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Pioneer1

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  1. ProfD I know. Im saying Group A didn't have to hunt and capture Group B. Many of them were sold by their own people. True. Now let me ask you a question..... How many Europeans sold OTHER Europeans to Africans for slavery, sexual exploitation, or any other reasons? We know a lot of Europeans didn't like eachother and went to war with eachother, even enslaved eachother..... So how many SOLD eachother to Africans? Africans would beg to differ when you explain it to them. Which is why in most cases I wouldn't even BOTHER trying to explain it to them....lol. Most of the Africans I know don't even know who the Moors were. But at the end of the day, they didn't come to America to get a history lesson....they came here to make MONEY and support themselves, which I'm understanding more and more.
  2. ProfD Group A didn't capture and enslave millions of people. You might be getting your groups mixed up. Group A were the White folks, remember...lol. Africans were selling their own people into slavery. They didn't consider it low intelligence. It was a business decision. You're right, they didn't consider it low intelligence. And?? Stupid is stupid whether it's acknowledged or not. When you have outsiders coming into your nation, raping your women, burning your homes...and you will turn around and enslave your own brother and give him to those same outsiders simply because he speaks a different language than you or of a different religion -that's stupid. And the fact that he'd do the same to you doesn't justify it but makes BOTH sides dumb and easier to be taken advantage of.
  3. Some men's packages aren't big enough and they're shamed to even try to put it inside a Black snatchbox, lol.
  4. Well look at it THIS way...... How many Black folks are IN Russia and China? That should give you some idea of how they feel about us and how much they value our presence.
  5. ProfD Yeah, and I've been posting on here for over a decade....lol. I'm glad the site is still up. I consider AALBC part of my ONLINE family.
  6. Well it worked....lol. The old saying "Fool me once...shame on you...fool me twice...shame on me" comes to mind. It's one thing for Africans to be tricked ONCE by the newly arriving Europeans, but if they kept getting tricked OVER and OVER and OVER again. Different tribes getting tricked and deceived and enslaved and falling victim...over and over again. Now we have a PATTERN of being taken advantage of, when then says something about those who are constantly victimized.
  7. This is a message from the U.S. Fire Administration...... Smoke Alarms They also say the batteries should be replaced every year. The information is presented in a way that most residents who aren't disabled would find it rather simple and easy to do. Unless you are physically (or mentally) disabled, if you're seriously going to PAY someone to come out and put some batteries in your smoke alarm while you sit on the couch smoking that fake weed and scrolling through your cell phone....well...lol....
  8. Well, you, me, and the rest of the Black tribes of the U.S. certainly won't benefit by CHINA or RUSSIA taking over the planet...lol. I can tell you that much.
  9. And if I was smart and ambitious enough at that time to build something better for myself....I certainly would have.
  10. "tricked"???? Aaaahhh! Here we go! Now you got people TRICKING you. What does that say about your INTELLIGENCE when people you don't know or barely know can sail up to your shores offering you trinkets and shit and TRICK you into selling out and being enslaved????
  11. Well if Russia and China are already there, WE need to be there...and push them out. I personally DO believe that the United States should rule the world. As long as: 1. I'm a citizen of the United States and 2. There is no other nation I know of on this planet that is better for Black people to live in as of right now. In the future my mind may change, however as of right now...I want the U.S. to rule and totally support taking over Greenland if that's what it takes. Like DMX said...we'll SNATCH they asses up like change off the dresser, if we have to...lol.
  12. richardmurray Ok, thanks for educating me on this "alvino" category. ProfD Speaking of Tiger Woods and who he's dating...... I guess he's dating Donald Trump's granddaughter...lol.
  13. ProfD So now........ Doesn't that cancel any argument that claims White folks were able to conquer and dominate so much of Africa because Africans were "soooo peaceful" and just didn't believe in violence? We know this is NOT the case. So if you acknowledge that Africans could be violent and murderous and warlike also, then there must be ANOTHER reason Whites....I mean Group A....lol....were able to rule over them.
  14. Mel and ProfD I can understand hiring somebody to finish your basement, do plumbing work, or even maintain your lawn. Really, I can. But calling in someone just to come in and change some damn batteries in the smoke detector? Lol...is yall serious? Let me guess...... Before they invented those "forever" LED light bulbs....wealthy Negroes were also paying people top dollar to come in and replace their lights when they went out too?
