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The Black Culture Thread
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Dreams-Visions
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Yea, the the victims who were giving testimony in the OP of that eugenics thread were all black women. Their sobbing broke my fucking heart. These women old enough to be our mothers and grandmothers were just destroyed. Their souls were mortally wounded.
I am ruined for the day because of it.
This fucking country, man.
I am ruined for the day because of it.
This fucking country, man.
eternaLightness
Member
Londa said:
Killlll it with fire!!!!!
Man that story was tough to read. Ugh.
http://sandrarose.com/2011/06/rihanna-disowns-drake-he-might-as-well-come-on-out-of-the-closet/
(I'm posting too much XD)
(I'm posting too much XD)
Londa said:http://sandrarose.com/2011/06/rihanna-disowns-drake-he-might-as-well-come-on-out-of-the-closet/
(I'm posting too much XD)
how is that coming out of the closet? i hate tabloid sites like that.
Urban Scholar
Member
Londa said:
PhoenixDark
Banned
Londa said:http://sandrarose.com/2011/06/rihanna-disowns-drake-he-might-as-well-come-on-out-of-the-closet/
(I'm posting too much XD)
Can you keep the homophobic links to yourself. Thanks
Londa said:
Yeah. Well, there is a reason I started browsing this thread. It is a part of my heritage, so obviously I feel some connection to it. The post is sort of me thinking allowed. I just pondered the idea of a Mixed Race thread, I didn't really want to make one though. And a Mixed Culture thread doesn't really work because there kind of isn't one. It's more of a sense of not really belonging to either or even really accepted as either... but not unaccepted. It was something that kind of bothered me as a kid, but now I find it kind of cool. I certainly have rather interesting mix of ancestry.
I suppose a good example of someone you would know who is truly mixed race is "Slash". You can't really say he's black or white. If you notice Slash doesn't speak, act, dress, etc in a way you would associate with black culture.
I'm not mixed but I am of the yellow shade. I was raised on African American children books and movies.
In MD-DC-VA, there are a lot of well educated African American people along side the ghetto ones. I choose to focus on the positive side of being African American.
I am someone that has the shade of Beyonce. For some reason people this shade are not really seen as African American. It gets annoying tbh and I wish people would stop trying classify what a African American should look like.
That is all.
This is actually kind of relevant to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KKyw8V-l0
leadbelly said:Yeah. Well, there is a reason I started browsing this thread. It is a part of my heritage, so obviously I feel some connection to it. The post is sort of me thinking allowed. I just pondered the idea of a Mixed Race thread, I didn't really want to make one though. And a Mixed Culture thread doesn't really work because there kind of isn't one. It's more of a sense of not really belonging to either or even really accepted as either... but not unaccepted. It was something that kind of bothered me as a kid, but now I find it kind of cool. I certainly have rather interesting mix of ancestry.
I suppose a good example of someone you would know who is truly mixed race is "Slash". You can't really say he's black or white. If you notice Slash doesn't speak, act, dress, etc in a way you would associate with black culture.
This is actually kind of relevant to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KKyw8V-l0
At the time that you said that, we were talking about how the old thread got locked. It was just really bad timing.
Thanks for the link. My grandpa and mother have hazel eyes like him.
Dreams-Visions
Member
leadbelly said:
yeah, it was just bad timing. I could tell you wasn't responding to anything being said at that moment. But the reason the other thread got lock to my understanding was the fact that people wanted threads like "White People OT".
Dreams-Visions: really depressing. The government has done some messed up stuff.
ChocolateCupcakes
Member
This is depressing. I can't believe this happened.Dreams-Visions said:
spindashing
Banned
...God damn.Dreams-Visions said:
Ugh. Not in the best moods anymore.
Dreams-Visions
Member
yea, dogg. I made a thread about it because there were hearings today. Unfortunately, it got hella derailed.spindashing said:
They're trying to get these people compensation, but even then it will only be a little something. Somewhere between $20,000 - $50,000.
Every time I think about it, I get a burn in my chest. Shit makes me wonder why we consider that generation "America's Greatest".
magnificent83
Member
Dreams-Visions said:
I had to stop reading that thread ... Scary that people actually thought this was an acceptable course of action.
I really didn't know any of this information because it sure as hell didn't come up in my secondary school.
Jim E. Rossler
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Well I still have somewhat of a shapeup but it's been awhile since I've had my hair cutVeidt said:
Bay Maximus
Banned
Londa said:
I think Nicki Minaj is talented and I always enjoy a fresh take on Hip-Hop. Just wish she would tone down the sex appeal a bit though.
magnificent83 said:
Don't know if you're in the US, but our education system sucks. Especially history. So watered down and filtered. Even in college they don't tell you the whole story. Leaving out important shit we all should know about. Thank god for internet age. I learn something new everyday and it helps me connect and understand people and cultures I'm not familiar with.
