Pioneer1

Yet ANOTHER White man trying to tell us how to think and what to think.....lol. Even with all of these White men being caught lying, indicted for conspiracy, sexual assault and yet we STILL put credence into their opinions and quirky ass philosophies. It seems every 5 years some White man in a dress shirt and no tie comes before the world with a "new" philosophy that supposedly answers all the worlds problems and he charges people hundreds and thousands of dollars to attend his boring ass lectures and workshops in hopes of getting some "enlightenment". Until he's busted and sent to jail for molesting or sexual assault. Then the show is over. What's it gonna take????? Seriously.

Do i sound like a bitter black woman, lacking in compassion? No, you sound indifferent for the most part and a bit irritated that the issues you brought up are getting so much undeserved attention. Perhaps you may have a few health issues. If so, THAT may be where your real concern and focus is and all the other crap going on in the news will seem like trivial in comparison to something that actually affects you in a direct personal way. Perhaps you're really missing loved ones who have passed and that frustration makes the current events of this world seem rather dull and mundane without them being here to witness these events with you and share there input. Or perhaps you've seen so much of "this world" that you've become jaded with it and now are ready for something NEW and exciting.....like a major world war or authentic extraterrestrial invasion....to liven things up.

For the first time in AALBC history I agree with Delano 100%. It must have been that Solar Eclipse or something....lol. Racism is a problem WHITE PEOPLE need to discuss with EACHOTHER because it's a problem that....outside of Divine influence.....only they can solve for themselves. We can talk about it among ourselves or to White people for centuries and it still wouldn't change anything. Black people have only a limited ability to eliminate racism because it's not coming from US but from THEM....so they have to change themselves. We can PROTECT ourselves from the effects of racism. One of the ways to do this is to take control of our communities and provide housing, employment, food, health care, and other necessities and luxuries for ourselves so that we aren't beholden to Whites for them. But that will only have a minor effect on the MIND SET or ATTITUDE of Whites toward us. LIke Malcolm told the White student who said she wanted to help him, he said if you want to help me then go to YOUR PEOPLE and influence them. If White people are truly interested in ending racism then THEY must confront the racists and White supremists among themselves and have a civil war to end it. And that will be one of the GREATEST WARS that has ever been fought in the history of humanity.

I appreciate it when people draw attention to a problem because it's one of the first steps to solving that problem, but....... But did we really need Phillipe Diaz or any other White man to "reveal" to us that poverty wasn't accidental? Come on..... White men MADE the inequality and poverty you see going on all over the world so ofcourse they are the one's best qualified to talk about it in great detail and insight. It's like what Archie Bunker told the man at the unemployment office, who tried to play sympathetic and said he understood what Archie was going through. Archie said, "You damn right you know what I'm going through because YOU'RE the one putting me through it!!" Western civilization and all of the societies that have been heavily influenced by it has ALWAYS been a society of haves and havenots.....this is nothing new. Things got a little bit better in this nation when Black people demanded more rights back in the 50s and 60s and 70s....but as soon as we got satisfied things went back to business as usual. So I'm not suprised or jumping up and down that Diaz or any other White man would do a film on a subject they help establish. What would suprise me is if he took affirmative steps to SOLVE the problem! He can start in France which I believe is the nation of his birth and convince the other White Frenchmen who have benefited off of colonialism to end their policies that are choking the life out of the African nations they formally colonized.

Delano Pioneer here is your quote. Nailing women is your capstone statement. OK? And where in that statement does it say I harass women as you accused me of? If you have a problem COMPREHENDING my statement then let me re-phrase it. Rather than standing there trying different or the same approach over and over again on a woman who has made it clear that she's not interested in us.......something that WOULD be considered harassment......after the first or second rejection most of the time we would just move on to the next woman until we nail (have sex with) one. Does that make things clearer? Pioneer let's say your Boss is a bisexual male. Who only promotes his lovers. And it took you a year to get this job. Due to a sexuall harrasment claim against you. Would you still not care that people are using sex to get a head. I didn't say I "didn't care" that people are using sex to get ahead (or get some "head"....lol). I said I didn't have a problem with it. And unless "Mr Half-n-Half" is the owner of the firm, I'll just go over his head to get promoted....lol. I've actually encountered similar situations before. Not with bisexual men, but with women who were in higher positions that I didn't find attractive.

