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Pioneer1

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  1. I'm sure the Green Monkeys wouldn't object to that Conspiracy....lol. They've been getting blamed for starting AIDS for about 5 decades now.
  2. To the contrary! Perhaps a lot of the inventions, music, and what people call "creativity" is as a direct result of the receiving and transmitting of thoughts.
  3. ProfD Absolutely. There are states with 99% white folks. No shortage of places to call their own. Never enough though. That's why they wanna colonize Mars. I don't believe they TRULY want a "Whites Only" nation or even city. Then who would they have to oppress and look down upon? Most wise and elite White people know that for racism to really work you need atleast 2 races in the environment. One to rule and the other to subjugate. You take away the people of color, soon you'll have a situation like Nazi Germany or Russia/Ukraine where you have White folks just warring against eachother ove who's the "whitest". Most Black folks don't have enough bread to pull up stakes from one place and move elsewhere. Lol...since when did lack of money stop Black folks from re-locating???? When you don't have anything where you're at...that's an EXCELLENT time to pull up the stakes and move the tent. I look forward to reading @Pioneer1's response. Like James Brown said in the Big Pay Back: Heah'tiz..... Keith Mur richardmurray LEt us say a large enough percentage of black in the usa attempt what you suggest, I only many questions but only one is historically demanded. What are black people who have accepted your suggestion to do when whites in or out of alabama/mississippi,florida,georgia, the carolinas use all means including physical violence to stop black people? Don't let them. Fight back. Historically, when we've actively opposed racism by whatever means at our disposal...we've won. ONLY when Black folks psyche themselves out into not fighting back or begin to argue with and turn on eachother, did they lose. There are not only towns but ENTIRE REGIONS of the United States where it's almost all non-White Latinos and even a few nearly all Asian regions. They aren't White....but White folks haven't stopped THEM for grouping together and doing their thing. @alvinMhaye Sundown towns are all over the South. WERE all over the South or ARE still all over the South?
  4. Yeah I remember that one. Bruthaz all up in Detroit and New York were threatening people with folding chairs if they got outta pocket....lol.
  5. You're talking about going against the grain of thousands of years of social evolution. Most men know they are "paying" for it one way or another, but suggesting they go the DIRECT route is still offensive to most. They like to feel that it's something about THEM that got them the sex, not their money. Same reason many if not most men don't care too much for women who come on to them as much as ones THEY went out and caught. If it comes right up to them and hops in their laps they don't get to brag about their seduction skills....lol.
  6. I asked you earlier, if White people gave themselves the titles "DJ This" and "MC That", then produce a document proving this. So..... Is the proof that I asked you for somewhere in this reply????? ProfD The interesting thing about Country Music is....... Seems to me that more people listen to it up North than the White folks down South. When I lived in the South, most of the White folks listened to Rap and RnB....lol.
  7. The brutha'z got so much BREAD.....I'm sure he has no problem finding a variety of BUNS to slide his meat in between.....lol.
