Torraine Walker

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@ItsLovelyLaveau He did.

Jim Jones would have had a lot of yall in Jonestown

It's a time honored rule of genocidal warmongers that if you emasculate and eliminate the males, the women and children will be at your mercy. This is the same sort of sexual depravity that lynch mobs and racist cops practice on Black men, and for the same reasons.

What you see in this picture over 30 black male librarians that united at a library conference last summer. We are breaking the stereotypes associated with librarians. Black excellence goes beyond music and athletics. LEADERS OF THE NEW COOL!

@NatalyaRuslan_ If you really want that, why are you here in my mentions?

@TorraineWalker Next by race

Black Americans, join me and a new era of peace and intelligent discourse will sweep across this app. Wait for my signal. Soon. ⏳

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@Re_UPsMedia @jwats716 @Phrozensolid06 That's the hyperbolic, ad hominem and emotion based politics I was talking about that's making us a laughing stock.

@jwats716 @Phrozensolid06 @TorraineWalker Grab a mic I don’t think sooo

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@_nekrowaffen_ @medbrotha Silence, recessive. Follow your leaders into the shell hole outside the bunker.

@TorraineWalker @medbrotha Dude, you are not as smart as you think/pretend to be on the Internet. Read that comment back to yourself out loud .... Or are you in court and have to be quiet?

To quote Delroy Lindo's Sinners character Delta Slim: “See, white folks, they like the blues just fine. They just don't like the people who make it.” My new article. torrainewalker.substack.com/p/baftas-vs-bl…

@medbrotha They can use that time to find a better use of the few hours their electrical grid is running.

@TorraineWalker Oh folks are tight about this lol

@PotatoMcWhiskey It's always the overcompensating South Boston types who say dumb shit like that.

I do not endorse using racism and my culture to denigrate black people, black culture, and black experience.

@KriszKH @_OKJ__ It's time to let Chomsky go.

The most interesting part in this story for me was how Noam Chomsky reacted to this. He had a full campaign discrediting this guy because the Piraha language doesn't have recursion and thus disproves Chomsky's theory about language. They even sent it through some algorithms and there is no recursion. They don't refer to anything abstract, they simply point. Never liked old Noam, liked him even less after I learned about this.

This reminds me of a fascinating story I read,of when in the 1970s Daniel Everett,a linguist and Christian went to the Amazon jungle to convert a tribe called the piraha people to Christianity and completely failed for one crazy reason 😂😂 When Daniel Everett arrived with his wife and kids at the remote Pirahã village in the Amazon, His mission was clear…learn their language,translate the New Testament,and convert this isolated hunter gatherer group to Christianity. What he encountered instead was one of the most radical cultural and linguistic worldviews ever documented 😂. From his experience,Everett eventually formalized what he called the “Immediacy of Experience Principle”. What this means in essence is the Pirahã culture and grammar strongly constrain what can be meaningfully discussed or believed…to them,knowledge must be anchored in direct,personal observation or at most in the recent testimony of living people you know. Things that happened long ago,that no one alive has seen,or that exist only in abstract or supernatural realms fall into the category of what they called xibipío (“gone out of experience”). They don’t deny it outrightly.. to them, such things simply carry no weight and are not worth serious talk. This principle shapes everything for them… and is why they have No creation myths or origin storis , No numbers beyond rough quantities like “a few” or “many.” , No recursive embedding in grammar (you can’t easily say “kelvin’s brother’s house” … you say two separate sentences). Their Stories and discourse stay tethered to the here and now. Now Christian theology, by contrast, is built on precisely the kind of claims the Pirahã worldview filters out…A distant creation,Miracles and events from thousands of years ago, A savior no living person has met, Salvation and afterlife described in ancient texts. Everett tried …He told them the story of Jesus..his birth,teachings,death,and resurrection. The Pirahã listened politely,then asked the questions their language and culture demanded… “Have you met this man?” “Did you see him?” “Did your father see him?” When Everett admitted he had not , that these events happened 2,000 years earlier and were known only through a book,the conversation effectively ended 😂. “That’s interesting,” some of them would say, treating the Gospel the same way they treated any other distant tale…as something outside lived experience, therefore irrelevant to how they live and what they believe. Notice It wasn’t hostile rejection(like the one you’d get from the people of the sentinel islands in India). It was epistemological incompatibility. The theology couldn’t even gain traction because their entire system of knowledge validation rejected second hand ancient testimony. Everett kept trying for years. He failed to produce a usable Bible translation. Meanwhile, living among people who were profoundly content, generous, and empirically grounded …with no concept of sin, eternal punishment, or a distant deity. By 1982 he himself started havinv serious doubts about his beliefs and by 1985 he had quietly become an atheist. The man who had come to convert the Pirahã had instead been “converted” by their way of seeing reality.😅 As Everett later wrote and said in interviews, the deepest challenge wasn’t an argument against Christianity. It was living inside a culture where the very criteria for what counts as real knowledge made supernatural historical claims feel as weightless as yesterday’s dream. The Pirahã didn’t need to debate theology. Their language and worldview simply had no slot for it and, in the process, they helped a missionary lose his faith without ever raising their voices.😂 Makes you wonder, what would a Christian say the fate of these people is? Eternal torment? We can all see how that would be problematic. Would they somehow make heaven and get judged by how they live their lives? But That would make the whole Christian message irrelevant. 🙂

@YallLuvCris That Malcolm quote is making the rounds again. You know the one.

And people really said he was wrong for this…

@ThatEricAlper All this time I thought it was a repeated sample hit.

The rapper on Chaka Khan's version of "I Feel for You" is Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and repeating her name at the beginning of the song was a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it.

@majornija @SonMemphis Claire lost her mind when a dark skinned ex slave who became a self-educated, self made millionaire had the audacity to buy a mansion in her paper bag neighborhood. The rich whites respected him and his family better that she did.

@TorraineWalker @SonMemphis

If y'all haven't seen it, watch "The Gilded Age" for an excellent depiction of the origin of some of the issues we're dealing with now. When you see it you'll understand.

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