Culture, Race & Economy

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 …

There are a bunch of thing I need to work through, but the most important thing is that one. 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)!

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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.1 The term lends a scientific name and explanation to a problem that many people immediately recognize—that fools are blind to their own foolishness. As Charles Darwin wrote in his book The Descent of Man, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." https://www.verywellmind.com…

I've briefly followed a story recently where apparently some Asian man who was speaking at a beauty pageant talked rudely to a Mexican contestant and in a show of solidarity against his "racism" most of the women got up and walked out. Here's a brother doing a show about the incident: I have a few questions about this incident: 1. Although he was indeed rude, what did he say that was racist or anti Latino? 2. Do they consider just TALKING to a Latina woman in that manner "anti-Latino" or "anti-woman"? 3. When we see video after video of bosses, police officers, and other public figures talking rudely and even being violent w…

While I was at the Mississippi Book Festival, I attended a panel of booksellers. One of the panelists ran a bookstore in what he described as a resort town in Florida, so I looked it up and saw that it was not far out of my way back home. The store, Sundog Books, is located in Seaside, Florida which is in the middle of the Florida panhandle. It is a fine bookstore. The beach in Seaside was the nicest beach I'd ever seen in the continental US -- the entire area was pristine. The water varied in color from deep blue to light green. The sand was cool and fine, almost like power -- simply beautiful. Seaside, FL was also almost exclusively white. I …

Over 20 years ago I moved back to my old neighborhood, with my family. In many ways it was a completely different neighbor. There was far less crime and no vacant lots. Banks, grocery stores, and other businesses one would expect in a community were now present. @Delano has been to this place. The generified Harlem. Technically, I was a "gentrifier," someone coming into an impoverished neighborhood with contrasting middle class values. Having come from the very neighborhood, I knew better than to come in with guns blazing trying to impose bougie middle class values on the people already there. This is a mistake my white counterpart often made. …

{Looking around like the last guy on Earth surveying his surroundings after a nuclear holocaust or the Rapture.} Since @harry brown has posted recently, I presume the site is not broken. Indeed, in the time that it took me to write this 16 people have visited this forum: I guess the period between Palm Sunday and Easter is really slow around here. Maybe everyone is on spring break (actually mine starts Friday). Or maybe, more ominously, social media's domination and control over the online conversation is now complete. Does that mean I can't communicate with my people unless I go to Facebook... Lawd help me!

'A New Moment for Black Bookstores' by Eugene Holley Jr. Eugene Holley Jr. profiles four Black booksellers for Publishers Weekly in “A New Moment for Black Bookstores.” He writes the following: The publishing world has had to adapt to a business landscape that is rapidly changing as a result of the pandemic and the response to continuing police violence against unarmed Black people. The 130 Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. have had to deal with these broader challenges, as well as with cultural and economic forces that uniquely affect them. … As challenging as this period is for bookstores like Marcus Books and Turning Pages, other outlets, like Semicolon…

"You don’t drop no check off and say, ‘Get the Negroes to the Plantation on November"... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/black-vote-aint-sale-prominent-activist-exposes-kamalas/

The following title summarizes a comment left on an article about the City Sun, a defunct Black-owned newspaper from Brooklyn NY. "The City Sun was a racial toilet. It spewed anti-Semitic, Jew-hating, anti-Asian, anti-White bigotry. It was a racial cesspool of black bigotry which showed why black Americans in the ghetto can never make it: their leaders and informations sources are The Klan with a Tan." Read the rest of the comment. I actually approved the comment because maybe it will help people appreciate how important newspapers like The City Sun are...

Wangechi Mutu (artist), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (writer), Chimamanda Adichie (writer), Wangechi Mutu (artist), Kerry James Marshall (artist), Sammy Baloj (artist) and Taiye Selasi (writer) discuss how black people are misrepresented in today’s society and culture.

This is an excellent documentary detailing the events of the Black Wall Street atrocities. Sadly, this is little known history. Please pass it on. A note about the documentary, it gets started around 5:50 time. I posted this one because it had the full version and not segments of it. The beginning is a little editorialized, but to go straight to the doc, just skip to 5:50 time. BLACK WALLSTREET (From Davey D's Hip Hop Corner) Please pass this on to the Iota Family. It's an important part of history that every Black person should know, if they don't know already. Ron Wallace: co-author of Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream Chronicles a little-know…

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 …

On May 17th Pioneer said: "Cynique I'm suprised you don't have a degree. You took me as a well LETTERED woman. Especially having written columns for news papers. But then again..... As many of those older than me have told me for years, the education students received in highschool and even junior high back before the 60s was often superior to what they're getting in most colleges today." __________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is true. That's how I got hired to write a column for a newspaper. The editor who took me on, in addition to liking the letters I wrote to the paper's OpEd page, was impress…

First these are not debates. The pretense is annoying. Why can't the people running these debates simply cut the speakers mics? Why can't the moderator force the speaker to answer the questions asked. The Dems are unhappy the Republicans are going to confirm another Supreme Court Justice; they should have worried about that 4 years ago. If they plan to add more justices -- admit it. It is obvious they plan to do that. Pence saying democrats want to allow abortions up to the the moment of delivery is aburd. How can the candidates be to simply say anything. There was very little useful information related during th…

