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One of the reasons food allergies and intolerances among the races SEEMS to be so confusing is because so many people who LOOK like they are solidly in one race are actually MIXED with other races....so their genotype has more of an influence on them than their phenotype. We all have met Black people who LOOK Black put have what we would call a "White mentality" or "White vibe" about them. There are plenty of mixed people who LOOK Black but have a lot of White in their chemistry and biological make up. There are also the opposite....mixed people who LOOK White phenotypically but have strong African genes. You have Black people who can tolerate milk even at an old age, can't dance, have small penises, etc.....things you'd expect from a Caucasian, lol. This is most likely because they have White ancestry in their background and those Caucasian genes came through in some aspect of biological or chemical make-up. Just like you have some White dudes who can sing, dance, and have a strong sense of style.....a lot of them have African ancestry deep in their background that comes through.

zeke1234 Regarding the $20,000 yearly limit suggestion, the idea is not to deplete the reparations fund, but have it exist for the generations to come. Well this is a very rich nation brother and the land will be pretty wealthy for many many more years to come. Trust me, as long as America exists...they WON'T run out of money to issue to our people as compensation. We don't know....perhaps there might be BLESSING in paying us Reparations! Perhaps God will keep the nation wealthy JUST SO they can continue paying us and our progeny Reparations into the future. The moment they stop...may be the moment the economy collapses. Rich Blacks would not partake of reparations, because they have 'found' their reward. Those would make $150,000 a year, for two or three generations consecutively, where they pass wealth to their next generations, probably should not get reparations. I'm not sure if that's a good idea brother. It's almost like PUNISHING people for being successful. A policy like that might have the OPPOSITE effect of what Reparations should be.....because it may discourage some of our people from trying to be financially successful. They'd sit back and chill JUST to get that monthly or yearly check instead of working and starting businesses that may be successful and earn them a lot of money. I think it should be even across the board pretty much. Give every Black man, woman, and even children (under the care of a guardian) the same amount each month or year adjusted for inflation. No lump some reparation payment silliness, here today, gone tommorrow. Totally agree with this one!

ProfD Oh but yes......niccaz DO believe in codification! They believe in codifying what DOESN'T work....lol. If it works and everybody sees it working, these niccaz'll stop doing it for mysterious reasons still unknown. But if it clearly DOES NOT work and has proven to be ineffective and a waste of energy and money, niccaz will plan a BLOCK PARTY around it and put some music to it. JAM ON IT. What DOESN'T work? Getting high. Cussing out and running from the police. Selling dope that you know is a TRAP put out to get you incarcerated. So what do niccaz do? CODIFY these activities in their music and movies not only to "perfect" the art of rolling blunts and running from the police while getting shot in the back....but encourage FUTURE generations of youngsters coming up to do it. Codification! Gangsta Rap teaching you the smoothest way to "kill a nicca"...........CODIFICATION. Trap Music on how to sell dope and typical activities at a dope house.....CODIFICATION. Crip Walking and Blood Walking......CODIFICATION. NO SNITCH policy....CODIFICATION Learning how to roll up a blunt with one hand and smoke it while still driving....CODIFICATION. Engaging in reckless and dysfunctional behavior and codifying it so that if other niccaz want to do it.....they can do wrong the RIGHT way, lol.

I personally don't have proof but I've talked to credible people who said they've seen Mermaids, especially down in the Caribbean and Madagascar Africa. They all said these mermaids were Black or dark brown in color with straightish hair.

