The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 2

[chamber-music]

Seems like the ones who are constantly hating on people who are gay, or a different race, dating outside their race, or just different all around for one reason or another; are usually the ones who can't seem to mind their own business.

It's like why should you care about how someone lives their life, how is it affecting your life?

Agreed.

 

[Manic]

Wow. I shifted the entire tenor of this thread with that gay bomb.

As an agnostic*, I don't really hold to all the Christian rhetoric regarding homosexuality. Have you ever looked at the list of rules in that book? Anybody with an illegitimate ancestor (which would probably be a majority of black people in America descended from slaves, because of reasons involving force) within 10 generations can't set foot inside a church.



Anyway, it's one thing if your religion is against same-sex relationships and you silently disapprove. I likely don't know you, and if that's how you feel, I won't be getting to know you. The problem is that an awful lot of Christians feel like they need to "save" people. They think that by stopping others from committing a particular sin, they'll stop them from going to Hell, which will in turn make the Christian in question look good in God's eyes.

And that in itself is a crock, because if I'm already committing a lot of other sins like eating bacon and wearing cotton & polyester at the same time, stopping me from doing a man shouldn't mean jack. I'm already not a Christian, so I'm probably already damned if I don't.



*Incidentally, I haven't told anyone in my immediate family that I'm agnostic other than my eldest brother. He already gets a lot of crap from the rest of the family for converting to Islam, so I was comfortable telling him that. But that was all before I came out as gay, and now he's the only one in my immediate family who doesn't know that because he's kinda sorta in prison and that seems like a weird thing to reveal in a letter.

 

[chamber-music]

I started off and atheist and then became agnostic. My mums side of the family is Christian but my dads side isn't. I would describe my dad's side as cultural Christians.

I've had random African hardcore Christian dudes come up to me on the train and start talking about Jesus which was a little weird.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I am not a hateful person and like I said the best I can do is tolerate it. If some think I am a bad person for not supporting or encouraging that, then so be it. I stick to my religious beliefs regardless. But black Christian's differently need to be a bit more sensitive.

 

[terry78]

I never realized how hardcore Christian some Africans are. I wouldn't chalk it up to colonization or whatever, but who knows.

 

[RockSP]

I never realized how hardcore Christian some Africans are. I wouldn't chalk it up to colonization or whatever, but who knows.

I would.

 

[the last son]

Yea how could you not?

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

i would as well. just like the native Americans were told to cut their hair, wear suits and ties and told to worship a god who wasnt their own.

 

[terry78]

For some of the older folks here in the states I get it since that's probably all they had to keep them from blowing their brains out dealing with all the ******** they had to face back in the day. I know some comedian was like, if time travel was a thing black people couldn't go back any farther than 1970 unless it was maybe like in France or something.

 

[E-Man]

Wow. I shifted the entire tenor of this thread with that gay bomb.

As an agnostic*, I don't really hold to all the Christian rhetoric regarding homosexuality. Have you ever looked at the list of rules in that book? Anybody with an illegitimate ancestor (which would probably be a majority of black people in America descended from slaves, because of reasons involving force) within 10 generations can't set foot inside a church.



Anyway, it's one thing if your religion is against same-sex relationships and you silently disapprove. I likely don't know you, and if that's how you feel, I won't be getting to know you. The problem is that an awful lot of Christians feel like they need to "save" people. They think that by stopping others from committing a particular sin, they'll stop them from going to Hell, which will in turn make the Christian in question look good in God's eyes.

And that in itself is a crock, because if I'm already committing a lot of other sins like eating bacon and wearing cotton & polyester at the same time, stopping me from doing a man shouldn't mean jack. I'm already not a Christian, so I'm probably already damned if I don't.



*Incidentally, I haven't told anyone in my immediate family that I'm agnostic other than my eldest brother. He already gets a lot of crap from the rest of the family for converting to Islam, so I was comfortable telling him that. But that was all before I came out as gay, and now he's the only one in my immediate family who doesn't know that because he's kinda sorta in prison and that seems like a weird thing to reveal in a letter.

 

[Manic]

I'd probably avoid anywhere with European influence from the 1000'sAD until about 1980. Before that, I'd say it's fair game for black people.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

For some of the older folks here in the states I get it since that's probably all they had to keep them from blowing their brains out dealing with all the ******** they had to face back in the day. I know some comedian was like, if time travel was a thing black people couldn't go back any farther than 1970 unless it was maybe like in France or something.

