That's nonsense, nothing you've heard about Ty Cobb is true. Cobb was an advocate for racial equality and spoke out for allowing black players. He learned this from his father. At the time of his death black newspapers published fawning obituaries because he had supported black players and integration.

Al Stump was a sportswriter who was working with Cobb on his autobiography, and Stump, who had been fired several times for lying, kept urging to Cobb to make up stories. Cobb refused and the book was published. Then, several years after Cobb's death Stump wrote several books and articles about Cobb claiming he had inside information and that Cobb was a racist, and violent, and intentionally tried to injure other players.

The media picked this up and all portrayals of Ty Cobb after that have used those BS biographies because they're more interesting than a guy who liked to play with his dogs and supported the integration of baseball. Pretty much everything you've heard about Cobb is complete nonsense written by a known liar who tried to make a buck off someone's death.

Lesbian bed death.

Chicks, man.

My neighbor used to be a very old woman name Rose.

They fucked around and found out.

That's all extra-Biblical, it's rabbis looking to explain things after the fact. The Bible says that God created Adam, then later He creates Eve, and they're the parents of mankind.

Lilith isn't in the Bible, other people weren't created first. If you're accepting the Bible either as a religious text or as mythology, it's clear that God creates Adam and Eve and everyone else comes from them, there's no Lilith or others.

It is mentioned that Eve is the mother of mankind, which suggests that all people come from her, it's not just an honorary title. But Genesis also mentions that Adam and Eve have other children after Cain and Abel, it just doesn't mention what happens to them.

Monotheism is a modern conception, and the word "god" originally just meant divine being. The thing that's different about Yahweh is that He's the only creator. Also, Yahweh is the only god that isn't part of a pantheon, the divine beings with Yahweh are His subordinates, they're not offspring or equals. That's much different from all the other beliefs.

Another difference is that God has a singular relationship with people. There's no give and take, it's Yahweh's way of the highway. All of the other gods rely on humans and do favors for humans if they get something in return.

It was generally acknowledged, and mentioned in the Bible, that God has a council and he addresses other divine beings--angel is a job description, the word means "messenger." Only in modern times did Jewish and Protestant leaders invent monotheism, the notion that there's only one divine being. The Bible itself notes that there are divine beings, angels, who assist Yahweh, and divine beings, demons, that oppose Yahweh, but He's the one God.

>there is no adequate explanation of the people of Nod. Adam and eve created 2 offspring, Cain and Abel; Both males. There is no other mention of any other people on the planet, just those 4 people

You're wrong. Not only does Genesis say that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters, it specifically mentions a son named Seth.

It doesn't mention when those other children were born or what happened to them, only that that the first two children were Cain and Abel. And it clearly says that Eve is the mother of mankind in general so the other people are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.

I'm sure the zealots love it when someone who doesn't know what the Bible says and doesn't believe in it, tries to share his "knowledge."

But my sub soil is better than your sub soil.

There are more people complaining about flat earth morons than there are actual flat earth morons.

When my son was in third or fourth grade he had to do a project on trees and one of the sites we were looking at was discussing oak trees and using terms I wasn't familiar with. We went to Wikipedia to see if the information was a little more clear, and someone had written that oak trees were feared by other trees because they were rapists. It was one of those things where you do a double-take, you're not sure you read what you just read.

Are you sure? His stepchildren appear in the show, that sounds like nepotism.

Yes, gard is garðr. Ásgarðr and Miðgarðr.

Also, Jesus' actual name was Yeshua, which in Greek became Iēsoūs, and then Iesus in Latin, and finally Jesus in English. There's a slightly different version of the same name in the Bible, Yehoshua, but that came directly from Hebrew to English, we pronounce it Joshua.

In Greek however, it's the same name, there's no difference. And in English we'd pronounce Yeshua as Joshua as well if it hadn't gone through Greek and Latin first.

It's like Odin with a lisp, it's hard getting used to. The ð looks like a d so very often it was just translated to d, like in Odin or Miðgarðr becoming Midgard.

"The Great Heathen Army" was led by Ivar the Boneless and his brothers. The reason for his nickname is unclear. We know he couldn't walk, he was carried everywhere on a shield. He's described as being very tall and very wise.

It could be he just couldn't walk or had a leg deformity. Normally he would have been killed at birth, but his father was (possibly) Ragnar Lodbrok*, a king.

There have been people who are have a condition that makes them extremely tall, but who can't walk without leg braces, so that's a possibility.

Some suspect he might have had Osteogenesis imperfecta or "brittle bone disease."

Ivar, it was said, had "no love lust" in him, which people equate to impotence, but he did produce several children. The Norse were big on nicknames, some truthful, some ironic, it's hard to know what they meant.

Ivar and his family were the focus of the show Vikings, but that was completely fictional and even its references to real-life events were changed dramatically. Ivar is portrayed very negatively, his actual reputation was mixed. Obviously the Anglo-Saxons were not fans, but in Scandinavia he was either loved and admired or thought cruel and mean. Everyone agrees he was extremely smart.