I believe it's BOTH. You have TRUE extra-terrestials. Advanced Beings from different plants, galaxies, and Realities....Who come among us in various ways whether in Spiritual form or in advanced vehicles to interact with humanity. They've BEEN doing this for thousands of years, it's not new. Whether you read about the flying saucers (wheels) Ezekiel talks about in the Bible, or the Vihmanas of ancient India talked about in the Mahara Barta and other ancient Indian scriptures. But you also have advanced military technology that this nation and Russia and other nations have been working on for decades....especially since WWII that are top secret that are often mistaken for alien craft. Infact, much of the militaries technology and much of modern technology period actually comes from extra-terrestrial sources. Many of the scientist and engineers get their technology from Advanced Beings.

richardmurray To rephrase, will you rather michigan be like the district of columbia or remain a state? Now please after a reread, provide your answer. If you REMOVE the SouthEast section of Washington D.C.......lol.....then I wouldn't mind Michigan being more like D.C. Still remember visiting SouthEast D.C. in the 80s. Not sure about today, but back in the day when I was a kid dudes used to STAND IN LINE to snatch purses at the bus stations and local grocery stores...lol. When one person saw a victim they'd take off and snatch her purse then the next fool in line would hop up and down shaking his legs getting ready to run down HIS victim....and so on....lol.

Now if we were to IGNORE the factor of race or pretend that it doesn't exist....how would certain diseases and disorders that certain races are predisposed to be solved? You'd be feeding and shoveling the same food to Black children as you're giving to White children and wondering why are so many of the Black kids getting sick when they're "all the same". No....race DOES make a difference and we need to recognize this.

