Cynique

Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. I'm sure what you write others might read but be advised that I couldn't care less about your incoherent addle-brained opinions on any subject. Yawnnnnnn

Since you're so good at delving back into the archives and have the gall to attempt to discuss the subject of irony, why don't you show some guts and print exactly what I said about Emmit Till's death which was that I found it ironic that 3 years before his lynching I was living in a newly integrated dorm on the campus of the university of Illinois where we had maid service and were served by white waiters in the dining room. Stop using this story as a smoke screen for your lies and distortions and misinterpretations, and tell the truth. Hard for you to do I know. But I'm not surprised at how low you would stoop to save face. You're pathetic.

When I say a "white-girl vibe" it's not about using proper grammar or presenting oneself in a wholesome way. It's a very subtle thing. Simone is perky, and the cadence and timbre of her speech is in the white teen age girl vernacular. I'd be willing to bet that she is also a Taylor Swift fan. Just an observation on my part and I'm sure she couldn't care less about my assessment. Obviously, with her fame and fortune she can act anyway she wants.

If she was a feminine looking hermaphrodite who wanted to compete with men in a track and field event like high jumping or pole vaulting, would the men feel resentful?

The south side of Chicago is an urban ghetto, among other things. And your being in denial does not undo this.

@Sara LOL Feel better now that you've vomited your envy? Thanks for providing me with the belated gift of laughter. Your ignorance is comical. You really do believe that anybody who claims they had an idyllic childhood, - and there are millions of people both and black white, who say this, - is lying and fantasizing. Stupid people like you can't deduce that youth is an interlude in life's journey, a time of innocence and simpleness that can very well give rise to a halcyon existence. But, no, let you tell it, everybody had a dull upbringing in a dreary environment and they just make up things to tell people because the are unfulfilled. SMH. Get a life! The ongoing subject of your spiteful vitriol reveals so much about you; your repetitive litany and your unbridled resentment speak volumes. Worst of all is the pettiness that is a symptom of your arrested development. You've never gotten pass the playground phase in your thinking. I'm always expecting your to add a "nana nana nah nah" at the end of your posts with their silly emojis. You really are a dysfunctional nutcase. Just so you won't be disappointed, however, I will favor you with a final insult: sara. BTW, my leaving you out of my shout-outs, was a form of manipulation. I knew you were itching to show up on this post - and you did. LMAO.

My, my, we've been busy haven't we? Probably spent the whole week-end going over in your head how you were going to storm onto Cynique's Corner and show some balls! LMAO. I can see you now, frantically writing and rewriting your rebuttals which are nothing more than you putting your spin on issues in a lame attempt to dazzle people with a lot of convoluted drivel and, as usual, quotes from other people. Yawn. And I'm still chuckling at your error-filled dissertation, telling black folks that they once knew how to swim. No shit. Who doesn't know that any athlete of any color can become a good swimmer, under the right conditions. Puleeze. Nobody is surprised that black people were and can be good swimmers because we all know people who were and are. You are deluded into thinking that everything you say or write is a great revelation rather than something that anybody with any critical thinking skills can't figure out for themselves. But critical thinking is a foreign concept to you. And why don't you get some new material? That tired old distorted reference about Emmitt Till and Rosa Parks is so played out, along with the flashbacks that enable you to go into intricate detail about the habits of old women because being raised by such women made you an expert on them. For somebody who thinks they are so sharp, you are really dim-witted. You need to step back and ask yourself why my reminiscences offend you so? You are fixated on them! Why do they send you into such a frenzy? They don't bother anybody but you. I have noted that my childhood is not as rare as some people might perceive it to be. Others are the ones who find it different . What distinguishes my reflections is that they span 83 years of the American experience, Dummy. But because you are such a pathological liar, you think everybody else is, and you want everyone to focus on your "easy-A" black history ramblings that anybody who attended a community college can yap about. ROTFLOL Transparency, thy name is sara.

