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Pioneer1

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  1. ......if I did, would you like to know exactly WHERE I'd shove it?
  2. If there's no telling....then why are YOU telling it? Leave the guess work and speculation alone. You should focus only on what you actually KNOW. But then again....lol...we'd probably only hear from you once a week.
  3. aka Coniving Is that the BEST you could come up with???
  4. Better not. Not with Trump in office...lol. "Hey...guess what...if she wants to go, I say let her go. If she can't afford to, we'll pay for her ticket. But one way only.....not round trip."
  5. Haunting 911 call reveals new clue in search for missing UFO-linked Air Force general Haunting 911 call reveals new clue in search for missing UFO-linked Air Force general It appears that the plot has thickened..............
  6. What an ignorant and racist opinion and depiction of Africa. You've probably never set food on the continent, but want to call it a land of snakes and insects. An image you've undoubtedly gotten from your slave masters...lol.
  7. Obviously, it literally PAYS to be rich. Rehab = enjoy his drugs and women without the media around to report his every move.
  8. "This is the jive-ass nigga who wants to lecture me about America, and how grateful I should be to live here. A blatant example of someone who should never be taken seriously."
  9. It was just a suggestion....lol.....think over it. Who said anything about you living in poverty? We'll keep the SS checks, but atleast you'll still get your pension to pinch off of!
  10. ProfD Somebody needs to tell YOUR beloved Cynique....that if she doesn't like America....nobody is making her stay here. Somebody needs to tell her that if this nation is so terrible, she can sign her social security checks over to AALBC Inc., pack her bags, and search for the promise land....lol.
  11. frankster But I do... I know. And your lack of support for improving the self esteem of our future generations is beyond sad, it's pitiful. With a focus on "medium"....that is just pure fork tongue double speak No, what that is is called "poor comprehension skills" on your part. When you're confused, sensible things often don't make sense. I see you... But that's the problem. You don't really see me....lol...it's the substance you're smoking. Instead of reading my words properly, you're seeing visions and images of people. A win is a win....whether you like it or not. What I'd "like" is for you to have a proper understanding of what the word "win" means. Perhaps you'll use that link to the dictionary that you provided and look the word up and see how THAT definition differs from YOUR understanding of it. That is an investment whose returns are often not as immediate and direct as money would like.....but if he or she lives in this society - then it not a lost. The lottery money goes to ward many socially goods and services. Social services are not "wins"....they are BENEFITS. Being compensated is a win... Being compensated isn't a win, because there was no contest. A win is only in the context of a contest. Compensation is just being paid for the effort you put in or having a wrong made right. If you did not see....then I cannot show you. And if I didn't say it in the first place, you can't show me either. cool....i am wasting your time You're not wasting my time. I find you and your conversation quite entertaining at times....lol. I no longer wish to waste anymore of your time....on this topic - as you will not accept the information from me No I accept information from you. I just file much of it away into a particular category, lol. If you are going to deny what you obviously posted....And I quoted for you - then there is no use in continuing I'm not denying what you quoted of me. I'm denying what you ACCUSED me of saying....which you couldn't find a quote of....that I promoted medium brown over Black and dark skinned. There you go...I knew you could not comprehend deep complex conversation.. Somewhere in some institution, there is a patient in a padded room who says the same thing. Thanks for the admission It's not an "admission" because no guilt was implied. It's simply an assertion. Choice and Preference is different from denial of promotion based on shade.... True, however I do want to be clear that when I say I wouldn't "promote" her....I'm not talking about promotion as in a raise in pay or a better job, I mean promotion in terms of holding her as a standard or advertising her as ideal. I think we agree that the current white American way of evaluating beauty ....is wrong and bad for Black African women of all shades - thats bad and wrong. We do I have already answerd your question as to how to arrive at equity without depriving anyone.....10 to one side and 5 to the other But that's not how YOU'D fix the problem with colorism. Essentially you want to do the equivalent of adding 10 on both sides. I recall you saying focus on medium... Then you need TOTAL Recall, because you're only recalling about a third of the message...lol. No it did not.... Well if that's the case, then who else was talking about human evolution from lower animals BEFORE White folks started doing so? Then maybe you should. No thank you. As long as I'm IN this Reality, I like being able to FOCUS on this Reality. You can deny all you want....the truth is there in print. Yes. And you should not only read it but try your best to comprehend WHAT you read, lol. Like I said you not proposing change.....just shifting who is discriminated against Well, isn't THAT a change? Who's side are you on....the oppressor or the oppressed? Who's side are you on....the victimizer or the victim? You're talking like you'd rather things remain the way they are and have been for hundreds of years RATHER than see the Black community be on top, out of fear that it may harm one little hair of the chinny chin chin of some White person.
