This is a topic to post "whatever" is on your mind (random thought).
I also, thought it would be a good place to inject an off-topic comment about an ongoing discussion or debate where you didn't want to disturb the flow.
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Originally posted by Diamond:
While visiting in Charlotte, NC., I was in a grocery store where there was pork of some kind in a standlone un-refrigerated bin near the meat counter. Hmm, what kind of pork do they eat and sale in the south that does not require refrigeration? It didn't look smoked.
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Originally posted by MBM:
Why is it that people come here and take on fake identities? This is a site that, for the most part, embraces all kinds of positive, productive debate. For example, I have invited and encouraged all perspectives since day one. We've had all manner of members across the entire spectrum of ideology. Why do people feel the need to pretend to be what they are not?![]()
At the end of the day, you just get "outed" for who you are anyway, and in the process you get embarrassed and lose all credibility. Why not just be who you are? It's OK to be white and active here. It's OK to be conservative. It's OK to think you know more than we do and to try to change our minds on positions that matter to us. It's even OK to be racist. Just be honest!
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Originally posted by MBM:
Why is it that people come here and take on fake identities? This is a site that, for the most part, embraces all kinds of positive, productive debate. For example, I have invited and encouraged all perspectives since day one. We've had all manner of members across the entire spectrum of ideology. Why do people feel the need to pretend to be what they are not?![]()
At the end of the day, you just get "outed" for who you are anyway, and in the process you get embarrassed and lose all credibility. Why not just be who you are? It's OK to be white and active here. It's OK to be conservative. It's OK to think you know more than we do and to try to change our minds on positions that matter to us. It's even OK to be racist. Just be honest!
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Originally posted by ocatchings:
. . . so does me not wanting him to go make me a hypocrit?
quote:I think I understood you from the start. But I will even try to give people the benefit of a doubt (sometimes) on their ethnic identities. But feigning Blackness while speaking Whiteness fluently just doesn't work.
I was speaking less about personal identities, as much as ideological ones...
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Originally posted by AudioGuy:
White people have been lying for thousands of years in order to protect their "interests"...
quote:What I say to that (knowing I may very well fit into that tangent category) is for those who want to focus on serious discussion to do it and not use disruption as an excuse to avoid a thread or whatever "once it's gotten out of hand"...
Originally posted by MBM:
...I do believe that "folks" come here with the sole purpose of stirring shit up and getting the conversation bogged down into ultimately meaningless BS to keep us from serious conversations and developing real solutions for our progress.![]()
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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
I was reading the post by O.A. about the Congo and began thinking about the sister that used to post from there. Has anyone heard from her?
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Originally posted by ocatchings:
Given our "immediate success" in Iraq is not happening very quickly, why are we all of a sudden threatening Iran with force if they do not comply to the nuke issue? If I'm correct, the Iranians are a bit more "fanatical" than the Iraqi's.
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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
I was reading the post by O.A. about the Congo and began thinking about the sister that used to post from there. Has anyone heard from her?
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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
It appears that this administration is doing whatever it can to bring about the final battle of good and evil foretold in their reading of their bible. Has it never occurred to them that they're not going to be sitting on some cloud watching the event?
quote:Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
Can anyone honestly say they wouldn't have taken the eye-wash?
quote:If you sat on a jury, would you vote to convict under these circumstances?
quote:Tell me am I too close to this?
quote:Originally posted by ocatchings:
I just noticed I'm an "ambassador" now. Does this involve a pay raise?
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quote:Originally posted by AudioGuy:
When are Black people going to WAKE UP!!!
quote:Originally posted by ocatchings:
Why is this tramp from GA who got cold feet taking up so much air time? Isn't there more important issues to worry about??????
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quote:Originally posted by Kai:
Peace....
As much as I love my people, I still must say that our men have become pretty much useless. Many black men are just plain good for nothing.
You would be a fool to trust many of our men with any responsibility. This is definitely a fool's bet.
We have mastered the art of excuse making, and some of our women have helped convert our brothers into P zombies by allowing them to stay at home and do nothing while she works.
Grown men sleep at home at 12:00 p.m. with absolutely nowhere to be. Grown men with a giant bowl of fruity pebbles, and a game console on a monday morning, is just insane to me.
These brotehrs, have the luxury of doing nothing, and receiving the love of many of our best women, while hard working, productive men go under appreciated.
Right now there is a brother sitting on a couch, with corn rows, a blunt, a forty ounce on the table, no job, no money, with a beautiful black women in the kitchen cooking his favorite meal...
