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Troy Extending a basketball series requires a lot more coordination with more people. This is true. And that was the basis of HIS argument. That there were too many people involved for them to be able to pull off something like that. It's ENTERTAINMENT. Look at WWE and WWF wrestling and how so many gullible and NOT SO gullible people back in the 70s and 80s thought those wrestling matches were real before the public eventually caught on and realized that most of it was staged. That should serve as an example of how very little can be believed in the entertainment industry. Professional sports is PART of the entertainment industry.

Troy If there's a problem in the community, shouldn't you be aware of it? You have a little daughter. You probably say you don't care what kind of man she falls inlove with as long as he treats her right. However if you happen to hear her constantly say that White men are the best, only dates White men, and even catch her praying for a White boyfriend or husband from time to time.....wouldn't you find that somewhat alarming? ProfD Man, Troy don't know nothing about that....lol. During the Gangsta Rap era of the late 80s and early 90s he was somewhere at a college or university either enrolled as a student stacking up more degrees like pancakes; or focused on his job as an assistant professor. When Wille D was rapping on The World Is A Ghetto and talking about, "What's up outta towna....southern nigga downa.....I wish you WOULD bring yo" -Troy had his face buried in a pile of books studying computer science, or sitting to a desk with a red pen in his hand checking people's homework and spilling coffee on it...LOL.

Something I've noticed over the years is that when too many of our people congregate together....often times there's conflict. Too many Black men want to be "king" or rule over others. We need SPACE. We need OTHERS to show out on....not eachother. Another thing too is a lot of brothers get highly jealous of eachother over female attention. There can be a room full of Black men and women and a sprinkle of men and women of various other races. The average Black man will IGNORE the White or Latino or Arab men who are messing with Black women, but if he sees another BLACK MAN having success with the ladies...the jealousy and envy starts kicking in. He starts staring at them or finding different ways to eeeaaase up to the woman when the Black man ain't around to whisper in her ears, lol. But as I said, we need SPACE to really show out our abilities. Black people....especially Black men...do good when we're a BOLD MINORITY among other groups. If we're less than 10% of the population of a given sitting but we are assertive and bold and exercise that behavior over OTHER PEOPLE (not eachother) we tend to be very successful. Example? Go to the average all or mostly Black school in the United States....even if it's in the suburbs....and you'll see conflict and often fighting. Go to a mostly White school with a small but decent amount of Black students. You'll see Black students who are STARS of sports teams, on the honor roll, leaders in social groups, the Black boys are the most popular and the girls are flocking to them. Same thing on a lot of jobs. Go to a job site where there it's only 10% or 15% Black and you'll find a lot of Black people getting along AND in management positions. Before arguing with what I just wrote.....THINK BACK about YOUR experiences and observations and see if my words don't line up with them.

The "right questions" are the questions that will lead you to the answers/solutions to any problems or difficulties you're facing.

ProfD Really, with him it was more of a set trippin' EGO thing. We had BEEN going back and forth over the years we'd known eachother because I'm from Detroit and he was from Chicago and he figured he had something to "prove"...lol. Every disagreement we'd get in would eventually come to him claiming "yall niggaz from Detroit be like...." "yall niggaz from Detroit think yall so...." LOL. It didn't matter WHAT we were talking about. We could be talking about Popeye's Chicken vs KFC, it would eventually boil down to how Chicago got the best spots....but watch out because you might get popped. Chicago got the tallest buildings.....but don't talk shit to the wrong person or you might get tossed off of one. He always felt he had to prove to everybody how dangerous the neighborhood was he came from. He was like that with all the BLACK people he came across, but with the White folks he'd just say "good morning" and keep it pushing. I'm on one level talking about politics and the Black community. He's on another level talking about which hoods are the hardest, how many homicides did you see growing up, which city is the most ruthless. That's what HE was on. And he was in his 40s back then!

A quick wiki on him: See, the question one should ask one's self is....why were these Indians moving all through out different AFRICAN nations? First of all, why were they ALLOWED to travel in and out of these different Black nations building businesses, making money, and making connections? As mentioned in another thread, many AFRICANS don't do that much traveling to other African nations let alone do business and make connections with other Black Africans....so why the hell were THEY (the Indians and Arabs) doing it or even ALLOWED to do it? Why did his father choose SOUTH AFRICA to teach in? Reminds me of Elon Musk and HIS upbringing in South Africa.

