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I sometimes wish the American white working class developed a good fashion look. Not as over the top as this dandy stuff, but a “dressed up” style that was cool and sharp. Most lower class white men look really uncomfortable in suits.
I'm not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can't stand or walk right, you can't work). That's because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don't have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don't have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn't look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He'd be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I'm skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).Replies: @Sean the Neon Caucasian, @unpc downunder, @gruff, @granesperanzablanco, @ReaderfromGreece
A billed cap of some sort, either military or one advertising your allegiance in baseball teams or trucks.
Dickies.
Blue work shirt, with two chest pockets.
When you walk into a mall and are mistaken for a janitor, you've got it right.Replies: @gruff
I reached the top and had to stop
And that's what bothering me
I want to be a man, man-cub, and stroll right into town
And be just like those other men
I'm tired of monkeying around
Now don't try to kid me, man-cub, I'll make a deal with you
What I desire is man's red fire to make my dreams come true
So give me the secret, man-cub, clue me what to do
Give me the power of man's red flower so I can be like you Ooh-bi-doo, I wan'na be like you
I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
Perhaps, but I'm guessing at least part of that (and, depending upon the guy, all of that) has more to do with the quality of the suit and its fit than with the guy. Working class men tend to buy cheap suits.
I contrast this with the appalling lack of taste and style I see around my white collar office today. Actually everywhere. And so many faties
Watch videos of films from the early 1900s.
Gay Talese (and Thomas Wolfe for that matter) think you should dress better.
The Scion, the Stitch, and the Wardrobe
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/08/talese200708
Talese on what is important to people.
"my entire wardrobe—between 80 and 90 suits from such distinguished names as Brioni, Zegna, Smalto, DiMitri, Battaglia, and Meledandri, as well as Cristiani—would hardly match the purchase price of any one of the 40-foot motor yachts I see in such abundance whenever I cross a bridge near my summer home in Ocean City, New Jersey."
Looks like horrible tropical disease poverty.
But the food and the clothes look great. And not just the clothes of the dandies. The ladies and some of the regular street citizens are dressed a lot better than any Midwestern Americans I see. Especially the ladies are doing a lot with simple colorful print fabrics apparently tailored at home to their individual figures.
In all the home scenes the family is cooking some really tasty looking foods with tropical veggies and French techniques. Too bad, I guess, for the Africans colonized by Belgians or English that didn’t even get good cooking or dressing ideas from colonialism.
Also, the elegantly skinny tall people make Americans look slovenly in personal fitness. American blacks from the nearby Yoruba regions are doing no better than whites, so it’s not genetic.
I'll get the usual ... "we've always had carbs" stuff. Very true, but people used to eat their bread or their oatmeal and then ... *work*. Go bring in and milk the cows, slop the hogs, gather the eggs, put up the hay, rub+beat the laundry, hoe the garden, chop the wood, whack the weeds ...
Simple carbs quickly drive up your blood sugar and provoke an insulin response. If you're *working* and burning up that blood sugar--great! But if you're sitting on your ass in an office, or behind the wheel or even just standing behind a counter ... then the insulin starts pulling the unburned sugars out of the blood and into fat. And your blood sugar crashes and folks feel ... hungry again. They are fatter and yet hungry again.
Cut back on the carbs, eat more protein and fat--skip the bagel, eat the bacon-- and you'll feel "full" quicker, stay full longer, feel less hungry (not as fast) and start losing weight. Combine with the usual suggestion--get some exercise--and you'll feel way better and look way better too.
Evolution is real. Our bodies can process carbs--turn 'em into blood sugar and either burn 'em or store 'em. But we haven't been living modern life so long that we're evolved a whole new carb metabolism, where we can eat a bunch of carbs then sit on our ass and not get fat.
Some things never change.
Notice it’s Russia’s RT channel that made this; the BBC or other western channels would find this topic far more “problematic”. For them, Africans are supposed to be either victims or amazingly amazing, not a little silly.
Russia's RT Channel does positive news pieces on Black Lies Matter, so they are definitely not a pro-White news channel that looks out for the White race.Replies: @whorefinder, @AndrewR
Recent example:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/051600-001-A/wer-ist-schoen
As did the German/Austrian/Swiss equivalent 3sat :
http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/themen/145740/index.html
The Daily Mail never ceases to amaze me with its headlines….
