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Asexual I 100% disagree that sex is some sort of biological urge or imperative. Actually, sex IS a biological urge....for most people. It's just not for YOU. But for most people it's the 2nd most powerful urge....just under survival. It's important that we make that distinction so as not to project our personal situation on others. But I've often talked about the 4 major groups of human sexuality, on this site and others as well as talks I've given in real life where the subject comes up. Heterosexuality. Homosexuality. Bisexuality. Asexuality. Most people seem to forget about the A-sexuality because they don't believe someone can be asexual. Troy I suspect however if you engaged in the activity, with an open mind, with someone sufficiently skilled, you may change your mind I don't know the poster Asexual, but I suspect that if he's a TRUE asexual...this still wouldn't work. Expecting ANY sexual encounter to turn him would be like a gay man expecting to "turn out" a straight man by promising him spectacular sex.....lol. He's just not wired to receive it.

Cynique What he's saying doesn't enlighten YOU because.....knowing you...you probably didn't even bother to LISTEN to him. I should have posted a picture of a middle aged White man with a neatly trimmed grey beard in glasses....perhaps THAT may have gotten your attention....lol. Do you know who Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is and are you familiar with her work? Del Water seeks it's own level. And mental midgets seek THEIR knowledge from Sesame Street..lol. Or the Australian equivalent there of....lol.

What is it about White men that you two love so much? I mean...seriously? If you look at this board, most of the men....Black men...are complaining about what White men are doing to the world. Now granted, Troy hasn't come out and said "White men" have done such and such. But he DOES complain about the problems of Wall Street, and Jeff Bezos and others who are White who he feels is making problems in the world. But YOU TWO........... You ladies RARELY talk about White people being racist and the problems racism is causing. Instead you speak in vague GENERAL terms that seem to implicate EVERYBODY like: 　 "Oh the world is in trouble." "Look at all this poverty and hunger" "My my my what is life all about, why doesn't society accept people being who they are" You want to include EVERYBODY in problems that have their origins in being caused by a specific group of people. And to make matters worse, you'll turn around and run to the SAME people who caused the damn problems.....looking to THEM for a solution! For example..... Mel does a video about poverty where she's hyping a movie by some White man from France as if HE has the solution. Cynique is publishing videos of various White men with dreamt up philosophies as if THEY have somehow uncovered the meaning of life. I'm making this an issue because what I'm seeing with you two is indicative of what is happening in the Black community in general. Black men seem to recognize racism as being a major problem and few Black men have problems pointing this out. But too many Black women DO NOT see racism as a problem...they see BLACK MEN as the problem! And they'll make every excuse in the world to blame and criticize the Black man while either ignoring White men who cause these problems or actually seeing the White man as the problem SOLVER who will rectify everything. Now am I mistaken? Am I deluded? Is this all in my own mind? Or has anyone else noticed this "unshakable faith" that so many...not just Black women...but women of color in general STILL have in White men to solve all of their problems?

Del Ok Pioneer It's about TIME you gave in....lol. Troy please answer this simple question without a long winded diatribe. When did white supremacy begin? I don't know. Lol... Is that simple and straight to the point enough for you? However if your point is that poverty was here BEFORE White Supremacy....... So was murder, slavery, rape, and other evils. But White Supremacy took these evils which were rather local and isolated and MAGINFIED them into a world wide system of exploitation and misery previously unknown to humanity. If there is any evidence to the contrary.....I'd like to see it. Mel Interesting little video. What got me was how the first two people interviewed claimed to be half-Japanese but the Japanese they spoke didn't seem to be fluent or flow as well as the Japanese man interviewing them. Their Japanese seemed to be "choppy" as if they were struggling to find Japanese words to speak....something most people don't do with a language native to them. On top of that, NEITHER of the two looked half-Asian. Asian genetics aren't THAT weak.....I seriously doubt that the first two people were half-Asian. Another thing I found interesting was how so many people being interviewed seemed NOT to know the difference between RACE and NATIONALITY. The White looking man who was interviewed said he was HALF-BRITISH and HALF-JAPANESE. Both British and Japanese are NATIONALITIES.....so you either ARE or you're NOT. No such thing as HALF of a nationality. It's like being HALF CATHOLIC.....lol. And the last brother on there......((shakes head)) I like the way he started off because he spoke pretty fluent Japanese and sounded just like most Japanese I've heard. But when it came to THINKING and expressing himself.....man. Struggling with thoughts, can't find examples of what he was complaining about, he really looked kind of silly in that interview. But my question to YOU Mel is.....what does this video have to do with WHITE SUPREMACY.

