I don’t think you can find a place where such a thing isn’t true. Pick a group in power, and then watch as they set up tiers of acceptability for everyone who doesn’t quite fit into that group. And its always a very small group of people who pull the strings making this happen. And they always look for people willing…

He also kept a harem that makes R Kelly look good in comparison.

Yep. Never really thought of it that way before, but yeah, that’s a very interesting point that Somalia and Libya’s historical course parallels one another in a way.

Yeah, this is extremely common in the MENA region. The Black Panthers were able to open an international office of sorts in Algiers due to patronage of Boumédiène.  Doesn’t mean that Black Algerians weren’t treated terribly.

Preach. Boumédiène used to pull the same shit.

Oh Sweet Jesus, please stop this white washing of Qaddafi. I was strongly against any sort of intervention in Libya, but this revisionism (well, he was flawed, but...) is disgusting. And no, this isn’t comparable to Iraq, because in this revisionism y’all are leaving out that rebels had already started a civil war by…

Also, never bring up the topic of the Armenian Genocide with a Turk.

When I was a tourist in Turkey, and saw a bit of the country, besides just Istanbul, Turks mostly seemed unfriendly to tourists, and generally unhappy. I mean, if you look at some huge crowd, they just walk about looking grim or mean in Istanbul. This attitude was more extreme than many other dour cities and peoples.  …

Well, Turkey is a pretty damn nationalist country. They have criminal laws on the books that make it illegal to insult the nation/”Turkishness”, and according to official policy the Armenian genocide did not happen (even though it actually occurred before the founding of the modern state of Turkey), and…

Gaddafi was also a ruthless authoritarian and dictator. So even if he wasn’t the absolute worst leader in the world that still doesn’t excuse all the bad shit that went on during his rule, and which he was guilty of.

Let’s not forget if Malcolm was alive today and living in turkey, his life would come to the same conclusion. Erdogan is not a friend to democracy or free thought. The shit is a joke. The only street that should be names after Malcolm should only be in Harlem, no where else especially not in a nation state where…

No lies detected.

Perfect!

My brain translates it to Melanoma

Funny, for me it's "Melanoma"

oh, I’m going to try to program my brain to do that too!

Lol, yep. “This racism smells funny, but....I’mma eat it anyway.”

Oh, I did not express myself correctly, I fear: he’s a real peach, but with a very complicated life, always has, and I fear will keep having, sadly, since he deserves so much better.

Don’t hate; camo clothing is a nice way of identifying likely assholes at a distance. See also: those giant US flag decals that go over the rear window of a pickup.