“Ted Cruz lookalike cashes in on internet fame by agreeing to do porn with her boyfriend for $10,000… but says she is hurt by online comments comparing her to Republican candidate”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3555618/Ted-Cruz-lookalike-cashes-internet-fame-agreeing-porn-boyfriend-10-000-says-hurt-online-comments-comparing-Republican-candidate.html
appropriating white culture.
However, this can make them angry when they don't stand up well to those measures. Over time, this can cause a bit of cultural schizophrenia -- mental imbalance. They don't like "living in the shadow" with its demeaning implications so they develop a love-hate relationship with white culture; they develop a love-hate relationship with themselves. For many, this devolves into a virile hate for everything "western", something felt necessary for their sanity. In perceived self-defense, they strike out violently against the oppressive "shadow" and the privilege it represents. Isn't it the fault of white culture for casting a "dark shadow" over them in the first place?
Cultural schizophrenia does much to explain Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Molenbeek, and Baltimore. Give the Congo Dandies time and many of them will perhaps become the leaders of a virulent anti-white backlash.
Many in the West seem to recognize the above and claim that the West is at fault for not making those "living in the shadow" feel welcome. But, whose problem is this? Open question: Does force feeding more white culture to its alleged victims in the hope of complete integration ... removing the "shadow" ... solve the problem, or does it do nothing more than feed the cultural schizophrenia? The Congo Dandies will perhaps in time grow tired of copying loud Western fashions. What next?
Ever done working class work? If so, you wouldn’t wonder why these guys don’t have much time for fashion.
I’m not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can’t stand or walk right, you can’t work). That’s because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don’t have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don’t have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn’t look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He’d be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I’m skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).
In these individualistic times, every class likes to express their HBD and look different from the other classes. Instead of copying the more genteel middle class (as they did in the past) working class males like to look tough and warrior like, the underclass likes to look bad ass, the middle class likes to look outdoorsy or athletic, the creative class likes to look care free and slightly androgynous, the upper class likes to look well travelled (ski slope tan) etc, etc.
But every once in a while, once every couple of weeks, once a month maybe, I want to put on my glad rags and feel like a million bucks.
Overtly "country" places have this; you can put on your ten gallon and silver and boots and kick it up with your woman. But there are many many places with no truly stylish vernacular. And that's what's wanted. A culture that's magnetic, that draws others to it. That others want to join.
As to greasy hair for writers, google yourself up a picture of Houellebecq.Replies: @gruff
I notice that the wife featured at one point looked rather glum: reminded me of the wife of an incorrigible communist who had discovered that her life’s burden was to put up with his affections.
The Chinese guy here basically sums it up:
“Notice it’s Russia’s RT channel that made this; the BBC or other western channels would find this topic far more “problematic”. For them, Africans are supposed to be either victims or amazingly amazing, not a little silly.”
Russia’s RT Channel does positive news pieces on Black Lies Matter, so they are definitely not a pro-White news channel that looks out for the White race.
I'm not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can't stand or walk right, you can't work). That's because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don't have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don't have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn't look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He'd be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I'm skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).Replies: @Sean the Neon Caucasian, @unpc downunder, @gruff, @granesperanzablanco, @ReaderfromGreece
You have a point, but you’re pointing to some ideal in your mind. Americans are infamous for dressing like slobs.
Even the non-dandies are in better shape and dress better than the average American.
I´ve seen these guys on CNN a couple of years ago. As a story of “look how they make due with the world against them”, colonialism didnt break the black man…
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reminds of the fashion style in Tintin in Congo
A good pair of steel-toed boots, American made.
A billed cap of some sort, either military or one advertising your allegiance in baseball teams or trucks.
Dickies.
Blue work shirt, with two chest pockets.
When you walk into a mall and are mistaken for a janitor, you’ve got it right.
A billed cap of some sort, either military or one advertising your allegiance in baseball teams or trucks.
Dickies.
Blue work shirt, with two chest pockets.
When you walk into a mall and are mistaken for a janitor, you've got it right.Replies: @gruff
I can’t stand baseball caps outside the diamond.
I'm not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can't stand or walk right, you can't work). That's because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don't have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don't have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn't look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He'd be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I'm skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).Replies: @Sean the Neon Caucasian, @unpc downunder, @gruff, @granesperanzablanco, @ReaderfromGreece
The working class looked a lot more tidy and respectable before the counter culture revolution. How many blue collar workers in the 50s had arms plastered in tatoos?
In these individualistic times, every class likes to express their HBD and look different from the other classes. Instead of copying the more genteel middle class (as they did in the past) working class males like to look tough and warrior like, the underclass likes to look bad ass, the middle class likes to look outdoorsy or athletic, the creative class likes to look care free and slightly androgynous, the upper class likes to look well travelled (ski slope tan) etc, etc.
I'm not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can't stand or walk right, you can't work). That's because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don't have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don't have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn't look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He'd be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I'm skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).Replies: @Sean the Neon Caucasian, @unpc downunder, @gruff, @granesperanzablanco, @ReaderfromGreece
When I’ve had jobs I’ve done nothing but working class work. I know the feeling of coming home and wanting to drop it all and relax. In fact I’m doing that right now.
But every once in a while, once every couple of weeks, once a month maybe, I want to put on my glad rags and feel like a million bucks.
Overtly “country” places have this; you can put on your ten gallon and silver and boots and kick it up with your woman. But there are many many places with no truly stylish vernacular. And that’s what’s wanted. A culture that’s magnetic, that draws others to it. That others want to join.
As to greasy hair for writers, google yourself up a picture of Houellebecq.
But every once in a while, once every couple of weeks, once a month maybe, I want to put on my glad rags and feel like a million bucks.
Overtly "country" places have this; you can put on your ten gallon and silver and boots and kick it up with your woman. But there are many many places with no truly stylish vernacular. And that's what's wanted. A culture that's magnetic, that draws others to it. That others want to join.
As to greasy hair for writers, google yourself up a picture of Houellebecq.Replies: @gruff
An example of the magnetic power of country style: Ugandans going ape for it: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35929315
Funny, but I think Shelton Williams (aka Hank Williams III) and Larry Gatlin would love to play Uganda if demand were high enough and the security ok, while Bruce Springsteen won't play in any state that won't let men in the woman's bathroom.
It never occurred to me as to why Uganda would have a country music station, the U.K. certainly doesn't have one (I switched to Classical when I moved back).
Hmmm. These two sort of seem familiar.
Russia's RT Channel does positive news pieces on Black Lies Matter, so they are definitely not a pro-White news channel that looks out for the White race.Replies: @whorefinder, @AndrewR
RT is a Putin-controlled Russian propaganda station, but as Putin is pretty pro-Western Civilization and pro-Russian, they aren’t afraid to dabble in pointing out that 3rd world cultures are pretty backward and inferior to Russian/Western.
And siding with Black Lies Matter over White American police officers is pro-Western civilization? Looks like Russian cuckery. Even Russians are Left Wing on the topic of Negro crime.
Reminds me of the Black Cowboy fashion movement of the 1970s, as exemplified by Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles and, later, mocked by the characterization of Don Cheadle in Boogie Nights.
Funny, but I think Shelton Williams (aka Hank Williams III) and Larry Gatlin would love to play Uganda if demand were high enough and the security ok, while Bruce Springsteen won’t play in any state that won’t let men in the woman’s bathroom.
I agree. Ironically, it is the Hipsters, despised of so many on this website, who are trying to do that… old-fashioned leather boots, heavy woolen pants with braces, and shirts without the accompanying detachable collar.
I did Mongolian Hipster when I was in Mongolia… I bought a dhell and Russian army boots in Ulaanbaatar’s Zakh market and wore them on horseback. It was a big mistake. There is a reason people ditch traditional clothes in favor of modern work clothes for unfavorable conditions.
As far as this video goes, I believe Disney wrote a song about this phenomenon…
Now I’m the king of the swingers, the jungle V.I.P
I reached the top and had to stop
And that’s what bothering me
I want to be a man, man-cub, and stroll right into town
And be just like those other men
I’m tired of monkeying around
Now don’t try to kid me, man-cub, I’ll make a deal with you
What I desire is man’s red fire to make my dreams come true
So give me the secret, man-cub, clue me what to do
Give me the power of man’s red flower so I can be like you
Ooh-bi-doo, I wan’na be like you
I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
Steve,
I’m interested to know why it is that Dambisa Moyo’s point about the pointlessness of government aid money doesn’t extend to investment too.
Walls and border controls? Check.
Family planning? (Semi-coercive…) Check.
Outside investment? …maybe no…
Sounds like a jazz band from the 30’s, ala The Chocolate Dandies, The Ink Spots or McKinney’s Cotton Pickers.*
*These are actual names of actual jazz bands from the 30’s.
But the food and the clothes look great. And not just the clothes of the dandies. The ladies and some of the regular street citizens are dressed a lot better than any Midwestern Americans I see. Especially the ladies are doing a lot with simple colorful print fabrics apparently tailored at home to their individual figures.
In all the home scenes the family is cooking some really tasty looking foods with tropical veggies and French techniques. Too bad, I guess, for the Africans colonized by Belgians or English that didn't even get good cooking or dressing ideas from colonialism.
Also, the elegantly skinny tall people make Americans look slovenly in personal fitness. American blacks from the nearby Yoruba regions are doing no better than whites, so it's not genetic.Replies: @anon, @AnotherDad
US food is pumped full of sugar.
Way back in the 50s Congolese youth were dressing like cowboys : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_(subculture)
http://www.teenagefilm.com/archives/threads-ahead/the-bills/%20
Their hero was Charlton Heston…
How odd is that; when I used to live in Uganda whenever I used to drive I used to listen to country music on the radio.
It never occurred to me as to why Uganda would have a country music station, the U.K. certainly doesn’t have one (I switched to Classical when I moved back).
Just finished watching the Documentary; thanks for sharing (I usually don’t do online videos).
SAPE is now evolving on the right lines, stop buying expensive European products and focus on creating indigenous African ones that follow the same principles.
“Most lower class white men look really uncomfortable in suits.”
Perhaps, but I’m guessing at least part of that (and, depending upon the guy, all of that) has more to do with the quality of the suit and its fit than with the guy. Working class men tend to buy cheap suits.
Interesting timing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36123214
French/german high-brow cultured (and leftist) tv station arte covered this topic in multiple shows.
Recent example:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/051600-001-A/wer-ist-schoen
As did the German/Austrian/Swiss equivalent 3sat :
http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/themen/145740/index.html
Yes, at least for now the Congo Dandies and their neighbors are appropriating white culture because, like so many billions of others, they “live in the shadow” of that civilization. Almost every measure of their well-being — what is good and what is evil, what is hip and what is not — is measured against the values and accomplishments of that culture.
However, this can make them angry when they don’t stand up well to those measures. Over time, this can cause a bit of cultural schizophrenia — mental imbalance. They don’t like “living in the shadow” with its demeaning implications so they develop a love-hate relationship with white culture; they develop a love-hate relationship with themselves. For many, this devolves into a virile hate for everything “western”, something felt necessary for their sanity. In perceived self-defense, they strike out violently against the oppressive “shadow” and the privilege it represents. Isn’t it the fault of white culture for casting a “dark shadow” over them in the first place?
Cultural schizophrenia does much to explain Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Molenbeek, and Baltimore. Give the Congo Dandies time and many of them will perhaps become the leaders of a virulent anti-white backlash.
Many in the West seem to recognize the above and claim that the West is at fault for not making those “living in the shadow” feel welcome. But, whose problem is this? Open question: Does force feeding more white culture to its alleged victims in the hope of complete integration … removing the “shadow” … solve the problem, or does it do nothing more than feed the cultural schizophrenia? The Congo Dandies will perhaps in time grow tired of copying loud Western fashions. What next?
“If you look great, you’ll be great.” – Donald J. Trump
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/04/19/if-you-look-great-youll-great-macys-pulls-employee-guide-praising-donald-trump/83238462/
Steve must be disappointed. He was hoping that starting this entry would fire the crowds up and lead to 100+ comments bashing black men for spending so much time and money on looking good instead of investing in their families.
However, even among a comment pool always looking for ways to point out the fault of blacks, people here appreciate this guy’s ability to maintain a hobby in such impoverished conditions.
Reminds me of the Botswana metal scene: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/world/africa/africa-botswana-metal-heads/index.html
Americans actually buy jeans that come with holes ripped into them, brand new, and pay a good dollar for them. The slob look is in; hang around people watching and notice how grungy so many people look. On an American street the ‘dandy’ look would be taken for pimp styling.
Another example of “spurious aristocracy”.
My grandmother recently passed away in her 90s and I was looking at old photos of my grandfather and her at parties and out and about in San Francisco. My grandfather was a teamster and I swear they looked like movie stars to me with the costume jewelry and fancy hats on my grandmother and the tailored suits and cigarette hanging out of my grandfathers mouth. Both looked classy, thoughtful and full of life.
I contrast this with the appalling lack of taste and style I see around my white collar office today. Actually everywhere. And so many faties
I'm not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can't stand or walk right, you can't work). That's because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don't have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don't have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn't look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He'd be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I'm skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).Replies: @Sean the Neon Caucasian, @unpc downunder, @gruff, @granesperanzablanco, @ReaderfromGreece
I’m sorry but how does this extend to church, social events, restaurants? I am from a blue collar family and I can tell you my grandfathers could work and knew how to dress appropriately for other life occasions. My father hardly does and the cousins who still work blue collar jobs are all sobs now. But I have to say most of the white collar people I work with are slobs in their own way now to do it is cultural
I'm not talking about white underclass work, but the kind that earns you a middle-class wage. The general style is a buzz cut, boots, sturdy pants and flannels. The boots are generally worth more than all the rest put together (if you can't stand or walk right, you can't work). That's because when you get called in at 4AM for a 12-14 hour day you don't have time to do much besides wash your face and throw on your work clothes, and at the end of the day you don't have the energy to go out and show off.
Personally, I think a lot of hard-working creative types would do well to imitate this. An impoverished writer doesn't look all that good with long greasy hair, delicate shoes and thin pants. He'd be better off dressing like a soldier or longshoreman.
But go ahead and see if you can pull it off. Oscar Wilde was an exception to the rule, and I'm skeptical about the ability of your typical straight guy to live up to that standard. For the most part, dandies are worthless for making a living. All my friends gave that up when they got real jobs, including the IT guys (although fashion never came naturally to them in the first place).Replies: @Sean the Neon Caucasian, @unpc downunder, @gruff, @granesperanzablanco, @ReaderfromGreece
You can put together a decent outfit and take care of your appearance on a threadbare budget. If you observe the lower working class of many countries (or, say, visited the Eastern Bloc at the height of food shortages and poverty), you can still peg them for poor, but they have put effort and pride into their appearance. I’m not certain if these dandies could be interpreted as an exaggerated version of that, or if it stems from something altogether different. In any case, in many cultures the way you dress in a sign of dignity and self-respect, and respect towards others. For some reason, this attitude is not very prevalent in American culture; perhaps remnants of Calvinism?
I would have liked a little more information about the economics of this sapeur subculture. What is these men’s source of income? The only specifics come at about 11:30.
But the kicker comes at the very end, courtesy of Google(?): An ad appears for “Brooks Brothers Men’s Edward Green Inverness Wingtips, $1,315.00”. Targeted advertising, yay!
“RT is a Putin-controlled Russian propaganda station, but as Putin is pretty pro-Western Civilization”
And siding with Black Lies Matter over White American police officers is pro-Western civilization? Looks like Russian cuckery. Even Russians are Left Wing on the topic of Negro crime.
But the food and the clothes look great. And not just the clothes of the dandies. The ladies and some of the regular street citizens are dressed a lot better than any Midwestern Americans I see. Especially the ladies are doing a lot with simple colorful print fabrics apparently tailored at home to their individual figures.
In all the home scenes the family is cooking some really tasty looking foods with tropical veggies and French techniques. Too bad, I guess, for the Africans colonized by Belgians or English that didn't even get good cooking or dressing ideas from colonialism.
Also, the elegantly skinny tall people make Americans look slovenly in personal fitness. American blacks from the nearby Yoruba regions are doing no better than whites, so it's not genetic.Replies: @anon, @AnotherDad
Americans are fat because of overdoing it with those ubiquitous carbs.
I’ll get the usual … “we’ve always had carbs” stuff. Very true, but people used to eat their bread or their oatmeal and then … *work*. Go bring in and milk the cows, slop the hogs, gather the eggs, put up the hay, rub+beat the laundry, hoe the garden, chop the wood, whack the weeds …
Simple carbs quickly drive up your blood sugar and provoke an insulin response. If you’re *working* and burning up that blood sugar–great! But if you’re sitting on your ass in an office, or behind the wheel or even just standing behind a counter … then the insulin starts pulling the unburned sugars out of the blood and into fat. And your blood sugar crashes and folks feel … hungry again. They are fatter and yet hungry again.
Cut back on the carbs, eat more protein and fat–skip the bagel, eat the bacon– and you’ll feel “full” quicker, stay full longer, feel less hungry (not as fast) and start losing weight. Combine with the usual suggestion–get some exercise–and you’ll feel way better and look way better too.