Cynique People commonly point to the 60s as the pinnacle of massive social change in America. They also give most of the credit to the YOUTH of the 60s who were the vanguards of this massive social change and spearheaded it. If you are part of the YOUTH (25 and under) in the 60s.....then that means you had to be born in the 40s and 50s. Meaning POST Depression and post World War 2 era. Commonly refered to as the BABY BOOMERS. Now there are people of EVERY generation who made valuable contributions, but if we were to COMPARE one generation with the next..... Clearly the Baby Boomers were more instrumental in agitating social and political change that previous generations. BTW... Why do you find the time to correct EVERYBODY on their grammar and spelling mistakes EXCEPT FOR the person who seems to need it the most....lol? Del Pioneer in can talk intelligently to Wall Street, Main Street and the Street. Because I listen and think. "in can"?? You clearly weren't listening in GRAMMAR school....lol. 　 Pioneer how did you arrive at your opinions about Wall Street, comics books? Specifically..... WHAT opinions did I have about Wall Street that were wrong? Pioneer I worked as an Profit and Loss accountant for a $2 Billion Mortgage Backed SecurI ties Portfolio. Which was one of the most complicated securities at the time. And when the market had the largest percentage loss ever my boss was confident in me. Even though it was my first job. But I also was cool with the sister who were secretaries and the brothers in the mail room. Most people respect knowledge and integrity. So here's a need flash I was respecteducated for my knowledge and my ability to get the job done. No bitching and moaning. That's beautiful ((clap clap clap)) Now, in all of that bragging about how much money you were making White people..... I was looking for the part where you went BACK to your old neighborhood in The Bronx and built a school or started a program to help mentor and teach Black boys and girls how to be financially successful too. I couldn't find it. Could you please.....sir....point it out for me. I mean.... I KNOW you just didn't hop on a plane and fly off to Australia without helping out the people you grew up with in your old neighborhood. Surely.... If you're so good at making money for White people and White firms, surely coming from an impoverished community such as The Bronx you would recognize the need to help YOUR OWN people also. Troy 　 when I wrote, "Every job on Wall Street that I ever got was because of white folks." What question of your's did I answer? I'm sure I missed it. You said that Wall Street was bringing the world's economy on the brink of collapse and I asked you what did the men who were IN CONTROL of Wall Street look like. In other words, what COLOR were they. I believe your statement that every job you got on Wall Street came from White folks answered my question. And further proves my point.......... That this world's economy is controled by the WHITE SUPREMISTS. Antonio I feel you bro. For years and years I wondered why Black people fought and argued with eachother so much and why we just couldn't unite and get along. I now realize that the biggest problem we face isn't disunity. The fighting and disunity is a SYMPTOM of much larger problems. On of those problems is a LACK OF TRUST or LACK OF HONESTY among eachother. Black people for the most part don't unite with eachother because most of us don't trust eachother enough to form close bonds with. And one of the reason we don't trust eachother is because growing up in this society we are so used to White people telling us what to think, what to do, and how to feel....most of us are out of touch with out TRUE feelings. For example in male/female relationships...... One of the biggest reason Black men and women don't get along is because most Black women don't trust Black men.....because so many Black men have been caught having multiple sexual partners while claiming to have only one. Many Black men resort to lying about their sexual behavior because White men taught us that for a man to have multiple sexual partners (something common in Africa) is morally wrong. So many of us lie about it and when caught it sets up conflict and mistrust between us. Another reason Black men and women don't get along is because most Black women are frustrated and angry with Black men their seeming inability to protect and provide for Black women like White men do for White women. But most don't vocalize this....instead this anger and often HATRED may manifest itself in different ways totally unrelated to this fact....which confuses a lot of Black men. The key to unitity in the Black community is HONESTY.