Oh no! They REALLY don't want him then. These non-Black people who were born and raised in Black countries often tend to be the most racist. Look at those racist ass White Afrikaners of South Africa. A lot of these Arabs and Indians who were born and grew up in African countries were children of business owners and grew up with a sense of entitlement and nobility OVER the Black population. A lot of these Arabs and Indians stay in their own little groups and circles and marry among eachother and keep the money together as a "caste" or "class" over the native Black population. 😏 Hey ProfD, check this out...... I won't even do a google search on that dude, but I BET his parents either: a) Owned some sort of business there or b) Worked for the government of whatever African country he was born in Tell me I'm wrong!

ProfD You'd have to be pretty naive in the first place to NOT realize that professional sports is rigged to certain degrees. You have millions if not billions of dollars involved. OFCOURSE athletes are going to be paid off to do certain things. I got into an argument with a "brother"....a pretty intense argument ...lol....years ago over a subject similar to this. He actually pulled out a gat and flashed it. We were talking about the basketball play offs and the Lakers were one of the teams. Weeks ago I told him and some other people that it wasn't going to be a sweep and they were going to EXTEND the games. Here it was 6 or 7 games later and they were still playing and when they asked me how did I know...I said because the games were rigged so they could keep on playing and generate more money. If there was a sweep....that's the end. But if they were to go 6 or 7 games....then whoever is making money off of the events stand to make MORE. This loud mouth nigga wanted to argue with me over HOW could they pull something like that off and who all is involved and why would an athlete choose to lose or not do his best. I told him these are professional athletes with full control over their bodies they know how to MAKE a shot or MISS a shot, they know how to throw a punch or MISS a punch or take a dive and not get back up. Not all the time, but they know how. They know their bodies like machines and have control over them. They are PROFESSIONAL and they're there to MAKE MONEY....not necessarily win a game. So if they are TOLD to lose and get PAID to lose, then they'll LOSE on purpose to keep that bank roll coming in.

umbrarchist It is about money and therefore power. I get credit card offers in the mail every week. I only open them to check the interest rates. They are talking 35%. Is that more complicated than Algebra? Perhaps there's a difference between Accounting as a scholastic course and Accounting as a career. When I did a brief search for the definition of Accounting, AI provided me with: This sounds FAR more complex than Algebra. Do you think most high school students are capable of summarizing and analyzing financial information....especially at a business level?

That's another thing I've noticed. It seems like a lot of Black Americans USED TO (not so much now after interacting with them) fight hard against the racism and colonialization in Africa than Africans themselves! Back in the 90's you had so many millions of Black Americans walking around pushing Africa and wearing those red-black-green African medallions and promoting African history, but the interesting thing was.....after a lot of Africans started actually coming to the U.S....that pro-Africa vibe started to slow down, lol. When you started interacting with people and you realized that: a) They didn't see YOU as African and didn't want to have much to do with you b) They actually LIKED the people you were talking about and calling a "colonizer" and sought friendship with them. Another thing I noticed with a lot of Black immigrants is that if you find one who DOES care about his homeland.....he ONLY cares about and knows about his homeland. Not any other Black country, even if it's right next door. How many Ethiopians I've met who know nothing about Somalia, or Kenyans who know nothing about Nigeria....and don't care. Makes me wonder what these people were taught in school.

Man.... The mentality of some of these people. I TRIED to talk to a brutha from Jamaica a couple days ago about Hurricane Melissa and the impact it may have on the island and that nigga looked at me with indifference and said he "doesn't follow" that type of stuff, and proceeded to talk to me about women and who had the roundest ass.

This reminds me of how they make "insider trading" illegal when it comes to stocks, and then proceed to go after people. This all seems a bit subjective to me, because there's a fine line between what some people call "cheating" and what others call "strategy". If I get a tip that a company is about to go bankrupt or go out of business and I pull all of my stocks from it, is that cheating? If I get a tip that the star player of a team has an injury or had a bad night of drugs and alcohol the night before the big game so I place my bets on the OTHER team, is THAT cheating?

