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Subject: "Did you mean to ask that here?"
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DavidHasselhoff
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Mon Mar-23-15 06:28 PM
91. "Did you mean to ask that here?"
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>It's like only like 3 females post on this site.
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Black men, do you feel stifled?
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Mon Mar-23-15 02:06 PM
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sure.
IkeMoses
Mar 23rd 2015
1
more than black women?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
2
no.
IkeMoses
Mar 23rd 2015
66
am I asking the wrong questions or are you purposely being squirrelly?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
69
the question is just very open-ended.
IkeMoses
Mar 23rd 2015
70
I want all the answers that's why. and I didnt wanna influence any answe...
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
71
why? i live on the margins of my society.
IkeMoses
Mar 23rd 2015
73
thanks for the teeth, sir.
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
79
i logged in to say damn, cuz
duD
Mar 23rd 2015
96
you have to pick a master. until you do, it's an uphill struggle...
FLUIDJ
Mar 23rd 2015
3
this part I see a LOT of:
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
4
much more noble than those. Success, Keeping it "real", Pleasing you mam...
FLUIDJ
Mar 23rd 2015
8
this is good
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
31
well, i am certainly drinking later.
double negative
Mar 23rd 2015
11
I don't feel handcuffed.
tariqhu
Mar 23rd 2015
5
had u made many "mistakes" before u came to this realization:
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
10
too many to name, but a few big ones.
tariqhu
Mar 23rd 2015
18
Its not hard, I do what I'm supposed to do and it gets done.
DavidHasselhoff
Mar 23rd 2015
6
do you/did you have help? If so, from whom/what?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
12
No help, I just put myself out there. Let people get to know me, I dont ...
DavidHasselhoff
Mar 23rd 2015
29
what i mean is did you come from a semi functional fam, have
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
32
Never let this society take away your cheerfulness.
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
7
what do you think separated you from the other men in jail?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
27
nothing. i was hanging wit them all day
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
30
i mean as far as your walk in life. why are you out and they aren't?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
33
we were all in there on misdemeanors.
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
39
i know a couple them:
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
44
Yes.
8-bit
Mar 23rd 2015
9
couldn't some of those be considered positive traits, tho?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
16
The traits on the left are positive ones. The ones on the right are how....
8-bit
Mar 23rd 2015
37
right, but why do you think they're interpreted that way where you
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
38
The FEAR I see in people's eyes... while I'm wearing a shirt & tie.
8-bit
Mar 23rd 2015
43
what city do you live/work in?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
47
Philadelphia
8-bit
Mar 23rd 2015
78
i realize that i do not have the view of entitlement in my rolodex
double negative
Mar 23rd 2015
13
nigga you supposed to be everywhere
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
19
social cues+racial neuroticism = lets be real
double negative
Mar 23rd 2015
22
"racial neuroticism" is a great term
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
35
I should also add....
double negative
Mar 23rd 2015
52
whatever this is: an over-think-y ambivert, i think i'm it, too lol
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
54
yeah me too
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
59
i sense that with just about every black man i ever accompany
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
21
everyday....can't be 'myself' in at all times
ambient1
Mar 23rd 2015
14
it doesn't sit well with me either.
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
23
The answer right below me
rdhull
Mar 23rd 2015
15
stifled? no. frustrated? yeah.
BrooklynWHAT
Mar 23rd 2015
17
frustrated how?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
25
it just feels like i have a lot of limits on me
BrooklynWHAT
Mar 23rd 2015
41
i wish okp had the thumbs up like facebook, lol.
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
42
too young to give up.
BrooklynWHAT
Mar 23rd 2015
55
Being a black man has only been a positive for me. No Lie.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 23rd 2015
20
Honestly, I've only RECENTLY seen it effect my advancement.
spades
Mar 23rd 2015
24
how?? this really has me curious. so you saying being a black
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
34
oh it ABSOLUTELY has it perks.
spades
Mar 23rd 2015
68
This is exactly right.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 23rd 2015
93
how has being a black man benefitted you?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
26
this has been documented, bin has talked about it.
double negative
Mar 23rd 2015
56
I've benefited from Affirmative Action. Also no matter where I go
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 23rd 2015
92
this is also something i agree with
double negative
Mar 23rd 2015
53
even in finding housing / apartments?
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
62
I can't think of it ever being a problem in that regard.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 23rd 2015
90
Yes, all kinds of social limits on how I "should" be
kevlar skully
Mar 23rd 2015
28
not fitting stereotypes? do you sense that people are
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
36
People that have a box for me are disappointed I'm not in it, usually
kevlar skully
Mar 23rd 2015
46
does that disappoint you?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
50
It usually manifest itself as an attack on me not being "enough" someway...
kevlar skully
Mar 23rd 2015
58
i don't but I know my brothers do.
Deadzombie
Mar 23rd 2015
40
how are you different from your brothers?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
51
no.
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
45
do you think it's different for gay men, tho?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
49
Yeah, I want sowhat to elaborate cuz...
Madvillain 626
Mar 23rd 2015
60
all speculation on my part, but
tariqhu
Mar 23rd 2015
61
i do feel that.
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
83
this is the key
tariqhu
Mar 23rd 2015
89
or any gay okp.
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
63
OR MAYBE i don't feel like being a black man has hampered me
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
77
Dan Savage talks about this all the time.
spades
Mar 23rd 2015
65
i am so sick of you ppl.
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
76
*BLINK**BLINK*
spades
Mar 23rd 2015
85
Living in this gay bubble where all of my world is super gay
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
88
well it helps that i duck walk and dip every 5 steps.
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
75
you are not a flaming ass dick champion faggot in my eyes
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
82
i know, i know.
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
84
I ain't been on here since December tho. I come in peace, I swear.
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
86
I believe you.
SoWhat
Mar 23rd 2015
87
LOL. thank you, sir.
2.tears.in.a.bucket
Mar 23rd 2015
94
it depends on how you mean.
atruhead
Mar 23rd 2015
48
Not At All
vee-lover
Mar 23rd 2015
57
nope, beyond not being the millionaire I feel I deserve to be
blkprinceMD05
Mar 23rd 2015
64
what do you think of reply #65?
scout
Mar 23rd 2015
67
that hasn't been my experience but it makes sense
blkprinceMD05
Mar 23rd 2015
74
Used to
Shade
Mar 23rd 2015
72
i have never had it work against me
tomjohn29
Mar 23rd 2015
80
Where did all the females go on this site?
Starks dunked on Bulls
Mar 23rd 2015
81
Was just going to say, bad post placement
select_from_where
Mar 23rd 2015
97
no
legsdiamond
Mar 23rd 2015
95
Nope, a solid education and proper preparation for the world...
Starbaby Jones
Mar 23rd 2015
98
hell yeah! these peckerwoods don't want no nigga to win.
2.tears.in.a.bucket
Mar 24th 2015
99
heck Yes In AMERIKKKA
mistermaxxx08
Mar 26th 2015
100
I surely did as a youth, but not as much now
-DJ R-Tistic-
Mar 26th 2015
101
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