Culture, Race & Economy

There are a bunch of thing I need to work through, but the most important thing is that one. You have to use your email address, not your username to login now. Resetting your password does not work yet (did it ever?). I hope to have that working sometime this evening. If you can login you are free to use the forum. After I get the password reset working I'm begin making some esthetic changes. Fun facts: We have been using this software since Sunday, September 13, 2009! The last time I upgraded to a new server was in 2019 and the forum was down for 10 days (at least)!

Relatively speaking this is a mere flash in the pan. Sure, a ton of damage can be done in a short period of time, but I believe America will recover an emerge a stronger, more resilient, and unified nation than ever. That is if AI does not get us first. body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; padding-top: 50px; } .countdown { font-size: 1.8em; color: #333; } AI is a more pressing challenge. Optimistically, it will create large swaths of young people who will not want to do the jobs left for them to do. White collar jobs will be greatly diminished. It will be virtually impossible …

When I tell you it was a party y'all trust me the whole audience was getting down! More photos from the celebration

It was Monday, a new work week and maybe a new beginning Carole thought as, spotting an opening, she decided to go for it. Why not? Troy Briggs had no problem invading her space during break-time. So, she’d return the favor, using the occasion to try and smooth things over between them. Glad she had decided to glam-up while getting dressed that morning, she was an appealing sight in her black leather knee-high boots and the snug little red skirt that was set off by a flower-printed blouse with frilly sleeves and scooped neckline. Strutting her way through the congested cafeteria, she approached the table where her antagonist sat reading a newspaper, looking rath…

How American Antiwar and Solidarity Movements in 60s Impeded an Effective Invasion of Cuba Fair Play for Cuba and the Cuban Revolution by BILL SIMPICH July 26, Cuba’s most important holiday, is the commemorative date in 1953 when Castro and his forces unsuccessfully stormed the government stockade at Moncada and ignited the Cuban revolution. On a day like today, it should be noted that Americans made a successful Cuban invasion impossible with a campaign of determined resistance. Antiwar and solidarity activists came together to protect the Cuban revolution during the era of 1960-1963 – the era of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and the JFK as…

Everybody has heard Charles Ramsey's name by now. He helped three women escape from a house next door that had been missing for ten years in Cleveland, Ohio. I knew from the moment he started to get a lot of media attention, someone would try to dig up dirt on him and tear him down and it has happened already. Domestic abuse arrests of Ramsey from over ten years ago were dug up by a media company. We really need to examine our culture of finding fault with everything and everyone. http://pollardpost.blogspot.com/2013/05/charles-ramsey-punished-thats-why.html

Anytime data is involved, people will game the system. I remember at least two different editors from "big 5" publishing houses saying that they consider how many Twitter followers someone when deciding whether they will publish them. One even mentioned a threshold, saying they look for 10k followers minimum. I thought that was the silliest criteria for determining whether an author would get published that I ever heard. They reasoned that having 10K followers means you have a platform. I always thought this was just another hoop they made Black authors jump through. In fact, I wrote an article saying writers don't need Twitter, based on the simple premise that the…

My guy Colin Kaepernick has just secured a multi million dollar shoe deal as Nike makes him the face of 'Just Do It' 30th anniversary campaign. .

... and Black people too. The speaker, Jeffery Robinson, offers a thoughtful, factual, measured, and critical lecture on racism's impact on Black Americans. Some of you may be tired of trying off explaining to good meaning white folks what racism is and how it has hampered Black people and enriched white people. When white people ask you to explain racism, you can point them to this video.

First. Happy. New. Year. To. Everyone.. Will. There. Be. Attempts -to ,Have,. Black. Unity. In. The. New. Year? NO. Elected. Politicians-Preachers ,Community. Leaders. Will. Not. Try. To. Organize. -- Kwanzaa Thinking. In. Black. Communities .They. Will. Not. -Confront. Street. Gangs. ,Crack. Cocaine. Sellers. ,Pimps Who - - Prostitute Teenage. Girls . Preachers. That. Steal. Millions. Of -Church. Dollars To. Buy. Cars. ,Mansions. ,Not. Uplifting. Poor -Black Communities .Neither. White. Or. Black. Democrat. Is -Concerned. About. Poor. Black. Communities. ,With. All. The Black -Votes. They. Get..White ,. Democrats. ,White. Republicans. Are. The -Same. Thing.. Racist…

While I heard mentions of various connections between astrology and philosophers, I felt most were apocryphal. Currently looking at Porphyry, Iamblichus and Plotinus.

