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Really? I had no idea it was that easy for them to move around like that. I do know in a lot of companies high salaried people bounced around from one position to another and then often found nice cushy jobs in other firms as easily is going out and buying a new television.

Dr. Wesley Muhammad often mentions this subject about the cannibalism that took place during Slavery.

Troy Years ago, I dyed my goatee, but I'm too lazy/cheap to keep it up. The problem with dying facial hair is that it grows back too quickly. And those stubbles... There's not much you can really do with them except let them grow long enough to dye or shave them off...lol. ProfD I was waiting on the ladles to login and answer your questions. You'll be waiting a mighty long time...... -if you're waiting on some of the ladies who post on THIS site to respond, lol. I've never really been attracted to younger women so what they think of how I look hasn't mattered to me. Since I've been an adult, I've always loved older women myself. However I'm seeing a lot of women in their 30s who are mature mentally and there is a genuine attraction despite the age difference. Some women are just MATURE whether they're 30 or 60. They know how to act. if all you really want to do is bed a woman, ask her directly, how much it would cost to press that snatch box. Since you laid some advice on me, let me off a bit of advice for you..... Asking her WHAT would it cost is much less insulting and far sexier than asking "how much" would it cost?

Troy My first Job out of college was with a GE (at the time the multinational conglomerate was a household name). I remember the commercials. GE - we bring good things to life ...lol The fight against DEI is not just about DEI. They are not just firing people, they are destroying records, a high-tech book burning. This is serious business... Yeah, not just in academic institutions but in government institutions as well. I heard they're going to various police departments and erasing the records of misconduct, abuse, and brutality by officers. ProfD DEI has a flavor similar to Affirmative Action. Same concept made necessary in a system built on white male privilege. And it seems to be just about as effective in actually ending discrimination in the work place....both being MINIMAL. It seems to me that the ONLY Black people who benefit from either DEI or Affirmative Action have been SOME of those who were fortunate to go through and graduate from Universities. And what percentage of AfroAmericans is THAT???? What about the masses of our people who need jobs and many of them are victims of discrimination, racism, harassment, and passed up promotions but these are non-Corporate jobs in the Service Industry or Manufacturing? That's where the MAJORITY of our people are and that's where these programs should be. A company gets sued because while BOTH are making over $100,000 a year...the Black Engineer is making $10,000 a year less than the White one. That's worthy of a law suit and media attention. Meanwhile, in that SAME company on the work floor...you have a racist White Supervisor who is firing Black men left and right as soon as they walk through the door or NOT hiring them to begin with and is sexually harassing Black women and making racist jokes. ....but no "Affirmative Action" or "DEI" program to deal with THAT shit. So who are they fooling with these bullshit programs???

Troy Al Sharpton, said Trump could just pardon him, but he won't because they need Eric as Mayor and their leash. He will not resign. The people resigning are not playing one guys said only a coward or a fool would actually drop the charge. I think it's foolish for them to resign and lose their jobs simply for not doing what they were told to, even though it doesn't help or hurt them personally one way or the other. Damn..... They really want to go after a Black man don't they! This isn't about "justice" in my opinion because they could have "resigned" over more pressing matters. Some of these people REALLY want to see this Black man prosecuted, which is even more angering. I hope the charges are dropped (as Dr. Umar Johnson would say) FOR GOOOOOD......lol. And I hope he stays in office. Not for Trump's sake, but just to see a Black man survive and thrive in the face of his opposition.

