I’m not British or ever even been to England so I don’t know the ins and outs of your culture but online it seems as if Manchester city is hated universally, why is that if they’re your most successful club? Usually in most countries the most successful club is the most beloved and popular. Most countries don’t hate their greatest club.
I don’t mean any harm in asking this, but I’m wondering because I’m black. We need sunlight in order for our immune systems to stay strong. It gives us vitamin D which we need and can become deficient of if we don’t get enough of it. It also helps regulate our mood and stress levels. Do white people require this as well? I’m asking this because they say the sun is bad for your skin.
I’ve wondered this myself because Africans (outside of South Africa and North Africa). Are able to live in a society where they have most of the socioeconomic power and they don’t have to deal with white supremacy on a day to day basis. They truly have a country that looks out for them and at the very least tried its best to help them. They don’t have to deal with systemic oppression or racism. They have their own true home whereas us black Americans and Canadians and even black Europeans are sort of “homeless.”
Do you think it would be better for both parties if the US split between north and south like Korea did? I ask this because the cultures and values between the two sides seem so different especially nowadays that staying as 1 nation doesn’t seem healthy anymore for either half. Each half of America absolutely despises each other.
Everyone talks about Haaland becoming famous in America this World Cup because he was not in the previous 2. Why didn’t Ousmane Dembele also become popular in America this World Cup? Obviously Mbappe was already known so he goes without saying for his 2018 and 2022 World Cup efforts but this was the first World Cup Dembele was truly a headliner and Ousmane Dembele is better footballer than Erling Haaland.
Dembele has more champions leagues, he has a World Cup of his own unlike Haaland and Dembele has Ballon D’Or. Haaland only has Ballon D’Or when he plays FC 26.
I’m black American and I’ve always thought about this, do you think the stereotypical hood black man is actually hired by white America to dumb our communities down? I ask this because these people are oftentimes promoted as the faces of black America and they often try to depict the most negative aspects of black culture as something cool or cute like gangs, drugs, having kids out of wedlock, misogyny, homophobia, the obsession with saying our slur etc. hip hop is one of the worst proponents of this. They try to market it as being a real you know what or if you do not subscribe to their cancerous mindset, you’re corny or lame.
This poison mentality is a part of what keeps us down because it distracts us and stops us from being focused. If we want to succeed in this country we need black unity, not black violence. Sometimes these people even brag about how many people they’ve ended. Black people need to stick together and these hood rats prevent such things. I also wonder how do they get the money to buy weapons when they’re often in impoverished areas, it wouldn’t surprise me if the CIA is hiring these guys to pot stir and harm black people. What do you think?
A lot of people including myself were rooting against Argentina at the previous World Cup and this is fine if you feel like the culture and politics go against your own personal morals. However you cannot do that and then root for the US or European nations. If you want true morality you would root for the sub Saharan African nations whenever they play against European countries. This is fine because it is human nature to root for the people who were wronged. I think human beings naturally like to see justice be served. This is why the good guy vs bad guy trope is so popular in movies. You cannot root for morality in football international competitions but be inconsistent is what I say. An African or even South American nation (specifically if that South American nation respects its natives) beating a European nation is in fact a win against colonialism.
How does Brazil return to its former glory, they have 5 world cups and are the greatest football nation with the best all time XI. How does Brazil return to their former glory? What needs to change and what has happened to them in the last 2 decades which has caused this decline? Will Brazil ever win another World Cup? Or has football’s King been dethroned permanently?
I feel like we as black Americans make navigating America harder and more complicated than it needs to be because we always talk about how we can’t trust anybody or that we aren’t safe because of situations like Nolan Wells and the perpetrators of these situations never get convicted so it feels like we as a black collective never get the closure and justice we crave. It really doesn’t need to be this complicated though.
If we just stuck together and had black unity we wouldn’t be in these situations to begin with. We could just be friends with each other instead of going out of the black community looking for acceptance in which you’ll never find. If we kept everything we do in-house and didn’t constantly try and seek kinship outside of the black community we wouldn’t be in this mess. Of course, it’s up to the parents to instill this into their kids because kids don’t know better.
Someone explain to me why, wouldn’t that be the best case scenario? We could just wait a year to do this push comes to shove.
It is clear that Kylian Mbappe should win Ballon D’Or. After Messi didn’t win World Cup he’s out of it because he plays in MLS. Yamal won World Cup but didn’t really dominate the tournament on an individual level and despite Harry Kane’s great year, Mbappe outperformed Kane in the big moments on both club and international stage. Mbappe won the Champions League and World Cup golden boot. He was the best player in both of the biggest football tournaments in the world. I don’t care that Harry Kane scored against Wolfsburg and Hamburger SV. Kylian Mbappe is the best player in the world and it’s his time to win Ballon D’Or.
It’s no secret that Brazil is the greatest football nation. They have the most World Cup titles and probably the greatest all time player list of any 1 country. When they were winning their world cups, most of their players were developed in Brazil and didn’t move to Europe until they were already established, some didn’t go at all. Pele obviously but also Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, these were guys that stayed in Brazil when they were young during their youth careers and didn’t go across the ocean until later. Even all the way up until Neymar.
Nowadays they leave much earlier and Brazil has not had a good run in the World Cup really since 2014 where they made the semifinal despite being marred by the 7-1 loss. Do you think Brazilians leaving too early is what caused Brazil football to no longer be the pinnacle of the sport?
I say this because this forces us black people to work together, so much of our downfall has been because of in house fighting. That would all have to stop if we didn’t live amongst white people. You have a lot of us that don’t want to see others succeed which creates a ‘crab in a bucket’ mentality. You also have a lot of us that wish to be accepted and liked by white people which is foolish considering they’re another group.
If black people lived in a separate society it would force cooperation and it would keep our culture strong because we wouldn’t be trying to be accepted or procreate with other groups. Black people have historically been the most successful when they work together, not when they’re trying to work with whites or gain any sort of approval from whites. Another group cannot help you, we must build each other up.
Why don’t right wing people ever speak out against racism and say that it is unacceptable, why is speaking out against something that is objectively repulsive a left-wing political stance?
They’re the nations greatest club and have dominated the premier league. Why aren’t they loved all over England and why aren’t they proud of them for being among the world’s best?
Why don’t more black parents teach their kids how to deal with white people? When hanging out with white men just keep it 1 on 1 and don’t ever hang out with white men in groups. White men become much more dangerous in groups because they’re easily radicalized and riled up. This makes them more prone to aggression and a lot of them already carry micro aggressions against us, this just amplifies it.
Whites women are dangerous in intimate settings, if you’re dating them or alone with them. They can lie at any time and easily ruin your life, you’re not winning a case against a white woman, you have no chance which is why they often weaponize their fear and use institutions to do their dirty work. Don’t date or sleep with white women and don’t hang out with white men in groups where there aren’t more black guys than white guys. These are not difficult things to understand. We must do these things to keep ourselves safe, it can be a matter of life and death.
I just don’t understand how this isn’t common knowledge, how can one be so naive in the age of the internet? Where information is a plenty at your fingertips. Some of us black people have zero survival instincts.
Are they nearly as good? A lot of people say 2002 Brazil is one of the greatest clubs of all time. Is this Argentina team as good or even better? They’ve won back to back Copa Americas and could win back to back world cups.
He’s in the MLS which is not an elite level league. Is he really going to win it just because he’s playing well in the World Cup? I get it’d the biggest stage but it’s only a maximum of 8 matches. No MLS player was ever close to winning the award before Messi. What am I missing?
Why if champions league is only a UEFA title whereas the FIFA Club World Cup would be champions of the world? In terms of which accomplishment is considered greater.