Title: One day a nigger one day a nigger caught in his hand a little star no bigger than not to understand "i'll never let you go until you've made me white" so she did and now stars shine at night author: e e cummings Book: XAIPE page 24 your thoughts? read another at the following link https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2058&type=status

**********A GREEN COMET********** IN THE SKY THIS WEEK! Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) This comet that was first detected last year is said to be visible with binoculars this week. I am intrigued! I remember the comet of 2020 that was supposedly visible for months, however, no matter how much I tried to view it through a telescope to see the 'tail', I just could not operate my telescope to see it. I did see it with though, position below the Big Dipper however, I just wanted to see the actual 'tail'. But, A GREEN COMET!? That's interesting! This particular comet discovered March of last year inside the orbit of Jupiter. In a…

Let me say from the jump, I'm not saying either of the two are guilty or innocent of what they are being accused of. I don't have enough SOLID FACTS to make an educated determination one way or the other on the matter. But the way so many AfroAmericans on social media are going after TD Jakes and Puff Daddy over alleged gay sex parties and freakish behavior is disturbing. One or two people start rumors and they spread like wildfire around the internet. Notice you don't see White or Asian people doing this exact same thing with White or Asian celebrities and ministers. No matter how many are started, they dismiss the rumors as crazy gossip until somethin…

From Saturday!s New York Times. The article can be summed up in one sentence; Students have more pressing personal matters to contend with. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/politics/biden-morehouse-black-colleges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare The article supports what the good @ProfD has been saying all along.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13986225/Spike-Lee-black-men-support-vote-Kamala-Harris.html Looks like the Democrats are pulling out all stumps,, er, stops to encourage Black men to vote for VP Harris. POTUS Obama, Magic Johnson, actor Wendell Pierce and now filmmaker Spike Lee are wagging their proverbial fingers at Black men. I still find it comical that nobody is telling any other group of men they'd better vote. It's all about the *Black* vote. Nevermind they aren't offering Black folks anything in return. No money or policy. Spike Lee is from NY. He already knows better.😎

Hey @Delano are you aware of this Brother? @Pioneer1 before you say anything I already know Randolph does meet you criteria of being Black. I'm publishing a fictionalized account of his life:

From a recent inetrview with Soledad O'Brien: Kam Williams: William Cooper and Troy Johnson both asked essentially the same question. What did you put down on her census form? William pointed out that Obama checked off “black” when he is just as black as white. How do you self-identify? Soledad O’Brien: I find the question really ridiculous. All the schooling I have to do on this topic is wearing me out. Obama is black. His mother was white. I am black. My father is white. I’m going to give everybody a History 101 lesson. Some black people have white blood in them. This has been going on for many generations, people. Look at any family of black people. They run a ra…

In the year 2012 this is what can happen in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lxKIqWXJIs&feature=related

It may be over, but it ain't done as the media and the internet are still abuzz with post mortems about the result of the presidential election. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel minced no words in a Fox News interview, when he told Sean Hannity to "shut the f**k up, you lost!". My kind of guy. Another one of the more interesting reactions was that of a FaceBook poster, who opined: "While Romney lost, the Republicans outperformed in the Congressional elections. One would have expected many more losses with a victorious Democratic President, but there were basically no "coat tails" to Obama's victory...the Congressional Republicans are, if anything, more "conservative" than …

BLACK TALK RADIO SAYS MALCOLM SHABAZZ , , GRANDSON OF MALCOLMX WAS FOUND DEAD.//IN MEXICO..I SAID IN APRIL WHE THE FBI ARRESTED HIM WAS SOMETHING PLANNING SOMETHING FROM UP HIGH.....MALCOLM SHABAZZ ...WAS A ACTIVIST AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.WAS SOMETHING AFRAID HE WAS BECOMING HIS GRANDFATHER MALCOLM X....../..

