Pioneer1

Rest in Peace and Power dear Sista!!! I didn't want to take the thread away from our sista by mentioning them but yeah Barbara Walters just died a couple days ago and Pope Benedict did as well. What I really find strange is they announced that the great soccer player Pele died a few days ago, and I thought he had BEEN dead for atleast a year or two.

Troy That is an interesting interpretation of your dad's allegory. I think it means that if you are feeling sorry for the sheep by shearing it, not shearing it only means we will not benefit from its wool and the briars are going to take the wool anyway -- so it is better for us to take it rather than for to go to waste in the briar patch. Perhaps, I'm not sure if it's about feeling sorry for the sheep or just being plain too lazy to shear them. I took it to mean someone too stingy to share what's valuable. It's funny that as many times as he's said it....even in my adulthood...I didn't have the thought to sit down and really ask him EXACTLY what that old saying meant....lol Actually, this was a massive storm even by Buffalo's standards. Buffalo is well equipped to deal with snow, but this was a massive storm, and if people can't be bothered to stay home when these storms hit. They will get trapped in their cars a die. The national guard can not protect every store, apprehend very criminal, and ensure that every citizen stays home with sufficient provisions. I think you're letting them of the hook too easy. They were talking about this storm for a full week before it hit. And JUST had one almost as bad a few weeks before and had to move a football game to Detroit it was so bad. So it's not like they were caught "off guard". No, this is poor planning and lack of concern for the citizens of Buffalo and the United States in general. Like I said, why didn't they have a contingency plan already in place BEFORE the snow fell? Mass evacuation trains? Subways? National Guard units with medical supplies on every other intersection? Heated streets and sidewalks to immediately melt the snow? Is what I just listed IMPOSSIBLE for the United States to manage or would it have COSTED to much to implement and would have cut into their "foreign give away" money???

Chev Well the Ancestors are alive and well whether we worship, venerate, or even acknowledge them or not. It's more real on the OTHER SIDE than on this side. I'm not sure how much of an impact our honor and veneration and prayers have on them on the other side. Personally, I don't worship my Ancestors....I honor them. I praise them. I call on them from time to time for help. But I don't worship them. I only worship The SUPREME BEING. I think what European and Arab religions have taught us.....Christianity and Islam. They teach you to venerate and honor Ancestors, but OTHER PEOPLE'S Ancestors instead of your own. Muhammad had children and is an ancestor, he's just not the ancestor of most Black Muslims who choose to honor and venerate him. Moses had children and is an ancestor, he's just not the ancestor of most Black Christians and others who honor and venerate him. Some say Jesus had children and thus is an ancestor as well, just not the ancestor of most Black Christians who honor and venerate him. Perhaps one of the plans of the Caucasian is to get you to stop honoring and venerating YOUR ancestors and start honoring and venerating THEIRS through religion. As far as relationships go........... Let's keep it real, a lot of Black people run around hurting and dogging eachother out because it's often EFFECTIVE in the people they're dealing with. If they were nice and kind, they often wouldn't get that person they were chasing after. But if they act hard, abusive, and cheated on them.....for whatever reason it made the other person find them more attractive. They dysfunctional behavior becomes ingrained in come circles to the point that even a GOOD man/woman will turn "bad" in order to enjoy the comforts of having a mate and not being alone. The real question is, how do we change this.

Chev Well "Black devil" is an oxymoron because Black people by nature can't be devils. They can be MONSTERS....but not devils. However I totally agree that we need to keep our own people in check. I'm not sure if there was a history of pedophilia among the Black population before Caucasians. There may have been some instances but I don't think it was nearly as wide spread as it is today. It also should be noted that although historically and pound for pound Caucasians tend to be more wicked and evil than Black people.....we have the POTENTIAL as individuals to be much worse. Because we are the Original people with much more power and the ability to be more creative and effective in our actions. White folks can be just plain evil, but Black folks can be evil with a STYLE and BOLDNESS unimaginable to White folks. A good example is how violent and crooked the Italian Mafia is compared to other White organizations. Their Black genetics gives them an edge on other White folks in terms of style, grace, and boldness.

