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Username: Cub
Post Number: 1109
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 2:49 pm: |    |
Your last sentence is the most important sentence in your post.
Not all blacks are flocking to organized religions and embracing dated metaphorical filled superstitious nonsense. |
Mickeymac
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Username: Mickeymac
Post Number: 95
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 4:57 pm: | |
and not all blacks voted for Obama either
Just saying |
Terryh
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Username: Terryh
Post Number: 1127
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 5:06 pm: | |
A young educated black female professional mentioned she, like myself, voted for Nader.Although some things the Obama administration has done is very Naderish. |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1923
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 8:13 pm: | |
I'm checking in, but I'm also mentioning that I don't condone the "amerikkka" and "basic white people" stuff. You don't fight fire with fire. |
Cub
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Username: Cub
Post Number: 1111
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 8:40 pm: | |
I'm with you East_detroit. |
Mickeymac
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Username: Mickeymac
Post Number: 96
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 6:47 pm: | |
Basic white people stuff????
You mean like "Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night"? |
Vantanna
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Username: Vantanna
Post Number: 31
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 7:32 pm: | |
I'm Here. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 449
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 10:28 am: | |
Updated February BLACK JUSTICE LEAGUE roll call check in....
so far we have.....
Honorary Commander, 'Rasputin'
Commander, 'Zulu Warrior'
LT Commander, 'Detroit_Stylin'
Secretary of War, 'Blksoul_x'
'Bragaboutme'
'Cub'
'Isiostar'
'Originalg313'
'Vantanna'
'East_detroit'
'Raj313' Welcome to the kingdom
'D313' Welcome to the kingdom
'Mickeymac'
'Lodgedodger'
Please continue to check in for February 09' roll call.
BJL members as a reminder, don't forget to check out the happenings at Detroit's Russell Bazaar for the rest of this month.
They are showcasing Detroit's Black businesses and entrepreneur's. They are also offering FREE booth rentals for the weekend starting the 21st of February.
For more information click on below....
http://www.russellbazaar.com/? id=events
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting on! |
Detroitej72
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Username: Detroitej72
Post Number: 1233
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 12:51 am: | |
I'm checking in, but I'm also mentioning that I don't condone the "amerikkka" and "basic white people" stuff. You don't fight fire with fire.
______________________________ ___________________
And, because of people like East_Detroit, that is why we celebrate history, with the first BLACK PRESIDENT of The UNITED STATES of AMERICA!!!
detroitej72, PROUDLY VOTED FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA!!! |
Detroitej72
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Username: Detroitej72
Post Number: 1234
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 12:58 am: | |
P.S. If Detroit's Russell Bazaar is only offering free booth rental for blacks, then that is very much racist.
Always remember, "As ye do to the least o my brothe'r, Ye Do Unto ME... |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1957
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 6:28 pm: | |
Detroitej72, they are offering them to all business owners.
The tempest can now be replaced with Adagio. |
Jltyler
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Username: Jltyler
Post Number: 49
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:21 pm: | |
jltyler checking in reporting live from Knoxville, TN... |
Jltyler
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Username: Jltyler
Post Number: 50
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:26 pm: | |
jltyler checking reporting live from Knoxville, TN.... |
3rdworldcity
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Username: 3rdworldcity
Post Number: 1341
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 5:45 pm: | |
I'm not checkin in because I'm not black (or brown or pink or fuschia for that matter.)
I am mystified why anyone on such a forum would feel it necessary or desirable to identify themselves by race, creed or ethnicity.
One of this country's problems is that people identify themselves (amazingly, in my opinion) as African- Americans, Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans etc. We're either American or not. I don't want to be identified with the country (or in the case of "African-Americans," a continent) from which my ancestors migrated.
By the way, Egyptians, Moroccans, and several other nationalities can claim to be African-Americans and one doesn't see them so-designating themselves.
It gripes me that Pres. Obama perpetuates this practice, particularly for political reasons. He's no more African-American than I am. He's simply an "American" who happens to be of mixed race. He's as much white as he is black.
There will never be true racial/ethnic healing/parity in this country as long as people identify themselves with a foreign country/continent, for the most part, countries they have never visited and many can't even spell. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3930
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 6:52 pm: | |
Well said, 3rdworldcity. I bees wonderin' myself. |
Alsodave
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Username: Alsodave
Post Number: 726
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 6:57 pm: | |
I don't recall any reports of driving while "American". Must have been made up... |
Kathinozarks
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Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 1880
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:21 pm: | |
Meh...all people like to hang out with people like themselves. That's just human nature. |
Alsodave
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Username: Alsodave
Post Number: 727
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:26 pm: | |
Agreed. I hang out with a bunch of open-minded people. Go figure... |
Cub
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Username: Cub
Post Number: 1129
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 9:35 pm: | |
I like to hang with opened minded people too, but checkin in doesn't mean I agree with certain dialog or condone it. |
Cub
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Username: Cub
Post Number: 1130
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 9:36 pm: | |
I like to hang with opened minded people too, but checkin in doesn't mean I agree with certain dialog or condone it. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 452
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:06 pm: | |
3WC stated...quote:I'm not checkin in because I'm not black (or brown or pink or fuschia for that matter.)
