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Chev And so, no matter how I try to ignore my intuitions and no matter how I try to make myself believe that I am reading to much into it, I still have this lingering thought. The word that you used 'pride' has been systematically exploited, in my opinion, and this is not a light matter. This 'Black Pride Movement' occurred a few decades ago, and now look!!! This world has been used to promote a global movement among people of African descent and then made to be associated with the entire western and European world!!! Now, the term 'PRIDE' has been attached to a flag, globally. So now, no matter what, when I think of 'Black Pride' I immediately think about the 1960s and today's Homosexual Movement simultaneously. This government took the late Jesse Jackson's movement and merged it with the Homosexual Movement. No, this was not a coincidence, IMO, this was deliberate. Do I have a problem with this Homosexual Movement headed up by Barack Obama? No I do not. But I do have a problem with Black Americans not dealing with the origins of it and in how it was put upon us during Chattel Slavery times. We are the product of rape here in America. Why is this not being addressed? Dang....it took you half a page just to get around to saying THAT??? Lol...I agree with you. I thought that was where you were going....but it seemed as if you started there, then went into another direction, then came back, then left again, and then finally said that the LGBT movement stole our symbols and terms from our movement with the "rainbow" and the "pride". Not only that. I notice a lot of gay White men call themselves mocking Black women when they get "sassy" and wiggle their heads and say "gurl" to eachother. They are taking AfroAmerican culture and attempting to ridicule it by attaching it to the degenerate aspect of their community. I gotta tell you, I am a little indifferent about this issue. I do not believe that down playing light skinned African Americans is the right thing to do altogether. I believe that we should highlight dark skinned AfroAmerican celebrities more and more, but we should never suppress lighter skinned ones at all. I don't think that we should give into that kind of programming at all. There have been so many times that, had it not have been for lighter skinned AfroAmericans that stood against racism, I would not be here today. I understand where you're coming from. We don't want to denigrate or play down our lighter skinned brothers and sisters or cause more division in our community. I myself am what most would consider light skinned....although not high yellow, lol. However sometimes a very aggressive COUNTER has to be done to reverse and BALANCE generations of unfairness and injustice. You can't balance out hundreds of years of White and light skinned being praised and promoted with a few decades of applying everything equally. Some wounds are so deep and severe that you must apply medicine in them in order for them to properly heal. We don't need to push down one group to highlight another. Let us do both at the same time. Let's work together. However, when it comes to racism and perhaps certain venues, then yes, it may be a good choice to select a darker skinned person for a specific cause. The same argument could be made by Whites regarding Reparations. No need to give one more than the other. No need to elevate one over the other. Let's all just "be the same" now and start over. But that doesn't repair the damage done. If a lighter skinned Sista is more brilliant than a darker one, may the best one be elevated, and not based on skin color, but how that person shines in all of her features. If a light skinned Brother is better than a darker one, well, they are both 'Black men' and may the best one be put forth to represent our cause. But yes, when it comes to representation as a whole, the percentage of light skinned versus darker skinned needs to be addressed. Something is wrong, if we are seeing more light skinned than dark skinned people being elevated. But many times, dark skinned people hide their issues with Colorism within and that can be just as bad or even worse. Again, the same thing can be said with racism in general. Some Whites will make the same argument about Black people being jealous of them or even accuse them of being racist when we point out the generations of injustice and favoritism that was bestowed upon them. The resentment dark skinned people feel is a REACTION to the generation of mistreatment and unfairness they've had to endure, especially in their childhood. One of the reasons why many of our Civil Rights leaders in the AfroAmerican community have been light skinned is because our people tend to praise and elevate those WITH light skin more than others. Listen to them and respect them more. Light skinned people often love the AfroAmerican community because they GOT so much love from the AfroAmerican community where as when they go among Whites....they are treated like "any other nigga". That light skinned affords them no privilege there. I think blonde hair is a beauty trait, but many of us have no idea of its origin. I think that we have been made to think it is a White trait and therefore obsess over it, but education is key. IMO, to see someone, Black or dark skinned with blonde hair, or grey hair, or White hair, meaning, light colored hair, might be a huge compliment in how they look. So it's not that it is negative, but it is how we have been made to think that it is a White trait. I don't know about blonde hair, but I've had many women compliment me on my grey hair....lol. I don't care how many compliments I get though, I still wish it would turn back black. But that's a different subject.