  12. Troy I thought I actually DID address it some time ago, lol. Just like they tried to use lighter and lighter skinned and mixed race artists (like Paula Abdul and Mariah Carey) to replace Black artists in the music industry.....they are attempting to do the same in the sports industry by sending these White women after Black athletes to produce lighter and Whiter children with the same athletic gifts and talents. Remember the movie "Get Out" where the White girl was sitting in bed deciding which Black man she was going to go after next? On her back wall she had all kinds of poster of Black basketball players and other Black men she was planning to target....lol. They say that these brutha start making money and CHOOSE White women, but in reality....a lot of the time White girls are SENT to these Black men and choose on them hard as if to push away any Black female competition.
  13. Cynique White people don't need a pass to say "nigger". In my neighborhood they did. And they rarely if ever GOT that pass....lol. Nobody but you gives any weight to what an air head celebrity who happens to be light skinned says. She was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention. That's a pretty big honor and it allowed her to speak on the world stage. Troy She has a tattoo on her face. Why should we care about anything? She has to say… seriously? Because of her influence. A lot of younger AfroAmerican females who don't know any better see her as a role model and seek to emulate her. Which may include her political views. Which makes people like her and Nicki Minaj good tools to be used. It’s a word anybody’s free to use it. Back when I was growing up White folks were AFRAID to see it either way....nigger OR nigga....lol. The only time we heard White folks saying that was on television or in the movies, never in real life. Sometime in the mid or late 90s I started hearing more and more White boys say it in the form of repeating rap lyrics. If it wasn’t for those two groups, one would probably really if ever hear the word in public. Man, how you gonna be from Harlem and claim comedians and rap artists started the trend??? You know Black folks around the nation...especially in Harlem and other urban areas....were calling eachother that LIBERALLY as far back as the 30s if not further. They said Martin Luther King used to say it on the regular.
  14. Well the TRUTH is the TRUTH, regardless as to who it is directed towards. Unless it's ABOUT them personally, the truth itself doesn't cease to be or change depending on who is being told it....lol.
  15. Mel "Between nine and fifteen thousand years ago, scholars believe that a land bridge existed between Asia and North America that we now call Beringia. The first inhabitants of what would be named the Americas migrated across this bridge in search of food. When the glaciers melted, water engulfed Beringia, and the Bering Strait was formed." ( Mack 1.1) We just walked on over to the Americas. There were Black people here before Columbus It was easy to migrate to the Americas While this is a probability for how Black people arrived in the Americas in the distant past, we actually have more recent examples of how Black people arrived in the Americas before Columbus. A prime example would be Mansa Musa's brother Mansa Abu Bakr 2. I'm sure you've heard of Mansa Musa, the king of the Ghana kingdom and at one time the world's richest man. He had a brother....Mansa Abu Bakr II......who built ships and actually led an expedition of men to the Americas back in 1311. Over 100 years before Columbus! The First African Voyage To The Americas, a story - African American Registry Exploration Mysteries: An Early African Voyage to the Americas? » Explorersweb African King, Mansa Abubakari II Discovered America in 1312, 180 Years Before Columbus – The Savannah Tribune It's been said that the large stone sculptures of helmeted heads that are clearly of African descent found down on the coasts of Central America are tributes to Mansa Abu Bakr II and his men. heck most indigenous people and Hawaiians were Black first.. Facts. That was before the Asians started arriving and mixing in with the native population. Here are some pictures of the last Queen of Hawaii. TELL ME if she doesn't look like a sister Anita Baker never knew she had....lol. As far as your video..... While "Black Caucasian" is an oxymoron.....lol....just like the Hawaiians were originally Black but became mixed with Asians, this appears to be the case all over the Pacific Island from Polynesia to Melanesia to the Somoan and Fiji islands. Islands full of dark and Black people with an Asian admixture. ProfD Gotcha! I knew something strange was happening....lol. Reminds me of that movie "Who Cloned Tyrone"....where no matter what he did or went through....the next day looked the same as the day before, lol.
  16. Now Toure is giving White people a pass to say "nigger". And again, he's called "Black" but when I do research of him he's of questionable racial background. Is wife doesn't look Black at all, to me.
