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Sure, but he is just one person. His presence on YouTube gives him much more impact in your eye, but not mine. For example, I'm confident, were it not for social media, Donald Trump would never have been elected president. Collectively we give what is said to Twitter, for example, far too much weight.

Absolutely those cultures could have existed without women. One would think this is obvious. By "built" are you speaking literary -- digging ditches and laying bricks? There is a lot more to building a civilization that that. I hope you are right, but there is a big difference this time -- Trump have some experience now. Whoa, whoa... lets now go off the deep end LOL!

I don't think any of us are in a position to determine if Mike is mentally compromised. We only know what we see in the media, which is always a distortion, if not outright deliberate manipulation. If I had to guess, I'd say Mike is within a standard deviation of average intelligence. I think biting off a man ear reflects some psychological issues, but I'm not in a position to make a diagnosis. Mike's celebrity and great fighting skill is responsible for his financial success, as these things are highly valued in our culture -- much more than above average intelligence.

Yes, it is. 🙂 True.

Yeah, most of the time when I post I’m laying in bed using text to speech. But I swear as it is writing what I say it’s correct then I hit save and the text has been changed. I’ve caught it a couple of times. It’s like it corrects what I’m writing After the fact it didn’t always do that. I’ll be more careful and proof my posts. It is hard for me to take anything these children say on YouTube seriously. Particularly since the most absurd stuff is elevated and pushed into everyone’s feeds. I’ve published hundreds of videos over the years and it’s always the most scandalous stuff that gets viewed the most and I’m positive it’s because YouTube is pushing it, so people create more this stuff to feed the algorithm and make more money. so know the video themselves don’t bother me. I just wish people would take some of the more serious videos share those and talk about them as much as they do the videos of some silly little white boy talking about how easy black women are to bang.

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Maybe y’all are putting too much on iron Mike. Doesn’t he has people around him, handlers, who I assume will take care of and protect him? Maybe on some level he’s being exploited encouraged to go into the ring again, allowing him to be captured and less than complementary situations. he was not the only one who made a of money maybe the people around him don’t have his best interest at heart who knows…

I just read this article @Stefan posted. It asked the question; “Most white voters, in Washington, D.C., and nationally, often winced and wondered how on earth Marion Barry kept getting re-elected.” as if the white reader could not understand how Black people could keep voting for Marian Barry. I wonder if the writer would write a similar article explaining to black readers why white folks keep voting for Trump. Trump has more much more personal baggage and keeps getting elected to the highest office in the land. I was not there but I’m sure Jordan who did not do anything that warranted a death sentence. Sad.

I would argue that the military is -- it always is. Look once we nuked Japan (twice) we served notice on the rest of the planet who was in charge and that is when we because a "super Power" or as you say the greatest place to live on earth. We maintain this position by building the largest military force ever.

Why do you watch stuff like this man? But more importantly, why do you use this material, as the Brother in the video does, to make generalizations about the wider community. That is absurd on its face. Do you think Melody Hobson is a sex worker?

You are moving the goal posts again. I was reacting to the statements like "Men built the world in which we live. They run it too. Point blank." Still, we spoke about, The Dahomey an all-female military regiment of modern-day Benin depicted in that movie... I don't recall the name. I'm sure you also know about Zenobia who conquered Egypt, parts of Asia Minor, and the Levant. I was just in NOLA and there is a statue of Joan of Arc a teenager wyou led an army

Well today it is perfectly acceptable for couple to go to a strip club... @frankster, did your cross-dressing friend ever come out the closet? 😮

If that is one of your standards for greatest country on Earth well... You are right about that; it looks like Earth will survive long after we are gone!

The New York Times selected 100 books as the “Best Books of the 21st Century.” I pulled out the books (22) written by Black people. Years ago, I created a list of the top 100 Black books of the 20th Century. It was a list voted on by almost 4,000 people.

That is an alarming, but unsurprising stat! I also believe it is the result of part of a deliberate strategy. I almost fell prey to this it back in 2016, bur @aka Contrarian talked some sense into me.