ProfD There have been short-lived movements that promoted Black love & pride. Back in the 1970s, James Brown & Muhammad Ali were heavy promoters of Black love & pride. Movies were made featuring Black folks in our own natural looks, fashion, speech & flavor. The Native Tongues (Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul) & Public Enemy, KRS-One, Brand Nubian, Nas, Gang Starr, Common, The Roots, & many others within the Hip-Hop commmunity were Pro-Black. Same goes for R&B artists like D'Angelo, Angie Stone, Meshell NdegeOcello, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, India.Arie, etc. TV shows & movies have been made showing Black beauty & love & pride. I am grateful for the messages that these celebrities and artists sent, however it still isn't enough. There's a difference between what they're calling Black love/pride...and TRUE love of African Blackness. What they're expressing is just a love and appreciating for AfroAmerican culture and it's various flavors. But it still doesn't do much to reverse the self-hatred that has been ingrained in the psyche of Black America. It's like celebrating the institution of marriage and how marvelous it is....without addressing the physical abuse the some spouses inflict upon eachother. The argument can be made that FBA/AfroAmericans have done far more especially through entertainment & education to promote Black love & pride. We've done more than nearly any other Black community on this planet to, in recent history. However in my opinion, we STILL haven't done enough. It hasn't been persistent or consistent. We did a lot in the 60s and 70s to promote Black love and Black pride but then the next few generations got bored with it and moved on. But guess what? The White racists haven't gotten bored and moved on. They are STILL on their agenda of promoting their White supremacist ideology and are training a new generation to do the same. So you're back to seeing Black people as the first to die in Hollywood movies again, Jesus and David and other religious characters being portrayed as White again, and using terms like "dark day" and "dark mood" being popularized again after we pointed out how psychologically racists those terms were. Surely, we see Black women lightening themselves with cosmetics & dyeing their hair & wearing wigs. In fairness, Black women have been doing this for many decades. It isn't new. Colorism started way back on the slave plantations. Centuries of conditioning & programming. Gonna take a long time to undo. Facts. And either we're serious about undoing it...or we're not. We can NOT be serious about it and just say "black love" mockingly with a sly grin on our face as we go about our daily business, but just be prepared to face the consequences of this indifference for generations to come. Black women dying their hair blonde and our people getting "processes" and Jheri curls is just the type of the iceberg. The desire to marry outside of our race and have children that don't look like us in hope that they will have a better life will be one of the end results.

Individually we do. We just don't use it. There are plenty of Black people in positions of power from business owners to police officers to police chiefs to lawyers who have power and influence and can offer others benefits. They use their power....especially Black men....when it comes to securing sexual favors. They can just as easily used that power to make Asians, Latinos, and even Africans respect them when they come to this country. How many Black business owners and managers do you know who use their position to routinely flirt with their subordinates or give unqualified "baby girl" an easy job where she just sits on her ass and run her mouth on the phone at his business.....as long as she laughs at his jokes and let's him give her a hug or smooch from time to time, lol. "Alright team....listen up. This is gonna be yall new manager. Do what she tells you to do and don't give baby girl a hard time ....or you'll have to answer to ME. Got it? Go 'head baby girl. Talk to 'em."

You know, I actually wasn't even thinking about you when I wrote that....lol. When you mention it, I remember that you DO seem to censor your speech a lot for the algorithm but you are so good with words and getting your point across it doesn't matter. But some of these influencers I see on youtube and X are just ridiculous. It's to the point that whatever point they're trying to make is completely lost in the sauce because they are so afraid of losing their platform or being demonetized. And what makes it so ridiculous and confusing is that it's half-ass enforced. They'll do a show about racism and use the words "YT" for "white" or censor out the word "rape".....but 15 minutes later in the same show they openly use both words. Atleast when the television networks censor words...it's uniform and across the board. These niggaz are lazy with it....lol. And if they are banned or suspended....they are devastated. Complain about being in "facebook jail" or "youtube jail".

That's the sad and disappointing part. It reminds me of those Black people of the past who tried to eat at segregated restaurants and demand equal and fair service. 1. Why would you want to push yourself into a space you aren't wanted or respected? 2. If somebody obviously hates you and is making it known, why would you eat any food or consume anything they bring you if they DID serve you? That time and energy could be spent patronizing and uplifting your own. It's beyond disappointing but to the point of being ridiculous to see so many Black people SELF CENSURE their own speech just to be able to have a space on these platforms. Grown men saying things like "pew pew" because they can't say "shooting". "Black men must take responsibility for all of unprotected thang-squirting and senseless pew-pewing they commit in the community." Can't say "murder".....gotta say "unaliving". Can't say "molested" or "raped".....gotta say "graped". Can't say "white people".....gotta say "YT" or "dem folks". The language is so coded you don't even know WHAT the hell some of these people are saying or talking about It's getting more ridiculous by the week, how restricted and control speech is getting on most of these social media platforms. The internet used to be the place FOR free speech. Now it's to the point that common words that you could see on television 50 years ago is somehow not allowed on certain social media spaces.

Well........... All I can say about this matter is.....how convenient. How convenient it is that this incident just HAPPENS to pertain to a prominent outspoken member of Congress.