Hahahaha hell yeah bro! i was born* ahem Pre-1970 and the farthest i ever would take my ass back to is 1978..maybe 1977 cause thats when freakin Star Wars came out!All those aliens and ^&* and cause SW was so great made everybody think.."oh that dude with blue skin and 3 eyes"aint so bad
but before that Hell to the NO!

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm not going anywhere before Clinton was president.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I started off and atheist and then became agnostic. My mums side of the family is Christian but my dads side isn't. I would describe my dad's side as cultural Christians.

I've had random African hardcore Christian dudes come up to me on the train and start talking about Jesus which was a little weird.

I was Atheist in my teens, Agnostic in my twenties, and now I'm Agnostic Theist which means I believe whatever I want about God since no one can prove jack.

 

[Boy Scout]

I was Atheist in my teens, Agnostic in my twenties, and now I'm Agnostic Theist which means I believe whatever I want about God since no one can prove jack.

Same here. My family (surprise, surprise) is made up of Christians. They don't know I'm agnostic, but I wouldn't be surprised if my mother and sister think I'm an atheist.

 

[Boy Scout]

I am not a hateful person and like I said the best I can do is tolerate it. If some think I am a bad person for not supporting or encouraging that, then so be it. I stick to my religious beliefs regardless. But black Christian's differently need to be a bit more sensitive.

Tolerance is good enough, I think. You don't have to be 100% comfortable with or understanding of homosexuals as long as you aren't shunning them, shaming them, or doing anything to make them feel like second-class citizens. I know that might sound controversial, but it's coming from a huge supporter of the LGBT community.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

No I agree with you, nobody should be the ****ing thought police.

 

[Boy Scout]

I think it's more about idealism than control. Obviously, it would be wonderful to live in a world where everyone was supportive AND accepting AND understanding AND tolerant AND open-minded. But honestly, I think tolerance is enough. "Live and let live" and all that.

 

[chamber-music]

I never realized how hardcore Christian some Africans are. I wouldn't chalk it up to colonization or whatever, but who knows.

It's the Missionaries. Missionaries have been converting people in Africa for centuries.

Nigerian mega-churches are crazy. The Apostolic Church in Nigeria is so huge that their convention center seats 100,000 people; it’s the largest capacity religious building on planet earth.

I'd probably avoid anywhere with European influence from the 1000'sAD until about 1980. Before that, I'd say it's fair game for black people.

Your probably ok if your a Black musician at a royal court like John Blacke. Blacke was a Tudor Trumpeter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blanke

Here is a interesting BBC documentary about black soldiers fighting for Britain in World War 2.

The Black Caribbean soldiers got more hostility from the American GI's from Segregated states than they did from the local British people.

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[Manic]

I heard about that stuff. The British military had a certain amount of respect given to their black soldiers, but then the white American soldiers came over to help during the war. The black soldiers fighting for Britain weren't conditioned to fear white men as much as American black people were at the time, so there was a lot of friction between American and British troops where the rights/privileges of black soldiers were concerned.

 

[chamber-music]

Some of these guys just seemed like racist vindictive ass**** who got their kicks out bullying or abusing African Americans.

They imported they Jim Crow nonsense to the UK.

First hand accounts of African American Soldiers in WW2 Britain
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[terry78]

So that **** in Charleston right now....man.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

I heard about that stuff. The British military had a certain amount of respect given to their black soldiers, but then the white American soldiers came over to help during the war. The black soldiers fighting for Britain weren't conditioned to fear white men as much as American black people were at the time, so there was a lot of friction between American and British troops where the rights/privileges of black soldiers were concerned.

whats even more Jacked up is during the Olympics in Berlin while Hitler and the Nazis were in power.. Freaking Jesse Owens stayed at the hotels like all the other white athletes,dined and got treated better than he did when he came back to the states after winning gold medals!! FREAKIN NAZIS!!
what the...... i never got taught any of that stuff in school ..the stuff you have to find out on your own ! NAZIS!! sheesh!

 

[Warhammer]

They would never bring that uo in history class. It makes the US look too much like f***ing assh***s that the Nazis treated a brotha better than his own country. The Nazis. That tells you something about how muvh it sucked.

 

[chamber-music]

Muhammed Ali won his Olympic medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics. When Ali returned to the U.S he was refused service at a "whites-only" restaurant. Even winning an Olympic medal for your country didn't make you immune to the institutionalized racism.