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  1. ProfD So, the Mayor could have ordered law enforcement to arrest any suspicious looking white folks en route to the Great American State Fair. No, because suspicious looking White folks is Trumps VOTER BASE....lol. The State Fair was already a flop. Arrest them and NOBODY would have attended that mug, except a few homeless people who were out there rummaging around anyway. But they should have been specific about THAT particular group. The elected officials & law enforcement were not out-smarted or out-maneuvered by white nationalists. If they weren't then that means either: 1. They were in cahoots with them or 2. They simply didn't care about the threat On what charges would DC police have been arresting the goofy white nationalists? Wearing masks while in the process of threatening behavior and ethnic intimidation. As soon as POTUS OJ would have heard that white nationalists were being detained by DC police for no reason, he would have ordered the national guard take over the city immediately. He sent them in ANYWAY...lol. Those DC police officers are smart enough to know they cannot run arresting & shooting white folks for no reason. It's never smart to make the racists think that you're a coward and unwilling to defend your community and children. That's called enabling and emboldening them.
  2. ProfD Wearing a mask is not a crime. It has to be proven that they are walking around to intimidate people. Wearing a mask is PROBABLE CAUSE....like being in an area KNOWN for gang activity or prostitution. You don't have to actually commit the crime to raise suspicion enough for an investigation. Right. The police could have harassed the white nationalists & provoked them into committing a real crime. They were a bunch of White dudes walking around unarmed in khaki pants! Provoke them into doing WHAT???? ....pulling down their pants and committing "indecent exposure"??? They weren't capable of any sort of retaliation. The white nationalists didn't attack anybody during the 4th of July weekend. We know that AFTER the fact. What if they had? I used to work 3rd shift at a gas station and one night some fool came in drunk and high acting crazy and smashing bottles threatening to do XY&Z to "muthafuckaz" before running out the door. I told my manager the ONLY way I'd work that shift again is if I could keep the door locked after certain hours and keep a fire arm in the back with me. His argument was no because the man didn't harm me. In other words, in his mind the "logical" thing to do is wait UNTIL you get harmed before thinking about protecting yourself. Apply that reasoning to these White Nationalists. Are you suggesting that we should wait UNTIL they actually harm somebody BEFORE the police step in and get involved?
  3. ProfD In the absence of being able to dismantle & destroy the system of racism white supremacy, it is extremely important to teach all FBA/AfroAmericans early & often, what the system is & how it operates to keep them imprisoned. IF they can't do anything about it, why even learn? In some cases, ignorance is bliss. If a man has a deadly incurable disease that will kill him all of a sudden....wouldn't it be best for him to not even know about it? Instead of churches teaching FBA/AfroAmericans about the sky fairy & his son & what they need to do in order to see them & have everlasting life, Black pastors should be teaching Black history & the atrocities committed against our people from slavery to present & about the system of racism white supremacy. But again if....IF...they are powerless to do anything about it anyway, all that will do is depress them and leave them with a feeling of worthlessness and even worse....hopelessness. Atleast belief in the "sky fairy" gives them hope and a reason to live life and enjoy themselves, somewhat. Black Gospel music can still write & produce & sing the feel good songs. At least, the people will be educated in the most important lessons as it relates to racism white supremacy & be better equipped to dismantle & destroy it. That doesn't sound like powerlessness. That sounds like untapped potential.
  4. On more than one occasion at more than one job White co-workers have asked me to go hunting with them or fishing with them, and I've made it crystal clear that I wouldn't go with them. I don't even like going to bars with them because like Uncle Phil said, they get a little tipsy and the men start talking race politics and telling weird ass jokes. The women almost always hit on you....infront of White men. But being the only Black person alone in the wood with a group of White men is NOT a good idea.
