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Old 08-15-2014, 09:53 AM
 
Location: West Harlem
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Except that every individual human does NOT fend for themselves. Those who operate in tight cliques to defend and advocate for their COLLECTIVE interests will love for you to naively believe that.
Exactly. This is where the "not necessarily" gains meaning.
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Old 08-15-2014, 10:03 AM
 
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Except that every individual human does NOT fend for themselves. Those who operate in tight cliques to defend and advocate for their COLLECTIVE interests will love for you to naively believe that.
Those who operate in tight cliques to defend and advocate for their collective interests do so because they determine that it is in their individual self interest to do so.
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Old 08-15-2014, 10:06 AM
 
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Except that every individual human does NOT fend for themselves. Those who operate in tight cliques to defend and advocate for their COLLECTIVE interests will love for you to naively believe that.
^^There it is!
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Old 08-15-2014, 10:09 AM
 
Location: West Harlem
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Those who operate in tight cliques to defend and advocate for their collective interests do so because they determine that it is in their individual self interest to do so.
I don't think that poster meant that. I understood, the "individual" is a myth meant to efface the fundamentally political, cultural - and therefore "collective" - origins of individual identity. It is inevitable, not something you can elect or not.

Big part of narratives forming around our "post-racial" era and all.
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Old 10-14-2014, 04:32 PM
 
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Thanks for bringing up Colombians. It's very rare to see the Afro Colombians in the NYC area. Why is that? I think they account for 20% of that country's population. Why aren't they immigrating with the more mestizos population to the US?
Imagine a Black person hiking through Mexico
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Old 10-18-2014, 11:00 AM
 
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Wtf , you guys basically use this to hate on each other. And if you live in Queens you'd know that there's lots of Guyanese and lots of Spanish. And Guyanese women are not ugly , if you haven't noticed most Spanish women are hoes. They only want money for themselves. Guyanese women just want the best they didn't come to America to play around . So before y'all go trashing each others races think before you type some dumb offensive ****. I can't stand the "Latinos winning" thing. Not saying Guyanese are winning but what's the point of saying your race is winning? This website is irrelevant and the person behind it needs help.
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Old 10-19-2014, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Somewhere....
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There are black Colombians in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Many are quite Sub-Saharan in terms of strong features, I would say more so on average than the black Dominican population in NYC.
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Old 10-20-2014, 02:57 AM
 
Location: Halethorphe, MD
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I'm a medium to dark skinned AA, and I recently had a DNA test (well, my sister did, and I figure we have the same DNA) and found out I was 27% white and 6% Native American. I was very surprised my white ancestry was that high
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:08 AM
 
Location: Bergen County, NJ
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Wtf , you guys basically use this to hate on each other. And if you live in Queens you'd know that there's lots of Guyanese and lots of Spanish. And Guyanese women are not ugly , if you haven't noticed most Spanish women are hoes. They only want money for themselves. Guyanese women just want the best they didn't come to America to play around . So before y'all go trashing each others races think before you type some dumb offensive ****. I can't stand the "Latinos winning" thing. Not saying Guyanese are winning but what's the point of saying your race is winning? This website is irrelevant and the person behind it needs help.
Wow there.
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Old 10-20-2014, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Halethorphe, MD
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Also, while I think I could easily pass for African, I think the fact that AAs aren't fully African is clear in their appearance
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