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Old 07-15-2013, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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yeah it does, and it really exists in the black community as well but of course the left never acknowledges this or holds them accountable. When it comes down to race and defending their own, blacks will defend their own against other non-blacks, right or wrong.



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Racism still exists in the US, anyone who thinks it ended with the Obama election is either really naive or really stupid. A shining example of that is the birther movement, the fact theat websites like stormfront exist and some of the comments in C-D.
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:10 AM
 
Location: North America
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yeah it does, and it really exists in the black community as well but of course the left never acknowledges this or holds them accountable. When it comes down to race and defending their own, blacks will defend their own against other non-blacks, right or wrong.

Racism is racism, no matter who it involves.
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:16 AM
 
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I understand Somalia is a garden of Eden and a great place to spend the winter.
For a libertarian
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:22 AM
 
Location: NYC based - Used to Live in Philly - Transplant from Miami
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whats amazing is that actual black immigrants from Africa don't want anything to do with African-Americans. And the African Americans that do go back to Africa are frowned upon there.
It's all about mentality. You want to continue to listen to the likes of Jesse JAckson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakahn you will continue to live in ghetto's and expecting "whitey" to pay for everything.

As for racism, how can they continue to scream racism when they have a black president, elected twice? If it weren't for the the white vote, Obama would not be in office.
Good post! It is well articulated!
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:22 AM
 
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Akon speaks out on George Zimmerman case





LOL The comments from "celebs" just get dumber and dumber. I guess this dope doesnt know much about Africa today. But please, take your own advice and move. And leave behind all the money youve made from white people/Americans. We'll see how long you last.

I guess he forgot about where the slavery of blacks started as well.

Sounds like a great idea. Can they take all the illegals along with them?
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:29 AM
 
Location: Democratic Peoples Republic of Redneckistan
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Hopefully he doesn't let the door hit him in the ass on the way out...or on second thought
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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Akon speaks out on George Zimmerman case





LOL The comments from "celebs" just get dumber and dumber. I guess this dope doesnt know much about Africa today. But please, take your own advice and move. And leave behind all the money youve made from white people/Americans. We'll see how long you last.

I guess he forgot about where the slavery of blacks started as well.
Akon can live pretty nicely in Senegal with his money, why havent him and his wives back to Senegal? Lead by example Akon.
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:33 AM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Akon speaks out on George Zimmerman case





LOL The comments from "celebs" just get dumber and dumber. I guess this dope doesnt know much about Africa today. But please, take your own advice and move. And leave behind all the money youve made from white people/Americans. We'll see how long you last.

I guess he forgot about where the slavery of blacks started as well.
To Akon, knock yourself out and lead by example.

In the classic words of Walter....dumbazz.
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:35 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Racism still exists in the US, anyone who thinks it ended with the Obama election is either really naive or really stupid.
Not really, you just believe so because Obama has specifically chosen to continually try to stoke racism that isn't there.

Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"

There was absolutely no need for that comment, whatsoever. Even the FBI exonerated Z of racial bias.
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Old 07-15-2013, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee
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Akon speaks out on George Zimmerman case

LOL The comments from "celebs" just get dumber and dumber. I guess this dope doesnt know much about Africa today. But please, take your own advice and move. And leave behind all the money youve made from white people/Americans. We'll see how long you last.

I guess he forgot about where the slavery of blacks started as well.

He's not dumb.

I don't agree with his reaction to the Zimmerman trial. I don't agree with most blacks reaction to it. I'm not even sure I agree with the Department of Justice jumping in right away, a day after the verdict, to review the case and consider charging Zimmerman in Federal court on Civil Rights charges.

The U.S. is very racially divided and "race" takes on political dimensions. The DOJ jumping in resounds with politics to me and little to nothing to do with motivations around justice.

But youth comes with a curse. That curse being you didn't see what came before you and you have too little life experience to gauge the trajectory of the future.

Black-America I suspect has lost the most wealth it has ever sense the end of Reconstruction. I'm talking not about Baby Boomers but of Gen X on down. It may have well gone--monetarily--the opposite direction that the end of Apartheid in South Africa took for blacks. I don't know, I haven't seen the two compared.

There still exists a lot of wealth in Black-America, if for no other reason than the strength of the dollar around the world and the level of per capita income within both the national average and Black-American average.

That wealth could be prudently invested abroad to grow. It could be invested in key locations in Africa. And a more global outlook (not necessarily pan-African) would benefit Black-Americans in an increasingly global market.

White-Americans already heavily invest in areas of Brazil (some areas of Africa--like I think Nigerian oil, or maybe that's the Brits?) and other parts of the globe. They have casinos in Macau and make more money there than in Las Vegas.

Buying land and/or building a home or commercial property in Angola or Botswana can potentially be a good thing.

I'm old enough to see that my black father complains about the same things he did when I was a small child. Before I was born he was burdened with the American experience. His generation of blacks bought into the "just assimilate" and everything will go good story. Now they're pissed off they found out it was a lie.

There are lies after lies in the United States. I bought into the lies. Did what you're supposedly supposed to do. None of it really worked (with a small exception to me lifting weights and exercising--my own body I controlled the greater destiny over). In some ways I was blessed for that. Because I awoken more and more from the matrix and began to see things more clearly for what they were. The hustles and lies. And I don't have my heart and mind chained to the United States. I'm using the USofA the way it used me and looking for the future. And my future is tied to outside of the United States: India, Brazil, Africa etc.

When the young blacks of today wake up 40 or 50 years from now still complaining about the same damned thing. Having enslaved their hearts and minds to the horns and tail of the United States. I'll be set and living in peace and contentment.

The question I have, after reading all the lies in the Health and Beauty section in the thread on obese women, is who is the figurative "fat American woman" in this fiasco of the Trayvon vs Zimmerman case, the black side or the white side?

Both sides have closed ranks "politically" to make either Trayvon or Zimmerman look like the innocent little "fat woman" that we all must pamper in the story. Neither are seeing both for who they were. And neither side even sees themselves, accurately reflected in the mirror.

Nonetheless, Black-Americans could do far worse than investing in certain areas of the African continent.

You're depiction of all of Africa is not necessarily accurate. There are urban areas of the United States arguably worse to live in and rear children in than certain areas of Africa.
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