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Dude it is not ME it is the findings of the scientific community weighed against the American public. ...and that my friend is the problem opinion, very ill-conceived opinions, crowd out reason, logic, and facts. One's opinion is irrelevant. The data speaks for itself. Yes, it already harder and yes our Government is the most stupid of the bunch.

@afro718, I’m going off my Ancestry DNA results and my family tree, both of which reveal similar ancestry to the person whose photo you posted, a background which is not at all unusual. Do you know the person whose photo you posted? Is it you? 🤨

That is a perfect definition for race.

I had a conversation with someone the other day, in which they explained to me why they were not getting vaccinated. It was a well articulated argument and the person who made it put a lot of thought into it. They believe that DMX and Hank Aaron, for example, were killed by the vaccine. I know, It sounds crazy but the person is not crazy, at least not as one would expect from a clinical diagnosis. the person is just “differently informed” with alternative facts. They are backed with scientific evidence, which main stream media is hiding from us, so that pharmaceutical companies who are the major sponsors of the media can make even more money. The person is Black but this has nothing to do with the Tuskegee experiment of the shitty way the American government has treated us — this goes way beyond. I asked about the nearly 600,000 Americans that have died from Covid, and it was explained to me that there were nowhere near that many deaths and many people who died from the flu and pneumonia their deaths were deliberately falsely attributed to Covid. I did not try to argue with this person or explain the fact that these were 600,000 additional deaths yes some of these people would’ve died anyway from some other cause, but a great deal more American lives were lost as a result of this pandemic. We are a lost cause as a people. I pray that this thing does not mutate into something worse That will kill a lot more people. Anyone reading this is very fortunate. Despite my life challenges I know I have been very fortunate I am grateful for that. But given our population and the things they are capable of, from genocide, to slavery, to putting Donald Trump in office, I really am losing hope in America. When Facebook’s Social media platforms are the source of our information there’s no wonder we are so differently informed. There is really nothing no one can do no amount of protesting or rioting will make it a difference. We will not achieve herd immunity what that means for our country remains to be seen.

Even though I did not buy the video entertaining I did not find it explicative at all. Now none of us know Afros motive for posting the photo and asking for opinions of the guys ethnicity and race. For all we know he could’ve been goofing on somebody to ridicule them as I indicated. I waited ridicule the guy. He could’ve also been providing an example of the folly of trying to describe ones ethnicity or even race based upon the way they look. That is the motivation that I took away. Everyone sees things differently.

Many American descendants of slaves have that background, including myself. @Pioneer1 again more evidence for why race is so problematic. And again, you can’t look at someone and determine their ethnicity.

I don't just mean chronological age but age in terms of time period. A Black 20 year old in 2021 is not the same animal as one from almost 40 years ago when I was 20. The autistic kid did not make this video. The production quality is relatively high -- a quality camera, lighting, and good editing. "Chen" = "Chev" as in @Chevdove (it was a typo introduced by autocorrect which seems to happening a lot more lately). Is this any different than @afro718's post?

Could be. At first I thought he/she/they might have found a photo of you LOL!

OK @afro718 what’s the answer? Or are you just trying to poke fun at someone you know?

I did not find the video funny at all. Nor did I find it entertaining. I guess I’m too old to appreciate it. Pioneer it was the video that Chen posted. I just embedded it to make it easier for others to watch.

Thanks for sharing @Chevdove

@Delano If that brother is Jamaican, which I doubt, he is definitely not living there. @Pioneer1 Because no one from a big city will be caught dead in those busted Shirley Temple curls.

Well a race part is easy: human As far as ethnicity, that is a great deal more challenging. You can’t simply look at someone and determine their ethnicity. However in the spirit of fun I’ll venture a guess. I would say this person is African-American from the south or mid west definitely not from a major urban center like New York City or Los Angeles.

Oh I’ve forgotten all about this idea I had. There’s software called Disqus that I use on most of the pages on this website. I thought, I still do on some level, believe it has the ability to be both social and a good Substitute for a dedicated discussion form. Here is a blog post from 15 years and someone has commented on it 15 minutes ago: https://aalbc.com/blog/index.php/2006/07/09/can-black-people-go-5-minutes-without-music/ Instead of having discussion forums dedicated to a single website, imagine the conversation being extended across thousands, 10s of thousands of websites covering a variety of subjects. I think if Disqus marketed its software this way it would be more widely used. Today many websites don’t use comment Because they need to be managed. The management of my Disqus comments can be more labor-intensive the managing this discussion forum. There are also probably not very many websites with sufficient content and traffic to even generate many comments. Many of the websites that do you have a company feature used to Facebook social media plug-in...

Well darn @Chevdove you can't give the video that kind of build up and not share it 🙂

I will not go into genetics, climate change, vaccine efficacy, or even the shap of the planet, simply read @Chevdove's first reply to your statements 🙂

Penis and testicles Pioneer...

Maybe she was afraid to come out. Maybe she hid it from the public — who knows

She is gay man, why is that so hard to understand? I think being a celebrity is hard at any age.

WTF!? I was reviewing a newly created page on my cell phone. Google inserted this advertisement for the “manscaped” product. In my book, any time you have to preface a product with the word “man” then it’s not really a product made for men. This banner ad makes that completely obvious. Why am I being served this ad? Have I been spending too much time promoting books by gay writers on this site? It is a dumb ad.

Dude, those were gay guys telling you this. A heterosexual man does start blowing another guy because they are bored with women. This is true of most mature adults. Popularity and the extreme form of this, celebrity, does come with trade offs. The willingness to deal with the various trade offs is up to the individual.

Of course this is true but is no cause to believe we are getting less intelligent. To your point there very well could be man-made environmental factors leading to a drop in our collective IQ. This is absolutely true. In the old days I was often asked to muzzle someone or kick them off the forum. So I’m aware of this in fact you see this on LSA today. One popular poster here threatened to sue me a number of times, but she was a drama queen and was probably responsible for scaring a number of people off the site. Those were the days when people (lurking) would come up to me at a conference and describe something they read on the forums.

Answering your question as best as I can, I think it is hopeful. Much like the way wealth is shared in this country, it has to change or the country will collapse in on itself, so either way it will change.

Unless something changes dramatically, cops will always kill people and a disproportionate percentage of them will be Black. Hoping it will change, on it own, is certainly on the verge of being delusional. Hope alone is not enough, it will take a lot of effort and it will not happen over night.

Facebook did get a couple of reactions: Nini Thompson "fun fact"? in very poor taste.. Vivian Stuart This is not a Fun Fact! You should know better. FYI the Rhona V V@ccines, Operation Warp Speed is a Military Operation. To @Pioneer1's point @Mel Hopkins maybe there is not an intellectual decline; humanity, save a handful of geniuses, is collectively not very bright to begin with. I'm sure social media suppressed this post. This is nothing new. Again, on a site like this and LSA every thing is just posted their is no algorithm controlling what you see.