Simone has become anglicized. Her hair may be black but her vibe is "white-girl". She did have the good graces to not fawn over Zac when he showed up backstage at the Olympics, acting like a goof ball, apparently expecting her to be ecstatic, but she just gave him a shy hug and stepped back. The NBA hoopsters didn't show any restraint in cheering on the scantily-clad Amazons on the Women's Volley ball team. Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps were having a contest to see who could be the biggest ham, and they both deserved gold medals for grandstanding. And once again America's men relay team messed up with the baton pass causing them to be disqualified. Fortunately the team running another men's relay event came through and won, as did the women relay teams. Black athletes really gave a good accounting of themselves in the Olympics this year. There was even a black dude who ran for Japan, the offspring of a Japanese mother and black father. Gaby did "medal" in her events, so doesn't have to hang her head, get her hair done or place her hand over her heart during the national anthem. She can thumb her nose at her critics, however.

@SaraGo somewhere and jack-off, - like you usually do when your penis gets hard.

@Pioneer1 LOL I always suspected sara had a penis, and her emoticon proves it. Save your golden showers for this trannie who obviously has the hots for you. Try a "masculated" creature. You might like it.

@Troy When I first read the Willie Lynch letter, I thought to myself that the slave masters certainly were ahead of their time when it came to the techniques of mind control. But I had also heard how they refused to allow slaves to learn to read in order to keep them ignorant, so I figured this was just an extension of that. When I found out the letter was a hoax, my cynical reaction was that it was just like American history, full of half-truths and BS, and I filed it away with how the slave masters used the bible to justify slavery. IMO, black people bought into this letter because it gave them a rationale as to why slaves were held down for so long and also allowed them to empathize with their forefathers and justify their own inadequacies and insecurities when it came to dealing with white America. I further believe the slave masters did use physical abuse and brainwashing to intimidate and break down the slaves so, while the letter was a hoax, the reason why it was believable was because it made sense. Do you think the letter did any harm?

I applaud your mission to advocate for the truth, Troy. But as a black person, by doing this, you risk dealing with some hard realities that may take you out of your comfort zone. I have observed that when you point out certain things and tell people to "get real", others will regard you as being "negative". That's why "it is, what it is", has become my credo.

Black male swimmers competed in and earned medals in the 2012 Olympics. Tiger Woods, who preferred to called multi-racial, was not the first professional golfer of color. In 1975, famous trail-blazer, Lee Elder, became the first black to compete in the Masters and continued making the rounds of the PGA circuit until he retired in 2005.

Some people can see past their noses and are able to embrace the broad scope of the real world which includes idyllic days, as opposed to others who are resentful, mentally stagnant and afflicted with the post traumatic stress of the dreary little worlds they grew up in, preferring to escape these flashbacks by romanticizing black Seminoles. America has never stopped being white so the interpretation of making it "white again" is not on point. A desperate Donald Trump is now inviting black people to join the ranks of his supporters, telling them they have nothing to lose. It's not about white or black, it's more about lifestyles and mind-sets.

Thanks, to the great guy who shares my initials!

I don't know about the presidential election, but for any state, country, or local elections, once it became predominately black in the late 1970s, Maywood with its population of about 27,000, would do good to muster up a voter turn-out of more than 25%. People in this town became notorious for not voting, disgusted with their inept and corrupt village officials, not to mention the county and state ones. Also, Maywood currently has a substantial Hispanic population and there is no clear reason as to whether they would be particularly devoted to Obama. In the last election Obama's Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, was a bland moderate, who blacks disenchanted with Obama may very well have voted for. But I don't think Trump will win very much of their vote in November. I'll admit i'm biased when it comes to Trump supporters. What would you call his supporters, eager to make America great again?