ProfD I'm beginning to learn that there are certain characteristics that Black people have around the globe regardless of culture, religion, or nationality. One of them is the respect for strength and power. For many of our people, both American and African....you don't appeal to them through reasoning and intellect....you appeal to them through show of strength and how many "treats" you can offer them. In other words........ If you are a recent immigrant from Nigeria and I come to you as a regular AfroAmerican who works at Home Depot and say "Hey, welcome to America brother. Come on to my home or our group and lets dialogue" You may not respect that. You may be nice and smile and blow off the conversation or you may even boldly IGNORE me figuring I have nothing to offer. However if I'm the owner of a business or a high ranking official in the city or state and I let you know that. And tell you directly that when you come to America you WILL sit down with Black Americans and we'll give you the run down of how to act and what to say in this society if you want to continue to live here and be successful. You may have a different reaction. You know I have power and I have the ability to give some benefits. It's like a man using his position of power to get sexual favors from women. As "low down" and trifling as it may SOUND and as much as some people condemn it......it often WORKS...which is why it's so rampant and men have done it for millennia. I've known women who were pro-feminist and constantly complain about men being dogs who turned around and went on dates with cops to get out of traffic tickets and had sex with their supervisors to keep from getting fired. Not all women do this....obviously...but many do. My point? As much shit as people talk about what's "fair" and "unfair" and what's "right" and "not right"....most of them concede to power and authority if they think it will benefit them. Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes AfroAmericans have made in trying to connect with other Black people in the Diaspora is trying to appeal to them through "reasoning" and friendship based on shared history....instead of displaying our power and the benefits we have to offer as American citizens.

In a conversation with richardmurray over so many Black women dying their hair blonde THINKING that this somehow makes them more beautiful or attractive, the issue of their freedom to do so....to dye their hair whatever color they please....came up. While I wouldn't take that right away from them. I do think that one of the major key elements for improving our community and repairing the psychological damage that has been done to our community over the centuries is promoting true Black love and Black pride. White society.....through it's media, educational system, and even religious art.....has taught AfroAmericans both directly and indirectly to hate themselves and the way they look and associate dark skin, kinky hair, and dark hair with being ugly and demonic. Instead of ignoring this and letting our community randomly evolve or devolve in any direction, we should have been more pro-active in REVERSING THE HYPNOSIS...as Lauryn Hill would say...and directly countered that racist brainwashing and programing by promoting dark skin and dark hair in OUR entertainment, media publications, and educational curriculum. The only half-way effort we made in this regard was occasionally painting Jesus and some of the other religious figures as Black. However that was only one step in a long journey. The Afros and "naturals" of the late 60s and 70s should have only been the beginning of a self-love campaign....not just a fad to be mocked. Dark skinned AfroAmerican celebrities with strong African features should be celebrated above and beyond White or even light AfroAmericans celebrities in our community. Is this colorism? Perhaps....but it's the type of colorism that is needed to again...reverse the hypnosis. In 2026 I should see not just White people....but Black people in tanning booths trying to get DARKER. In 2026 I should see Black people dying their hair.....not blonde or red...but BLACK. We should have had programs in place to counter the racist conditioning decades ago.

If the "freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants" was the influencer....where are the AfroAmerican women with naturally light hair dying it black or dark brown? When was the last time you saw a Black entertainer with naturally lighter hair dying it black? It's not about freedom, it's about them being conditioned to believe that blonde hair, light skin, and light eyes somehow makes them look better. I don't think they should be physically or even legally prevented from doing so, but I do think that we as AfroAmericans who ARE proud to be Black...should have a consistent campaign of self-love and promotion of African features like dark skin and dark hair and promote this especially to our children to COUNTER the effects from centuries of racist anti-Black brainwashing that our community has endured. Use the movies, television shows, and advertisements to promote dark skin and dark hair....especially to our children. Make them desire THOSE features, instead of the opposite.