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*Ragnar Lodbrok (his surname was probably Sigurdson, Lodbrok, or Loðbrók**, was a nickname. His nickname, "hairy breeches" or "shaggy pants" came from the story where Ragnar battled a dragon and wore special clothing for protection.

**The ð letter was called an "eth" an was pronounced like the TH sound in "this" or "path." The Norse god Odin's name was actually Oðin.

Lies and name calling, I see we've reached the end.

Why don't you stop being a racist and liar? There's no racism involved in what I wrote and you're restating what I said. You're dishonest.

I'm mixed race, I only look white.

Black people commit crimes at a higher rate, it's a fact. That's the problem, not that black people are incarcerated for committing those crimes. Acknowledging reality isn't racist. And there are obviously problems, but if things are terrible for blacks in the US, I'd be curious to know why Nigerians are the most successful immigrant population.

I've seen no redlining. Most [of] my clients are non-white and they never have trouble getting mortgages or buying into specific neighborhoods. I see (non-white) people almost exclusively want to live with people like them.

If you run a small business nepotism makes sense, if that fails you've lose everything. Hiring relatives and people you know isn't to excludes others, it's to hire people you trust.

Although LBJ's Great Society didn't help, I don't blame either side for disruption of the black family, the rates of unwed mothers, for all races, shoots up immediately after abortion and contraception become legalized. Although it freed up women from being forced into marriages to avoid social stigma, it also allowed women to have children without being forced into marriage. It's not clear why blacks were more affected.

Unlike fentanyl and oxycontin, crack was a big city problem, it wasn't nationwide. New York, Newark, and Philadelphia were hit hardest by crack. It wasn't that black people were more likely to use crack, it's that people in big cities were the ones affected by crack, and that's where most black people tend to live.

While it's true black people in the past had a difficult time accumulating wealth due to government policies, those policies aren't in effect anymore and immigrants have no trouble accumulating wealth. I see it everyday, poor immigrant grandparents, parents go to college, their kids grow up in the suburbs.

I'm mixed race but look white, grew up in a black neighborhood, in a broken home, with a mentally ill mother, on welfare, and lived in the projects. Any kid who did well in school got good grades or "talked white" was relentlessly bullied, regardless of race. And since it was a majority black neighborhood and a majority black school, that meant mostly black kids. I don't know why that started and you can blame Nixon or Clinton, but black people have destroyed the lives of more black people than any government program or supposed racist conspiracy. Even today black men shoot other black men at incredible rates. I don't know the solution, but blaming the problem on racist whites in the 1950s is nonsense.

I've worked for both big and small companies and black people were more likely to get hired than anyone else. If you're a black person with a college degree you're more likely to get hired than anyone else. Joe Biden said of Obama, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man," and he was criticized for it, but if you fit that description and apply to a big company they put you on the fast track.

The people in banks lend to the people who are going to pay back loans. I don't think the issue is racism, it's personal financial history. I'm a real estate agent, there's no issue in black people getting loans or buying houses. If you can manage your money and have a stable history you'll get a loan.

The structural racism is in schools, black children get a poor education and the school system just claims it needs more money but nothing ever changes. Think about any case that became national news involving a black person and the police. Do you think any of those black men had a high school diploma?

Seventy percent of black children are born to unwed mothers, and it's been shown time and again that growing up without a father has a tremendous negative effect on both girls and boys. I have two kids and I can tell right away which of their friends come from intact families, which kids are only children, and which kids are from broken homes. That's the fundamental problem but it's hard to think of solutions and society has chosen to look the other way.

I was in China a couple of times and I don't know if they were racist or not because everyone treats everyone else like crap.

You're throwing those numbers around as if they mean something. If more black people are committing crimes then there are going to be more black people in prison and that's what's happening.

You can claim cops are racist, juries are racist, everyone is racist, but you can watch the news and see who's beating Asian people and Jews for no reason, who's getting into gun fights on sidewalks, and who's looting stores.

It's not racist to acknowledge that black people commit more crimes, but the biggest crime is that if you're a young black man growing up in the US you don't have a chance and no one is willing to look for solutions. It's easier to accuse everyone else of racism than deal with the fact that if you're a young black man in a big city, you're fucked.

>America ranks very low among other Western countries on most racial discrimination metrics because nearly half of our population exhibit some level of racist beliefs.

Most Western countries don't have non-white populations as large as the US does.

And as a white who grew up in a black neighborhood, and now live in an area with more Indians than anywhere else in America, I can tell you that the racism in this country is not coming from where you think it's coming from.

Korean business owners don't ban black people from their stores, they're the only ones willing to open up in black neighborhoods and deal with the problems.

I grew up in a black neighborhood and Korean shopkeepers weren't following around black people (and the few white customers) because they're racist, they were doing it because they learned who the thieves were. Koreans business owners want to make money, they care about green more than skin color.