Del The thread is about the clip. Which you stated you hadn't watched. so your opinion is uninformed. You aren't daunted from having an opinion about subjects you no nothing about. The thread is about the movie AS WELL AS a discussion on poverty and how to end it. I didn't pretend to know something about the movie that I didn't. I gave no opinions about the film that I didn't have information to back those opinions up. I researched the film's director and where he was born before I commented on him. I DO know something about poverty because I've worked with people who are in poverty and I've met many many more from other nations who used to live in poverty. 　 Troy you know you really can say a lot more with fewer words. Sure, virtually all of the people you mentioned are white. Exactly. Supporting my argument that the problems that you're complaining about are being CAUSED by White people who are in charge. e.i. the White Supremists. So it IS a race issue because the RACISTS are in charge. Do you think, then Billionaire, Bob Johnson did Black folks a service with BET? No. He promoted dysfunction.....for the most part. Which is one of the reasons he was ALLOWED to to produce BET by the White Supremists who control the media. One of the tools of the White Supremists is to promote confusion and dysfunction and usually THROUGH other Black people. Just look at the rappers that they promote. No my brother, the problem is not white supremacy, it is just plain ol fashioned greed. The Bezos fellow will never be satisfied with $90 billion and control over everything. Well if the problem is NOT White supremacy, besides Jeff Bezos what are the races of the OTHER multibillionaires who are trying to buy up and control everything? Are their any Black or Native American billionaires trying to do this? Poverty is a SYMPTOM of White Supremacy. A by-product of it. Until the problem of White Supremacy is solved, world wide poverty will not be.

Yes they had the misfortune of having two major storms strike them, but like most other Carribbean islands they were in trouble BEFORE these storms. Puerto Rico, like Haiti (to a certain extent), the Dominican Republic, Jamaica....are islands that are full of Black and mixed people who have been trained to rely on their former White colonial nations like England, Spain, France, and now the United States for their sustainance and to keep their economy going. Much if not most of Puerto Rico's economy relies on 2 things: 1. Tourism 2. Money from Puerto Ricans living on the main land of America that is being sent back. Waiting on funds, currency, wealth from OUTSIDE of itself. But what are PUERTO RICANS producing in PUERTO RICO ? How many factories does Puerto Rico have to make tractors, cranes, bolder removers, excavators, and other heavy duty equipment to help themselves clear the debris? They have to WAIT on White nations to send in these supplies. It's the same with a lot of the food and medicines. Food grows in fertile soil, Puerto Rico has PLENTY of fertile soil, but most of them don't want to till the soil to grow their own food....but they would rather send to White nations for food. Most medicines come from plants and herbs, Puerto Rico has PLENTY of that too....but they'd rather send to White nations to get these medicines than take the time to study and make their own. My overall point is..... It's the MIND SET that's and even bigger problem than the lack of supplies. White men didn't have equipment and medicine either, but they MADE these supplies for themselves and now other people are asking and begging White men for them instead of making them just like White men.

Stop chasing around these White men making up their own philosophies to FOOL you out of your money and further confuse your mind. Start studying THIS man: Mr Neely Fuller Jr. THIS is the man who mentored and inspired Dr Frances Cress Welsing! He's nearly 90 years old and STILL teaching hard on White Supremacy and how it dominates the world.

Up until this moment.....the Garvey Movement....hands down. The UNIA It was brief, but intense and awesome.

　 Today when Black folks create something of value it is either run out of business or we sell it away This is why it's so important to educate our people on the difference between MONEY and WEALTH. Money is just currency, a convenient means of exchanging valuables and resources. But wealth ARE the valuables and resources. Many Black people down in the Carribean islands are suffering from "poverty" for the very reason that they don't know the difference between money and wealth. Instead of cultivating the land and resources they are sitting on which can grow nearly any and every variety of food......they'd rather wait on MONEY to come in from the United States and other wealthier nations. Look at Puerto Rico........... It's a tropical island with plenty of food and water. Besides heavy construction equipment to move heavy debris out of the way, why are so many dying waiting on the United States to help? They are capable of growing enough food for themselves, making their own medicine, and building their own structures.....but they have been trained to DEPEND on someone else for these necessities. Like the fathers of old during Reconstruction....... Black people need to get BACK into the habit of expecting help to come only from The Good Lord and ourselves. Self reliance. Be of the mindset: If YOU ain't doing it....don't expect for it to get done.

