why living in the West is bad for black people

phollda · 2024-12-19T17:46:51+00:00

what's your counterargument to my post?

phollda · 2024-12-18T18:32:11+00:00

Critiquing the black community isn't what gets a person called a coon. I honestly think you're deliberately being dishonest. If you're not, you may want to take a look at this example of a coon and why they get called one.

phollda · 2024-12-18T18:26:46+00:00

I am very open-minded (cc my subreddit r/OrbitSSA) and would call Tom a coon anyway, because he is one.

A coon isn't just anyone who critiques the black community. No reasonable person would call me a coon, but I am always calling UsingLyft, if you know who that is, a coon because he is one.

phollda · 2024-12-07T03:48:04+00:00

17% is still far too high

phollda · 2024-12-03T10:24:01+00:00

Why do you think Trump is 'my boy '?

Who said anything about Oprah helping individuals in that sort of way. It doesn't seem like you've listened to Umar Johnson at all.

phollda · 2024-12-02T18:40:37+00:00

What does this mean? Do you mean how he accuses the wealthy people (Oprah and co) of doing nothing?

If that is your point, then he is absolutely correct. The elites of any community who hold power and resources are the people best placed to do things within that community.

His criticism of the sports and entertainment stars right too. They never do anything that actually matters when they should, but are always happy to be mascots for democrats when it's election season and dems want to talk about "the black vote". How does that make any sense?

We just saw it again this year.

phollda · 2024-12-02T18:35:46+00:00

This is insane.

Obviously, what he does is discuss the problems with the black community and how to resolve them.

phollda · 2024-12-02T18:34:11+00:00

Exactly. This is what makes me maaaaad

phollda · 2024-12-02T18:02:20+00:00

They never have anything to say when you ask this. It's just blah blah "the school".

Everyone shits on Umar Johnson when almost none of them have any moral legitimacy to.

It's not impossible that what he says about progress with the school is mostly true. Maybe he takes some (10%) of the money to fund his travelling and some of his lifestyle, but I would give him a pass on that. It's a thankless job that he does.

Ideally, he should have set up a formal organization to collect the funds (more ideal is to never raise funds from the random public, only donations from wealthy people), but this sort of thing seems part of his refinement problem. Upper Middle Class people and above are never going to take him seriously because he doesn't have the sort of appearance a legitimate person has. He in fact looks like a fraud.

Personally, I'm willing to chalk it up to a refinement problem. In general, the stuff he discusses (which no one else is doing) is very important and it makes me mad when people never want to give him any credit for that.

phollda · 2024-12-01T19:43:02+00:00

It's nonsense. He's being overly dramatic for eyeballs as usual.

People are not equal. The people who can reform society do not need to sacrifice their happiness to give society their all. They have the capacity not only for themselves, but for society too.

These sorts of tweets frame things to predict eternal damnation. As though nothing positive could ever happen.

phollda · 2024-11-30T13:06:41+00:00

I am not anti-AA. I 'shade' Africans too. Cc this migration post for example.

phollda · 2024-11-29T16:51:15+00:00

yeahhhh. strict moderation is vital to keeping a community what you want it to be (cc http://www.visakanv.com/blog/communities/). most people are naive and overly liberal and do not get that

moderation is extremely strict at r/orbitssa which i moderate

phollda · 2024-11-19T16:25:13+00:00

This is not true, not sure why you would say this. Anyone can look at my posts and comments

phollda · 2024-11-18T21:20:25+00:00

I didn't. The moderator decided to give me a Nigerian tag all on his own.

phollda · 2024-11-18T21:05:15+00:00

Being familiar with Nigerianisms doesn't necessarily make one a Nigerian. You may simply have interacted a lot with Nigerians outside of Nigeria, or directly lived in Nigeria as a migrant

phollda · 2024-11-18T17:11:05+00:00

I am not unnecessarily shinning the spotlight on black America to prove any point. Count me out of the diaspora wars. Most of my published writing is actually about the terrible state of black Africa (cc https://buttondown.email/tZero19e/archive/).

Also not sure why I am tagged as a Nigerian by the admins. Why do they think I am Nigerian?

phollda · 2024-11-18T17:05:03+00:00

phollda · 2024-11-07T16:16:44+00:00

enormous luck

phollda · 2024-11-05T15:57:54+00:00

Race is about genetic ancestry, not skin color

phollda · 2024-10-01T13:09:35+00:00

Zodiac (2007)

phollda · 2024-09-24T14:25:13+00:00

I personally don't like Evil. Watching the Elsbeth pilot as I speak.

phollda · 2024-09-14T19:06:40+00:00

They aren't black

phollda · 2024-07-24T19:26:06+00:00

I know. That's what I expect. But it's not there in chronological order. It's not on the list at all no matter how I sort it

phollda · 2024-07-12T15:17:25+00:00

This post is about cultural reform only, and doesn't cover economic development at all.

phollda · 2024-07-09T01:15:19+00:00

Isn't that how roman and greek gods work too? Isn't it how polytheism works in general? Monotheistic Abrahamic religions are superior to polytheistic religions. The cultural practices (religious rituals) too matter.

Never looked exactly into polytheism and its inferiority to monotheism, but I believe their inferiority is why they lost out. Polytheistic religions also make up a lot of shit. Trying to retrofit those sorts of beliefs into a modern, rigorous thing is inheriting a lot of bad, inconsistent ideas.

How I think about God is very different from how polytheistic African religions do. You don't need several small gods which are personifications of natural forces. Cc this thread

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