Pioneer1

Do you know the difference between PROOF and EVIDENCE? If you did, you'd realize there is plenty of EVIDENCE that much of this killing is being done by White Supremacists.

Troy Yeah lol 117 is just about as long as a human has ever lived and probably makes him the oldest person in Earth. I'm not sure of that. When I was a Bible believer I thought nobody could live past 120. I realized that that was a misinterpretation of scripture and since they accept that plenty of people can live past that age. Black people live a LONG time when we are in our natural environments eating the right foods. You shouldn't be losing young brothers in their late 30s from cancer and AIDS like Chadwick Boseman, Old Dirty, and Eazy E. Honestly I did not take that claim as serious and overlooked it.... I was looking at his body language. It was more than simply disbelief and astonishment....it was an INDIFFERENCE that in my opinion showed a disrespectful lack of curiosity. If I'm talking to a man or woman and someone tells me that they are 90, I immediately humble myself and comment on their long life out of respect and sheer curiosity. The young tattooed brother just brushed it off as if the man said something as common as being born in Alabama. Even if he didn't believe it he should have shown more interest in it, especially for the audience he's doing this video for. This video is more than just a poor selection from Del, because I've seen MANY videos this Search for Uhuru brother has done and this is typical of his style. He's smart and adventurous but he's not much of a journalist and doesn't seem to ask the important questions that are very relevant to the subjects he features. The question about going back to a star tripped me out. The people are shoeless living in a mud hut and this guy is asking them about interstellar space travel. WTF?! Yeah, I know what he's TRYING to ask and I also know what they are TRYING to tell him! One of the problems is neither one of them are being very clear or articulate with eachother and it's leading to a lot of CONFUSION between them. The Dogon's actual beliefs are quite clear and easy to understand and make sense when properly explained.....but I'm not allowed to go into too much detail on the topic.

Troy Describing Black men being criers as part of our culture is not something I'm familiar with. No. It's not something most AfroAmerican men would ADMIT to. Infact, it's not something a lot of AfroAmerican men probably have even noticed about themselves. But I have because I am an observer. Some people are more observant than others and notice the small details of society that most others over-look. Now ofcourse men of ALL races cry more than the media would lead you to believe. I've seen a lot of white men cry like babies over different things. But I've noticed that men of color seem to be quicker to shed tears....but not necessarily out of weakness or pain, but out of strong emotion. But Van Jones is just making a FOOL out of himself crying and stuttering. To be honest..... Just like the Cardi B interview with Joe Biden, it was HARD trying to get through that video of Van crying and swallowing and stuttering. It took me trying 3 or 4 times to make it through.....lol.

Del Man..... Trying to talk with you is like talking to a squirrel in a tree...lol. Pioneer: Hey man! Pioneer: I see you're thinking about coming out for a little sun, huh? "I guess I am........." Pioneer: Well........I'm gonna be on my way now. You take care man! Peace!

Troy but there plenty of emotional engineers. I haven't met any...yet. When I talk to them they just stand there with a drink in their hand looking at me with that "cheerio" look on their faces. And most engineers I've met can't look you in the eyes when they talk to you. They are usually looking at a computer or phone screen.....LOL. I'm not sure if you know who she is but Cynthia G REALLY went in hard on Van Jones for crying over Biden's election.....LOL.

Oh, brother Uhuru.....let me check out that video. ((20 minutes later)) I'm gonna have to agree with Troy in not getting too much out of this video. I'm a little disappointed that when brother Search for Uhuru (forgot his actual name but remember him) was told that the elder was 117 years old that he didn't make THAT the main topic for a minute and spend more time on it. It's like...... Dude just TOLD you that my man was 117!!!!! No amazement.... No emotion..... No further questioning about his age..... Just moved on to talking about a bowl and some horns stuck in a mud building. I'm not sure if he didn't believe it and just ignored the statement or what, but he should have spent atleast a FEW minutes on a man who claims to be 117 and still THAT put together.

And apparently your post failed (if that was it's intention) to discredit mine. We just know there is a lot of violence and shooting going on in AfroAmerican neighborhoods, but do we know exactly WHO is doing most of it?

