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A man who was in on the death of MLK slipped up in a speech he was giving that implicated him in MLK's death!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOq85bLFnE&feature...

Is Hip Hop responsible for the destruction of the black community?

Do you think that what happened over Norway was du to a failed Russian missile test? I don't know what it was, but I would bet my L!#e that it had nothing to do with a missile test. You can find pictures and videos by searching Norway Spiral Lights Phenomena.

Why are some groups of people so into this show, whether it is the movie, or the live participation show. There are a lot of people who take offense when you tell them that you do not like the rocky horror picture show and there are some who really take offence when you tell them that you would not be interested in the live participation show. I've been told that I would love the live participation show, but 1st, I don't like musicals, 2nd I don't like the rocky horror picture show, and 3rd I think that all the people who go to see this @#$% are strange, even though I have spent much time with some of the fans, they seem very strange when talking and reliving their rocky horror picture show moments. I'm just not into that stuff and I've seen it before.

Do you care if skate rats, who are skate boarding in prohibited areas, receive a stern talking to or receive ruff treatment by law enforcement authorities?

how would you go about doing it. What type of materials would you use? Mind you that this UFO need not only be capable of operation in inner-space, but must also be operation in outer-space as well and be capable of time warp so that you and your crew could travel to other galaxies and be home in time for Christmas. It must also be highly maneuverable, silent, have a propulsion system that doesn't use any fossil fuels or synthetic fuels that pollutant the environment and employ some type of cloaking device! You will be paid handsomely! Not! All answers welcome. The Funny! The Serious! And everything In-Between! GO!!!

Do you know what the largest empire in Africa was?

How did Blacks serve in the Revolutionary war?

How many things do you know that are wrong, falsified, fantasies, myths of the theory of evolution?

From Medieval Askum to Modern Ethiopia: Near 1,000 Years of Dynasty

There is not much known on the early origins of the Askumite (also Axumite) kingdom. The Eastern horn of Africa had been well known during dynastic Egypt as the land of Punt: a place of trade and commerce. But while most ancient Ethiopia/Abyssinia remains shrouded in mystery, there is much more known of its medieval era.

Roman and Greek sources indicate that an Askumite kingdom was thriving by the 1st century AD; the city of Adulis is frequently mentioned because it had become one of the most important port cities in Africa. Ethiopian history places Askum as an ancient city and the home of Makedda: the celebrated Queen of Sheba. According to tradition the name of the later state would be derived from this ancient city of the well-known queen.

Its great prominence in the region comes around the 1st century AD. In the second century AD, Aksum acquired tribute states on the Arabian Peninsula across the Red Sea, placing its troops in occupation of Southern Yemen. This was followed by the conquest of northern Ethiopia, and then finally the defeat of the once mighty Meroitic Kush - ancient Nubia.

The downfall of the Nubian powers led to the swift rise of Aksumite imperial power. The Aksumites controlled one of the most important trade routes in the world and occupied one of the most fertile regions in the world. Aksum lay directly in the path of the growing commercial trade routes between Africa, Arabia, and India.

As a result, it became fabulously wealthy and its major cities, Adulis, Aksum, and Matara, became three of the most important cosmopolitan centers in the ancient world. An indication of this cosmopolitan character can be found in the fact that the major Aksumite cities had Jewish, Nubian, Christian, and even Buddhist minorities.

The great Axum stelae: at over 74ft it is twice as large as any in either Nubia or Egypt.

By the 4th Century AD the religious system of Christian Rome had conquered Egypt and Syria. During this period a Syrian Christian philosopher and his two sons arrived at port in Askum. Rome and Askum were engaged in a battle over the supremacy of the sea trade routes at the time. Upon reaching port the ship is seized and the philosopher and crew were killed. The two Syrian youngsters were spared and became servants of the royal family during the reign of King Ella Amida.

Though it is uncertain how, they succeed in converting the royal family to Christianity. It was through one of these Syrian servants, Frumentius, that Christianity came to be Ethiopia's state religion. Frumentius later became in Alexandria, the first Bishop of Askum.

Amida's successor Ezana also converted to Christianity. Ezana was responsible for the conquest of Nubia (Meroitic Kush/Kash). But Nubia does not convert to Christianity upon Ezana's conquest. Rather Nubia's conversion begins in 542AD when two missionary groups set out to gain converts to their cause.

One group was the Monophysites, under the patronage of Emperor Justinian, and the other was the Melkites, under the patronage of the Empress Theodora. Through some crafty political maneuvering the Monophysites manage to reach the Nubian kingdoms. And by 580AD the one time home to the mighty pharaohs of Ampedak and Amani, had accepted Coptic (Egyptian) Christianity. Christianity flourished in the Nubian kingdoms mostly among the royalty and the monks; it is unknown whether the general populace fully embraced the religion. Under pressure from northern Muslim neighbors, the Nubian Christian kingdoms fall one by one to Islam---the last in 1504. This is significant as for centuries to come the greatest threat to Ethiopia shall be their Muslim neighbors to the north and East.