No these weren't corporate jobs. Mostly sales, industrial, or retail. I hear exactly what you're saying about the problems that arise from promoting people based on the sexual favors they offer you and I personally don't engage in that behavior. Infact, about 10 or 12 years ago I made a rule for myself not to even sleep with anyone at work regardless of their position. I'm getting older.....lol. Pioneer is not what he was at 25 or 30.....lol. If something "goes wrong" in bed.......lol.....I don't want that shit getting around the workplace!!! Ofcourse it's usually UNETHICAL......meaning it's bad business practice. But is it IMMORAL??? And should it be CRIMINAL??? EXCEPT when it comes to government positions, I say no to both. Whether we're talking about government or a business I'm of the personal belief that the fewer the rules and regulations....usually the better. Rules and laws should only be to maintain safety and honesty. But when it comes to business (again not government and civic institutions) ofcourse a person should be promoted based on their ability to do the job BUT some people have a gift for charm or sex appeal that makes whoever is promoting them enjoy their presence and gives them peace of mind. Things that aren't measured in hard numbers and performance. Come on man...... You know about "work wives" and "work husbands"! Men or women who work around eachother so long that they know eachother better than their own spouses and know how to "comfort" eachother when they need it. Or "morale boosters"! People who aren't good at the actual job but their personalities are very harmonious and great for the morale of the job so everyone likes them and they keep the environment enjoyable. Now too many rules and regulations would demand that these people not be promoted since they aren't qualified to occupy the positions they are seeking.....BUT....their presence in that position would bring far more happiness than if another more qualified but less appealing person occupied it. Do you know what I'm saying? So yes you're right that a person shouldn't make decisions based on who they're sleeping with I believe when it comes to BUSINESSES (not government institutions) these decisions should be left up to the individuals because there are so many variables involved.

Mainstream media would be the major accredited new sources like CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, ect.....that have a history of practicing professional journalism and usually are the first to get major news stories. As opposed to the thousands of alternative news sources like Infowars or Huffington Post, most of whom have a very pronounced bias in the news they report and usually get much of the news THEY'RE reporting from the mainstream too. My desire for a Black presence in the military has less to do with proving a point to racists who wouldn't like them no matter what they accomplished and more to do with: 1. Making sure that the military charged to defend this nation both internally and externally have enough Black people in it to HOPEFULLY preven that military from being turned on Black citizens. 2. Making sure that Black people in this society have the ability to get the same weapons and defense training that White people are getting, lessening their vulnerability to racist assaults.

I wouldn't call what I did "harassment". I'd make a play for them a few times and if they reject, I move on....no stalking or harassing. Another thing is the fact that I wasn't in a position of power over most of these women which would constitute as traditional "harassment". Most of them were women I met outside of the work place and those who I met IN the workplace were either at my level or in a higher position of authority. I didn't and still don't date women who are subordinates at work because I know many if not most will be expecting favors in exchange for sexuality. Having said that.............. I actually don't have a problem with people using sex to get ahead whether they be male or female. As long as it's CONSENTUAL. Just like a prostitute uses sex to make money, other people can use use sex to get ahead in life also.

Troy You took the words right out of my mouth. I was just about to post that the NAACP is becoming increasingly irrelevant, precisely BECAUSE of attention getting "antics" like this and the one they did a few months ago when they "advised" Black people to be careful when in the state of Missouri. I can't really bash any group willing to sound alarms, but like you said before.....this is almost like crying wolf. It's hard for people to take you seriously when you put out bulletins like this without any plans to actually If the NAACP want to alert people of a REAL threat......... If the NAACP wants an issue to REALLY investigate and bring attention to...... They should focus on the FBI memo a few years ago that clearly states that White supremacists have started to infiltrate various law enforcement agencies. When the memo was first made known they should have pounced on it and stayed on it until the Obama Administration with it's Black Attorney Generals took affirmative action to investigate and purge these clowns out of the system. But where were they? Hell, they can STILL place demands on the current Administration, though I don't have too much confidence in the matter being properly addressed with Sessions in office.