Troy told "you" to be the change, he did not say anything about him being the change It certainly SEEMS like that's where he's going with it. Of course this too is a broad generalization, but I hate to say I've seen too many parallels in life to completely discount it. It goes back to the "white man's ice is colder" cliché." The biggest goal in the lives of MOST AfroAmericans is to be accepted and loved by Caucasians. That's all that counts for most of them. As far as the average negro is concerned you can: -Keep the wealth. -Keep the power. -Keep the knowledge of civilization. Just show him which way did the White folks go! All they want is for White people to pet them on the head, give them a hug, and tell them how much they love and respect them! That's a "good" White person as far as they're concerned. When they run into a Black man like ME who would rather not be around them and don't seek their approval, they can't figure that out. Unless a Caucasian is in a position of authority like a judge, police officer, doctor, ect....who can help me or has something of value to offer....I pretty much avoid them. Not out of anger or hatred. I just really don't have much of a desire to be around them knowing what I know. Most Black people can't understand that..lol. Because being close to a White man is the epitome of success for a lot of them! "Man.... Which way did the White folks go????? I know I saw some walking around here earlier." Del I have changed how I communicate . I have little desire to convince anyone or encourage different thinking. Last year I would argue points. Then at some point I said I am done arguing, I don't see the point. And then I dropped out of most conversations. If I hadn't known any better, I'd say you moved to Australia to be around as many Caucasians and Asians as you could find...lol.

Troy It seems like I remember reading that you were also an engineer or had an engineering degree. If so that's usually a sign of a person who's brain is "tilted" more towards LOGIC than emotion. Perhaps you're too cold blooded and logical to shed a tear for Biden or anyone else....lol. Any record of him crying with Obama won too, or are his tears reserved for the great white savior? All Van Jones DOES is cry. Like many Black men. I understand that crying among Black men isn't necessarily a sign of weakness because I've seen brothers cry right before they whooped somebodies ass and started busting shots....lol. MOST AfroAmerican men, most Native American men, most Latinos, and even most Italian men cry because they tend to be VERY emotional and crying is a sign of strong emotion. When I get very angry tears come out. It's just something most African men and most men with African ancestry do. But in a Northern European based society such as the United States made up mostly of Caucasian men who just turn red and rant when they get angry.........the shit is a bit embarrassing. It makes him and many other AfroAmerican men LOOK weak and emotionally unstable....especially to those unfamiliar with AfroAmerican sub-culture. Van needs to cut that shit out.

This happened all over the nation. And it CONTINUES...............

Can't do it by myself. It takes more than only ONE person being nice for a society to get along. People quote that "be the change you want to see" cliche a lot but it's hard in real life for ANYONE to change themselves if their society and environment hasn't because most people's behavior is heavily influenced BY their environment. You can talk about quitting a gang and dropping out of it all you want, but if all you got going on around you is GANGBANGING and killing and you're the only one talking about peace......the killing will continue and you may even end up a victim yourself despite your desires. It takes a community effort to get along. Take YOU for example.....(since you raised your finger and decided to say something....lol) We've been posting on this site for years together and have had countless exchanges. We've "rewarded" eachother from time to time, but when was the last time you said: "That was a GREAT point you made Pioneer!" ? When was the last time I said it to YOU? You mean to tell me that as much as I run my mouth on this board, NOTHING I've posted lately has made you say: "Hmmmm, you're right.....interesting point." Hell, even a BROKEN clock is right twice a day! Now when it comes to message boards, I admit that it makes for good conversation and discussion when we EXCHANGE points and often times disagree with eachother. If I agree with EVERYTHING you say ALL the time...that would probably be pretty boring. Disagreement in and of itself isn't necessarily the problem. But it's HOW we disagree with eachother that I'm taking issue with. This lack of respect and seeming lack of even a DESIRE to get along with your fellow brother or sister. I criticize my peops a lot...but I LOVE AfroAmericans and want the best for us collectively. I don't go out of my way to fight and argue with my brothers and sisters. But it seems as if a lot of our people do. It seems to me that a lot of our people have simply given up on or could care less about unity or even getting along with other AfroAmericans in general. They may seek A PARTICULAR AfroAmerican whom they want to marry or do business with...and try to befriend and get along with THEM. But as far as collective unity...it seems to be the furthest from their minds. On the other hand they're grinning at and passing out free hugs to every White man who walks past them. A gang member can find it within himself to hug a NeoNazi White Supremacist and help "stop the hate" But he can't find it within himself to stop gang-banging and fighting with other Black people who may be of a different gang. Ask him to do THAT...make peace with another Black man....and he pulls the microphone off and ends the interview.