Whether you are white, Black or non-color, you show your disconnect and perhaps rawness of history of cultural pride as you might be-amiss to what 'Black' or 'Blackness' essentially describes and relates toward in the course of amerikkkas' order.
The term 'Black' in its inherent course , does not refer to a particular color of any particular person(as you speak), but instead to the attitude of pride, love and devotion to the race whose mother-land was the center of people of African descent. 'Black' or 'Blackness' was established to be the co-equal with the so-called white collective in respectability.
In other-words, 'Black' was born out of the reaction to how the hostile white collective perceived our humanity as less than of human. 'Black' in essence then, describes the similar experiences, occurrences, accomplishments associated within the history of our ancestors and the current body of population that make up the total amerikkkan' experience.
What amazes me most, is that some folk are quick to point out that our 'Blackness' is a hostile order. The simple truth is that 'Blackness' in amerikkka and throughout the world has NOT and has NEVER been a separatist philosophy, (perhaps that has been our major weakness). 'Blackness', has never been a philosophy of hate as our counter-parts attitude have historically proved to be capable. What is taken for hatred or 'hostility' by 'our' doctrine, is when 'Blackness' is reacted against being hated, rejected and oppressed.
Maybe because 'others' are the main possessors of hatred and separatism is perhaps the reason 'they' wish the race issues away. Perhaps they feel the quilt when Blackness speaks clearly, truthfully, and fiercely and unites to defend against inequalities and racial hostilities.
'3WC' claims, that this country will never have 'true racial/ethnic healing/parity'. The TRUTH may be perhaps, that African people have always been the people of peace, and harmony, and have marched, protested while being, dehumanized, terrorized and murdered all for the sake of acceptance within amerikkkas' so-called liberty__Reversly, white people (or so-called amerikkkans), and most other ethnic groups have resisted the presence, peace and integration of the Black experience, thus being the blatant proponents for a separatist nation__go figure!
Finally, for the sake of thought, explain to me the definition of an 'American' as most here so faithfully claim? Is there such a thing? Can a South American be an 'American'? Are Canadians Americans? Are so-called 'Americans' the sole possessors of the Americas? If so, it explains the hubris and arrogance of white supremacy to which the term 'American' is ensnared.
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 3086
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:52 pm: | |
Blksoul_x, you and I do not see many things the same way, at all, but I gotta tell you, I just truly fail to understand why the very existence of this thread seems to frost the asses of so many folks.
It's not as though you called it the "Honk If You Hate Honkies" Roll Call. |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1979
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:32 pm: | |
Meanwhile, Polish pride is alive and well in the Paczki thread and nobody gets upset.
To me, Black pride is equivalent to Polish pride, Irish pride, etc.
The problem is that people see it as a race thing when in reality it is more about a culture that does not have a particular country of heredity to assign itself to. So, people try "African American" to make it more about culture and then you hear the smart ass comments like "if I am white and from South Africa, am I African American? huh huh hehe."
People looking for pride in a culture and others don't like it.
Go figure. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 453
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:38 pm: | |
Ravine in my view....
The perceptive whites (and others) understand that the reference to them as 'others' or 'basic white' will be a threat to their absolute supremacy, especially if it causes us ('Blacks') to unify and begin to understand how fragile and pessimistic the basis for our present faith in the overall justice of the dominate order stands.
Thank you Ravine for looking in on the Black Justice League roll call!
Peace to you!
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Stosh
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Username: Stosh
Post Number: 44
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 12:23 am: | |
quote:Meanwhile, Polish pride is alive and well in the Paczki thread and nobody gets upset.
quote:The perceptive whites (and others) understand that the reference to them as 'others' or 'basic white' will be a threat to their absolute supremacy, especially if it causes us ('Blacks') to unify and begin to understand how fragile and pessimistic the basis for our present faith in the overall justice of the dominate order stands.
The difference in the two is, one is a quasi religious party surrounding a jelly donut, the other, a call to disobey, in not so many words,(see the bolded quote above) the government of the nation. Who, by the way,is currently being led by a Black man. go_figure!
And truly, if you live in Detroit, can you really expect people to buy that line about the dominate order? Please. Who runs Detroit? What supremacy? It's all a rather simplistic argument, blaming the ills of society on a race.
I don't deny that racism exists. I don't deny that racists exist in all races either. Can we all do better? Sure. But stoking the fires of racism sure helped Detroit out in the past 40 years or so, didn't it? |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1981
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:03 am: | |
quote:Can we all do better? Sure.
