To those who have found true love, only to have had it slip away, there’s perhaps no song more powerful than The Promise by Tracy Chapman, about the eternal hope that one day you’ll be reunited with your soulmate.
I sometimes think only black people can produce music this powerful. The rest of humanity lost that ability tens of thousands of years ago, but blacks preserve it because they were the first to branch off the human evolutionary tree, as Rushton noted.
modern humans and population substructure in Africa.
So turn off the lights, turn up the volume and let this black woman’s talent take you home to the very soul of our collective humanity that began in Mother Africa.
Although the song seems to be about romantic love, it can also be applied to the love a parent has a child.
Darren Graber on youtube writes:
I’m 44 and I have recently been diagnosed with a stage 2 glioma (brain tumor) and have been told that I have perhaps 1 year left, I think this is the saddest song I’ve ever heard, I love this song so much and want it to be played at my funeral but I worry it will upset my daughter to much, it scares me to think of my daughter on her own and that I won’t be here to comfort and support her and it breaks my heart that I will never see my daughter graduate university or that I won’t be there to walk her down the Isle on her wedding day or meet my grand children, I love you Esmee to the moon and back and am so proud of the beautiful, intelligent and courageous young woman you have become, I know that one day (many many) years from now we will meet again, Esmee those day’s will be truly glorious fore we shall walk hand in hand through the fields of paradise as we listen to a choir of angels having shed the sins and struggles we carried for all those years, god bless you all, please be kind to one another and cherish your loved ones because life is just to short and far to precious to waste on bitterness and hate
Pumpkin Person 
Puppy as a person who supports open borders, why do you have more love for immigrants than for your own people? Its very strange. Do you think about african immigrants when you listen to this song?
LOL! I strongly OPPOSE open borders.
I was thinking about Puppys obsession with black women and how it naturally means that he would vote for a black woman for president even if that person’s only qualification was being a tv talk show host that talked about shitty books.
Anyway, even though Puppys IQ is supposedly 3 or 4 standard deviations above the typical black woman, Puppy would vote for the black to be president, but the black woman would vote for something stupid like an immigrant or another black person.
It just goes to show there is no reciprocity.
I’m not obsessed with black women & I would only vote for them if they opposed neocon wars & open borders
now finally pill has seen what i figured out so many years ago. peepee is mixed race, but part of that mix is black and the average american would identify peepee as black. plus, like tracy chapman, she is a lesbian.
but the other day at a walmart i saw the weirdest thing, this boris becker type, so blond his eyelashes are blond…and tall…with this woolly haired midget-ess blacker than any black american. talk about perversion.
Mug of Pee must have the lowest social IQ in the history of this blog. Not only is he wrong about me being part black but he’s also wrong about pill “realizing” I’m part black. Pill’s moderated comments show he still thinks I’m a brainwashed white
Puppy mentions black women so much, even the ads on the website are full of black women. The algos think people that go to this site do it to read about black women.
Okay that was really weird. I started complaining about all the black women in the ads, and now I have blonde women in all the ads. This is good that google is listening to my feedback but a bit creepy.
I love the sound of her deep voice since always … but the lyrics let me completely cold. I don’t connect to my deep african roots like you can. Maybe it’s because it’s about imagination (mental imagery) and I don’t have access to it.
( Despite my mtdna being L2, one that almost only subsaharian black people have )
So I read a comment from Buffet that IQ is not related to being good at investing. Maybe hes telling the truth but it sounds a bit like hes being magnanimous. Buffet obviously has a very high IQ from what the book The Snowball says of him and the person he learned how to do value investing from, Benjamin Graham, is described by Buffet as having a ‘200 IQ’ in the same book.
iirc, buffett said “investing isn’t a game where the 160 IQ does better than the 130 IQ.”
and buffett has also said he’d pay to do what he does. so that’s most of his secret. he meets the “cognitive threshold” and he’s autistic about investing.
i’m surprised pill doesn’t see the EMT for what it is, a story finance and econ profs tell themselves to explain why they aren’t rich.
yes. it’s possible for individuals to beat the market consistently, and it’s not even that hard, but at the same time the type of person it takes is very rare. and becomes rarer over time.
but again, buffett’s wealth has been almost entirely explained by his following a very simple strategery and having access to cheap margin via the float of his insurance companies. http://docs.lhpedersen.com/BuffettsAlpha.pdf
now why are high quality easily valued companies cheaper than growth companies? why haven’t they been levered as if they were bonds or utilities? because…
1. there are legal restrictions on leverage for most investors.
2. most don’t have access to cheap leverage.
3. people in general are opposed to levering stocks, because stocks, because 1929.
and…
not having access to much leverage + not having access to cheap leverage + not being unwilling to use it…
means investors seek redonkulous returns in growth companies and others unlike KO or MO thus making such companies expensive.
Those are all really good points. From reading The Snowball however, Warren himself never used leverage or derivatives when getting rich. Although he eventually started using warrants more and more.
you didn’t read it then or the author was incompetent or you’re misremembering or you’re trolling.
the float is the leverage, AND…
buffett took out a second mortgage at the very beginning to gear his first fund.