I'm very suprised that the mainstream media hasn't raised the issue of RACE in this entire story.....yet. With the obvious fact that this brother and wife were both Black as well as the Congresswoman being a Black Democrat and all of them going head up with the suspected racist Donald Trump, you would think there would be atleast some chatter about it in the commentary sections of media outlets. With all of this though, I STILL support Black people joining the American military. If White men are getting military training and know how to use guns, I want BLACK MEN to get military training and know how to use guns. When you tell Black people to stay out of the military of their own country.... You're basically telling them to proudly become sitting ducks for well armed racists.

???? I rarely talk about a woman's looks to another woman either. There's little purpose in doing so. However I HAVE approached dozens of women with compliments on their looks and body parts. Did ALL of my encounters go as well as planned? Not necessarily. But some were EXTREMELY successful. Right off the top I can think of atleast 2 women I "got with" simply by stopping them on the street, telling them how nice their butt was, and asking them how many accidents did they cause from men staring at it.....lol. Much of life is about doing what you HAVE to do to be successful despite what society tells you is "right" or "wrong". In this society much of the rules for social engagement are laid out by middle class White people who don't suffer from the same problems poor and working class urban Black people suffer from. Most Black men, especially ones who are poor and aren't very attractive physically don't have the luxury of kicking back and WAITING for women line up and invite them to engage in sexual encounters....lol. Nor do most Black men have the money and ability to "mail order" brides and prostitutes from all over the globe like White men do. We do what we HAVE to do...and we do what works for US. This is why I'm very adamant about Black people and especially Black men deciding OUR OWN morals. When Tupac said, "Only God can judge me".....that resonated with a lot of Black males because it captured the frustation of being criticized by people who've never experienced what you have but expect you to behave as they do.

I believe the RACISTS of Wall Street as well as some of the CEOs of these major corporations were trying to derail Obama's Presidency.....but not all of Wall Street and not all CEOs. There were and still are a LOT of White people who love Obama and supported him all the way and THEY are the ones who helped get him elected twice. If all the wealthy and powerful Whites were racist and hated him he would have never gotten in. Which is why....like you pointed out....he was so quick to bail out Wall Street. Even when a lot of conservatives like Neil Cavuto were coming on television saying that the bailout wouldn't do any good and probably wouldn't be a good idea, it was Democrats like Obama who were among the main ones championing the bailout of Wall Street. He KNEW where his bread and butter was and played to it. I've learned that no matter who you are or what you do in this world there will be White people who are AGAINST you (for usually the same reasons) and their will be White people FOR you (for various reasons). The key is to have the RIGHT White people on your side and stay in good standing with them so that they can help fund/finance you when you need it and help protect you from those Whites who are against you when you need it.

Again..... It boils down to laziness and intellectual decline, and both tend to play on eachother. The fact that so many Black people are opting to use facebook as their means of advertisment and launch programs and talk shows instead of buying and building THEIR OWN websites so that they'll have full control is a matter of laziness and shortsightedness. Of all people WE should know by now that if you don't OWN it then you're not safe and it can be (and too often is) taken away from you at any time for any excuse. Now facebook is kicking negroes off their plantation left and right and finding any old flimsy excuse to do so. But as to the much deeper problem of why so many websites that are aimed at Black people aren't owned by Black people, it breaks down into 2 reasons: 1. Non-Blacks are taking advantage of Black people a. There are racists who are trying to manipulate Black thought and activity and they're using websites and content that attract Black people to do so. b. Non-Blacks see a market and are taking advantage of it. Non-Blacks see that Black people enjoy and are attracted to certain things but don't see many Black people addressing those needs so they've decided to supply them themselves. 2. Black people as a group aren't smart enough to build and maintain or atleast control all of the websites and other forms of media being aimed at them. There is not a lot you can do about reason #1 until you first deal with reason #2. Until we figure out WHY so many of our people aren't smart enough to keep up with what Whites and Asians are doing on the internet...... Smart intelligent well educated Black men and women with clear organized minds like Troy and Mel should get together with other liked minded Black people of similar creditials and teach those of our people who ARE smart enough to learn HOW to build and maintain their own websites and market them effectively to attract an audience.

