I would answer the poster above me, but I wouldn't want to "trigger" him and hurt his wittle "fees-fees" because he very "sensitive" to any kind of criticism or opposing viewpoint other than his own.
If somebody else would like to ask the same question, I will answer.
But I flat out refuse to risk giving the previous poster the "vapors" by offending his "delicate sensibilities".
Apparently, he's a very "delicate flower"... or so I'm told and got put on "probation" for.
I would answer the poster above me, but I wouldn't want to "trigger" him and hurt his wittle "fees-fees" because he very "sensitive" to any kind of criticism or opposing viewpoint other than his own.
If somebody else would like to ask the same question, I will answer. But I flat out refuse to risk giving the previous poster the "vapors" by offending his "delicate sensibilities".
Apparently, he's a very "delicate flower"... or so I'm told and got put on "probation" for.
Fitz301 is really "full of it" with these remarks. I take that ("poster above me") as a reference to me. Even if that were a reference to someone else and not me—I think it's unambiguously me—that would be a distinction without a difference.
If I needed a "safe space", I wouldn't be here. I'd have given this forum up many years ago, already.
I don't need a safe space to protect me from criticism. I do want a forum where people keep it civilized. Some keep it civilized because that is what comes naturally to them. Others need a slap on the wrist from the forum's owner and moderator—a brief probation—to clarify where the lines need to be drawn.
Just for the record, I did not petition Cliff Pennock to have Fitz301 put on probation. I have not reported any of his posts, and I have not communicated privately with Cliff Pennock or with anyone else about anything that Fitz301 has said, since he became active some weeks ago in this Politics & Religion section.
If someone described me to Fitz301 as a "delicate flower" or anything of that kind, then whoever did that is just as "full of it" as Fitz301. I doubt that any such remarks were conveyed to him... that someone actually said that kind of thing about me. I think most likely this is Fitz301 talking with a part of his anatomy that I endeavor to not ever use for that purpose. Some other purpose(s)—but not for talking.
The "delicate flower" is clearly Fitz301. He's the one who can't abide it when his remarks are criticized or countered with disagreement. The proof is in these very same remarks from Fitz301 that I just quoted to frame this response. He thinks he should be granted a license to be unreasonably rude.
I don't think that will happen.
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"‘Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah’ lyrics from ‘Song of the South’ removed from Disneyland parade"
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The melody originates from the 1946 feature “Song of the South,” which has been criticized for featuring racist imagery and themes.
A brief news report. Here's how it ends:
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Set in the southern United States during the Reconstruction era, “Song of the South” follows a white boy who befriends an older Black man who works on a plantation. During its release in the ’40s and across subsequent re-releases, the film drew criticism for its use of racist stereotypes and its ahistorical conception of the plantation system as a harmonious, consensual partnership between white owners and Black slaves.
Disney CEO Bob Iger has stated that “Song of the South” is “just not appropriate in today’s world.” The film has not been released in any format in recent years.
I don't think the FBI NIBRS data is broken down as "Murderers per 100,000". I think that is most likely someone who came along and changed "Murders per 100,000" to "Murderers per 100,000".
It's suggestive of something that's meaningful, but it should not be taken at face value.
A numerical table of this kind without the documentation to explain it is "malarkey".
"Fitz301" should know... this was what he said himself (in so many words) when I posted a data plot or numerical table in some other thread, that was part of a discussion about Greenhouse Gases and Global warming.
Originally posted by Fitz301: And WHY should we feel "sorry" and give these "people" free money, oops, "reparations", again?!?!
The Chicago suburb of Evanston inaugurated a reparations program not that long ago. It's received a fair amount of media coverage. It's not conceived as reparations for slavery. It's reparations for injustices of more recent vintage. The practices of racial redlining that created and preserved racially segregated neighborhoods, and the Evanston city government's role in creating "two" Evanstons, an Evanston for whites and an Evanston for blacks, with structural disadvantages for the "black" Evanston.
These practices persisted for many decades during the 20th century.
The jury is still out (so to speak) about the pros and cons of this carefully designed reparations program and about how it is working out for Evanston and its residents.