Troy At any rate there was a Brother (apparently, because it was just audio) on the YouTube channel espousing the same rhetoric Pioneer has about. The video was from the summer and the Brother was warning of the listener about an eminent assault being planned by white supremacists. This was based upon an "increase in chatter" on the various white supremacist's platforms. The speaker felt that a massacre would occur on the 4th of July. Obviously nothing happened Actually brother, it DID happen....and it's still happening. It just didn't happen in the way so many people who heard that threat EXPECTED for it to. Most people who took that threat seriously thought that on July 4th you'd see Klansman going from door to door snatching people out and shooting them. That's not what they did. They're driving in and out of mostly Black and Brown neighborhoods and shooting innocent children. If you've paid attention to the local news....since earlier this summer there's been a DRAMATIC INCREASE of violence and you've been hearing of dozens and dozens of children around the nation being shot but NO SUSPECTS are caught! They are trying to carry out their promise.

I said it in THIS thread: I said that if Trump stays in office you're going to get a revolution which COULD mean your slaughter or it COULD mean that you might actually end up doing BETTER and come out more successful from the breaking up of an old oppressive system. Then I said, but if Biden gets in office ALL you're gonna get is more of the same....which includes MORE Black men crying on CNN.

I don't hate to say it, because I LOVE being right...... A couple months ago I said something along the lines of the only thing you'll get out of a Biden Presidency is MORE Black men on CNN crying! I said this. The REASONS I said this were slightly different from the reason Mr. Jones (who's very sensitive in real life...I met him a few times when I was out on the Westcoast) was crying over, but my prediction is based on the same logic. I'm gonna try to go dig up the post where I said it but there's a REASON I made that prediction..... As an AfroAmerican man, I know the hyper-emotional psychological make up of most brothers. I also know how strongly so many FEAR and even HATE to take responsibility for their own life and self determination and would much rather wait on a "good White man" to swoop down out of the sky and SAVE them, than sit down and come up with a plan to save themselves! It takes too much THINKING to plan out your own salvation and many brothers would rather reserve that time and energy for having fun and let OTHERS (usually a White man) do the thinking and planning FOR them. They are what our brother Gibran calls INSTITUTIONALIZED. So used to White men making all of their decisions for them they are afraid to make decisions on their own. Van Jones is having what we call in the Consciousness Community a "Come to White Jesus moment"..... They are tears of joy and relief. Your "White Savior" has finally come! Your "White Daddy" have finally come back home! White Daddy and Baby Jones It's when you've been through a lot of stress and pain from being under a BAD MASTER and finally a GOOD MASTER comes along to rescue you, pick you up, toss you over his back like a little boy, and wisk you away from all of the abuse and humiliation! That's why you saw a lot of people...especially Black people...dancing around in the streets at Biden's confirmation even though he hasn't promised to do a damn thing for them. Negroes out in Atlanta doing the damn HUSTLE over this clown being elected, lol. He (like many Black people) thinks Joe Biden is that "White Jesus" who will make everything right and beat back the big bad demonic Trump. It continues the same narrative that you need a "good" White man to counter a "bad" one.

