How do you feel about race? - THE RED PILL2024-03-29T09:43:34Zhttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/forum/topics/how-do-you-feel-about-race?commentId=3561936%3AComment%3A69526&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noUpon looking at this thread,…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2013-10-25:3561936:Comment:695262013-10-25T17:09:21.047ZClifford Blackhttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/CliffordBlack
<p>Upon looking at this thread, one more time, I know this is worth every minute invested.</p>
<p>B.</p>
<p>Upon looking at this thread, one more time, I know this is worth every minute invested.</p>
<p>B.</p> It may be wise to try to figu…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2013-08-14:3561936:Comment:686772013-08-14T00:37:23.688ZClifford Blackhttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/CliffordBlack
<p>It may be wise to try to figure out for yourself "what is going on", with this strange talk about a subject that people know so little about.</p>
<p>It may be wise to try to figure out for yourself "what is going on", with this strange talk about a subject that people know so little about.</p> Namaska Ms. Flagg---One of th…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-13:3561936:Comment:331412011-06-13T17:11:07.873ZClifford Blackhttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/CliffordBlack
<p>Namaska Ms. Flagg---One of the aspects of life that the class can help with, is, the attitude that a great number of people have in regard to acceptance and tolerence. These attitudes must be understood in order to change the conditions that our children are born into.</p>
<p>B. </p>
<p>Namaska Ms. Flagg---One of the aspects of life that the class can help with, is, the attitude that a great number of people have in regard to acceptance and tolerence. These attitudes must be understood in order to change the conditions that our children are born into.</p>
<p>B. </p> It's certainly my surrounding…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-12:3561936:Comment:331402011-06-12T23:37:17.744ZLaJuana Michelle Flagghttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/LaJuanaMichelleFlagg
<p>It's certainly my surroundings. Living in Memphis has showed me that separate but equal is alive and well. Only that the equal part means stay level, dont progress. Or stay one step below me. Memphis is a trap for ignorance. Also, I realized that <strong>money</strong> is the new race and the term, "undesirable" has replaced black, hispanics, and muslims. People tend to associate with those that are within 5% of there existence. For example, politics, religion, social status, and…</p>
<p>It's certainly my surroundings. Living in Memphis has showed me that separate but equal is alive and well. Only that the equal part means stay level, dont progress. Or stay one step below me. Memphis is a trap for ignorance. Also, I realized that <strong>money</strong> is the new race and the term, "undesirable" has replaced black, hispanics, and muslims. People tend to associate with those that are within 5% of there existence. For example, politics, religion, social status, and acceptance. What does it take for acceptance.</p>
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<p>Thanks for letting me vent. I like this class and the pwople in it. Hope to see you Wednesday.</p> LaJuana, I remember my first…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-12:3561936:Comment:331392011-06-12T06:12:47.611ZAaron (Al) Lewishttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/AaronAlLewis
<p>LaJuana, I remember my first trip to New York City. Being from Memphis, where most people are stuck in this false construct of race,,I was immediately overwhelmed with the dilemma of trying to categorize people by race predicated on skin color. I heard languages and accents I didn't even know existed. People were all kinds of complexions with all kinds of hair styles and a whole lot of people who didn't look like so called black people damn sure talked like so called black…</p>
<p>LaJuana, I remember my first trip to New York City. Being from Memphis, where most people are stuck in this false construct of race,,I was immediately overwhelmed with the dilemma of trying to categorize people by race predicated on skin color. I heard languages and accents I didn't even know existed. People were all kinds of complexions with all kinds of hair styles and a whole lot of people who didn't look like so called black people damn sure talked like so called black people.</p>
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<p>On my first day there I was walking through one of the many small parks on Manhattan and as I was passing a group of so called young white men, I heard, as I walked by, "What's up my nigga?" I stopped, turned around with my hand on my rather large pocket knife thinking, "Ok so it's gonna go down like this?" only to see they were paying no attention to me, they were talking to each other. That was in 1996. I began to ponder is part of what I believe because I come from a city fixated on this race concept with no consideration that there are many places other than this back water town with many different people who don't define themselves by a color? Could my surroundings, my environment be shaping my reality and is that a present correct reality? It would take a few more years before my questions were addressed. </p>
<p> </p> I remember my first encounter…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-12:3561936:Comment:335632011-06-12T02:05:38.852ZLaJuana Michelle Flagghttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/LaJuanaMichelleFlagg
<p>I remember my first encounter with a co-called white was when I was around 11 or 12 years old. My mom took me to Magic Kingdom in Los Angelos, California. I didn't see many people that looked like me of course it was early in the day when we went. The first ride we got on was the train because my mom figured that would give us a sense of what the park had to offer and we could pinpoint where we wanted to go. We were seated on the back row of the last train. Didn't think anything about it…</p>