  8. Chev For real. Everytime the nigga walked past me he'd come at me with something he THOUGHT was new that he had thought; but it would usually be the same old re-hashed garbage about "getting even" and "pay back" that his argument was based. All day every day for almost 3 weeks.....Gaza and the Texas Flood. Even at lunch time in the cafeteria he would sit across from me trying to start some shit. I'm engaging Africans in conversation and here HE comes with a nappy beard full of lint and cookie crumbs talking about White girls in shorts getting punished for showing their legs. Ever time something happens to White folks, he saw as it as "cosmic pay back". NOW he's going on and on about the beat down in Cincinnati and how THAT somehow ties into "justice" being served from from spirits of the Underground Railroad. I'm close to finding out what Temp service he works for and giving them a call....lol. But, my question would be; Who is innocent? One could argue whether or not ANY adult is innocent, but I think we both could both agree that nearly all of the children under 5 years old are innocent. Yet they still often get killed in natural disasters. Logical thinking? My question would be from what relative basis do we think logically about certain catastrophes happening in the earth? From a meteorological point of view. I believe that at times, the Supreme Being does intervene with acts of nature. I do too. But I'm not sure which disasters in modern history I could point to as a clear example. As far as prophecy goes...... What if I told you that a lot of the prophecies of the Bible SEEMED to have been fulfilled because those "prophecies" were actually written AFTER the fact? In other words...... You read a prophecy that the Israelites will be taken into captive into Babylon and later on will be freed by the Persians under King named Cyrus/Korus and allowed to rebuild a 2nd Temple; and it happens! But what if that prophecy wasn't actually written BEFORE those events occurred as people are led to believe but were written hundreds of years later on AFTER they occurred in Jerusalem AFTER the rebuilding of the 2nd Temple? In other words, they wrote HISTORY and then stamped a much earlier date on it to make it look like PROPHECY. ProfD White folks will not accept Mother Nature defeating them. They have a history of this. Whether it's the Earthquake of San Francisco 100 years ago or the flooding of New Orleans. Constantly shaking their fists at the sky and "vowing" to rebuild after natural disasters.
  9. Some even liken the human brain to an ANTENNA.... Not only receiving information but TRANSMITTING it!
  10. Troy Yes, you rejected Barack and James. on what grounds do you justify accepting Colson into the black race while rejecting the other two. Because he clearly LOOKS like a Black man. His features are predominately African which fits him squarely inside the African race. Do you accept the author Howard French into the so-called Black race? Him? No. He's clearly heavily mixed with Caucasian. By the way, I’d accept all of these men as Black men. That's your right. And by America’s historical standards, these men are unequivocally black. It depends WHICH "historical standards". Based on the standards of RECENT history, many of them would fall under the "biracial" category. Again this points to how subjective and indeed pointless, it is to group human beings in this manner. It's not pointless. Racial categorization absolutely has a point and serves a purpose even if you don't accept or agree with it.
  11. It's so hard to get full and unedited videos on the internet of incidents like this. I haven't followed it that much but from the little bit I did pick up on, they said the physical altercation started with a White mans lapping a brutha. One thing is for sure..... Fox News is having a field day with this. Every day for 2 weeks now they're running specials on this day and night, lol.
  12. Probably because much of that "advanced technology" actually CAUSED many of the diseases and other problems that didn't exist, in the first place. The "start a problem and offer a solution" ruling strategy is almost as old as "divide and conquer"
  13. Hundreds???? Try THOUSANDS. Especially Black females. As the good Professor said many of them fall off the grid, but in some other cases things more nefarious happen to them. Either them or their bodies end up on the Black Market for various reasons.
  14. We already have a number of all White towns and cities in the United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest in places like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Like most things exclusive to Whites, it's just not explicitly CALLED "White only". It just IS, defacto. As AfroAmericans, we need to establish a solid presence in every state and probably every county in this nation....just because. However I'd like to see us CONCENTRATE our economic, political, and social power in the South East in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. That territory should be indisputably ours.
  15. I've talked about several times one of the reasons I'm no longer religious. I expected things to happen that didn't. This recent war between Israel and Iran and what's happening in Gaza is a good example. It flared up...and died down. If I were still religious and believed in the Bible I probably would have quit my job and prepared for "the end" because of how things looked. It looked like the end of the world was right around the corner; only for them to be sitting around in cafes with their legs crossed in sandals sipping on coffee again. But now I know better. Some may think that's silly to even believe that in the first place...... However it's not for those who SINCERELY believe in what they espouse. Christian theology TEACHES that when you see these things the "end" is near. It's taught. And it's been taught for HUNDREDS of years. ....another reason I stopped believing. Whether it's religion or conspiracy theories, it seems as if a lot of people are so cognitive dissonant that they can stare contradictions in the face and not think twice about them and even promote them WHILE living a life totally opposite of what they're teaching and claiming to believe. They claim Jesus is coming back soon, yet their buying mortgages on houses and sending their children to college to get degrees and good jobs -yet claiming the world is going to end. It doesn't make sense to ME as to why they even hold on to doctrines they clearly deep down don't believe in. Human psychology is amazing.
