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That's the difference right there! They DO have better things to do, you don't.....lol.

She looks to me, like somebody recently cut from the Candace Owens wanna-be auditions.

What about stoves, refrigerators, microwaves, wall clocks at work? There are a ton of clocks that don't operate on "smart" technology that need to be manually configured. We have a a lot of immigrants and foreigners in general in the United States who have no idea about "daylight savings time"; yet they work and go to school right along side us. It seems that nobody is "in charge" of coordinating things to keep society on the same page.

I believe I did a thread on this before but...... Once again, with all of the talk and spamming and bullshit all over the internet and social media STILL very little to no mention of Daylight Savings Time and how the clocks must be turned back. Even the so-called "New" channels and sites have barely said a word about it. It makes you wonder where people's priorities are. Perhaps they're used to their computers and "smart" phones doing it automatically that most people don't give it a second thought.

Lol..... You KNOW why they do, but do you UNDERSTAND why they do? You KNOW that poor Whites vote Republican for racist reasons, but when you UNDERSTAND that they care more about maintaining and supporting the System of Racism than they care about their own personal comfort and well being....then you'll also UNDERSTAND that they don't give a fuck about SNAP benefits. ...or CLAP benefits, or STOMP benefits, or PAT-ON-ONE-KNEE-WHILE-TAPPING-YO-TOEZ benefits....lol. The ONLY "benefit" some of those poor toothless "peanut butter smeared on apple slices" eating bastards care about is the "benefit" of seeing some Black folks suffering. ....even if they have to suffer right along with them. "Hey Brian! You've been homeless for a few years now. Aren't you depressed and angry over your situation?" "No sir! Not as long as I got my buddy Tyrone over here along side of me! I'm doing just fine!"

I'm not sure about this particular case, however a lot of times the prosecution itself will downgrade the charges in the hope that it will increase the chances of conviction. If a person is charged with 1st Degree murder, an experienced Prosecutor may see that charge is so tough that even if a jury feels the person is guilty....the don't want to convict them because the sentencing may be too harsh. So the Prosecution will downgrade the charges to a level they think the jury may find more "understanding" to ensure a conviction. *I wonder how many people forgot that this DEVIL actually killed her after she said, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus" ?

ProfD Not Black folks who have some money. That's because most Black folks who have money surround themselves with non-Black folks. That's one of the reasons you see little conflict. When MORE "Black folks with money" come around, the competitions often starts. They need to let that juvenile sh8t go. There's enough female attention for every dude to get it. Lol.... That's like saying there shouldn't be any poor people because they're plenty of money out there for everybody to have some.

For me, it's hard to do that. I'm a Pan-Africanist by nature; so I have an almost instinctual drive to care about other Black people.

Yeah, but you said something....didn't you. I'm still trying to figure out what an "ageist" is....lol. Is that some sort of new religion????

It's not polite to just STARE at people. Stop standing in the room just looking and STARING at people like a scared little girl, and SAY something...lol.

Troy It's funny that you mentioned the genocide in Darfur because it happened AGAIN last night! This time at a Star Bucks I go to! There is a woman who works there from Sudan I talk to from time to time and I asked her about a recent massacre that happened at a hospital there where nearly 500 people...many of them pregnant women there for maternity reasons....were dragged out and killed. They said there were so many bodies and so much blood in that area near the hospital that you could see the carnage from space! I asked her about the situation and she mumbled something about it being on the OTHER side of Sudan and how "those people" are always fighting. Then went on to show me some pictures of a fashion boutique she want to open up back home *when* she goes back to Sudan. Man...... Talk about caring more about people than they care about themselves!

Troy Extending a basketball series requires a lot more coordination with more people. This is true. And that was the basis of HIS argument. That there were too many people involved for them to be able to pull off something like that. It's ENTERTAINMENT. Look at WWE and WWF wrestling and how so many gullible and NOT SO gullible people back in the 70s and 80s thought those wrestling matches were real before the public eventually caught on and realized that most of it was staged. That should serve as an example of how very little can be believed in the entertainment industry. Professional sports is PART of the entertainment industry.

