Pioneer1

I wonder how many stood by his side during his recent trial? Where was Ma$e? Where was Mary J Blidge?

You know........ On more than one occasion I suggested something kind of like this to @Troy for AALBC. I don't know of any other AfroAmerican publishing sites or companies where Black people can go and get their literature promoted and interact with the public like AALBC. Being around for so many decades, this is actually in institution in the community. Those who benefited from it's publication should probably give back and keep it going for more generations to come.

Vows taken in a wedding ceremony aren't LEGALLY binding. Lol.....how can a court uphold a person's promise to honor, obey, or cherish another? As Tariq Nasheed would say, we need more TANGIBLES.

You know what's strange and interesting? I've spoken to more than a few cats who said they DON'T WANT TO KNOW if a particular woman they love has an STD! They don't want to catch one; but the suggestion that a woman they are either with OR wants to get with should go and get tested and show them the results....is something they can't stand. It's like waiting on the results of their own tests. If they aren't having any symptoms, they'd rather not even know.

He had know idea how rich and famous he'd become and how much he'd achieve....and what type of trials (literally) he'd end up going through. I've been a Puffy supporter for decades. Not because he's the best or most righteous dude in the world, but because of what he represents: Young Black Urban Success. He represents that flashy Black man who flaunts his wealth and success and you have a lot of people not just in America but around the planet who don't think rich people should be arrogant but rather humble, especially if they're Black. Which is one of the reasons so many powers target him.

ProfD It's not that easy for a world class athlete to walk away from the game they love to play. I know, they do it for fun and because they love it. I've known people in their 80s who do still work although they don't have to simply because they love the work. If they stopped doing what they're doing, they'd be miserable. LBJ has been rich for over 2 decades. At this point in his career &.considering the $8 million contract he signed to play with the 76ers, he's not playing for money. He's trying to get one more championship. It's hard to believe he's been a household name for over 20 years. But I remember a joke Chris Rock did about Lebron James being so good he'd take over the hockey game, and THAT seems like it was over 20 years ago. Lebron has grey in his beard. Him trying to get "one more" championship is like a crackhead trying to get just "one more" hit. It won't stop. He's a high achiever and he'll never stop reaching. He'll be after another and another unless somebody or something SITS him down. A few more outings like her last & Serena Williams will hang up her racket for good I didn't even watch it. I didn't want to see her embarrass herself. ...that, and she's been wearing a lot of caked-up make-up lately lightening her skin, bleaching her hair, and looking like a White drag queen just to please the White dude she's married to. richardmurray So are you suggesting that instead of quitting while he's on top, Lebron should just keep playing until he collapses on the court and dies? At what point is it time to hang up the jersey and retire it?

What do you believe about the origins of HIV/AIDS?

I don't understand, why don't the brutha just RETIRE and enjoy his wealth? Didn't he learn anything from Michael Jordan or Mike Tyson? When you're on top....QUIT THE GAME and stay out of it with your image untarnished. Somebody should have had a talk with Serena Williams before she got her half-a-hundred year old ass out on that court trying to swing with the kids....lol.

Hard to believe this was nearly 40 years ago.

frankster Theirs as you all fears are misplaced. So where....in your opinion...SHOULD those fears be placed? Whose fault is that? For the most part, nobody's. Many if not most people simply don't have the intelligence to properly and efficiently use most of the technology at their disposal to improve their lives. What's wrong with that? Some would say it DISRUPTS nature and the natural order of things. Nature made it so that most of the work in society would be carried out by men strong enough to do it...whether it's hunting, gathering, building, or protecting. Under natural circumstances, THOSE type of men would be the most successful....the most likely to find mates...and the most likely to reproduce passing along those strong genes and making more strong people. Technology disrupts this by allowing weak men to produce, build, and protect; thus attracting mates and reproducing which will likely pass along their weak genetics. Who won that contest in the end? Our brother Johnny. And guess what his prize was for beating the machine........... Possession of What? Possession of one's mind and body. that depends on the individual....not the tech. It depends on the tech if certain technology is being used as a CONDUIT for Entities to possess people.

