Did you guys see the Packers play yesterday? The Saints torched them through and through. They had no answers for them whatsoever. Just scoring a single field goal through the whole game. Rodgers also passed two ints if I remember correctly.

It made me think that Rodgers still has a gripe with Green Bay. I wonder if he plans to throw games until they trade him somewhere else. I can see him doing that. And if he happens to get traded, I bet he would start to play like the MVP he's supposed to see.

Do you think the Packers will repeat this in their next game? Or will they rebound and start to do good again?

yoooo this is too much, this why women shouldn’t be doing these trashy hoe routines anyways. Can we go back to women dressing in classy outfits and putting the vocals first? I like back in the days where SWV and other ladies left something to my imagination.

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A fan jumps on the crane with Mike and Mike immediately works to keep him safe while not missing a beat. At 0:21 Mike wraps his hand around him and then affixes dude’s hand to the railing. This man was excellence all around.

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I don't want to copy and paste this because it's a long article, but I highly suggest you read this.

I came across this article, and thought it could help somebody. Take care of yourselves!
150+ Self Care Ideas to Rejuvenate You

I think it is important we hold onto our culture and uplift the good aspects of it but I feel like we will not go anywhere if we continue to uplift the bad aspects of it and let white-washed Jewish men in Hollywood dictate what is and is not our culture for us. They promote the worst things about us and is it any wonder why there are still people who treat us differently because of our skin? I know plenty of people say they don't, especially white folks, but deep down they do and it is because of stereotyping and this thug and hood rat culture that has been defined for us. They want us to fail and they use this against us.

I have had Prime for a while now. I originally got it because of affiliate links I was using. I made money through them and just had it send to my Amazon account. I mainly was using it to buy pet food but now I shop elsewhere for that. I am considering pulling away from Amazon entirely though. Using it less and less and I really don't like backing a corporation that was made even more wealthy off the backs of people losing their jobs, businesses, and homes in 2020.

Do you shop on Amazon? Do you use Prime?

*American Descendants of Slaves (#ADOS)- Foundational Black Americans (#FBA)(#FREEDMEN)* have suffered incalculable generational damage from governmental and institutionalized racist policies and practices. From Slavery, Jim Crow Laws, Mass Lynchings of Black People, the destruction of Black Towns like Black Wall St, the denial of voting rights, Segregation, Redlining of Black Communities and Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans. The #ADOS-#FBA-#FREEDMEN community has a Duty and the Right to Fight for Reparations for #ADOS-#FBA-#FREEDMEN The History of Reparations Payments. >>>> 1- 1990 U.S.A $1.2 Billion or $20.000 Each JAPANESE AMERICAN. 2- 1990 AUSTRIA $25 Million to Holocaust Survivors JEWISH CLAIMS ON AUSTRIA. 3- 1988 CANADA 250,000 Sq. Miles of Land INDIANS & ESKIMOS. 4- 1988 CANADA $230 Million JAPANESE CANADIANS. 5- 1986 U.S.A. $32 Million 1836 Treaty OTTAWAS OF MICHIGAN. 6- 1985 U.S.A. $31 Million CHIPPEWAS OF WISCONSIN. 7-1985 U.S.A. $12.3 Million SEMINOLES OF FLORIDA. 8- 1985 U.S.A. $105 Million SIOUX OF SOUTH DAKOTA. 9- 1980 U.S.A. $81 Million KLAMATHS OF OREGON. 10- 1971 U.S.A. $1 Billion + 44 Million Acres of Land ALASKA NATIVES LAND SETTLEMENT. 11- 1952 GERMANY $822 Million to Holocaust Survivors GERMAN JEWISH SETTLEMENT. 12- 2015-2016 President Obama gave $12 million dollars to Jewish Holocaust Survivors and $492 million dollars to Native American Tribes as reparations. There are other historical examples of reparations, such as reparations were paid to the enemies and traitors of the United States such as the Civil War Confederates enslavers and Japan and Germany from WW2 and the US Government Paid Reparations For 11 Italian Americans Who Were Lynched , yet Thousands of African-American-were lynched between the years 1882 and 1970 and have not received any Justice. Black Americans have fought and died in every major war and conflict involving the U.S and have never become traitors to the United States government like the Confederacy. The CIA sponsored and orchestrated Crack Cocaine epidemic in the Black Communities all over the USA, which lead to the Mass Incarceration Federal Crime Bill of the '90s. The #ADOS-#FBA-#FREEDMEN community has a Duty and the Right to fight for #REPARATIONS for #ADOS-#FBA-#FREEDMEN >>>> Login to view embedded media

That's a nice forum yall built right here. Kinda lacking on them smilies tbh
Is this black owned?