frankster Not if you understand that Divinity and Nature are One In order for me or anybody else to understand it, it must first be TRUE. You CAN'T understand how a rabbit and a celery stalk can be the same, because it's not true in the first place....lol. Nature is God All things are a part of Nature Obviously I don't believe either statement is true. GOD is perfect; however nature produces deformities and imperfections. And if all things are part of nature, you wouldn't have the term "supernatural". For some Interesting. Perhaps we need to do a mass experiment to see if IT actually works or were the ones you claim it worked for actually were doing something else and THAT was what worked. Or see if it actually DIDN'T work for them as you claim. But if it did work and it does work, then it's something we need to take seriously. Who wouldn't want a guaranteed way to end suffering? True they do not see themselves as Animist or Christians black Africans... They consider themselves Arabs Muslims... But to the western racist eye or in your situation racialized eyes...they are Black Africans regardless of religious Those who call themselves Arab Muslims generally DO NOT see themselves as Black Africans. They see themselves as RACIALLY different. I am sure Do you believe that the Universe, or atleast our Solar system...was created based on mathematics? The Western European concept of race is the concept of race period.... By this statement, are you suggesting that this is the ONLY concept of race? Some christians do not practice idol worship or the worship of Mary or the concept of purgatory...that is unchristian Lol...some Christians barely even practice CHRISTIANITY...let alone the various forms of it. The Baptist or Lutheran criticizes the Catholic for their statues of Mary while they have pictures of Jesus in their churches and crosses around their necks, lol. My understanding (and perhaps I'm wrong) of what it means to be a Christian is confessing and believing that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior. Every other belief or ritual is secondary. whose ignorance...there or yours? Based on the people I've talked to who almost never looked at a map of their own city and neighborhoods....theirs. One time when I was in Los Angeles..... I took a brother around the block and pointed up at a street sign that said Central Av S. I asked him what does that sign say. He said exactly "Central Av S" I said that "S" is short for SOUTH and the "av" is short for AVENUE. I explained to him how his neighborhood (Watts) was indeed part of the South Central region of Los Angeles. Since then that region has been changed to "South Los Angeles". Why are the limitations irrelevance? Because if we are talking about a certain subject in a certain region, we don't necessarily need to know how others OUTSIDE of that region feel about it or see it. It helps, but it's not totally necessary. No..... they cannot. Apparently you don't understand the concept of race as well as you THINK and CLAIM you do...lol. To you in your mind what is that woman.....? Ok, that makes it easier. To me....racially speaking...she is a White woman. A Caucasian woman.

I guess if we could figure out who or what is influencing so many Black women to dye their hair blonde, we can figure out who or what can get them to stop.

ProfD They claim the new Supreme Leader may have been injured from airstrikes. I'd imagine we'll know soon enough whether the Supreme Leader hobbles around outside or gives a speech or he gets dragged through the streets as a martyr. How can so many folks claim a person or figure is divine if they are killed or injured by other humans, especially by "the great satan"? It reminds me of Popes being assassinated or wounded in assassination attempts. Too me, that would be evidence that they aren't who they are held up to be. One of the strongest evidences that you are Divinely backed by THE CREATOR to accomplish your said mission is that you die a natural and peaceful death after that mission is accomplished. Jesse Jackson could be considered Divinely sent. Some would argue otherwise. But the fact that he lived his life, got a lot of things he set out to do accomplished, and died a natural death at a relatively advanced age without his enemies being able to take him out is EVIDENCE of this. The same can be said of Neely Fuller Jr. Again, not absolute PROOF that these men were Divinely sent....but strong EVIDENCE that they were since they had missions that they accomplished without their enemies being able to take them out or cut it short.

frankster It all depends on the situation....medical intervention does work - but sometimes it fails If the situation is indeed Divinely ordained then it was seem as if medical intervention would be futile. If indeed, it IS indeed Divinely ordained. Some people said that Blackness was a "curse" that was "Divinely ordained" but having sex with White people produced children with lighter skin. Simply science over ruled what was thought of as a Divine ordination. The Eightfold path is what Siddhartha Guatama discovered and taught as a way to escape suffering Did it work for him? Did it work for others who followed it? There are a lot of Buddhists in Asia. I wonder how many of them are suffering. Yes they do....but they not what you and I would call white Again, they STILL don't see themselves as the same as the Blacks...regardless as to what other race they seem themselves as, lol. True....without The African invention of Mathematics their would be no internet for facebook or X I'm not sure of any race of human being "invented" Mathematics. I think this was Universal and existed before the population of the planet. If they do not accept race how can they see them as the same or different race? My question wasn't referring to those who didn't accept the concept of race PERIOD; it was referring to those who didn't accept the WESTERN EUROPEAN concept of race. It depends on your definition of what a christian is.... By any logical definition of Christian, Catholics should be considered Christian. I have no idea why or why not Lol...I told you why. Ignorance To some people to be latino is to speak Spanish and or belong to or descendant of a spanish speaking people or country. True. Those people are ignorant of the fact. I understand the concept of race....you do not understand the limitations of that concept I understand the limitations of the concept and the irrelevance OF those limitations when dealing with the subject matter itself. If I live in America and am focused on American politics....why should I concern myself with the limits of the U.S. border or what the Beings on Mars or Jupiter identify as? I even understand your misunderstanding of the concept of race... My concept of race is simply....It is primarily a social concept that when applied is different depending on Time and Place. It is not universally the same Everywhere or in Everytime.... One maybe consider white or non white depending on time and place This is correct. And there would be no problem if this were your ONLY understanding of race. But when you say this, then turn around and say there is only ONE race...this shows confusion on your part. Cognative Dissonance. Making race and ethnicity the same They CAN be, depending on how race is defined in a particular society. So African Albinos are what race? Depends on what ethnic group or society that Albino is in.

