re: Reparations for Black Americans will cost up to $14 trillion and ‘could finally lead to cl

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Obama wasn't an African American?

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Obama is mixed.

Like my own kids.

He just leaned into the black part of his lineage for identity politics purposes.

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Race baiting is big money

I’d be happy to pay reparations to any black American that was personally enslaved. Even any black American who’s parents or grandparents were personally enslaved

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And what is THAT, iyo?

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In this specific context, as I said above, genetic studies show that the average African American has approximately 1/4 European DNA (24% per the article).

Obama has approximately 1/2 European DNA.

Thus, he is not "typical."

Are we now going to try to make THIS statement something that it is not? Since you took a moment to respond, we can be SURE of one thing ... Ooga will spend the next month pretending that I insulted you in this thread.

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In this specific context, as I said above, genetic studies show that the average African American has approximately 1/4 European DNA (24% per the article).

Obama has approximately 1/2 European DNA.

Thus, he is not "typical."

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Good breakdown

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Are we now going to try to make THIS statement something that it is not?

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Who is "we?" Are you still upset that you got annihilated in that other thread for saying whites who spend a couple of years near a ghetto know the "black experience" better? Because you were wrong then, and wrong now if you still adhere to that mess.

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Since you took a moment to respond, we can be SURE of one thing ... Ooga will spend the next month pretending that I insulted you in this thread.

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You and ooga are fricking obsessed with each other. To the point that you can't even talk to me in threads without referencing him/bringing him up It's fricking weird. You're talking to ME, not him. Quit bringing up your little board archnemesis. I truly do not care about y'all's beef.

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And what is THAT, iyo?

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Freudian slip?

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Ooga will spend the next month pretending that I insulted you in this thread.

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Rent free, little man.....

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To be honest, not "upset" but disappointed.

You and I have known one another for many years, and it DID bother me that you pulled that crap. You know that I do not have a bigoted cell in my body and that I was just making the analytical observation that a person who immerses himself in a culture (ANY culture) is going to understand that culture better than a similar person who has not had that experience. You disagree, and you are obviously entitled to that opinion. I certainly am not going to belittle you for it.

I don't know WHY you made more of it than that, but I had seen you as a person who is above that sort of foolishness. It disappointed me.

TBO, I expect that sort of behavior from someone like Ooga. He is a childish, petty little gadfly. He delights in being a nuisance. I generally ignore him, but he follows me like a bad penny, and it gets tiresome. His behavior makes this place less like a forum for intelligent discussion and more like a middle-school playground. The Admins COULD stop it, but you (plural) choose not to do so. It is what it is.

Hell, he references the discussion between you and me a half-dozen times per day ... and USUALLY completely mischaracterizes it as me telling you that I understand Blacks better than you understand Blacks. You COULD tell HIM to leave you the Hell out of it (as you have now asked me), but you don't. Again, it is what it is.

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My sincere apologies, Hank.

This is a message board, not a college lecture hall, but apparently you take Social Media really, really seriously.

Most do not.

I will never speak to you again because I realize the lasting damage I have caused you.

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You are the person who stands up in the audience at a panel discussion and starts yelling insults at the panelists.

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Do you have a link to this?

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The Admins COULD stop it

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A year long ban might stop it. Oh wait...

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it DID bother me that you pulled that crap

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Pulled what crap? I used your own shitty logic against you. Get bothered that you made a bad argument, not at me for pointing it out.

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You know that I do not have a bigoted cell in my body

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I never called you a bigot. I said you were extremely incorrect for equating proximity to a living situation to a racial experience/identity.

Again, this was about YOUR logic not adding up.

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I was just making the analytical observation that a person who immerses himself in a culture (ANY culture) is going to understand that culture better than a similar person who has not had that experience.

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You said/later doubled down on saying that ghetto proximity affords greater understanding of the "black experience." That's absurd (especially given that according to the numbers YOU provided, most blacks don't even hail from ghettos). Ghetto culture is NOT black culture, nor is it emblematic of the "black experience" (which you failed to define).

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I don't know WHY you made more of it than that, but I had seen you as a person who is above that sort of foolishness. It disappointed me.

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I was disappointed in your inability to see the error of YOUR ways. I made exactly what should have been made of such a terrible position. YOU pulled crap. Not I.

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TBO, I expect that sort of behavior from someone like Ooga. He is a childish, petty little gadfly. He delights in being a nuisance. I generally ignore him

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So, because I rightfully excoriated you for equating the "black experience" to being ghetto (or ghetto-adjacent), I'M being childish?

Tf?

And you tell me you generally ignore ooga, yet you CONSTANTLY bring him up. You talk about him more than anyone else on this entire site. I barely even interact with him. He's your problem, and you're his? I don't care. I've been on this site almost as long as both of y'all put together, and more than double y'all's posts. Why should I care about your slapfight?

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Hell, he references the discussion between you and me a half-dozen times per day

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You track individual users's posts? Why? Do you search your name or something?

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and USUALLY completely mischaracterizes it as me telling you that I understand Blacks better than you understand Blacks

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That is literally what you did. There's no mischaracterization there, my guy.

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You COULD tell HIM to leave you the Hell out of it (as you have now asked me), but you don't.

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I DON'T CARE ABOUT Y'ALL'S SLAPFIGHT, NOR DO I FOLLOW OOGA OR ANY OTHER POSTER AROUND CHECKING TO SEE IF THEY REFERENCE ME/YOU IN PAST POSTS.

Hell, I ghost this board/site for days/weeks/months at a time Again, you're obsessed, and wrong, and our being familiar with each other for years doesn't change that.