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MEAT
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Mon Oct-12-20 12:07 PM
16. "What?"
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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
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Do you agree with the word or title BLACK?
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Sat Oct-10-20 05:06 PM
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Black was the first title we settled on for ourselves that was far
Teknontheou
Oct 10th 2020
1
That term originated with Europeans . They created that term
allStah
Oct 10th 2020
3
Dosen't matter. The word Black is not a slur, and doesn't sound like one...
Teknontheou
Oct 10th 2020
7
It Might Not Sound Like A Slur But It Is One
Dj Joey Joe
Oct 12th 2020
20
https://youtu.be/rZHwGnGrm_k
legsdiamond
Oct 10th 2020
2
Unless we calling ourselves Black in an indigenous language of our
Musa
Oct 10th 2020
4
Dead Mike
MEAT
Oct 10th 2020
5
Y'all!
kevb
Dec 18th 2020
102
Yes. Wholeheartedly.
FLUIDJ
Oct 10th 2020
6
In America, i’m Black. Outside the borders, I’ll be African American...
FLUIDJ
Oct 10th 2020
8
May I ask how you also feel about the Black American Descendents of
kfine
Oct 10th 2020
9
RE: May I ask how you also feel about the Black American Descendents of
allStah
Oct 10th 2020
10
Aight, Sports weekend is over.
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
31
Ok, I hear ya. Fair points.
kfine
Oct 14th 2020
49
I like it more than African American
Boogie Stimuli
Oct 11th 2020
11
Black/AA...anything but ADOS (does any other group define themselves
nonaime
Oct 12th 2020
12
I get what you are saying
legsdiamond
Oct 12th 2020
13
Jews didn't rebrand themselves as descendants of the Holocausts, though
nonaime
Oct 12th 2020
14
Right. But would you agree tho that what the ADOS folks are after
kfine
Oct 12th 2020
15
I think reparations based on failed polices of the 60s 90s is what we'll...
nonaime
Oct 12th 2020
18
Ok. I respect your opinion.
kfine
Oct 14th 2020
51
The only way reparations will get any traction
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
56
I hear you. Fwiw I'm not a lawyer by any means (lol, I'm sure that's obv...
kfine
Oct 17th 2020
95
Uh.. you sure about that?
legsdiamond
Oct 12th 2020
17
Jewish people are wanting to be called something else? link it up
nonaime
Oct 12th 2020
19
I said what I said
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
24
They've done what by action? Change their name? No? Okay then
nonaime
Oct 13th 2020
25
Your words below
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
27
reminding folks (I was parroting your original language) is hardly actio...
nonaime
Oct 13th 2020
28
Nothing dishonest about my post or stance
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
30
rebuffing Holocaust deniers is not some massive campaign to rebrand the ...
nonaime
Oct 13th 2020
34
Why do you keep bringing up deniers?
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
40
They're the reason why Jews have to remind folks about the Holocaust
nonaime
Oct 13th 2020
48
It happened.. just like slavery happened
legsdiamond
Oct 15th 2020
52
And yet the question that you can't answer "yes" too, did Jewish people
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
57
I never said they changed their name
legsdiamond
Oct 15th 2020
58
Exactly, so if we want to remind folks about slavery, no need to change ...
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
62
What's wrong with rebranding black identity?
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
63
I literally said we've rebranded. Obviously that isn't the issue. read f...
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
66
I think that's a pretty decontextualized way to look at it.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Oct 13th 2020
38
?
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
46
We live in America. You are using that alt right bullshit argument
legsdiamond
Oct 15th 2020
53
Which begs the question
legsdiamond
Oct 15th 2020
54
But the country doesn't make these distinctions when violating folks rig...
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
65
If your fam emigrated in the 60s, you chose this life
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
69
Exactly.
legsdiamond
Oct 15th 2020
74
children of those immigrant parents had no say..they ass out too? Crazy
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
78
The reparations are for slavery. Full stop.
