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The Black Culture Thread |OT11| In This Salon, Everyone Gets A Perm

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Dereck

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Ummm, didn't Latifah drop a diss track on this movie's soundtrack? I don't remember
 
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Deleted member 47027

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My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.

Sorry to hear this. My condolences. Terrible thing.
 

Trey

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I don't wanna settle down with anyone. I know what I wanna do, I make great grades, and I do good extracurriculars. Yall's attempt at help was entertaining though

Like I'm goal driven. I know exactly what I want to do career wise and won't let anything stop me. I just gotta stop being lazt

We're just putting you on some game little man.

You're the one that came in here sounding like a Drake b-side, lol
 

Merc_

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Holy fucking shit at that black racism experience thread. Of course I don't see a single thread appear dealing with the issues other minorities deal with. Those motherfuckers don't actually give the slightest shit about what other groups go through, they just wanted to silence the thread.
 

Dereck

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Holy fucking shit at that black racism experience thread. Of course I don't see a single thread appear dealing with the issues other minorities deal with. Those motherfuckers don't actually give the slightest shit about what other groups go through, they just wanted to silence the thread.
lmao, like, c'mon bruh, you could have made a thread, like yesterday, if you really wanted to discuss experiences in racism against in regards to other races, it's obvious that they don't.
 

Numb

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lmao, like, c'mon bruh, you could have made a thread, like yesterday, if you really wanted to discuss experiences in racism against in regards to other races, it's obvious that they don't.

I say it worked if he wanted to derail the thread.
 

LionPride

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Holy fucking shit at that black racism experience thread. Of course I don't see a single thread appear dealing with the issues other minorities deal with. Those motherfuckers don't actually give the slightest shit about what other groups go through, they just wanted to silence the thread.
Ignorant people never want to know about issues that they wish to remain ignorant about. People on this site do not want to admit racisim against black people is a common thing and will try to derail topics if they revolve around black people or Japanese culture being ridiculed
 

akira28

Member
Oh shit not the MTA

nugga I hope you wasn't planning on catching a bus...better take a taxi yo.

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lmao, like, c'mon bruh, you could have made a thread, like yesterday, if you really wanted to discuss experiences in racism against in regards to other races, it's obvious that they don't.

the one dude I had to say something to is an atheist from a white Catholic/Offshoot family, and he's worried about how the muslims might feel. straight up came in with "this thread is racist", no chill, no pause in his step.
 

Africanus

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My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.

My sincerest condolences. Did they find the driver?
 
I say it worked if he wanted to derail the thread.

That's my first thought when people say any bullshit now. They read the thread title, like the first sentence of the OP, then post some off the wall nonsense that has half the people in the thread replying to them while they high five themselves for successful concern trolling or just being dumb.
 
My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.

Sincerely sorry, my friend
 

Numb

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That's my first thought when people say any bullshit now. They read the thread title, like the first sentence of the OP, then post some off the wall nonsense that has half the people in the thread replying to them while they high five themselves for successful concern trolling or just being dumb.

Read the thread title? This dude managed to succeed derailing the thread when it clearly said ''black'' in the title. He would have been buzzed away but people got too blinded by how dumb it was.
 
Read the thread title? This dude managed to succeed derailing the thread when it clearly said ''black'' in the title. He would have been buzzed away but people got too blinded by how dumb it was.

I was speaking more in general but yes, it was incredibly difficult to not give that dude some choice words because holy fuck it was dumb.

Speaking of dumb, I think I've finally found the new low.
 

Numb

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I was speaking more in general but yes, it was incredibly difficult to not give that dude some choice words because holy fuck it was dumb.

Speaking of dumb, I think I've finally found the new low.

Oh god.That is something.
Every time a black topic pops up things hit the fan real quick in the most unexpected of ways.
 

akira28

Member
Oh god.That is something.
Every time a black topic pops up things hit the fan real quick in the most unexpected of ways.

I used to hear people say stupid shit like that every day. I mean, to even set your face in the angle required to say those words, to me, shows you're already setting on racism's front porch.
 

Numb

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I used to hear people say stupid shit like that every day. I mean, to even set your face in the angle required to say those words, to me, shows you're already setting on racism's front porch.

What is scary is that they are not just saying it but believe what they are saying to be correct or ok.
 
At least these threads give me something to laugh at. But then that laughter turns into sadness knowing these type of people run parts of our local, state, and federal government and own major businesses and so on. And then I get mad because I think how the hell these people got an education and are so fucking obtuse to race issues especially when they are black issues.

