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find the other half of his face and put them together

What Is There to Know?

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

The man that eats no pepper is weak, pepper is the staff of life

Hey Shaz:

A suggestion

When viewing "who is online" Is there a way we can list the registered members first - followed by the guests (see attched).  order and unity comes to mind

merci

Ho, you when fut?

good night and good luck

Why do African students who come to study in the US consistently outperform African-Americans in every field?

sexyLeamon:
@topic everyone for yourself

@topic

hunt him down and nail him to a tree

@poster

dude, this joke is awesomely funneee. I can't stop laughing

5 stars

JustGood:
don't mind us. we are supposed to be very happy and throw a party when you insult us. After all, it's a joke to you and it makes you laugh.
We have to be very bad for getting angry when great personalitites like you insult us as jokes

Long time no see.  where were you?   But i aint see you complaining or running to my rescue when they  insult me.  And name one person I insulted on this forum. 
ahhh, you cna't name one eh?

Peace

if its a dirty sexy scandal - then yes

men

We Are One

I pray we, all children of the earth, no matter our path to enlightenment, come to realize that we are one. We may walk our own paths, but we are not alone, for we walk at the same time, toward the same end/beginning. From our individual perspectives, be we Pagan, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddist, Taoist, or Hindu, are the same. I pray that we all feel the love of our Creator(s) and by example learn to see each other as brothers and sisters, allowing the boundary lines of religion to fade away. May the Lord and Lady bless your path. May you always have enough, and may you give enough in return. Blessed Be.

FaeAisling

@poster:

Re your subject heading . . . . .hmm tough decision

Honestly, I think its great when a woman can be at home/housewife but only if she has kids. Kids really need there parents at home when they are younger. I would love watching my kids grow up.  take them to school, be there when they get home, keep the house clean, cook etc BUT at the same time I think women should work so they can be independent and not have to always count on someone else and so they can be strong individuals also role models to their children.

Peace

Put A Ring On It


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koP3GOIPUyc&feature=related

Peace

@poster

Hope this video help


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koP3GOIPUyc&feature=related

Thanks all

Blessings

Father I give you thanks

Blessings

What Makes A Person “Black”?

By Robert N. Taylor



In the wake of the claims of Tiger Woods and the actions of Michael Jackson and others, a question has been raised in black internet chat rooms around the country as to whether there is a legal or biological definition of who is black

Actually, there is no law operable today which defines what percentage of “black blood” makes one black. The oft-repeated notion that one drop of black blood makes one black is a cultural definition which has neither a legal nor biological foundation.

The history of the notion can be traced to slavery and the period right after slavery called Reconstruction. Originally, in a bid to stop slaves who had been fathered by white slave owners and overseers from claiming freedom, property rights or possible inheritance, several Southern sates passed laws that in effect defined a black person as anyone with any “discernible” amount of “colored” or “African” blood.

But after slavery ended in 1865, these laws began to either die a natural death or were actually repealed during Reconstruction. The controversy which brought the race definition issue back up again was the infamous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Our high school history classes and Black History Month presentations have given us a distorted idea of who Plessy was and what he was about. We have generally been led to believe that Plessy was a black man arguing that blacks should be allowed the same accommodations as whites. This is not true. Plessy was actually a light skinned black man arguing that “he” should be given the same accommodations as whites because he had “7/8 caucasion and only 1/8 African” blood. Thus, he argued that he should not be treated as “black” under an 1890 Louisiana law requiring blacks and whites be seated in separate railway cars.

It was the Supreme Court which largely ignored Plessy’s “I am not a negro” argument and told him if he did not think he was black he would have to go back to Louisiana and argue that issue on the state level. The Court then went forward and assumed Plessy to be black and rendered its decision saying a state was within its rights to mandate separate accommodations for blacks in order to keep the races apart.

Thus, the net result of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision was two-fold: It legalized the racist “separate but equal” doctrine AND it left an attitude or mood within the nation that the highest court in the land considered all “blacks” – no matter how light in complexion or how absent of African features – to be black. This cultural attitude stuck. Although technically the Supreme Court never ruled on Plessy’s contention that he should be treated as a white man because he had been accepted as white in the Louisiana community in which he lived and because his “African blood was not discernible.”

However, it was discernible enough that the train conductor who required Plessy to sit in the “colored section” of the train felt he was black. And this in part helped to foster the notion that the government considered you black if you had just one drop of “black blood.” But, down to this very day, there is no law defining what makes one black, or white for that matter. It is basically a socio-cultural attitude based in major measure on how a person looks.

