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I mean was there ever an attempt on his life? They were still Lynching people for just look at whiet women the wrong way back then -- an Johnson was seemingly flaunting his relationships. I also wonder why he wanted to even be bother with White women... when he probably could have had almost any Black woman he desired.

I always wondered how he got away with that. Oh, I did not know that Jonathan Majors victim was a white woman.

Drug dealing isn’t really frowned upon, is it?

@Pioneer1 and I would agree with you, and I suspect the vast majority of people would too. Given that all of us have mothers... one is role clearly better than the other. Of course, people can choose to do what they want.

Has anyone considered that Majors may actually be a predator who needs an incentive to stop? I have not followed the story other than what I've read here, but why is his actual behavior not a consideration? Maybe the Black judge was trying to protect Black women?

I'm sure he did not. Noticed how the white girl from South African just dismissed the Brother's questions while continuing to grill him. I walked past Vernon once. He was on the board of Bankers Trust a company I worked for back in the early 90's. He was one of the "largest" Black men in the country.

True, New Yorkers are the center of the media landscape so that impression is create and people here believe it. Almost 3% of the country lives in NYC and probably 10% of the country has lived in NYC at one point in their lives. Most of the country's wealth in concentrated is also concentrated in the hands of these people, so they are a strong minority. But keep in mind, that control is wielded by a fraction of the New Yorkers -- not all of us. @richardmurray "bettered" compared to what? When I look at Manhattan driving on over the Triborough I really cannot believe my eyes. It looks like the Borg have taken over. Every single inch of the landsacpe has been paved over -- even the central park is man-made. You can't see the horizon, the stars, a descent sunrise or sunset. Fresh air is an impossibility and dark brown water is considered normal. I also hear crime is on the rise... I walked in an underground from 42ns st from and the 8th to 6th ave subway line and I through I was in a scene from Mad Max. Bums laying around, performers, refugee kids selling all kind of things, the mentally ill screaming obscenities -- it was surreal. But keep in mind rich New Yorkers do not ride the subway and are not subjected to the Mad-Maxian hellscape that wage earners must navigate. In fact, NYC was approved to imposed at $23 toll just to drive in into Manhattan (south of 60th street)! The place the lenape knew no longer exists. Is it "bettered?" I don't think so, but a reasonable person can disagree.

Wait, what? I skimmed over the previous statements, and it was not clear what opinion you have changed. What was it. I don't think you are being honest here. Answer this question: Would you rather your mother have been a prostitute or a housewife?

It is hard to believe I wrote this less than two months ago. The GOP are absolutely that crafty, what was I thinking?

Well, it depends. How does that number compare historically? I'd bet there were periods of times when the majority of people in NYC were born outside the city. I was born and raised in Harlem, but my parents were not, and this is true for most of my peers. Occasionally I meet someone whose lineage goes back a few generations in NYC, but these people are in a minority. The city does have problems, but it is not due to the people moving there--it never was. Newcomers are just easily scapegoated.

China does not really have an open economy, the Brit’s don’t know if they wanna be part of the European Union or not, and the EU itself is more volatile than the U.S. Again, none of the alternatives are really any better.

Here is the source of the article @nels https://leohohmann.com/2023/12/11/globalists-on-a-mission-turn-americans-against-each-other-before-a-foreign-power-is-called-in-to-finish-the-job/#more-16881 I try to reference the original source in case something was modified. The thesis is spelled out in the first three paragraphs: The globalists believe it’s supremely important to utterly and very publicly destroy the United States of America. Not because America is some bastion of freedom and democracy. It isn’t. Over the last roughly 100 years, America’s major institutions have been infiltrated and completely taken over: government, healthcare, financial and corporations, the mass media, education, law enforcement and the courts, the military, and 90 percent of the churches and synagogues — all have come under the influence and control of the globalist agenda. Some may believe they are still relevant and independent but when push comes to shove, the overwhelming majority of churches will capitulate to the globalist agenda of the Great Reset, which is aimed at digitizing every nation, every major institution within the nations, and every object living and non-living. Control the food, water, energy and money and you control the people. That’s what Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development and the Great Reset are really all about. However, despite achieving such an immense level of control, it’s still important for the globalist elites to totally deconstruct and humiliate America, destroy its middle class and bring it to its knees. The rest if the article goes on to describe how. Apparently, Barack and Michelle are in cahoots, as the film produced by their production company, Leave the World Behind, is served up as exhibit #1. I will need to check out the movie now. Once the moronic Biden regime’s economic sanctions and the US loss of the reserve currency role finish off the US dollar, America is finished. We will be a third world country, and the rest of the world will punish us for the sins of our government. The loss of the greenback as world's reserve currency is stated as if this will happen -- and soon. This is highly unlikely, besides what currency will the USD be replaced will it be replaced with? Any potential alternatives are potentially more problematic.

