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@umbrarchist sense like you should watch the 60 minutes broadcast and see what you think about their explanation of why the buildings collapsed. You’ve got this bee in your bonnet somehow I doubt there is anything that can be said to dissuade you… on summer level that is human nature. The video you shared was interesting I watched about an hour of it and the personal stories were fascinating.

OK, then how did Master Fard acquire this information? Well, we recorded history doesn’t even go back 6000 years so What evidence would you expect to see? How old is the oldest of these pyramids? I could see why they might do that. How did a Terrence Howard discover “new” math? I thought he was a Jehovah’s Witness. What does new math mean anyway? If you posted about this previously share link. There are people that say this is true today so that’s not really anything new. I find it difficult to wrap my mind around 1 billion years. Trillions of years is just crazy. many scientists today including black ones believe our entire universe is 14 billion years old. now you’re saying that human beings have been around two orders of magnitude longer. to me that is just as crazy sounding as the people who believe the earth is only 6000 years old. But what do I know?

Yeah, the first time I saw one I was like what the F is that?! You must live in a nice neighborhood if you see quite a few $130,000 automobiles on the road 😉

How was this knowledge obtained by Honorable Elijah Muhammad? I appreciate the time and effort you put into proving this explanation @Pioneer1. It was interesting reading. Was it meant to be taken literally, or is a myth? Am I understanding this correctly if I conclude that you are saying that white people emerged about 6,000 years ago? Well parts of it resonate in that I believe humans may have been more advanced in the past in ways that we can't understand today.

To the enslaved, support and condone make no difference.

What, you don't like the $130K cyber truck @ProfD? The new automobile example I provided is often cited as an example. Most people who have purchased a new car learns what this means when they resell their car. Anyone who has a business understand depreciation.

Read coverage at the Washinton Post

It seems the MTA agrees with my idea and forcing Fair paying. I wrote the subway a few times this past weekend, and there were posters saying they were now going to go after people who beat fares I did ride a bus as well and I was at least half the people did not pay… Mayor Adams seems to have bigger problems than illegal immigrants and fair beaters.

@Delano how do I approach life? Have you driven up EV before? if not check one out it might feel differently

Can you elaborate on the distinction between Support and condone?

Clearly, Hyperbole to emphasize a point. nah it was manufactured because it is much more lucrative being base and appeals to the masses. Increase in violence and criminality this instrumental and making money, black or white could care less either way. Better

ooh, ooh do me next! Get the surgery and have the out lenses in to correct i your vision it will be life changing 😉 Is it has a power of that transcends time and culture. A new car is terrible investment. A good used one before they started increasing the prices used to be a good one. The last car that I purchased new was in 2011 and I still drive it. I’m holding out for EV with the range batteries.

A black boy was killed in GA maasacre. I’m glad they are charging the father. Since they won’t go after the manufactures or the law makers maybe putting more of the parents in jail will help.

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Paul Coates has recovered and discovered countless essential works of Black literature, and readers everywhere have reaped the benefits of his passion and care for the written word,” said David Steinberger, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Book Foundation. “Since the 1970s, Coates has modeled what it means to be a community-focused independent publisher and tireless advocate for Black diasporic writers and books. The Foundation is proud to count him among the former members of our Board of Directors, and it is our great pleasure to recognize Coates’s tremendous contributions to the American literary community at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony.” Born in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1946, Coates enlisted in the US Army and served in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967. Upon his return, Coates moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he began volunteering with the Black Panther Party’s community breakfast program and additional community programs that provided access to healthcare, clothing, and housing assistance. After leading the local chapter for several years, he established the George Jackson Prison Movement—a prison literacy program to provide incarcerated readers access to progressive Afrocentric literature. The movement led to the opening of The Black Book bookstore in Coates’ basement, which evolved into the Black Classic Press and later inspired the development of BCP Digital Printing. As founder and publisher of Black Classic Press, Coates has published original works by Yosef Ben-Jochannan, John Henrik Clarke, John G. Jackson, Walter Mosley, and many others, in addition to reissuing titles by Amiri Baraka, Edward Blyden, Amy Jacques Garvey, Larry Neal, J. A. Rogers, Bobby Seale, Carter Woodson, and W. E. B. 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@Delano I was thinking about Octavia Butler in the context of @umbrarchist. A novel like Kindred would probably have a SF density of 0.00.

