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That being the case..... There are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Black Capitalists in the United States, each probably with net worths of over $5 million. What they CHOOSE to do with their capital is what makes a difference. If they CHOOSE to waste it in clothes, entertainment, and lawsuits that result from them engaging in juvenile behavior RATHER THAN investing their capital into not only the technology that already exists but into discovering even better technology for the future.....it's their choice. You had millions of bums, drug addicts, and losers living on the streets BEFORE the advent of AI and no doubt you're going to have millions of them for a time period AFTER.

What of the great things about American style Capitalism is that you get to CONTROL the flow of your own goods and services. If you put out a movie....and don't get paid for it...don't put out another one until or unless you do. The same goes for music or any other product.

But THAT would mean plenty of jobs for those who would learn how to master AI and make movies on their own without the permission of Hollywood. One of the beauties of Creativity is it allows you to see infinite positive possibilities from most situations.

Lol...so what happened with the girl you liked? Did you two ever communicate after that incident?

It's one thing to be bold. It's another thing to be obnoxious...lol. "Geez, those things are long! How do you wash your tootie with nails that long, honey?"

When I'm out and about the society and look at whole GROUPS of dysfunctional people on the street, sometimes I think of what you said about dysfunctional people breeding with eachother and producing MORE dysfunction...lol.

Yes. Nature provides examples. They serve as an incentive for you to NOT be like them and dysfunctional yourself. However to keep it real...... I think this society is making a lot of dysfunctional people far beyond the "normal" rate that may occur in nature.

Sometimes even asking a person you barely know or don't know such a personal question will make you look like a bigger ass than assuming....lol. If a woman has nails like that....unless she has somebody wiping her ass for her....she's NOT cleaning properly.

Sometimes I wonder if some people's purpose in this world is to serve as an example of who NOT to be and what NOT to do. Want to know what happens when you don't finish school? Look at THAT man sitting over there. That's his purpose. For children to look at as a reminder to get their education. Want to know what happens when you use drugs or join a gang? Look at your cousin or brother. That was this purpose. For somebody to look at so they wouldn't go down the same path.....so they didn't and ended up great. And perhaps the same can be applied to certain groups............ If you want an example of what happens when you don't take care of your snitches and sell-outs....look at THOSE people over there. If you want an example of what happens when you raise strong daughters and weak sons....look at THOSE people over there.

frankster It is the same set of gene that is responsible for all phenotypic variation....the differences arise from how they are express and to what degree from on or off That is a great explanation for the reality OF race...lol. Those differences still exist, regardless of cause or reason. It is also back up by genetics. Oh? Do genes have a "return address" on them like mail where you can trace back the location of their origin? Humans If that's the cases then I have a statement and a question: 1. Humans are ALREADY divided, so "they" are wasting their time trying to invent something that has already been invented...lol 2. You said: They not only trying to label us.....but divide us My question is, who are the "they" you say are trying to divide humans? Are THEY humans too? Yes....they are exploiting this division Again, I'll await your response in reference to the "they" you speak of. The ideology of Races and Racism is a way of maintaining this division The reality of Race exists outside of ideology. Racism is merely the focus on race and the frequent weaponizing of it. Race exists outside of Racism....just like the reality of Sexual differences exist outside of Sexism. All peoples come from black African people. I think we've already covered that I don't believe that, so no sense in beating a dead horse...lol. One should accept that we are all of the human race but ethnically diverse. Why should one accept that human beings are a "race"? A race is a category OF a similar group. What other groups are similar to human beings that we can be considered a category as humanity? Yes...a purposely flawed misapplication to facilitate persecution of the weak Or simply another way of identifying people absence of malice. No....that is not entirely true People primarily come together around shared interests and values....age sex and color are culturally inculcated Your first associates aren't those you share interests and values with but are your FAMILY - lineage - RACE By nature you share interests and values with those WITH IN your race. Biologically Africa is the proverbial Garden of Eden making Africans Adam and Eve Not sure about Eve, but the word "Adam" has a specific meaning in Hebrew. Adam may have come from Africa, but Black people didn't come from an "Adam". The white South Africans are not Africans - "NOW".......they have always been Africans by descent They are not Africans because they were now born and bred on the continent of Africa.....but because they are descendants of Africans If you believe this to be the case, then perhaps you don't have a problem WITH these White Africans coming back "home" to take their rightful place on their ancestral African soil...lol. Perhaps Donald Trump has a point when he says stop persecuting the White South Africans! Maybe when they first started arriving hundreds of years ago, instead of seeing it as an occupation and invasion....the Zulus and other Africans should have had a Welcoming Home party for their long lost fellow White "African bretheren" ! "Whaddup fam! Where yall niggaz been??? You were gone for I don't know how long.... Now yall dressed up and acting like you don't know nobody, huh?"