Maaaaan, these sistaz and this blonde hair business. This shit has got to stop. Perhaps there should be a Black Law: If you're already light skinned, you shouldn't be allowed to dye your hair blonde. Maybe we should have a limit to how many "white" features a Black person is allowed to have before they are no longer considered Black....lol.

Any Africans or West Indians or AfroLatinos out there who have a desire to come in and sit down with their AfroAmerican family? As you can see @frankster.......... Nobody is stopping other Black people from the Diaspora from coming among us and dialoging and connecting....if that's what they WANT to do. This is a free forum. There's no charge to join it. Infact, a lot of Africans and West Indians are authors of books and this site would be a good place for them to promote their books. Who's holding them back? What has held them back?

frankster First it is divivise.....It teaches at its core that we are not Black Africans - which is a basic Lie. Many of them are right. Despite their motives of not wanting to be associated with Africa, many of those who represent and promote the FBA movement are actually correct because many so-called Black Americans actually are NOT Black Africans Many AfroAmericans like Dr. Claude Anderson and the late great Neely Fuller Jr. are more White than they are Black....genetically speaking. They are AfroAmerican by heritage and culture and are our people, but they aren't the same "race" as Tyrese or Oprah or Michael Jordan. This racial/genetic difference is important because it explains how people of the same ethnicity may still see, experience, and process things differently based on their genetic make-up. If we accept the Premise that we are not Africans then it provides support for the idea that we have no justifiable reasons to work togather. You have a good point of which I agree with. It Prioritizes Domestic issues over International Collaborations.... Now this is a GOOD thing in my opinion because we as AfroAmericans really SHOULD be getting our house in order as best we reasonably can FIRST before attempting to connect with and network with other groups who are in a worse condition. How can we help those when we haven't helped ourselves? If you attempt to hook up with and work with others before getting your own shit together first, this often makes you vulnerable to be exploited by others. Do not understand the question.... They Purpose Aim and Goal of ADOS/FBA is to prevent a working relationship between People of the African Diaspora. According to YOU. According to ADOS, their primary goal is to seek Reparations. According to FBA, their primary goal is to delineate and promote and PRIORITIZE Black Americans and our issues first OVER others but not necessarily to prevent working with them. But the question again is how has the FBA or ADOS movement weakened the Black race globally? Yes it has exposed divisions and perhaps widened divisions that already existed, but how has it WEAKENED the Black race? For example, can you show evidence how the FBA or ADOS movements have made Black people poorer, caused more violence directed at Black people, caused Black people to lose businesses or political offices? Pan AFricanism has gotten us all the freedoms we now enjoy both here and elswhere. I'm not sure of that. AfroAmerican organizing and fighting has gotten US as AfroAmericans the benefits that we currently enjoy. And although the majority of the fight done by Black South Africans, pressure FROM AfroAmericans also helped them to end Apartheid in South Africa. Our Civil Rights movements have inspired Black people around the planet to have more pride in themselves and become more politically active. However, except for a few West Indian individuals like Marcus Garvey and Minister Farrakhan....and except for the Haitian Revolution which was over 200 years ago....what have OTHER Black people in the Diaspora either individually or collectively done to help AfroAmericans? That is not growth....That is the commercialization(promotion and advertising) of hate and distrust among Black Africans - Degradation and Degeneration Tariq Nasheed did a film recently called "Microphone Check" in which he documents and details the FBA origins and foundations of Hip Hop music. Can you explain to me how THIS promotion and commercialization of FBA heritage has promote hate and denigration of other Black people? What is new is that racist are trying to use money to drive a division among us Lol....that is NOT new. Racists have been using resources to divide Black