  16. What was there to investigate? I'm no lawyer but it seemed like he said and did things on live television (let alone what was happening behind the scenes) that clearly broke the law. They just CHOSE not to go after him for it. Just like the law clearly states he can't accept gifts from foreign governments but he just accepted a jet from Qatar anyway, lol. He's simply doing whatever he wants to do, and has BEEN doing it.
  17. Troy This is a contradiction. A contradiction is asserting two directly OPPOSING positions. What two positions have I asserted that directly oppose eachother? Back in the day when Malcolm X was asked how he felt about White people supporting his organization he said that they could support it financially and in other ways -but they can't join it. There can be no Black/White unity until there's some Black unity first. That wasn't a contradiction, it was a specifically detailed condition of how they could support him and his cause. Things don't necessarily have to be ALL or NOTHING; there are levels and degrees. So you want Black people to be in charge bestowing the title of D.j. and MC, to decide who can call themselves an MC or D.j.? am I understanding you correctly? Yes. Black leaders in the Hiphop community. I'm not sure how likely this would be, but it's something I'd like to see.
  18. You want me to "explain" why THIS man should be labeled as Black?????
  19. It seems like we were far more united in the 90s. Minister Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton were pretty much the undisputed leaders for most AfroAmericans, including the grassroots. Never in a million years would you have thought there would be Black people supporting Donald Trump or running Conservative internet shows, lol.
  20. What's disappointing is that despite the major 2024 Election loss, there STILL is no major push in the AfroAmerican community to form our own political party. You SEE the ship sinking, but instead of abandoning it.....you start grabbing buckets and shit trying to scoop up water to toss overboard.
  21. Talk about a "straw man".......lol. When have I said Whites couldn't participate and make music in Hiphop??? They can absolutely participate. Just don't CLAIM it as their own or go around wearing titles almost exclusively among themselves without being sanctioned by us to wear them.
  22. Troy If it was so easy to determine race, why do we have so much difficulty doing it What do you mean "we"???? Lol.... Determining the race for most people isn't difficult. It's simply a matter of categorizing them according to society's standards for Racial Categorization The most difficult part...especially in places like the United States...is getting most people in society to AGREE on the same standards. Thus you have: you don’t think Homer Plessey was black. You don’t think well to white was black. But but the nation, including the Supreme Court the Supreme Court disagrees with you. There in lays the problem. Different people with different standards for who qualifies for what race. In societies where most people agree, you don't have that problem. In the past in some parts of the South you had the one drop rule where ANY Black ancestry got you put in the "Black" or "Colored" Racial category. That was pretty easy. Do you think Barack Obama is black? No. How about the authors James McBride No and Colson Whitehead? Yes At the end of the day, the fact that there is no genetic test for race should be sufficient proof to you that there is no genetic basis for race. In a society where race is determined by skin color and other physical features, there usually is no need for a test because racial categorization is based upon PHENOTYPE...not GENOTYPE.
  23. umbrarchist I am not going to dispute with you about YOUR REALITIES. I don't consider them just "my" Realities, so much as they are Realities period that others can access. To me, people who can Believe that a 200 ton airliner including the 34 tons of jet fuel (mostly kerosene) can totally destroy a 500,000 ton building without even thinking about the distribution of steel do not comprehend enough about Physical Reality to go into details about much stuff with. The scientific/physics laws of THIS Reality may not necessarily apply to OTHER Realities. Which is why some people can fly in their dreams or build entire buildings by simply moving their fingers; but when they wake up and return back to THIS Reality, it may take 15 years and 1000 men just to build the same structure.
  24. Cynique is. Those are HER words, not my "strawman" attributing them to her.
  25. Because you don't need one. ....any more than you need a "test" to distinguish a polo shirt from a button down.

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