Yes, and you can start by not assuming that everyone in this thread thinks the same. Especially when Cub and I explicitly pointed out that we are not aligned with the divisive tactics. |
Stosh
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Username: Stosh
Post Number: 45
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:38 am: | |
I'm not assuming that at all, East Detroit. Really. I just mentioned the Paczki thread as a comparison to the BSX posting. |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1982
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 12:50 pm: | |
My analogy was about cultural pride using the Paczki thread. Comparing the thread to divisive comments really subverts what I was trying to put forth. |
Stosh
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Username: Stosh
Post Number: 47
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 1:08 pm: | |
I understand. sorry for the subversion.
Pride in who you are is important.
Taking it back to the original thread of this discussion, by 3rdworldcity, illustrates the (insert race or ethnic origin)-American idea quite nicely. People tend to categorize themselves into these artificial separations.
What 3rdworldcity was alluding to are these artificial constructs, not the pride in who one is, or pride in ancestry. We are all Americans, like it or not. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 454
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 7:23 pm: | |
'jltyler' checking in from 'Knoxvegas'!
quote:jltyler checking reporting live from Knoxville, TN....
The Black Justice League welcomes 'jltyler'!
'jltyler' checked in!
The Black Justice League continues to expand the village. We have members from Chi-town, and now Tennessee!(Wow!)
Please continue to check in for February roll call!
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 457
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 12:28 am: | |
It's March Madness Black folk!...Please check in on the Black Justice League March Roll Call.
Since it's March Madness, check in and rep your school...ie: High-school, College, etc.
Blksoul_x....Rep'n Tennessee State University!
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Zulu_warrior
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Username: Zulu_warrior
Post Number: 1261
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 11:09 am: | |
Zulu says "Go Blue! |
Cub
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Username: Cub
Post Number: 1139
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 11:21 am: | |
Cub checkin in!!! |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3605
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 6:04 pm: | |
Detroit Stylin still chillin on the Island... |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 460
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 1:21 pm: | |
D-stylin...I know you don't mean Belle Isle! LOL!
Be safe my brotha'...send us some warm weather! It is currently 18 degrees here.
Please continue to check in to the BJL March Roll Call.
blksoul_atcha! |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3607
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 6:52 pm: | |
Yeah no doubt of course I meant the Rock.... |
Bragaboutme
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Username: Bragaboutme
Post Number: 621
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 9:50 pm: | |
checkin' in. M.L.K. 1996!!! I Hope the Spartins go all the way, or atleast to the final four. |
Isiostar
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Username: Isiostar
Post Number: 18
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 7:43 pm: | |
checkin in |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 469
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 10:06 am: | |
Updated March BJL roll call...
So far we have...
Honorary Commander, 'Rasputin'
Commander, 'Zulu Warrior', rep'n GO BLUE
LT Commander, 'Detroit_Stylin' at the Isle
Secretary of War, 'Blksoul_x' rep'n the TSU TIGERS!
'Bragaboutme', rep'n MLK HIGH, and SPARTY!
'Cub'
'Isiostar'
Please continue to check in...
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Vantanna
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Username: Vantanna
Post Number: 34
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 - 12:00 pm: | |
VanTanna representing Livernois & Davison via Atlanta :-) |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 471
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 6:59 pm: | |
Vantanna representing from 'Hotlanta'!
Vantanna...Checked in!
We have a few absent members, please continue to check in!
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Originalg313
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Username: Originalg313
Post Number: 59
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 10:22 am: | |
Here! |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 474
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 10:41 am: | |
Thank you Og313!
Originalg313 checked in
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 475
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 10:48 am: | |
I read about the 'Ebony Experiment' in Detroit's Black owned newspaper (The Michigan Citizen). Although the philosophy of 'Buy Black' is not a new concept to our villages, it is refreshing to see someone actually espouse the idea that can show, what can, and what should be done by conscious, committed Black African people all around the world!
click to view the experiment....
http://ebonyexperiment.com/ind ex.html
How do you feel about this, could, or would, or do you espouse such a concept?
blksoul_atcha!
We are the ones we have been waiting for! |
Blksoul_x
Member
Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 476
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 5:59 pm: | |
ATTENTION:
From: Blksoul_x (Secretary of War)
To: Black Justice League members and associates.
Date: March 31, 2009.
Subject: DetroitYes New Forum sign-up!
_______________
Black Justice League Members. There will be a special April New Forum Check-in 'shout-out' thread on the new 'DetroitYes' forum to welcome all current members and all new members to our Kingdom.
Please sign-up for the new 'DetroitYes' forum insofar as we can continue our unique connection and support for the things that we believe and desire.
We need your support. To be sure, we have witnessed how one-sided issues relating toward the Black experience in amerikkkan' can become. We shall stay obligated toward exposing some of the on-going myths and stereo-types that are perpetuated through naive and sensationalized rhetoric that is sometimes offered by sources that are out to negate our best interest.
We shall also continue to offer information insofar as social gatherings, business opportunities, jobs, meet and greets, and other information that is specifically designed for the uplifting of our villages.
Thank-you for all your support.
blksoul_atcha!
The BJL...the color you love to hate! |
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