Troy Lol.... What if the tooth was infected and we find out that the gunshots were SELF INFLICTED by the man because he was in so much pain BECAUSE of the tooth? It may sound silly to play on your analogy like that, but it's just to point out that perhaps the poor schools in many Black communities in the United States are SYMPTOMS of an underlying problem manifesting itself in different forms. In my community there is a thriving private school full of Arab children. That school was started by 4 Arab young men who went to college, got their degrees, and came out and started building resturants, buying houses, and eventually opened up a school for their own people. There are THOUSANDS of Black people in this very same community who haven't managed to do what just 4 Arabs did.......not to mention what Arabs are doing in other parts of America in much larger numbers. Yes the schools in Black districts are often poorly funded, but why is this? Because: 1. Most of the Black people in those districts aren't ambitious enough to run for office and occupy a position to siphon money from Lansing (or Albany) and Washington BACK to their communities to fund their schools. 2. Most of the Black people in those districts aren't as involved in the curriculum and other goings on of the school as they should be and so many racists are able to take over the district and do what they want with the money and treat the kids poorly. Yes Black schools are being defunded in Chicago, Detroit, and other Black communities around the nation but it's happening because Black people are LETTING it happen. Now why are Black people LETTING this happen to their children and their community when most other communities WOULDN'T let this happen? Because of the UNDERLYING PROBLEM with Black America today. Too many of our people have been DUMBED DOWN....literally....with various poisons and toxins that errodes the intellect and makes them lazy, docile, and half crazy. If we don't get to the bottom of what's the dumbing down so many Black people in America then the SYMPTOMS of crime, poor schools, lack of Black websites and businesses, and other ills will continue. .....and so will the head scratching.

There are MULTIPLE factors involved. The fluoride in the water is just one factor. Poor education is another. Lead in the water is another. Breaking up the families and taking the father out of the home is another. Placing Black boys in special education is another. There are MANY factors involved in the attempt to dumb down and destroy Black America. But you have to KNOW all of the factors in order to solve the problem. You can't just focus on one or two and ignore the multitude of others. You can't just look at deteriorating schools in the Black community and see THAT as the only problem without addressing the other problems. Because if you just focus on that and ignore the lead, the flouride, the miseducation, ect...the problem may slow down a little bit but will STILL get worse. We have to examine ALL of the factors of why so many of our children aren't learning the way they should and why the Black community in the United States hasn't made as much progress as we should have by now.

I'm not going to say I've NEVER used the lewd approach...lol. But I wasn't my usual style. I didn't care too much for making dirty sexual remarks to women I didn't or barely knew. For me, it was (and still is) boldness and a numbers game more then finesse and charm; but I always have a certain amount of respect and courtesy. However some men DID get success from being lewd and I've seen women go for men who were down right thuggish and threatening. But first, what is considered "lewd"? If a man says, "Hey baby what's up? What's your name....can I get to know you?" That's not lewd. Even if he told a woman how nice her body was or how nice her butt or breast are.....that STILL isn't lewd.....in my opinion We did that all day long with NO shame with a lot of success. But if he starts asking her to perform something on him or gets graphic about what he wants to do to her.....then THAT crosses the line and becomes rude and lewd. And again, I've known DOZENS of women who both bold AND "lewd" talk actually worked on. But I guess it depends on a person's definition of "worked" or what "success" is. Meaning, what is a man's AIM or GOAL when he approaches a woman with lewd remarks and lines? If is goal is to meet a woman to marry or is looking for a compatible partner to have a life long relationship with....theres a slim chance that he'll find that type of relationship from women he's using those remarks on. However if is goal is to must find somebody to "hit it and quit" or have a few night stands with where it's just sex and not much else......those lewd remarks will work remarkably well and I've known several instances where they have! But we have to be careful in what we're calling crude and lewd. There's a "street harassment" push going on among racist young White women where they are going around taking videos of men of color who flirt with them and using this as an excuse to make flirting with women on the street ILLEGAL. They want to get it termed STREET HARASSMENT and get these young men punished simply for being normal men. These are middle class mostly racist young White women who aren't used to men boldy displaying their sexuality so they want to demonize it. This is the type of attitude that SPAWNS the "Harvey Weinsteins" because men are forced to suppress their nature and turn to perverted methods to satisfy themselves.