I don't think I'm doing that. I'm making assessments on things that have actually happened. We know from the video that Diddy has no problem preying on weaker people. We also know that he is being held and denied bail, indicating that that there is enough evidence against him to take these actions. Will he be found not guilty, I don't know, only time will tell. There are plenty of reasons this happens. Let's say some major underworld gangster anally raped you with no witnesses. he was a childhood buddy and ya'll were seen hanging out together drinking reliving childhood memories. last thing you remember was him driving you home next thing you remember was a really sore rectum, blood semen stained sheets and in your mouth... How fast would you tell your boys what happened to you? Years later you learn the same thing has happened to others. After years of therapy and hearing about other victims you get the strength to come forward not so much for yourself, but to prevents other from living your nightmare. It does not smell funny to me. Of course there are some that would try to exploit the situation. But homegirl has the tapes now if you are saying it took 16 years for the tape to come out, that might explain the delay.

The same reason Jeff Bezos was allowed to buy the Washington Post -- the forbid them to endorse Kamala for President, which they were planning to do -- not that it would have made much of a difference... Our government serves as Capitalism's hand maiden. This is a subjective assessment; I'm sure there are people all over the world that would disagree. I prefer it because it is what I know best, but I'm under no illusion that it is the "greatest" nation. Unless you define "greatest" as have the largest military, or most billionaires... For who? Capitalism brought us hundreds of years of enslavement. Today we are still groveling for some form of recompense. Our people are locked up more than any other group on Earth. Man made climate change is off the rails and God only knows what that will men for future generations -- even white men are killing themselves at such a high rate our life expectancy is going down...

I think she was selected because she can sing her ass off. But to your point, I think it would have been a Genius move if Cynthia's and Ariana's roles were reversed, but you and I know why that would not have happened--unless there were Black people involved.

Maggie Thatcher ran the British Empire @Pioneer1 and there have been other women leaders of countries full of men. There are several female CEOs including Ursula Burns, a sister who ran Xerox. Women do and have always contributed more than just birthing babies. @ProfD. The problem is, as it is with Black people in general, is that the narrative is not crafted by women today. Just because the narrative tells a distorted story does not make it true. White boys would have you believe that aliens built the pyramids, and that God wants us to be good slaves for our masters.

Perhaps he pissed off his victims. She may have been, understandably scared to death to seek legal recourse. Now that he is locked up, he poses much less of a risk to her I thought the video was recent. I did not know it was 16 years old. I can only presume you do not believe he deserves jail time for the incident. I assumed that you were so pro Diddy because he was Black, but the women beaten in the hotel was Black too. Why not advocate for her just as vigorously? Do you feel she brought that punishment on herself, perhaps deserved it?

@ProfDI presume you saw the video of P. Diddy kicking that girl’s ass in the hotel hallway. Do you think he deserves time in jail for that? Do you think that was an isolated incident or reflective of a mentality and pattern of behavior? The comparison with Bill Cosby is apples and oranges. Perhaps some a more apt analogy would be with R. Kelly. I guess you believe R Kelly must’ve pissed off some Jews too huh? But then how do you explain how Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and other Jewish men have been treated? I think people engage in an egregiously illegal behavior and sometimes the criminal justice system treats them accordingly — even if they are rich, famous, even Jewish.

@richardmurray, the image that statement conjures is downright pornographic 😵 For most of the life of the Internet pornography was basically the purpose of the WWW as that was most of the traffic. Today, I believe collectively it is social media, but there’s a lot of porn on social media too. I mean, there are people who like to look at erotic images. It’s not exactly my thing; you’re not gonna see those images up on the walls in my home or catch me flipping through a book or magazine of naked women, no matter how tastefully done. @richardmurray you might recall that I asked you sometime ago to remove some erotic/pornographic images as not to run a foul of Google’s algorithm. That was the primary reason, but a secondary reason was I thought those images might turn people away from the site as well. There used to be a poster here who was always posting images of men full frontal nudity, erections. I deleted all that stuff so I guess on some level. I’m not just indifferent but truly not a fan, I guess I’m just a prude, huh?

Dude, the changes in female relative success over men is new. For the previous 300 years, men dominated schools and the behavior in the classroom was even more rigid. It is hard to have a successful career in school when you’re building a major drug operation. 😉 I’m not confident that is true or at least that it’s been true for most of human history. We know of many cultures that are matriarchal. We are also aware of cultures with female warriors, including our own.

Yes, that is what I was saying, but I wasn’t completely serious, which I hope the smiley face had indicated. It would’ve been great to see an Ali versus Tyson fight with each of them in their respective prime. I did not see the fight, not even a clip from the bout, so I have no idea what you’re talking about. That said Tyson always was known for unusual behavior…

nah, I think it’s due to living in a male dominated, patriarchal society. That said how do you explain the increasing rates of male suicide and particular black male suicide and recent years. How do you explain women, surpassing men and college admission and graduation rates?