Indian/Iranian....whatever....he's a Caucasian (for the most part) man who is a member of the Democrat Party. The only thing "different" about that dude is his NAME...lol. And if he gets in....it's going to be the same ole "same ole".

umbrarchist To answer you question directly, I don't "know" it....but I believe it. According to the latest report on the literacy of U.S. students from ABC News (if we can believe them): "The report shows almost half of high school seniors are now testing below basic levels in math and reading, and approximately 35% are at or above a proficient reading level, while 32% of them had a below "basic" reading proficiency." US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend' - ABC News If half of the students test below basic math and reading....and only 35% of that "half" is for poor reading...that means a much HIGHER percentage of students are not proficient in math. As far as Accounting being more complicated than Algebra..... YOU suggested that it should be mandatory in Highschool. I learned Algebra in Middle School in the 6th or 7th grade....maybe the 8th...but definitely Middle School. It would seem to me if it were less complex, you would want it taught in Middle or even Elementary school.

A lot of these women from foreign countries see whiteness ITSELF as a character trait. They put it next to intelligence, beauty, morality, etc... A White man can be stupid, ugly, and broke.....but his White skin is enough to get him a measure of respect. As long as he can produce a lighter skinned baby.

ProfD Actually I AM a bit surprised at this. I didn't expect Adams to endorse any Democrat. I know Cuomo is now running as an "Independent" but he's still officially a Democrat and would have been beholden to the Democrat party if he were to be elected. Adams' endorsement may be one of the LAST things Cuomo needs if he want ANY chance of winning this election....lol.

Lol....how can you mandate something over 60% of the people don't have the capacity to learn? Most people have issues trying to learn basic algebra....let alone higher forms of mathematics and related subjects.

A lot of money, time, and energy being spent on NOTHING. This isn't harming anybody or making anybody sick. It what you call a "victimless" crime. There are far better things law enforcement can be focused on like actually preventing the homicides and violence that goes on across the United States or stopping the sexual assaults that go on in prisons around the nation.....instead of focusing on shit like this. I don't participate in them so I'm not sure how involved there are, but when you go to some casinos you have an entire section with a screen that has something to so with sports teams and how much money you want to be on them. Isn't that the same? Or what's going on? Too damn confusing.

Karine is a VERY attractive woman in my opinion. It was so crazy to find out she was a lesbian. I know one doesn't have much to do with the other, however to see such an attractive and intelligent woman not only fall into the arms of not just a White person but a White WOMAN of all people...just doesn't seem right, lol. But she's not only beautiful but smart and industrious so I already know she's doing well and will continue to do well. My question is what is she doing for her people back home in Haiti? They need her help.

Excellent observation bro. In my opinion, the FIRST question that needs to be asked is....if under this system a person is presumable "innocent" until proven guilty...then why are their names and pictures even ALLOWED to be published in the media for their trial and possible conviction? That doesn't sit well with me. You got a homicide or embezzlement scandal and you're flashing faces and names all over the damn screen and in some cases these people haven't even been arrested yet. They aren't even suspects yet....just "persons of interest". You've already smeared their reputation in society. But more to what you're talking about....... Another way they try to 'endear" the public to White suspects is constantly blaming their crimes and misbehavior on "mental health". A good example is that recent case where they CLAIM a Black man on a train down in North Carolina stabbed a White girl from Ukraine. According to several sources that man actually was a diagnosed schizophrenic who should have been in an institution getting the help he needed......not in and out of jail and on the streets. Yet most media outlets didn't report THAT aspect of him. They just showed his picture all over the place and talked about how violent he was and left his mental problems out of the story. But when a White man STOCK PILES weapons and makes entire diaries about how he's planning to kill multiple people before actually doing so....you still have people who will go out their way to make excuses for him and claim his "ADHD" made him do it or that he has "social anxiety disorder" and that made him snap. Ridiculous....the lengths these people will go to.

I KNEW somebody would dig that line right there...lol. That's one of the reasons I posted the video. But that line, was a gem.

So provide some examples................

Not when they make a pact with the devil. They better read the "fine print"....lol.

MAN she can move that thang....lol. When she dances, it looks like she got two midgets fighting eachother up under there.