Black race, African ancestry tied to food allergies By Genevra Pittman, Reuters Health 5 MIN READ NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study of two-year-olds in Boston, black kids were twice as likely as white kids to have an immune response to foods such as peanuts, milk, and eggs, and almost four times as likely to have a “sensitization” to three or more foods. While food sensitization doesn’t necessarily pose any danger on its own, kids who are sensitized to certain foods are more likely to develop full-blown allergies to them in the future. “We know that sensitization is not the same thing as food allergy, but what they’re reporting does seem to be consistent with what has been seen in other populations,” said Christine Joseph, an allergy and asthma researcher from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit who was not involved in the new study. Other recent studies have hinted at higher rates of food sensitizations or allergies in blacks, she told Reuters Health. Researchers also looked at the kids’ DNA and found that the more African ancestry it showed, the more likely a child was to have any type of food sensitization, especially to peanuts. But it’s still unclear why that’s the case, they said. It could be that differences in genes make some kids more likely than others to get allergies, or it may have to do with their environment and what they’re exposed to early in life. The study included about 1,100 kids, all born at Boston Medical Center. Between two and three years after birth, researchers led by Dr. Rajesh Kumar of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago brought them in to test their immune responses to eight different types of foods that typically cause allergies: eggs, milk, peanuts, soy, shrimp, walnuts, wheat and cod. Most kids in the study were from urban areas and many were from low-income families. About six in ten of them were identified as black by their moms. In all, just over one-third of kids had an immune response to at least one of the foods, the researchers reported in Pediatrics. About 38 percent of black kids had a food sensitization, compared to 22 percent of white kids. When the researchers took into account factors like whether or not kids were breastfed and if moms smoked while they were pregnant, the black two-year-olds were more than twice as likely to have a food sensitization. They were also almost four times as likely to have a detectable immune-system response to three or more of the potential allergens. Hispanic kids tended to have more food sensitizations than white kids, but statistics showed that finding could have been due to chance. Food sensitizations were also more common in kids whose ancestors were mostly from Africa, compared to those of European descent, according to genetic tests. There were some differences between kids whose moms reported their race as black and those who had more gene markers suggesting African descent. For example, African ancestry was linked to a greater chance of having a high immune response to peanuts, whereas black race was not. That tells researchers that genetics may play a role in how likely kids are to have food sensitizations or allergies. Or, something about different ancestral environments may be playing a role, Kumar said -- for example, people from Africa are known to have lower vitamin D levels early in life. Vitamin D has been linked to some aspects of immune function. On another level, cultural factors such as what type of foods kids are exposed to when they’re young, or where they grow up, might trigger allergies, especially if there is already an underlying race-related genetic susceptibility, Joseph said. More research is needed to better determine what’s behind these differences in risk, both by race and ancestry, they agreed. For now, Kumar said, “we need to be aware that food allergy is a problem within urban populations.” Pediatricians, he told Reuters Health, “should equally think of food allergy in their African American patients as they do in their white patients.” SOURCE: bit.ly/ny7YDj Pediatrics, online September 5, 2011. Black race, African ancestry tied to food allergies | Reuters From 1971............... EFFECTS OF MILK ON BLACKS NOTED MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 14 —A Baltimore research team has found that more than half of black schoolchildren may be Unable to digest milk properly, raising serious questions about the usefulness of school milk programs to help raise the nu tritional status of blacks. Dr. David M. Paige, who de Cribed the findings here today at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Asso ciation, said children who had this inability probably could not get the expected nutrition al benefit from the milk they drink. Prior to this study, milk in tolerance was known to be common among nonwhite adults, including Orientals and Indians, but nonwhite children were thought to be able to handle milk without difficulty. In the Baltimore tests, how ever, 58 per cent of the black children were found to be milk intolerant, compared with only 18 per cent of the white chil dren. Whereas the failure of many black children to drink milk has usually been attributed to lack of money and education, the Baltimore findings suggest that an inability to digest milk may be the major cause. Among the black children in the study who did not drink milk, 85 per cent were found to be milk intolerant. But only 17 per cent of white children who were not milk drinkers were unable to digest milk. The study was conducted among 312 Negro and 221 white children in the first through the sixth grades at two Baltimore elementary schools. Dr. Paige, a pediatri cian at Johns Hopkins Univer sity, said, he saw “no reason why the findings shouldn't be applicable to all black chil dren.” Milk Intolerance is a result of the missing of an enzyme, lactase, which helps break down the milk sugar, lactose. Persons with a lactase defi ciency who consume milk or milk products may stiffer such symptoms as abdominal gas, bloating, cramps and diarrhea. Thus, feeding milk to black children who are unable to di gest it properly may have the paradoxical effect in some chil dren of impairing their health. The study was done by re cording how much milk the youngsters drank as part of their lunch in school lunch rooms. Those who finished less than half of an eight‐ounce container of milk were classi fied as nondrinkers of milk. They were twice as prevalent among blacks as whites. In fol low‐up studies, the children were given lactose tolerance tests, which showed the much higher frequency of milk intol erance among blacks. Interviews with others re vealed that all the children who were not milk drinkers had been able to drink milk without ill effects when they were in fants. None had a history of milk allergy or other milk feed ing problems, Dr. Paige report ed. Apparently, then, lactase is present in infancy, but the en zyme system in many children disappears early in childhood. EFFECTS OF MILK ON BLACKS NOTED - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Well, as a bit of an aside.....Mermaids are actually real. When you see REAL one you'll notice that they'll be Black....dark skinned Black with straight hair. They look similar to the Dravidians and Aboriginal Australians. I don't know too much about them but I know they come from a time way before White people existed. Some people say they are male/female mixed and can have offspring without sexual intercourse.

There ProfD goes again stealing my lines.......lol. I was going to say that many other marginalized and oppressed groups DO speak out and complain but they do more than JUST complain. They actually DO something about their mistreatment and use various methods to do so. I personally don't believe that AfroAmericans complain ENOUGH.....and definitely don't DO enough and take enough ACTION to right the wrongs done to our people. And often times, it's not so much the complaining but it's who you complain TO. You have to take your grievances to the proper channels. There was a lady I used to work with who would constantly come to ME complaining about a man who was sexually harassing her. She'd complain to me about him over and over and over again and she'd also complain to other co-workers. But who she DIDN'T complain to was the Human Resources Department or even to the Managers....just other co-workers. Like Neely Fuller Jr. often says, a lot of Black people have a bad habit of picking up what DOESN'T work and focusing in on doing just that. Find out something that clearly DOES NOT WORK.....and dive right into it and do it to death. The sit back complaining about why their condition hasn't improved but has gotten worse.