Protection is a given..... But if you even SERIOUSLY SUGGEST to a woman that she should go by the urgent care clinic to get tested for any STDs before intimacy.....you ain't gotta worry about EVER catching anything from her, lol. The way she'll do you, you won't be able to even catch a COLD from her....lol.

I think marriages WOULD be more successful if the vows couples took with eachother were actually backed up by a notarized legal contract. You agree to provide me with a house and pay all of my bills? Put it in writing and get it notarized. You agree to have sex with me atleast 3 nights a week, stay in shape, and keep those titties firm? Let's put it in writing and get it recognized by the court. Breeches of the contract will be penalized.

I guess so...... With names like that, they had to LEARN how to fight.....lol.

ProfD If Black folks throughout the planet were to unite, we could be a force. LOL....true, so why don't we? For a number of reasons, that's not going to happen in this lifetime. Don't hold back bro, GET INTO the reasons why....lol. I know one major reason....but you'll probably leave THAT one out. frankster Thank you You're quite welcome. Their wanting to or domination of black people is a symptom.....not a causative True. One of the causes is their inherent feeling of physical and emotional inferiority. Another cause is their inherent feeling of mental superiority. They have been trying to dominate each other long before they tried to or did dominate Black peoples In sports, we call that SCRIMAGING...lol. Just practicing on eachother before getting down to the real business of world domination. They are not different.....people are basically the same - be they white black or yellow Why is this so.....because we are all human Humans are CLEARLY different. If this isn't so, then show me where Africans have RECENTLY colonized Europe or have economic control over it. Show me where Africans or Chinese have enslaved Whites and bred them like animals for hundreds of years. If humans are all the same, then whatever one race has done to another.....you should see evidence of them reversing roles from time to time. But nowhere in their political ideology does it support any form of Racism....if anything the opposite is and has always been true. Because it's a given. It's so clearly and universally (in Russia) understood that there is no need to waste time and paper with statements on it. You don't see anywhere in the U.S. Constitution where polygamy or gay marriage is permitted either. Because those practices were so far beyond the norms of those who established this nation that they didn't feel the need to waste time stating the obvious: these things aren't permitted. Thanks for the Malcolm X clip. I love listening to the brother. He can drop so much science in such a clear and concise way in such a short period of time. Malcolm will drop more common sense truth in 5 minutes than so many of the modern "leaders" will say all year. You can actually feel your mind clearing up. And when you are called upon to do your duty to God and Country to crush kill and destroy a fledgling freedom struggle in a poor African country.....what then @Pioneer1 ? What would "I" do personally? I know exactly what I'd do, but I wouldn't say it publicly...lol.

Everything you said sounds familiar and sounds about right, but you left 2 things out: 1. Her crazy ass ex's....lol. Some of whom are locked up, and others who are out -and stalking her. 2. Her crazy ass adult kids, especially her violent criminal minded son who still lives with her off and on at 33....lol. Women like that are alluring, but they tend to have a high body count.

When I said the Frank Lucas route, I wasn't implying that promising students should look to drug dealer money to go to school....lol. I meant that like Frank Lucas didn't rely on getting his drugs from the Mafia but instead when directly to the source in Vietnam (or Cambodia???) to get his heroin, people in general who want to grant money to worthy Black students to send them to college should consider giving them the money directly instead of to some program that siphons it off and imposes a bunch of stipulations.

frankster Technology is usually feared when first it presents itself Depending on WHO is presenting it....ofcourse. The Native Americans who only knew bows and arrows or poison darts had a right to "fear" the new technology of long arms and cannons used against them by White invaders. Did industrialization help or hinder us? It helped some and hindered others. If you were a man who was naturally strong and self sufficient, industrialization "leveled" the playing field by making life easier for men who were weaker and more fragile than you and allowing them to be just as productive if not more productive using the technology. The legend of John Henry and his sledge hammer vs a steam drill, comes to mind. Much of the technology that comes out of the West is designed to help White men do what most Black men can do naturally. AI is about to empower the individual way beyond what y'all thinking.... POSSESSION is also a form of "empowerment". But often times the malevolent kind.

What a dog and pony show........lol.

No sir....lol. At 19, I wanted an EASY FREAK. She was "right" for me based on what I wanted at the time. I don't want a woman like that today because I know what kind of problems they bring.