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
79
and you weren't enslaved. full stop. This is how reparations will play o...
nonaime
Oct 15th 2020
81
And there's the white supremacist talking point
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
83
offering a better strategy isn't a white supremacist talking point.
nonaime
Oct 16th 2020
85
This is some “conservative” white supremacist ass posting right here...
legsdiamond
Oct 16th 2020
86
limiting the scope of reparation to shut out other Blacks is no differen...
nonaime
Oct 16th 2020
87
Nope. Sorry but you ain’t in the group.
legsdiamond
Oct 16th 2020
90
Don't worry. It's not up to you. The folks who it IS up to say no
nonaime
Oct 16th 2020
92
yeah you lost credibility here
Brotha Sun
Oct 16th 2020
93
You are...who?
nonaime
Oct 16th 2020
94
*identifying as Blizzack.* 'Africa' not even African, and it is
poetx
Oct 13th 2020
21
Black-ish
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
22
You would have known that information had it not been withheld
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
26
As a creative I always laugh at the Black White color theory
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
29
RE: As a creative I always laugh at the Black White color theory
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
32
all of it is made up.
tariqhu
Oct 13th 2020
33
@the end of the day, we don't own these label. You Black if the cop says...
nonaime
Oct 13th 2020
35
African doesn’t make sense, but black does?
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
36
African made more sense when we got here.
tariqhu
Oct 13th 2020
37
It less about what we are called?
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
42
Doesn’t he get to choose what label he wants?
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
43
He said it is less about what he is called.
allStah
Oct 13th 2020
44
It matters less what we are called vs how we are treated
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
45
how did you even get to that conclusion?
tariqhu
Oct 13th 2020
47
Where in Africa? Can you land in Africa and have relatives meet you
legsdiamond
Oct 13th 2020
41
What about a sociological take on the "Black" and "White" labels?
kfine
Oct 15th 2020
55
after the fact racial nomenclature always gonna be problematic.
poetx
Oct 19th 2020
96
To me it's an umbrella term
Bluebear
Oct 13th 2020
23
Right. It used to describe more than just African-Americans
Buddy_Gilapagos
Oct 13th 2020
39
I’m Black. Styles P made a song about it
spirit
Oct 14th 2020
50
I've been called "white" and an "agent on this board recenty
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
59
I’m not understanding your argument or the point that
allStah
Oct 15th 2020
60
2 things
legsdiamond
Oct 15th 2020
67
My statement that all cultures have endured slavery
allStah
Oct 15th 2020
70
Yeah...you need to go back to the drawing board fam
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
71
That’s what I meant. It was a typo.
allStah
Oct 15th 2020
72
You repeated the typo
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
73
It’s not specific.
allStah
Oct 15th 2020
75
African isn't an ethnicity either
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
76
African is definitely an ethnicity when tied with the nationality
allStah
Oct 15th 2020
84
and btw, you repeated your typo again.
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
77
you are a white man tho
Rjcc
Dec 17th 2020
97
Hold up. Way-8
FLUIDJ
Dec 17th 2020
98
nothing.
tariqhu
Dec 17th 2020
99
I said dude was a white man
Rjcc
Dec 17th 2020
100
Ya'll really came back just to push the post platinum? LOL
CIPHA
Dec 18th 2020
101
I think 100 is gold...1K is plat. I'm probably wrong though...
FLUIDJ
Dec 18th 2020
103
I use Caribbean American
luminous
Oct 15th 2020
61
Is this an ethnicity?
CIPHA
Oct 16th 2020
88
RE: I use Caribbean American
allStah
Oct 16th 2020
91
Im rolling with James Brown instead of the weirdos on okayplayer
atruhead
Oct 15th 2020
64
I also want to push back on one of your initial assertions
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
68
Even more of a reason to identify with our true ethnicity.
allStah
Oct 15th 2020
80
How does identifying as an ethnicity tangibly help black society?
CIPHA
Oct 15th 2020
82
im black, youre black, were black. outside of america we're AA
BrooklynWHAT
Oct 16th 2020
89
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