  17. Ok, I guess I'm not the on one....lol. I KNOW I posted a bunch of shit a couple nights ago in several threads and didn't see any of them. Troy So in other words, you changed addresses but the mail didn't get forwarded....lol.
  18. I believe millions of immigrants BOTH legal and illegal should be deported AND there should be an immediate HOLD on all immigration for a period of time until the millions of immigrants already in the nation are properly assimilated and to be sure we have ENOUGH RESOURCES to bring more in without being a burden on the system. How are you going to adopt MORE children when you aren't even taking care of your own little rug-rats who are running around the neighborhood eating out of garbage cans??? Cynique I'm not a particularly patriotic person, and I'm always amused at how black people can chronically complain about racism, and express so little regard for their white countrymen yet so resolutely declare their love for this country. Because it's OUR country. Just because you have racists and no good people IN the country, doesn't mean the country itself is terrible. If you have roaches or termites in your house, do you condemn the house and leave it and let the roaches and termites take over? Or do you treat the problem as best you can and continue to dwell in the house you built or paid for? ProfD That's RIGHT. You tell her!
  19. It ain't too late to turn a new leaf, and start over again. Do you need help? Do you need guidance? Do you need someone to show you where to start?
  20. Cynique.........which one of THEM gave White people a pass to say "nigger/nigga"????
  21. 🤔....is Go Daddy gone yet? Mel I'm assuming this stands for "Foundational Black Americans" and ADOS American Descendants of Slaves? Correct What is the difference? Pretty much the same ideology that focuses on us as Black Americans having a separate and distinct identity and culture from other Blacks in the Diaspora. Yvette Carnell who is a staunch proponent of Reparations started the ADOS movement to establish a separate identity for us as Black Americans separate from Africans and West Indians so that IF and WHEN we do get Reparations, supposedly they'd only go to US and not other Black people who didn't descent from U.S. slavery specifically. The FBA movement was started by Tariq Nasheed because he liked the idea of AfroAmericans having our own separate identity and promoting our culture, but he did NOT like Yvette Carnell and didn't want to join HER organization....lol. So he started his own. Both groups are similar but many of those in the FBA movement don't believe that they or most Black Americans descended from slavery. They believe most of us descended from Black people who were already here in the Americans. Many of them don't recognize any ties to Africa what so ever. So I'm not sure how that will work in favor of their argument for Reparations. Many of the followers of both groups are so ignorant, they don't realize that most Caribbeans and Black South Americans also descended from slavery. The fact is, there were many Black people already here through out the Americas for hundreds if not thousands of years before Columbus. While that is true, the vast majority of us are descended from the Black people who were brought her from Africa during the Middle Passage. So both sides are correct. I guess it depends which history one wants to put the most weight on. But like I said, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If a Black American wants to hold on to the claim that they didn't descend from slaves and have no connections to Africa, then they won't be entitled to any Reparations money or benefits.
  22. ProfD Well, now that he's dating Vanessa Trump.....Don Jr.'s ex-wife.....this DUI accident may be the LEAST of his worries, lol.
  23. Mel Now wait a minute...... I wasn't ready for all of THAT.....shit, lol. Some women can live a lifetime alone and men can't imagine a life without someone in it. Facts. I noticed pretty early on, either as a teenager or my very early 20s......that psychologically speaking, men need women far more than women need men, lol. I've been to many parties and clubs and I've routinely seen groups of women sitting a table with no men around laughing and having a good time or on the floor dancing with eachother partying it up. "Ooooo........go on girl." "Yall is crazy.....I can't take yall nowhere!" I have YET to see a group of men at a club or party all crowded together dancing with eachother oblivious to the women in the area. But then again....I've never been to a gay club. Maybe that's normal there.....lol.
  24. Avid Trumper Amber Rose believes white people should be able to say N-word "White people should be able to say n***a," Rose said point-blank. However, Rose expanded upon her controversial take. She reasoned that if white people were allowed to say the word, it would lessen its dark history and impact. "Because when you really stop giving a f*** about stupid, dumbass words, we'll stop killing each other," she argued." Avid Trumper Amber Rose believes white people should be able to say N-word See! This is what happens when you let EVERY-fucking-body run around calling themselves "Black" and identify as "Black". This mixed.....very light...nearly white...whatever background she is....was allowed into our community and accepted as "Black" by most of us, and now she's wrecking shop from the inside out. Why am I NOT surprised that someone who looks nearly White herself not only supports Trump, but doesn't have a problem with White people saying "nigger/nigga"?

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