Troy Did it sound anything like this brother:

On a more serious note...... It's a damn shame so many AfroAmericans have such a hard time having basic conversations with eachother let alone debates and intellectual arguments WITHOUT them devolving into name calling, hostility, vicious insults, and too often eventual threats. These observations aren't a result of my recent exchanges with FAS or anyone else on this site but from what I've observed AROUND THE INTERNET as well as what I've observed in real life among AfroAmericans for decades! Caucasians and East Asians can disagree with eachother for WEEKS about a particular topic and it never gets to the point of name calling or questioning eachother's intelligence or manhood. They'll huff and puff and turn red and walk away BEFORE it gets to some of the shit I see going on with many of our people.. One usually backs down either out of cowardice or in the name of civility. Infact, they can disagree with eachother over politics and religion and end up MARRYING eachother! On the other hand, you can be dating a Black woman for 3 months and be crazy about eachother but all it takes is ONE off-the-cuff conversation about Jesus that happens to go left...and she wants you out of her life, lol. "You can come to here...STOP at the front door....and pick up that little cheap ass bottle of perfume and give it to SOMEBODY ELSE, if you want to. If not, I'm about to throw that shit away!" I've paid close attention to how other races and ethnic groups usually disagree with eachother online, on television, and even in real life. Yes they get heated and SOMETIMES threats and fights break out, but for the MAJORITY of cases.....they just....won't go there! Many of our people seem to go from 0 to 100 after a couple exchanges! The former poster Stefan comes to mind. We just questioned the information the brother presented in one thread and you'd think someone accused him of a sex crime! "What? How DARE you question MY integrity or the credibility of the information I so graciously provided you with about Black men and their support for Trump! I DEMAND more respect around here! I WILL NOT have my words challenged! I DEMAND you close down my account and erase all traces of my participation in this ABHORRENT environment!!" .........goddam! Even apologies and attempts to see eye-to-eye weren't enough. No sit downs. No meeting of the minds. No....ok, let's agree to disagree and move on. The relationship is just.....OVER. The ONLY options are 100% agreement or WAR....nothing else in between. Now to be honest about myself, there ARE certain things that will set me off but questioning my credibility or criticizing my beliefs aren't one of them. The super emotionalism that so many of our people exhibit over the most MINOR of disagreements and perceived offenses is both frightening and sad at the same time. There seems to be a deep down extreme dislike and lack of basic respect for another brother or sister that many of our people harbor and it's just WAITING for any opportunity to come out and present itself. "Here I am!" The only thing I can attribute it to is........ I guess when you've been beat down and disrespected for so long in society like many AfroAmerican have been- When your inhumanity and oppression is actually INSTITUTIONALIZED- Not only do you take advantage of every opportunity to gain and maintain respect and be thought of as smart and important; but you are ready to go to war with anyone and everyone who poses a threat to your fragile and sensitive esteem. This is one of the reasons I say we need to move into the "new world" with new rules and a standard code of how we relate to eachother. How can a society find success and progress without a safe and responsible way to manage and resolve disagreements? What I'm saying may sound minor and of little importance RIGHT NOW, because in the back of your minds you still rely on Caucasians keeping law and order if things get out of hand. But when they no longer have the power they currently have and it's JUST US in the community having to relate to eachother. ....then you'll see the importance of WHY we need to know how to safely and successful resolve our conflicts with eachother!

It's hard to describe it but their is a certain type of tension and hostility that exists in the United States that most AfroAmericans don't notice until they LEAVE the United States for other Western nations and then come back home...then it's readily noticeable. I used to go to Canada a lot and as soon as I crossed the border I immediately sensed a diff I believe AfroAmericans (most humans but AfroAmericans especially) are very sensitive and highly tuned to the emotions of those around us. It's what helps us survive. And much of the tension and our behavior is in RESPONSE to the hostility and hatred from other peoples that we can "sense" even if they don't act on it or say a word.