  15. ProfD Bro, you're going to insinuate the silent generation, baby boomers and GenXers were of low intelligence. If you're indicting your grandparents and parents and your generation with low intelligence...I'll let you hold that bag to yourself. Two Points to keep in mind: 1. We're not talking about the intelligence of mere INDIVIDUALS but of GROUPS collectively. There are plenty of very smart Black people and dumb ass White people. We know that. However as a GROUP, who rules? 2. I'm not insinuating that they are of LOW intelligence. But I am saying that as a group they weren't INTELLIGENT ENOUGH to get out from under the domination of White people. They may have been smart, but the White folks who ruled over them were SMARTER. You may not agree, but I hope that clarifies the "low intelligence" insinuation. The questions are 1) why did you take such a job in the 1st place and 2) why did you work for that company and 3) why didn't you start a rival company. 1. It paid more money and offered more perks than the job I had previously held...that I was glad to have been able to go back to after resigning from that one, lol. 2. I worked for them because they paid me and it wasn't a bad place to work. 3. I didn't start a rival company because I wasn't smart enough nor driven enough to.
  16. Man you better HURRY UP and say that again...lol. Black Music is the main reason the United States is the entertainment capital of the planet. No other nation has "us" like the United States. The only other nation that comes anywhere close is Jamaica. For some reason, Reggae music sells a lot.....especially when it comes to Africans and Western Europeans. However the rest of the world isn't too hot for it. But Rap and RnB is almost Universally loved and often imitated by people all over the planet.
  17. ProfD Willingness to kill in order to conquer. But so were those in Group B. They were willing to kill OTHER groups to conquer them! Look at all of the fighting going on in Africa NOW as well as in the past. Group B was doing their own thing before the killers showed up. Yeah..lol...killing eachother. They are not barbaric people h8ll bent on taking over the world Come on man, you know about Rwanda. The way they hacked nearly a million people to death with machetes in a week! I don't know what you call that.
  18. ProfD See, I KNEW all of that interaction with richardmurray was affecting you...lol. First you started calling out the Black "tribes" of America...lol. Now you're asking the forum questions. Next you'll be doing polls and shit....talking about DOSer this and DOSer that, lol. Absolutely Greenland would be a good fit for the U.S. We could use the land, and it IS a pretty good strategic location. If there was any REAL conflict with Russia....Greenland would be a good buffer zone where you could set up enough bases and interceptors to thwart any major blows. For some reason, I thought the U.S. already had military bases in Greenland anyway.
  19. But the fact that they DIDN'T go with that alternative is a sign of......well.....lol. Some years back I got a management position where I was in charge of telling people what to do and making sure they did their job well. It came with some perks, but the problem was I couldn't discipline anyone. I couldn't fire them, couldn't send them home, couldn't even write them up. All I could do was tell some White dude and HE made the decision as to whether or not they got disciplined or what type of discipline was needed. After about 2 weeks....I resigned. There were about 5 or 6 other people who had the same position and responsibilities but they chose to stay on the job. Some of them got beat up (literally...one got his ass kicked UP 2 flight of stairs...lol), cussed out, threatened, fired by THEIR bosses for the performance of those under them, and the few that remained would often tell me how smart I was to have just left instead of taking a fucked up job like that where the workers didn't like you and the higher management didn't respect you. But I already knew. It didn't take me long to figure out the consequences that come with taking a job like that where you're pissing off people but have no power over them. My point? If you KNOW what the problem is and the solution is...implement it. Don't stay in the same position for years and years and decades and decades complaining. Get up and DO something! Make a move! That's a sign of intelligence.