On a daily basis I'm being hit up by someone or some organization for money. I'm not talking about a sales pitch where you are get something tangible like a product or service. I'm not even talking about a charitable organization seeking a tax deductible contribution for a worthy cause. I'm talking about the solicitations for money where there is no direct benefit to you. The only benefit goes just to the recipient. These are not requests for a loan where you may get a little interest, or at least see your money again, but an outright request for money. These requests are indistinguishable from the "homeless" person asking for money from strangers on the street…

He Named Me Malala Film Review by Kam Williams Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements involving disturbing images and threats) Genre: Documentary Directed and Written by: Davis Guggenheim In Theaters: Oct 2, 2015 Limited Runtime: 2 hr. Malala Yousafzai was named after a girl who spoke out and was killed for speaking out. That folk hero was a flag-bearing teenager who perished in 1880 while rallying fellow Pashtun resistance fighters to an unlikely victory over British invaders in a pivotal battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. After settling on the very meaningful moniker, Malala's father inscribed it into his genealogy because no females were mentioned in his fa…

5th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth African American History Month Quizzes This is always a popular page on my website each February.

In spite of indicators of a 'blue wave' in the mid-terms, Democrate candidates are still begging constituents (voters) for handouts. For several years I gave monthly donations to campaigns until some Dems started playing footies with Republicans. This morning I visited the "Democrats Aboard" office to touch bases with other U.S. voters here in Israel. They treated American born Arabs like republicans treat Black voters. I'm pissed to say the least! Now I'm re-examining my priorities. Is this reasonable?

First. Black. Preacher ,Criticized. At,Aretha. Franklin. Funeral. Preacher,Jasper . Williams. Yapped,About. Black. Women. Raising,Sons,Alone,As He. Gave,His,Eulogy.Aretha Franklin. Raised Her Sons Alone. Her Family,Upset,Think Comments Aimed,At Her.Black Preacher in. Colorado Got A 14- Year Old,Girl,Pregnant.Black Preachers,Have Killed Their Wives,Preachers Caught With Prostitutes,Arrested For Stealing,Steal,Church Money,Buy, Cars,Mansions,,Beat Their Wives,Black,Church Preachers,Silent..Preachers. Are,Snakes,And. Jackals,Vultures...

It felt good arguing in FAVOR of a position I'm actually against, so I decided to take up another one. I'm not a feminist, but I'll attempt.....for argument's sake....to take the position of Black feminists or womanists and say that Black men are just too sexist. When it comes to sisters wearing their hair naturally, the greatest opposition Black women face doesn't come from White men in the work place who usually know better than to make a comment.....but from Black men at home and in the community who often times don't want to date a "natural" woman and are often very blunt about making this known. I've also noticed that the only time most Black men are willing…

I'm feeling the effects of both the digital divide and net neutrality. Are you? I teach at one of the colleges of a major university; all the university's classes have been converter to online. Many of the students simply cannot easily engage in online courses, because they simply do not have own a computer with high speed access to the internet. Most access the internet with a smartphone. The closure of schools, libraries, cafes, and other venues that provided free internet access has effectively eliminated all sources of alternative access. Given the 3 million+ new filers for unemployment. those with access will be under increased dif…

I used to attend these lectures and debates when i lived in NYC. @Pioneer1 I though about you when I got this email. __________ Should Black People Vote for Either Candidate, Yes or No Adelaide Sanford, Betty Dopson, Raymond Dugue, Gloria Dulan Wilson, Omowale Clay, James McIntosh On Wednesday October 7 at 7:00 PM you are invited to a Zoom forum on the topic: Should Black People Vote for either Candidate Hear different views from the participants with a special 15 minute commentary by esteemed Elder, Dr. Adelaide L. Sanford who will speak on what she thinks Black People should do on election day and after. …

Nevermind the fact that SCOTUS Justice has a job for life that pays over $255k annually. Apparently, Justices are also allowed to sign book deals while sitting on the bench: https://www.sent-trib.com/news/justice-barretts-425k-tops-among-supreme-courts-authors/article_ef630d86-e8e7-11ec-ab16-4fa20f798a88.html Justice Amy Comey Barrett appointed in 2020 has already received a $425k advance on a book deal worth $2 million. This is just an example of how public officials rake in a lot of dough beyond their salaries. It might also influence, er, explain their politics. Watch their hands. Follow the money. 😎

@DelUpon ruminating about your assertion that "you can only define what you experience". and that "you cannot comprehend something without a frame of reference", my polemicist tendencies kicked in. What if your frame of reference is "observation"? You can describe and subsequently define what you observe another entity experiencing. That's where imagination comes in. Also, you can vicariously empathize with what someone else is experiencing and describe what you feel. You can watch a scary movie seated within the confines of a safe theater and experience fear. That's what escapism is; experiencing something new or different through the lens of observati…