  5. ProfD Those brothaz either need to stop overlooking the women that are attracted to them &/or put in the work necessary to make themselves more attractive to the women they desire. True. Many of them DO attract women, but often times it's not the women THEY want....lol. Confidence is built in some people long before they find success. "Some people" doesn't equate to the majority; therefore we can't assume that it's natural or normal for a person to just automatically walk around confident before actually achieving a measure of success. A society should be designed based on the NORMAL psychological make up of it's population. Young men should first be TAUGHT how to be successful and how to conduct themselves, before being blamed for not walking or thinking like the ideal man should. However, to some women, money does make a man more attractive than he looks. Some women are attracted to THE MAN because of his ability to generate wealth for himself. Other women aren't attracted to the man at all but only THE MONEY. She'll disrespect the hell out of him, ration the coochie out to him, and even take HIS money and give it to the broke dude she may really love.
  6. That's like ICE saying they aren't going to arrest illegal immigrants unless they commit crimes and break U.S. laws. Otherwise, if they mind their own business they'll be left alone. They ARE breaking the law by being here illegally....lol. Those White Nationalists ARE committing a crime simply by wearing those masks and walking around in groups to intimidate people. But just going by what you said, that would atleast give D.C. police PROBABLY CAUSE to detain them, interrogate the shit out of them, and let them know that their presence isn't welcomed and their behavior won't be tolerated in D.C. That's.....ofcourse....if the D.C. police were SERIOUS about protecting Black people from racist mobs. Perhaps they see the Black citizens of D.C. as more of a threat to public safety than those White nationalists.
  7. Unless this 2019 law was repealed, it's crystal clear that walking around D.C. with a mask on threatening or intimidating people is ILLEGAL. So my question is, why wasn't this law used by Black Law Enforcement officials in D.C. to prevent those masked White racists from marching around the city trying to intimidate people?
  8. 2019 District of Columbia Code Title 22 - Criminal Offenses and Penalties. Chapter 33 - Trespass; Injuries to Property. § 22–3312.03. Wearing hoods or masks.Universal Citation: DC Code § 22–3312.03 (2019) Learn more PreviousNext (a) No person or persons over 16 years of age, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, shall: (1) Enter upon, be, or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road highway, or other public way in the District of Columbia; (2) Enter upon, be, or appear upon or within the public property of the District of Columbia; or (3) Hold any manner of meeting or demonstration. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section apply only if the person was wearing the hood, mask, or other device: (1) With the intent to deprive any person or class of persons of equal protection of the law or of equal privileges and immunities under the law, or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of the United States or the District of Columbia from giving or securing for all persons within the District of Columbia equal protection of the law; (2) With the intent, by force or threat of force, to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person because of his or her exercise of any right secured by federal or District of Columbia laws, or to intimidate any person or any class of persons from exercising any right secured by federal or District of Columbia laws; (3) With the intent to intimidate, threaten, abuse, or harass any other person; (4) With the intent to cause another person to fear for his or her personal safety, or, where it is probable that reasonable persons will be put in fear for their personal safety by the defendant’s actions, with reckless disregard for that probability; or (5) While engaged in conduct prohibited by civil or criminal law, with the intent of avoiding identification. (Mar. 10, 1983, D.C. Law 4-203, § 4, 30 DCR 180.) DC Code § 22–3312.03 (2019) - Wearing hoods or masks. :: 2019 District of Columbia Code :: U.S. Codes and Statutes :: U.S. Law :: Justia
  9. According to you, they are powerless TO do anything about it....lol. Maybe they're doing the best they can.
  10. ProfD School, work, church, bars, clubs, social gatherings, etc. Plenty places for men & women to interact It's not ACCESS to women that's the problem, it's the INTERACTION ITSELF that so many bruthaz are complaining about. Confidence isn't a primary trait in men. Often times, it has to be built up in them. True. However again, confidence is primarily built by SUCCESS. Unless you're high on cocaine....you're probably not going to walk around with your chest stuck out and eyes bright confident for no reason what so ever. Confidence is built upon the memory of pass successes. Maybe we live in different worlds. I know what I see, hear & witness on a regular basis & over a lifetime of experience. There is no maybe, we definitely do....lol. I told you that you live in WAKANDA. When I mention the problems I see in society, YOU act like you have no idea what I'm talking about because everything is groovy and gravy where YOU live...lol. In your community Black people have plenty of intelligence, plenty of money, nice houses, the men don't have problems with women, and racism exists but doesn't seem to affect Black success. I've already mentioned that being able to afford i.e. pay makes some men more attractive to women. Well...now you're pivoting just a little....lol. Now you're admitting that money makes SOME men more attractive. We all know that. You were talking like that's ALL any man needs to get any woman he wants. Just walk around with a fat bank of 100s rolled up in a rubber band, licking thumbs and peeling off bills....lol. Troy I don’t recall that conversation, but I can tell you one thing with 100% certainty those brothers don’t want a woman, and that’s perfectly fine. I'm not around them 24 hours a day 7 days a week, but I know them pretty well and neither of them give off "gay vibes". I've heard them express attraction to certain women many times. Now HOW BADLY they want a woman? I'm not sure. Perhaps....like ProfD constantly says....they are lazy and don't feel like putting in the work. But I say they shouldn't have to try TOO hard anyway, they should be generating a certain amount of attraction naturally. Like you said, too many women are going out to these clubs and bars and hanging out with THEMSELVES instead of making themselves available to the men in their environment.