Such is life.
 

Dereck

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Lupe's talking on Instagram again, thought someone might be interested.

The Police.

A letter.

The police are not your friend. The police are not your enemy. The same could be said about the law. So let's say it. The law is not your friend and the law is not your enemy. So what are the police then if they are not friends nor enemies. Well let's get a definition of the word 'Police' from the dictionary: "the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order." And while we're at it lets get a dictionary definition of 'Law' as well: "the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties." Nowhere in the definition does it say "friend" or "enemy" even though some police officers can be friendly and some can be really antagonistic (see the famed "Good Cop/Bad Cop" routine for an explicit example) it is not the nature of their position in society to be friend or foe. So what are the police then? The firmest designation for the police is their primary title "Law Enforcement Officer" and again the law is neither your friend or foe so then the police are a merely reflection of the law. Police are the physical manifestation of the law. The police occupy a middle ground of sorts. They are mostly benign in the sense that if they have no particular law to enforce then they are powerless. Also where the law is broken and can't be seen or is out of the conscious knowledge of the police they are also powerless as is the law itself. Law is only powerful when it comes into direct contact with its child, Criminality. Crime and our relationship to crime is much closer to us than our relationship to the law. Everybody bends or breaks the law in some very minute capacity. We may speed on the highway from time to time. Throw litter on the ground. Lie on our taxes. Disregard a jury duty summons. Download pirated content. Where we feel the law doesn't "count" or "make sense" we are inclined to transgress the limits.

Furthermore Crime is celebrated in all annals of entertainment and culture. In movies and books and song and TV. When was the last time you heard a song on the radio about the fabulous and sexy lifestyles of being a cop? In movies and TV it is much different as police officers are portrayed as being heroic figures but how many times within those same films or TV shows a police officer goes "outside" the law to rectify some injustice or solve some crime. How many movie cops had to "give up their badge" to the captain because they broke the rules to catch the bad guy? In effect they had to become criminals to enforce to the law. Think of Batman. Commissioner Gordon uses him when things get a little too out of hand in Gotham City and he needs somebody who isn't bound to the letter of the law and all that that entails to deal with the villainous hordes. This maybe "fictional" but then again is it really? How many real life cops put guns and drugs on people to get an arrest possibly on people who they know for a fact are committing serious crimes but can't prove it? How many cops "invent" a probable cause to effect a search of someone's property and eventually "find what they were looking for" even though what they found was not the initial reason they stopped the person? How many cops beat confessions out of people? How many cops flat out lie when it comes to what they saw or did during arrests and follow up investigations? How many cops have used terroristic threats to get people to comply to testifying or admitting to things they didn't commit? How many cops work for the same criminals they are employed to pursue in the forms of bribes and information? But then how many citizens do the same exact things? "Police Officer" and "Law Enforcement Officer" are just titles, roles, positions, names. No different than "typewriter" or "car." What gives these things life are the people that use them. Some people just do not know how to type or drive and it must be said that some people just don't know how to be police officers in strict accordance with the law.

One problem is that becoming a police officer or law enforcement officer is a very structured and ordered bureaucratic process. It is very rigid and rather systematic. It is literally uniformed to stand as the visible and physical counterpoint to the non-uniformed wildness that is on the one smaller end, society itself and on the other larger end, criminality. Crime is subtle and blends well into the wild variety of society. Crime is successful because it is asymmetric and forever evolving. It can go unnoticed. Hence why the most successful police operations are done "undercover" and the most visible criminal activities are the least successful. The ability to blend into the "wildness" of society and mimic it is the best tactic for success outside of pure anarchy. Crime is highly adaptable. It is highly revered because its heroes have excellent leadership qualities and in some cases very deep philanthropic sentiments. Crime is the true equal opportunity employer and is one of the only organizations to successfully overcome the racial divides. Criminals are the embodiment of the material American Dream. Freedom (even from taxation!), upward mobility and the pursuit of happiness. All crimes have victims but one could say quite successfully that all things have victims. In the business world, victims are classified under the term externalities. For example, some people call perfectly legal mountain top removal coal mining a crime against humanity as it has the potential to build up then completely destroy entire communities not to mention the sometimes irreversible environmental externalities. Laws sometimes have a weird way of creating their own criminal enemies, hence the "child" term used earlier. Take for instance prohibition, it was a perfectly sound moral concept to combat what was seen by some as the scourge of drunkenness and all its hideous social and moral externalities, just imagine drunk driving back in the 20's! This perfectly sound moral law however single handedly created the mafia, the worlds greatest and most successful organized criminal enterprise.