ProfD I asked a few women how they managed to take care of themselves with those fingernails that looked like talons. The women with claws told me it wasn't a problem in the bathroom. I could only take their word for it. ....and that's the problem. You could ONLY take their word for it...lol. I don't know why you even bother to ask them because you know you're not going to get the truth. It's not like any of them would ADMIT that they don't clean their ass as properly as they'd like...lol. They can barely count money at the cash register or handle a pen, so how are they going to properly wipe inside them folds and creases with nails that look like ram horns....lol.

ProfD It got real at around 16 when n8gglets started using tools instead of throwing hands. Some were using them younger than that. I remember back in the early 80s some kids were bringing guns to school. Not many, but a few. Reads like an old fool. He had no business trying to fight. Should have been at the crib with his ole lady. He looked like he was in his 70s or maybe 80s. But in HIS mind he probably was in his 20s or 30s...lol.

And our brother Demond Wilson died at 79.

ProfD POTUS OJ sees her as an opportunist from as he calls it. Sometimes it takes an opportunist to know and recognize another opportunist...lol. However I think he just has a problem with smart Black women period, especially those who oppose and resist him. He couldn't even get along with Omarosa and had her escorted out of the building. That's assuming they have respect & appreciation for women in the 1st place. I have respect for women, however I've met men who did not and some who had vitriol. However I have yet to meet a heterosexual man who doesn't appreciate an attractive woman. They can CLAIM they don't all day long when they're talking to me, but as soon as one comes over and says something to him he starts grinning and eyes start shining...lol.

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Grady Demond Wilson'Sanford and Son' Actor Dead at 79 'Sanford and Son' Star Grady Demond Wilson Dead at 79 I'm sure he's reunited with Redd Foxx after that long separation....lol. Maybe they'll get back together again and make enough episodes to keep their fans entertained for a thousand years...lol. May our brother rest in peace, power, and everlasting prosperity!

Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated one-room schoolhouse with a leaky roof and a solitary, underpaid teacher. And each way, there and back, she counted the fenceposts along the road, discovering that she had an aptitude for numbers that would help her bridge the distance between poverty and opportunity, between a life working in the fields and a career helping society advance beyond its limits. Dr. West, who died Jan. 17 at 95, used her mathematical skills to become a barrier-breaking researcher for the Navy, mastering a bulky supercomputer known as Stretch while calculating satellite orbits and developing a precise model of the Earth’s surface. Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. Thanks in part to Dr. West, anyone with a smartphone — or a receiver-equipped car, airplane or boat — can navigate easily from one place to the next, without having to stop to ask for directions You Can Read The Rest Of The Story Here: Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS May our wonderful and smart sister rest in peace and power.

....when you realized that fighting was primarily a young man's sport? I went back to Detroit yesterday to handle some family business and happened to see an old man squaring off with some young cats inside a cellphone store. They were grinning and trying to brush him off but he kept insisting for some beef. One of them turned around and braced himself and when the old dude threw a punch he simply stepped back to avoid it and the old man lost his balance, fell, and knocked over a display case in the store. Needless to say the younger dudes all had a laugh and I'm sure atleast one of them had a cell phone to record the incident as is often the cases today. I don't know what happened after that. I don't know if he stayed down or got back up to act a bigger fool and they ended up stomping him. 30 years ago I may have stayed around to watch, but not now....not today. It wouldn't be worth it and I really didn't have much interest in it as I was too busy trying to get other business taken care of before crossing the state again. But I've seen many similar events when older men THINK they can fight and do what they did back in highschool and end up on their ass.