　 Delano Here let me school you. I went to white schools. And I was verbally and physically. So up until I was 16 I didn't like white people. And your point is? Where EVER the hell you went to school.....they didn't teach you proper grammar, LOL. I have met white racist that we could have a conversation. I have also met liberal unconscious white racist. And there are a few white people that are respectful and conscious when talking about race with me. I have heard black people who are Pan African but want to dominate women . I have heard black people say I'm a person first and black second. I have heard black people who sound like white racists. OK...... So you've met a diverse group of people and now realize.....like me and most other people over 40.....that human beings can BE and THINK in any combination of ways. Again, what's your point? Or how does it relate to what I just said about YOU chasing after White people to get money? So I'll simplif you this. I am am outsider and I am not interested in being an insider. I just want a few outsiders to hang with me. If you were an "outsider" you wouldn't have been successful in college and SURE wouldn't have been successful on Wall Street.....both require being an insider who has a proper understanding and relationship with the "system". I am not trying to fit Any boxes. A stock broker who reads palms and does astrology readings on the side.... I don't think they MAKE boxes with a size and shape that would fit you....lol.

Delano You're view points is alien to me. "You're" view points "is" alien ????? Shouldn't that read: YOUR view points ARE alien ????? You may be good at math, but you suck at grammar..lol. Perhaps English is your 2nd language. That would explain why what I say sounds so "alien" to you....lol. Australia is a racist nation that was founded by White Supremacists. It was founded off of murder......murder of the Aboriginees who were people of color. Infact, most of the founders and early settlers of Australia was violent criminals from England. But enough with the history lessons. My point is, you went around looking to White people for your success. So it's not about the "green"....it's about the WHITES who makes the green.

Cynique The Depression Generation were part of the problem....lol. Infact, THEY were the some of the ones that the Baby Boomers were fighting against! Generation X is a lot like the Depression Era generation in many ways. Overworked, taken advantage of, brainwashed, and refuse to stand up to the system that exploited them. But the Millenials are "sort of" like the Baby Boomer generation in that they don't want to turn out like their parents and they want a "new" way. But I say "sort of" because although the anger and frustration is there, there is too much substance abuse and I don't see them as focused on a common enemy as the Boomers were. Troy Every job on Wall Street that I ever got was because of white folks. Well, that answers atleast ONE of the questions I put to you in the other thread....lol. Delano So true Troy. It wasn't about my colo ur just green. Yeah, I've heard THAT tired line over and over again.....lol. If you think that your clients could care less about your race as long as you were making them money...... Start dating one of their daughters or sisters and you'll find out quickly how little the "green" you made them really mattered. Sure they don't mind you helping them to make money. That makes THEM richer. But you still knew your place and didn't cross the line.

It's not so much that millenials feel "entitled".....I think what they feel is a NORMAL reaction to a world of injustice. I think the Millenials were born to finish what the Baby Boom generation WANTED to get done but the Generation X'ers messed up....lol. The Baby Boomers fought for a lot of rights and priveldges in society that we still enjoy today. They challenged the system, got out in the street, and FOUGHT for those rights and priveledges. But a lot of right-wing conservatives came along in the 80s and TRICKED the next generation ....which would be Generation X....into believing that these rights and priveledges were bad and corrupt and undeserved. So Generation X'ers grew up feeling that no one "owed" them anything and that they should tolerate all types of injustice without complaining. As a result they lost a lot of their rights, wages went down, and living conditions deteriorated because of Generation X's refusal to confront the powers that be. Now the Millenials are coming of age and looking at their parents...Generation X....and wondering what was all the sacrifice and hard work and "not complaining" good for. They're starting to take to the streets again and demand more respect and benefits. They're basically finishing where the Baby Boom generation left off. And they're angry because of the mess that their parents (Generation X) LEFT for them to clean up.

What do you mean.............you don't "care"? You BETTER care.

OK............... And what are the BLACK POLICE OFFICERS of New Jersey doing about this?

