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Some even liken the human brain to an ANTENNA.... Not only receiving information but TRANSMITTING it!

Troy Yes, you rejected Barack and James. on what grounds do you justify accepting Colson into the black race while rejecting the other two. Because he clearly LOOKS like a Black man. His features are predominately African which fits him squarely inside the African race. Do you accept the author Howard French into the so-called Black race? Him? No. He's clearly heavily mixed with Caucasian. By the way, I’d accept all of these men as Black men. That's your right. And by America’s historical standards, these men are unequivocally black. It depends WHICH "historical standards". Based on the standards of RECENT history, many of them would fall under the "biracial" category. Again this points to how subjective and indeed pointless, it is to group human beings in this manner. It's not pointless. Racial categorization absolutely has a point and serves a purpose even if you don't accept or agree with it.

It's so hard to get full and unedited videos on the internet of incidents like this. I haven't followed it that much but from the little bit I did pick up on, they said the physical altercation started with a White mans lapping a brutha. One thing is for sure..... Fox News is having a field day with this. Every day for 2 weeks now they're running specials on this day and night, lol.

Probably because much of that "advanced technology" actually CAUSED many of the diseases and other problems that didn't exist, in the first place. The "start a problem and offer a solution" ruling strategy is almost as old as "divide and conquer"

Hundreds???? Try THOUSANDS. Especially Black females. As the good Professor said many of them fall off the grid, but in some other cases things more nefarious happen to them. Either them or their bodies end up on the Black Market for various reasons.

We already have a number of all White towns and cities in the United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest in places like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Like most things exclusive to Whites, it's just not explicitly CALLED "White only". It just IS, defacto. As AfroAmericans, we need to establish a solid presence in every state and probably every county in this nation....just because. However I'd like to see us CONCENTRATE our economic, political, and social power in the South East in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. That territory should be indisputably ours.

I've talked about several times one of the reasons I'm no longer religious. I expected things to happen that didn't. This recent war between Israel and Iran and what's happening in Gaza is a good example. It flared up...and died down. If I were still religious and believed in the Bible I probably would have quit my job and prepared for "the end" because of how things looked. It looked like the end of the world was right around the corner; only for them to be sitting around in cafes with their legs crossed in sandals sipping on coffee again. But now I know better. Some may think that's silly to even believe that in the first place...... However it's not for those who SINCERELY believe in what they espouse. Christian theology TEACHES that when you see these things the "end" is near. It's taught. And it's been taught for HUNDREDS of years. ....another reason I stopped believing. Whether it's religion or conspiracy theories, it seems as if a lot of people are so cognitive dissonant that they can stare contradictions in the face and not think twice about them and even promote them WHILE living a life totally opposite of what they're teaching and claiming to believe. They claim Jesus is coming back soon, yet their buying mortgages on houses and sending their children to college to get degrees and good jobs -yet claiming the world is going to end. It doesn't make sense to ME as to why they even hold on to doctrines they clearly deep down don't believe in. Human psychology is amazing.

What was there to investigate? I'm no lawyer but it seemed like he said and did things on live television (let alone what was happening behind the scenes) that clearly broke the law. They just CHOSE not to go after him for it. Just like the law clearly states he can't accept gifts from foreign governments but he just accepted a jet from Qatar anyway, lol. He's simply doing whatever he wants to do, and has BEEN doing it.

Troy This is a contradiction. A contradiction is asserting two directly OPPOSING positions. What two positions have I asserted that directly oppose eachother? Back in the day when Malcolm X was asked how he felt about White people supporting his organization he said that they could support it financially and in other ways -but they can't join it. There can be no Black/White unity until there's some Black unity first. That wasn't a contradiction, it was a specifically detailed condition of how they could support him and his cause. Things don't necessarily have to be ALL or NOTHING; there are levels and degrees. So you want Black people to be in charge bestowing the title of D.j. and MC, to decide who can call themselves an MC or D.j.? am I understanding you correctly? Yes. Black leaders in the Hiphop community. I'm not sure how likely this would be, but it's something I'd like to see.

You want me to "explain" why THIS man should be labeled as Black?????

It seems like we were far more united in the 90s. Minister Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton were pretty much the undisputed leaders for most AfroAmericans, including the grassroots. Never in a million years would you have thought there would be Black people supporting Donald Trump or running Conservative internet shows, lol.

What's disappointing is that despite the major 2024 Election loss, there STILL is no major push in the AfroAmerican community to form our own political party. You SEE the ship sinking, but instead of abandoning it.....you start grabbing buckets and shit trying to scoop up water to toss overboard.

Talk about a "straw man".......lol. When have I said Whites couldn't participate and make music in Hiphop??? They can absolutely participate. Just don't CLAIM it as their own or go around wearing titles almost exclusively among themselves without being sanctioned by us to wear them.