  11. ProfD I do not believe Mayor Bowser could have gotten laws on the books in time to stop white nationalists from marching into DC. As Mayor, she has Executive Privilege. She could have given all of the law enforcement under her authority direct orders to monitor and apprehend the participants of that demonstration. DC elected officials & law enforcement probably knew white nationalists were coming into the city to attend their Great American State Fair. They couldn't do a d8mn thing about it. Maybe they knew, maybe they didn't....but it's a shame that a handful of goofy White dudes in masks can outsmart and out maneuver officials for the Capital of the West. Don't say they "couldn't" do anything about it, say they WOULDN'T do anything about it. Physically, they absolutely had the power to do so. Just like our brother in the Capital on January 6th. The act doesn't infringe on their constitutional rights either. Those rights are for INDIVIDUALS, not groups....unless they become incorporated. The act was ignored shortly after it was enacted. And that's one of the problems. The laws to eliminate them DO exist, they just aren't bein enforced. Again, I don't expect White officials to enforce them.....I expect BLACK officials to. Also, a whole bunch of white racists including KKK members are in law enforcement in the south. True. And a rhetorical question is: why is that? Most of the Black people in America live down South. So why do so many Republicans and other racists have so much political power in the South? I've said over and over again that there is NO WAY....given the size of the Black population of those states...that Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisianna should have White Republican Governors! No way. All the niggaz packed up together down there, and they let RACISTS run the fucking state???? All of that Black economic power in Atlanta, and they allow a REPUBLICAN White governor over Georgia? Black law enforcement didn't want the smoke that would have jumped off if they had confronted those white nationalists who were exercising their constitutional rights. What smoke? Who would come to their immediate rescue? Physically? Black officers in D.C. have weapons and training and have the LEGAL right to use them, now the white nationalists. So who is going to swarm into D.C. to fight law enforcement on their behalf? Again bro, it's an INTELLIGENCE factor at play here. Even when Black people get into positions of power a lot of our people don't have sense enough to USE those positions to further empower the community.
  12. ProfD I didn't know there was a place men could go to be instructed in attracting women. They learn if from the streets, from the internet, from their big brother, from their daddy...lol. IF they learn it at all. Some men don't learn. I think there SHOULD be an official place where men learn how to relate to women as well as women learn how to relate to men. Similar to the Rites of Passage Troy mentioned earlier. Learn the TRUTH instead of a bunch of lies, stereotypes, and confusion. They don't have to learn how to play games. Attracting women takes confidence. Confidence comes with Success. If you aren't Successful....you aren't going to be too confident. Unless you're DELUSIONAL. In that case...it's all in your head. If confidence was the real key, no man would be rejected or dissed because he WAS confident enough to approach her in the first place...lol. Feel free to change it but thrle fact remains, a man doesn't have to be handsome or intelligentor wealthy or worldly or sophisticated to attract women. He doesn't need ALL of those attributed, but he better have SOMETHING. A broke, stupid, ugly dude with no charisma isn't going far...no matter how "confident" he is in his own mind. I know a whole lotta dudes who are unattractive in every sense of the word yet they never have a problem getting women. Confidence is their asset. You're not seeing the whole picture....lol. If they were attractive in ever sense of the word, they WOULDN'T have women. They are doing something to attract or keep them, or PAYING these women....lol. Again, confidence comes with success. A successful man is confident because OF his successes. Now confidence and courage will often BRING success because you're willing to take more risks and more chances, which brings you more opportunity.