Troy Look at any ghetto and you will find payday loans check, cashin businessesg, any credit card with exorbitant interest rates some of them over 30% these all contribute to keeping poor people poor destroying entire generations I understand your argument however consider the alternatives: 1. Robbing people to get quick cash instead? 2. Selling dope for quick cash? While you're looking at these businesses as vultures preying on the poor and vulnerable, some people can look at them as conveniences that prevent poor and destitute people from committing even MORE acts of desperation than they already are. Perhaps we should be glad that a person CAN go and get an early loan for a high interest rate, as opposed to needing some quick money and unable to get one because loan sharking on the street went out of business 40 years ago. Although these high-interest lending institutions may TARGET those in poverty, I don't think they are the CAUSE of poverty. Not the main cause atleast. Take them away and the poverty will still exist. Or you can look at the housing cities, Rusonis, where Wall Street and collusion with lenders rating agencies and appraisers inflated. The value of homes built financial instruments based upon these toxic assets, stripping millions of people of their wealth and enriching themselves. You said stripping them of their "wealth". Do most people understand that you DO NOT OWN a home until your mortgage is TOTALLY paid off? Many if not most people who are losing their houses aren't losing THEIR houses....they're losing their homes. There's a difference. The bank or lending institution is just repossessing what already belongs to them. Let's keep this thing a buck.... Much of the poverty in the United States isn't due to high interest rates and usury. It's due to poor decision making in general......... 1. Living beyond your means (trying to impress people) 2. Substance abuse, which zaps your money away. 3. Reckless behavior which leads to legal problems, which sucks your money up like a vacuum cleaner.

Maybe because I didn't go to college and don't have a lot of experience in academic institutions or corporate America where a lot of DEI seems to be practiced....but I honestly had no idea that DEI even existed until a few years ago when I heard Republicans ranting against it. I'm still not sure what it's supposed to be. Another one of those vague issues like Critical Race Theory, than means many different things to many different people. Most jobs I've gotten I've applied for, got an interview, and got hired. I kept the job based on my performance and conduct. Plain and simple. On some applications I've filled out questions asking me what my race and gender was, but to be honest....I DIDN'T get the vast majority of those jobs. I'm not sure if those questions were part of a DEI program seeking to include more "oppressed" groups. Most jobs I got were jobs that DIDN'T ask those questions but just the basics like name, contact information, and experience. I don't know of a lot of Black people who actually HAVE benefited from DEI, to be honest. The same with Affirmative Action. They keep talking about how Black folks benefited from it and I used to ask and still ask HOW? How can I benefit from it? What steps do I take to get some "Affirmative Action" for being Black? Folks just look and laugh, talking about "it doesn't work that way". I say, "Well what way DOES it work????" Either these programs were implemented to help Black folks or they weren't. If I'm a Black man and need a job, where is Affirmative Action? See.... This is why I say a lot of these arguments are bullshit and propaganda. Something...not to benefit us...but to just get White folks riled up and angry so they can focus on it. So I'm not going to cry too many tears for the elimination of DEI OR Affirmative Action if I don't see how either of them benefitted me. If it's not benefiting me AND it's just pissing well armed White men off, what the hell good is it?

No responses yet? I'm surprised.......... For some reason I expected this to be a pretty popular subject for the over-40 crowd, lol.

I hope he doesn't resign. I hope Trump....Musk...or whoever is running things overthere, lol....continues to back Adams all the way and keep him in the Mayor's seat! I'd love to see the look on the faces of his White enemies and adversaries when they see that he has an even more powerful White team backing him up who can protect him from the bullshit they're throwing at him. -One group of charges dropped -Another group of charges leveled at him...and THEY are dropped -His Mayoral seat is challenged, and he remains in office Man, I would LOVE to see the look on these White folks faces. I've had that happen so many times. On jobs and in organizations, I learned to find out who is the HEAD people in charge...not just the supervisors or the leadership you're working with...but who's RUNNING the operation/organization. When I find out and I smooch and smooze with them and make sure they know who I am and my character, I don't worry about conflict with the little lesser "bosses" because I have the top management on speed dial and call THEM up if I have issues with them.