ProfD But "Vivian"???? Come on bro..... How can you say you love your son when you named him "Vivian"? What next? Dress him up in a pink dress and knee-high stockings and push him off to elementary school with a big ass lollypop in his hand? Some things just defy common sense.

Or go the more direct "Frank Lucas" route....lol. Find promising Black students in highschool who's dream is to go to college but are having financial hardships, and grant THEM the money directly. Not all at once for them to waste it or get robbed of it; but piece-meal as they go through their courses.

richardmurray Absent this elevated welfare, what do you propose for people to do to pay for rent/food.healthcare? Petition their respective governments to provide these basic necessities for it's citizens in a limited and strategic way so that nobody goes without them and this will provide a decent "competition" with private sources to discourage them from raising the prices too high. Take healthcare for example..... The reason health insurance is so high is because there is almost no competition from the government offering a cheaper alternative. That's what the "public option" was supposed to offer, but your boy Obama cut that out of his Obamacare deal. Are you suggesting fiscal poor people kill themselves? Absolutely not. If their situation is so dire that they feel like dying, they should consider a revolution before doing that....lol. nothing black people went through in the usa was harder than legal enslavement on the mind + body+ spirit and yet they as humans foun ways to survive, not thrive, but survive such that they didn't kill themselves. A couple points: 1. Many of them DID kill themselves. Not only jumping off of ships during the Middle Passage, but even during their enslavement they found ways to kill themselves. It wasn't very common, but it occurred. 2. It's commonly said that our people "survived". For the most part...yes. But millions DID NOT survive....they succumbed. So what is the answer? The answer is for AfroAmericans to carve out a piece of America to focus our political and economic power on and try to control as much of our collective destiny as we can instead of relying on the ideas and schemes of Whites to save us. We should try to get as much political and legal power as we can. That way if UBI becomes a reality here in the United States, we can atleast control: ....how much of it we get. ....what terms and conditions must be met for individuals to get it.

frankster I stand corrected on Germany's history of colonizing Africa. I'm not educated enough on the history of China and Russia to argue your points one way or another. I can say that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, "The devil is the devil Regardless as to place or time" Meaning it doesn't matter what region or nation White folks come from. What language they speak. What religion they practice. Whether they grew up ruling or being oppressed themselves. What they did in the past or what year it is today. ....their general mentality is to conquer and dominate people of color, including Black people. Why you or anyone else believes that Russians would be any different is beyond me....lol. Go to any major city in Russia and you'll see neo-nazis and skinheads kicking it in the parks and other common areas and many of them will harass minorities. Are we to believe the government doesn't reflect the general attitude of it's citizens? Well Pioneer, is America and Israel any better? I would say YES. Not much better, but still a LITTLE better because atleast Black people are in positions of power and authority in both the United States and Israel. We aren't RUNNING the United States or Israel....lol. But we are in positions of power in both nations from law enforcement, to the military, all the way up to the government. So we do have SOME say so in how the government treats not only it's own citizens but how it conducts business abroad. Ain't NO Black folks in any position of power or authority in Russia OR China...lol.

Mel Perhaps you read too much into that response, because your first assessment was closer to the mark. It's not so much that I believe Africans and Black Americans are stupid. Stupidity literally means below average intelligence. It's a defect, or disability. Something that can't be applied to an entire race. However despite there being some genius Black people and dumb ass White people, I do believe that COLLECTIVELY and HISTORICALLY Caucasian people have shown themselves to be smarter. Outside of a Divine cause..... For every reason/excuse people can come up with as to why Black people ended up being conquered by Whites and still remain in a subservient position, I can tie it back to not being smart enough to overcome their oppressor. At my age, I've become tired of making excuses for the condition of Black people. As they say on the streets: It is...what it is. ProfD What you're describing sounds more like what I call a CIVIL UNION, than a marriage. Civil Unions focus more on logistics and mutual agreement based on transactional arrangements. Marriages focus more on love, sex, and usually some sort of religious/cultural foundation.

And the definition of "right" often changes depending on time and place, lol. What was "right" for me at 19 isn't "right" for me at 55.