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Pioneer1

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  1. Pioneer1 replied to a post in a topic in Culture, Race & Economy
    The focus shouldn't be on how heinous Bill Cosby's crimes were, because we all know and agree that they were. And he's being punished for them. The focus and argument should be over why the Caucasian men who are being accused of EVEN WORSE crimes aren't. Again, Harvey Weinstein can be HEARD ON TAPE trying to sexually assault a woman and hold her against her will yet the prosecutors can't seem to find enough evidence to charge him????? I suppose it would be rather hard to find something you aren't looking for in the first place.
  2. Del You could argue that it's better to know what the deal is. You know what...... Prior to the election of Trump I used to say that. I used to believe that it was better for a racist person to be upfront and honest with their racism so that I can know how they feel and where they're coming from. But a couple incidents that happened to me in the past as well as the election of Trump and how racists who formerly hid their racism and hatred are now feeling emboldened is starting to make me reconsider my position. You can read about slavery and segregation for decades, but none of it brings out the emotions as does being called a "nigger" to your face. Perhaps it would be better if we DID live in a more civil society where people kept their hatred and venom in check and to themselves, because when it's unleashed it seems to have an effect that influences others. They say experience is the BEST teacher. Despite all of my theories about how nice an open and honest society would be; I now see the importance and wisdom of public civility and of suppressing certain expressions. I don't want to reside in a society where people are allowed to openly practice hatred and call for the mistreatment of others because once the "genie" is let out of the bottle......oh man.
  3. Chev and he felt the need to help this story get out there Exactly. Which is why I keep asking what were his REAL intentions for putting this out. It seems that he had an ulterior motive beyond simply trying to help this young lady. I eventually became tired of watching talk shows, and avoided them like the plague. You probably had better things to do with your time.....like WORK for a living, lol. When you see shows like Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, and some of these other goofy shows that come on in the day time.....they aren't aimed at productive people who are out making a living for themseves. They are mostly aimed at unemployed people with low intelligence who are already easily influenced and are basically sitting around at home all day with little else to do but be "entertained". But the damage shows like this are actually doing to communities are long lasting. Jerry Springer and Maury Povich both host racist talk shows that feature the worst in AfroAmerican society. Jerry Springer promotes the image of AfroAmericans (especially women) fighting and being violent toward eachother and Maury Povich promotes the image of AfroAmerican men and women being sexually immoral and denying responsibilities to their children and families.
  4. "But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation........" How could it be considered "failure" when they never intended to do it in the first place.....lol. Troy I just watched the first episode and the things Facebook are knowingly doing exceeds my worse fears. I will delete -- not just suspend -- but delete my account as a result of watching this I don't have an account with Facebook OR Twitter.
  5. Stop SYH....it only exacerbates the problem.
  6. Uh...... Do you have anything else to "contributed" (for lack of a better term to describe what you've been posting) pertaining to the SUBJECT of this thread you started?
  7. Back in the late 80s and early 90s didn't you have mobs of Caucasian youth attacking and killing AfroAmericans for simply walking through their neighborhoods? Yusuf Hawkins is one who comes to mind.
  8. Troy That combined with stand your ground laws and 45's constantly exclaiming these mass shooting would not see so bad if more people were armed. Believe it or not, he DOES have a good point. Can it be denied that if there WERE well trained and armed security guards at the door of that synagogue that they would have quickly stopped that man before he was able to off so many people? And the same thing could be said about the Black church down in South Carolina. If they had armed security, I doubt Roof would have even TRIED to do what he was able to do. When you go into Nation of Islam temples you are searched from head to toe and they almost never have incidents like this happening at their meetings.   Chev And then the case you shared about the man that shot at a young school teenager in Detroit was instigated by his wife. That wasn't in Detroit. Actually it was in a wealthy suburb with a pretty large Asian and Middle Eastern population. If he had did that in Detroit they would have burned his house down that same night.....lol. But then again, the teen probably wouldn't have asked for directions there anyway because most people know better than to go to a random house in the city they don't know about knocking on doors and asking questions. I notice that when it comes to major news networks like Fox, CNN, and NBC.....unless the event they're reporting actually happens on the East or West coast where they are based and are more familiar with the municipal layouts of the area....as far as they are concerned ANYTHING that happens in a Midwestern or Southern state is reported as happening in it's largest city. They don't even bother to be accurate or give distinguish from one city to the next. Something can happen 200 miles away in southern Illinois but Fox news will report it as happening in "Chicago" or give reference as to how far it is away from Chicago as if that matters.....rather than acknowledging the city. I mention this only to illustrate how out of touch the major media is with most of the country. The are only concerned with Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C....who cares what's happening in Independence Missouri.
  9. Chev Ofcourse Oprah put Dr. Phil on the scene...like she made Obama popular and is actually the main person responsible for him being President. I still remember when she announced on her show her support for him by saying, "I'm feeling Barack Obama" and looked around at her audience to secure their approval. That was all it took. And just like President Obama has yet to acknowledge Oprah's making him who he is today, neither has Dr. Phil.
