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Robynmarie
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Post Number: 140
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 07:25 pm: | 
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Seven Black Women Among Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women
Last year’s listing of the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women celebrated a total of four black women. Of those four, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Oprah Winfrey (Chairman, Harpo), and Prime Minister Luisa Diogo (Mozambique) have returned to the 2006 list. They are joined this year by four more powerful black women: Renetta McCann (Chief Executive, Starcom MediaVest Group), President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nigeria), and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (Jamaica).
While there are countless powerful black women who are deserving of our praise, these women in particular have been truly exceptional. Whether we agree with their politics or not, one thing is certain: these sisters have persevered in a world where the chips were stacked against them. Let us hope that they will continue to use their power to lead with wisdom, character, compassion, and fearlessness; our younger generations of beautiful black sisters depend on it.
#2 Condoleezza Rice
As his ratings collapse largely due to the progress of the Iraq war, U.S. President George W. Bush increasingly seeks counsel from one of his closest advisers, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 51. A pragmatist now quite familiar with the halls of power, Rice is America's top diplomat and has demonstrated growing influence over U.S. foreign policy in Bush's second term, defending Bush's policies around the globe. A foreign policy realist who favors face-to-face negotiations, Rice made a surprise visit to Beirut in an attempt to hammer out a ceasefire agreement in the recent fighting in the Middle East, and she is working to defang Iran and North Korea, both intent on stepping up their nuclear programs. In fact, Rice is an inveterate globetrotter, racking up nearly a half million miles so far this year visiting dozens of countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Rice's message is one of "transformational democracy," a political philosophy she laid out in a speech at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in January. It states that the U.S. will "work with our many partners around the world to build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people." Rice won rave reviews recently for her piano performance at Asian security talks in Kuala Lumpur. She has hinted that her next career move may be in music, rather than a rumored presidential run. —Tatiana Serafin
#14 Oprah Winfrey
With an estimated net worth of over $1 billion, an Academy Award nomination, an Emmy-winning hit television show, successful magazines ( O, The Oprah Magazine, along with O at Home) and a cable channel (Oxygen Media, which she co-founded), Winfrey is an international media phenomenon. Earlier this year, Winfrey expanded her empire even further when she announced an exclusive three-year agreement with XM Satellite Radio to launch the Oprah & Friends channel. Winfrey is also a vocal advocate for the education and protection of women and children around the world; she promotes giving to those in need via Oprah's Angel Network and her personal charity, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation. Last year, The Oprah Winfrey Show launched an initiative to highlight the stories of victims and survivors of child predator crimes, posting a watch list of fugitives on Oprah.com. —Suzanne Hoppough
#27 Renetta McCann
Starcom MediaVest is the media communications agency for those who abide by the principle that image is everything. McCann heads up the U.S. and Canadian operations for one of the world's top five media agencies. Her company buys about $18 billion a year in media time for companies like Coca-Cola and General Motors. McCann is also on the board of Publicis Groupe Media, which directs the media networks of Publicis Groupe, the owner of Starcom. A recipient of numerous media and industry honors, McCann is also a board member of Chicago United, which aims to improve race relations and business opportunities for minorities. —Erika Brown
#51 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Sirleaf, Africa's first female president, beat popular soccer player George Weah to the post last November. That was the easy part. A longtime politician, Sirleaf, 66, now has to contend with putting her country back together after a 14-year civil war that left the capital Monrovia in near ruins. She must also deal with government mismanagement that has all but destroyed Liberia's economy. A first step to healing wounds will be the trial of the former president and ex-warlord Charles Taylor; he has already been transferred to The Hague on war crimes charges. Sanctions against timber exports—exports used by the previous government to fund its war campaigns—have been lifted. Sirleaf has also traveled to the U.S. to foster trade in other sectors. But some constituents are getting impatient, calling for faster reform. No doubt the "Iron Lady," as Sirleaf is known, will meet their challenge. —Tatiana Serafin
#62 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
In a cabinet reshuffle in June, Okonjo-Iweala moved from her post as finance minister to foreign affairs, but nonetheless remains in charge of the economic team of the oil-rich nation, the most populous in Africa. Okonjo-Iweala, 52, a former World Bank official and economist, is known for her prudent debt management and calls for fiscal discipline. Okonjo-Iweala led the negotiations that resulted in cancellation of nearly two-thirds, $18 billion, of Nigeria's $30 billion Paris Club debt, the second largest debt cancellation in the Paris Club's 30-year history. Okonjo-Iweala is now supervising the withdrawal of Nigerian troops from the southeastern Bakassi Peninsula and the transfer of the disputed territory to Cameroon. Nigeria is now abuzz with talk of her anticipated presidential run in the 2007 general election. —Tatiana Serafin
#83 Luisa Diogo