Troy If it was so easy to determine race, why do we have so much difficulty doing it What do you mean "we"???? Lol.... Determining the race for most people isn't difficult. It's simply a matter of categorizing them according to society's standards for Racial Categorization The most difficult part...especially in places like the United States...is getting most people in society to AGREE on the same standards. Thus you have: you don’t think Homer Plessey was black. You don’t think well to white was black. But but the nation, including the Supreme Court the Supreme Court disagrees with you. There in lays the problem. Different people with different standards for who qualifies for what race. In societies where most people agree, you don't have that problem. In the past in some parts of the South you had the one drop rule where ANY Black ancestry got you put in the "Black" or "Colored" Racial category. That was pretty easy. Do you think Barack Obama is black? No. How about the authors James McBride No and Colson Whitehead? Yes At the end of the day, the fact that there is no genetic test for race should be sufficient proof to you that there is no genetic basis for race. In a society where race is determined by skin color and other physical features, there usually is no need for a test because racial categorization is based upon PHENOTYPE...not GENOTYPE.

umbrarchist I am not going to dispute with you about YOUR REALITIES. I don't consider them just "my" Realities, so much as they are Realities period that others can access. To me, people who can Believe that a 200 ton airliner including the 34 tons of jet fuel (mostly kerosene) can totally destroy a 500,000 ton building without even thinking about the distribution of steel do not comprehend enough about Physical Reality to go into details about much stuff with. The scientific/physics laws of THIS Reality may not necessarily apply to OTHER Realities. Which is why some people can fly in their dreams or build entire buildings by simply moving their fingers; but when they wake up and return back to THIS Reality, it may take 15 years and 1000 men just to build the same structure.

Cynique is. Those are HER words, not my "strawman" attributing them to her.

Because you don't need one. ....any more than you need a "test" to distinguish a polo shirt from a button down.

Cynique The only one "befuddled" is you.......MUTHA FUDDLE. If White people gave themselves the titles "DJ This" and "MC That", then produce a document proving this. I'm not talking about them acting in the capacity OF a DJ or MC, but incorporating the actual TITLE in their names.

I'm not sure about your actual mind itself but BEYOND your mind where other Realities exist, this is true. There are Realities where the North Tower cannot be destroyed and is still standing right now. Your mind can TAKE you there.

Umbrarchist Lol.... Are you sure? What about your dream life?

frankster They remain inalienable....they can be denied What exactly do you mean be "denied"???? You ask a question that you refuse to give a straight answer to....means it is not a genuine question but a gambit. The QUESTION ITSELF was straightfoward. You simply refused....and still refuse...to answer it.

I still remember the scene where Cliff and Theo were having that discussion about education and money in Theo's future. As they exchanged scenarios Cliff would take money out of Theo's hand and Theo would come up with slick ways to live cheaply and take his money back. -I'll live in New Jersey instead of New York -I'll ride a motorcycle instead of driving a car Cliff kinda smiled at him and asked him did he plan on having a girlfriend and Theo said "Ofcourse" and Cliff reached over and took almost ALL of the money in Theo's hand...LOL. Shit like that.......

Troy Is it so hard to believe that people would disagree with you based upon your statements? If those people are other AfroAmericans over 30 years of ag....yes? Because they've been around enough and seen enough to KNOW that I'm right and wouldn't put up an argument. What Black person over 30 hasn't already recognized that we are the innovators, originators, and give style and flavor to the United States????? Why is that even an argument among OUR particular demographic??? ...unless your VERY NAME is "Contrarian". Cynique "MC"(Master of Ceremonies) and "DJ" (Disc Jockey) have their origin in America's white culture. They didn't give themselves those TITLES until we started doing it in Hiphop.

Gene Pool = Humanity Groups with different genes in that pool = Races

frankster Is it Physically True as in Biologically based....No or Is it based on Social and Political Drives....Yes Truth is truth. Doesn't matter if it's "physically true" or "biologically true". Either it's true or it's not. Race is based in and on Politics Race IS political, however it can be BASED IN many other things besides politics. ...A form of politics rooted in the desire to create a permanent divide between human beings based on their physical appearances. If they look different physically, the division is ALREADY there. Perhaps what you mean is that division is just being EXPLOITED for political purposes. Science demands distinctiveness.....For race to be genetic Race IS genetic....depending on what the distinctiveness is based on. If the distinctiveness is based on PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES then it IS genetic. There must be a distinctive and or totally different gene or set of genes that is exclusive to one race and is absent in the other race...This has not be found. It absolutely HAS been found. Which is why there are genes for blonde hair and genes for dark skin. As @Troy keep telling you but you seemed to miss or ignore is that there is more genetic diversity in and among Africans than between African and Europeans even though their appearance is some strikingly different. I haven't missed nor ignored it. The point is simply irrelevant. Besides, perhaps there are DIFFERENT RACES among Africans that account for that genetic diversity. Ever thought of that????