in 5 years there won't be a planet,now let's just deal with the present,and what you do for yourself and the world you impact on.for myself i have a difficult time dealing with the people who are already here so why feel the need to replicate more annoying people.we are now at the tipping scale of life on this planet as far as i see it.

Po "Saint" ... as you can see I didn't even mention you in my initial reply. But you seem to deeply desire acknowledgement… so here it is:

Brother ... I'm sure that you read it wrong ... or I wrote it wrong ... but word up ... physical brawn IS going to keep a whole LOT of brothers and sisters eating in the upcoming months and years. But you do not have to be a muscle man to learn a trade ... to sell the work of honest hands and brain ... and the blessed feeling of a sweaty hard day's labor ... for cash. It's the basic roots of American business.

Who, pray tell, do you think grows, picks, packages and ships the meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables that you delicately purchase at the supermarket?? Men and women of various hues, shapes and classes who WORK and use their physical labor to make a living.

TOUGH times are coming. I predict that a WHOLE LOT of folks who thought they were brilliant are going to miss more than a few meals. (How old were you during the early 80’s when Reganomics kick our collective black behinds?)

Word Up ... they messing with the food supply. Genetically Alerted crops. Hormones and antibiotics in the meat. Ever smell the "farms" where they "grow" those KFC chickens? The Animal Rights folks are even screaming the alarm over what FOSTER FARMS is doing to those ... "chickens."

I looked at some of your pictures. No, it doesn't matter that you're gay. If it wasn't for people like Baynard Rustin, the Civil Rights Movement might have never reach the levels of success that it did. (We also have a loooong history of "Chicken and a Biscuit" kinda "Colored Folks" who like to get theirs 'round at the back door.)

All I'm saying is that 'yall betta wake up. That old game of “Go to college and get a good job” is over. “I got MINE” is over. You can try to be good BUPPIES and GUPPIES all you want to ... but the day that "proving" you're a "Good" black guy (a.k.a. "A black-white man) is waaay over. You ... like everyone else is now left with the existential dilemma of creating your own self-actualization for yourself.

The black dollar has been written off in California and many other states. No point in blaming the "illegals." We're the ones who let our game get weak. It's a new day baby, and that new day is one of the most GOLDEN of opportunities we as a people have ever seen.

They ain't carrying us and they ain't stopping us. Rome is falling and they're going to need every new (legal) dish that's brought to the table. Can you build a housing development? Can you manufacture the "Next Big Thing"? Can you roll up your sleeves and get as sweaty and dirty as the men and women who built this thing? (White Men and Black Men and Mexican Men and Yellow Men???)

When I see you in that picture with that white man holding you in his arms and you labeling the photo as: "The One That Got Away" ... I have to sigh. It's nothing wrong with loving whomever you want ... but WHEN are we going to start loving ourselves and EACH OTHER enough to cooperate together NO MATTER WHAT?

Do not even make me start discussing what is and what is not ... "Disgusting."

Although I will say that if you see “discusting” in my posts urging self-determination and collective cooperation ... well ... you bring up what I learned during all my years of working in Mental Health and Social Services ... in short ... "whatever you see in me, you see in yourself."

All respect Stefan, but I don't think you got the full intent of my thesis. I said, "intellectual "muscle", education, and socialization (expressed as a willingness to be a part of a community) are the survival traits." In that mix I believe that loyalty and commitment to a community are the trump cards or dominant traits. And if I offended you by the poverty of my analoy, I regret that. However; when it becomes time for us to make decisions about our survival as a people, I will vote for you and not some misanthrope whose only contribution to our people is 4 children he doesn't support, or a thug who robs the elderly.

As far as equating mere physical brawn with worthiness to exist. How would you decide who got to stay in the Lifeboat? Would you kill everybody in order to feel morally superior? It isn't much discussed, and doesn't much happen in this time of Satellite phones and GPS, but during the past often decisions like that had to be made.