You keep saying racism is "thousands" of years old Pioneer, but there is no evidence to suggest that this is true and everything you've ever shared as evidence, that I have checked comes up short. "Varna" a word that I was unfamiliar with speaks to class not skin color. The Indian caste system was much more complex than you make it seem and nothing to do with "racism" at least not prior to the colonial period.

no, I mean meat literally grown in a lab not a meat substitute, like that heavily processed “impossible” meat. They have begun selling it in some fancy NYC restaurant.

@Niccolo Machiavelli what do you think?

that is the way I feel. A lot of time non-pork eaters get judgmental. Meanwhile, they eat all other kind of crap themselves. i’ve heard someone recently say that in 100 years people will look back at this time and think we were savages for eating animals. by that time will be able to grow all the meat we need an laboratory.

@ProfD are you Muslim? If not, what is the problem with pork? As someone who self-professes to prefer to cook food with the unhealthy ingredients, why turn your nose up at a ham hock? I pick my poisons too. Like I would never drink a glass of sweet tea. That refined sugar is just so bad and is an easy thing to eliminate from a diet. I see far too many fat people gorging on cakes and sweet tea and proclaiming how now use turkey in the collards. It is sugar that has everyone so fat, not the bacon.

Nothing is free, a sex is certainly no exception. Prostitution weed is basically legal. Both can be easily purchased by anyone marginally motivated. I think equating a housewife with a hooker is overly simplistic. Some housewives are actually loved by their mates, it is not a purely an exchange for sex and keeping house.

How about the house wives who are also hookers? the best of both worlds huh @Pioneer1?

Exactly. Who is bright idea was it to use a smoked turkey wing to season collards anyway?

You ever have a crab bomb? It is a Maryland thing. Speaking of salmon I used to make this fish with salmon cheese land other stuff in a puff pastry—delicious

I watched the Little Richard documentary the other night; a fascinating story. It was interesting to see how rock ‘n’ roll was created, based upon black music. When I was a kid we used to say rock sucks. Little did I know that black folks invented it. Amazingly, despite all his hits, Richard never won a Grammy I’m not even sure if he was ever nominated. It was a much more racist time. It was also interesting to see so many white artists covered Little Richard’s, Music from Pat Boone to Elvis Presley to the Beatles and on and on.

Just the crab meat anything else? I’m thinking minced shrimp next. with scallions, garlic, a little old bay, maybe a little aioli on the side.

@Steinsman and @ModestoGarr I'm watching you I guess technically I'm a foodie too. I've been to all the Zagat's top 10 restaurants in NYC back in the day and enjoy cooking myself. I eat pork, typically sage sausage and bacon. I modified a recipe from E-40's cookbook this morning and made a "breakfast lumpia," stuffed with egg, cheese, bacon, sausage, and onion. The lumpia wrapper is great, light and crispy not like an egg roll, more like a spring roll.

From Nathan McCall’s article linked above: I have come to accept that, while America is my homeland, it’s also been my fiercest enemy. In a country that brags about its greatness and exceptionalism, much of what I’ve achieved has been despite — not because of — the system. I hear Nathan but I disagree. I worked in corporate America long enough to see white folks who are less qualified, than their black peers, and be advanced more frequently and be paid more. I also noticed that Black people are usually more impeccably credentialed than their white peers. I’ve worked with ignorant, mildly racist, white people, and I’ve worked with some really decent ones. I would argue. I’ve been held back by some and advanced by others. Every Wall Street job I’ve gotten has been through a white connection. I seriously doubt that an ex con like Nathan McCall has gotten to where he is without the help of a few halfway decent white people. I argue strongly even that much of his success is because of the system. The Salon was a bit more nuanced as illustrated by the quote below: The truth is that both stories are real, and they have coexisted—albeit uneasily. This kind of truth can be difficult to assimilate. It does not fit with a portrait of American history as the story of freedom. Neither does it jibe with an understanding of America as the story of oppression. The larger tale weaves together these warring strands—it is a story befitting a nation that boasts an African American president as well as staggering racial and economic inequality. I grew up in the north, and heard all the stories about the deep racism in the south, the segregation, and all of that. I grew up in New York City and was educated in completely segregated schools. In stark contrast, my cousins, in the south, went to integrated schools. I used to marvel at the fact that in grade school they knew white people. In fact, the first white people I met as a kid were the ones my cousins introduced me to in the south. I did not meet or attend school with a white person until I was in high school and that was largely because I went to magnet school that you had to take a test to get into. If I went to my zoned high school it would’ve been more of the same poor and wrong class black and Puerto Rican kids. The police were never our friends. Our communities were never serviced properly, dirty, and rundown. The south for me was arguably less racist and cleaner. I also worked in corporate environments in the deep south and in the north, and I found the north to be more oppressive than the south.