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ProfD Pardon the ignorance....... I know you said it would be unethical, but would accepting a plane gifted by a foreign nation actually be ILLEGAL?

My point was that there are those in the media trying to deceive and confuse the public by showing old news stories over and over again as if they're fresh and happened a few hours ago. This also sows seeds of fear into the population because they experience those little "micro" traumas over and over again when they hear the same bad news being repeated.

Congress indulges in insider trading???? I thought this was common knowledge. How can people rub elbows with, have regular meetings with, and go to parties with business owners and corporation executives and NOT use that to their advantage? You have a good friend who's an executive at Tesla and she just told you that the corporation is going belly up and the bottom is about to fall out any month now. You'd be a FOOL to simply "ignore" that information and not act on it.

frankster They are a two groups of people each sharing their own characteristic and or beliefs..... this fulfills the requirement of meaning #4 My new question is are politicians as a group a race? Lol... Why are you asking a question that YOU apparently have already answered? So you are saying that now white skinned blue eyed blonde haired child is still of the Black Race? No, that's not what I'm saying. So if that child of black parents then marries a woman with albinism....and has a child They don't need to "get married" to have a child, you know. Just FYI....lol. and has a child with albinism is that child now of the white race? No, because albinism is a DEFECT. Races aren't a result of defectiveness. Please show were I said I did not accept Race as a Social Construct....? You said: I also do not accept the idea of races That INCLUDED all the various categories and modes, lol. If you would have made that distinction from the beginning, you would have had a case. But you didn't...so you don't. Social Construct are ideas and beliefs that people can agree to or believe.....I choose not to agree to it AGREEMENT and ACCEPTANCE are two separate concepts. You can accept something that you don't agree with. A man can ACCEPT that his wife left him, without agreeing with her action. You said you didn't ACCEPT it. It wasn't actual or real as far as you were concerned, although the dictionary proves that it absolutely is. I gave you my definition....race is a social construct Problem is, you aren't in a position to make official definitions. YOUR definition may be erroneous and not based on facts and logic but based on emotion and wishful thinking. You are the one who did not read the full definition provided in your own link I didn't need to. You claimed that you didn't accept the idea of races and I wanted to show you that you were in error so all I HAD to do was present a definition clearly defining races as categories for people....and my job was done. Accept your error and move on. It would not suffice....cause the dictionary no longer supports Human Races as Biology(genetics) Wrong again Check out the 3rd definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/race

I know Puffy is world famous, but my question is.....why is his trial and nearly every detail of it making HEADLINES in the U.S. media? That's really rhetorical because I know why. For the same reason Shannon Sharpe's case is getting so much attention. A great opportunity for the racists in the media to portray Black men in a negative light and portray them as sexual predators, perverts, and deviants. This may sound like a silly question but..... 1. Growing up I heard that Black men were the most masculine and many say actually the physically sexiest men of all the races. 2. Growing up and even today I've heard that women are attracted to men with wealth and power. So...why are so many men who have BOTH....Black and wealthy and powerful...having so many problems with sex and women???? Why aren't women throwing themselves as these men left and right? I'm not joking.... I REALLY believe that actions like THIS -desperate attempts by racists in the media to portray Black men as negatively as they can- is designed TO scare women away from what they would naturally find overwhelmingly attractive.

frankster Meaning number 4 from the link you so graciously provided states the following where in even one membership in a specific profession can be categories as a race French and Spanish aren't professions, they are cultures/languages, but since you introduced THAT definition to the discussion the question still remains: What...in your opinion...would qualify French and Spanish as being 2 separate races? Yes....So when black parents birth an albino....is that child of the "white Race"? No, because albinism is a DEFECT. THEY may be White but they don't come from a White ancestry. Yes....that is the definition of race as a Social Construct... The definition of a Social Construct you said you didn't accept: But you want to call OTHERS "confused"...lol. Race is not a biological fact ... Physical traits shared by people of common ancestry is a matter of GENETICS...i.e.....BIOLOGY. but it is a Social fact 🤔 But you said on Sunday at 12:20 PM: How can an idea that you "don't accept" now be a "social fact"? Are you confused? Is it the sticky green? Eugenists tried and failed to prove race genetically.... Maybe they were trying TOO hard....lol. If THAT'S all they were trying to do, maybe they should have just grabbed the nearest dictionary....