Cynique What you think is true may be a hallucination. Not likely. I'm healthy mentally and physically and all of my senses are working properly. Also, other people agreed with me that it was raining. Troy The flat earther simply cannot see the flaws in their reasoning, which is obvious to others. Maybe there is a medical term for this... In any event, I'm not surprised you were unable to convince the flat earther that the planet is round... technically an oblate spheroid But would you dare put "flat Earthers" and those who believe in the concept of racial classification in the SAME category? That would be similar to me putting those who don't believe in the concept of racial classification in the same category of those who deny the existence of racism period.

Unless Michigan develops it's own nukes and a million man army......I'm tryna be team U.S.A. all day.....lol. There's strength in UNITY. That's why since the UNITED States was established....now nearly every country wants to form pacts and be part of unions be it the U.S.S.R., United Kingdom, Organization for African Unity, etc. People recognize the power in Unity.

Yeah, Africans enslaving Africans is nothing new. The lighter skinned more thin featured Somalis and Ethiopians have been enslaving and mistreating the dark skinned Bantu Somalis and Ethiopians for centuries. Even today there is a "caste" system in Ethiopia and Somalia.

ProfD If anything, her story could have a net negative effect on missing and exploited Black folks. That's EXACTLY why I think they promoted it so much even when they realized early on it was fraudulent. THOUSANDS of Black women and girls go missing in this nation every year and stories like this just give the racists in the media and on the police departments a convenient EXCUSE to point to now for their inaction and lack of concern. Chev BUT, I do think that what she did is serious enough to report though. What she did was really crazy. I read that a huge police search was launched. Not sure what the police department were doing and why they did it but it seems that whatever hoax or scam was going on....a lot of the police and media were "in" on it too. Even when they knew the story was false or likely to be false, they continued pursuing the story full throttle. I personally believe it was done to tarnish the image of missing Black women so that when Black women and girls come up missing....the public will be further desensitized to them and maybe not even take there abductions seriously.

zeke1234 As a Christian, And as a Christian.....how do you feel about THESE verses as they relate the concept of Reparations? How do our ancestors, many who have entered into the Kingdom of God, see this now and sensual generation reaping monetary benefits, from their pain and suffering 250 years ago? Perhaps with pride and a sense of satisfaction! Kind of a like parents who get to see their children grow up and accomplish deeds even great than them. Is the purpose of reparations to make whole for the crime/sin committed? No human being or government can "make whole" the sins of what happened to our Ancestors in the Great Western Ma'afa (TransAtlantic Slave Trade). That can only be accomplished Divinely. Reparations is an attempt to COMPENSATE for the generational injuries caused by that horrible crime. When we pick and choose which governments to demand reparations from, and leave out the really bad slavers, do we further dishonor our ancestors? I would say not necessarily. SOME Justice is better than no justice. If a man's wife and daugthers were gang-raped by a group of 7 thugs and you could only catch 4 of them....should you just like THOSE 4 go out of spite for the other 3 who got away (so far)? ....or should you hold the 4 you got right now and proceed to administer justice to THEM while still pursuing all leads to the other 3? From a 'way in the future' point of view, put reparations in a living trust that will last for 500 years. Each person who is more that 50% Black, can get $10,000 to 20,000 a year, based on financial need. Lol....ONLY $10,000 - $20,000? That's barely enough to get a certificate or Associate's degree at a local Community college....lol. That Evanston 'reparations', settlement, for 'Negroes' who lived in Evanston from 1919-1965 being discriminated against in housing. Which souls of which rednecks on the verge of hell will be set free in Skokie, I mean Evanston, , because of a few Negroes desire to 'get theirs' right here and now, while 'you other' Negroes get your own later, if at all. There is more than one redneck waiting at the gates of hell, whose bonds have been unshackled, because of this unthought through Evanston reparations plan. Repentance for racist rednecks, redemptive money, buying back White souls from the gates of Hell Are you sure about that? Did a Divine Being come to you personally and tell you that receiving Reparations lets the racist Caucasians that tortured some of our Ancestor "off the hook" and out of hell? , only greedy carnal, me me me, Negroes would do such a thing. Let the Whites and Hispanic (Cuba, Mexico and Brazil big time slave nations) keep their reparations, and continue to burn their forefathers in Hell. Love the Lawd, and go to church, I preached on reparations this morning. Next time you decide to do a sermon on Reparations....invite ME to address the Congregation...lol. Chev Some people say that to give a monetary large sum to Black Americans would not be beneficial and believe that REparations should be given in the form of programs like college vouchers and medical benefits. I believe ALL American citizens should have free healthcare, however I think AfroAmericans should especially have it in our Reparations package. But by also need MONETARY compensation as well. To deny people money but give them college vouchers to go to Universities pretty much keeps them trapped in the same racist system that was established on the very backs of their Ancestors. The goal is to BE FREE and get from out under the yoke of the Oppressor. Not go to school to learn how to be a better slave/worker for him.

