re: This type of black man is fast becoming more common ...

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You probably shouldn't take everything ZeroHedge writes as fact.

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Who is ZeroHedge?

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Figured you were referring to an article from here.

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Never been to that site before

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I strongly disagree with your statement, but that's more of a debate for the MT.

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MT?

My statement is based on a lifetime of observations of oil and the effect of energy to control the world going back to the Chinese. Through most of human civilization wood or water was the coin of the globe. This has been replaced by oil and will continue till the oil is gone or the next energy replaces it.

The good thing about being old is you understand that all of what is touted as new is just a reincarnation of something old.

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There's a lot of legitimacy to that but that also ignores a lot of factors in the global paradigm.

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Somewhere in the 80's I stumbled on an academic book that I feel sure nobody read as it was a good half a foot thick and filled with so much math most folks were put to sleep after the first or 2nd page. It may have been the worst selling book instead of a best seller list book. It took me awhile to read it and even longer to better digest it, but the author or authors were very detailed in their research. They detailed energy from the beginning of man from fire to the oil age.

The point of all this is energy is the global paradigm for the human race and has been so since we were in the stone age. You can believe what I say now, or sometime reach the same conclusion after a lifetime of study.

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MT is Money Talk, we haven't had a good philosophical economics debate there in a while.

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I generally don't talk about money online since the 300 baud days and monochrome monitors. Folks want the quick fix with no costs and there just is none. This is one area where person to person and face to face really is the best way to engage both parties in the discussion.

The most common black people today kill each other, sell drugs and demoralize women by leaving them to raise children alone and widespread calling them bitch. Not to mention gang violence. Truth hurts.

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The most common black people today kill each other, sell drugs and demoralize women by leaving them to raise children alone and widespread calling them bitch. Not to mention gang violence.

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At this point, it's almost a cliché to declare "There are more black men in jail than in college." I've heard it my entire life—from adults, friends, politicians, and assorted pundits. When he was just a presidential candidate, then-Senator Barack Obama told the NAACP that "We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America."

It's a great soundbite. But it isn't true. As Howard University professor Ivory Toldson shows in a story for The Root, the original report on black male college enrollment—the Justice Policy Institute's "Cellblocks or Classrooms," first published in 2001—is far out of date. "If we replicated JPI's analysis," writes Toldson, "we would find a 108.5 percent jump in black male college enrollment from 2001 to 2011. The raw numbers show that enrollment of black males increased from 693,044 in 2001 to 1,445,194 in 2011."

By contrast, of the estimated 2 million inmates held in state or federal prison—or local jails—841,000 are African American men. To be fair, those numbers are from 2009. Toldson provides a more direct comparison using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey and the Department of Justice's statistics on prison enrollment:

In 2009, the DOJ's most recent year for data on prison populations, there were more than 150 percent more black males in college than incarcerated. Given the declining prison presence of African Americans—incarceration rates fell sharply between 2000 and 2009, and remain on a downward slope—and the growing presence of blacks in higher education, the difference between the two populations is likely larger.

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Truth hurts.

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It sure does.

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It's funny you want a black man that acts and talks a certain way.

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Why is that "funny?" It's perfectly normal. Black people don't have to fit in some mold to retain their "blackness."

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Black people don't have to fit in some mold to retain their "blackness."

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You mean Bill Cosby did not arise like Venus from the Clamshell from some black Jello mold?



I am saddened to hear this!

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by Robert Goulet It's funny you want a black man that acts and talks a certain way.

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Indeed.

fricking t-sip with his fricking retarded hook 'em handsign, is what I think