Judging by your comments, I'm not sure if you and Troy fully grasp the point I'm making in this thread....lol. ProfD Spain losing power doesn't warrant immediate coverage to the white media. Spain....like England, Canada, or France....is a major Western nation. If an entire major Western nation LOSES POWER....I think that's pretty news worthy, lol. Imagine if all of Canada went black tonight. Would the latest draft pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves be more important?

I have an idea, but I'm not at liberty to share it...lol. 🤔 Or have they? They say nothing in this modern world is "invented"....only "revealed". Meaning, all the technology they NOW possess...including airplanes, electricity, and the internet...has not only existed for THOUSANDS of years but also has been in constant USE by the elite rulers of this world. What we THINK are inventions, discoveries, and progress in knowledge is just those elites allowing bits and pieces of knowledge and technology to inch out from time to time.

1. NATO is already in his backyard, lol. NATO is about as far from Russia as New York is from Maryland. 2. Russia could barely handle TURKEY alone in a conflict...let alone NATO forces combined, and they know it. But I do think they could have BEEN won the war in Ukraine if they were serious about it. They could have won it inside of a year. I don't know what the plan is, but clearly Russia isn't trying to win that war because if they were...they wouldn't have let Ukraine progress so far as to make strikes inside Russia proper. If Russia was sincere they would have nuked Ukraine by now for some shit like that, lol. It's being prolonged for some reason.

I believe many of the young Black and Latino Democrats....especially at the local level...are sincere. They don't like the greed, corruption, and cruel callousness they see being inflicted on the American people. They don't like the homelessness, the poor working conditions, the crime, the police brutality, etc....and they sincerely want to change this. They KNOW the Republicans aren't going to do shit about it so their only hope is the Democrat Party and they join hoping to have as much of a positive impact as they can. These are the young Black and Latino Democrats at the local city/county level. But the White Democrats, especially the ones at the state and national levels like Congress KNOW what's up. They KNOW they are part of the system and they know that if they don't tow the line and go along with the agenda: 1. They may end up being "deleted" and 2. Replaced with someone who WILL go along with the agenda It's like the neighborhood drug dealer. He recons that what he's doing is bad, but if HE doesn't do it somebody else is just going to come along and do it anyway so HE may as well be the one to make the money.

The quick and honest answer from me is: I actually don't know. I COULD end it right there....lol. However I can speculate............... I believe the planet goes through CYCLES of 25,000 years where global civilizations are constantly reborn and dying and reborn. Different groups start off primitive and progress through time at different rates, some overtaking others. At the end of 25,000 years a major cataclysm occurs and starts things over again.