people for generations. No No you seemed to be ignoring the fact that I have already stated that both sides have ignoramuses in them....and we should not follow their example. I haven't ignored it. What I'm taking issue with is the fact that you seem to be "evening" or "leveling" the blame for the lack of unity among the Diasporan community instead of properly laying most of the weight of the blame where it should be....non-Black Americans. Outside of the White racists who are the MOST to blame for the lack of unity among our people, those who are second most responsible would be other Black ethnicities who don't carry the mantle of Pan-Africanism and see themselves as individual based on their tribes or religions first. Black Americans are one of the few Black groups who prioritize being Black and uniting on that basis above other identities. So now you are going to reinforce that stupidity by doing the same or following them by separating yourself...thereby helping to accomplish the aims of the racist Again, we are already separate....culturally speaking. However the delineation comes from so many of THEM isolating themselves from US and not prioritizing their Blackness the way WE do. How many Black Africans or Black West Indians are on this site willing to just talk with us casually? The blame game....They started it - so lets continue it Anytime you have a pandemic or epidemic that effects the entire community or globe...in order to solve it you usually have to look for it's origins. Its is not a fact...because we are more united and have always been that way.. I see it everyday....how we all get along and intermarry. I don't see Black Americans and Africans marrying every day. I see them getting along NOW more than they did 20 or even 15 years ago, but I don't see what you're talking about. Yes focus on your community....The Black African Community. If you want to go there, YOU said that ALL people are Africans....lol. So why just focus on the BLACK African community? Why not be a TRUE Pan-Africanist and focus on all of humanity???? Yes...but not during the immigration process' From in their respective homelands in their homes from Movies Magazines TV series BillBoards Product Covers or wrappings and Newspaper Produced Written and Promoted to them ......by racist owned Media. Informing then that they themselves are Lazy Sick Ugly and Ignorant just like their counterparts In the US.....self hate Can you give me some examples? Say a list of 5.....movies, magazines, billboards, etc....from the last 20 years promoted in Africa that portray AfroAmericans specifically in a negative light? You Haven't???? lol I do not know if I should realy answer this because you must not be a black person! Lol..... You're starting to sound like Joe Biden now. "If you can't figure out whether you should vote for me or Donald Trump.... then YOU AIN'T BLACK" Whether I'm actually Black or not shouldn't prevent YOU from naming these videos I keep hearing about that has brainwashed these Africans into not liking or trusting Black Americans. From what they've told me it's often times THEIR OWN FAMILY members teaching them this shit, not some damn movie or video. Dude you seriously....do not know how to recognize propaganda? That is why you reason like you do. We can cut out all the drama and get to name dropping. In the past 20 years....what movies or videos are they showing to Africans to get them to think negatively about AfroAmericans? LOL....I will give you a peak and the one of the most blatant one and you should go watch it..... Most today are Subliminal and Implicit Birth of a Nation.... Man, that movie is over 100 years old! Most AMERICANS haven't even seen that damn movie, let alone Africans....lol. Go listen to every thing Charlie Kirk say and espouse about or in regard to Black Africans....that whats fed to Black African Community Globally as truth I'm only vaguely family with Charlie Kirk's work and propaganda. It is my understanding that most of his events and speeches dealt with issues in America and in American politics. Did he do a lot of work in Africa as well? That would indeed be shocking. I'm trying to get you to see how big of a role other Black people in the Diaspora THEMSELVES play in promoting the hatred and division you see in the greater Black nation. You want to blame nearly all of it on White folks and FBA/ADOS but White in many case through out history White folks have merely taken advantage of the fractures and divisions that have already existed among Black people...including pre-colonial Africa.