Black Couples & Conflict Resolution I think that some of these skits on social media can be more helpful then spending a lot of money going to a therapist sometimes. Due to technology and this type of media explosion, some of these skits published by talented Black people seems to me to be common issues that many of us have had to deal with in our cultures. This first skit reminds me of my own relationship with my boyfriend many years ago, and of whom is now my husband. He threw every trick in the book to try and not commit and this skit just cracks me up and reminds me of this time. I refused to move in to his apartment. I gathered up my things and left..…

According to Al Sharpton on MSNBC this morning, tommorrow there will be a gathering on the Mall in D.C. commemorating the 1963 march on Washingon, D.C. With a NAACP presence and remanents of the SCLC, MLK Jr. as speakers. Hind sight is 20/20 as I have told my former Black and mulatto teachers from the 1960s, but with the loss of Black community and physical communities as time went forward, has it been worth it, especially to the Blacks who were adults in the 1950s and 1960s? Where will Blacks as a whole be, 100 years from now, with the intentional attempted destruction of the Black race by many Black miscegenationists, and Black o…

There are so many things to consider running a website. This discussion forum has always been just one of my many challenges. Over the course of 25 years, I have only used 3 different platforms; it may be time for a change. There is the concept of the Fediverse it addresses most of the problems I have with social media and the limitations of isolated indie websites. My thinking is that the Fediverse with reduce our collective dependence on the massive social websites and increase engagement across the internet as the federation of platforms will be connected (think: the original concept of the world wide web). The text that follows was generated…

This is along the same vein of my previous thread about whether or not White men are gaining traction with our sistaz. But it's a much broader scope. Since being a teenager growing up in a Black city and then traveling the nation from coast to coast I've seen a lot of things and I've closely observered human interaction. Especially as a younger man when it came to how males and females interacted. I noticed that while most races and ethnic groups tended to marry, date, and/or had sex predominately within their group...a certain percentage would stray away and enter relationships with other groups. What I found interesting was that when it …

Government shutdown updates: USDA tells states to 'undo' issuing any SNAP benefits Government shutdown updates: USDA tells states to 'undo' issuing any SNAP benefits -How do you "undo" benefits that were issued out? Especially if they've been spent?

The full interview http://runt.it/soledadobrien KW: What is the Haitian government doing about the fact that they have a situation where people are being enslaved? SO: It’s such a hard thing for those of us in this country to get our minds around, but it’s completely legal. I’m sure you saw in the piece how the boy named Matthinson’s father sold him for about $12 dollars to go and be a slave for a complete stranger. But it’s an indication of just how devastating the poverty is in Haiti that that’s a viable option. It’s pervasive throughout the country. And unfortunately, it’s perfectly legal.

THE KILLER OF TRAYVON MARTIN IS BEING PROTECTED BY WHITE POLICE..IF THE KILLER HAD KILLED A WHITE BOY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED OR SHOT BY POLICE..REV. SHARPTON IS PROTESTING,PEOPLE ARE ON THE NEWS...WHAT ABOUT INNER BLACK MALES SHOT DOWN BY STREET GANGS,DRUG GANGS../NO PROTESTING FOR THEIR JUSTICE..WHERE IS THE BLACK CHURCH /ONLY THING BLACK PREACHERS CARE ABOUT, IS MONEY MOSTLY WHITE POLITICAL MONEY..WHERE ARE THE RICH BLACK ATHLETES, ENTERTAINERS/THEY CAN SHOW UP FOR AWARDS BUT NOT PROTEST,.THIS TRASH THAT, KILLED TRAYVON MARTIN LOKS HISPANIC,THE WHITE PEOPLE SUPPORTING HIM, WOULD, NOT BE IF HE GUNNED DOWN A WHITE PERSON....EVERY B…

"Cuba was always represented as a black child." I'm not a big fan of Louis Gates Jr., but this documentary actually tells much more about Cuba from the days of slavery to the days of the Cuban revolution than what is usually told.It even shows how the United States tried to import American style apartheid to Cuba. It goes into how Europeans were imported to Cuba to "whiten" Cuba. It talks about how the battleship was sent to Cuba to protect American interests long before Castro. It goes into the many years of American intervention, how America's colonialism replaced Spain's colonialism in America. The United States of America tried to impose a Jim Crow state in Cub…