Chev Which part? Which part of this conspiracy has led Black people to discard the truth because they have come to believe in the White lie? Some Black folks have discarded the truth, other's have held on to it. And what's even more confusing....everything White folks give us isn't a lie. Despite their history of lying and deception, some things White folks say and give us is true. So we have to be intelligent enough to parse the information we receive. It's about learning to separate truth from falsehood regardless as to who offered it to you. Did the White man conspiracy lie about the Bible being the Word of God? Yes. Or, Did the White man lie about Jesus being White? Yes Or both? Yes, both. Many of us have come to believe in the White man [and White woman] so much, that we believe them without getting any confirmation. FACTS And this is especially disturbing because it says a lot about our intelligence level. It's one thing for children to be deceived, but when adults able to be so easily deceived by other adults and CONTINUE to be deceived over and over again...that says a lot about their intelligence and gullibility.

Chev Ofcourse. People from India still remember and practice most of their original culture that existed before colonialism and before White folks came through imposing their perversions. Then they come to the United States and see people who LOOK like them (AfroAmericans) but ACT Whiter than White folks....lol. Doing more drinking, dope smoking, killing, disrespectful behavior, etc..... They thought their White colonizers were disrespectful and lacking in culture and taste....until they run into niggas, lol. It doesn't matter which nation you go to, you can tell if it was colonized by the "out of place" and usually perverse customs that White people imposed on the population Customs like: -Heavily alcohol drinking -Eating a lot of red meat -Disrespect of parents and older people. -Treating dogs better than people and keeping them in the house -More gay and lesbian activity These are all tell-tale signs of heavy White influence on a population because these customs are generally foreign and unheard of among traditional societies of color. Now don't get me wrong.....we DID have dogs around before White folks. Having dogs around to help humans didn't originate with White folks, we were using dogs for THOUSANDS of years before White came into existence. But we kept them in their place.....outside. We used them for hunting and scavenging to clean up the land of carcasses etc..... White folks took them and made FRIENDS out of them to protect them from other animals while they were in the caves, and eventually started having sex with them

Well, if Florida DOES turn into a hot-spot for anti-Black hatred, you know who I'll blame for it......BLACK FOLKS. 1. This is OUR country. We have just as much POTENTIAL for power as Whites, Latinos, or any other group.....so if we want to lay around on the couch smoking fake-weed and eating fried turkey legs instead of going to Florida and establishing a political and social machine there that goes to war WITH these Republican (and Democrat) racists and prevent them from establishing a nest there....who's fault is it? Most of us have two arms, two legs, and a brain just like most White folks.....so who's stopping us from making Florida a great state for those who LOVE Blacks? Who's PHYSICALLY holding us back? 2. Andrew Gillum had an opportunity to turn this around and become the first Black Governor of Florida, but the nigga punked out. Figuratively and eventually literally it seems. Just like Stacey Abrams, these Negroes run for office putting all of their trust and faith in White folks hoping they'll be fair and treat them correctly and when they get double-crossed and abandoned....instead of learning their lesson and going to their Black grassroots for support....they just cave in and bow their heads and accept "defeat". That's what Andrew did. And he's still paying the price for it. I read somewhere that a judge ruled that whatever the hell he was charged with was going to stick and won't be dismissed. It's sad, but he could have fought and asked Black Floridians to fight with him to take the office....but he didn't. It's getting harder and harder to blame White folks for having the good sense to do what we SHOULD be doing.....fighting for and expanding political, social, and economic power.

I does seem to me....perhaps because I'm not AS familiar with other communities as I am with my own....that there is a higher level of "aloneness" among AfroAmericans, especially at older age, compared with other groups. Especially among women. It seems like since I was a kid I've seen a lot more alone (I won't call them lonely) older Black women who didn't have a man in the house for one reason or another than White or Asian and definitely Latina women. It's almost rare to see a Latina woman of ANY age, alone. As the Professor pointed out, there's usually a REASON why older people are alone and you'll often find out after a short conversation with them...lol. The baggage, the dysfunction, the bitterness....so many AfroAmericans end up.....as Kevin Samuels would say....."dying alone". Not only is it embarrassing, but it's just downright not natural. It's not natural for males and females to be bitter and angry at each other regardless of age or menopause. Perhaps as a community we need to figure out ways to make ourselves more attractive to each other at all levels so as to

I keep saying, there are enough AfroAmericans in this nation......if we strategically place ourselves in the proper political positions, we can GIVE OURSELVES Reparations. We don't have to rely on begging White folks and counting on their sympathy and sense of morality, we can help ourselves.