ProfD Nah. I truly don't believe white nationalism will go sideways enough to make you want to leave the US. You'll be OK. I'm not sure what "label" you'd put it under but Musk and Trump are systematically dismantling the Federal Government right now as we communicate. After the literal "break down" of law and order, what do you think will follow next in a society as armed as the U.S. is? Africans will definitely try to get a person to spend the bag but they're not going to take anything by force. Peaceful people for the most part. I have to admit that most...the vast majority....of Africans I've met have been very kind and peaceful. Both the men and the women. But the ones who weren't peaceful were scary...lol. I'm not sure if it's because I'm used to seeing Africans so docile, but the few rare occasions when I've met some bold and out spoken Africans who cussed and openly talked about doing something violent out of anger....it was shocking. No filter or fear seen in them. Keep in mind that many African countries allow all types of foreigners (Asians and Middle Easterners) to come there and set up shop. Just bring the bag. Yeah, but those foreigners don't look like them; so they cut them a little more slack. There's something about seeing a person who looks like you having more "luck" or "fortune" than you. Whites and Arabs can open up stores in the hood all day and the majority Black population won't think twice about patronizing it and joking around with the owners. But if a Black person opens up a joint....they're inspecting it from head to toe and if you aren't giving everybody a discount (including a 5-finger one) you're called all types of Toms and Sell-Outs. Pure jealousy. Many Africans will resent OTHER BLACKS coming into their nation and generating more money than them because of how it makes them look and feel.

Question: How much did DEI really help AfroAmercans, anyway? A lot of Gays and Lesbians benefited from it. A lot of fake as White people running around with feathers in their hair and 1/32 drop of Native American blood running through their veins CLAIMING to be Indians, benefitted from it. A lot of Latino benefitted from it. A lot of White women in general benefitted from it. How many AfroAmericans, especially AfroAmerican men actually benefitted from all of these "diversity" programs being push in institutions and corporations around the nation?

ProfD You should be OK. I doubt that white nationalism will go too far sideways. Lol... Are you saying that "tongue-in-cheek" so to say, with a smirk on your face? 🤣 African countries will accept anybody who brings a bag of money. Which is understandable, but: 1. Most people who HAVE a bag of money will stay in the country they GOT that bag in, lol. If you're prospering in your nation, you don't really have much of a reason to leave in the first place. 2. If you DO go to an African nation with a bag, how long will you HAVE that bag before the government, or the people, or both....snatch it out of your hands? Most ex-pats claim life is sweeter outside the US. Yeah, but I'll bet 2 bits to a bucket of shit that NONE (my uncle from Down South used to say "NARE ONE") of them are giving up their American citizenship no matter what other nations they may live in or get citizenship in.

ProfD However, there is talk that former NY governor Andrew Cuomo is thinking about running for mayor. If he does, it's game over for Mayor Adams. Because of how the Democrat leadership in New York went after Andrew and pushed him out of office (like they're trying to do Adams) but over sexual allegation, he may be just a Democrat in name only also. Now if Andrew is a normal "rank-n-file" Democrat who openly tows the party line....I don't think he could be an already in and still popular with the Black (and Latino?) Adams. That's one of the...ONE of the few....good things about being a Black Trump supporter. You get the benefits of Trump having your back AND there's enough Black folks willing to support you simply because yuze' a Black man...lol. Andrew wouldn't get the type of Black and Brown support Adams gets and if Trump backed him the large "liberal" population of New York wouldn't support him either.

frankster This World will be transformed Then that means it will be a "different" world, right? The old world would have ENDED and transformed into a NEW one . The amassing of Wealth Riches and fortunes is no guarantee of Joy and Happiness. True. But it guarantees more than poverty. Who's usually the happiest: -One who wants, but lacks the resources to have? -Or one who wants, and can get? I Disagree On what basis? That is less than half of the story... The individual who you say is sexually indiscipline maybe practicing safe prescribe sex based on knowledge and experience that you know not of While the sexually discipline individual is helping the poor and sick with little knowledge or foresight...as to wealth or disease What does any of this have to do with the point I just made, that sexual discipline doesn't necessary lead to better fortune than NOT being sexually disciplined? It protects you from unforeseen eventualities How do you know? Little children and even babies are often killed in traumatic events. THEY didn't "do the do"...yet they were victims of unforeseen eventualies. (did you make this word up???) How do you explain that? Usury often destroys Societies as it does not add directly to GDP so to speak. Can you give me a modern example of usury destroying a society? ProfD Religion is an opiate; a form of oppression used to govern how humans go about satisfying themselves from a mental, physical and spiritual perspective Powerful