I grew up reading Uncle Remus stories!!! Brer Rabbit and 'em......lol.

zeke1234 You know another thing that got a lot of our people into slavery and still causes many of our people to be victims of the traps that racist Whites lay to harm them? Not being smart enough to avoid them altogether or get out of them once in them. Simple yet accurate answer. A lot of our people were enslaved because they hadn't developed the technology or weapons to defeat the Caucasians who enslaved them. It wasn't about "God's Will" or some "curse of canaan".....but simply not being able to effectively defend one's self. We should learn lessons from that!

Hey.......that too!

ProfD If other groups have co-opted and benefited more from programs that were originally intended for AfroAmericans, we need to ask ourselves 2 solid questions: 1. Where these programs TRULY designed for Black people? Meaning, was it written in the legislation that it is for Black Americans and Black Americans ALONE? Because if that type of language isn't written in a legal document from the jump, common sense would tell most people that others can and probably will get in on it where they fit in. Look at Affirmative Action. 2. On the other side of that same coin, WHY have other groups benefited from these programs more than AfroAmericans? Yes, I've questioned whether or not they were truly for us in the first place.....but even if that language wasn't etched into the legislation itself, it was "understood" to be for us. So now....why haven't we take advantage of it as much as other groups have? That's why we have to start looking.....as Michael Jackson would say....at the man in da' mirra! When we start engaging in collective introspection and closely examining not only our behavior by the thoughts and intentions BEHIND that behavior and what motivates us to do or NOT do certain things, soon our collective progress will follow because we'll be able to clearly see what the ACTUAL problems of our community are. And trust me, the end results of this "man in da mirra" self examination and the changes that follow will be well worth the effort. " It's gonna be good....shum'on....ya KNOW it!"

Del....you know what. You're alright with me! But Cynique on the other hand.............

I'm sure by now many of you have heard the story of our sister Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who allegedly went missing but was later seen walking back home and is accused of making the entire story up just to get back at her boyfriend. I don't know the full details of the story as much of it is still coming out as to how much of it is fact, how much is fiction, and what was her motivations. However what I DID notice about this story and others similar to it is how the main stream media seemed to know that there was something bogus and didn't add up about this story from day one....but continued to promote it and talk about it. I would read stories where they would say things like "allegedly missing" and put it in quotes as if they really didn't believe the sister was missing in the first place. It seems as if the mainstream media had information that the story may have been false from the jump, yet they went along with it. But what's even stranger is how they STRATEGICALLY leaked bits and pieces of the story out to make you raise your eyebrows and doubt the authenticity of the abduction. So my question is, if they KNEW the story was false....and she wasn't really missing....why did they continue to promote it and give THIS story so much attention? They (again talking about major media outlets) could have just ignored the story once they found out it was bogus and focused on other matters, but instead they kept reporting on it and leaking bits and pieces of suspicious information. I have my own ideas, but knowing the story was likely false....why do YOU think they continued to report on it?

