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Imagine how many have lived their entire lives getting away with these monstrous acts. Being a member of the Clergy has provided ample cover for a millennia. I believe pedophiles are born that way. Perhaps being victimized themselves turns on the switch for those predisposed that way. In any event, the poor bastards can't help themselves... and it is unfortunate.

LOL! It was a better than the last one 😁 I never saw this one either.

That @Pioneer1 is a very sad commentary. Sounds like it is far worse up north than the former confederate states...

NOOOO!! We are definitely too stupid to know which genes (people) should be prevented from procreating. We live in a culture such that if you can sit in obediently still in a seat for few hours a day and repeat whatever information was given to you for a deacde or two, then you are smart -- we don't know what smart is...

Sorry @Pioneer1 I meant write "swirling." But nevermind... The dude player guitar in times square was a Busker, long after the commercial aired when the "40 deuce" area became respectable. Again, the commercial would have been ridiculed. It was an early example of Hip-Hop being misappropriated by brands. They mixed break dancing with locking and MJ's boogaloo moves.

Of course, monopolies are good for the owners; though I would argue, in the long run, monopolies are bad for them too. I read somewhere that 85% of the people in the US live within 25 miles of a Walmart. Walmart is a massive company and in small communities can put smaller competitors out of business, but Walmart is FAR from a monopoly, with single digit market share. In my neighborhood, I do visit Walmart but only because they are the only place that sells the large box of Swaggerty's sausages. Otherwise, I shop at Costco, Target, Winn Dixie, Aldi, Publix, etc. Walmart is not my only choice; indeed it is not even at the top of my list. If it disappears tomorrow the community would be little changed. The employees could easily find work elsewhere and maybe even make more money. Again, I'm not sure you are clear on what a monopoly, so it is like the race discussing race, vaccinations, or climate change with you. Technically there are probably no pure monopolies but there are plenty of examples that are much closer. Care to try again?

“Boy, don't you go down there fuckin' with them Jews without no money!” —Richard Pryor I always think of this line whenever someone mentions Jewish people in the content of power. The following is a paragraph from a very interesting article “TOWARD THE NEXT LITERARY MAFIA” In the first decade of the 20th century, it was both virtually impossible and virtually unheard of for a Jewish person, irrespective of their individual talents, to be hired for any job at a major American publishing company—even if they were Ivy League graduates, heirs to family fortunes, and had brilliant literary minds. They couldn’t get hired on the editorial staff of a widely circulated American magazine, or be granted a professorship in an English department at a prestigious university, either. But all that started to change in the decades after the 1910s, when Jews entered the industry en masse. In addition to founding many of the today’s largest publishing companies, Jews became so influential throughout the industry that by the 1960s American writers as different as Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Katherine Anne Porter, and Mario Puzo began to complain about a “Jewish literary mafia.” In short, a minority group went from almost complete exclusion to full literary enfranchisement in a matter of decades.

Man, that time is now. I'd be willing to bet you don't walk to down the street worried about some rabid racists. If you did, I suggest that you block all forms of media that "pushes" to content to you whether that is an autoplay YouTube video, social media feed, or search engine result -- yeah, I know that is pretty much everything online 😮

@richardmurray, the Harlem Fete generally caps the year for me when it comes to the Black book world. it takes place in NYC. I'll email details.

Swinging 🙂 I first learned of this term about 12 years ago.

Someone can bring up an accusation from 30 years ago and it gets international coverage. The Guardian sees fit to withhold the accuser's name but puts him on blast before anything is adjudicated. Side Bar: I'm often told I look like Eric Adams. A couple are Black people who know us both.

Welcome to the forums @Jean2021. The Florida governor is attempting to leverage the fear and insecurity created by an exploitative system that is weakening the middle class and class and keeping many more in poverty. I live in Florida, a relatively liberal area, Tampa, but over the past decade everything has gotten more expensive housing, insurance, water, energy, restaurants -- everything! I have never seen this type of inflation. I brought my mom a pack of cigarettes in NYC the other day and it cost me $18! Take someone to the movies in NYC, get some popcorn and a soda and you are talking 80 bucks. Go to a decent restaurant for dinner meal, order a couple of cocktails, and dessert -- you better have $200! Hotels in NYC fuhgeddaboudit! The mayor got rid of Air BnB, so the hotels have taken advantage. White folks storming the capital is not surprising at all -- especially when you consider all the misinformation on the web...

@Pioneer1 it is cute now, but it definitely would have been unequivocally corny to someone from Money Maker (Manhattan) or The Boogie (the Bronx) back in the day. What say you @Delano? You grew up down the street from Spofford, what do you think those brothers would have thought?

OK. Please provide an example of one such business.

My bad, but you know I'm posed/biased to express to disagreement 😉

Thanks @richardmurray I just added Vanessa's information to the site: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Vanessa+Walters

Yeah, I think waiting to exhale might have been the only Whitney Movie I have seen. Bodyguard does not interest me, nor does the preacher's wife. That is why I did not vote.

LOL! Despite the pun that is true Good?! That is the understatement of the year.

That's because he does not have an upper lip. But most would agree, I'm sure, that he is an otherwise handsome man. May he RIP

Yes because I know monopolies put downward pressure on the prosperity of the masses, through lower wages and higher priced good. I'm just not prepared to be able to distill the impact into a percentage, maybe some economist out there has done this. Since you believe monopolies are good, please tell me what percentage our wealth is a function of monopolies.

No, I have not noticed that email me a photo that you are unable to upload and I'll look into it.

It seems to me that the physical act of bring about an orgasm can be achieved many ways by oneself, with a mechanical device, someone you've paid, a fuck buddy, or a loved one. Each activity is different. If makes little sense to me to compare a woman getting off with a vibrator to getting off with a loved one. The sistas in the video saying that no man can do what a vibrator can do are right, obviously. But a vibrator cannot make love to a woman -- at least not yet 😮 I agree, but with the modern web controlled by profit driven algorithms this is largely impossible. I believe it is the other way around; if offline communication were better online communication might improve.

No, I never saw this commercial. I guess they knew better to play that video anywhere near the NYC market. I'm sure if I saw that when it first came out, "whack" would have been the only way to describe it. BTW, that girl's moon walk was terrible...

Is that a quote, 'cause she did not say that in the 40 sec statement I shared? Hate speech would of course, by definition, be encompassed it free speech. Speech in American isn't free either. We enjoy more liberties than some other countries, but folks are cancelled all the time for something the said. Mark Lamont Hill was cancelled for saying "from the river to the sea." As a PhD I have to believe he knew was that phase connotes. Now he is on Al Jazeera, where the "free Speech" isn'tcomplete free, just different.

@ProfD playing games is just another way of providing entertainment. Who are the strong, positive Black men, whose main role is NOT providing entertainment for the masses of white folks and that are held up in this culture? Al Sharpton, Barack Obama,...