These are links to the exposé the San Jose Mercury news did back in 1996 called "Dark Alliance" that detailed the CIA purposely funneling cocaine into Black communities in the United States: https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm https://longform.org/archive/publications/san-jose-mercury-news It think you'll find more evidence that it was done for profit The CIA is fully funded by the United States government, it doesn't generate or operate off of "profit". Any military campaign the U.S. undertakes is fully funded by the U.S. government. No need to sell drugs, open up lemonade stands, or wash cars to "raise money" for funding....lol

ProfD Have a short conversation with those folks over 40 years old and you'll walk away knowing exacting why they're alone and/or thirsty. LMBAO 🤣 I have to laugh.....because there's so much truth in it! I was up at the fish-n-shrimp shack in the ghetto the other day and ran into an older brother who started a conversation with me out of nowhere about how "these women be acting all crazy and shit" and how "stuck up" they were. Every other sentence was about how cool he was being alone.....which told me he wasn't. Actually, AS SOON AS he opened his mouth I realized one of the reasons HE was alone. Literally as soon as he OPENED his mouth. "Man, deez bitches ain't shit. All dey want is money, a nice car to ride they ass around in. Fuck around and set yo ass up if you ain't careful." His number was called, he got his food, and hobbled out the door still ranting and mumbling about women and I saw him WALKING down the street digging in the bag popping shrimp or something in his mouth still talking and wobbling his head like Dolemite. Bro ProfD.....that's why I had to laugh. It brought that image back.

Troy You know....... Sometimes I think you just disagree with me....not because you TRULY DISAGREE....but simply because you have nothing better to do at the time and are looking to entertain yourself. Like walking by a dog behind a fence poking a stick at him. "Hey....HEY... (tink tink tink) wake up you mutt! Oh I don't want anything.... I just wanted to mess with you. Get you riled up for kicks" Hold tight......

Chev Well, I've read a LOT about it.....lol. And yes, the colorism issues are still pretty big in Haiti but for the last 40 years or so a new twist has been added. Now you have a lot of Lebanese and Palestinians who have been migrating over to Haiti to exploit the people and they have joined the already elitist light-skinned class of Haitians to oppress the dark skinned majority. Kind of like how the Indians and Arabs went to South Africa and joined the Whites and Coloured minorities to help oppress the overwhelming Black majority.

Troy Actually we were invited a couple weeks ago by an associate and his wife to join them on their annual trip down to Florida. They have property down in the Orlando area and go down every winter in their 5th Wheel for about 5 or 6 weeks and hibernate until the weather up here breaks. But they're White.....lol...so I said no. Yeah, I think it was Mobile because if I remember correctly we swept the bottom of Alabama and Mississippi to get to New Orleans.

Because it's not true. Russia's military is second to the U.S. not ONLY because of it's nuclear stockpile but because of it's technology and general military hardware which they have so much of they can afford to sell it and trade it around the planet. The fact that they can afford to PLAY GAMES of war in the Ukraine.....which any military leader can see they're obviously doing....is a testimony to this fact. Don't let the propaganda these people are putting out about how poor and broke and weak Russia is, fool you. Man they're IN THE UKRAINE ALREADY. They've been shelling Kyiv for MONTHS now as well as any other city in the Ukraine they wish to 2 things go keep in mind: 1. They aren't ONLY fighting Ukraine's military but they're also fighting NATO by proxy who constantly supplies the Ukraine with weapons, technology, and even military personnel and mercenaries. 2. They may not WANT to stomp there way to the Ukraine capital city and install themselves in the seat yet. If they are playing a game...as I suspect they are....they are delaying it to try to sucker the U.S. and NATO into a much more larger open conflict.

The term "shortage" is subjective....I realize. A population that some see as healthy and non-problematic....others will see as a drastic decline. Especially when comparing our population with other groups. And most people....as long as they have a spouse/significant other.....generally are oblivious to any "shortages" occurring in the community UNTIL they're single again and have to go out looking....lol. I have several lady friends (all Black btw....lol) to keep me entertained so I'm not thirsty by a long shot. However I can't help but notice, something strange is and has been going on in Black male/female relationships for the past 30 years or so where so many of our people past 40 end up lonely and hungry for a mate but don't have one for one reason or another.