  20. ProfD I don't know if that makes white folks more intelligent but they are willing to have paradise on earth rather than wait for it in the afterlife. As a kid and younger adult, I used to wonder about this myself. Despite what they SAY publicly and even teach in schools.... I knew most White people had enough sense to believe in THE SUPREME BEING and an Afterlife. They KNOW it exists, and they've known this since they've been around. So why would they engage in such evilness and debauchery around the planet and kill and enslave people to such an extent? Aren't they afraid of going to Hell? These are questions a person must ask when they look at the behavior of White people. I've come to two conclusions that makes sense to me: 1. There likely is NOT a lake of fire waiting for evil and wicked people to be tossed into like a lot of Christians were raised to believe; and most White people aren't worried about it because they know it's a lie anyway. Atheist White folks surely aren't worried about it. 2. As I've said time and time again and I'm sure you (ProfD) will disagree but just because White folks are ruling the world through violence and oppression...doesn't mean they have a monopoly on it. There are plenty of ruthless bloodthirsty Black and Indian rulers who slaughtered other Africans and Native Americans wholesale BEFORE the Europeans showed up and started doing it. Just because White folks were SMARTER in how them practiced their violence....meaning they focused their violence on people of color and ruling over THEM instead of eachother....doesn't mean they are MORE violent and evil. It's simply just another sign that they're smarter. Some of the Black and Indian rulers would probably have done the same thing the White man did to their people if some of them had enough sense to develop the technology to do it. But you don't get too many brownie points from me for not being as violent as the next man just because you're too stupid to be. The INTENT is there even if the INTELLIGENCE isn't. A man walks into a bank with a damn SLING SHOT and tries to rob it and ends up getting shot by a security guard with a real gun AND goes to jail. He doesn't get any points or credit for being stupid. That's HIS problem. He STILL get's shot and STILL ends up getting locked anyway....because of his malicious intentions.
  21. ProfD Group A used 400 years of conditioning to subjugate Group B in the form of mental and physical abuse i.e. slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynchings, bombings, redlining, etc. Ok, let's go BACK to 400 or 500 years ago. 500 years ago you have Group A and Group B. Why was Group A even in POSITION to condition and subjugate Group B in the first place? Presumably neither group came into contact with eachother. Both living their separate lives. Now Group A finds Group B and starts oppressing them. Well WAIT A MINUTE..... What kind of state/condition was Group B in that they allowed another group who presumably was not as smart or atleast not smartER -to slide on in and take advantage of them? Very few people are willing to die for their freedom from oppression. I wouldn't consider their fear of dying as a sign of low intelligence. You don't have to die, if you're smart enough to come up with the technology that will DEFEAT your opponent/enemy. Death isn't necessary....VICTORY is. You have a whole continent with every resource on the planet available there. Who's stopping them from mining it and developing some "vibranium" to take over the world with?
  22. ProfD If I'm wrong, I stand to be corrected...lol. I don't know a WHOLE LOT of upper middle class and rich Black people, but I do know some....who've gotten their wealth by various means. Most of the ones I personally know....especially the men...would rather take care of minor household issues themselves. But the ones I know are only a fraction of the wealthy Black people in the United States, so.......
  23. ProfD Just one more reason as to why we need OUR OWN hospitals, doctors, and research centers. We can't rely on White people and those educated by them to heal the problems so many of our people face. If we want to cure these diseases, WE need to figure out a way to do it ourselves. Cancer should have BEEN cured. Diabetes should have BEEN cured. Autism should have BEEN cured. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say..... I'm willing to bet that if a group of AfroAmericans got together and said point blank that we're going to build our own research centers, study these diseases, and develop OUR OWN medicines and technology to cure them instead of sitting around waiting on a bunch of White and Asian folks in glasses and white coats to do it for us....I don't think they (Caucasians) would stop us. Maybe a few of them may try, but at this point...I don't think they would. I'd bet MONEY that they wouldn't stop us. Infact, so many White folks are angry and tired of THEIR OWN system at this point and are ready for something new, THEY'D probably be the first ones in front standing in the way to defend us...lol.
  24. ProfD The *why* is because most Black folks have been conditioned to accept the system of racism white supremacy. Can Group A "condition" Group B to accept something detrimental to their well being, even if Group B is just as smart or smarter than Group A?
  25. Mel Welcome back! Long time no read....lol. Black People, Wealth, and Home Maintenance Pioneer’s observation overlooks the possibility that Black, single, or married individuals with financial means are more likely to pay someone to handle maintenance tasks, including changing smoke alarm batteries. Are you sure about that? I'm not sure about most of the men down there in "Wakanda"....lol....but in the rest of the United States for the most part even if they have a little money, most Middle Class and even most Wealthy Black MEN aren't going to want to pay somebody hundreds or thousands of dollars to do something that they can easily do themselves and a lot cheaper. Most educated and professional Black men have a "man code" they live by that tells them certain things are a "Man's job". Infact, that "do it yourself if you can" mentality is how a lot of Black people of financial means ARRIVED there in the first place. By not spending money unless it's necessary.

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