Yea Brother Mouzone was a trip. This show has so many quotables.
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Yea Brother Mouzone was a trip. This show has so many quotables.
You two weren't close. He derailed just about every thread he posted in in a few comments. The pornstar thread was something else.
And I don't know what the fuck is up with shan, but I'm sure she(?) Is still watching over us in some capacity.
Professor Beef
Banned
Like a batshit insane guardian angel?
Like a confused, and insane guardian angel. I could have sworn that shan said he was a dude before january...
freenudemacusers
Member
yes, and it was brought up once or twice iirc. so who knows.
That makes me feel better then.
The Faceless Master
Member
I learned something pretty interesting today. Apparently there is a community of Africans living in an area called Abkhazia. It borders border Georgia, Russia and the black Sea. They migrated there a couple of centuries ago.
Info about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazians_of_African_descent
Info about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazians_of_African_descent
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
I learned something pretty interesting today. Apparently there is a community of Africans living in an area called Abkhazia. It borders border Georgia, Russia and the black Sea. They migrated there a couple of centuries ago.
Info about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazians_of_African_descent
Fascinating. I always love reading about stuff like this.
From that link I found this book 'Peter the Great's Negro'. I think i'm going to purchase it and read it this weekend.
The Faceless Master
Member
i read it and was like ... SUBSCRIBE
The Faceless Master
Member
glance at the first page of the OT, you can't miss it.
heliosRAzi
Banned
The OT has become a depressing forum full of ignorance. Or it always has been and it's just now coming to light.
its february man. im hoping this shit passes when the month ends.
heliosRAzi
Banned
I hope so, too. But it seems to be a year-long thing though. They think the world should be equal and that everyone should be equal, which it should, but they don't understand that not everyone is starting in the same place and that decades of discrimination still have an effect on us even today. That shit doesn't go away just because they say its gone.
Sorry, I just had to vent for a bit.
The Faceless Master
Member
other than a few threads at the start of the month, it's been at pretty normal levels.
I find it interesting, I read some posts and honestly have a hard time believing some one could think such things.
Its actually been pretty quiet this year.
Pressure is building, there will be a WSHH video and the resulting thread will have no less then 57 posters lose their damn mind.
The Faceless Master
Member
don't worry, it's an election year, business will pick up.
Bay Maximus
Banned
I anticipate great things when Obama gets re-elected. Great things indeed.
i can only hope he gets reelected.
CrazyDogg77
Member
What happened last election? Was it a lot of "We have a black president,racism is dead posts." It seems GAF is so liberal they wouldn't even be mad.
Devolution
Member
This thread about the black owned businesses. Apologies Black GAF.
Urban Scholar
Member
Bolded my general thought process when I see certain threads and the action I take.
Notice how we're laying low in lieu of an election year.
Supermanisdead
Member
lol that thread. i opened it and the first few posts just made me close the browser.
Devolution
Member
But we got a black president, you can come out of the woodwork now, racism is over and Obama ushered in an area of white people recognizing their privilege.
*looks at GAF*
Oh fuck lol nevermind.
The thing I don't get about threads like that are the people who say, "If white people did [X] it would be racist..." but the situations are never equivalent. Like, why would a white person go out of their way to shop at white owned businesses when most businesses are white owned?
Better yet, all the white people who won't shop at a place that is minority owned. wat dat stil happnz?
Devolution
Member
Lots of reasons, the basis of which is ignorance. It's the same shit Christians pull time and again, looking for a way to be the victim in any situation when they never truly are. And you're right the situations will never be equivalent based on the history of racism in America and the social/economical ladders that were constructed on the foundations of discrimination.
Should I? I need a crash course in how that shit works mang.
Professor Beef
Banned
Hashtags are in.
The Faceless Master
Member
and remember that GAF is more liberal that the real world!
marathonfool
Member
There's a few reasons.
A lack of racial identity to properly understand and empathy the context of racial communities. There's also a general lack of historical knowledge of the racist policy legacy and wealth distribution.
The worst offender is white/ignorant people co-opting the term racism as a catch all. Black people supporting black businesses. Racism. Women supporting women business. Sexism. Gays supporting gay business. Homophobia..wait...err. Wait until heterosexuals figure a way to co-op homophobic.
It's a subtle way to take away and dilute the meaning of the word. Reduce the acknowledge of it's existence in our institutional apparatus. Like Devolution says, it's a false equivalency and a harmful one. Puts in perspective how much farther race relations needs to go in America.
I'd still encourage you to participate in these threads. Else, how would folks even begin to understand.
Count Dookkake
Member
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The Faceless Master
Member
i've seen references to Heterophobia before on the internet. they're hilarious.
Devolution
Member
Hey, remember, don't do any sort of research on economic disparities in America, fucking racist ass black people.
Count Dookkake
Member
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FreeMufasa
Junior Member
I read the first 2 pages of the buy black thread and it made my head dizzy. I'm going to lie down.
I don't think I can handle them.
I don't think I can handle them.
Devolution
Member
There really needs to be a solid "why are you complaining we got a black president" meme if there isn't one already. I mean we joke about it but I haven't seen an awesome visual or anything.