Simply put, in America, if you “look” in anyway black, you “are” black. That is not law. That is not science. It just is – a practical reality. Thus Tiger Woods’ mother may be from Thailand and Tiger may object to being called black. But it does not make a practical difference.

Further, it may be too late in history as well as potentially dangerous to be tampering with the socio-cultural definition of blackness even though the definition is a product of slavery. When the Census Bureau decided a few years ago to include a category called “mixed race” in the census, many people rightfully saw it as potentially divisive, asking what practical good does the “mixed race” category serve but to further divide people along largely artificial lines?

Finally, if one just has to ask the question, the real question should not be “who is black” but instead “who is white.” For if the theories of evolution and “out of Africa” are correct, there is only one “race” on the planet Earth and it had its origin in East Africa (around present-day Ethiopia) and then spread to all other parts of the world. Adapting to environmental conditions such as the degree of sunlight and developing in relative isolation, some groups evolved lighter skins and others evolved darker skins. Thus technically every person on the planet – from the darkest skinned person in the Congo to the lightest skinned person in Sweden – is of African ancestry.

In other words, like Plessy, we all have a degree of “African blood” whether “discernible” or not.

Here is an interesting article from Robert.  Should you have any questions, please feel to email him.   From a personal point of view, I find him to be very knowledgeable.

Peace

Robert N. Taylor Media Services
SirajT12@yahoo.com
202-657-8872

Human Life Began In Africa –

“Eve” Was A Black Woman Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago

By Robert N. Taylor

        (RNTN) Basing their conclusions on the most recent DNA research studies, paleo-anthropologists now believe that human beings first evolved in East Africa around 200,000 years ago and from there migrated to Central Asia about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago and then populated Europe and the Americas 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. Thus, from an evolutionary perspective, everyone in the world – from the darkest-skinned person in the Congo to the lightest-skinned person in Sweden – is of African ancestry.

        According to Professor Spencer Wells, “It looks like Central Asia was settled really early, around 40,000 years ago, as humans came out of Africa. We can trace back to regional ‘Adams.” Wells is with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, England. However, other paleo-anthropologists believe we can actually trace human history back to the original “Eve.”

        Paleo-anthropologist James Q. Jacobs has written, “Genetic comparisons provide evidence that all living human populations can be traced along maternal lines of descent to a woman who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.” This thesis was originally advanced by Berkeley University researchers Allan Wilson and Rebecca Cann in 1992. Their research is based on rates of change in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This DNA is contributed by the female side of the family line. It is ideal for tracing human evolutionary history because mutations accumulate steadily and rapidly and are not eliminated by natural selection like much of the DNA contributed by the male side.

        While there are differences of opinion, the dominant view among scientists is that the original home or “garden of Eden” for man was somewhere in East Africa – probably the Hadar or Afar region of Ethiopia where in 1974 anthropologist Donald Johanson and his crew discovered the famous “Lucy” skeletal remains. Other possible sites are the Laetoli in northern Tanzania, the Lake Rudolph site in Kenya, or Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

        It appears that humans began to leave Africa around 40,000 years ago as the Last Ice Age was drawing to an end. As the ice melted, parts of Asia and Europe became habitable by humans. By 12,000 years ago the mile deep sheets of ice that had covered North America were gone and humans began to migrate there over land bridges from Siberia into Alaska. Those land bridges no longer exist.

        “Races” evolved as the peoples who left Africa developed in relative isolation from one another. Those living in areas of intense sunlight developed dark skins as a protection against the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays while those who had migrated to areas of less intense sunlight evolved lighter skins so that enough UV rays could penetrate to synthesize adequate amounts of vitamin D. Professor Stephen Jay Gould postulates, for example, that a relatively dark people who migrated to Europe from Africa or Asia could become light or “white” within as little as 2,000 years in response to the less intense sunlight.

        Vitamin D – the sunshine vitamin – protects against many cancers. But dark-skinned people who live in sun-poor regions often lack adequate amounts of vitamin D. This may explain why certain cancers in America are more common among blacks than whites. The dark skin protects against skin cancer from UV rays but blocks the adequate production of vitamin D.

            (An exception is the Inuit (the people we call Eskimos). They live in a sun poor environment but have relatively dark skins. This may be because they get plenty of vitamin D from a diet rich in seafood.)

why not yes?

Squeeze all the juice out of her and make lemonade

bonjour mon amour

think i am related to Farrakhan


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