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Do you brothers & sisters own firearms?
Do you know how to shoot, clean, and maintain your guns?
What are those collections looking like?

For me it's when he feels like just because he's faithful and isn't abusive, he's a great partner. There's no little extras like planning dates or even just a quick text to say hi. I feel like so many settle for their partners simply because they are faithful and don’t abuse them but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are a good partner, that’s just the bare minimum and is what a partner should be doing regardless.

'I'll be at front of queue to change my slave name'
By Anna Holligan
BBC News, The Hague
10 September 2021

Descendants of African slaves have told the BBC they will change their surnames, after a Dutch city decided to make the procedure free of charge.
Utrecht council has decided to remove the €835 (£715) cost and bureaucracy to help people shake off their "slave names" and have the option to adopt one that recognises their African ancestry.
Under existing Dutch rules, if you have a surname considered ridiculous such as Anus, Garlic or Naked-born, there is no requirement to prove it is undesirable. However, if your name has its origins in the Dutch colonial legacy, an expensive psychological examination is often required on top of the fee.
"It's not right to then ask for money to turn back the procedure," says Linda Nooitmeer, chair of the national institute for Dutch slavery history.


Her own name translates as Never Again. Even though she's relatively happy as it was chosen by her ancestors, she is thinking of changing it. She sees Utrecht's move as "part of the healing process, to give people the freedom and identity back"

Three centuries of slave
Between 1596 and 1829 the Dutch shipped more than half a million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations

They were treated as objects and possessions and their names were erased, part of what Linda Nooitmeer describes as the "dehumanising" process.


"Everything is stripped. You were part of the cargo, like cattle. It's not only the name, but rituals, language, your identity, all evidence that you were African was taken away."

The Netherlands was one of the last countries to abolish slavery in 1863, 30 years after British abolition. Even then slaves in Suriname, on the north-east coast of South America, had to wait 10 years to be fully free. Slaves were also shipped to Brazil, as well as Haiti, Curaçao and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

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Anyone enslaved in Suriname had to be on a slave register, so it is known that some 80,000 people lived in slavery there in the 30 years before abolition.

Stigma for descendants
Freed slaves were given artificial names, often tied to the slave owner, the plantation or random amalgamations of Dutch cities or Dutch-sounding words, although regular Dutch surnames were banned.

Berghout and Seedorf were used as was Madretsma (Amsterdam spelt backwards) and Eendragt, a plantation name that means harmony. Other names translate as Obedient, Cheap, Tame and Submission.

Linda Nooitmeer believes these names serve as a reminder they were once subordinate, and that the chain was never fully relinquished.

Hundreds express interest
With that link to their ancestral home long destroyed, many have gone in search of their African roots to find a name that better represents who they are.

Among them was Yaw, who went to Ghana. And now Utrecht is removing the cost, he plans to make Yaw official, replacing his existing name Guno Mac Intosch.

"As soon as that door opens," he gestures to the city hall, "I'll be at the front of the queue."

Last year almost 3,000 people opted to switch their surnames, but only one mentioned colonial connotations. Utrecht's promise to cancel the fee and paperwork has already resulted in hundreds of expressions of interest.

"Maybe it's not the exact same name our ancestors had," Ms Nooitmeer explains, "But it was given within the spirit from Africa. And that's really powerful to give your children and descendants." Their names are an integral part of their identity, she says.

After emancipation, some created collectives and bought the cotton fields.

For them, adopting a new name was an act of empowerment, as the owned became the owners. Ms Nooitmeer believes they would have understood why their descendants were trying to rediscover what she calls their African energy.

A slavery exhibition was recently held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, curated by its head of history, Valika Smeulders.

We meet in The Hague's historic centre, in Lange Voorhout, which she explains was built on wealth generated by the slave trade.

