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Most immigrants.....including the tethers....lol...can come to America and almost subconsciously seek to associate themselves with and seek the acceptance of White people. We really can't blame them UNTIL we as AfroAmericans have more to offer them. At this point AfroAmericans should have hotels, banks, grocery store, hospitals, and schools in every major city in the United States that we could offer as an ALTERATIVE for not only our people but immigrants and Whites who would like to patronize them.

People find all kinds of ways to justify self-hatred but what else is new. Lol....should we expect anything rational or reasonable from someone who said she has "divorced" herself from the Black race?

ProfD I'd imagine birds would stop flying south during winter months if predators held welcome signs and ate them. It depends on what they were flying away FROM back home...lol. If the death awaiting you is quicker and less painful than the long, torturous, and humiliating death you're trying to escape from....you'll likely make that trip. Some of these people escaped from countries where PRISON in the United States is more preferable than the living conditions back home! Atleast they can eat and get some form of healthcare.

🙄 -Girl, what's wrong with you????

Ah hell..... Looks like she hurried up and did it. Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married after five-day celebration Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married after five-day celebration

Troy well, we were talking about racism. The self hatred part is a strawman, but that’s OK. We’ll run with that too. Yes we WERE talking about racism, but when I mentioned: " Not only have I seen elements of "colorism" and "featurism" among THEM that they've picked up from other AfroAmerican kids raised in a household without love for self" You used that illustration I gave as an example of how RACISM is picked up. That wasn't an example of how RACISM is picked up.....it's an example of how COLORISM/FEATURISM is picked up. There's a difference. Just because someone straightens their hair in 2025 America doesn’t mean they hate themselves. They’re all victims of marketing strategies Black people straighten their hair white people curl their hair and all racist dies their hair blonde. No, JUST because a person straightens their hair it doesn't mean they hate themselves....but it's often a SYMPTOM or SIGN that they do. Just like a man kissing another man doesn't necessarily mean he's gay.....but IF HE WAS gay....that's what he'd be doing, lol. If a Black person with kinky hair DID hate themselves and the way they looked...straightening it would be one of the things they'd do! Further.... It's not JUST straightening their hair that's an issue and a sign of self-hatred, but them also dying it blonde. These are clear indicators that they aren't happy with their natural features. Disgusting......... than this Does she really think this makes her look better than her more natural sister???? Speaking of White people dying their hair...... Plenty of White people hate themselves and actually want to be WHITER and more ANGLO...so they'll dye their brunette or brown hair blonde or red. I would ignore everything you see on social media is designed to inflame you not inform you Donald Trump didn't get elected as president of Instagram. He was elected President of the UNITED STATES. They aren't sending ICE out to find out who's illegally using Meta or X and cancelling their accounts. They are out here in force in real life snatching people up off the streets. This is bigger than social media, my man.

What???

"In the real world, I am a widowed mother of 5, grandmother of 7, great grandmotherk of 8, family members of whom know very little about Nana's on-line activity; too wrapped up in their own pursuits. They just know she surfs the internet, amusing herself by engaging in various activities"

You might as well suggest that birds stop FLYING SOUTH for the winter and instead put in more time and effort building better nests to withstand the cold....lol.

Actually, this is a pretty interesting observation. It's something to think about! @harry brown Apparently some of our Black preachers are so good at pimping from the pulpit and taking advantage of people that a lot of White men have studied and taken notes. A rather FAMOUS one who did this and took it to another level........... People should take interest in the fact that the vast majority of Jim Jones' followers were BLACK. .....despite the fact that he would routinely use the word "nigger" (with the hard "r") and talk about his homosexual engagements in his sermons!

What's particularly disturbing is how so many average American citizens who NEED Universal Healthcare aren't even concerned about it and don't even want to talk about it. Some people are very sick and have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars worth of medical bills, but they're more focused on Instagram wars or Reality TV shows or even immigration and cheering for who's going to get locked up next....ignoring their own suffering.

ProfD I think non-FBA's are MORE likely to crave White acceptance. They are in America which is mostly still controlled by Whites so....they think they're making the intelligent choice by aligning themselves with whichever organizations will offer them more benefits. But don't forget we still have a lot of HOME GROWN tap-dancers and coons among our own....lol. From Kanye West to Clarence Thomas to the buck-toof clown down in South Carolina...lol.

I wouldn't get with Nicki Minaj if she THREW herself at me because she looks fake as hell. And she's especially unattractive with remarks like this: She said she can "relate" to them. She says this Administration is one of "us". Who are the "us" that she's referring to????