I figured this was your reasoning, but thanks for confirming it more detail. When I talk about Reparations, I often think about the picture Neely Fuller Jr. gave when he said he could see Black folks after they get Reparations.....lol. Two limousines next to eachother blasting gangsta rap music and full of weed smoke.....pulling off and shooting at eachother because they have plenty of money and no sense and nothing else to do.....LOL Obviously that's an exaggeration and MOST of our people aren't like that, but it was still a funny image he painted. What I DO visualize is other non-White races who own businesses in the AfroAmerican community helping us get Reparations because they know that some of that money will end up trickling down to THEM, lol.

We should also keep in mind that in the RECENT past (1930s up until the 1970s) the Democrats actually DID provide quite a few benefits for Americans in general that Black folks were able to benefit from. FDR's New Deal helped a lot Passage of various civil rights legislation and affirmative action programs. Helping to elect Black mayors, congressmen, governors over the years While neither Party has done TOO much to help our people, pound for pound in the 20th century Democrats have actually done more FOR AfroAmericans than Republicans who actually went out of their way to pass legislation to harm AfroAmericans politically and economically. However after 2000 the tide began to shift. While some still engage in acts of aggression, Republicans by and large pretty much leave AfroAmericans alone and simply IGNORE our people politically while non-Black Democrats have been pulling away and becoming more hostile towards the AfroAmerican community and it's becoming more noticeable.

Ofcourse we'd have to adjust for inflation and cost of living.....but yes, that sounds close to being acceptable * as far as MONETARY compensation goes. But let me ask you, why did you say it should stop at 55? Seems to me that at 55 and older is the VERY TIME they'd need that extra income the most! When some of the medical problems start kicking in and they aren't able to work as long or as hard as they used to. * Keep in mind, when I say "acceptable" I mean I won't turn it down if it was the final offer. But personally, I think we should and eventually will receive much much more than that in just the monetary compensation alone.

frankster Where Are these inventions? Are they in Nature? You're using one of them....it's called the INTERNET. You're most likely using another one called a phone or computer. And unless you're sitting in the woods somewhere with your legs folded typing away on your laptop...I don't know if you're in Nature or not, LOL. Not all man made things are artificial....what differentiates one from the other? Many variables. The smart phone that you use is man-made, but unless it only LOOKS like a cell phone but contains skittles inside the box, it's most likely real and not an "artificial phone". example of Artificial Phones So the level of modification of a Natural thing make it no longer Natural but artificial? I would say so. Although obviously I'm not the sole determiner. The engineering and architectural designs of their nests makes both plumbing and electricity unnecessary for theirs needs. The necessity of it is irrelevant. The fact that it's not there, is. So humans habitations are in Nature? For some, I would say so. No.....We do belong to the Animalia kingdom If you were walking with someone you love and a stranger walked up to them and said they looked just like an "animal"...would it bother you at all? Until better more convincing info to the contrary is discovered or made available....then it is True - Out of Africa Theory of Man. Well, I hope you're not a judge in the court of law....lol. You're liable to find someone guilty and give them 100 years for a crime NOBODY was around to have witnessed, simply based on the limited information you have sitting before you on your desk. "Excuse me you're honorificship! But I would like to officiate a scholarly CONTEST or PROTEST of the legalistic conclusion that your magistratership arrived at and suscribed upon my personificationhood! To staticize (or santize depending on your level of spiritualitiship) my vocabulary in more simplistic terminalogy; or in other words...... I gots to get the fuck up outta here!" ....and if more "convincing" information to the contrary happens to come along....well....then you might consider reducing the sentence or letting them go. But that's not how TRUTH is determined. Either something HAPPENED or it DIDN'T happen. If you weren't there to witness it then you need PROOF...not just mere "information" that supports your conclusion.