Thank Antonio! One of the most progressive and visionary periods for AfroAmericans in the United States was during the period of RECONSTRUCTION and a few generations after. Roughly from 1865-1930 During that period Black people owned more businesses, had more inventions, owned more land, and built more schools and even entire towns for themselves more than any period in United States history until 2017! If there were ANY such thing as a "model minority".....back then WE were it! I believe our success was owed to a number of factors. Among them: 1. We had a much stronger morality and faith in God back during that period so we treated eachother better. 2. We had just came out of slavery where we were FORCED to work hard just to survive, so that instinct was still in us and help drive us to success....before laziness set in. 3. Racism from Whites was RAW and OPEN in those days so there was no confusion about Black people as far as who their enemy was and what obstacles they had to overcome. They weren't walking around begging White folks, "Can't we all just get along????" They said, "You built yours.....now we gotta build ours!" 4. Although you had SOME Black people who stressed formal academic education like WEB DuBois, the vast majority of our people focused on gaining REAL LIFE KNOWLEDGE like how to build houses, how to lay foundations for buildings, how to do carpentry, how to grow food, ect..... They didn't spend 10 years studying liberal arts in some college getting in debt only to come out begging White men for jobs. They learned how to MAKE A LIVING OFF THEIR OWN LAND and were self reliant. Again, Black people during THAT period owned more land and grew more of their own food than the Black people of TODAY. We can learn a lot of lessons from that period.

Troy My man Troy.....lol. I believe racism is a tool of the plutocracy to enrich themselves. And what do these "plutocrats" look like? ....physically speaking. I believe religion has been used for this reason, indeed our education system Mmmmm....ok.... And when we find those who control the educational system in this nation, what do THEY look like? Whether is is the tobacco industry selling us cancer sticks, And what do the men who control the tobacco industry LOOK like? 　 big pharma making opioids freely available, What COLOR do you think the people are who control"big pharma"? Wall Street bringing the world's economy to the brink of collapse, What do the men who control Wall Street look like? Facebook manipulating our election and brainwashing people, Lol, and the men invented and control facebook are WHAT color? 45 fueling racism Wonder what RACE does Prez #45 check off in the census form.....lol Racism is one of many tools these folks use against us. I KNOW what color "us" (you and me) is....but what color are "these folks" that you're talking about???? 　 We live in a world where someone like Amazon's Jeff Bezos can accumulate a net worth north of $90B on the backs of factory workers grinding away making slave wages and he is celebrated. As Bezos builds a monopoly some people even vigorously defend it?! Well hell, what COLOR is Jeff Bezos? but the real problem are the plutocrats pulling the levers--impoverishing us all. And again, what COLOR are the plutocrats who are pulling the levers and impoverishing people? You see the point I'm getting at Troy? No matter which way you cut it, you'll still end up with a slice of.... No matter how much you shake the can, when you open it and pour out it's content you'll find..... No matter how long you bake it, it'll still come out of the oven as.... WHITE SUPREMACY. Because when you trace everything you mentioned back to their original sources, you'll discover a WHITE MAN in a suit and tie sitting at a desk master-minded all of it. 　 　 You can destroy racism tomorrow and the greats masses of the world's people will still be poor. That's where you're wrong my brother. Neither YOU nor I can destroy racism....because we didn't create it. The WHITE SUPREMISTS started racism and it will end when THEY decide to end it. It's not up to you. The only thing you can do is....with the help of The Supreme Being.....PROTECT yourself from it by trying to stay out of their way and be as self reliant as possible. 　 And this is the advice I would give the people living in poverty around the world. Rely on the Supreme Being, try to be as self-reliant as possible, and try not to piss off the White Supremists who control most of the world right now. 　 　 Del So it's a bit inelegant to say all white people. Who said "all" White people? I'm talking about the White Supremists. They aren't ALL White people, but they are enough to control the world without the other White people being able to stop them. It's also less than useful to provide an uninformed perspective, Pioneer. Then why do you continue to do so? Lol, get bored sometimes??

Cynique there are always a few who speak up and confide, that i am just verbalizing what many people think. Funny..... This is the SAME thing Donald Trump says....lol. It is becoming clear that this political correctness specter played a significant role in the last presidential election. Trump's followers were tired of high-minded liberals dictating who and what they should accept. And now these deplorable bigots are happy because they are free to be themselves. Meanwhile liberals are unhappy because their "inclusiveness" formula couldn't dissolve the electoral college. In the ongoing battle between Liberals and Conservatives, the right-wingers are presently in control. 　 Under the system of White Supremacy there IS NO "liberal and conservative"... Just like there is no Democrat or Republican. These are just con-games that they're playing to fool the public. There is only one party/system.....the system of racism. These issues are put out to confuse Black people and other people of color. Get THEM to fighting eachother over ridiculous ideologies. If you notice, the Black conservative fights harder for so-called "conservative" or traditional values than even the White conservative does and will argue with Black people all day and night over policies that HE/SHE didn't even make but got from a White Republican. But while the Black Republican and Democrat are going at eachother's throats....the White Republican and White Democrat are playing golf together at the same country club! While the Black Christian is arguing with the Black Muslim in America or fighting eachother in Nigeria......the White Christian is doing business with the White Jew and marrying the White atheist! Most of these religious and political ideologies were and are being put out to confuse and divide people. Meanwhile the HEADS of these various groups and organizations are all at the top working together to share the wealth and power with eachother.