@umbrarchist why don’t you count all words graded in three characters and and rank those, rather than trying to anticipate what words would be used. You’d probably discover some Science Fiction words you hadn’t considered 🙂

Everyone dies, but the people who practiced the seven deadly sins spend eternity in hell and those that abstain sit at the feet of their Lord in heaven, right?

I’m one of those guys who stopped going to church after I got too big for my mother to continue making me go. However, I go to church from time to time. @ProfD while your depiction of the preacher, hooping and hollering is true in some cases it not true universally. I’ve been to mega churches and small country ones. Fundamentally the majority of these churches are about fellowship with others and coming together in a spirit of hope which I think is more beneficial than not for people that need it —despite the religiosity. I’ve been to churches where the preacher was more like a motivational speaker; the proselytizing was secondary. @Pioneer1 i’ve been to TD Jakes church in Dallas and Joel Osteen‘s mega churches (Joel’s service was held in a basketball arena) in Houston the entertainment value in both services was very high.

What organization is powerful enough to get a bunch of guys together to fly airplanes into both towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and potentially the White House all to create a plausible excuse for the destruction of the world trade centers? Why would that organization do that; to flex their muscles, just for kicks, why? Without a plausible suspect and motivation I think is more reasonable to believe airplanes alone caused the collapse absent analysis from a reputable body with evidence to the counter (all due respect to your analysis).

Sad, but seemingly true… You probably learned something, but I get your point. I didn’t take calculus in high school, but I took it in college as well several courses in higher mathematics all of which I have forgotten. My grades in these courses were not good I had a problem understanding the concepts years later I watched a YouTube video and a light went off. I recall, thank you man. If the professors just explained it like this, it would’ve been so much easier. I took many courses and did not learn very much. I’m not sure if it was my fault the professor‘s fault or combination of both probably the later. In all my years in corporate America and as entrepreneur, beyond the basic skills of reading and math, I everything I needed to know on the job…

What?! In almost 12 years I don’t think Pioneer has ever acknowledged being corrected. I’m gonna play the lottery today!

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black LOL!!

It’s called an investment is done all the time. Your math is a little simplistic. It’s not a matter of addition and subtraction. Sometimes you make an investment @richardmurray that pays dividends down the road. So you spend X today and tomorrow you gain 2X or 3X or X2. local municipalities like New York City have to balance their budgets. Only the federal government has a luxury of incurring multi trillion dollar deficits, but that’s because they can print money. The federal government, I’m pretty sure, subsidizes the MTA not alone just free money. Frankly the New York City fare is relatively low compared to other cities given the size of the system, the and hours of operation. Perhaps the biggest downside is the lack of connections to the airport any city worth its salt has direct rail to their airports. MTA also has a huge pension fund to support. I’m not sure what percentage of it budget liability but I’m sure it’s substantial and probably grows every year. I doubt New York City can afford to run its public transportation system without losing money at least not without cutting services elsewhere and/or raising fares. I think the subway system and buses should be free. They can get the money to fund the system, by increasing the sales tax, making corporations pay their fair share taxes. Increasing the local taxes on the wealthy, etc

I’m not so sure the bus has the lowest fair evasion. I take the M60 from LaGuardia airport to my old neighborhood in Harlem several times a year and nobody pays to get on and I mean nobody. I know that’s just one bus line, but I also am aware that the drivers aren’t really enforcing payment of fairs. people get on the middle or the back of the bus and it’s all good. The problem is enforcement across-the-board. The MTA has set a standard that the penalty for evading payment of ones fare is nonexistent.

The hyperlink text I provided above “it was a lot” runs a Google search with the quotes. Man, there is even a Wikipedia entry for Ethiopian Bible. I always find a curious when people make statements that are, easily and demonstrably, shown to be false.