I don't blame 'em because I'M still blaming Obama and the Democrats over Obamacare too...lol. It was nothing but a GIVE AWAY to the insurance companies. A disaster waiting to happen. First they got rid of the public option.....I knew it was a wrap then. Then they made it MANDATORY that you had to get it....ensuring guaranteed customers for private insurance companies. It actually was a REPUBLICAN so-called "health care" plan that Democrats decided to run with instead of pushing for Universal Healthcare, which is what the Democrat base....and I believe most Americans....actually wanted. And just like Republicans are blaming the Democrats....at that time Obama and the Democrats were in full power of both the Whitehouse and Congress but BLAMED THE REPUBLICANS or rather used them as an excuse for not even considering a single payer healthcare system.

Troy Well, then you see that they had to learn it. It wasn’t something that was innate. You're using my example to conflate two separate problems: Racism and Self-Hatred The problem that many of my children's AFRO-AMERICAN and AFRICAN (yes...a few have come over) friends have that influence them to love light skin over dark, love straight or wavy hair over kinky, love green/blue eyes over black.....is SELF HATRED. The problem that many of my children's WHITE and LATINO friends have that influence them them to think they and their families and their cultures and their cultural accomplishments are better than ours.....is RACISM. Most forms of racism have to be taught, but not always...some of it is innate. Self-hatred ALWAYS has to be taught or indoctrinated....it's not natural or innate at all. Two of those children were partially raised in the Detroit area in a Black community and went to Black schools and when we moved to West Michigan and they started going to mixed schools they eventually hated it. Although the Detroit area schools had less resources and there were more fights and chances for serious violence, they had more Black teachers and could relate to the other students better and there was more "Black consciousness" in the environment like more soul food joints and other activities for them to engage in. Donald Trump is a bump in the road, an aberration and it’s not reflective of their overall societal trend. He's a catharsis. He was elected because a large percentage of people DO feel the way he does and agrees with what he says, they just are afraid to say it. They'd rather him do their dirty work. — of course things are improving. Are you kidding? You say things ARE improving....I say things WERE improving. But since the 2000 Elections when Bush made his way into office, race relations in society started declining. No, they're aren't as bad as Chattel Slavery or Jim Crow....yet....but they're headed in that direction again.

aka Contrarian -you HOPE they do, lol. "Some" may be......but most aren't. They KNOW why....lol. Women like that aren't called "cougars" for nothing! A cougar loves to hang out....stalk....and lay wait. Looking for prey. Looking for something (or somebody) they can sink their teeth into....lol.

Lol.... What are you doing with a penis, PERIOD?

It won't matter, she's probably not going to be accepted anyway no matter how much she tries to be "down". She looks too good and most of the White women are going to feel some sort of way about her very presence. I personally don't think she's too attractive. Don't get me wrong....I don't think she's ugly....but she's....in my opinion....moderate. I feel about her the same way I feel about Beyonce. She's typical. Average. Nobody to have fit over. But because she's mixed raced with long hair/extensions and flaunts her sexuality a lot, she's seen as very attractive by many people in THIS society....including the women. This is one of the reasons Candace Owens can't make too much inroad into the Conservative movement....lol. She can get along with the White and Conservative men fairly well because of her attractiveness and intellect but the women don't like her at all....even when they pretend that they do because she's too pretty and feminine and take the attention away from THEM. The ideology of "white supremacy" operates on the premises or belief that White folks are better. It's hard to convince people that you're "better" than somebody who looks better than you, lol.

COME ON CYNIQUE.....GIVE US THE RAW-N-REAL! Tell us all about them SALAD TOSSIN' days!!!! "Think I'll make a grilled TURKEY salad for that JIVE turkey ass nigga!"

Salad making days.......lol 🤔 -What in the world???? Is it an older term for swirling??? Or maybe swinging??? Almost afraid to look it up!

Yeah that's nice but...... I wanna hear (read...lol) some more about you being YOU, lol. Tell us more about them bar hopping days!

YOU SAID............ I didn't say it. YOU SAID IT YOU SAID......... And I quote: YOU SAID that back in your "salad days" (whatever that means. It sounds like some term you picked up from your White female roomates....lol) that all it took was a few drinks...and you'd have NO inhibitions! So don't get mad at me or claim I'm lying on you and what not. YOU SAID IT! .....lol. .....but I guess you didn't say it. It's all in my imagination and I'm making it up.....lol.

'Cuz you NEED it....lol....as much as you cuss and act a fool on here. Now you're talking about how you used to get tipsy and act up on stage!

I didn't say he was a "stranger". I don't know WHAT the hell he was to you. I just remember you said he'd pick you up and take you shopping from time to time. It's Sunday, why aren't you at CHURCH.....lol.

When you see "Pop"....think of this character that Richard Pryor played: