Akala on sexual and racial taboos
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- Watch this eye-opening talk by hip-hop artist Akala on men, the Western World's fetishisation of black men's supposed physical and sexual prowess, and sexual and racial taboos.
Akala is an artist and activist from Kentish Town in London. He was voted 'Best Hip Hop Act' at the MOBO Awards and included on the Powerlist of the 100 most influential Black British people.
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"We would never say that Europeans dominate tennis because their ancestors had such a long history of whipping people" I AM DEAD!!!
looool trust me
Jesus take the wheel.
yessss lol
Fairly convinced you would, having heard from the proponents of 'melanin theory.'
Imma start using this loool
Akala you are a blessing. I really love everything about you. The way you speak about racism and such issues is powerful. Your honesty and frankness is what we need to talk about and be able to resolve these issue. Great !!!
I have so much respect for brother Akala and Lowkey
Im glad to say that this is the first time I have ever watched a whole 30 min video on TH-cam. Massive ups Akala.
What an amazing human. It's a privilege to share his work/eloquence with my students.
+Ricardo Salazar Rey Yes, amazingly racist.
+Roy Batty no im sorry to let you down but what he was saying is only true batty boy
tom Wow, what an idiotic comment. Congratulations.
Roy Batty no sorry, nothing here wa racist, you can keep calling him stating hes racist by him talking about people are a product or selective breeding by slave masters rather than the athlete working their asses of to get to their status
tom This one is even more idiotic than the previous one.
i love him so much it hurts.
jan alfie bartolome then stop hurting
Everything has perspectives. Has Akala ever thought that as a black man I and many would never want to cry in front of white people. Just wouldn't give them that pleasure.
Men in Africa walking hand in hand had nothing to do with sexuality. My Jamaican dad used to do it when he met "long time no see" old friends. This society has sexualised everything thus making men refrain from acting like this.
Religion justifies the unjustifiable.
*****
How can you be so ignorant? Accountability far predates any modern religion and the first codes of laws were secular. The ideas of right and wrong are highly subjective, but it's through discourse that we distinguish right from wrong, not reading an ancient holy book. Religions have done nothing but spread hatred and lies in regards to what they believe is moral. From homophobia to irrational hatred for contraception, people like yourself have proven yourselves time and time again to be morally inept.
*****
The story of Adam and Eve is so obviously metaphysical poetry that I really can't respect anyone dumb enough to take it literally. I'm not getting emotional, I'm getting sick of arrogant Christians thinking they're smarter than they are. Name me one benevolent theocratic regime. I can name dozens of malevolent ones right off the top of my head. Middle Eastern politics are a shit show because of the denominations of Islam, Christianity wreaked havoc throughout Europe with the crusades, inquisitions, and the Holocaust. There was a time in the theocratic European culture when musicians would be killed for ending a song in a minor key because all songs were about god and minor keys were negative. My Catholic music teacher taught me that in high school. There are still many hateful, bloody conflicts between peoples based solely on religion from the Israel/Palestine conflict to the hatred of Pakistani Muslims by Indian Hindus. Disregarding the fact that even all Christians realize that other religions predated theirs and that other humanoid life forms also had traditions that we would call spiritual, I would still say that it's pretty obvious that our species predates religion in general. That said, it's obvious that we predate all MODERN religions. Secularism is not a fucking code of laws... I was saying that the first codes of laws (like the code of Hammurabi) were NOTTTT based on religious rules. Yea, they called witch doctors. They believed in sea monsters and ogres. They were ignorant and in their ignorance they turned to herbs that they found to work and rituals that seemed to keep people alive even if they often failed. It's called human progress. We're past this shit now.
*****
Seriously, you can see the incline of human societal and scientific progress as you measure the rising number of non-believers in modern countries. It's frivolous to say that these civilizations were built on "religious/philosophical tradition." Religion is the complete negation of philosophy and the oppression of intelligent inquiry in favour of barbaric dogmas.
***** No... There are constants in the world, regardless of whether an almighty being decides them or not.
***** And in the modern day (as religion is diminishing) society is improving morally. So your statements pretty weak. Besides in the modern world cities/countries that identify as 'religious' have significantly higher counts of rape, teenage pregnancy, theft, murder etc etc per capita.
This man level of knowledge and delivery have me totally enchanted watching other vids I've become a fan
Very intelligent.I rate this guy.
Great speech from a great mind. Akala really does help bring the gap between being poor and wanting to learn accurate information.
Akala the Don. Got the block screaming Knowledge is power.
Applied knowledge is power.
DaCritikquee Too right, but without the prior knowledge the possibility of applying it is non-applicable. ''' you are more powerful with knowledge than without it.''
moe lestangus Agreed - so I think that brings us back to knowledge is power
DaCritikquee 5 all on the likes i think we will have to wait a little longer for the youtube consensus on this
Didn't he say power is bad?
I could listen to Akala talk all day
All I have to say is, take fucking notes.
only just started listening to Akala an really got to say hes making alot of sense to me. keep it up Akala!!!
Absolute spade caller, sense talker and all round legend
Did anyone else see the mouse at 19:50?
+Ali Waqar haha..so cool Hope he's okay.
+Ali Waqar Hahahha I just noticed that now... wow some attention to detail right there!
Ali 😂
Akala the genius! 🏆
Agreed!
Amazing. Just amazing
was really upset I missed this event, so glad it was filmed!...
Up until I just watched this video I believed that slavery was the reason behind black mens success at sprinting. Akala I thank you...
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Knowledge is power
Akala for PM!
I cry when i listen to this guy
Wow, great to see he also studied Taoists techniques. To anyone interested, read Mantak Chia's books about taoist techniques (for men) about NON ejaculation. The why, the how.
Brilliant!
Preach.
Regarding the issue of vulnerability, I think we have to overcome the perception that power lies in denying part of our nature (celebrate toughness, deny sensitivity), while vulnerability means weakness & victimhood.
The sense of security & respect that is so often sought in external power is most successfully created by self-esteem, self-confidence & self-assertion. And I think it is self-assertion in particular that is often mistaken for toughness & strenght. There certainly is toughness to it. Assertiveness says that "I will protect my space & confidently stand for who I am", but it will do so with respect to who you really are, not who you pretend to be. A self-assertive person will confidently acknowledge his or her own vulnerability, while also being smart enough & able enough to decide when it's temporarily necessary to be tough, before it's possible to open up again.
Well said
cool brotha ,i have a lot of time for Akala,i always seem to learn something
innit learn something new everytime I hear him.
These topics should be discussed more to widen people's perception, I guess that's why they call it taboo...
smart , intelligent and beautiful ..... akala sure has good genetics
Great talk!
These are issues that need some serious attention if our culture is ever going to move past the current paradigm of antagonistic relations between men and women in society.
I feel that the miss representation of women in culture is a fundamental factor in the continuation of the male on male violence that plagues the lower income bracket of all western cultures.
ultra masculinity is as Akala rightly ,and importantly ,identifies just an expression of crippling insecurity.
Anyone who wants more food for thought on this vital subject should watch " tough guise" ,its a docu film looking at the damage caused by miss directed male insecurity in our culture.
Brilliant!
Racist
What an amazing breakdown.
2:42
"This afternoon, uh.. the first session.. is with *a colour*"
This gawn b'good.
AKALA 😂😂😂
Shes white
Not now back in the days men held hands as friends but it also hid a lot of homosexuality
Great performance brother. We Africans follow our fellow Afro-descendants around the world and support same cause!
You're about to be badgered.
Yes, I'm sure they're shitting their pants in fear over you MRA halfwits...
Being a man is all about making people afraid to you I suppose.
HoneyBadgerRadio What?! I didn't mean that, I only meant that you guys are a fucking joke.
You seem to think that it's important to aim to make people "shit their pants in fear."
HoneyBadgerRadio No, I don't. I was being sarcastic. My point was that the folks in this video couldn't give a shit about you.
Real talk!
Big Respect to the rat in the background at 19:40 ...
Nice one there Akala
Anybody know if there is a transcript of this talk? Really want to use some of his speech for my dissertation...
Which parts are you struggling to transcribe?
Calling people by certain colours (black, white, brown, yellow etc) makes for easier description but it perpetuates this very same erroneous thought/concept: that there is such a thing as black/white.
It also perpetuates division between races, seeing as there is only one race. A human race. There isnt a black human race, like its a totally different human. Its not. There are cultures, etc. But there is only one race, the humans. So stop calling people black, white, etc. Will it be more difficult perhaps, to describe them? Yes, but thats the point. Descriptions are limiting, and for the most, not a good one.
Run13 Buddhabrot Mostly everyone knows this, but we don't live in a world that makes sense anymore. It's about money and power.
I know, its ok. We can show the way of imagination/curiosity/transcendence to people. Thats the only reason why I speak, why Im alive.
Run13 Buddhabrot salute
Akala makes me proud to be british..dispite everything wev com thro
Only white people think it perpetuates division i have never heard a black person who says or thinks the same ! I wonder why? Who is it who would cause further division? On which side of the divide are they on prey tell
I love Akala!
Akala starts speaking at 5:40
Interesting
Anyone notice the rat out the window at 19:49? So London.
yes, he knew Knowledge is power. That's why he dip set tha fuck outta there.
I understand the controversy about connecting slavery with adaptation for sport, but sport isn't completely meritocratic, there are evolutionary forces at play.
my mann!
19:45 did anyone else notice the rat in the left corner scurry around?
fredguy2 only because of your comment lol
would love him to team up with Guante from america, both are quite similar .
Strange comments about Jimmy Greaves. 'Flabby and not virile'? Perhaps now he is an old man but he has had five children and in his prime was one of the greatest footballers in the world. I'm not sure how many kids Akala has had but I do know of his sporting prowess: released by both West Ham and Wimbledon. Impressive stuff.
viallimcbeal Fair point. He could have been less insulting. Hopefully he has an adequate enough level of self awareness to realise he spoke a little out of turn.
I've not seen the clip in question but I think I'll check it out now. Although no longer a football fan, I used to have a soft spot for Chelsea and have come across Greaves on a few occasions in interviews etc. and he's never come across as overly offensive.
Perhaps it was just a bit of banter... I'll soon find out.
Aboe Bobington I'm not sure if the clip even exists. It is the first I have heard of it and I can't find it on the internet. Akala says Linford had 'just' won Olympic Gold and all Jimmy could do was talk about his knob which was disrespectful. Interesting as Linford won Olympic Gold in 1992 and the show didn't start until 1995. Hmmm...'knowledge is power' eh Akala? So is making things up to suit your agenda.
That said, I have seen a similar clip to the one described...it is indeed Linford on 'They think it's all over' and they are joking about his genitals. However, it wasn't Jimmy Greaves doing the gags but Jonathan Ross...and far from being offended, Linford seemed to be taking it in good spirit, laughing along. This would have been around the late 90s.
Regarding Jimmy, even if he had made those comments, do you really think they would have been racially motivated and an attempt to belittle Linford (here is a man who idolises black American boxers of the 20th century. Read his autobiography)? I fail to understand the 'insecurities' argument Akala puts across. If Jimmy were so insecure about the size of his penis in comparison to another man's, then surely the last thing he'd do would be to continuously mention it?
Was it fair that they mentioned his lunchbox ahead of his achievements? Probably not...but this was a comedy sports show....from 20 years ago when taboos and joke themes were different. Would they have joked about it on Grandstand? No, cause it wasn't a comedy show.
viallimcbeal It seems as though it doesn't exist, at least not on youtube, yup.
There was a more recent clip when Linford was on the Claire Balding Show and he seems to be able to joke about it now.
He mentions that it upset him because it occurred so soon after he'd won at the Olympics... understandable, really. You'd think the medal success would be the talking point, but it's not as if having a lunchbox so sizeable that it in itself is a talking point can be considered a disadvantage, so perhaps he was just being a little sensitive.
It seemed Akala was slightly charged when he made those remarks which, in a way, could be considered in a positive light - it at least showed some passion. His talking style is very loquacious and rapid and so just a few moments to slow the flow and adjust how he expressed his opinion could have helped avoid the situation.
To answer the question regarding Greaves' motivation - no, not personally. Despite recent issues of racial slurs and Chelsea Football Club.
Final thoughts:
History can't be changed.
Peoples' present day reaction, though, is all but putty. Morgan Freeman put it quite succinctly when asked how to put an end to race issues:
"Just stop talking about it."
And on that note.... adieu.
Aboe Bobington Of course he speaks quickly and passionately, but if you're going to continuously question the unfair prejudices of others, then perhaps you should be careful with what you say yourself.
I don't see how you can link Greaves with the racial slurs of this year. That is also a bit unfair. Jimmy played for Chelsea in the late 50s and early 60s and those morons (nothing to do with Jimmy...nor the club, officially at least) shouted those things this year.
viallimcbeal OK mate, thanks.
Lesson learned :)
Akala for prime minister!
5:54. His shirt is ripped.
Daniel Kim haha good catch
Who was the rapper who posed with the gun?
I know more than one
Makeveli The Don 50 Cent I think
My first memory of rappers with guns was say NWA.. EASY E...ICE T...ICE CUBE....PUBLIC ENEMY etc back in the 80s it was gangster rap....f**ck the police was and still is a classic tune from that era...
But
Growing up in uk all i remember was images of JAMES BOND...THE PROFESSIONALS ...COWBOY and of course WAR and GANGSTER FILMS.....dont forget the sexy CHARLIES ANGELS on tv hmm it's confusing eh
I really thought the cowboys were the good guys and playing as kids never wanted to play the part of the Indian.
+Paul Barker Public Enemy was not gangsta rap!
Maddix82 maybe more hardcore hip hop than tru gangsta rap...? Schoolly D?
+Paul Barker You really are blurring all black rappers, Public Enemy was not of the same genre of 'gangsta rap' their message was less harsher, and they most certainly did not display guns fool! Akala point was that its ok for main stream media to promote white guys with guns, and no body blinks an eye, yet when black men display within the context of their music, a stereotype is placed on them. So even if all of the above displayed guns, its still not justified to obsess about them.
Leave these people in their dark all they do is study and find ways to undermine us.
To take outlier cultural mores such as "twin spirits" as a metric to re-imagine or recalculate more mainstream and normative essential and existential socio-cultural is shortsighted at best. There are cultures that accepted canabalism as socially and morally accepted. Should we take those as arbiters of how to re-imagine or realign normative cultural norms that are now under the scrutiny of the politically correct?
15:55
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I love listening to Akala. I didn't take too kindly to the 'old men in grey suits' part. Not cool.
Introduction/compere... ´I don't know what it's like to be a man...or just like to be a woman, I do know what it's like to be me - so in the end there is something around identity which can finally evaporate´ ´Not a group called not a man and not a woman´
Ah - identity and relating! These contradictions are complicated, not least because I am non-binary! I interrogate myself regularly - but it is not always very helpful!
We all want a voice, inclusion, to be received in good faith so we can work together so far as needed. Towards our best life.
And we all know - even if we are not always able to verbalise or package this knowledge as authoritative and politic soundbites - what we come up against all too regularly. We associate that stuff we come up against with our various strands of identity - which exist in context. Or otherwise we look for the words or connection somehow. And being human not gods we all have limited windows but narrate the world in various styles, voices and registers. Very valid common human things to do. What does it mean to be a person!? To be you as a person!? Is the problem in there somewhere or in winning the melee!?
Self-regulating or even dispassionately observing a dynamic with potential for conflict or harm is difficult, intimately and at scale.
That has been an important and frustrating truth for me at home - whether or not it is to do with having lived without IDing as non-binary for a long time, having a foot in my birth gender, questions of my neurodiversity and/or others' in the house and the impact and what we do about it anyway, not having a referee or trying to referee ourselves between my husband and myself has felt horrendously frustrating, and more complicated with the fruit of my womb in the picture as well. And the personal is political and I think about the wider scale too; interweaving as I go.
I find it really hard to evaporate my imposed identity!
I worry about it so much, being objectified and treated as silly, in opposition or taken advantage of or judged unfairly - my communication, introception, and abilities generally!
And I worry the injustice of race too in a way that is possibly excessive/out my lane as a white person!? Not a bad thing altogether, but it comes from growing up with problems and feeling alienated in a known position of privelege, surrounded by activists/political discourse and religious discourse too? I am living - too much probably - in that edifice of bigger battle. The abstract - that is nonetheless very real.
But third-parties, a gods eye view, referees - this like the apotheosis of category or categorical voice, even whilst I sympathize with the frustrated concept of the impossible, unavailable neutral judge: in terms of needing a third party referee I do not think it is necessarily _about_ sex or gender or any other form of identity, although these become part of the war - we just need to be heard compassionately! It should be more about being respectful and the cooperative principle in the moment - that should not be as hard as it is!
And, to again talk about where this comes from for me, I guess that is my *limited* _´all lives matter´_ thing: since childhood I have fervently wished we did not have to pin everything to _gender_ so damn much. Ability too - mental, social, physical - too. I was fed up of being coopted with certain expectations into battle teams - or excluded/targeted. But those dynamics matter to me and to others like me and generally.
Black Lives matter: race and the people inside the system which those with privilege in it tends to frame for its own convenience. Intersectionality and the dynamics of conflict and machiavellian positioning coexist uncomfortably. And it is hard to separate these things out, in everyday interactions and more formally when given the chance or it is demanded. It should be more about the cooperative principle in the moment - that should not be as hard as it is!
From being received in good faith in everyday conversations to formal conversations and platforms in various media - we do the latter to help the former and as its own thing, though they also form a spectrum - that is what is to have a voice. To conclude - neither voice nor identity can be separated from its context, but the relative equality, good faith cooperation or quality of flouting it and the overall impact and system dynamic needs assessing. Taking that further, it is important and natural we examine the context in all aspects. I am suspicious of panel and ´conversation´ discussions and more: how authentic or radical their motivations and impact can be. Especially around posing questions about identity.
Toni Morrison talking about illegitimate questions of who she writes about here, it is not the same question but I think it is related: th-cam.com/video/-Kgq3F8wbYA/w-d-xo.html ´As if our lives have no depth, no meaning without the white gaze´ Listening and seeking to learn are important, but there is something problematic about the framing, particularly some kinds of festival and intellectual cultural frames - where we need things explaining ´eloquently´ but with an appropriate level of authenticity and entertainment, all lapped up like tequila and salt: there are a ton of micro-aggression inherent in the format. And they just always seem to be shitty and awkward, for everyone. The forced praise and the balancing of a programme or other ambitions for it and the way it is all so oddly para-social for an IRL setting. A bit like Live With Pam but in a different morph.
That was rambling and incomprehensible. What are the main points or point you wanted to make? Try being more concise and less verbose.
i aint reading all dat
He makes some good points but he but it is an entirely reasonable hypothesis that black people are physiologically better suited to sprinting, on average. Their torso length to leg length ratio is one obvious factor. That doesn't mean that culture doesn't play an important role. These things are highly complex.
good points
Benjamin Zephania.
This is just history repeating itself there sit before you download your theories or whatever then act like they know it all and attack you later leave them to their sickness
AKALA THE BEST ; but KEVIN WESLEY IS ON THE WAY ! 2018
If he didn't digress so often he'd be far easier to understand. I feel like he digresses in particular to indulge his intellect and knowledge, when it distracts rather than compliments his overarching point.
Men have everything. Correction White men have everything. Maybe they should call this Being A Man other Than White festival. That would be great.
12:06 I don't find white supremacist propaganda amusing. In this day and age it's fucking disturbing.
fast forward to 2019 and Knife crime is at it highest ,I guess it poor Black men that wear tyres for shoes
Akala is always great, but the director who introduced him needs to read him/more pan-African thought; there is a "third" (even a fourth or more in some instances) of social genders that have existed for all human history; the language of duality in gender is itself a process of a reductive euro centric analysis that was centered around war and the state, not the healthiest view for the role of record keeper of the history of humanity
Akala's ignoring the anecdotal evidence but then presenting his own as fact. He says " West African men are bigger and stronger than Caribbeans" and this therefore refutes the claim of the super slave, but where's the evidence for this statement?
Forget the Olympics I went to schools that were both predominantly black and predominantly white and in most cases the black people ran faster than white people. I don't know why this is but you shouldn't refuse to explore a phenomenon - or shame people who do because you don't like where the evidence might take you.
You totally missed his point. The difference is athletic performance could be for a whole host of reason but it isn't due to the 'benevolence of slavery' like some would like to claim.
19:40
Rat..
i saw two rats..
Well spotted haha, then it drops down and runs off !!
Starts at th-cam.com/video/2wPlZzCQnBM/w-d-xo.htmlm53s
Fuck me he's good!
This woman in the intro appears to be incredibly ignorant:
"As we all know there isn't a 3rd party to discuss us, there's not another group called 'Not a man and not a woman' ".
I can guarantee there are thousands of gender fluid people who would disagree. Don't try and drag others in to agreeing with you outdated ideas of binary genders.
Thank you!
I'm struggling through watching this intro, waiting for Akala and wondering whether to just skip ahead... Sigh.
I knew someone would disagree with her saying that, but to clarify on her behalf, I think she means all people alive have either EXPERIENCED what it feels like to be a man or a woman. She wasn't discussed gender identity, she was simply saying that because of the gender binary that exists in our world, we all know what it entails to live as either gender
Yeah, plus she pronounced Akala wrong... He's even got bars on how to pronounce it ffs!!
Hope I didn't subtract from your comment with my childish humour, good stuff mate :)
fuck off with your gender fluidity. Don't encourage that bullshit
I agree the BBC thing was strange to say the least but Akala seems to confuse the point - i.e. he states that West Africans have obvious greater 'physical stature' - West Africans and the West African diaspora represent the vast majority of all those who have gone sub 10 seconds...?
Harambe died for your sins.
and he says we can't love as much as people from Ghana... Bullshit
No, he means in our society it is alien to see men portraying platonic affection towards each other in such a way
Oh dear someone who cant listen snx is waiting to pounce with his negativity. When i first went yo Zimbabwe women held hznds with women men held hands with friends AS FRIENDS . Having been in Britain all my life where the only mrn i saw holding hands where identified as gay. I was in such shock ! My mum explained its a sign of friendship. Now people no longer do that in Africa because of the connotations of sexuality
Akala's presentations can be interesting but he too frequently projects these pseudoscientific Freudian psychological theories which can undermine his credibility unfortunately.
Wibble.
That lady was so boring i almost left
akala is completely off point on this...
What a load of hot air.
Mr Akala I have to ask. Is it possible that this "hyper-masculinity" came from your sisters and mothers. Is it at all possible the reason you felt pressured to live up to this masculine ideal was because you believed it would make the women in your life happy.
I know how to be a man be good to women and kids it's simple and don't start shit
Akala, I'll tell you the truth on sprinting and the Jamaican/Caribbean success of the past. Its very simple, Jamaica has much less anti-doping testing than the majority of Europe and the USA, because of this the athletes of the Jamaican team are able to dope in the off season and reep the rewards come there summer competitions. On the odd chance that a WADA tester does arrive in Jamaica to test athletes, they are tipped off in advance from anonymous sources and so have to either escape from where the tester would come to visit, or take a form of diuretic to flush any ped's out of the system. Research Victor Conte (Marion Jones' trainer amongst other things) and listen to what he has to say in this area. You don't have to believe me but you're still fuckin wrong
What about the kenyan long distance runners 1🤫
The clip we see didn't say anything about breeding specifically for athletics. He said white people seem unable to compete with blacks in sprinting, and that FACT raises questions about nature and nurture in athletics. WTF is Akala talking about?
West Africans are the best sprinters and East Africans are the best distance runners - bar none, and it has very little to do with culture and training. You can tell by LOOKING at the average black person that their bone structure is different - they tend to have longer wingspans than other races, have more fast twitch muscle fibers, and have higher testosterone. They have (as a group) advantages when it comes to anything involving jumping or running.
I don't know - it seems like Akala is projecting his own racism onto others.
Genetic differences yes , based on slavery? No!
Also the idea that the black man is a walking male member has something to do with historically racist attitudes. Peace
That's what HipHop was saying though, the man brought up nature (That could easily be the bone structure and natural body of a black man) vs Nurture (Which could be a white man who doesn't have the same body) unless you're trying to say slavery was a form of nurturing a race until it becomes nature, then he didn't actually say anything to do with slavery.
Actually its Jamaicans who are the best sprinters, and they will be most likely mixed with white, black, native american blood.
Abu Zubayr
So apparently you don't believe people were taken as slaves based on their physical attributes - that viewpoint makes no sense but feel free to hold it if you wish.
Whatever was available was taken but if you wish to hold the view that there was a lot of shopping going on and waiting for the biggest bucks then feel free to do so
the only pseudoscientist here is akala
+Alex Pugh Thank you.
+Alex Pugh are you upset, he isnt demonising you boy, hes stating things you can clearly look up