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Vivaldi, Haydn, Strauss, Handel, Brahms, Debussy, Holst, Liszt, Shubert, Mahler, Stravinski, Schumann, Ravel… I can go on.
Classical music in the 20th century, and the teaching of classical music was advanced significantly in America—what’s known as jazz today. A lot of these advances started in predominantly French-speaking parts of America, where French impressionist composers like Debussy were popular. A metaphorical passing of the torch. The population of these areas was majority African-American, hence why there were so many musical advancements made by the African American population (at least in the 20th century). Particularly when this more advance form of music combined with regional folk music (the blues). One thing to keep in mind is that jazz was illegal in some circumstances and not academized for some time. So it remained relegated to black clubs and brothels.
The biggest reason for this disjunction of musical success between white and black Americans is that schools in America at the time (which were usually all caucasian) usually did not teach music composition correctly—or at least the tools used were mostly incorrect. Most curriculums were written by music theorists, and not real musicians (or, at least, not very good ones). Many attempted to explain jazz using severely outdated methods. By the 50’s, while the schools were barely wrapping their heads around modal jazz, and being misled by stupid theories like the Lydian chromatic concept, the non-academics (predominantly African-American) had been conceptualizing complex harmonies, melodies for decades via chord scales (see Barry Harris), passing tones/chords, superimpositions, etc. Ideas that are easy to understand and produce more complex sounding music than, at least, traditional methods. These are ideas that you can trace back to at least Chopin, and were certainly key in impressionist playing.
So, there was an absolute over-achievement in music within the African-American community. While there may be some genetic differences on average—like rhythmic ability—most differences can be attributed to different (and better) learning practices, in conjunction with the rejection of these practices by the schools. The best jazz musicians were usually trained by a tutor, and seasoned in clubs. Did you know that Oscar Peterson’s own music teacher, István Thomán, was himself taught by Liszt AND also taught Bartók?
This is not to say there weren’t successful non-black early-mid 20th-century musicians creating outstanding music. Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartók, just to name a few. Even in America, Gershwin, Copland, Barber etc… If we’re talking about english speaking pop music—The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elton John. Simon and Garfunkel, for christ’s sake, are the whitest mfers to walk this earth, and they wrote The sound of silence. Tracy Chapman herself has performed with Dave Matthews, who is a similarly gifted writer (in spite of the caricatures). I’ve barely scratched the surface.
So, to say that “only black people can produce music this powerful”, or that the rest of humanity lost this ability, is willfully ignorant—as it ignores a bevy of evidence to the contrary. Music history is a messy and tangled adventure, and to say that only one group of people can produce music of a certain emotional and creative caliber is plain wrong. Musical brilliance can come from anywhere, and certainly from both people of African and European decent.
In the famous words of a musically gifted kiddy fiddler, “It don’t matter if you’re black or white”.
The problem is, a lot white and black music isnt really comparable. I mean, how do you compare the sensual genius (hahahaha!!!😂) of an R. Kelly with the roaring guitar solos of Van Halen? One plays music almost entirely performed by and listened to by black people, the other plays music performed by and for whites. And the respective genres give you different feels. Its hard to sau one is better than the other.
I have noticed that classical music, electro music and Heavy Metal music don’t have Nam audience.
For example videos from Tomorrowland festival near Bruxelles – a region with at least 40% Nams on the street – is less than 1% Nam….
I wonder why.
Classical music is frequently appreciated by a minority of white people. Electro music is quite instrumental as well classical tend to be. But, i don’t know if most of fans of classical musical are whites. Seems lots of east asians like this. Heavy metal music is very associated with a specific type of masculinity expression which is very northern-european: a combination of ”macho atitudes” without hyper sexuality.
Mainlanders seem to have zero taste as of the status quo. Most good music requires very little taste to appreciate (atleast partially, enough to like it), good taste comes from discrening the smaller more erudite and reflective details and seeing the potencial in all. East asians pretty much only litsen to trendy classical music like debussy, bethoveen and chopin, and not most of their songs, only a few. Just litsen to k-pop. Westerners complain about justin beiber, skrillex or migos but those are considerably better than almost everthing from the mainland region. Blacks proabalby dont like classical that much either, though i imagine they would like the more emotional stuff like satie or russian pianists.
The japanese are different. They got korean and mongolian elements in their music but also european ones (before cultural contact). Their music tends to be less complex, more aggresive, less discrete and more feminine, than european music, but still resemble it sparring the northern mainland influences. The japanese can produce some very above average melodies with enough effort. Yellow magic orchestra is a example of that.
Theres also this childhood theme:
Song of healing is amazing becuase of how its calming and secure but desolate and mourning at the same time, wonderfull harmony. Tee song is not only about being healed but also about what you are healing from. Its made by koji kondo. His status is wierd, becuase his songs are super famous and well known but very few know about him. He made the super mario theme for instance.
What i notice is that many (almost all) of the best japanese songs out there are obscure with only hundreds of fans and thousands of views, in a nation of 126 million.