For decades now, in both the mainstream as well as Black media people have been claiming there's a shortage of Black men in America, especially with regards to relationships for women. This so-called "shortage" has been blamed on everything from an increase in incarceration to an increase in homosexuality to an increase in homicides. Whether this shortage of Black men compared to Black women truly exists or not I'm not sure, I don't work in the Census bureau nor am I a demographer. However based on my personal OBSERVATIONS being in my mid 50s and having lived around this nation it seems to me that there is an ABUNDANCE of Black males! Whether at work, at school, on the street, in the malls....in most places in the United States you can't go 5 minutes without seeing a group of Black men standing around with doo-rags on and sagging jeans, lol. However the REAL shortage it seems is with Black women! Back when I was in my 20s I noticed that there were rarely enough Black girls/women to go around for dudes to push up on and often ended a situation where 4 or 5 dudes were trying to get the same female. I noticed this at school where the ratio was a little more even. Then I started noticing it on jobs.....fewer and fewer Black women to be found. Every Black woman YOU were trying to talk to....2 or 3 other dudes trying to get up on her....lol. Plenty of White women standing around smiling at you, but the Black women were elusive. And it STILL seems to be that way when I look at a lot of the Black youth in the community. I see just as many and in most cases MORE Black males than Black females. The only difference now is that a far greater percentage of Black women who ARE around are either lesbian or have take up White partners! Even in the immigrant community, I see far more Black male immigrants coming over here than Black female immigrants. And the Black female immigrants who DO come....usually come already hitched to a man. Now add all of what I just said to the FACT that so many thousands (some say hundreds of thousands) of Black girls/women go missing in this nation every year....seemingly vanishing without a trace...and it seems that my observations are well grounded. But alas.... Maybe it's just my perspective because as a man I'm LOOKING for more women than men, but it certainly seems that in the Black community (ADOS and non-ADOS alike) there are far more men than women.

Can't speak on it. Believe it or not, Florida is one of the few states I have YET to set foot in. I MAY have ridden through Pensacola while I was half sleep on the Greyhound bus as a teenager on my way from Atlanta to some place in Alabama....maybe....but I'm not sure.

Kenneth It never ceases to amaze me how black people talk bad about Jews and oppose immigrants yet we don't fight back nearly enough against the systemic racism and economic injustice presided over by rich white male Gentiles. Well I will say this...... I'm not sure about other cities but in Detroit the Jews use to own a lot of business in the Black community BEFORE the riots and right up until the late 70s. And whether they were "exploiting" us or not...they treated Black folks a lot better and with more respect than a lot of the Arabs who took over those stores and other businesses in the 80s. You didn't hear about Jews shooting and killing Black children over stealing candy bars like you hear about the Arabs and Asians. Jews have are rightly concerned about Anti Semitism and we as black people experiencing racism should be more sensitive and aware not to play into this thing against Jews. Of course the same goes with racism on their part as well. They have the right to be concerned about anti-semitism, however they need to bark up the RIGHT tree....not the wrong one. Going after Black entertainers like Whoppi Goldberg or Kyrie Irving for making STATEMENTS....while you have White gentiles actually KILLING and plotting against them and have been for centuries....is a waste of time and energy for those who are serious about ending anti-semitism. If you're truly concerned about anti-semitism, take care of the White anti-semites FIRST because they are the ones doing the physical harm and pose the biggest threat. Then you can maybe address some statements you don't like by Minister Farrakhan or Professor Griff. ProfD Black folks think 1) Jews control money and 2) immigrants are going to kick them out of 2nd class and I'm not sure if I'm with you on the 2nd one...lol. If most Black folks REALLY thought that, they wouldn't be marching and fighting so hard to let so many of them in to country. Or more recently simply being silent and ignorant on the issue of so many immigrants flooding into this nation. You have a few handful of AfroAmericans who are concerned about keeping the #2 spot next to White folks and pushing the immigrants back, but most AfroAmericans appear to be in competition with no one else EXCEPT eachother. "Man...I CAINT let that nigga get a bigger burger than I got!" Basically, we need to mind own business and get our own house in order before we can speak about and/or on behalf of another group of people. 👏 👏 Stefan I am hoping Karen Bass can leverage her social worker and political skills to succeed as Los Angeles Mayor. She may. But most likely HER success won't help the AfroAmericans in Los Angeles. Those few still silly enough to stay there. I am not conditioned to run from a challenge or give up and run away in fear of failing. Really??? Then I bet you've wasted a LOT of energy fighting losing battles in the past....lol. Were you the type of kid that when you missed the bus on your way to school....you wouldn't give up and wait on the next one....you'd run after the one you missed and chase it all the way through town hoping you'd eventually catch it? "I can't give up! I won't give up!!!!"

