Black Culture Discussion Thread

[trueprada]

+1
10/10 ill be in attendance

 

[tommyicerocking]

this discussion about Jesus and religion in general just messes up my head.

 
China is friendsing up the third world with their money however weaker governments aren't paying attention (or willfully ignoring) the fact that they are also putting bodies on the ground. Trust me..in 20 years time the ruling classes of Africa will all be chinese if action isn't taken soon. They'll swallow up the entire economy and the native people will entertain them in the same stadiums the chinese paid for.

Or worse, u see what happened when the Dutch came in to South Africa.

We(Blacks, Africans, etc.) are so damn accepting and it's always been our downfall. Wasn't there something to the whole Akon Lights Africa situation where the Chinese were supplying the hardware unbeknownst to the African governements?

They still take care of their own first.

but the question is this....who the hell is going to change Africa? It doesn't seem like anyone else is even trying to develop the nation infrastructure.

i think the West is upset because China is already rivals to US, if China can have Africa growing are a quicker rate, they will benefit from that. And that adds another partner for them.

 

[wr]

 

[Coromanti]

 In Guyana its 10x worse...

edit: i forgot i had even seen this..about half way through when i saw the blue bmw it came back to me.

shout out to vice doing good work as always

 

[layziegunts]

Bump

 

[Maximus Meridius]

In the chi watching The Minister speak
View media item 1716039

Wow bruh.

 

[301216baller]

Anybody going to the million man march in October?

 

[definition of dopeness]

^ Will be in attendance...about 10 deep too. As many frivolous trips that the team takes, it was imperative that we be in attendance for this.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Anybody going to the million man march in October?

Just reminded me I need to ask my brother if he's going. I wanna be apart of it.

 

[301216baller]

Me too bra..,I wish they would have advertised it more...a lot of people I've spoken to about it aren't taking it serious

 

[Quincy McCall]

When day is it?

 

[301216baller]

I wanna say October 10th

 

[iamjusayn]

Not trying to derail the thread, but this is the religious poison I'm referring to. And that's not a diss to you, just an observation.
The Wiz is a chakra story that's telling you everything you came to this planet looking for is already inside you.

Just because they threw a few symbols in doesn't it make it "satanic"

The symbols they're using were your symbols in the first place.

Bro what are you talking about?

If you cannot see the blatant racist symbolism in the wiz at this point in your life without doing all this extra reaching you are doing then I don't know what to tell you.

I never once said nor implied satanism, you did.

Just go back and watch that whole crow scene with mike "you can't win!" jive scene n peep game.

That movie was a black spin off to basically spit in black people's face and tell them "you ain't jack, won't be jack, n won't win no matter what you do, where you go or even if you think you have arrived!" period. That's why they used mike who was very popular at that time to convey this. Nipsey n Diana n mike were all duped into thinking they were doing something magnificent (as I thought too growing up).

Lol yeah mike pulling paper out of his brain symbolizing a dumb young black man who is influenced by other blacks (crows aka crabs in the barrel) to never try to win or be anyone represents the chakra...ok buddy [emoji]128527[/emoji]

Miss evermean and pryor's character had hidden meanings too. They did a number on so many folks with this movie, it's crazy.

Movie had nothing to do with the chakra.

It ain't hard to tell *nas voice* once you can see...

/G\

Iamjusayn

 

[iamjusayn]

It is true about medicine having different effectiveness rates based on race.

I literally heard this from a Doctor.

I was at a seminar luncheon for MS ( multiple sclerosis ) drugs and research and this was one of the topics discussed.

One size does not fit all.

Yes this is true just like it's true that when they created aids they knew it affected black's genes unlike a lot of white's genes.

CCR5 Delta 32+ versus CCR5 Delta 32-, know about it. Will change your perspective on things.

 

[C.Magneto]

iamjusayn

There's racism in everything. It's the premise for reality.

They're still teaching Edison discovered electricity. That doesn't stop you from using it or trying to understand it does it?

They're still teaching that Pythagoras discovered his theorem. That doesn't stop you from using geometry does it.

Movies are one of the strongest forms of mind control. With that said, Even in the racism and disses they're still telling our story. If you decide to avoid certain things because you feel like it's too racist, that's on you and I'm not judging. It's in my experience that the things that are the most the racist, contain the most truth if you're willing to peel back the layers.

I'll leave this here. Wiz/Wizard of Oz is the the same sub conscious Archetypal journey of moving through the chakras. If you give this an honest attempt and still feel like it's racist and degrading then I'll gladly admit I was wrong and misjudged you

 

[dathbgboy]

@tokes99 If the physical appearance of Jesus as a blond hair, blued eyed white man wasn't used as a tactic to oppress people and make them believe that it was preordained that they be slaves and nothing more, then I wouldn't care how people choose to interpret the likeness. Since religion was and is still used as a weapon, I think it's imperative to shine a light on the hypocrisy of the situation. U have a bunch of people who hate Black people or any person of African decent, believe God made them the supreme race, etc. etc. all the while, the man they worship looks like the people that they hate. Racism in America and across the globe is full of hypocrisy and the foundations that it was built upon need to be tore down.

I think that's why people harp on the notion that we were all kings and queens before slavery. Now a person w/ the intellect would know that that's not likely, however, it denounces the fact that before slavery our ancestors were running around butt-naked on the back of a zebra before the white man came and rescued us, gave us religion , and a sense of order to our lives.


And I didn't even know about the Million Man March coming up. Bet prices for hotels gon be crazy

 

[Quincy McCall]

The 10th is on a saturday... not sure if I can clear my schedule in time but I'll actually take a look at it this time

 

[wr]

From the wells fargo thread.