Back in my teens and 20s, I wouldn't have believed that I would feel so obliged or dedicated to people I wasn't related to or something I wasn't getting paid to do. But as we know, things and often attitudes and mentalities change with time. Now if I spend an extended amount of time away from AALBC whether it's a few days, a few weeks, or a couple months.....I feel OBLIGATED to go back and as best I can respond to all posts directed at me or about me. And also, if time permits....address posts that grab my interest even if they weren't directed at me. And it appears that most of you seem to feel the same way. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And by the way let me thank @Troy for providing this space for us to do so. It's been a while since I sent a token of my appreciation because I've had new personal obligations to focus my resources on these past few years, but your treasures are building up. Trust me 😉 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I suppose it's just human nature; however knowing this makes me feel good, proud, and hopeful. Why? It shows me that there are certain feelings, emotions, and drives that are just innate in human nature that guarantees that no human society will degrade down past a certain level. We will never get so selfish and individualistic AS A COMMUNITY where we simply ignore eachother and focus on our own issues and promotions. Some will, but the vast majority will not. There are certain ways we relate to other human beings that seem to be "in" us; ingrained in our psyche. These are the traits a progressive well functioning society should be built on and modeled after. Characteristics that agree with basic human nature.

Chev I guess the most important input from me would be that, when it comes to ancient script, whether it is from ancient Egyptian records, ancient Sumerian, ancient Chinese, ... the Linear B script, Ugarit, etc. all of it must be confirmed with science. What mean is that certain words are 'anchors' and must be confirmed with the planet earth and also 'the sky'. For this reason, it doesn't matter whether the words are translated from cuneiform script, Arabic script, Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc., all translations go back to some origin. I don't understand this part. Why do you say all translations go back to the "same origin"??? The name 'Adam' is defined in the Bible [KJV] for meaning, I think, 'servant of God' [I can't remember for sure]. The word Adam (from the word "dm" which means "blood") literally means one of two things: OF BLOOD or LIKE BLOOD Red or reddish White people aren't actually white in color but rather pink and in the Middle East they are usually red from the heat. However, this name carries a whole lot of other word origins and meanings too. In most modern translations, for example, the ancient letter 'h' has been omitted from so many ancient words and this is insanely crucial to understand the significance in the past as opposed to today. Today, that letter may not mean much, but eventually, it will probably surface again and shed much more information about how ancient mankind regarded themselves in terms of being 'a spiritual being' as well as a physical being. The ancient word 'Adam' in some text would have been written as 'Adham' or 'Ahdama' or 'Adamah', and etc. But Adamah is a different word than Adam Adamah means ground or dirt. Some say it means "red ground" or "red dirt". But it's a different word than Adam The Biblical name of Seth, the third son of Adam and Chevah [Eve] is also spelled 'Sheth' in the Bible. The name 'Japheth' is sometimes spelled 'Yapheth'. Shem is sometimes spelled 'Sem' and Ham is sometimes spelled 'Cham', etc. Correct. One of the reasons for this is because as you know in Hebrew for a long time the VOWELS weren't written in words. Only the constantans. So when those who weren't familiar with HEARING the Hebrew words being pronounced would write them....they'd pronounce them the way THEY thought they were pronounced instead of the actually way the ancients pronounced them. The name 'Cham' would also be defined in association to 'Kemet' or 'Khem' or 'Cham' in association to 'black earth' in the region of Kemet in the land of Egypt and Northeast Africa. The name 'Seth' would also be defined in association to 'Ra' or 'the sun' and in ancient script, this name correlated to 'the South world' or 'Seth world'. The name 'Japheth' correlates to the word 'Ja-Petah' or 'Ptah' and 'Egypetah', 'Gupta', etc. and also correlated to 'black earth' or Egypt. The name was originally Yapet but became Yapeth, Yapheth, Japeth and it's also where the word JUPITER comes from. It's the name of a planet today, but it came from the Roman high deity Jupiter. There is reason to believe that Yapeth...being a descendant of Noah....when he went West to establish the cultures and nations of Europe like Rome and Greece....being a founding father of ancient Rome he was deified as Jupiter. So, this name 'Adam' and the phrase 'Son of Man' has to be regarded in context of whatever script or passage that uses it. The term 'Son of Man' refers to 'Jesus Christ' in the New Testament: The problem with the New Testament is that there is reason to believe that much of it has not only mistranslated but actually MADE UP. The New Testament was written by Greek and Jewish scholars trained in Greek, many of them didn't even know the original meanings behind the words and terms you find in the Old Testament themselves. So they didn't accurately translate them and in many cases applied a totally different understanding to them. The term "son of man" used in the book of Daniel and Ezekiel....which again really means "child of Adam" is often used as a RACIAL distinction between the descendants of Adam (red man or white man) and the rest of the population of that region who were brown skinned. Ezekiel was referred to as "son of man" Ezekiel 2: 1 "And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee." Daniel said he saw one who LOOKED LIKE a "son of man" approaching the Ancient of Days Daniel 7: 13 " I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him." The meaning these men used for that term was clearly different than the understanding most Christians have of it today.

I read a story where one of her security staff was shot and killed down in Texas yesterday.

One of the reasons I wanted to share this video was because of a couple of recent events that happened over the past week or two. The incident down in Austin Texas where the Senegalese man started shooting people. And now I'm hearing that the man who shot up the ROTC class down in Virginia was also an African. They aren't sure but it appears they did this in response to Americas actions in Iran. People....especially Black folks...shouldn't be so quick to defend people who don't even recognize them as human beings. How many Arabs or Iranians have retaliated against the West when America sent missiles to Nigeria a few months ago or routinely targets Somalia over the decades? You don't even hear of AFRICANS being outraged over it...let alone Arabs and Iranians. Yet you got Africans who want to strap up and seek revenge for something that barely concerns their well being. ProfD One has to wonder 1) what the African countries are doing about their citizens being sold into slavery & 2) how complicit are the leaders in those countries in allowing it to happen Exactly. I'll tell you what they're doing about it.....SENDING THEM. Instead of making the economy better and more stable so that their people wouldn't want to leave the nation and migrate to these racist Arab societies or risk drowning at sea to make their way to Europe......some of these African leaders are actually ENCOURAGING their own citizens to leave the nation! Why? Because they figure if they leave: 1. There will be less mouths to feed, which means more resources in the country for the few who remain. 2. They're hoping these refugees can find jobs in Europe or the Middle East and send money back home so they can steal get some of it.

richardmurray Entertaining old film, thank you for this.