  10. You just can't accept that i like ChevDove and Mel because they are smart, funny and interesting. And you've also got all kinds of theories about why i don't fuss with Kalexander. In your mind, I am cultivating them so they will be on "my side". Well if it WASN'T in my mind, it's certainly in it now.....lol. Just remember woman, I'm usually 3-5 steps ahead of most of the games you play on here so the little "hidden in plain sight" exposè you did on yourself doesn't fool me one bit.
  11. No my brother, it's not getting any uglier. It's just as ugly as it HAS been. It's just that the "mask" of civility is being removed so that you can see the TRUE ever-hideous face of anti-African racism. Chev When I first read this story those two officers who were in the van when that lady drowned was EXACTLY what I thought about in comparing this case to. I believe the familiy of that lady is bringing civil action against either the officers who were transporting her or the department itself.....but no criminal action has been taken against them as far as I know. When you're in a hurricane or a life threatening situation, you don't know WHAT the hell you would do! People often times panic and do silly or reckless things that don't make sense to someone who isn't in that situation. As if it's not enough that this girl lost her baby and must suffer from that constantly wondering "what if" she had done things differently; NOW apparently someone believes she should also be locked up and have her freedom taken away to add to her pain.
  12. Pioneer1 replied to a post in a topic in Culture, Race & Economy
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6335617/Sylvester-Stallone-NOT-charged-1990-rape-two-witnesses-contradicted-womans-story.html 10-year statute of limitations??????? Wasn't Bill Cosby CONVICTED and IMPRISONED over crimes he allegedly committed DECADES ago??????? And wasn't Bill Cosby CONVICTED and IMPRISONED based on the alleged victims' testimonies alone and without witnesses????? Neely Fuller said: ~If you DO NOT understand white supremacy......what it is.....and how it works.....everything else you understand will ONLY confuse you.~ Despite the questions I raised, I'm not suprised by these decisions NOR am I confused by them. Why not? Because I UNDERSTAND.
  13. Just like the Roseanne Show (or now The Conners) ......... Dr Phil is just another attempt at conditioning of the American people of all backgrounds to normalize and standardize working class white culture and a subtle attempt to legitimize White male intolerance. This has been going on since "All In The Family" back in the 70s. In Dr. Phil, here you have a big Caucasian man with a strong southern drawl who often prides himself in being a "straight talker" and "tough lover" and at the end of the day he apparently knows how to "solve" everyone's problems. No matter what the subject of these shows are, the MAIN and constant theme is that being "politically correct" is the enemy and the big rude White man is really the "good guy". So when you see big White men being rude and politically incorrect (i.e. unapologetically racist) then instead of being repulsed by it you accept it as someone being "down home" or sincere and endearing.
  14. Yeah? Well, I got YOU figured out.....lol. I know your M.O. and I know it well.
  15. North Carolina mom whose son, 1, was swept away in Florence floodwaters faces charges A North Carolina mother faces charges after her 1-year-old son was swept away and drowned in Florence floodwaters last month, police announced Monday. Dazia Ideah Lee, 20, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and driving on a closed or unopen highway, Union County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Lee and her son, Kaiden Lee-Welch, were in a vehicle heading down North Carolina Highway 218 in New Salem in September when she drove around barricades and encountered floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/north-carolina-mom-whose-son-1-was-swept-away-in-florence-floodwaters-faces-charges/ar-BBP7zvd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=TSHDHP Intuitively, as soon as I saw this story I knew the mother was an AfroAmerican even before I did the research to find out. Because of her seeming reckless behavior? No Because of her name? No But because of how disgraceful and wicked she's being treated. How many White women are CHARGED with a crime after suffering the agony of losing their own children through accidents?
  16. Cynique What more do you need to illustrate that poor whites are ignorant and stupid and incapable of doing any better in life? Your brain is addled You read my statement but you obviously didn't COMPREHEND the point I'm making. They aren't rejecting help just because they're too stupid to receive it or take advantage of it....that's only a small percentage of them. Most of them are rejecting it because of HATRED and fear that it may benefit others besides themseslves.     Your brain is addled. With comprehension skills like yours......I bet when you were in school your butt was PADDLED, lol.
  17.   "Not to mention that all other ethnics also have their segment of low-lifes." The only "segmented low life" around here is YOU......you cock-a-roach....lol.
  18. Well, I guess what we have with THIS young lady is just the FLIP SIDE of a "Rachel Dolezal"....lol. Chev As I said before, there are a lot of AfroAmericans who feel the exact same way she does but......and this is going to be a tough one to say.....can you BLAME her? She's just a baby, she's not old enough to remember or witness when there was far more "Black greatness" in this society than today. I'm not sure how old you are but I'm pushing 50 so I remember the late 70s and early 80s when we STILL had a lot of Black businesses and pretty much had our own communities still intacts across the nation. When it came to music, food, and clothing.....AfroAmericans were the envy not just of America but the entire WORLD. Crack, AIDS, and Reaganomics did a number on Black America and what this young lady was born into was the remnants or the remains of a once vibrant subculture. The obese, sloppily dressed, slow acting, slow thinking, fast food eating, mumble-mouth-music making remnants of a much greater subculture.     Cynique You can always be depended on to distort and reverse things in an effort to extricate yourself from sounding stupid. Rest assured Cynique....... No matter what I say, as long as I'm interacting with you I'm NEVER the one who looks or sounds stupid....lol.