Almost every month I find out something new in America's history that boggles the mind. Most of it swept under the rug and the majority have no clue.
slopeslider said:
bwahahhaha i don't think he was talking about your bush shape up
heliosRAzi
Banned
I read the article and they should seriously get more than $50k for that bullshit. And fuck those who say $20k is realistic.Dreams-Visions said:
spindashing
Banned
Ugh. It's stories like these that remind me that the world is a shit place to be no matter where it is that you live.Dreams-Visions said:
Dreams-Visions said:
The fact that people are capable of doing this without any guilt both angers and disturbs me. I know this country has done fucked up shit to people, but as more things come out, it gets more ridiculous.
I'm also not surprised that I wasn't taught about this in school. I'm not even sure if I learned about the Tuskeegee Experiments in school.
spindashing
Banned
I sure as hell didn't.Mr. Patch said:
There's a lot that schools don't teach/don't want to teach.
Pretty much, you've just gotta make the best out of what you've have. It's no secret the world has an ugly history across all kinds of nations, continents, etc. To be honest, I don't think I could've handled being black in any other time period than now, so much crazy shit went down, from eugenics to Emmitt Till, what depressing times.spindashing said:
Things aren't exactly perfect now, but for lots of people the opportunity of having a good life has went up significantly.
EDIT: Good god, I hadn't heard of the Tuskegee Experiments before, damn my heart just sunk.
heliosRAzi said:
For real. How do you go and fight enemies that was all up in eugenics and then a couple of decades later pull the same shit. 50k is bullshit. I think the japanese americans who were forced in concentration camps received like 20k per person.
This is the same government that let war criminals free for scientific data.
desa said:
Dude, don't talk as if you know everyone in America. Everyone has access to the internet. Just because stuff isn't in a text book doesn't mean people don't know how to research.
It's so easy to talk about Americans as if you are an enlightened foreigner looking from the outside in.
edit: I just wanted to note that a lot of African American History that I know of was not taught in school.
magnificent83
Member
desa said:
British certified schooling in Ghana, so obviously didn't cover a lot of American History Post-Civil War but then again, we also didn't cover a lot of Ghanaian and African History. Its always struck me as ironic that I probably learned more about other cultures in secondary school than about my own.
Also, just learning that Kwame Nkrumah is not the special leader that history tries to make of him. We learned in school about how great he was and not about the crimes he perpetrated that helped fuel Ghana's descent into a history of coups and failed governments.
So, its not just Americans who have to deal with this issue of not knowing the more sordid aspects of their history, some things should never be swept under the rug in order to make the populace happy or content.
desa said:
the thing is, there are sordid details that are removed from schoolbooks all over the world. history is written by the winners after all. america is no different in that regard except that we dont have much history to draw in comparison to asian and european contries.
desa said:
Maybe in Cali, but that is far from the truth in other areas. I've learn plenty from word of mouth from coworkers/friends/family plus the internet. I'm not really on the defensive, sorry if I came off that way. I can be pretty blunt at times. I guess I just don't like blanket statements. In your case it would be "most American's are unaware of anything not taught to them in grade school". My life experience says this is false, take what you will from it.
PhoenixDark
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I know you're discussing deep shit and all, but it's late and I'm tired as fuck. Stumbled across this music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35rNEBNiO4
and I'm like hmm, is it just me or is that semi racist against dark people. The negative, loud black girl has unkept, nappy hair while the positive "pretty girl" is light skinned and all. damn ricky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35rNEBNiO4
and I'm like hmm, is it just me or is that semi racist against dark people. The negative, loud black girl has unkept, nappy hair while the positive "pretty girl" is light skinned and all. damn ricky
Kitschkraft
Member
Dreams-Visions said:
I've always laughed at this phrase. I don't care how many Nazi scalps they bagged, fuck em all.
Kitschkraft
Member
PhoenixDark said:
LOL, of all the colorism issues in rap videos, this is a funny one to catch your eye.
Yeah, she is definitely a 'mammy in training'
MY daughter is the first and last dark skin child im having, the rest of my baby moms light skin chicks i even got an asian baby moms to make sure i have a daughter with good hair, too bad we had a son
Beautiful Black Woman i bet that b*tch look better red - Lil Wayne
How the fuck are you gonna say that about your daughter. Hip Hop community needs to stop this shit.
Beautiful Black Woman i bet that b*tch look better red - Lil Wayne
How the fuck are you gonna say that about your daughter. Hip Hop community needs to stop this shit.
Urban Scholar
Member
So I was watching Good Morning America and Raven Symone was on. Oh wow she's beautiful. *swoon*
MWS Natural
Member
You really are something else. You get outraged by dumb shit yet brush off real racism.PhoenixDark said:
lol @ the OJ Simpson thread, this should be fun.
PhoenixDark
Banned
MWS Natural said:
Not outraged, just found it interesting at 3AM. Shit's sad