Most of you ladies on here seem to be over 40 years old, but some others of you may be in your 20s and 30s. I have a question for you and I'd like you to be TOTALLY honest. Straight up and down. I'm talking about in terms of pure SEXUAL attraction; not maturity, status, looking responsible, etc...but in terms of somebody you'd hop in bed with...lol. How do you feel about grey (white) hair on a man? I'm talking about on top of the head AND/OR in the beard? In other words, if all the other physical factors were the same....would it make a difference if a man's hair was dark, salt-n-pepper, or full grey? Would he be MORE attractive with dark, salt-n-pepper, or full grey hair? Would he be LESS attractive with dark, salt-n-pepper, or full grey hair? And when you were in your 20s and 30s...how did you feel about men with grey/white hair? Did it make a man seem less sexually attractive to you all factors the same? I usually keep a clean shave and let the stubbles grow out from time to time to give my skin time to rejuvenate, but I'm thinking about rocking a full beard. I've been asking this off-line and on-line for weeks now...lol. Most of the responses have been similar, but I keep asking because I'm skeptical of the responses for some reason....lol. Men, if you're rocking grey or fully white hair...feel free to chime in on your experiences.

But is it fair to attribute that to The SUPREME BEING, or should it be attributed to human beings and their religions who often make this claim? Just like calling a deadly Earthquake or massive snow storm an "Act Of God". We don't know WHO caused that Earthquake or Snow storm. It could have been Satan (if Satan exists) or an Angel or with the technology we have today....other humans! Why accuse GOD of something if we aren't sure about it?

Reminds me of a scene in Harlem Nights when Eddie Murphy said, "And yall talking about leaving New York? That should be the LAST thing we do!" If Black people think the racism from these White people is bad in America....wait until you get to Africa and see how vicious the TRIBALISM can be. Look how so many Africans treat Black Americans HERE IN AMERICA! If they treat our people like that in our own country, imagine what you'd go through if you were in THEIR country and there were no "White mediators" around to force them to treat you with some respect. If I want a White woman in America, I can get one. Go to Nigeria and try to get a Hausa girlfriend, and you ain't Hausa...lol. Go to Somalia and try to get ANY girlfriend, and you ain't Somali...lol. ....you'll be doing good if you end up ONLY getting your feelings hurt. In some parts of Africa the tribalism is so vicious, niggaz are killing eachother wholesale. The thing I've learned about living and working around White folks is that it's not so much they WANT to kill and harm you. White folks just want to be INCHARGE. They want to RULE OVER you. Now if they feel they "have to" harm you to make that happen, many of them will engage in it. But usually they'll try deception first before violence.