Everybody yearns for the good ol days. Humans think Life owes them something and then when it becomes more of an adversary than an ally, they filter out the good memories from the past and focus on them. This is an escape mechanism. Concerning blacks, when I went to the U. of I, during the early 1950s, the black population on this huge campus of over 25,000 was about 500 at the most. So all of us blacks associated and socialized with each other. We came from little towns and villages from all up and down the state of Illinois as well larger places like Chicago and Springfield. And many of my black school mates had backgrounds similar to mine. In their hometowns they were the minority where whites were the majority, and we were all able to co-exist in such environments because our small numbers made us nonthreatening. We stayed to ourselves, and created our own little communities within the dominant one. And we had all perfected our double consciousness, presenting one face for whites and one for our own folks. And in my day, Maywood's sedate little black community was the recipient of many of the things that accrued to whites, especially when it came to the schools which were top notch during this time. I kinda think these are untold stories, and are not as rare as one might think. In fact, my father who was raised on a Kansas farm, went to a one-room school house that was integrated, and he often talked about his "Tom Sawyer" way of life back in the early 1900s. I'm sure, of course, it was quite different in the Jim Crow South. Nowadays my kids, who range in age from 45 to 58, have taken to talking about "the good old days", which they seem to measure in terms of music and styles. They look back fondly on the '70s and '80s; the R&B Soul train times with the Afros, bell bottoms and platform shoes being the rage, and the MTV days with the videos of Prince and Michael Jackson, and the Disco era of Donna Summer. And actually, those 2 decades were kind of a pleasant interlude.There was no major war, the economy was fairly stable, drugs had not yet reached epidemics portions in their environment and - best of all there was no social media to addict and stultify young folks. IMO, malcontents make up a large portion of Donald Trump's followers. They don't like how Liberals expect them to be tolerant of those who are different, They don't like what they perceive as interference by big Government in their lives, they don't like America being soft on terrorism but they love their guns and embrace their religious hypocrisy. Above all, they don't like a nigger running the country or the prospects of a "cunt" replacing him. When they say make America great again, they mean reaffirming their right to be assholes.

No matter what the circumstances are, Twitter and trolls exist, and they are a part life in a the social media lane. The mean things said about Gaby have been released into the cyber world and have a ripple effect for all to see. And if there is a grain of truth in the ridicule, whether people voice it themselves, many secretly agree with the criticism, and chuckle under their breath. Gaby needs to learn to cope with life instead of dissolving into tears of self pity. She should use Twitter to redeem herself. One paragraph written in response to all of her critics could squelch them, because she possesses a talent that they don't! "The same fire that melts wax, makes steel hard". Enough with being a wimp! And enough of wishing that what has become an institution in our society is going to go away because it's wrong. That's not how things work. Children have to be taught to be civil and considerate because these traits don't come natural to them, It's naive to expect integrity from folks who can hide behind the hash tags and screen names. that enable them to release their inner child.

I made it! Today is my birthday. 83 years ago during the throes of The Great Depression, the doctor my Daddy worked for, delivered me in the bedroom of the home where I lived in Maywood, Illinois, an idyllic village where I spent a carefree childhood, surrounded by playmates, playing house, jumping rope, roller skating, playing hopscotch, getting sprayed with the garden hose, starting high school, going to football and basketball games, cheering on the teams of Proviso high school, leaving for college at the U of I., making more great friends and enjoying fun times, then completing my education at the Registry Department of the U.S. Post Office, soon getting married to a special guy, later having kids, finally buying a home, eventually burying loved ones, and at the age of 77, leaving my beloved hometown, taking up residence with a daughter in a neigboring suburb, currently grateful for being retired for 24 years, fortunate enough to have a great family support group. Am I lucky, or what? Now, I'm taking things one day at at time, hoping I can live long enough to see a woman elected president or, if not, to watch the decline of the American Empire. C'est la Vie. Thanks AALBC for allowing me to share my thoughts and historical reminiscences with you over the years, and a shout out to Troy, Chris, Pioneer, Del and Harry for stimulating my mind with your intellectual brilliance and home-spun wisdom, for familiarizing me with your technical expertise, and for giving me the benefit of your psychic gifts. Luv you guys!

@CDBurns Obviousoy I don't agree with the idea of people ignoring the things others say about them online, believing this to be is an effective response in that doing so neutralizes what a detractor says. But does it? Or do offenders derive satisfaction from thinking they have intimidated their target into silence? An object of ridicule or abuse is entitled to at least one retort, preferably one that will squelch the offender. Gaby should stand up and defend herself.and, in her case, this wouldn't be hard to do. People can also be manipulated into being silent. IMO Poor Gaby kinda exemplifies the "be careful what you wish for or you might get it" caveat. Celebrities have to deal with all the slings and arrows that come with being in the arena of fame or - with having someone else steal your thunder... But she's young and hopefully resilient.

Are we confused? I'm not; but you seem to be. Pioneeeeer. Sara needs her ears scratched!

Gotcha again, So stop waggin your tail. ROTFLOL

Bow-Wow!

I would agree that my perceptions are simply what I see. But I have an open mind about what they indicate.. I can't decide whether being shown all the places you mentioned by someone with an ulterior motive, wouldn't be a form of manipulation..

No, i didn't. I keep telling you that what you describe does not appear on my screen.