Supreme Court: Texas Reinforced Segregated Housingby Liz Crampton June 25, 2015
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/25/supreme-court-rules-dallas-fair-housing-case/
The biggest federal housing subsidy program in Texas — which awarded $9.7 billion in tax credits from 1990 to 2011 — effectively has been reinforcing segregated housing, the U.S. Supreme Court found Thursday.

The high court ruled 5-4 against the state of Texas, which administers the federally backed subsidy program.

"Much progress remains to be made in our Nation’s continuing struggle against racial isolation," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. "We must remain wary of policies that reduce homeowners to nothing more than their race."

Kennedy was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer.

The ruling, which strengthens the federal Fair Housing Act, is a victory for civil rights groups across the country.

Under the Low-Income Tax Credit program, run by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the state gives federal incentives to private developers to build or rehabilitate low-cost apartments, essentially engineering parts of a city's geography.

The Inclusive Communities Project, a nonprofit devoted to fair housing issues, sued the TDHCA in 2009, arguing that the state doled out tax credits in Dallas in a way that packed minorities into poor neighborhoods and spared white neighborhoods from development of low-income housing. The result is that neighborhoods throughout Dallas remain segregated, the project argued.

A 2012 examination of state data by The Texas Tribune and San Antonio-Express News found that more than three-quarters of credits given out during a two-decade span subsidized the construction of apartments in neighborhoods mostly made up of poor blacks and Hispanics. Few units built with support from the tax credit program were in areas that are predominantly white.

At issue in the case was whether the federal Fair Housing Act directs officials to ensure that their actions do not have an unequal impact on a certain group, even if they didn't intend for it to occur.

The court decided it did not matter if the state housing department did not explicitly set out to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin — the effect was enough to violate the law.

"To give families a choice to move to a better place to live when our government chooses where to fund affordable housing is the right thing to do," the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service said in a statement.

The White House released a statement following the decision, saying that it reflects the reality that discrimination exists not just out in the open, but in more hidden forms. "Too many Americans are victims of more subtle forms of discrimination, such as predatory lending, exclusionary zoning and development policies that limit affordable housing," the statement said.

In representing the state, Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller said during oral arguments in January that the FHA only prohibits acts of intentional discrimination because nowhere in the law does it say otherwise.

"Today's decision places an unfair burden on landlords, lenders and developers, and will ironically lead them to make their decisions based upon considerations of race," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "The administration's interpretation of federal housing law is overreaching and misguided, and I am disappointed with the Supreme Court's ruling."

The long-awaited decision marked an opportunity for the court to finally state its opinion on an issue that has been brought before the justices three separate times in the past two years. Two prior cases involving so-called disparate impact claims were settled just months before the court got to hear arguments.

Now, some in the housing industry worry that they’ll be required to make decisions based on race to avoid liability, a concern that resonated with a court traditionally wary of upholding race-conscious policies.

Kennedy emphasized, however, that disparate impact liability should be imposed cautiously to prevent creating racial quotas.

"Courts should avoid interpreting disparate-impact liability to be so expansive as to inject racial considerations into every housing decision," Kennedy wrote.

The court's conservatives dissented, with Justice Clarence Thomas writing, "We as a Court have constructed a scheme that parcels out legal privileges to individuals on the basis of skin color."

 

[AEA18]

 

[iamjusayn]

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[iamjusayn]

iamjusayn

There's racism in everything. It's the premise for reality.

They're still teaching Edison discovered electricity. That doesn't stop you from using it or trying to understand it does it?

They're still teaching that Pythagoras discovered his theorem. That doesn't stop you from using geometry does it.

Movies are one of the strongest forms of mind control. With that said, Even in the racism and disses they're still telling our story. If you decide to avoid certain things because you feel like it's too racist, that's on you and I'm not judging. It's in my experience that the things that are the most the racist, contain the most truth if you're willing to peel back the layers.

I'll leave this here. Wiz/Wizard of Oz is the the same sub conscious Archetypal journey of moving through the chakras. If you give this an honest attempt and still feel like it's racist and degrading then I'll gladly admit I was wrong and misjudged you

I was referring to "The Wiz" specifically.

Also, you and I might not get deterred but a lot of our youth are deterred by these strong hidden messages, especially when Michael jackson is conveying these messages during those times.

 

[C.Magneto]

I can respect that my brother.

My point of view is that we're the alchemist people. What ever we "lay our hands to gotta turn to Ethiopian gold shiny and buff"

The youngins are struggling right now because the OGs are tucked away or don't give a Fuch

 

[gwap]

All this spirituality talk is nice....

but are there any black business owners in LA who need IT support or design services?

I run an office in Beverly Hills and plan on opening a second on fairfax... 

I also have a need for writers, illustrators, and photographers (drone photogs especially)

PM me.

 

[dathbgboy]

All this spirituality talk is nice....

but are there any black business owners in LA who need IT support or design services?

I run an office in Beverly Hills and plan on opening a second on fairfax... 

I also have a need for writers, illustrators, and photographers (drone photogs especially)

PM me.

EWD frequents the city of SoCal and got a drone on deck breh.

But I'm getting into web development myself. Hope everything works out for you.

 

[iamjusayn]

All this spirituality talk is nice....

but are there any black business owners in LA who need IT support or design services?

I run an office in Beverly Hills and plan on opening a second on fairfax... 

I also have a need for writers, illustrators, and photographers (drone photogs especially)

PM me.

That's what's up and good luck. I own a business but I am not in need of those services right now but I will keep your info and forward it to those who might be in need.