”I sometimes think only black people can produce music this powerful. The rest of humanity lost that ability tens of thousands of years ago, but blacks preserve it because they were the first to branch off the human evolutionary tree, as Rushton noted.”
God!!
From classical music to post rock/ambient music… a few examples.
Good you think ”sometimes”, probably when you’re drunk.
”I sometimes think only black people can produce music this powerful. The rest of humanity lost that ability tens of thousands of years ago, but blacks preserve it because they were the first to branch off the human evolutionary tree, as Rushton noted.”
Hearing fantastically superior musics coming from Africa mother land…
African music tends to be more feminine and child friendly/less cynical than African American music.
You mean tribal african music*
Thinking Mouse, I think that race segregates people as a planet and causes divisions that are unnecessary to understanding ourselves. I also think that evolution is basically individualism to the furthest extent. I think East Asians are the least evolved. I think that we a convergence in thought is the optimal condition, but East Asians lack that too as there are too many divisions in a more conditioned sense.
Funny thing is, we’re some of the most brilliant and individualistic people on the planet. Yet we’re all having very difficult times at adapting because we think of things in an autistic manner. We all segregate ourselves based on values we think we have.
That can be a very difficult adaptation to complete, honestly.
I mean integrating values into your life.
To those who have found true love, only to have had it slip away…
i know. i had true love. but then we had sex. and she died. internal bleeding, perforated uterus. because too big.
this is a teaching moment!
there are as many masters as vices.
“in love” why? who’s put this monkey on your back?
answer: no one except nature makes this sick feeling possible.
eschew nature. don’t identify with nature. know that these feelings are imposed on you by a foreign power.
and then you will be a carthusian, alcoholic, Cynic…
you will wash mugabe’s feet.
just remember what it was like when boys were icky.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
ted bundy was a “good looking man” by white woman standards.
he fell “in love” too much.
and all those who hate on elvis because trailer trash…
1. he was a good singer
2. he had a uniquely beautiful singing voice.
so eye flirting is a thing even when it’s not really flirting, it’s just a reflex.
the girls who eye flirt most with me are tall, fair, british-nordic…
why?
i’m only 6’1.25″.
because people have an intrinsic sense of genetic affinity.
she knows that i know, and i know that she knows.
that is, they recognize me as like them in terms of nearest common ancestor.
but some people would replace this instinct with other attributes, like what school you went to, how much money your dad made, etc…
whatever ABSTRACT bullshit.
if one takes nothing more from hegel than this, it’s worth it.
CONCRETE = GOOD
ABSTRACT = BAD
Ich Will was intentionally an echo of Triumph des Willes which itself came from schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation…
afro said: “peepee is a mixed race lesbian.”
was afro peepee spreading false rumors about herself?
If Afro said that it was because he believed you which he should not have done because you have terrible social judgement
Sarah Barmak is another example of a sexy jewish woman who fell in live with her own junkyard and converted to the lesbian religion.
homosexual men and women are much more focused on genenitals.
Sarah Barmak just needs me inside her.
Kids are being sexualized at such a young age nowadays, it’s scary. Everything is pretty much sexualized and so much so that it’s disturbing. We should really revisit our morals as a country before we go over how things are in terms of our politics or our economics to be honest.
Interestingly the newest generations are kinda conservative than millenials.
In one sense, yes, and in another, no. One must remember that the sexual conservatism of the younger generations are being replaced by sexual entitlement and acceptance of more sexual relations between women and men.
There’s a deference from inclusion of gays, practicing non-conventional sex, etc. into going into sexual relations that are typically healthier between adults, but harmful to children.
I’d rather see a platonic gay relationship at a younger age than a full-on sexualized relationship between two much younger kids. You have to remember that these kids are just imitating porn and have no basis for non-pornography based sex. They’re brainwashed by the sex that the media provides for them.
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That’s ideological polarization (elites just love to crack people) . But i doubt there are more lgbt today than in the past., i mean, significantly. The difference is visibility. When we see uncommon things our minds can provide a wrong conclusion these is more common than actually is.
Remember brainswashing is practized on both stupid ideological sides, on the reich too.
The vague idea that only left try to indoctrinate people is for sure, wrong, Left ALSO desindoctrinate when it advocate for individual people’s choice. Conserfs always try to indoctrinate = impose one way to live: to cut the hair; to dress; to marry [only people of another sex and or the same race]. Desindoctrination: women can marry or not; can cut short their hair or not; can have kids or not; can dress like a typical feminist OR NOT. And, specially, when we see that corageous and minoritary people who dress the clothes they want, challenging a crowd of people dressing confortably similar clothes,these queer ones weren’t indoctrinate because they have the power of choice and they choose to express themselves. Maybe, it’s the crowd of conventional dressed people who would like to dress more like their individual desires.
The story and the song are really moving. Thank you, PP
it’s hilarious and sad that peepee refuses to admit she’s black.
No it’s hilarious that the blarab misdreavus refused to admit he’s black, even though by the one drop rule he clearly is. I’m not.