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@Del They'll need to show videos like Normani's, Nicki Minaj's and Cardi B's below for at least 6 hours a day (I wonder if @Pioneer1 and @Mel Hopkins think Cardi B's video's visuals and language is appropriate for kids too? I nicknamed it "nipples galore"). A number of "reality" TV show where provocatively dressed Black women, with Blond weaves (that all the Black women here love), throw drinks in each others faces and engage in affairs and other dysfunctional behavior. They'll need some Tyler Perry dramas like the ones that saved Oprah's network. Another Empire or Power program would be helpful. Of course well need sports but I doubt they have money to get professional sports out the box. Maybe they can broadcast some HBCU games the half time shows with dancers and music might would draw viewers. They shouldn't waste money on journalist to cover relevant news of the day. They can simlly troll "black Twitter" for the freshest viral content and have some trendy millennials discuss it. They could take Tavis Smiley or Roland Martin out of mothballs to provide some semblance of serious journalism without actually doing it. Maybe live stream TD Jakes and some other megachurches each Sunday, followed by a weekly motivational message from the Obamas. Have some infomercials for HTC, CBD, Vape, Opiod, liquor, hair care, and weight loss products. Finally they'll need comedy and pleny of it! These things will help guarantee broad appeal and financial success of the new network.

Man your whole last post sounds crazy. Do you know white male suicide rates are climbing and life expectancy is declining. Do you know millions of white families lost their homes in the 2008 housing crisis. So you are saying Neely Fuller believes white men are killing themselves to make Black people feel sorry for them? Do you really believe this? Most of the people who die from smoking are white -- more 1,000 every single day. You believe they want to die this way?! Are you serious? You believe, the white veterans I have to step over, while they beg for money in streets of NYC are doing this to set us up for "destruction?" Has your racism blinded you so competely that you have no empathy for poor people who are white? @Pioneer1 how is this thinking any different than a white racist's?

Just because you keep repeating this does not make it true! No, they were using the terms as synonyms. Race is the term the general public would recognize and understand while ethnic would be more accurate.

I don't know the figures, but I'm sure it is more than 1 million. Is it the majority? I doubt it. But again as quite as it is kept the majority of white folks are struggling.. running around shooting places up, ODing on opiates, and putting all their hopes on 45. Zuckerberg, 45...

@Kareem you don't know me well enough to know that my use of the term "Cishet" was tongue in cheek. i think the term absurd, like many other terms used by woke folks (including "woke" itself) are silly. I have no clue how Cishet is pronounced, and I only discovered the term recently and have never heard it used verbally. However I would not be surprised to see it on applications or maybe a future census. Maybe I'll refer to my myself a "Cishotephet Brother" Ya heard it here first!

Even if the station was a clone of BET there is SO much competition it will be tough to garner eyeballs. Of course with more intelligent programming it will be a miracle if it survives. If the show does produce intelligent programming and is available through a streaming service I will watch it. Speaking of "alphabet stuff" it seems Dave Chappelle latest routine was not appreciated by the alphabet community. I watched two Sisters (one gay and one straight) hotly debate the merits and humor of Dave's latest. The straight sister thought it was funny and lesbian sister thought it wasn't funny at all. I just watched it last night. The "alphabet" bit was mildly humorous and I saw no reason for offense -- they are jokes. The part about the use of the word "Faggot" was particularly telling.

@Kareem As much as I might agree with what you wrote, I'm saddened by your conclusion not to have children. I have wondered what life would be like for my grandchildren, should my adult daughters decide to have kids. Google can (and have) single handedly put a website out of business. You can't give up hope man. Your generation is all we have.

I just gave away my copy of Marable's book (I often gift books to guests who come to my home). Marable's book was particularly controversial because it mentioned (or implied I never actually read the specific text), that Malcolm has sex with white men for money. A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs corrects issues raised by Marable. Marable died just before the book was published. I often wondered about his untimely death in the context of the publication of his book. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership by Harold Cruse was a classic. I bet Cruse could go to town in 2019!