  13. ProfD The Mayor issued policy giving law enforcement authority to stop & frisk. Ok, so why couldn't THIS mayor (Bowser) do the same? Was Giuliani some sort of exception to the rule? Did he have special powers at his personal disposal not privy to other mayors? Just like Trump comes in doing whatever the hell he wants to do but other Presidents like Obama are "forced" to play by the rules and their hands are tied. What would they have charged with if no laws were broken? As I said before, EVERYBODY in America is breaking a law at some point in time....usually all the time. There are literally MILLIONS of laws on the books from local to Federal, most of them just aren't enforced. If they wanted to and were serious they could have found a law or just "probable cause" to stop and detain those men on suspicion. They failed. Infact, they did WORSE than fail....they didn't even try. Didn't even care. A bunch of White racist nationalists marching through a mostly (still.....I guess) Black city, and the city leaders didn't do shit about it. There is no legal designation of the KKK as a such a group. Protect DemocracyThe Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, explainedThe Ku Klux Klan Act used nearly all of Congress’s constitutional powers to respond to the Klan’s coordinated political violence and intimidation. Even better, Congress passed an entire Act against them way back in the 1800s! My question is since the laws were on the books, why weren't they enforced? By BLACK Law Enforcement??? I'm not asking why White folks didn't go after the KKK; that's obvious. My question is why have so many Black law enforcement in states like Alabama and Mississippi who are in power to do something, haven't used this Act to go after them? He was legally within his right to take that shot & he's still free because of it. That's proof right there that when Black folks stop making excuses, acting scary, and get up off their ass....we can be successful defeating the racists. Maybe not all of them, but SOME of them. Again, these niggaz running D.C. didn't even TRY. Just stood there with some shiny lips and some big titties poked out, staring at them and scratching their heads looking at eachother as they marched by in confederate flags.
  14. ProfD A man can shoot his shot without being crass or disrespectful. How he reacts to getting shot down is the key. For some men, this comes natural. Others have to be taught. The fact that healthy young men need to even LEARN how to play games like this is the problem. Most of their time and energy should be focused on building, and the women should automatically come....in my opinion. A real man knows how to shoot his shot without subscribing to &/or taking pills. Women will respond accordingly. I would change that from a "real" man to a "wordly" or "sophisticated" man. Ofcourse a "fly guy" knows how to get down when it comes to social situations, but that ain't most men. It's ideal to have a high social IQ.....but I don't think it makes you more of a "real man" than the nerd or lame or square who may be just as masculine but more awkward in social situations. There's no other explanation for 8 billion people on this planet. Somebody is scoring. Outside of the West, where there is a lot of friction, confusion, and imbalance between males and females....through out most of Asia and Africa where you still have traditional societies and traditional roles for men and women, that's where most of the population is coming from. Even here in the West the women are still having children, but they're having them under what I consider "duress". Having children by mistake, not wanted, or with dysfunctional men they were simply attracted to. East Asian men are the most feminine, wimpy, game goofy men in this society but most of them are almost "guaranteed" a woman in Asia.....those who want one. Because their society and culture values men for their productivity rather than their "coolness". Troy The incell dudes, who spent more time online than in the real world probably learn how to treat women from porn sites and are then severely disappointed when actual women don't behave the way they do in porn videos... I dunno. We use that word "incel" pretty freely but actually the true incels are a right-wing political ideology. They are a bunch of racist White males who aren't getting women and they believe the reason is because of Black and Latino men. Outside of them..... The Black men who aren't getting women have their own unique reasons for not being able to do so aside from the White men. I remember telling you about a couple of Black men I know who are over 60 and never had girlfriends. They aren't ugly and aren't broke, but are very shy and considered weird. In a normal society the fact that they look decent and have enough money to support themselves and others should be enough, but in a society where psychological GAMES are played by males and females on eachother...this is their lot.

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