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@Pioneer1 is that a yes or a no?

@Pioneer1 what do think about this video that @frankster shared? Based upon your reckoning; Is one twin "Black" and the other "white;" Are they both white; or Are they both Black? Chose on 1, 2 or 3 please.

Like the silverback alpha gorilla Trump gets to mate with multiple women. Perhaps his behavior harkens back to our more primitive nature. Unlike the silverback, Trump's power is derived not from strength but power. The longer I live the more I realize this should be a strong factor in who you decide to marry. @Chevdove call me cynical (unmarried with kids from two different woman), but marrying for solely love is overrated -- particularly if wealth accumulation and preservation is not a factor. You can come to love anyone you with whom you come to share mutual respect.

I can see his point 😉

Ask the homesteaders you speak of.

Really? Do you buy into all that rhetoric about people crossing the border of being rapists, murderers, and members of MS 13?

Is trump’s Eddie s high value woman, or did she become one after she married him? Mellody Hobson, a high value woman, is married to George Lucas. Is George Lucas an Alpha male? Again, it’s not like we are silverback. Gorillas maintaining the alpha position based upon physical strength. Alpha males as it applies to modern humans is a subjective social construct much like race, and probably not a valuable descriptor unless one defines it in context in context.

@Pioneer1 do continue reject the science in favor of your personal experience?

Playing devils advocate for a second, I think there are many women that can raise a boy into a man better than many men could. A cis-gendered heterosexual male is ideally raised by both parents. A boy raised without the influence of his mother is at a deficit. Most guys are not alpha males. It is difficult to make that term apply to a modern day man. Anybody with a lot of money will have many options when it comes to getting women and you don’t have to worry about getting your butt kicked because you can hire bodyguards. There will never be a shortage of sycophants and lackies at your beck and call. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are the ultimate alpha males in the scenario. They are not the strongest, best looking most righteous, but they are leaders of men. Donald Trump summoned Jim Brown and Jim kissed the ring. Sure he was an old man by then but still…

It is hard to escape the Diddy trial stuff if you are user of YouTube, I’m on YouTube almost every day looking for videos of Authors or uploading my own videos. When you log into YouTube, you are bombarded with videos with click baity titles and thumbnail images. before you see any of your stuff you have to click a few things. Sometimes I’ll click on a Diddy video with some very scandalous headline and it never delivers. They are always a waste of time. These useless videos crowd out professional coverage by journalists. In fact I’ve never seen any coverage by mainstream media outlets. It’s always some unknown person talking trash for 30 minutes…. Judging from the sketches, puff daddy’s jet black hair is now gray. It also appears several celebrities like Monique, Will Smith, usher have testified at his trial, but I can’t really tell for sure. It is no wonder people are misinformed on so many subjects. Google, in a frantic pursuit of profit, has made the World Wide Web a much worse experience by creating in sentences for people to upload useless trash onto YouTube. From what I gather, they’re gonna lock that brother up and throw away the key. But what do I know I’ve been getting my trial coverage from YouTube..

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Deep. Agreed. 🙂

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In addition to The Matrix. On the subject of AI, I would also recommend the movies Ex Machina and Her. If you have not seen either one I highlight recommend them. @umbrarchist I have ordered the book Two Faces of Tomorrow.

... and the longer they wait the less likely people will be willing to make Reparations a reality. Indeed, we may have already reached that point. It is a class issue, leaders like upper middle-class brothers like Wes Moore will not fight for it, they don't believe it, they can't relate to it, and really aren't interested in benefiting the people who have been wronged by it -- including "the other Wes Moore."

that might be true, but what difference does it make? People are so stupid. We could be easily manipulated by an artificial Superintelligence. Shoot we are easily manipulated by Facebook today. i’m sure artificial intelligence as possible. We have simulated intelligence today. sound line an interesting book describing the alignment problem. to answer your question @delano; yes, absolutely.