Ms Smeulders is mixed-race and descended from the enslaved, enslavers and contractors. Her name incorporates Dutch, Scottish, and Portuguese and she considers it "very much colonial history". For her, changing a surname is a complex, personal choice and unlikely to create an immediate rush among as many as one million people in the Netherlands.

"People react very differently to circumstances. So for some, [their name] might be something that they want to embrace," she explains.

Many people who have a Dutch name plan to keep it, because numerous studies have shown a foreign-sounding name in the Netherlands can expose you to discrimination in education, housing or employment.

Yaw's son pointed out that the Scottish name Mac In Tosch probably opened doors in his corporate life.

Sitting in the shadow of the slave memorial in Amsterdam's bustling Oosterpark, Linda Nooitmeer remembers the moment Mayor Femke Halsema apologised for the council's role in the slave trade.

"It really did something to me. I would never have imagined that even four years ago, never. So we're making steps."

As I speak to Yaw outside Utrecht city hall a man comes over shouting racial abuse: "You're not African, just because you're black. If you think you are African, go back! Coming here for our benefits."

People glance up until another white man intervenes.

It is a shocking moment but Yaw takes it in his stride. For him the Netherlands is still on a journey and the recognition of people's desire to drop their slave names represents a small but significant step.

"Dutch people claim that they are really liberated and the country is liberated, then you see these things, this behaviour," he says.

The world-wide Black Lives Matter movement has made a difference, he believes, and the name-changing move is part of a process that shows greater awareness.

"We are here, we built this country, and we don't let people chase us away because they say that we do not belong here."
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I thought we could use a thread for memes and other funny content online. I think the relatable ones are the best.
(If this is a trash thread idea, I get it feel free to delete it.)

So yeah, use this to share memes and funny pics you come across online.
I'll start with one that I think is spot on dealing with chicken sandwiches:

I am going bald. I knew it would happen, as my dad and his dad both went bald at fairly young ages. I was wondering what you guys would prefer to do. Would you rather just embrace it and go bald. I'm thinking I might shave it all off and go bald. Or, I could try to get treatment to help grow hair back, but I can't see myself going through that process for just a small amount of hair back.

Idk, what do you guys do? Are any of you's bald or going bald? And if so, do you just embrace it? I feel we black men look good bald anyway, so I'm not sure why I am so scared to just embrace it.

I have wanted to get a PS5 and Xbox Series X for the longest time now. I haven't had much luck getting a PS5, but I was able to get an order in for an Xbox recently, so that's going good so far. But, I feel like the PS5 is still stuck behind a wall of annoying scalpers who are still trying to get more money out of this console.

I can't stand scalpers though. I don't know how many times I wanted to get a new gaming device, only to be stopped by scalpers buying up all the inventory.

Have you ever had to deal with scalpers when it came to getting a new console? Are you guys seeing any ads online for expensive consoles?

Well this was a rather quick one. Anderson Silva recently took on Tito Ortiz in a boxing match held by Thriller. Anderson Silva ended up knocking out Ortiz about a minute thirty in. Ortiz was not looking great during this fight, but Silva looked like a million bucks out there. He's still got it. :)

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Thanks for having me, the forum looks dope & I look forward to chopping it up with everybody.
Peace!

the new halo is finsta drop, what are your thoughts on it? The first gameplay they showed was ass and the brutes looked so stupid with that shiny ass armor. I hope they get things back on track Halo can't really take too many more L's.

I personally loved 4, that shit was dope, Chief felt like a human for the first time ever. Then they screwed it up with Guardians by making Chief a side kick, straight ass

Come on 343 don't let us down.


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I know you've been waiting to see the results of this fight @Invincible1914, Alana won. Did you make any money on it?

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To everyone else, what do you think about this? I think it's straight bullshit and they need to throw that tranny in with dudes. Alana started taking the tranny meds at 28 and was special forces, it's screwed up to have him fighting females.

Did yall see ya man in the dress? He's always dressed suspect but this is over the top.

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What are yall thoughts?

It was definitely the best and highest trending part of the whole CLB/Donda dynamic and it had no drama attached to it aside from Drake leaking it. I don't care where you have him on your list but he isn't overrated..