Troy It is odd that you see the Civil War as an example of unity. I think everyone else would view it as a prime example of disunity. The Civil War isn't an example OF unity...it's an example of the IMPORTANCE OF unity. A united nation is so important the government was willing to wage war against it's own citizens who tried to separate in order to preserve the integrity of the nation. We as AfroAmericans should take a lesson from that on the importance of unity among us instead of this highly individualistic "I'll do my own thing" attitude so many of us have. Have you been following the news about the "opioid crisis?" We have big pharma (run by white folks) killing 100K folks (mostly other white people) a year. Are white people trying to destabilize white communities, or are you going to tell me it is still an attempt to destabilize Black communities and the white deaths are collateral damage? Your focus is too broad and general. I told you that drugs were brought into the AfroAmerican community by racists to destablize it. This is a FACT. It's a proven fact and actually it was covered by several major news papers back in the 90s that drugs were being brought in to destablize Black communities. Other communities being affected and to what degree is irrelevant to this FACT because it doesn't make it more or less of a FACT. So what if White people are suffering more now from opioids? And???? Does that mean that cocaine and heroin still weren't brought into Black communities in the 70s and 80s to destabilize it?

True, but few people.....a minority....are THAT disciplined that they can hear different types of strong opinions and not voice their approval or opposition. That takes a lot of discipline that the average fake-weed smoking American don't have today....lol

Hence my "conspiracy theory" on the installation of round-a-bouts all over the nation....lol.

You can't compare racism to "homophobia". Most of what they call "homophobia" is quite natural; while most forms of racism aren't and goes against the natural order of things. For example..... It's natural for a man to find the thought of another man tongue kissing him or jamming a penis into his anus disgusting. It's NOT natural for a person to get "disgusted" at seeing a Black man with a White woman, they have to be taught and almost brainwashed from a young age to see this as wrong in order to find it disgusting.

One of the problems I have with those stats is that they want to literally make things a "Black-n-White" issue while totally ignoring the disturbingly high rate of violent crime committed by Latinos....especially illegal ones.....on eachother. I used to live in Arizona and Mexican migrants BUTCHERED eachother every night after getting drunk, yet their stabbings and slashings and shooting barely even made the news unless it was related to other events. It's the same with the gang banging in places like L.A. and Chicago where the Latino gangs actually out number the Black gangs and they are more violent towards eachother, but the media ignores it.

My father grew up on a farm down South and he had an old saying, "If you don't sheer the sheep...the briars are go take the wool anyway". In other words, if you act stingy and don't give the people what they need or deserve.....they're TAKE IT any damn way, law or no law....lol. If the city government of Buffalo and the state government of New York and the United States government DID RIGHT by it's citizens, not only wouldn't looting be an issue but this blizzard wouldn't be nearly as bad for Buffalo as it is....because they would have had the infrastructure in place to clear the snow and help the people. Winter blizzards have been happening EVERY YEAR since we can remember in the past, this is nothing new....so why were the "caught off guard" and left so many people to freeze to death and die in their cars? Too busy sending money to Ukraine instead of helping it's own citizens. The United States is such a wealthy nation that every major city should have streets that automatically warm up and melt the snow on the roads and sidewalks. Germany and Canada has streets like that.....why not the U.S.? And why didn't the National Guard hit the streets BEFORE the looting started and even before the blizzard came to ensure everyone was properly sheltered, had enough food and water and supplies, and safe? For the same reasons they didn't do it for Katrina and the dozens of other major disasters that have happened since. If it wasn't so sad....it would be funny.