Apparently, the bill is “veto proof,” so I guess they can go ahead and do the study. I don’t see the harm in doing the study. Seems to me it should be done at the National level, but the state level is better than nothing. Are they only gonna consider people who were enslaved in the state of Maryland? The other problem is where is Maryland gonna get the money to pay reparations Maryland State taxpayers? A study would address both of these questions and more. I don’t see how you can talk about cutting checks without at least looking at those two things. Speaking of supporters, one of the people mentioned in the article is a supporter of AALBC not Wes Moore, but one of the supporters of reparations, Nkechi Taifa. Makes sense huh?

You mean you’ve heard of her outside of this forum? Yeah she was a regular one of the most prolific posters this forum has ever had, but she got on Thumper‘s last nerve at one point. I set up a separate forum just for her to try to keep the two apart. That didn’t work very well, she needed a foil. Eventually, she ran Thumper out of here… which killed the online book club which was a loss. my problem with Ms Boof is that she would do things in the real world and that really took things too far for my liking. Well @Pioneer1 as incorrigible as you can be, folks should know, for the record, that you are financial supporter of the website and your last contribution will in fact cover the forum’s software subscription for a year. The reality is that anybody who takes the time to post here provides true value to the website in general and this forum in particular. Your time is valuable so thank you for sharing it here.

I don’t know. He did return briefy, but did not stay long. I reached out to him a few times to no avail that was 15 years ago. I don’t know if he is still reviewing books.

My bad! You remember a lot more about the details of some of these personalities than I do. Did you ever know ABM’s story?

True, black men are not treated the same way as white men when they commit crimes, particularly when they’re poor. But in his high profile celebrity cases of Black people committing crimes against other Black people we are acting like they should get a pass simply because white men get away with crimes. We have video of Diddy kicking that girls’s butt. The girl is getting those multimillion dollar deals because Diddy has the money. If Diddy was broke, she wouldn’t have gotten that big payday and more than likely she wouldn’t be fu*king with Diddy the first place. That situation is all his fault. You can’t completely blame white media for that one did he dug his own grave.

lived in a different era. I’m surprised he was not straight up punched. Cosby is a different story in a different era. I’ve previously posted content in which a brother I knew did quite a bit of research to argue against about 50 of the claims however, I have to believe he drugged at least a few women if not dozens. no, I was not there and I can’t prove anything but you don’t get that many women making all those claims just to take a black man down. There are a lot of rich black men that can be taken down. I think somebody’s brothers do chesty shit call called on it it is simple as that Robert Johnson is not in jail. His wife might’ve taken half his shit. But no one’s talking about Buck breaking him and he’s not in jail and he had a medium empire.

Well it should be know that @Pioneer1’s voluntary financial contributions actually fund this discussion forum. He has never boasted that himself, but is it true. Now obviously that has not stopped me from disagreeing with him, nor has my agreeing with him been a condition of his support. @aka Contrarian, yes it was Mzuri’s “nigger bitch” comment is what got her banned, but it was a last straw thing. Her tirades were just ad hominem and irrational. She did not add anything to the forum. Kola Boof was another story altogether. A talented writer but gave me a ton of grief… I was willing to put up with she creep, but she managed to run Thumper off which was a huge loss. Then she left after using the site to get the notoriety that she desired. The Kola Book, Cynique, ABM repartee were classic though, 🙂

Who is the Black media? Out of curiosity name the largest platform. I ask because if it ain’t on Meta, Google, or Tik Toc we ain’t trying to hear it (is black Twitter still a thing?). It might be black media’s responsibility, but if we don’t consume it what difference does it make? I’m not sure I understand this point: Stewart is a multi-billionaire. He IS the hand doing the feeding. Plus he does not run freak offs sexually abusing people. Are you arguing that the likes of R Kelly does not belong in jail?

If by “modern day Buck breaking” breaking you mean raping and murdering other back people, then yeah. David Stewart, Robert f. smith, Ken Chennault, Reginald F. Lewis and many others achieved far greater wealth, but were never “buck broken” because they did not rape under age vulnerable children. Again there are giants of industry who you talk about. Why? I’ll tell you, because the racist greedy feed you get your “news” from does not talk about these brothers accomplished brothers. Rather they feed you a mountain of nonsense on the perverted criminal ones.