This is gonna sound waaaaaay out there but.................. One of the reasons so many so-called "Black" websites are owned and operated by White people is because the level of intellectual power in the Black American community has declined so much that many of our people no longer have SENSE enough to operate their own websites. If White people DIDN'T put it together and run it, often times it would exist. Back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s we had HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of Black owned and operated television and radio stations. Black people controlled EVERYTHING from the airing to the subjects of the broadcast to building the antenna, working the cameras, ect...... We also had a lot of Black NEWSPAPERS. Nearly every Black community had it's own newspaper and every highschool with a sizeable Black population had it's own Black student newspaper. Black people in those days were smart and industrious and WANTED to own and operate and control everything pertaining to them! Today I don't know if we have even a dozen television stations owned and operated by Black people. Black radio is declining as well. It's a race to the bottom. Some of it is because of laziness. Many of our people want to do the EASY thing and just put everything online instead of making sure we are holding down ALL forms of media (television, movies, radio, ect....) To show you how lazy it has become. A lot of our people have abandoned their own websites just to do everything on facebook. They advertise their businesses on facebook. They hold talk shows on facebook. They gotta go beg facebook Zuckerberg for EVERYTHING and now he's their new master. But sadly, much of it isn't just because of laziness but because of INTELECTUAL DECLINE. A lot of our people today just don't have the intellectual capacity and organized thought capable of building and managing their own websites and businesses. Most of our brothers and sisters from Africa can do it.....but their intellects are still strong and intact because they were raised in a different environment eating different food. A lot of our people can't think clearly and linearly and in an organized fashion. Just look at many Black Americans under 50. Just LOOK at them and study them and how they act and you'll get your answer as to why so many websites aimed at them AREN'T owned by them or even managed by them. Go to a store or resturant and look at how long it takes so many to do simple math. when giving back your change. Go to a store where they're working and ask them a question and see if THEY can answer it or do they have to go and get a White or Asian person to answer it for them. Listen to the conversations they're having on the cell phone. Look at how so many are walking up and down the street talking and rapping to themselves and tossing their hands around in a frenzy. There is a serious decline in the intellect and prevents many of our people from accomplishing things that require EXECUTIVE thought like planning and organizing. Lead and flouride has saturated and jammed up the brains of too many of our people to the point that many of them operate on a MILDLY RETARED (moronic or idiotic) level of intellect.

Cynique Were most of the men "coming on" to you Black? If so.....that may explain in part why they didn't harass you or get more aggressive after letting them know you weren't interested. Black men are usually BOLDER than White men when it comes to approaching women but we USUALLY (but not always) draw the line with rejection. Rather than sit there and harass the same woman over and over again who's made it plain that she doesn't want us, most of the time we'll just move on to messing with the next woman and will probably even go through DOZENS of women until we nail one.....lol. Some people don't like that approach, but it's one that has worked for ME and many other Black men who aren't considered the most attractive men in this society. There are exceptions to the rules and you have all types of Black and White men, but generally speaking most Black men like to play games and charm women into sleeping with them. We also tend to sleep with A LOT MORE women to increase the odds of "getting lucky" and staying that way. Where as most White men like to demand or coherce women through their money and power or sense of obligation and often times tend to focus on ONE woman at a time and maybe a second "mistress". Because of their status in society, many White men feel ENTITLED to women and find it very frustrating and almost intolerable that a woman would not want to sleep with them. Most women don't understand this mentality and are often surprised when they encounter it. On the other hand, most Black men in this nation are so used to being dissed and rejected that it really doesn't bother them as much. It becomes a NUMBERS GAME to them and they will shrugg off a rejection to move on to another target.....lol.

Troy For the same reasons that me and other Black people around the nation concluded that the lead contamination of Flint's water was aimed at the Black community even though many Whites were also affected. All you have to do is read between the lines AND observe what's going on around you. For years people have talked about how low the academic test scores of inner city schools have been as compared to their suburban counterparts. We know that flouridated water causes lower IQ among children. And we know that most urban areas where Black and Brown children live have fluoridated water while most SUBURBAN and RURAL areas where White children live typically don't have floridated water. So it should come as no suprise when we see that schools in urban districts populated by Black and Brown children have lower academic scores than schools in suburban and rural districts populated mostly by White children. Also, there are 2 things you should keep in mind that also explains why White people aren't AS exposed to fluoride as Blacks........... 1. Most White people consume bottled water and filtered water which usually doesn't have fluoride. 2. Most of the water in corporate offices, surburban schools, and other environments frequented by middle and upper class Whites are served from water coolers and or filtered fountains which doesn't have fluoride added. And the few White people who ARE drinking up this fluoridated water are typically poor and lower working class White people who are stuck in urban areas. The majority who live in the surburs or way out in the country aren't. Just more evidence for the attempted DUMBING DOWN of Black America.