ProfD In the movie, the conversations Malcolm X had with brotha Baines and Elijah Muhammad himself about sleeping with those young women and their responses has been ongoing since the beginning of humanity. Brutha Baines is a two-bit hustler....but one hand washes the other. Malcolm X...one of my favorite movies! I often reference IT like Neely Fuller likes to reference Shawshank Redemption (which I didn't care too much for...lol) Like brother Baines said, Elijah is a MAN and like all men he has certain needs. As I get older and understand the world more, I understand what he meant by that. As a man who is getting up in age and still has the need for sex and attract women, I find the desire to use one's money and power/influence to get sex gets stronger. frankster Religion is Organized Spirituality...... Which is used to Control Spirituality and thereby You/us - We become cogs in the machine of Civilization. Control and LIMIT. I believe a person who IS NOT and especially HAS NOT been influenced by religion will be much more Spiritually free than one who is and in many cases one who has been influenced. They won't have the negative and false beliefs of their former religion drilled into their subconscious weighing them down. Eschatology in this form is mostly a Western Christian Theology.....so it is true for the Christian West.... In Ethiopia Christian Africa We end prayers with ...... "World without End" But they still believe and expect for Jesus to come back and they look for it and teach it. If He does, THIS world will surely end and a new One will be brought about. And when they say "world without end", are you're sure they're talking about THIS world....or a future world to come they pray will not end? "End of the World" is a Distraction used to Control and Manipulate The Masses. Most definitely While they have the sincere believers looking up in the sky waiting on something that may never happen in their lifetimes...the rich and powerful are busy focused on exploiting people and amassing their fortunes right now. They're NOT looking for an end to a world they are prospering in. They're trying to SAVE it and PROLONG it. Does unconscious means.....Nothingness In this case, yes. Hypothetically.... If the atheist is right and he dies...he won't know it. So really, what benefit is there in not believing? He doesn't even enjoy the benefit of knowing he was "right" because he's a dead pile of unconscious dust....lol. You shouldn't is correct....cause you most definitely can... Every action has a Re-action built in as part of the whole.... What one must be Mindful of is the Re-action While that's true, and there are reasons FOR sexual restrictions that are social as well as hygenic..... There are people who are sexually disciplined who end up being poor and dying of a disease; while there are some who are sexually UN-disciplined and ran around fucking everything that moved but lived rather successful lives and died healthy and in old age. So what good was the sexual discipline in the greater scheme of things? Usury is making money on money.....it leads to the Lenders become Master and the Borrowers their Servants/slaves. Usury leads to Concentration of Wealth and Worst Growth without increased Production and Development. Charging Interest on Loans in most cases is considered Usurious. Depreciation/Sinking Fund Loan Method But is the person getting what they WANTED when they get the loan? Maybe they don't mind being in debt if it means getting a degree or a nice big house. I understand the concept behind Usury and why it's forbidden or discouraged in some religions. However a lot of people who practice it are very wealthy while many people who DON'T engage in it are poor and some are even destitute. So again, in the greater scheme of things...how does it help or hurt? The Banker buys the property for $100 and then tells you to make monthly installments of $10 for 12 months for a total of $120 I understand how lending money works. But in Islam there are rules against either borrowing it on ANY interest or "excessive" interest....and I'm not sure which one it is. However, perhaps a non-religious person like myself who believes in The CREATOR will say he's thankful that we live in a society where we CAN borrow the $100 and pay it back as $120 if we really needed it for an emergency! Perhaps we should be thankful to live in a society where you CAN borrow money to buy a car or house instead of being FORCED to live on the street or walk to your job because of religious rules that force you to buy ONLY if you have the money on you.

If they Musk has enough pull to get the charges dropped against Adams.....he sure as hell can keep him in the Mayor's seat. That Hochul or whatever her name is who is Governor of New York better watch HER position, instead of fucking with Adams.

I have no plans to leave. Maybe if I were younger I would.....but now....I'm staying. Where will we go? No matter where you go on this planet you're bound to run into some bullshit. That's why so many religious people including myself looked forward to the end of the WORLD, not simply going to another country. I realized early on that White racists as well as ignorant people of color have fucked up much of this planet and we need a GLOBAL change. Like I said in my religious thread, if we want a good spot we'll have to make OURSELVES and we might as well start right here where we are. And I'll ask you Prof or anybody else on here a question................ How bad would it be living under OPEN White Nationalism vs COVERT White nationalism?