ProfD The question is who or what sanctioned the US government to go on a killing spree & bring about regime changes. A direct and simple answer to your question is: It's power and authority. Those who CAN often DO I'm sure there are other nations who would do the same thing IF they had the power to do so. Congress has not voted in favor of these actions. They have been briefed after the fact. True. Me and frankster had a back-n-forth about this a little while back over how much power the President actually has. Only Congress can declare war. However most people understand the President as being the Commander and Chief over the military. So whether he "declares" war or not, if he tells them to do something....even if it's unconstitutional....they feel they're duty bound to do it. The quagmire...... You're bound by law to follow the commands of an officer, but what if that officers tells you to do something illegal? And the thing about this is, most of Congress supports it...if not actively.....passively. Trump isn't doing anything that most of those in Washington don't approve of. He's just the front man. That's why he was PUT in office in the first place. He's the image that people can point to and blame for the aggressive and illicit activity being engaged in that the powers BEHIND him are pushing and have promoted for decades. There was some sort of "project for a new American century" document that came out years ago listing Cuba, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, and North Korea as countries that needed to be overthrown. They are just checking off the list. What we as AfroAmericans need to keep an eye on is making sure that we and Sub-Saharan Africa is kept safe and stable through all of this. The craziest thing is there's no huge public outcry against the US government unaliving people for power & money. They like to believe young folks have been desensitized to violence from playing video games. It could be argued that US citizens have been desensitized to death & destruction through the actions of its government & media Yes, they have been doing this for decades too. Through the video games, movies, and conspiracy books and videos. The Epstein Files is a good example of this. The fact that a lot more people aren't outraged that many world leaders and rich people have engaged in wild sex orgies and "nigga hunting" adventures on secret islands are given to the fact that so many movies and books have been put out about this over the decades that today most people can't tell fact from fiction so they don't waste energy on it. And even if there IS public outcry....what does it look like? Just people venting on the internet and yelling "wake up"???? Shit...people ARE WOKE. They BEEN awake...now what do you want them to do? A lot of people have woken up, looked around, scratched their ass, and went back to bed since it's not much they could do anyway. Gone are the days where crowds of people with pitch forks and torches will be marching up the streets to the offices of their politicians demanding answers. They don't want the smoke that comes with that. They don't want to come face to face with the big tattooed white men with beards and automatic weapons you see now a days tasked with guarding the property. When I was a kid, most law enforcement officers were relatively in shape and clean cut in uniforms and tattoos weren't allowed. Now most of them a big, bald, with long Uncle-Jesse looking beards down to their bellies, and covered in tattoo's from head to toe dressed in civilian clothes. Chev It seems to me that when it comes to Black-on-Black crime, well, very little effort from our government intervenes. That's one of the features of a police state. When most people think of a police state, they think of martial law or an oppressive system where cops on every corner making people stay in the house and threatening to kill or imprison them for so much as staying out past curfew or littering on the street. They understand it to be draconian, but as harsh as things are most people ASSUME that atleast there is little to no crime under a police state. Kind of like how you would assume that a prison or jail would be the least violent place in society since there are so many guards and so much security. But that's not how that works..... Under a real police state, crime and violence is RAMPANT. In a real police state....such as you have in many third world countries...the police are corrupt and DO NOT protect you. They only protect those in power...not the civilian citizens. But not only that....you aren't allowed to protect yourself either! In a true police state....the weapons are confiscated and banned from the public. So roves of gangs and criminals who don't care about going to jail roam around attacking people and harming them because they know the people don't have weapons to protect themselves and the police won't help them. What you see going on in the 'hood and parts of America is a similar situation. They ALLOW crime and violence to occur and let the gangs and thugs flourish, but if GOOD men get together and try to establish peace and order in the community...that's when they pull up and start quoting "the law" and telling you what you're allowed and not allowed to do. They ban people from possessing weapons in the hood. They let crazy people loose on the street to be homeless or criminal and send them to the hood. Now if you LIVE in the hood and end up harming or killing one of these fools in order to protect your family, NOW the police want to come and gaffle YOU up.

For you Bible believers out there (and you know who you are...lol), when you read about someone being called a "son of man" in the Old Testament. When you read that term in the original Hebrew or Aramaic....it literally means the "son of Adam". Why is this important? The Hebrew word for man (mature male) is "ish" The Hebrew word for humanity is "inoshut" Adam doesn't mean "man" nor does it man "humanity".....it's a SPECIFIC TYPE of person.

Black folks shouldn't die (or get killed) fighting for racist Iranians who don't give a damn about they Black ass. I'm not sure what country this dude was from, but he and other Black men both here and abroad should ask themselves which nation would THEY as Black men fair better in: The United States or Iran. In which nation could they make the most money? In which nation could they meet and or marry the woman of their choice? In which nation would they have the liberty to practice their religion however they saw fit or not practice it at all if they so chose? In which nation could they file and win a lawsuit against a job or housing for racial discrimination? I'm not saying that the strikes against Iran are justified, however I AM putting things in their proper perspective for as as AfroAmericans and as Black people in general as far as which nation would treat US better.