FAS (Full-A-Shit) Now I know what FAS stands for....lol. This is what I meant about dishonesty in debate. Problem is....YOU'RE not "debating". A debate is when both sides challenge eachother's points with counter-points and more points of their own. YOU aren't doing that. YOU are throwing a hissy fit...lol. Your reliable refusal to concede on ANY point I or anyone else makes when in the middle of even the mildest of disagreements with you is a CLEAR sign of your mal-adjusted and hyper-emotional disposition. You need help! But the only thing you'll get from arguing with ME is hurt feelings, lol. You pulled a part of your original answer out of context and are now pretending that was your ENTIRE answer. You know... You're the first person I ever heard who accused a person of taking THEIR OWN WORDS out of context....lol. But you're wrong. It wasn't ME pretending that the snippet I brought to your attention was my ENTIRE answer.... It was that Strawman living in your imagination that suggested this to you...lol. HE is the one filling your head with all of those insane delusional arguments that you so desperately need to argue against in order to actually win sometimes...lol. "You know Dorothy, potato chips are really made of cucumbers!" "No, they're not Mr. Strawman....that's pure bunk! They're made from POTATOES. That's why they're called POTATO CHIPS." "Oh... you're right." "Well, looks like I won another one! Tee hee hee......" When I posited that what you were calling intelligent, the destruction of peoples and civilizations No, no, no...... It wasn't ME who said that. You're confusing me with Mr. Strawman! You really need to look deep within yourself and take that up with HIM, not me. I never said it and you won't find a quote of me saying it. Your answer was a Strawman But you answer TO the Strawman...lol. Argument/Fallacy, a misrepresentation, deflection, i.e., setting up the Strawman SUCCESS as the subject Mr. Strawman NEEDS NO set up in YOUR mind. He already has a home there. The fields are bountiful and the harvest is plenty! What is the definition of "white culture"? White culture provides a normative standard of behavior for one living in a system of white privilege. These norms are usually manifested in the arrogance of white entitlement - an assumption of how a white person expects to be treated in the world. I don't know which part of your so-called "definition" is sillier: 1. The fact that it NAMES ITSELF in it's very definition Question: What is white culture? Answer: White culture..... Or The fact that it defines itself by listing what it offers. Question: What is white culture? Answer: White culture provides a.....lol. Question: What is a car? Answer: A car provides heated seats......lol. Troy has helped you out a couple of times before when he refused to post my replies to your... uninformedness. Well, Troy has to help you out ALL the time because you don't have an account....lol. But who can blame you? When you don't have a phone of your own and have to sneak one away from time to time, why bother registering for something if you never know when you'll be able to access it? You said you've been lurking this site for nearly 15 years....yet you won't commit to getting an account. That's like a man who refuses to marry a woman....but hides out in her backyard for 15 years peeping through and tapping on her windows, lol. "My Strawman is falling apart out here in the rain!" Pick up your big boy pants and stand on your own two feet. That advice may have helped YOU last year, but I've never been in a position where I needed to be told that, lol. But hey, whatever keeps you from wetting the bed at night. Either that or cease with the false, unfounded and repulsive attacks, corroborated only by the brutha at the gas station, on MY people's "inferior" intelligence. Why? Your disturbing inability (or unwillingness) to COMPREHEND my crystal clear responses are doing more to corroborate my assertions than all of the examples I've offered thus far....lol.

Wait a minute! "Whachoo talkin' bout Pioneer????" "I thought you said it was better for TRUMP to be President!" "Now don't sit up there and lie about what you said!!!!!!" "For the past few months you've been running around saying that you don't support Trump but you support him being in office and how him being in office is good and was going to lead to a glorious future for AfroAmericans." "So why are you contradicting yourself NOW talking about how glad and wonderful it is that Biden is President?????" I didn't say that it's wonderful that Biden IS the President, I said it was wonderful that he was ELECTED as President! Trump still IS the President and him being in office STILL WILL lead us to our Glory! You see...... If Trump was re-elected, it would have pissed off the Left. But the Left are for the most part wimps and weren't going to do shit about it but complain and go marching around in the street doing hool-a-hoop dances and holding candles. But the Biden election pissed off the Right...the RACISTS...the RED NECKS...the MILITIAS! Brothers and sisters they are NOT going to let this go. They are already talking about voter fraud and theft....and it's only going to intensify. When he told the racist militias to "stand by" the other night, he KNEW what the hell he was saying! I honestly don't know exactly what's going to happen because I don't know the future. My plans are and our plans should be to make it THROUGH what's going to happen, and be alive and healthy on the other side to help with the Great Reset. I hope and pray that The SUPREME BEING Grants me that wonderful opportunity. Department of Historical Research And Documentaries Unknown Future Interviewer: So, was this always your land? " Naw....not at first. I was.....I was 'bout 30 years old back during the Great Reset. You see all of this land we on right now? Nothin' but ghetto....uh....big raggedy houses and parking lots. So in the beginning of the Great Reset you know...uh...they was busy trying to rebuild and clean up. So I helped clear THIS particular piece of land out and uh......ya know....they was nice enough to give it to me and told me I could even keep it tax free as long as I could keep it up! So now....uh.....'round the beginning while all that MESS was going on all the stores had ran out of food at that time! So I decided the first thang I wanted to do was plant some crops....ya know...for some food for me and my family at the time and the rest of the community. And uh....ya know I kinda liked it...working with my hands and what not.... so I just stayed on the land and kept farming". Brothers and sisters make sure you have ATLEAST a month's supply of food, blankets, candles, ect....and prepare yourself psychologically for what you might see in this society.