Remember in 2016 when we had the same discussion about LEAD and how it was lowering the intelligence of children in the inner cities? There is a deliberated DUMBING DOWN of Black children in the United States and it has been going on for decades.

Troy I was just messing with you on the "oxymoron".....lol....but to answer your question: Easily...... Wall Street is NOT a monolith. Even at the center of the American economy you have various groups with various interests, often competing and even at odds with eachother. One group may hedge their bets on Obama, the other on McCain/Romney. Just like in this recent election one group hedged their bets on Clinton while others went for Trump. Then you have some economic leaders who will support BOTH candidates! When you have multiple billions to play with, you can put SOME of your money behind BOTH candidates making sure that regardless as to WHO wins.....you'll be set. Think about it........ If you have 50 dollars, and there was a race between 2 characters where the winner paid off 10 to 1.......why not invest $20 by placing $10 behind BOTH. No matter the outcome.....you're guaranteed a $100 return!

Fluoride exposure in utero linked to lower IQ in kids, study says "Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure may be associated with lower cognitive function in children, a new study says. . " http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/health/fluoride-iq-neurotoxin-study/

It being a matter of excessive greed (oxymoron?) is probably true, but it's not the ONLY reason. I believe there were other reasons such as: 1. Racism. Many of the owners and CEOs of these corporations are White males, by nature racist, and wanted to see the first AfroAmerican President fail by sabatoging the economy. 2. Strategy Knowing that a Democrat was coming into office, they probably anticipated more regulations so they felt it would be better to downsize and cut the "dead weight" ASAP before more rules were added to the game.

Troy 　 "it you don't decide what is important then someone else will do it for you" Nailed it. Again, it's all about CONTROLING THE NARRATIVE. If people would have looked at the commercial in it's entire "context" then they would have noticed that after the Black woman turned White.....the White woman turned into a non-White woman who looked like she was of Middle Easter descent. I just makes Black people look like we're crying wolf.....and we weren't even the ones pushing the issue. Cynique "i have become burnt out trying to justify why blacks have reason to complain." Maybe you should stop trying. The older I get, the more I realize how USELESS it often is trying to convince White people that racism is a problem. It's NOT a problem.....for them. Like Archie Bunker (All In The Family) told the man at the unemployment agency who pretended to sympathize with him and said he undertand what he was going through, Archie said OFCOURSE you know what I'm going through because YOU'RE the one putting me through it! I thought that was one of the most remarkable lines in television history. Every Black person should memorize that line and use it as a response as well as a motto because it will teach our people not to put so much effort into COMPLAINING to the very people who are guilty of the offense! By the way...... I've often wondered over the years would Black people do the same thing White people have done if WE were in the same position with just as much power. After studying both, I seriously doubt that we would. Ofcourse White people have had more technology and were smarter, but that's not the only reason they act the way they do.....there are other deeper psychological reasons that Black people DON'T share. I don't think Black people would be so anti-sexual if we were ruling. Del The person who called you a racist and facist......what color were they?

Young people also grow up without a sense of PRIVACY like those of past generation. They don't have a problem with all of their business being made known to the public, including their phone numbers, address, and even social security number. You can't go into a Macys or Norstrom or any other high end department store without them trying to get as much information as they can out of you while making your purchase. And most people just blurt all of their personal information out into the open without so much as taking a look over their shoulders to see who may be listening. Infact, this so-called "information age" has made a lot of young people just down right naive. If you go into a grocery store or a coffee shop you'll notice that most of the time you have to ASK for a receipt because the attendant will just NOT give you one. It's become the norm not to get paper receipts for your purchases and most young people don't seem to understand the need for one.....UNITL.