Any ambitious reparations "maven" would do well for themselves to avail themselves of whatever resources are available to them to bone up on this story about Evanston.
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The Chicago suburb of Evanston inaugurated a reparations program not that long ago. It's received a fair amount of media coverage. It's not conceived as reparations for slavery. It's reparations for injustices of more recent vintage. The practices of racial redlining that created and preserved racially segregated neighborhoods, and the Evanston city government's role in creating "two" Evanstons, an Evanston for whites and an Evanston for blacks, with structural disadvantages for the "black" Evanston.
These practices persisted for many decades during the 20th century.
The jury is still out (so to speak) about the pros and cons of this carefully designed reparations program and about how it is working out for Evanston and its residents.
Any ambitious reparations "maven" would do well for themselves to avail themselves of whatever resources are available to them to bone up on this story about Evanston.
Who is and has Chicago mostly been run by?
Why do demon-craps feel that darkies will be happy when constantly given treats like rewards? Does D-evil see the darker skin pigment beings as offshoot domesticated animals/pets like pitbulls?
"The Kingdom of Benin prospered from the 1200s to the 1800s C.E. in western Africa, in what is now Nigeria." ~ National Geographic
EXCERPT from SciTech Africa
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The development of huge iron lamps for street lighting was one of the technological innovations from blacksmithing in Edo. The street lights were made up of huge metal lamps, many feet high, placed around the city and fuelled by palm oil. Their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic on the streets. “I have been struck by the large lamps in the compounds exciting so little remark. They were about 20 feet high and the receptacles for the oil & wick were about 4 feet in diameter” wrote Henry Ling Roth in 1903 quoting Cyril Punch who visited Benin City in the 1880s. “All the gentry had these lamps. Palm oil was put in the pan, and a piece of raw cotton wool placed on the edge of the pan served as a wick: a small flat piece of iron was placed on the top of the wick to prevent the oil all taking fire at once.”
The Benin Empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century. The walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom were a man-made marvel described as “the world’s largest earthworks prior to the mechanical era”.
In a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia, some 645 [kilometers] from Addis Ababa, eleven medieval monolithic churches were carved out of rock. Their building is attributed to King Lalibela who set out to construct in the 12th century a ‘New Jerusalem’, after Muslim conquests halted Christian pilgrimages to the holy Land. Lalibela flourished after the decline of the Aksum Empire. . . .
The churches were not constructed in a traditional way but rather were hewn from the living rock of monolithic blocks. These blocks were further chiselled out, forming doors, windows, columns, various floors, roofs etc. This gigantic work was further completed with an extensive system of drainage ditches, trenches and ceremonial passages, some with openings to hermit caves and catacombs.
Biete Medhani Alem, with its five aisles, is believed to be the largest monolithic church in the world, while Biete Ghiorgis has a remarkable cruciform plan. Most were probably used as churches from the outset, but Biete Mercoreos and Biete Gabriel Rafael may formerly have been royal residences. Several of the interiors are decorated with mural paintings.
Near the churches, the village of Lalibela has two storey round houses, constructed of local red stone, and known as the Lasta Tukuls. These exceptional churches have been the focus of pilgrimage for Coptic Christians since the 12th century. . . .
ChatR.I.: Africans invented architectural design way before Europeans. Africa was better than Rome until whitey came to the continent of great magnificent wonders. WonderBoy: Where is it all? ChatR.I.: I've got some photos of churches carved from rock and stone.
What else you got? A photo of modern hospitals (copies)?
It's easy to copy things.
Liberal Marxipads love handing out dog treats entirely made of saw dust. Spare us your pandering BS.
The Walls of Benin, one of Africa’s ancient architectural marvels, were destroyed by the British in 1897 during what has become known as the Punitive Expedition. This shocking act destroyed more than a thousand years of Benin history and some of the earliest evidence of rich African civilisations.
The astounding city was a series of earthworks made up of banks and ditches, called “Iya” in the Edo language, in the area around present-day Benin City. They consist[ed] of 15 kilometers of city Iya and an estimated 16,000 kilometers in the rural area around Benin. The walls stood for over 400 years, protecting the inhabitants of the kingdom, as well as the traditions and civilisation of the Edo people.