<p>I remember my first encounter with a co-called white was when I was around 11 or 12 years old. My mom took me to Magic Kingdom in Los Angelos, California. I didn't see many people that looked like me of course it was early in the day when we went. The first ride we got on was the train because my mom figured that would give us a sense of what the park had to offer and we could pinpoint where we wanted to go. We were seated on the back row of the last train. Didn't think anything about it until I look up and there was this so-called white woman looking at me with disgrace. She asked her granddaughter to move up there where she was and her mom or aunt moved back there where I was. All of a sudden I realized what I heard Martin Luther King and other so-called black people were talking about. I ignored them. I can't remember where I got that from, but I just did. I wanted to tell her so bad that what she did, didn't make a difference. I was still on the train. As the day went on, riding every ride that my heart so desired, I ended the day riding, "It's a small world". It was a boot ride through a maze that displayed scenes of other countries with dolls representing the countries dress. I was on the back row of the boat and I was by myself. As I was riding through the maze, I noticed that when they got to Africa, all the dolls were smut black. There was no other distinction. They were black and the other cultures were pale. I left California with an understanding that I will always have to deal with how someone else saw me. I developed a wall whenever I saw a so-called white person just to protect my feelings in case they had a hidden agenda to diminish me. I soon got over that when I got to college and got a chance to meet the real cultures. Indians, Hindu, Arabs, a variety of Asians, etc. They didn't care what color I was. They all gravitated towards me. I realized then where race came from and decided to give it no more thought. </p> Coming to grips isn't the har…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-07:3561936:Comment:323842011-06-07T01:59:40.922ZAaron (Al) Lewishttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/AaronAlLewis
<p>Coming to grips isn't the hard thing. I think as time goes by and I keep doing what I do that becomes less difficult. It's having conversation with someone who is not willing to look or "try on" a different perspective. I find my world and circle getting small and tight. I love being expansive that is part of my nature and I have come to accept that about myself. Now the issue is how do I stay true to truth and who I am? In other words it gets lonely sometimes. I know you can grok…</p>
<p>Coming to grips isn't the hard thing. I think as time goes by and I keep doing what I do that becomes less difficult. It's having conversation with someone who is not willing to look or "try on" a different perspective. I find my world and circle getting small and tight. I love being expansive that is part of my nature and I have come to accept that about myself. Now the issue is how do I stay true to truth and who I am? In other words it gets lonely sometimes. I know you can grok that. </p>
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<p>I liken this journey to the man and the talking frog that used to come on the cartoons. The frog would sing and dance for him, but when he tried to show others what the frog could do it would only go "ribbit." To that end the frog was a curse to the man and he spent his life in poverty with such a wonderful gift that he could not share with anyone. Seeing truth and abstracts can be very much like that, but occasionally someone does come along and listen and will do the work to peel back the curtain of lies and illusions. However, they are few and in between.</p> After Yah-Yah shared water wi…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-07:3561936:Comment:326622011-06-07T00:15:27.791ZClifford Blackhttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/CliffordBlack
<p>After Yah-Yah shared water with Jah, the latter was able to see much more about reality and I am sure that it was just as hard for him to come to grips with the situation of that time as it is for you right NOW.</p>
<p>Keep your head to the sky!!!!!</p>
<p>B.</p>
<p>After Yah-Yah shared water with Jah, the latter was able to see much more about reality and I am sure that it was just as hard for him to come to grips with the situation of that time as it is for you right NOW.</p>
<p>Keep your head to the sky!!!!!</p>
<p>B.</p> Mr. Black I realize the risk…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-06:3561936:Comment:325622011-06-06T20:19:11.775ZAaron (Al) Lewishttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/AaronAlLewis
<p>Mr. Black I realize the risk at speaking what one sees as true. As long as I believed I was black I also believed there were white people. The way they have constructed race, that colors both my perception of them being superior and people who look like me as inferior. Since I had nothing to do with constructing either thought all I could do was by in and bought I did with no information. </p>
<p>Don't you find that odd that I would embrace concepts about my very being yet do no examination…</p>
<p>Mr. Black I realize the risk at speaking what one sees as true. As long as I believed I was black I also believed there were white people. The way they have constructed race, that colors both my perception of them being superior and people who look like me as inferior. Since I had nothing to do with constructing either thought all I could do was by in and bought I did with no information. </p>
<p>Don't you find that odd that I would embrace concepts about my very being yet do no examination as to the veracity of the label? I do now, I didn't then. That I find fascinating. I know I am not the only one that did it, but I am among the few that will admit that's what I did. I have no excuses, no one to blame. No one taught me not to be curious, not to search and examine things. I was born with that wonderment, but not with that ability and if most people are like me, I didn't even know the ability existed. </p>
<p>Sometimes I do feel sad that it took me so long to figure just that part out. Sometimes I indulge my own anger of allowing myself to have been deceived by people who only wanted to be accepted by their enemy. By enemy I mean anyone who would use power against me, period. I had to get over my sadness and my ego's need to feel special therefore to desire create yet another false identity to replace the one given to me by society. The inclination to do that is great and compelling, thus the rash and rush to change ones name and embrace cultures of antiquity. Even that requires inspection and examination.</p> @ Adisa & AL---Moments of…tag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-06-06:3561936:Comment:319852011-06-06T18:20:21.042ZClifford Blackhttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/CliffordBlack
<p>@ Adisa & AL---Moments of catharsis can become extremely important in those who are striving toward a life filled with WELL-BEING.</p>
<p>B.</p>
<p>@ Adisa & AL---Moments of catharsis can become extremely important in those who are striving toward a life filled with WELL-BEING.</p>
<p>B.</p>