  19. Chev If that's the case, then how do you explain so many poor White people who were sick and uninsured and STILL opposed Obama and the other Democrats when they were trying to pass the Affordable Care Act that would provide health insurance to millions of poor (mostly White) people? I'm sure you remember...... There were all types of crowds shouting and screaming at Congressmen at various townhalls across America calling it "socialize medicine" as if that were the worst thing in the world. The thing to understand is MOST Caucasians in the United States have a "worker bee" or "worker ant" mentality where they are taught from an early age to uphold White domination in society even if it means sacrificing their own life and livelihood. Most AfroAmericans don't have that mentality and because they don't have it, most don't understand it or even believe it exists. As long as people of color are in their society, most Caucasians deep down (even most of the poor ones who would really benefit) are opposed to anything "public" because that means OTHERS besides themselves may benefit from it. They only support it when ONLY Whites can benefit. That's why so many don't want public schools or public health care even if it would benefit them and help get them out of poverty! It's more than simply being too dumb to get wealthy, many are downright too HATEFUL to see anyone else get the same opportunities as them. If they can't have it all to themselves they'd rather NO ONE get it.
  20. It's called "swatting" because it started off with racists making anonymous calls to police departments reporting threats that cause the departments to send out their S.W.A.T. teams in response and people ended up getting shot by accident as a result. If you notice, all of this infactuation with calling the police for any and every little minor thing actualy started AFTER the rash of police killings that were caught on video a few years ago. In the mind of an ignorant racist who wants to hurt or kill a Black person but either isn't courageous enough to do so or perhaps still has a bit of morality preventing them on acting.....they figure a good strategy would be to "trick" or "egg on" the police to do so. If the police were punishing these people, fining them, and berating them for calling them for any minor thing instead of automatically taking their side.....it would end immediately.
  21. If it's babble then why are you coming right behind me AGREEING with and pretty much mimicking what I just said about her not being the only AfroAmerican who feels that way? You can't even understand "babble" let alone comprehend it enough to agree with it or repeat it, lol.
  22. I don't know about all of that gossip........... But I know you agree with both Farrakhan and myself, that most poor White people are poor because of THEMSELVES because no one is holding them back.
  23. I'm sure she did, because SHE (Tyra) is guilty of this herself, in my opinion. Another thing I don't care for is how she had that flamboyant Black "man" snapping and bouncing around on one of her shows. Homosexuality occurs naturally among people of ALL races , but this cartoonish flamboyant "snap yo fingaz" Black man who makes a clown of himself is just another form of attempting to MENTALLY CASTRATING AfroAmerican men. In the ancient Middle East the Caucasians (Arabs and Persians) used to enslave African males as young boys and castrate them so they would no longer pose a sexual threat.....the only ones they DIDN'T castrate were those who showed sign of homosexual tendencies. It's one of the reasons so many effeminate (not necessarily gay) AfroAmerican men are WELCOMED in some places of society where typical AfroAmerican males are rarely found. When an AfroAmerican woman like Tyra or anyone else promotes the effeminate flamboyant AfroAmerican man....it's a subtle form of self hatred. I bet this young lady featured on Dr. Phil's show...with all the so-called "hatred" she has for Black people.....probably has a GAY Black male friend or two, lol.
  24. She's basically saying what a lot of AfroAmericans REALLY believe about the AfroAmerican community already but just have better since than to say in public. There are thousands of AfroAmericans who think just like her or worse and they've been around for generations. If you look at the Boyz N The Hood movie you see a Black cop who hates Black youth more than his White partner. Singleton didn't just "make up" that character out of nowhere, he knew the audience could relate to it because they've come across so many AfroAmericans with that same time of self-hatred I'm suspicious as to why Dr. Phil would even put this young lady on the show and give her a platform to express her delusional views. She obviously has a psychological problem, so what was HIS (Dr. Phil's) agenda for publicizing her and her views?
  25. Chev We need to make sure AMERICANS have a better life first before we start bringing more people in by the millions to give THEM something so many Americans don't even have. What would you think about parents who's OWN kids are wearing rags for clothes, eating out of garbage cans, sleeping on the floor, no carpet in the house only news papers scattered all over the floor.............. Yet they want to ADOPT OTHER children, claiming they want to give these kids a "better life". Just like it would make more since for you to care of your own kids first THEN you can think about adopting others.......America needs to take care of it's OWN citizens first and make sure they have healthcare, jobs, and decent housing first and THEN if there's any prosperity left they can invite others in to partake. Charity starts at home.

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