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This text is worth reading for people uninformed or misled about Eygpt, Western Civilization, and their respective contributions Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder

My last post was riddled with typos. Including the post you quoted @richardmurray, but i think you got the gist. Cleopatra never called herself black or white. No one really knows exactly how she presented phenotypically. Has Hawass, (who I heard lecture once, at Goldman, where everyone was given a massive coffee take book he created), ever sued the producers of movies who depicted Jesus the Christ as blond-haired and blue-eyed, where we do know a man of his time and place could not have been.

You can expose their hypocrisy. Which may not change them, but will help those with an open minds see them for what they are. Again Fransters comments were valuable .

yeah that is what i thought too 🙂 I agree they do conservatism a disservice, but they are feed racists, xenophobes, etc, so it is good to hear what they are saying from time to time.

I think Arabs know that Egypt was Black for thousands of years. By the time Cleopatra came around Egypt was a very old civilization, long past it’s prime. The people who rule American today look nothing like the people who ran this land mass just a few centuries ago. Filling a lawsuit does smell racist.

WTF?! You use this guy talking to? If anyone diggs up the entire video please share it.

That does not seem like a good look for a Black Black church. Surely there are other businesses they can get into… not sure why that would bring more Black men into the church… unless they plan on dispensing free weed. I’m a baby boomer, and times, they are-a-changing, so wadda I know. The youngins are taking the reins blind to the past and irrationally hopefully for the future.

Side bar: someone i know describes me as light skinned. I actually take offense to the comment and argued the point the first time they mentioned it. Over time they’ve continued to describe me as such, i no longer concert then a “friend.” Am I light skinned? Have i been in denial all my life? @Pioneer1 in the video Rock make the point that you wanna know how people really feel. Which amplifies my point about listening to racists. Don’t you ever listen to Fox News? 🙂

@Pioneer1, ok put aside everything that we said. Here is something else to consider: It is good to understand how people you disagree with think, wouldn’t you agree? For example we can just reject trump supporters as being dumb, racist, or both, but if we fail to understand their motivation we never understand how to address it. i think empathy is important. That is not to say that i have the skills to use my understand to change someone’s mind — i can even get you to accept the fact there is only one human race— but understanding and empathy is important if we are ever to survive and avoid an apocalypse.

No positive posts, which would help create some balance, don’t g set much traction on social. i guess everyone gets something different out of this post. It seemed like it was staged. It brought to mind sadomasochism. It concerns me that it would bring out the worst in the racists in our community, Nothing in the video felt like atoning to me. I don’t need or want that. The government is needss to start writing checks.

This is what is on Twitter huh? i wonder if Twitter’s algorithm shows this clip more to white racists, racist leaning, and those who could be easily converted to be racist to increase engagement by inciting people? Otherwise what I’d the purpose of this video; Is this supposed be be entertaining or informative. obviously this is not representative of typical behavior. but dumb people will look at this and think a trace war is eminent and start preparing for one.

Yeah @ProfD’s “brotha goes into the paint" made me smile too. You all add something to the conversation. Also intellect should be shared it is like love; the more you give away the more you end up having 🙂

Some racist were raised that way. They get older, educated and change their racist ways. I was racist, homophonic, and sexist when i was younger but i learned over the years and think differently now. but again people like me learn from the way Frank responds to the racist. I was not inclined to respond either but am glad frankster did.

You are looking at it the wrong way man. Sure @frankster brilliant replies are almost certainly a waste of time for @Goldsteinberger and their ilk, but Fransters replies benefit many others -- including myself. This particular conversation is viewed more than 100K times -- 1,000 times a day over the past 7 days! It is the most popular conversation on the site right now and the second most popular over the past 12 months. That does not mean everyone is reading every comment, but it is likely 10s of thousands of people are benefiting from Frank's words. This is actually a really good thing.

Times have definitely changed it did not take much for you to be considered gay back in the day. Shoot if someone caught you crying, for any reason, you must be a fag! If you wanted to try double dutch you must be gay -- crazy LOL! Well, I'm not into sports, other than betting and participating (I still do century bike rides). I cook and like to dance too. I also try to stay fit, so I'm not sure the cloth is that different, maybe it is just the environment.