Evolution is real. Our bodies can process carbs–turn ’em into blood sugar and either burn ’em or store ’em. But we haven’t been living modern life so long that we’re evolved a whole new carb metabolism, where we can eat a bunch of carbs then sit on our ass and not get fat.
However, even among a comment pool always looking for ways to point out the fault of blacks, people here appreciate this guy's ability to maintain a hobby in such impoverished conditions.Replies: @anon
The Congo dandies are a perfect example of r selected behavior. As people come to realise what is behind certain kinds of behavior they still recognize its flaws but get less agitated by it because the ppl doing it aren’t really making a choice.
Russia's RT Channel does positive news pieces on Black Lies Matter, so they are definitely not a pro-White news channel that looks out for the White race.Replies: @whorefinder, @AndrewR
It’s almost like Russian elites don’t have the same loyalty to an arbitrary racial classification as certain autistic iSteve commenters with writing patterns predictable enough that I can tell who wrote the comment before looking at the name.
especially the latter because Russia has a large Muslim population.With the way Israelis treat African immigrants, even Israelis are more anti-Black than the Russians.
Nice. I do remember bringing up dandyism just a month ago:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/big-man-vs-nerd/#comment-1357155
Related:
Empire of Dust–A Belgian documentary on Chinese-Congolese economic cooperation. Will strike a chord over here–interesting/interesting, funny, a bit underhanded.
Lao Yang and Eddy both work for the Chinese Railway Engineering Company in Katanga, Congo. They have just set up camp near the remote mining town of Kolwezi in the Katanga province of the RDC. The goal of the company is to redo the road – covering 300km – that connects Kolwezi with the capital of the province Lubumbashi. Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn’t received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yan learns about the Congolese way of making deals.
Trailer:
Interview with director Bram Van Paesschen:
http://filmmakermagazine.com/35197-empire-of-dust-an-interview-with-bram-van-paesschen
“It’s almost like Russian elites don’t have the same loyalty to an arbitrary racial classification as certain autistic iSteve commenters with writing patterns predictable enough that I can tell who wrote the comment before looking at the name.”
iSteve readers need to cut out that Russians are saviors of the White race bullshit. They greatly overexaggerate how anti-Black and racist the Russian people are.
Donald Trump is more racist than the average Russian, that is how non racist most Russians are.
What Donald Trump has said about Mexicans and Muslims would offend most Russians
especially the latter because Russia has a large Muslim population.
With the way Israelis treat African immigrants, even Israelis are more anti-Black than the Russians.
Papa Wemba died.
Papa Wemba: Congolese music’s dandy with a dark side
Papa Wemba earned himself a jail sentence for his involvement in people smuggling, but he should be remembered for his remarkable music
The sapeurs were the dandies of Kinshasa, and Papa Wemba was their hero
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/apr/24/papa-wemba-congolese-musics-dandy-with-a-dark-side
“I sometimes wish the American white working class developed a good fashion look. ”
Watch videos of films from the early 1900s.
Gay Talese (and Thomas Wolfe for that matter) think you should dress better.
The Scion, the Stitch, and the Wardrobe
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/08/talese200708
Talese on what is important to people.
“my entire wardrobe—between 80 and 90 suits from such distinguished names as Brioni, Zegna, Smalto, DiMitri, Battaglia, and Meledandri, as well as Cristiani—would hardly match the purchase price of any one of the 40-foot motor yachts I see in such abundance whenever I cross a bridge near my summer home in Ocean City, New Jersey.”
Empire of Dust--A Belgian documentary on Chinese-Congolese economic cooperation. Will strike a chord over here--interesting/interesting, funny, a bit underhanded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M
Lao Yang and Eddy both work for the Chinese Railway Engineering Company in Katanga, Congo. They have just set up camp near the remote mining town of Kolwezi in the Katanga province of the RDC. The goal of the company is to redo the road - covering 300km - that connects Kolwezi with the capital of the province Lubumbashi. Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yan learns about the Congolese way of making deals.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyaa2tfwBk
Interview with director Bram Van Paesschen:
http://filmmakermagazine.com/35197-empire-of-dust-an-interview-with-bram-van-paesschenReplies: @anon
Very cool film – worth watching. If Mr Yang hasn’t been stabbed yet I will be very surprised.
If you look at his face the guy in the trailer comes close to doing it himself.