ON IYANLA VAN ZANT'S FIX MY LIFE,THAT COMES ON WEEKENDS AT NIGHT..ANOTHER BLACK PREACHER MARRIED WITH MISTRESSES ON THE SIDE...THIS PREACHER SAYS HE HAS MORE THAN 10 WOMEN ON THE SIDE.SOME WOMEN IN HIS CHURCH HE IS SEXUALLY INVOLVED WITH...ONE WOMAN HE HAD A CHILD WITH... HOW CAN PREACHERS PREACH THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ,WHEN IT SEEMS NONE OF THEM LIVE BY IT OR BELIEVE IT.....BIBLE SAYS ADULTERUS SHOULD BE STONED TO DEATH....////THIS PREACHER JOINS A GROWING LIST OF MARRIED BLACK PREACHERS WITH WOMEN ON THE SIDE AND HAVING A CHILD WITH A MISTRESSES..THEN THERE IS BISHOP EDDIE LNG..MARRIED SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BLACK BOYS, THAT THE NAACP, BLACK CHU…

A NEW MOVIE, SON OF GOD/ ANOTHER WHITE CHRIST MOVIE/WONDER HOW MANY BLACK IDIOT CHRISTIANS WILL CRAWL AND GO SEE IT///BIBLE DOES NOT SAY JESUS AND GOD IS WHITE/WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE BELIEVE IT//BLACK PREACHERS CONTROL THE FLOCK/TELL THEM JESUS IS WHITE THEY WILL BELIEVE IT..../PREACHERS ARE AS BAD AS PIMPS,DRUG DEALERS AND GANGS HAVING BLACK PEOPLE SLAVED AND CONFINED......DO BLACK CHRISTIANS READ THE BIBLE OR JUST LISTEN TO THE PREACHER TELL THEM WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS...../////

Widely hailed as a landmark project, Zun Lee's monograph is at once documentary photography and personal visual storytelling. Through intimate black-and-white frames, 'Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' provides insight into often-overlooked aspects of African-descended family life.The reader gains an intimate view into the daily lives of black men whom Lee has worked with since 2011 and who are parenting under a variety of circumstances - as married fathers, single fathers, social fathers, young and older, middle class and poorer. Lee brings into focus what pervasive father absence stereotypes have distorted - real fathers who are involve…

POPE WAS IN AMERICA ,SO WHAT/POPE DID NOT SEE THE REAL AMERICA/RACE HATING,RACIAL PROFILING,WHITE SUPREMACY/NEO NAZI IN THE, U.S. GOVERNMENT,NEO NAZI IN U.S. MILITARY/VIDEO GAMES ,WITH NEO NAZI CHRISTIANS KILLING BLACK PEOPLE AND JEWS//////

Kidnapped Africans,Forced On Slave Ships Were Immigrants. Says Dr. Ben Carson. They Came To America For Prosperity And Happiness..In 2015 Lunatic Donald Trump. Said Ben Carson ,Was Mentally Unstable..Trump Said Dr. Ben Carson,Was Mentally Unstable .Ben Carson Said He Was Not,Qualified To Have A Political Position. Donald Trump, Has Appointed This Mentally Unstable ,No Experience Dr. Ben Carson To Be Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development..A Black Man Saying Kidnapped Africans Were Immigrants,When They Came On Slave Ships To America,Chained And Shackled,In The Cargo Holes Of Slave Ships. Beaten With Whips. Some Were Thrown Over To The Sharks...Chained And,Shackl…

Has any one seen Fruitvale? Also interested in your opinion even if you haven't seen it.

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I have found that no astrology chart ever repeats. if there's a two minute difference in birth times in the same location. Or the equivalent time in different locations. So there will literally never be another chart like yours. Something I discovered that quite a few astrologers don't believe.

Over. The. Weekend Black. Children. Killed -Murdered. Because. Of -Black. Community. Violence. ??? Will. There. Be. Protesting. For. Them ?-Will. There. Be. Black. Lives. Matter. Signs. And. Angry. Protest ?? For -Black. Men. Black. People Organizing. . Genocide. In. Black. -Communities? Black Political ,NAACP,Church Will They Be On The -News Angry At Black Men Murdering Black Children -Black -People.? Black Gangs Slaughtering Black People In Streets,-Black Pimps ,,Prostituting ,. Teenage. Girls. In. Streets. , Black. Men -Setting. Up. Crack. Houses. . Where. Is. The. Protest. ?? The. T V -News. Will. Not. Show. …