Literally.

@Pioneer1 there are many Black people in this culture who are healthy, did well in school, have a descent income, and were never incarcerated. No culture is perfect, but all of the ills you mentioned adversely impacts white people too. The problem our culture has is how we practice capitalism. Evil is rewarded when wealth results. Which will be our down fall if nothing changes.

Nah, I'm not a fan if Latinx, as if man=woman. I also am not a fan of dropping Mrs. Nowadays all women regardless of age or marital status are called "Miss." Ms. Would be better. Miss is how we reffered to little girls. It always rubs me the wrong way we I hear a teenager refer to a grown woman as Miss. Calling the woman you love a bitch during intercourse I agree is on the kinky spectrum. The liberal use of bitch and hoes in our music is not good either. Who else calls their women bitch in their music. The language we use informs how we view the world. Whuch is another reason the language of race needs to be discarded.

I never asjed for "proof" of modern races, because i know tgere isn't any. I wanted to know where you git the nition that there was. The articles summarizing studies are written in the colloquial language people understand (unfortunately). Even i soeak in the terms of "race" from time to time. But again it is in the context of causal conversation. Even the term African-American is problematic because that could easily include white people. Still using the word is not proof. I don't believe you are being intellectually honest here. Im sure as you trolled the internet looking fir some to support your argument you cane came across infirmation that asserts there is only one race. You will never find scientific information that say we have multiple races today. Simply using the word us not "proof." LOL! Man I ate like a pig. I just cane frim the super market. I gonna make me some deep fried tacos It does not work that way. Once sonething is proven false, it is discarded. Science does not build upon falsehoods, it learns from errors and moves on.

FL, state fair is held for two weeks in February, so states do their own thing. Syracuse could not hold a fair in February. I had to look up cishet myself last week. It is one of the terms "woke" folks use. Like saying "Latinx."

Maybe it is just adopting the cultural norms of the society you live in. Whenever more than a handful of people live in a community you must adpot some behaviors you may not care for in order to make the society work. Going on about what our "natural" culture was and going back to it is not very helpful. Going back to ancient culture is impossible the conditions are different. Sure, take from it what we can use, but we must move on.

Well I don't personally feel this way, nor does anyone I have ever recall meeting. Yeah, I think a lot of what we expose children is in appropriate is Fast food, some music, many TV programs, etc. I've been guilty of exposing my kids to things that I subsequently learned was a mistake. You live and learn. No. I don't think this is a good idea. When I was a really young kid I walked in on my parents. I was too young to understand what they were doing, but despite my curiousity I immediately left. They did not see me and I never told them what I saw. There are a lot of thing modern people generally don't do in front of each other. We no longer engage in sex in public, defecate in front of each other, or eat each other.

I guess, as a Cishet male I can't really answer your question @Pioneer1 Right now I'm at the NY State Fair about 1,300 miles away from home. But I'm on the gulf coast which is currently not under serious threat. My prayers do go out to the people of the Bahamas.

@Wosey why are you copying and pasting previous comments without adding anything new?

@Pioneer1 your comments about being gay sound stereotypical. sexuality does not always conform to what you describe as being feminine or soft. There are many gay dudes that can kick your ass. (as well as do other things with it ). Yes confidence it attractive and inspiring.

If few "afroamerican are unmixed today, how do you square this with the information provided by those articles that you cited? Scientific American described African-American as a race do you agree with with that? The other article equates race with ethnicity. Do you? The problem here is that you have cherry picked summaries of studys, which I'm positive you have not read, that use that word race, colloquially, as proof there is scientifically more than one race. Do you know what each sources definition is race is? Again, are you now saying "African-American" is a "race" based upon the first article. What are the "multiple races" that make me and Cynique up? Dude who cares about a 200 year old book? Why do you keep bring it up in a conversation about modern genetics? Have you ever had a DNA test? Do these test reveal a person's race,