Mel The Greeks learned from the Africans, not vice versa/ Kemet Mysteries Schools come from us, as does the tradition of a tiered learning system. These are facts I alluded to in the "Blue Origin Space Flight" thread when I said that WE started those organizations for them. To keep it real.... I don't believe we start the current academic fraternities and sororities common on most PWU campuses...but the OLDEST secret societies in Western Civilization that go back to ancient Greece and beyond actually came from Africa. We started them to civilize and educated a FEW of them so that those few could civilize the others to various degrees. .....oh if people only knew the TRUE meaning behind "crossing the burning sands", lol. Although it is unspoken, the Greek lettering became associated with learning and academia for this reason. This is also the reason professions like law and medicine in Western Civilization is "practiced" in and preserve much of their knowledge in Greek and Latin regardless of the nation it's practiced in. Latin came out of Greek and we know the Greeks got their letters/alphabets from the Canaanites (Phoenicians), an Egyptian colony. Because of the Western attempt to erase all of what we have given civilization, the Divine Nine, keeping with tradition, just went along with the established system of using Greek lettering, is my guess. It's kind of like how we use the Arabic numeral system. Black "greek" academic organizations started for 2 major reasons: 1. Like White Fraternities/Sororities. They are elementary organizations designed to "test your metal" so to speak and find out how well you can respect authority, keep secrets, and go along with the "program". If you show promise at the collegiate level, then you graduate to more professional organizations like the Sigma Pi Phi. 2. The poor and uneducated Black America population imitated the White Masons by forming the Prince Hall masons as way of establishing unity and brotherhood among themselves for social help, so in that regard they actually PRE-DATED the Divine Nine! But the more well off educated Black professionals didn't want to join their poor and "ignorant" brethren so they formed their own professional organizations with higher standards for membership and later on formed Black fraternities and sororities in college....similar to the White ones as you said...to prepare the youth for those more professional ones. I don't know why everyone agreed to use those numbers, but we know Africans were the first to develop maths. -> Ofcourse. And the ancients had FAR more advanced mathematics than what the West has today. The West only has a FRACTION of what the ancients used to build the pyramids and other monuments and civilizations around the globe. The Africans were the masters. When Western doctors and lawyers say they merely PRACTICE medicine and law, they know what they're saying....because they know who the MASTERS are...lol.

Trump allegedly won by pretty wide margins, but perhaps VP Harris' sorority sisters and other supporters should have KEPT those reservations and change their plans from a victory celebration to a "stop the steal" rally and organize to protest, demanding recounts, and investigate claims of voter suppression ....lol. What would they have had to lose? One of my biggest issues with the Democrat Party is their refusal to actually fight. They just silently accepted defeat, no questions asked and move on.

You can say that about MOST wars. Russia and the Ukraine are beefing with eachother over a very similar situation. Instead of Kashmir, you have Crimea.

Troy How soon after the event would have been acceptable to you? Seeing as how the event lasted 23 hours, in this internet age where information can be shared at the speed of light...it's not a question of how soon "after" the event. A competent and reputable news source should be able to report an event like that within 2 hours of it's occurrence WHILE it's occurring.

frankster Yes....with roots in biology What part of culture, heritage, or history is rooted in biology? Why are they not two different races? Since race is primarily based on PHYSICAL TRAITS, what PHYSICAL TRAITS differ between the French and Spanish that would qualify them as 2 different races? how Because eye color and hair color...if natural...are PHYSICAL TRAITS that can be passed down genetically and shared by the same group of people. The very definition of race. Troy This flawed belief is what is confusing you. Since they clearly see different races as a REALITY and have defined it, are those who compiled this dictionary "confused" as well? do you realize there are more genetic differences between people within a so-called race than between them? I'm not sure but here's the definition of Race according to the dictionary: Race is a FACT and it's clearly defined.

I didn't read too much into this story but I was hoping...HOPING...that it wasn't a Black man. Yet once again....... What's up with some of these silly ass niggaz, man??? Did they learn ANYTHING watching what happened with Congressman Al Greene or Rev. Barber??? Haven't they learned YET that the Democratic Establishment won't have their backs when they pull stunts like this? If they haven't even learned THAT yet, they aren't ready for the next level which is pulling a gangsta move like Mayor Adams did in New York. And in a way it's embarrassing to see Black politicians fight for illegal immigrants who probably don't give a damn about their ass in the first place and are probably more racist towards Black folks than the White cops putting cuffs on him.

