Um..........actually black is the absence of light and therefore no colour at all. Most 'black' things are just very, very dark other colours.
/ref Father Ted's socks.
(/ref Father Ted's socks.
Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Fri 11 Feb 2005, 13:54,
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actually,nothing exists until observed. They've proved that with science.
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Fri 11 Feb 2005, 13:57,
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You are a solipsistAnd I would claim my five pounds if you actually existed.
( Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Fri 11 Feb 2005, 14:00,
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well,THE average Black person growing up in the Caribbean following the post-colonial era will have thought of himself, less than equal to his White co-residents or neighbours. This mindset being indoctrinated by his colonizers and sustained by succeeding generations of plantation owners who were ably assisted by Black bovines resistant to the truth or who simply couldn’t care less. Being Black in the Caribbean has long been and in many respects, continues to be synonymous with bringing up the rear of the social pecking order.
So entrenched is this perception today throughout the region that Black brothers and sisters discriminate against each other on the basis of complexion differentials. Brown skinned girls and boys are generally felt to be more attractive or worthy of special attention. Banks and other ‘in your face’ institutions have traditionally recruited the fairer in colour of Black people, tactically placing them in customer sensitive departments purporting the view that they are easier on the eyes appealing to a wider cross-section of customers.
My late father always said, ‘ignorance should be a crime’ but as a child I had no appreciation of his train of thought or its relevance to me. It was only at college that the crux of his hypothesis stuck with colossal force. Black people’s minds were necessarily conditioned to believe they were inferior to Whites! That being the case, their entire existence was the result of a carefully orchestrated conspiracy perpetrated by Europeans to rob them (Africans now African-Caribbeans) of their rich heritage and culture. Their denial of European education and Christianity was strategic in suppressing their knowledge and self-worth, hence relegating them to a life of servility, destitution and hopelessness.
Great Britain today boasts in excess of 1,000,000 Black people, a group that has endured discrimination and marginalization for hundreds of years. Are their attitudes toward each other any different to their Caribbean cousins? No way! Brown or light coloured Blacks still believe (and are supported in their view by malicious and mischievous Whites) that they are of better caliber to their dark brothers and sisters. Testimony to this outrageous presumption is the widespread evidence of dark Black women bleaching their faces and bodies. How could one conceivably hate their own skin colour? Is it not blasphemous to merely contemplate dislike of all or part of God’s sacred creation?
The truth is black has historically, in ancient and medieval times, been associated with positiveness while white depicted the exact opposite. ‘Black is one the most powerful colours in existence having the ability to attract all rays of colour and light.... Black is a generator of energy. In African and Oriental traditions, the colour white is used to symbolize death…when a fire dies all that remains is a white ash. Therefore, they believe when the fire in man dies, white is the appropriate colour to represent death…Even the Bible makes reference to death riding a pale (white) horse. White traditionally represents the absence of life…’ (Anthony Browder et al). There is an abundance of documented evidence to support this contention that black is a colour to be proud of and that Black people possess special qualities of character, spirituality and anatomy irrespective of the popular stereotypical homophobic view. Four hundred years of misinformation can do quite a lot to the psych of a people!
How can this predisposition in the minds of Black people be changed? Well we must, according to Anthony Browder again, ‘recognise the need for such change’. Without conscious acknowledgement of this problem the trend will be passed down to gullible generations to the ultimate destruction of a celebrated race. We must all strive to amass all credible information on our history and share it collectively bringing the skeptics into the fold. This is the only way to effectively fend off hundreds of years of negativity thus redirecting our thinking for the expressed purpose of proliferating a grossly demoralized race.
(So entrenched is this perception today throughout the region that Black brothers and sisters discriminate against each other on the basis of complexion differentials. Brown skinned girls and boys are generally felt to be more attractive or worthy of special attention. Banks and other ‘in your face’ institutions have traditionally recruited the fairer in colour of Black people, tactically placing them in customer sensitive departments purporting the view that they are easier on the eyes appealing to a wider cross-section of customers.
My late father always said, ‘ignorance should be a crime’ but as a child I had no appreciation of his train of thought or its relevance to me. It was only at college that the crux of his hypothesis stuck with colossal force. Black people’s minds were necessarily conditioned to believe they were inferior to Whites! That being the case, their entire existence was the result of a carefully orchestrated conspiracy perpetrated by Europeans to rob them (Africans now African-Caribbeans) of their rich heritage and culture. Their denial of European education and Christianity was strategic in suppressing their knowledge and self-worth, hence relegating them to a life of servility, destitution and hopelessness.
Great Britain today boasts in excess of 1,000,000 Black people, a group that has endured discrimination and marginalization for hundreds of years. Are their attitudes toward each other any different to their Caribbean cousins? No way! Brown or light coloured Blacks still believe (and are supported in their view by malicious and mischievous Whites) that they are of better caliber to their dark brothers and sisters. Testimony to this outrageous presumption is the widespread evidence of dark Black women bleaching their faces and bodies. How could one conceivably hate their own skin colour? Is it not blasphemous to merely contemplate dislike of all or part of God’s sacred creation?
The truth is black has historically, in ancient and medieval times, been associated with positiveness while white depicted the exact opposite. ‘Black is one the most powerful colours in existence having the ability to attract all rays of colour and light.... Black is a generator of energy. In African and Oriental traditions, the colour white is used to symbolize death…when a fire dies all that remains is a white ash. Therefore, they believe when the fire in man dies, white is the appropriate colour to represent death…Even the Bible makes reference to death riding a pale (white) horse. White traditionally represents the absence of life…’ (Anthony Browder et al). There is an abundance of documented evidence to support this contention that black is a colour to be proud of and that Black people possess special qualities of character, spirituality and anatomy irrespective of the popular stereotypical homophobic view. Four hundred years of misinformation can do quite a lot to the psych of a people!
How can this predisposition in the minds of Black people be changed? Well we must, according to Anthony Browder again, ‘recognise the need for such change’. Without conscious acknowledgement of this problem the trend will be passed down to gullible generations to the ultimate destruction of a celebrated race. We must all strive to amass all credible information on our history and share it collectively bringing the skeptics into the fold. This is the only way to effectively fend off hundreds of years of negativity thus redirecting our thinking for the expressed purpose of proliferating a grossly demoralized race.
Sunshine Elephant,
Fri 11 Feb 2005, 13:58,
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what he said...
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Fri 11 Feb 2005, 14:04,
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do you think i should colour it then?.
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charlie brown doesn't have a dog but still enjoys shitbagging,
Fri 11 Feb 2005, 14:07,
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