Pictured here is a Coptic Christian priest in front of a church dating back to the medieval era of Ethiopia:

Askum suffered its greatest upset during the 10th century when warrior queen only known as Gudit. Her devastating attack from a southern kingdom, probable adherents to traditional African spirituality resisting an encroaching Christian Askum, left the state in ruins. The Solomonid dynasty was put off the throne and hunted down. According to Coptic sources, numerous churches were destroyed and Christians killed in Gudit's conquering of Askum and the founding of the Zagwe dynasties. It would be several centuries before a Christian king named Anbessa Wudim wrested control of the kingdom once more and ushered in a return to Christian based architectural projects.

According to local tradition, God instructed a famous Askumite king, Lalibela, to build 11 churches the like of which the world had never seen, and dispatched a team of angels to help him complete the monumental task.

The king is said to have constructed the 12th-century church, Beit Giorgis (House of George), after a fully armored Saint George appeared on horseback and admonished him for not having consecrated a shrine to

Religion has brought us:

1. Christians slaughtering pagans (315 - 6th century)

2. Christians slaughtering Muslims (Crusades)

3. Muslims slaughtering Christians (Crusades)

4. Christians torturing and killing "heretics" (Inquisition, witch trials)

5. Christians burning books, heavy metal records, etc.

6. Muslims calling for the death of an author they didn't like (Rushdie)

7. Christians supporting slavery on biblical grounds (~ American Civil War)

8. Christians opposing suffrage on biblical grounds

9. Muslims calling for death to all Christians and Jews (cartoon rage)

10. Jews and Muslims killing each other (from the origin of Israel to present)

11. Christians bombing abortion clinics

12. The US Government! Uhmm! I mean Muslim terrorism in America (WTC, 9/11)

13. Christians slaughtering Jews (throughout history)

14. Christians slaughtering Native Americans

15. The list can go on forever.

How would you help the Black Funded Ops to blast through the the radiation belt that surrounds the world so that the gov could travel beyond it? What would be your method for breaking through so that space travel would be possible beyond the earth and the moon?

All answer welcome. Serious, funny and the a@5hole ones as well.

I've heard acai does not burn fat in the way that its being promoted and that it may have some mild benefits to metabolism, but in 2 weeks you won't notice any difference. Some people are saying that it is the fiber shakes that are behind any of the fat lose and not the Acai Berry.

What do you think?

And who's being paid to advertise Acai Berry in a lot of the answer on YA?

Why is it that in the past, anyone who believed in anything other than their specific faith were ridiculed, imprisoned, tortured and killed, but now religious leaders have come out to say to the people that it is ok for them to believe in aliens and that aliens must have been created by God? What are your thoughts on this. BTW! If you don't care or have not thought about this, please do not leave annoying remarks

Why is it that in the past, anyone who believed in anything other than their specific faith were ridiculed, imprisoned, tortured and killed, but now religious leaders have come out to say to the people that it is ok for them to believe in aliens and that aliens must have been created by God? What are your thoughts on this. BTW! If you don't care or have not thought about this, please do not leave annoying remarks.

For those of you who have been home school or to the parents who have home schooled your children, what do you think the pros and cons are/were? Do you teach/were you taught things that you could not learn/were not taught in school? If so! What were the extra things that you taught/learned and how much of a difference did this make? Would you recommend home schooling for some or all of the other kids? If so! Why?

For those of you who have been home school or to the parents who have home schooled your children, what do you think the pros and cons are/were? Do you teach/were you taught things that you could not learn/were not taught in school? If so! What were the extra things that you taught/learned and how much of a difference did this make? Would you recommend home schooling for some or all of the other kids? If so! Why?

Who you you think were the greatest teachers and why? What do you think are the greatest tools for learning and why? Do you think that you have been taught many/every thing that you should know if you have completed school? If not! What do you think that you should know or should have been taught? And if you think that you have received and complete education, how do you see and feel about the less or uneducated and are you willing to do something about it or do you feel that it is their problem to face alone?

Who is a Black person? Who is a White person? Who is a

N!993r? Whogave all of these labels and what do they really mean? What were we called before labels were forced on us?

Did you know that the FBI had many operations to discredit, hurt, kill and destroy the Black Panther Party? Did you know that the FBI sent letter to heads of Latino gang members telling then that the BPP were planing to kill off it's leaders to try and get the Latino gangs to instate a deadly war? Did you know that the FBI infiltrated the KKK, MLK's party, Malcolm X party, the BPP and numerous other civil rights. The FBI instigated hatred in the KKK towards the BPP. The FBI infiltrated and caused the civil rights organizations to distrust on another and implode from within causing the destruction of those organizations. Did you know that the BPP provided social services to the people who received little if nothing from the US gov. The BPP provided free food programs, free medical clinics, free legal aid, etc...