Troy If you don't understand the system of White supremacy....you will be confused about poor White people, their mentality, and how they see and relate to other poor people. Under the system of White supremacy........... The entire world is a PRISION and people of color are the INMATES while the White race are the STAFF. The staff is made up of many members; the Warden, guards, doctors, cooks, janitors, ect...... Poor Whites may be the JANITORS or COOKS in that staff of the prison and they may be poor, working hard, and treated like shit by the Warden, doctors, and other people higher up....but they STILL see themselves as better off than the INMATES who are people of color who are stuck and can't leave. Poor Whites see hard work and harsh living conditions as their DUTY in the system of White supremacy. Most poor White men work hard, drink hard, and smoke cigarettes like a chimney because they don't care about their own lives or comforts. They vote for Trump because they care about maintaining the system that oppresses Black people and they'll sacrifice their own comforts to maintain it. You know as well as I do that the average poor White person would rather be poor and White, than rich and Black. That should give you some indication of their mentality and how they see life. 　 Some people understand intuitively, or through life experience, that racism is a flawed belief system. Anyone with a decent education should know this as well. Whether racism is flawed or not, the most powerful government and religious system this world had witnessed in 500 years has been built off of it. It's called WHITE SUPREMACY. With the ideaology of racism....which you called a flawed belief system....a handful of men have been able to sail out all over the planet and dominate millions of people and several continents. Mel In the documentary, the problem is NOT white supremacy... Now if you want to go off topic, that's fine. I wasn't trying to intentionally derail the conversation/topic, just putting it in perspective. All this talk of poverty without revealing it's SOURCE.....it's SOURCE are White men who practice a system of economics that is influenced by racism. Which is why I'm not suprised that the film....by a White man...doesn't discuss it. He'll continue to toss red herrings out there for people to chase after rather than tell the truth. 　 If you really understood white supremacy, you'd know you fell for the illusion. Then you’d know it’s a distraction to keep alleged "non-white" people on a defense to lose sight of their own goals. You’d know the would-be emperor is skilled at the art of legerdemain. White Supremacy is no more an illusion or distraction than is a terminal illness. It's an all encompassing system that affects almost every aspect of your life whether you realize it or not. All this talk of some mysterious "emperor" causing poverty around the world is just another red herring tossed out to the public to have you looking under garbage cans and poking around in back-alleys looking for some "boogy man" to blame. When you really don't need to look any further than the man who produced this film and those he went to college with as key players in the game that keeps global poverty going. If you doubt what I'm saying or think it's a bunch of uninformed nonsense, then show me one nation in the past 500 years that was able to accumulate any substantial wealth WITHOUT the assistance of White men! Poverty will end when WHITE MEN decide to end it.....because they in charge and control the purse stings.

Yes SOME poor White people are dumb and unskilled a very few, but most AREN'T. Don't deceive yourself into thinking we're all the same. Most of the White people who are poor and living in these woods that you think are dumn and you feel sorry for are SMARTER THAN YOU. They know how to build cars, rig up buildings, make helicopters and all types of machines. They tend to be VERY smart and mechanically inclined. They also have big laboratories in these trailors where they sit up and make all types of chemicals and drugs to sell. They know how to make meth, artificial heroin, and others drugs and synthetic drugs. They are living there because they WANT to live there.....because they don't want to live anywhere near Black or Brown people because of hate. Poor White people have a different mentality than poor Black people. Most Black people DON'T WANT to be poor and if they knew how to get out of poverty they would....in a heart beat. Most poor White people in America don't mind being poor, because they feel it's their LOT or DUTY in the system of White supremacy. They'll take that hit for the "team". Just like many of them will go without healthcare and will fight against Universal healthcare even though they need it too. White people as a group are MUCH smarter....even the poor ones. Like I said, most (not all) of the poor ones are poor because they WANT to be in the position they're in.