Troy If there's a problem in the community, shouldn't you be aware of it? You have a little daughter. You probably say you don't care what kind of man she falls inlove with as long as he treats her right. However if you happen to hear her constantly say that White men are the best, only dates White men, and even catch her praying for a White boyfriend or husband from time to time.....wouldn't you find that somewhat alarming? ProfD Man, Troy don't know nothing about that....lol. During the Gangsta Rap era of the late 80s and early 90s he was somewhere at a college or university either enrolled as a student stacking up more degrees like pancakes; or focused on his job as an assistant professor. When Wille D was rapping on The World Is A Ghetto and talking about, "What's up outta towna....southern nigga downa.....I wish you WOULD bring yo" -Troy had his face buried in a pile of books studying computer science, or sitting to a desk with a red pen in his hand checking people's homework and spilling coffee on it...LOL.

Something I've noticed over the years is that when too many of our people congregate together....often times there's conflict. Too many Black men want to be "king" or rule over others. We need SPACE. We need OTHERS to show out on....not eachother. Another thing too is a lot of brothers get highly jealous of eachother over female attention. There can be a room full of Black men and women and a sprinkle of men and women of various other races. The average Black man will IGNORE the White or Latino or Arab men who are messing with Black women, but if he sees another BLACK MAN having success with the ladies...the jealousy and envy starts kicking in. He starts staring at them or finding different ways to eeeaaase up to the woman when the Black man ain't around to whisper in her ears, lol. But as I said, we need SPACE to really show out our abilities. Black people....especially Black men...do good when we're a BOLD MINORITY among other groups. If we're less than 10% of the population of a given sitting but we are assertive and bold and exercise that behavior over OTHER PEOPLE (not eachother) we tend to be very successful. Example? Go to the average all or mostly Black school in the United States....even if it's in the suburbs....and you'll see conflict and often fighting. Go to a mostly White school with a small but decent amount of Black students. You'll see Black students who are STARS of sports teams, on the honor roll, leaders in social groups, the Black boys are the most popular and the girls are flocking to them. Same thing on a lot of jobs. Go to a job site where there it's only 10% or 15% Black and you'll find a lot of Black people getting along AND in management positions. Before arguing with what I just wrote.....THINK BACK about YOUR experiences and observations and see if my words don't line up with them.

The "right questions" are the questions that will lead you to the answers/solutions to any problems or difficulties you're facing.

ProfD Really, with him it was more of a set trippin' EGO thing. We had BEEN going back and forth over the years we'd known eachother because I'm from Detroit and he was from Chicago and he figured he had something to "prove"...lol. Every disagreement we'd get in would eventually come to him claiming "yall niggaz from Detroit be like...." "yall niggaz from Detroit think yall so...." LOL. It didn't matter WHAT we were talking about. We could be talking about Popeye's Chicken vs KFC, it would eventually boil down to how Chicago got the best spots....but watch out because you might get popped. Chicago got the tallest buildings.....but don't talk shit to the wrong person or you might get tossed off of one. He always felt he had to prove to everybody how dangerous the neighborhood was he came from. He was like that with all the BLACK people he came across, but with the White folks he'd just say "good morning" and keep it pushing. I'm on one level talking about politics and the Black community. He's on another level talking about which hoods are the hardest, how many homicides did you see growing up, which city is the most ruthless. That's what HE was on. And he was in his 40s back then!

A quick wiki on him: See, the question one should ask one's self is....why were these Indians moving all through out different AFRICAN nations? First of all, why were they ALLOWED to travel in and out of these different Black nations building businesses, making money, and making connections? As mentioned in another thread, many AFRICANS don't do that much traveling to other African nations let alone do business and make connections with other Black Africans....so why the hell were THEY (the Indians and Arabs) doing it or even ALLOWED to do it? Why did his father choose SOUTH AFRICA to teach in? Reminds me of Elon Musk and HIS upbringing in South Africa.

Oh no! They REALLY don't want him then. These non-Black people who were born and raised in Black countries often tend to be the most racist. Look at those racist ass White Afrikaners of South Africa. A lot of these Arabs and Indians who were born and grew up in African countries were children of business owners and grew up with a sense of entitlement and nobility OVER the Black population. A lot of these Arabs and Indians stay in their own little groups and circles and marry among eachother and keep the money together as a "caste" or "class" over the native Black population. Hey ProfD, check this out...... I won't even do a google search on that dude, but I BET his parents either: a) Owned some sort of business there or b) Worked for the government of whatever African country he was born in Tell me I'm wrong!