Thank you once again @frankster!

I don't think it really means anything either, but it is interesting. The extent to which white folks had to hide their African ancestry. Most white people who have been on this land mass for more than a few centuries have Black ancestry, as do Black people with the same tenure have white ancestry. There are at least six American presidents with Black ancestry, Barack Obama, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Of course, most of these men would have done everything in their power to hide any evidence of Black ancestry. J.A. Rodgers published a 22-page book The Five Negro Presidents, in which he provides evidence. Rodgers, for obvious reasons, has been marginalized.

This will probably make little difference and be used as evidence that the woke left wing is out to destroy good ole fashioned white American gun-toting Christian values. Fox should be legally prevented from calling themselves a news ut let the are a propaganda machine driven to maximize revenue, they don;t care about relating the truth. I understand there are more lawsuits pending.

It depends on the woman 🙂 Seriously, it also depends upon the culture and the period. Here in America, were men wore what could be considered frilly blouses it was a sign of high social standing -- a definite babe magnet. Today men know wearing a frilly blouse is not masculine and will likely repel most women. But this is changing as marketers push men to wear more feminine clothing. @Delano you will probably disagree with this, but I'll let you in on a secret... most women are attracted to masculine men (as defined by current cultural standards). Of course, this is not universally true. This is obvious to most people. Now if the feminine man can also sing, dance, is a celebrity, and has a boatload of money all bets are off. I hear you man; really anyone with a modicum of self-esteem would not want to trade with anyone. My question was really just to get Del to see that he would not want to be a 5'2" man (all due respect to men of that stature) and admit it would be a liability in attracting women. No, I don't get teased for being short or smart -- unless I'm around my immature poker buddies who I've know for 50+ years 🙂

I'm about to host a book club discussion (private) on an article John A. Williams wrote back in 1993, “Negro in Literature Today: Weakening of racism frees tan writers’ full range of creative powers.” It is an interesting read today. Many may not know that he is the author of the infamous "King Alfred Plan."

@Goldsteinberger you obviously have not read the entire conversation. Consider reading everything that @frankster posted on this subject. But given the fact that you "don't even care why at this point," means you probably won't. It also reveals you are satisfied with a superficial and biased understanding of the subject and, as a result, know very little about it. But your ignorance has not stopped you from making unfounded declarations. We live in a society where people don't care to understand, but worse some are aggressively rejecting attempts to educate others. Municipalities across the old slave states, in particular, are actually preventing educators from doing their job by banning books and preventing the teaching of the truth by deriding it as "woke culture." Since you are beyond querying deeper by asking why, you'll never understand any of this. We can agree on one thing; debating you on this subject would indeed be "silly."

@Delano you have a habit of dodging questions that will ultimately require you to rethink your position, a trait you share with our buddy @Pioneer1😉 I'll answer your question; (a) men define masculinity; (b) if men's determination of masculinity and the resulting characteristics and behavior is not attracting women, men will adjust. Men might like to wear shoes that are "talking," but men would also have to understand that might keep them from getting laid. Men must decide what they want more. I hope that helps.

@richardmurray your comment was on topic and on point. It looks like that was the actually the name of the song. I'm sure I have the CD laying around here somewhere, I guest I never read for forgot the tunes name. Zora never saw the publication of Barracoon due to her unwillingness to change the written way the formerly enslaved African Lewis spoke. Hurston's "translation" was readable and understandable. "Falettinme" seems more like being playful that an accurate representation of Black English which I one might write as "fa lettin' me." 😉

I have not watched a single Creed film. I keep saying I will go back and watch all three films and rewatch the rock film with Apollo Creed (there were at least a couple of these right). I understand this is the first of the "Rocky" franchise films not to include Sly Stalone. I assume Creed won the fight and is also from Philly. If this is true, I wonder if Philly will build a statue of Creed like they did for Rocky.

Deep. Also, the speeds are much lower. No one is doing 70 (on a 55) down the roads the way they do here -- traffic lights make these speeds possible. Look at old videos of NYC is was worse with horses and cars and people...