I say let them come..... Musk is here....bring the OTHER racist White South Afrikaners here too...lol. Infact, I'd welcome ALL of the Whites...and Arabs...in the ENTIRE CONTINENT of Africa to bring their asses over here and keep Africa, as Marcus Garvey would say: For the Africans MAGA =Make Africa Great Again

Religion...and in many respects "common sense"...prevents you from living your life to the "fullest" because of the restrictions it puts on you. You can't shouldn't have sex with whoever you want to however you want. You can't shouldn't make money however you want. You can't shouldn't eat whatever you want. I'm not going to say religion is ALL bad, but it's certainly restrictive and prevents people from taking risks and engaging in things that could actually make them more successful and enjoy the life their living more. I'm not sure of the actual law but it's my understanding that Muslims can't borrow money on interest or excessive interest. This means car loans and house loans or even student loans. But many of them do it anyway. Then I would point to the ones who do it anyway and end up living in a nice house or getting a good education despite breaking a religious rule and wonder how did that happen. Again.... I'm not an Islamic scholar so I'm not sure of the actual rule but if you can't borrow ANY money on interest, how do so many Muslim immigrants justify business loans or mortgages for nice houses? People often claim these religions but pick and choose the parts that THEY want to follow.

Lol....I actually forgot about that incident until you brought it back up. The media apparently did too because I haven't heard anything about it in a year or two.

If Trump Musk were wise....Adams wouldn't be offered a position in Trump's Administration or anywhere else in D.C. for his loyalty. If they were wise, they'd keep his Black ass right there in the Big Apple running shit. He knows his way around town and can run their operation better than anybody from OUTSIDE of NYC can.

Troy I'm sorry to read this, seriously. You know something.......... When I tell people this, many of them would have the same reaction or look at me with a sad face or say "that's sad" or "it's a shame you did that". I used to be a bit insulted because it insinuated that I was silly enough to actually BELIEVE what I read and was told by the church. Now I don't feel bad about it at all. Why? Because I no longer look at it as me being a "sucker" for spending my teens and twenties expecting what I was actually raised to believe..... I look at my sincerity as a badge of honor and integrity. I was true to my beliefs. Instead, I question the beliefs of religious people who CLAIM to believe in Jesus or Muhammad or other figures and especially those who claim that the world is ending soon or that Jesus is coming back soon but buy houses, send their children to school...hell...even HAVE children...in a world they CLAIM is about to "end soon". I see many of them as lying hypocrites, because if they TRULY believed what they were preaching...they'd be preparing for it instead of preparing to spend many many more years in THIS world and even prepare their future generations. I no longer believe...therefor I no longer expect. I'm good. Well, the world will end for all of us when we kick the bucket. But as far was the planet, life on it will end when the sun exhausts it's fuel in about 5 billion years. That's what my Father used to say, lol. Even as a kid I was religious and talked about the end of the world and he would say, "No matter when THEE end comes...YOUR end comes when you die". How true that is for most people...lol. Keep in mind not to confuse the end of the WORLD with the end of the PLANET. The WORLD and the PLANET are two different concepts. The PLANET is Earth. The physical Globe that we are on. The WORLD is the "system" that human beings operate under, especially at this time. Think more of "age" or "era" or "dispensation". When most religious scholars speak of the end of the "world" they aren't talking about the end of the Planet but the end of the "age" or the end of this era of humanity before we are Divinely judged. Why do you believe "The Supreme Being?" That sounds like a remnant of your religiosity. What does the Supreme being do for you, us? Besides my own personal Spiritual experiences, I can give you several rather simple logical reasons for believing..... 1. One reason is that there are benefit FOR believing in Higher Powers and virtually NO benefit to NOT believing. Kind of like that famous argument that a religious believer makes that if he's right and you don't believe....when you die you're immediately realize you're wrong. But if YOU'RE right...you won't know it because you'll just be dead and unconscious. It's better to be on the safe side and believe....lol. 2. We exist as intelligent beings as well as the rest of the Universe. This is clear evidence that a Higher Source or Creator of things must exist to originate us and what we observe. We and most of what we observe couldn't have "always" existed in the past. We had to have an origin regardless of how distant in the past.