ProfD You'd have to be pretty naive in the first place to NOT realize that professional sports is rigged to certain degrees. You have millions if not billions of dollars involved. OFCOURSE athletes are going to be paid off to do certain things. I got into an argument with a "brother"....a pretty intense argument ...lol....years ago over a subject similar to this. He actually pulled out a gat and flashed it. We were talking about the basketball play offs and the Lakers were one of the teams. Weeks ago I told him and some other people that it wasn't going to be a sweep and they were going to EXTEND the games. Here it was 6 or 7 games later and they were still playing and when they asked me how did I know...I said because the games were rigged so they could keep on playing and generate more money. If there was a sweep....that's the end. But if they were to go 6 or 7 games....then whoever is making money off of the events stand to make MORE. This loud mouth nigga wanted to argue with me over HOW could they pull something like that off and who all is involved and why would an athlete choose to lose or not do his best. I told him these are professional athletes with full control over their bodies they know how to MAKE a shot or MISS a shot, they know how to throw a punch or MISS a punch or take a dive and not get back up. Not all the time, but they know how. They know their bodies like machines and have control over them. They are PROFESSIONAL and they're there to MAKE MONEY....not necessarily win a game. So if they are TOLD to lose and get PAID to lose, then they'll LOSE on purpose to keep that bank roll coming in.

umbrarchist It is about money and therefore power. I get credit card offers in the mail every week. I only open them to check the interest rates. They are talking 35%. Is that more complicated than Algebra? Perhaps there's a difference between Accounting as a scholastic course and Accounting as a career. When I did a brief search for the definition of Accounting, AI provided me with: This sounds FAR more complex than Algebra. Do you think most high school students are capable of summarizing and analyzing financial information....especially at a business level?

That's another thing I've noticed. It seems like a lot of Black Americans USED TO (not so much now after interacting with them) fight hard against the racism and colonialization in Africa than Africans themselves! Back in the 90's you had so many millions of Black Americans walking around pushing Africa and wearing those red-black-green African medallions and promoting African history, but the interesting thing was.....after a lot of Africans started actually coming to the U.S....that pro-Africa vibe started to slow down, lol. When you started interacting with people and you realized that: a) They didn't see YOU as African and didn't want to have much to do with you b) They actually LIKED the people you were talking about and calling a "colonizer" and sought friendship with them. Another thing I noticed with a lot of Black immigrants is that if you find one who DOES care about his homeland.....he ONLY cares about and knows about his homeland. Not any other Black country, even if it's right next door. How many Ethiopians I've met who know nothing about Somalia, or Kenyans who know nothing about Nigeria....and don't care. Makes me wonder what these people were taught in school.

Man.... The mentality of some of these people. I TRIED to talk to a brutha from Jamaica a couple days ago about Hurricane Melissa and the impact it may have on the island and that nigga looked at me with indifference and said he "doesn't follow" that type of stuff, and proceeded to talk to me about women and who had the roundest ass.

This reminds me of how they make "insider trading" illegal when it comes to stocks, and then proceed to go after people. This all seems a bit subjective to me, because there's a fine line between what some people call "cheating" and what others call "strategy". If I get a tip that a company is about to go bankrupt or go out of business and I pull all of my stocks from it, is that cheating? If I get a tip that the star player of a team has an injury or had a bad night of drugs and alcohol the night before the big game so I place my bets on the OTHER team, is THAT cheating?

Indian/Iranian....whatever....he's a Caucasian (for the most part) man who is a member of the Democrat Party. The only thing "different" about that dude is his NAME...lol. And if he gets in....it's going to be the same ole "same ole".

umbrarchist To answer you question directly, I don't "know" it....but I believe it. According to the latest report on the literacy of U.S. students from ABC News (if we can believe them): "The report shows almost half of high school seniors are now testing below basic levels in math and reading, and approximately 35% are at or above a proficient reading level, while 32% of them had a below "basic" reading proficiency." US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend' - ABC News If half of the students test below basic math and reading....and only 35% of that "half" is for poor reading...that means a much HIGHER percentage of students are not proficient in math. As far as Accounting being more complicated than Algebra..... YOU suggested that it should be mandatory in Highschool. I learned Algebra in Middle School in the 6th or 7th grade....maybe the 8th...but definitely Middle School. It would seem to me if it were less complex, you would want it taught in Middle or even Elementary school.