I completely fail to understand....is thug passion really that important?
Anyway...even when these brothers come under pressure to produce, they quickly demonstrate how underdeveloped they are. I mean seriously, hiring these brothers is like a punishment....
Anyway...it is just crazy as hell...
the black community needs a system for redemption...Or we need to understand why the prison industry is growing...As we are, many of our men are good for nothing but crime, and the natural result, jail time.
Once again, I love my people, however, they frustrate the hell out of me sometimes...However, I have faith that we will rise...I pray that I see this day.
Kai
quote:Originally posted by Kai:
Peace....
As much as I love my people, I still must say that our men have become pretty much useless. Many black men are just plain good for nothing.
You would be a fool to trust many of our men with any responsibility. This is definitely a fool's bet.
We have mastered the art of excuse making, and some of our women have helped convert our brothers into P zombies by allowing them to stay at home and do nothing while she works.
Grown men sleep at home at 12:00 p.m. with absolutely nowhere to be. Grown men with a giant bowl of fruity pebbles, and a game console on a monday morning, is just insane to me.
These brotehrs, have the luxury of doing nothing, and receiving the love of many of our best women, while hard working, productive men go under appreciated.
Right now there is a brother sitting on a couch, with corn rows, a blunt, a forty ounce on the table, no job, no money, with a beautiful black women in the kitchen cooking his favorite meal...
I completely fail to understand....is thug passion really that important?
Anyway...even when these brothers come under pressure to produce, they quickly demonstrate how underdeveloped they are. I mean seriously, hiring these brothers is like a punishment....
Anyway...it is just crazy as hell...
the black community needs a system for redemption...Or we need to understand why the prison industry is growing...As we are, many of our men are good for nothing but crime, and the natural result, jail time.
Once again, I love my people, however, they frustrate the hell out of me sometimes...However, I have faith that we will rise...I pray that I see this day.
Kai
Thank you for your concern Kai.... I'll be fine....quote:Originally posted by Kai:
Peace....
Sister, while there are those who would delight in your misery, there are others who sincerely wish the best for you...
Some people are created with great reservoirs of strength and it rises to aid them in times of need...I know that you are such a person..
all possibilities are available to you...
Kai
quote:Originally posted by Black Viking:
Catholics say that it's perfectly okay to be homosexual, so long as you don't actually practice homosexuality.
IMO, that's fair... since I think it's perfectly okay to be Catholic, so long as you don't actually practice Catholicism.
quote:Originally posted by Black Viking:
Catholics say that it's perfectly okay to be homosexual, so long as you don't actually practice homosexuality.
IMO, that's fair... since I think it's perfectly okay to be Catholic, so long as you don't actually practice Catholicism.
quote:Originally posted by Dizzy_Daniella:
I think that america has massive RACE issues....as you can tell by this board. and also people need to stop hateing on eachother im so bored of hearin black men this black women that.. its so boring . and people like kai need to stop going on like all black men are then same because there not.!
quote:Originally posted by Len:
Life is so uncertain. A woman I grew up with and knew very well died in her sleep a few days ago. She laid-down to take a nap and didn't wake up. Her daughter found her.
That's why I don't put much stock in life expectancy. There have been too many people I've known who died before the age of 50. I'm beginning to truly grasp the saying "lived each moment as if it were your last."
quote:I don't like Southern Rap... It all sounds the same...
and the lyrics are less than intriguing.... to be nice...
quote:Originally posted by Shango67:quote:I don't like Southern Rap... It all sounds the same...
and the lyrics are less than intriguing.... to be nice...
I agree. It is TERRIBLE!
quote:You know something is wrong when today's music makes you nostalgic for the glory days of Death Row records...
quote:Originally posted by MBM:
It's pretty pathetic when the highlight of my day is finding a gas station selling regular unleaded gas for $2.72 per gallon!![]()
quote:Originally posted by Kai:
Peace....
There should be a federal law banning credit card companies from sloliciting 18 year olds on college campuses. They know that they need the money and have little to no income...Why are they there???
Simply to help ruin the credit of a person that is alreeady assuming alot of debt from student loans???
Kai
quote:Originally posted by FireFly:
Question: if it was proved absolutely beyond all doubt that there are (and never were) no aliens or life forms on other planets or galaxies... how disappointed would you be?
quote:Originally posted by ma'am:
There are men on The View in underoos.
I'm not all that sure if boys wear underoos these days.
*shakeshead*