Diogo, 48, has become increasingly vocal in taking rich nations to task for not following up on aid, trade and debt relief promises to Africa. "It is no country's destiny to be poor," she has said. Diogo may be positioning herself for a run for her country's presidency in 2009. In the interim, she is dealing with ruffled feathers over a controversy involving property acquired by her son, which was subsequently rented to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a sweet $3,000 a month. A local businessman, Faruk Gadit, says the building belonged to him and should never have been sold by the state. Despite the dustup, Diogo has won kudos for helping turn around one of the world's poorest countries. —Tatiana Serafin
#89 Portia Simpson Miller
This Caribbean nation's first female prime minister was elected in February as the candidate of the People's National Party. A longtime government official who was born into rural poverty, Simpson Miller formerly oversaw tourism, labor, community development, local government and social security affairs for the island. As sports minister, she oversaw Jamaica's first foray into soccer's World Cup, and as tourism minister, she dealt with a decimated travel industry following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In her inaugural address, Simpson Miller vowed to fight corruption, support the poor with economic programs and ensure individual liberty. The popular prime minister now must lead her party to victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections next year. —Chana Schoenberger
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Kola_boof
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Post Number: 3188
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 07:55 pm: |
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That's really great. 
I like all of them.
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Robynmarie
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Post Number: 141
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 08:32 pm: |
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Kola, are you familiar with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf? Just wonder how she got a name like that?
I don't think any of these powerful women are married to white men, as some people would assume. Oprah and Condi are single, but the others have BLACK husbands. |
Kola_boof
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Post Number: 3189
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 08:46 pm: |
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Well, Liberians have English Colonial names, and she's from a wealthy Mulatto family in Liberia (have you seen her standing next to the "crowds" in Liberia), so her name is not unusual.
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 08:18 pm: |
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Lola:
Liberia was not an English colony. It was set up by the US as a haven for freed slaves after the Civil War.
Those names are American names. These families are not mulattoes (there were no white people to speak of for them to mix with). They are the descendants of freed Americans.
By the way those dogs so mistreated the indigenous Africans, imposing a black aparthied on them, that it has been cause for much of the trouble Liberia has been experiencing. The descendants of the American Negroes were overseers for the rubber plantation owners--white folks of course.
This woman is handpicked by the US to continue the colonialist policies of the rubber companies. The Liberians will continue to suffer--as have the Haitians in the wake of the deposal of Aristide--it now will not be reported in the press so it does not exist.
The same program is on track for Darfur. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 2686
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 08:28 pm: |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm
Liberia, which means "land of the free," was founded by free African-Americans and freed slaves from the United States in 1820. An initial group of 86 immigrants, who came to be called Americo-Liberians, first arrived in Liberia and established a settlement in Christopolis (now Monrovia, named after U.S. President James Monroe) on February 6, 1820.
Thousands of freed American slaves and free African-Americans arrived during the following years, leading to the formation of more settlements and culminating in a declaration of independence of the Republic of Liberia on July 26, 1847. The drive to resettle freed slaves in Africa was promoted by the American Colonization Society (ACS), an organization of white clergymen, abolitionists, and slave owners founded in 1816 by Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister. Between 1821 and 1867 the ACS resettled some 10,000 African-Americans and several thousand Africans from interdicted slave ships; it governed the Commonwealth of Liberia until independence in 1847.
In Liberia's early years, the Americo-Liberian settlers periodically encountered stiff and sometimes violent opposition from indigenous Africans, who were excluded from citizenship in the new Republic until 1904. At the same time, British and French colonial expansionists encroached upon Liberia, taking over much of its territory. Politically, the country was a one-party state ruled by the True Whig Party (TWP). Joseph Jenkins Roberts, who was born and raised in America, was Liberia's first President. The style of government and constitution was fashioned on that of the United States, and the Americo-Liberian elite monopolized political power and restricted the voting rights of the indigenous population. The True Whig Party dominated all sectors of Liberia from independence in 1847 until April 12, 1980, when indigenous Liberian Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe (from the Krahn ethnic group) seized power in a coup d'etat. Doe's forces executed President William R. Tolbert and several officials of his government, mostly of Americo-Liberian descent. One hundred and thirty-three years of Americo-Liberian political domination
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/harbel.htm
The Firestone rubber plantations in Liberia had a very large proportion of laborers working on it, providing them with employment, though in very poor conditions. By the mid-1960s there were over 20,000 workers at Harbel, though by the end of the 20th century there were only half that many workers. According to one estimate, there are over 100,000 people in Harbel's vicinity who are dependent on the plantation. This would make the Firestone plantation the second largest population center in the country, after Monrovia. Firestone ran two hospitals, twenty schools, and the Coca-Cola bottling plant.