Cynique My problem isn't necessarily the idea..... We've known for millenia that people interpret the same sensory information differently, this is nothing new. It's the source. Why is it that WHITE MEN seem to be the only one's coming up with all this? Why didn't an Asian woman come up withthe idea of quantum physics? Why not an Aboriginal man? White men make up less than 15% of the global population but seems to come up with over 90% of the so-called "science" and "innovative philosopies" that no one else seems to be able to do. You mean to tell me for 100,000 years people were sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting on THIS man to come along and pull this type of philosophy out of his ass? No one else thought of it before? Come on Cynique.....stop going for this shit. See, THIS is one of the reason Harvey Weinstein was so successful with his victims.....they let their guard down around him because those women just thought that man was "soooo profound". That man don't know any more about "the truth" than anyone else and there is no hard proof that he does. Has that man's philosophy cured cancer, AIDS, or any major illness that we should take it as useful? For all we know, him and Donald Trump could be in alignment with eachother back in some secret chamber...lol.

Let me also say...... I know you've worked with a lot of so-called "poor White people" in different parts of the United States, so my blaming racism and White Supremacy for poverty and gross inequalities may not jive too well with you, however......... If you understand the SYSTEM of White Supremacy and how it works, you'll realize that MOST of the White people in this nation who are poor and living in those conditions are living exactly how they WANT to live. It may be hard for you, me, or other people of color to understand why people would want to live in poverty or without adequate healthcare....but we aren't White. Anyone who's lived or worked around poor White people will know how openly and viciously racist most of them are. One of the reasons you found so many poor White people living out in the woods and in trailer park communities around Virginia, Illinois, and Ohio is because they were too hateful and racist to live with Black people in the cities where they probably could have accessed more resources. They PURPOSELY moved out into these rural areas and if they were born there they CHOSE TO STAY in these communities because most would rather live in poverty in the mountains than move to the city where there's more opportunity and risk their sister or daughter dating a Black or Latino person. Some of the same poor Whites you were helping probably voted for Trump and were AGAINST Obama Care although it would help them tremendously.

Troy Don't log off and turn out the lights just yet....... I think Trump needs your help now.....lol.

Mel Yes... because while I knew of the inequity- I didn't know of the laws that made it possible. 　 What's worse is we haven't stopped it yet. We haven't changed our ways. We continue to vote to allow the oligarchs to take more of our rights. We haven't taken the steps prescribed in the documentary or even from the man who is a confessed economic hit man to act on it. When you say "we" haven't stopped it yet.....it shows me that you don't have a full grasp of the problem. The problem is WHITE SUPREMACY. If you look at the bottom of my posts at the signature it read, "If you do not understand White Supremacy....what it is and how it works......everything else you understand will only confuse you" Part of understanding White Supremacy is understanding that ALL economic inequality is caused by White racists because THEY control the economy all around the world! WE haven't stopped it because WE (me, you, and the other people of color and victims of racism all over the world) didn't start it. It was started by the White Supremists who left Europe centuries ago and imposed a system of oppression and injustice GURANTEEING that most of the people will live lives of poverty oppression in order to satisfy their worldwide economy. Asian women have little influence over poverty. African men have little influence over poverty. Native American men have little influence over poverty. They are mostly victims of it. Who controls the world's economy? Who controls the IMF? Who controls the World Bank? WHITE MEN! ....White men like Mr Diaz who is pretending to give a damn...lol. And WHITE MEN are the ones who can influence it and change it.....if they want to. What part shocked you? I haven't watched the movie yet, but I'm sure none of it will be shocking because I've worked with and still work with poor and homeless people so I've seen destitution and it's effects first hand. What simple action can you do to make a difference in all our lives today? -Make sure I'm not living in poverty myself, because before I can help ANYONE I have to be in a position to. -Give CONSTRUCTIVE assistance (food, housing, limited cash, protection, advice, ect...) to people living in poverty and destitution in my community....which I've done for years. -As best I can....let people know some of the rules and codes of White Supremacyand how it works so that they can protect themselves and not fall into poverty, crime, incarceration, addiction, and other traps of White Supremacy. This won't guarantee they still won't fall into the traps, but with more information and with their guard up...they'll be less likely to. The only LASTING solution to poverty and oppression is for the system of White Supremacy to end since it spawned these plagues in the first place.