Troy but I believe for the song to really resonate, unless you are super empathic, you have to have grown up in a ghetto. What do you think? I think you're right in for the MOST part. However I'll say you don't necessarily have to actually "grow up" there for the song to resonate and you relate to it if you had regular contact with it. We didn't actually "grow up" in the ghetto. We grew up in what rarely exists in America today known as a "Black working class" neighborhood. Unless you grew up in Chicago, or Detroit, or Atlanta, or St. Louis, or some other mostly Black city with a wide variety of AfroAmericans in different socio-economic classes....most people aren't going to be familiar with that. Most Black folks in other parts of the country only know ghetto and suburbs...lol. But we didn't live around poverty or wealth. Just blocks and blocks of Black folks who worked in factory and civil service jobs. But ALL of us in the neighborhood had 2 things in common: 1. We ALL had relatives who lived in the ghetto/projects. 2. We ALL had relatives who still lived down South in Mississippi, Georgia, and the Carolinas...lol. We (meaning every family in the neighborhood) would visit the latter occasionally and the former REGULARLY. And the REASON we used to visit our relatives in the ghetto regularly was to keep THEM from coming over and visiting US....lol. No offense to YOU Troy (because I remember you saying you were from the projects)....but the adults didn't want yall bringing your ghetto selves and your little bad ass kids over to our neighborhoods and causing trouble or embarrassing us.....LOL. Getting drunk, shouting, and pulling out knives and pistols...lol. But my point is most of us knew from first hand experience what poverty and ghetto life was like and could relate to much of what was being talked about based on our direct connections to it without having to have had immersed ourselves in it. The lessons learned in the home is different that the ones learned on the street. This is true. The reason being is because most of the homes in the ghetto are ran by WOMEN, while the streets are primarily ran by MEN. Different natures with different expectations. You can sweet talk mamma and give her a hug or a kiss to get her to give you a break or cut you some slack. But you ain't gonna hug or kiss Junior or Jamaal...atleast not back THEN.....lol. If you don't give THEM cats what you promised you would, they're going to hemm your ass up in a alley or vacant building some where and whoop that ass (if you're lucky)....lol. Moving through life distrusting everyone is stressful, carrying that mentality into the wider world, where it is not necessary is just as stressful. It prevents you from really engaging with the world. Not for me. I think it depends on the LEVEL. I've said many times I have a healthy distrust of most Caucasians and it has helped me tremendously. I don't go around with a chip on my shoulder....I'm just aware of people and the tricks they may try to play. As long as you maintain a low level of suspicion of most people's intentions...especially people you just come across, you're gonna be SAFE and it will keep you out of a lot of unnecessary danger. But if you're walking around on DefCon 4 all the time with no reason to be, ofcourse you're going to wear down your adrenalin glands. "Hell naw you can't help me! Why you want to help ME? All of these white folks walking around in the department store and YO ass is following ME around asking how you can help ME..... For fucking WHAT???? Cuz I'm BLACK???? HUH???? Is THAT why you wanna help me muthafu...."