Follow the money.
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Lil_ze
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Username: Lil_ze
Post Number: 452
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 10:40 pm: |
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um exuse me, but the indigenious africans were the ones responsible for the rape and murder of our people there. i love it when some people try to blame our people for these indigenious DOGS killing our people. liberia was a country that was created for FREED BLACK AMERICAN SLAVES. it was OUR country. if we wanted to create a system that excluded the indigenious africans, thats tough. we should be allowed to set the rules in OUR country. the indigenious african should be excluded from liberian society. they have got no business trying to include themselves in a country that is not theirs. liberia was meant to be controlled by the freed descendants of black americans. |
Shemika
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Username: Shemika
Post Number: 171
Registered: 02-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 10:56 pm: |
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Lil_flea, I hope your skank azz gets sent back to a f'n plantation where you belong. You sorry azz, hateful moron. You are a wicked coward fit for nothing but to be a Caucasoid's azz wipe. You aren't shyt. Just because you don’t have the balls to stand up to the white man and are only fit to do their biding, pick on dark skin woman, and molest children, doesn’t give you the right to scapegoat others to try to conceal your cowardliness. |
Kola_boof
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Post Number: 3194
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 11:03 pm: |
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Chris Hayden-------YOU'RE WRONG.
ALL...ALLLLL.....EVERY SINGLE ONE...of the "Freed Black Americans" who were sent to Liberia from the United States.....
were MULATTOES
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They left here High Yellow and mixed, and
they went to Liberia and RE-ENACTED slavery, slaughtered the Liberians and INTER-bred with
their own kind to remain Yellow Ass Creoles for as long as they could.
#2----BRITISH "prison colonies" for WHITE MEN and expeditions already littered LIBERIA long before the United States decided to rename the land and peoples who existed there.
It was NOT some empty lot that Americans found and set up as a nation for freed slaves. It was already SEVERAL NATIONS.
Additionally---I have already done a whole thread on this woman being handpicked by the U.S. and so on and so forth. You must have missed my campaigning for George Wea on this board.
DARFUR
And please don't PISS ME OFF about Darfur.
I'm so sick of you inferring that it would just be better to leave those people in the hands of the ARAB MUSLIMS who are slaughtering them.
What is the goddamned alternative Chris Hayden??
ANYTHING...and I mean ANYTHING...is better than GENOCIDE and RAPE.
WHATEVER America and Bush and the White man would have planned for DARFUR....it's a helluva lot better than the GENOCIDE and MASS RAPE that is currently plaguing these people.
I would GLADLY see Darfur (which is MUSLIM, and therefore cannot be part of South Sudan) be saved from annihilation.
And I am SO SICK of Black American like yourself acting as though YOUR SLAVE MASTER...is the only devil in the world---and that all other Satan's are lesser.
That's bullshit.
I would take GEORGE BUSH over BASHIR any damned day of the week, but in all your arrogance, you're so ANTI-AMERICAN because you don't have a clue how fat, spoiled and privileaged you are OVER HERE....in comparison to the people who really suffer in this world.
I wish you would take your ass to SUDAN or some other "Arab Muslim" nation---Palestine would be ideal---so that you can get some PERSEPECTIVE on the shit you talk.
The Arab Muslims and the African Union are nothing less than SATAN incarnate. GEORGE BUSH is a fucking angel of mercy compared to those bloodthirsty flesh-eating motherfuckers.
Darfurians would be LUCKY to be invaded and ruled over by the United States.
At least they would have a chance at liberation....down the road.
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Schakspir
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Post Number: 575
Registered: 12-2005
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"I would take GEORGE BUSH over BASHIR any damned day of the week, but in all your arrogance, you're so ANTI-AMERICAN because you don't have a clue how fat, spoiled and privileaged you are OVER HERE....in comparison to the people who really suffer in this world.