@Pioneer1 no woman (or man) likes a wimpy dude, who would let someone just walk all over them. It is almost a cliche that, "every woman wants a little thug in their man." People from, or in, the south aren't gonna let someone punk them and get away with it. I'm sure you were raised like I was; if some hits you hit them back harder. I've argued loudy with guys superior to me in a corporate environment, but i was pushed and other person was objectively wrong. Once I told a guy in his office if we were in the street i would bust his ass. He apologized, but i was serious. He was the only adult I ever threatened. But he would bully people and everyone let him get away with it. But i have been in situations were i stood up to someone and both men and women later mentioned to me later that they appreciated it. This never sat well with me cause it was always a guy in a position to say something too. Now aggression, and a confrontational attitude, for no justiable reason is just mean or stupid. A woman who is indifferent to the reason for the man's aggression and atrracted to him even if he is just bully or common thug is not very sophisticated.

Yes. I believed in races too. Then the science made it clear there is only one race and i changed my position. What race is Cynique then? What race are you? This is a completely false statement. No, my friend, you have to actually read the book before you talk about what it contains. Besides the structure of DNA would not be discovered for another 100 years. Why do you insist in citing Darwin an allele would have been as alien to him as Facebook. This statement is completely false too. Do some basic research man! We are not talking quantum physics here.

After all I wrote, I'm sure I can't articulate what my impressions are in term that will make to you. I don't have beliefs that are that firm. Im expressing a concern based upon trends that don't seem positive. The time of our youth (60s and 70s) had some negatives but there were a lot of positives. The periods you describe the 80 and 90s had many of the ills we see today. So answer your question, yes. I raised my kids in the 90s.

@Pioneer1 Ok. so obviousky yiuvreject the sexual nature of the video. Unlike our debate in race, this is open to opinion, subjective. Im not gonna try to convince you otherwise. I could in fact be overeacting Im just glad im not trying raise my kids in a world were this type of stuff is shoved at them 24/7. Im not calling for Shari'a law, but we've gone from Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin dominating the charts to Cardi B and Pusha T. Google uses their dominance to push Normani for ad revenue and ticket sales by appealing to our baser emotions. But it is all good to you and if no consequence. Im just not convinced that is true.

@Pioneer1 that is like asking if MLK or X were technically illiterare because the never used a PC. The human genone was seqenced in 2003, since then we've known that there is only one race. What makes you a racist is that you reject the science and cling to the discredited belief that people have differences, like intelligence, due to the type of hair they have or their skin color. What other physical characteristics does Cynique possess that warrants you kicking out your so-called Black race? I read, and so can you, so look it up. What is the source of your knowledge on "race?" Obviously it is not current scientific information, so where do yiu get this stuff? What?! First I have not read Darwins document (have you read the whole book?), so I have no idea what it says. Second, it was published in the middle of the 19th century, when white people were still blood letting as a medical procedure. Why would you reference a document that old and dismiss 200 years of subsequent scientistic discovery? Race is an artificial, socio-polical, construct with no foundation in science. Racism is alive and well.

I suspect the "free man" bit sounded hyperbolic. I never spent so much time on Blog post. The first draft, you read, was almost 1,800 words, this version is down to about 800. I considered using that "free man" language in my article, but I chose not too because it struck me as too angry -- despite it being how I feel. Basically, many of us are enslaved to the Amazon's of the world -- doing their bidding and getting little of real value in return. We are evening paying Amazon for the privilege of doing business with them -- and happy to it! If you can image a plantation where slaves are actually happy, that is the world Anazon has helped create. I say "Hell No" to Amazon. I've already rejected Facebook last year and this year will be the best year in traffic AALBC has received from Facebook ever. I suspect their algorithm is designed to drive traffic to brands not engaged on the Facebook in order to get them to buy ads to further increase traffic. I'm not going for the okie doke any more. Free men (people) are not dependent upon Amazon or any greedy plantation owner. Free people depend upon themselves and other free people.