When Curtis said: I never learned to shareOr how to careI never had no teachings about being fair I found that interesting..... Because most people of color I know who grew up poor were among the BEST at sharing! The poorer they were, the better they were at it. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 and I was with my older brother who was only a child himself. We were in the projects and somehow got lost from our cousins on our way back from the store. While wandering around from building to building we ran into a bunch of other kids who invited us to go play with them and we played half the day not even caring about how worried our aunt probably was.....lol. When one of the kid's mother called them back home she must have saw we were lost or not from the area and invited us up to have dinner with them and help us get back to our family. I still remember us two sitting down at a big ass table with a bunch of other little kids while that nice woman piled neck bones, greens, macaroni, and a big ass piece of corn bread on our plates! You know how they used to do in the ghetto....piling EVERYTHING on one big plate, lol. That was back in the 70s and man.....I STILL get feelings just thinking about it! I thought that woman was so nice. I have numerous stories I could tell about the love and sharing I've experienced from people who were REALLY in poverty. Poor people tend to be better at caring about others in the community also.

Troy Since FAS isn't registered, I anticipate you're going to have some work cut out for you.....lol.

Something tells me Maurice is going get up from the chair and do a "I just hit the number" dance if he clicks on to this thread....lol. Complete Lyrics to: The Other Side Of Town

FAS And what you said did not address the question, period.... I answered your question....PERIOD. You are positing an "opinion," one based on no verifiable facts. Running around claiming that White people all have the same monolithic "culture"....is the EPITOME of your accusation. The above is why I said the concept of Culture is slippery. Some never get it, so moving on.... No. I can tell by the way you USE the word "culture" that you don't have a proper understanding of it's definition and THAT'S why the concept of it is "slippery" to you. Hell, the concept of a KITCHEN is "slippery" to someone who doesn't know the definition of one.....lol. "What? A room that you can cook AND eat in it???? Never head of nothing like that before. That's a mighty SLIPPERY SLOPE you're trying to lead us up!" I said nothing even remotely like the above. I know. Because THAT is what culture actually is: dress, diet, language, religion, ect... But you weren't talking about THAT, which is why I said you weren't actually talking about CULTURE. Tell me, what "nature" causes white men and black men to "run" differently? And I'm talking the AVERAGE white/black man running down a city street, not a track and fielder. And whatever you do, DON'T spin it, deflect away from my point Tell me where and what context did you get that "quote" from? Show me the page so that I may see the context of it.

Gibran -I'm 'bout it. -I mean I'm BOUT IT! -Pioneer One - for 7 years -he 'bout it 'bout it! ...LOL. We really need to support Black intellectual institutions like literature proprietors, academies, and Black media outlets. We need to ensure that there remains a strong healthy intellectual class in Black America so that stupidity and ignorance doesn't become a staple trait of the sub-culture. For a hot second people were saying that if you spoke with decent English you were "talking White"....but thankfully we've moved out of that phase. When you go to a lot of White or mixed discussion boards (not social media) you see a LOT of activity with dozens of members posting thread after thread of their opinions on certain topics and current issues. Some are in agreement, others in disagreement, but there's no shortage of healthy discussion and plenty of activity and thought. Go to Black discussion boards (what few are left) and they are almost empty of participation. There is plenty of activity on SOCIAL MEDIA with people twerking and tweeting one-liners and quirky comments or exchanging insults back and forth, but don't expect more than 2 paragraphs of actual intelligent discussion on any topic. I've talked about this before..... I believe there's been an INTELLECTUAL DECLINE in the AfroAmerican community that has been taking place for the past 40 years. If you compare most AfroAmericans today with most AfroAmericans of 40 years ago...it seems like back then they could SPEAK better, had better hand writing, and paid more attention to their clothes being neat and hair combed before leaving the house. "I'd say Blacks have come a long way socially and economically 12 years since the King assassination." Now a lot of our people dress sloppy and act even sloppier. We've called eachother "nigga" as far back as I can remember but as a kid we NEVER said it infront of Caucasians. Then all of a sudden I started hearing younger Black people shouting "nigga this and that" at eachother on the street, at work, on the bus, in the mall with no shame or sense of self-awareness. They simply didn't care who was watching or what others thought of them! A lot of things dealing with common sense and proper social behavior seems to have declined over the past 40 years. I believe it has to do with a decline of intellect and brain power. "I'll tell you what though..... People can say what they WANT to about slavery, but you know what? If you think about it REAL HARD...... slavery was actually a CHOICE!" In other words, many of our people have gotten DUMBER over the years and I'm not exactly sure why. Perhaps the "Crack Era" had something to do with it.