it possible to develop your identity without being influenced by community?
  15. I don't worship anyone. I acknowledge people that transcend their field. The two MacArthur genius grant winners that I met were both Black women. I also suggested another Black female author who's father started one of the Black owned newspapers in New York City. In a debate years back a question was posted by Mel. Has a Black Man ever helped women. I had an answer to that question. He can only conceive what he has experienced. Your concept of what it means to be black limits your thinking. You feel that certain fields like mathematics and philosophy are the sole domain of White men. Here's another one you selectively have forgotten. Pyramids only exist in countries of brown people. The pyramids in Guatemala are orientated to the Spring Equinox. Whereas the the ones in Egypt mark the Summer Solstice. Which is when Sirius rises the Nile floods. Spin this however your conspiratorial brain chooses to conflate fact and fantasy.
  16. Only simpletons listen to you.
  17. We are less than perfect, somamy system that is human is subject to stagnation, evolution or devolution
  18. They way you put down Black folks I thought you were white. Unlike yourself I don't hide my face. You get a lot of exercise running your mouth, jumping to conclusions and pushing your luck. However if you persist I'll get that Bronx kid on your hidden hide. Do you what you want, and I'll do what needs be done. I don't know but he's very close to getting to know the Bronx side. Clearly wants to engage, get your snacks.
  19. How was that response, @Troy
  20. Everytime you talk, my crap detector goes off Noone here is fooled by your foolishness.
  21. I was in a car doing 100 K an hour and we got past like we weren't even moving by Benz's and BMW'S, even got past by a Scirocco then realised even though it's a VW it's still German engineering. Posting data out of context is less than useful. You would have to also show average number of moles driven, number of cars. It would so bee good to segregate holiday driving out as well. Roundabouts are used quite a bit in Sydney. Traffic does stop sometimes but not for as long as a traffic light. However it makes pedestrian crossing more "exciting"
  22. I think he will. He had a vision and he is creating his own lane. They are very different filmmakers. Spike is genius at marketing and his films are very watchable. Peele is very subtle. Picking cotton saved the character in Get Out. He also gave us Daniel Kaluyaa and Lakeith Stanfield
  23. From the cops. It's how he got his name sweet back. Like in the scene with the biker crew. Where their leader is a woman. And he is challenged to fight her. That was his son Mario. He may have been the inspiration for NWA's Hundred Miles and runnin Found this , Melvin Van Peebles ...: having turned his back on a profitable three-picture deal with Columbia Pictures in response to studio resistance to his ideas,[41] he raised funds entirely in the independent sector, worked with non-union racially-mixed crews, and Having produced a film for $150,000 that grossed more than 15 million,[42] Van Peebles became an industry phenomenon. He is regarded as an innovator
  24. When Blade Runner was released it wasn't well received. Some movies get a lukewarm reception than become Cult classics or midnight movies

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