The emergence of the mafia lead to the creation of the FBI which was needed to be a "higher" form of law enforcement to combat the mob. The FBI tactics included all sorts of law bending and law creation to try and successfully tackle the problem the same government that employed them unwittingly created in the first place. The cultural impact of the mafia was instantaneous and deep even up to this day. For example, we all know off top who Al Capone was but would struggle to find out who the president of the United States was during the time Al Capone was alive. And without Google today I'd say some of us would probably never know or even care to find out. The legal limits were stretched to the fight the mafia then and they are still being stretched to this day to justify your parking ticket or your "failure to signal." So what does all this mean? Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it fair? Is there a solution? Unfortunately and fortunately there is no one solution. Law enforcement and criminality are like hand and glove. They are forever connected and as long as you have one you'll have the other and all the externalities from both sides that come along with them. Abuse of authority by authority will be balanced somewhere on the other side by abuse of the system by criminality. Freddy Grey dies unjustly in police custody on one side and El Chapo escapes from prison on the other side. An eye for and eye to be biblical about it. One hard solution to swallow for many is to just obey the law. Buuuuuut this "simple" solution also can create a set of dubious illegitimate children of its own because the law inextricably represents much more than its face value of "do not do and you will not be punished" for some "obey" is equated to "starve" or "go without" or "be poor" or "be insulted" or "be bored" or "be trapped in a vicious circle of economic and academically induced depression simply because I lost the biological lottery of life and was born into a family of second or third class citizens at a time and place where social status is dictated by race which also dictates access to the apparatuses of upward mobility etc etc etc..."

Sometimes "obey" explicitly means die. This is the root of the plague of vendetta that is sweeping through Chicago. The ever viral and ever rational and true "Kill Or Be Killed" mentality. For some "obey" MEANS "punishment." This misunderstanding of metaphorical process when it comes to how we refer, frame and live through the narratives of our individual lives is what causes much of the conflict. Objective law has little wiggle room for subjective reality. What "law enforcement officer" means in a dictionary and the courts can be far from the definition that it has on the streets and in practice. Police officers can be defined on the streets as surely protecting and serving but protecting and serving the wills of a corrupt authoritative system that if allowed to have its way will mean poverty forever and access denied ad infinitum. Police officers must be trained to assess not only the dangers of a situation but also the desperation of a situation. Is it just a coincidence that a synonym for criminal is "Desperado"? Law Enforcement has to become much more in tune and educated with the needs (material, PSYCHOLOGICAL, spiritual and cognitive) of the communities it is tasked with patrolling and if they are unable or unwilling to take on the entire scope of their position then they should find work elsewhere. Most police will respond to this by saying that such a comprehensive approach is not in there job description and will have little to no effect on the streets. One must then in reply confront them with the nature of law itself. Law is connected to the mentalities of man. It seeks to control or less invasively patrol the passions and actions of man which stem directly from his mind. And if you cannot fully comprehend the mind of a man as an externality of the environment in which he inhabits then how can you fully understand the mechanics of law itself? Again Law and the mind are like hand and glove.

Some cops will say that it is for the courts to decide. However, one must argue back plainly that judges, prison guards and prosecutors don't walk the streets or patrol the beats and they rely on and TRUST police officers and their presupposed understanding of the law to bring cases before them that only meet or exceed the requirements set out by the law. That is why POLICE OFFICERS HAVE TO TESTIFY IN COURT because they are considered to be expert witnesses in terms of criminal justice and are expected to expose the very fine details of active criminality that a DA stuck in an office or a judge stuck behind a bench does not have the time nor mental hard drive space to process thoroughly. Be clear on two things: This is not meant to be a belittling or a rebuke of the police or the letter and spirit of the law. I have 3 siblings with long careers in law enforcement as police officers, correctional officers and sheriffs. This is also not an approval of criminality. I have exponentially many more family and friend who have been involved in the world of crime and it is nothing to brag about or applaud as a successful life to lead. Most of the time it has ended in death or prison or both. Both these institutions are reflections of the human condition and our understandings and misunderstandings of the way the world is "supposed" to work. The death of Sandra Bland is the perfect example of when these two amorphous and wandering institutions get it all the way wrong. Sandra perceived the law enforcement officer to be a law enforcement officer and all that that entails in control of his emotions and strictly subservient to the rule of law when in fact he retreated to criminality and reverted to lawlessness to prosecute what he perceived to be a disrespectful criminal threat in Sandra as opposed to her being a law abiding but pressurized citizen questioning the lawfulness of her stop. Her death in jail is a reflection of the misunderstanding of the mental pressure even the tiniest amount of perceived injustice can do to a person.