frankster Malicious is always harmful and as such it is also violent... I believe I asked you before, what "harm" does a MALICIOUS THOUGHT do? Thanks for the admission.....running in circles is what you are good at If you see me running IN CIRCLES, it's just me trying to follow your CIRCULAR logic...lol. But does not implies....it contrast It does BOTH. Implying and contrasting don't contradict eachother. They're just separate concepts. Again, "but" usually implies "at same time" unless a time differentiation is made. which is how I read it and answered accordingly How can you read something that didn't exist? "I'm going to be" was NOT in the sentence I gave. The sentence was plain and clear: I'm home but I'm busy The only time "I'm going to be" was introduced was when YOU introduced it. I gave you my answer which is and was direct and to the point. Yeah...but the problem is....NO QUESTION WAS ASKED OF YOU. I merely gave you an example of how "but" is used to imply 2 actions occurring simultaneously. Than most of the rest of the world.. Ok. Then you're deluded. I never said that nor did I even allude to it. It's a strawman argument that YOU'VE constructed to fight with in order to TRY and redeem yourself, lol.

What about children raised by single mothers who give their mothers gifts on both Mother's Day AND Father's Day? I was fortunate to have BOTH of my Parents....wonderful Parents...so that wasn't an issue for me. However I knew a lot of cats who didn't have fathers growing up and a few of them actually celebrated Father's Day with their mothers.

ProfD Ask them what they're fighting and dying for and wait for the *dumb* answers. I'm not 100% sure but I believe they're fighting over a region called Kashmir that lays right between India and Pakistan. I've heard rumors about that land. I've heard the claim that Jesus is actually buried there. So much for legends.

On a more serious note.... Happy Mother's Day not only to Cynique but all the mothers on this board and especially @Mel Hopkins considering her recent loss. Having said that, what does it say about a society where you need a special day to recognize mothers? What about the other 364 days of the year? Do you really need a special day to tell your mother you love her, take her to dinner, buy her flowers, etc...?

Speaking of adages and cliches, why does the saying "does the curtains match the carpet?" come to mind when looking at that picture? 🤔

I understand. A "social construct" is simply something society constructed as it's basic meaning.

This came up on my feed a few hours ago...... Spain Loses All Power for 23 Hours | Watch Correct me if I'm wrong but this power outage in Spain and Portugal happened WEEKS ago. So why are they reporting this like it just happened today? As if it's breaking news? I've been noticing this lately. Events that happened days ago and even weeks ago are just repeated over and over again as if they're "breaking" news stories. Reporting major Earthquakes that happened weeks ago as if it just happened minutes ago. Talk about causing confusion...... The ceasefire between India and Pakistan was announced days ago. But this morning I'm reading a "breaking" story about missiles being launched from Pakistan and hitting targets in India. ...only to find out this was an OLD news story from days back but was posted on the front page with the other "current" news. People often talk about the 24 hour news cycle and how they repeat the same news over and over again just to fill up time slots, but now they're starting to do it for WEEKS at a time.

frankster If maliciousness is always harmful then it must also always be violent But you're wrong because according to the definition, it's often times NEITHER. Maliciousness is often a DESIRE or INTENT, not an action. A DESIRE or INTENT isn't violent. Or maybe you are trying to squirm twist and turn out of a situation yo find your self in Why should I? I love being in the DRIVER'S SEAT as I run circles around you, lol. Do you deny saying the above quote... Ofcourse not. Do you deny the TRUTH of that quote? What area did YOU grow up in where Black people didn't form groups to attack eachother be it verbally, physically, or even for entertainment? No it clearly means became violent to me. Well your understanding is erroneous. "but" implies AT THE SAME TIME. Most people understand this. I am at home but I am going to be busy... That is how I read it That's how you READ it because that's how you JUST WROTE it. You CHANGED the premises when you ADDED "I am going to be"...which is future tense. Ofcourse the times are difference because "I am home" speaks of the present while "I am going to be busy" speaks of what will happen LATER ON in the future. That's not the original sentence; you altered it. I AM home but I AM busy. ....not later on sometime after dinner, but NOW. And I see you for trying to make out Africans as being more Violent. More violent than who?