I wish you would take your ass to SUDAN or some other "Arab Muslim" nation---Palestine would be ideal---so that you can get some PERSEPECTIVE on the shit you talk.
The Arab Muslims and the African Union are nothing less than SATAN incarnate. GEORGE BUSH is a fucking angel of mercy compared to those bloodthirsty flesh-eating motherfuckers.
Darfurians would be LUCKY to be invaded and ruled over by the United States.
At least they would have a chance at liberation....down the road."
Spoken like a true agent. Shrubby isn't as bad as a piss-poor tin-pot dictator in a piss-poor African nation with no real political/economic clout at all....yeah, right.
Let's get one thing straight. We will NOT support Israel, we will NOT support GWB, we think he is an asshole, and no amount of James Bondesque brainwahing techniques will work here, "99." The Shrub an "Angel of Mercy?" Even "by comparison"? TAKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!!! |
Lil_ze
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Username: Lil_ze
Post Number: 460
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 09:54 pm: |
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liberia was NOT founded by "all" mulatoos. this is just a LIE. liberia was founded by freed american slaves. skin tone had nothing to do with it. there is ZERO proof that liberia was founded by "all" mulatoos.
kola boof you are a delusional liar. why not stick to your own history, rather than telling lies about our history. |
Sohra
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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The Arab Muslims and the African Union are nothing less than SATAN incarnate. GEORGE BUSH is a fucking angel of mercy compared to those bloodthirsty flesh-eating motherfuckers.
Darfurians would be LUCKY to be invaded and ruled over by the United States.
HOW THE FUCK DARE YOU.. you americans killed for the last years.. TONSSSS of people .. if there is one SATANIC country THAN tHAt is america... when you american dogs invaded somalia we kicked yalll OUT!!.. my god.. of course its terrible what is happening in darfur.. but to say that it is better that america comes to darfur???.. |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:14 am: |
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Sohra,
So then you'd rather America did NOT to thwart the bloodshed in Darfur? |
Sohra
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ahahah your so funny.. i think MORE bloodshed will come.. uhhh.. forgotten.. IRAQ..AFGHANISTAN.. etc??. |
Abm
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Sohra,
So then I take it you don't think America should do ANYTHING about what's going on in Darfur. |
Sohra
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people should clean there OWN shitt.. .. they can speak for themselfs right??.. and america should help first the katrina victims.. oke.. new orleans the darfur of america.. |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:47 am: |
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Sohra,
So then you think America should fix EVERYONE of its domestic problems BEFORE extending any effort to assist non-Americans, no matter the nature and severity of those foreign matters? |
Sohra
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America is nOt the ONLY "hero" in the world.. there are much better help troops like the UN.. it least they are Fare.. I am just against america.. because they are the biggest agressors in the world.. with "israel" ofcourse |
Kola_boof
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Post Number: 3209
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 11:40 am: |
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I stand by everything I said....forsaking ALL that the rest of you, sans ABM has said......AND Sohra, you African-hating piece of green shit from the land of skinny dogs...
.....you've not seen ass-kicking until you bring your wopped spoon-head to Aunt Kola's house.
I would be the fuck out of you, and all the HATE you professed for me would be multiplied and SWOLE up over your body like a new sweater---sewn by Aunt Kola.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6388
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 11:44 am: |
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Sohra,
When was the last time the UN thwarted any wars or genocidal activity WITHOUT the United States taking a primary position in that endeavor? |
Sohra
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kola bitch I don't hate africans i AM african.. stupid idiot.. Were is somalia then????... in australia??.. god.. And I CARE for darfur.. I just Don't want That the big satan(AMERICA) get involved |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2699
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 04:43 pm: |
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Kola:
You can't do a damn thing about the black people getting slaughtered right outside your door. Dying of AIDS, dying on dope, dying in gang wars.
We got almost as many black men locked up as there are refugees out there. You live in America not in the Sudan.
You can't be sure your sons will make it home every night. Some cop might shoot them. Some racist might shoot them. Some black criminal might shoot them.
I feel for the brothers and sisters in Darfur, but if they have to depend on American Negroes they are doomed.
If the U.S. ever gets its hands on them you will see some genocide like you ain't never seen before.
Of course then it will fade from the news so it will not exist.
Trip on down to Haiti and see how they made out once Aristide got bounced. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3222
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 04:47 pm: |
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Chris,
PLEASE don't speak to me anymore.
Goodbye.
Kola Boof
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