While I hesitate to judge her cause of death I feel comfortable in saying that if it was suicide it speaks to the depth of the belief we as humans have in right and wrong. Sometimes people would rather die than face the injustices of this world and it doesn't need to be years or decades to decay someone to such a state it can take hours or days. Even seconds. The direct connection between The Law and The Mind is something that needs to taken very seriously by not only police officers but also by the rank and file citizen. The FULL scope of Law and Law Enforcement and Criminality and what effects they all have on the already overly sensitized and tandemically overly desensitized psyches of the communities they inhabit needs to become a dominant issue in culture. So while law enforcement officers may by definition not be our "friends" it might be time that they damn well think about becoming them or at least stray from acting as our enemies. And it might do use well to accept them as "friends" if they honestly extend the offer and not make ourselves enemies to them based on what we see in the trending multimediums as "Brand Cop." Otherwise we together run the risk of giving birth to a new child, one that will feed not on milk but instead off the flesh and blood of its parents. Sincerely,

Wasalu "Lupe" Jaco
 
Educating people in this reparations topic is literally hell. Like 9th circle level. I mean whatever at being against reparations but it's descended to a level of willful ignorance that I honestly have to convince myself isn't a joke.
 

gogosox82

Member
My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.

Damn. Sorry for your loss man.
 
My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.
My most sincere condolences my man. Keep your head up.
 

Numb

Member
Educating people in this reparations topic is literally hell. Like 9th circle level. I mean whatever at being against reparations but it's descended to a level of willful ignorance that I honestly have to convince myself isn't a joke.

I see you are at the edge in there.
Watch yourself even if the guy is something else.
 
Lupe's talking on Instagram again, thought someone might be interested.

I don't follow Lupe but I should. I should have after his response to Charleston and White Supremacy.

I see you are at the edge in there.
Watch yourself even if the guy is something else.

Yeah I'm done for the night (and the rest of my life). If this whole thing is an operation, then sometimes I need to know when to call it.
 

EloquentM

aka Mannny
These last few pages of fuckery...and we got a reparations thread in OT? Man, I'm happy I've been busy this weekend. Shit, I may be looking at getting a ps4 soon. Life is good.
 

Numb

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These last few pages of fuckery...and we got a reparations thread in OT? Man, I'm happy I've been busy this weekend. Shit, I may be looking at getting a ps4 soon. Life is good.

Get a nice bundle of games if you have been using plus.
I didn't even play 5% of my plus stuff.
 

FreeMufasa

Junior Member
My sincerest condolences. Did they find the driver?

Yea they got him an hour later. The dude hit a woman and her child and as he was escaping from that, hit my dad aswell.

The police gave my family CCTV footage and they just sent it to me. Regardless of it being my dad, it's the worst car hit ive ever seen...
 

Afrocious

Member
Holy fucking shit at that black racism experience thread. Of course I don't see a single thread appear dealing with the issues other minorities deal with. Those motherfuckers don't actually give the slightest shit about what other groups go through, they just wanted to silence the thread.

I was going to make a thread about this. I was writing out some stuff in a textedit window, but then I stopped when I came to the same conclusion as you've pointed out.


My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.

My condolences. That's rough, man. I can't comprehend that at all.
 

double jump

you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
My dad was killed yesterday evening.

Was crossing the road and some wreckless yout driver took him and a woman with her kid out (they also passed away).

Still hasn't sunk in yet. Not that I can't accept he's gone, but I haven't had any emotional reaction to it. Man was only 50. I can't help feel sorry that he was just crossing the road and 40 mins later he's gone. And j feel incredibly vex.

I'll be on a flight back to london sometime this week. Just wanted to let you mans know. Safe.

I'm so sorry.
gonna keep you and yours in my prayers fam.
 

DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
Yea they got him an hour later. The dude hit a woman and her child and as he was escaping from that, hit my dad aswell.

The police gave my family CCTV footage and they just sent it to me. Regardless of it being my dad, it's the worst car hit ive ever seen...

thoughts and prayers for you man.

something similar occurred in my family, so i know that there really aren't any words for the situation.
 
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