frankster If by blood you are referencing biology. I mean specific genes that determine phenotype, and thus race. So long as they remain human they are African...All humans are African I remember you saying this before. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now...lol. "Out of Africa" is a THEORY, not a proven scientific fact. They not only trying to label us.....but divide us Who are the "us" you speak of? I ask because, we may already BE divided and perhaps they are simply exploiting that division. Although we all may be called Black, most mixed people don't see themselves the same as me and I don't see them as being the same either. Every body has black (as in African) Ancestry... I don't believe that. I believe Whites came from Black people, but not African Black people. Only when one accepts the idea of Race and Races socially. Which would make sense since we're living in a society that accepts and respects it also. This is a direct result of Racial prejudiced being socialized taught and enforced. True. It is ingrained into the children from not only the home but the schools as well as the media and society in general. When one looks beyond phenotype....it is truth However race is primarily determined BY phenotype. If you look beyond phenotype then there is no need to talk about race. Never said that you did not do so..... I said Your emphasis is on complexion as in Skin Color...which is as the architects of Racism would have it and want it You have been schooled by racist ideology to define people along these lines You don't need to be school by anyone to do this. People naturally categorize themselves by age, sex, and even color is the differences are vast enough. Not sure what you intend for that to mean... Lol.... VGQ is a term Neely Fuller Jr. coined that means Victim's Guaranteed Qualification. He sad that in a system as vast and as traumatic as this System of White supremacy Racism, because nobody has yet to figure out the solution of how to overcome and destroy the system and free themselves.... 1. No opinion or idea is better than the other because none of them have worked to free us from this System yet. So unless they are outrageously false or harmful, all opinions and ideas from the victims of Racism should be respected and allowed to be expressed. 2. Since people deal with stress, trauma, and frustration in different ways....victims of Racism should be allowed to deal with Racism in their own unique way in which ever way helps them cope with it. Then the question is at what point does the squatters become Africans? As I explained to Troy in another thread, I have 2 definitions for the word "African". 1. Anyone born and raised on the continent of Africa 2. Anyone predominately of sub-Saharan African ancestral descent regardless of where they reside on the planet.

Trump is rich and powerful. Looks to me like he has a lot of vitriol and contempt for her. I didn't know becoming rich and powerful causes you to lose respect for women or lose appreciation for their beauty. I guess I won't know until I get rich....lol.

aka Contrarian Few people DO support stereotypes 100%. But the fact that you attached THOSE attributes to them gives us a window to your thinking about them. Here again...... Instead of calling them criminals, you focus on their power and call it sexy. Would you consider BLACK gang members sexy and talk about how much of an aphrodisiac the leaders of the VL or GD in Chicago exude when they call shots? Or is that only reserved for White "gangsters" with power? And WHEN I do so.....please share the quote of me doing or saying this. Because so far, I haven't. Ofcourse not. Lol....how many FBAs reside in WAKANDA???

ProfD It could be the same experience the NDE folks mention. Bottom line is we really don't know. Those who experience it....already know. That is the convenient, er, rationalization folks use for their continued physical existence. Perhaps in some cases. But again, these people were often TOLD this by the Superior Beings they encountered during their NDEs. That's why bilions of people are willing to live in oppression, pain & suffering. They hope & believe life will be better on the other side...freedom. A type of freedom they can enjoy and experience. As opposed to simply not existing anymore, where you simply don't have any awareness that what you were trying to escape has ended.

ProfD Let him have her...for good Oh no, I didn't want her. I'm not even sure how I got into a brief conversation with her. I think she said "excuse me" or something like that to get pass me and I noticed her accent and asked her where she was from but I wasn't attracted to her at all...lol. Nope. I don't compliment eyelashes, hair or nails that makes a woman look like a from Universal Soul circus. Well I DO look at a woman's hair and frequently her make-up. Some women look gorgeous without make up so it doesn't matter too much. But I rarely look at a woman's eye lashes or nails in determining her attractiveness. The eye lashes and nails that ARE noticed are when they are ridiculous like those long ass curved nails women used to wear 10 or 15 years ago that makes you wonder how they wiped their ass when they went to the bathroom...lol.

ProfD Would you feel the same way about Nicki if she was from Africa but giving off the same vibration? Absolutely. There are plenty of African women who DO act like her and many of them look even more ridiculous because they come from ethnic groups with much darker skin complexions but still strut around with blonde hair and blue contacts looking silly as fuck...lol. However, there are plenty African women who do wear a ton of make-up & wear weaves & wigs every day. Facts. Infact, I met one in Whole Foods a few days ago from Nigeria. She was dark skinned with her hair dyed up blonde AND had some sort of weave that didn't fit and looked like a racoon tail. She obviously used skin bleaching cream because her face was a different color than her neck. When we finished talking she said she must find her husband, and when I finally saw them to together....just as I thought...he was a White man! Plenty dudes are spending money for their women to get eyelashes, weaves & wigs & manicures/pedicures. Myself and most men I know just give women the money for self maintenance. What exactly they DO to themselves with it is up to them. Whatever they're doing seems to work if they're KEEPING the man who is giving the money to them...lol. Some women will do whatever they think it takes to be more attractive to themselves & other men or women nowadays Which is understandable I'm just curious to know if they are being TOLD by men that those long ass eyelashes are attractive, or are they ASSUMING they are? And if some men are telling them this....WHO are those men? Have YOU ever complimented a woman on her eye lashes?