"Is that a right of life when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120,000,000 people?” Senator -Huey P. Long If only history were studied more, there would be less surprises and a lot less strategic issues. If people would study history, they would know that "today's crisis" is often old news. This address was delivered by Senator Huey Long in 1934: Radio Address by Senator Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, February 23, 1934 Ladies and Gentlemen: — I have only 30 minutes in which to speak to you this evening, and I, therefore, will not be able to discuss in detail so much as I can wr…

Game. After watching the sequel to Wall Street, “Money Never Sleeps”, director Oliver Stone did a wonderful job to shoot the film with the focus on what these traders did on a regular basis. The story tells itself, but he focused on the nooks and crannies, which he is a master at. He captured the mannerisms and little details, such as a broker guzzling down a 5 hour energy drink, which gives the viewer insight to the job and what it takes to perform it. Trading stock, analyzing it and managing it requires high brain activity, linear thinking and some ad-libbing when things get hot in the kitchen. Most of us will not participate in such a high-risk,…

Growing up White is about Blacks who do not act Black enough, therefore are discriminated by fellow Blacks for not conforming and scorned by Whites who stereotype by race. This book describes situations Oreo's go through and guides them through difficulty with advice and suggestions. Growing up White is a guide written in a humorous tone and displays an eye opening lesson on a subculture that lies between two cultures. Oreo culture also applies to Biracials who pass for black. Thank you. www.Browniefoxpublishing.com Kevin White 9376232629

"And to those of you who say I know nothing about Hiphop, if “Blurred Lines” is Hiphop, I don’t want to know anything about it. So let me officially go on record now and say that I hate Hiphop. There are certain artists who claim Hiphop that I dig, but Hiphop as a whole is wack. It’s a parasitic culture that preys on real musicians for its livelihood. I may not know anything about Hiphop, but I don’t have to. Without real artists and musicians like me, you’d have nothing to steal. I know enough about it all to know that." Nicholas Payton in, "An Open Letter To Pharrell Williams (Blurred Lines Vol. 3)" where he castigates Pharrell over his unwillingness to knowledge …

Hi I made this thread for anyone currently experiencing Back Pain on the forum... I dealt with severe back pain for 3 years (2014-2017) age(22-25).. During the course of that time I tried several things in attempts to alleviate my pain... - Muscle Relaxers - Aspirin - Soaking in Thermal Water - Yoga - Stretching - Alternative Massage Treatments - Chiropractor adjustments - Physical Therapy Nothing recommended by the medical physicians worked for me... My pain was so severe at one time to the point I was limping.... I had to quit working outside and transition to working from home in order to make ends meet... Over t…

I found this video on a cool new website: www.afrostateofmind.com There has been a resurgence interest in natural hair styles and this change has been reflected in the number of books on the subject that I have seen lately. I did not watch this particular video all the way through as I just wanted to see the reveal. I don't think this is a fair assessment of the difference between "natural" and relaxed hair, for one the model is wearing a wig--a crazy looking one at that. And her natural hair was... I just call it undone. This particular model would look equally attractive, albeit different, with a nice natural style or a halfway decent looking wi…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1Km_SdBYI&feature=related ************************************* One summary of the movie***** “My name is Alex. I may look like a little boy, but I am a grown up.” The opening scene of the 2010 film I Want To Be A Soldier leads the viewer to believe that the film will be about a rebellious youngster who won’t tolerate authority and won’t give in to threats. That’s Alex and he is only eight years old. But then we see other scenes from earlier in his life which portray an ideal upbringing of a young boy – recorded via the family camcorder. But is it the same boy? And if it is, what may have caused the transformation tha…

Where is Kola Boof when we need her? Wonder if she watched the NAACP "IMAGE" AWARDs Friday?? Image, indeed. There was certainly a preponderance of high-yellow, blue-eyed winners among the nominees; e.g. Vanessa Williams, Terrence Howard, Colin Powell, not to mention an olive "colored" Hispanic sitcom star, and the light-eyed gold-toned Regina King. And of course there was Halle Berry in all of her one-drop glory, modestly accepting an award from the light-skinned hazel-eyed Prince, displaying his usual eccentric behavior. I suspect the cameras were kept off the reaction of the losers in the audience, whose melanin must've blanched. What would the show have done wi…

Well, the results are in. "Black Panther" which opened this week-end was a box office sensation to the tune of $192,000,000+, primarily due to the patronage of black people deliriously happy to have a super hero with the same skin color as theirs. These theatergoers showed up in droves, many of them decked out in African garb, all ready to have their hunger for something other than movies depicting the drudgery and cruelty of slavery in America, satisfied. Reviews of this film have been good, and popular opinion has been overwhelming in its enthusiastic approval. That the movie's director is also black, is chocolate icing on the devils food cake. But there are always vo…

This was at the top of my Twitter feed today. I did not comment on it, but it struck me because the person who posted it cares for 45 about as much as I do and they went to the same business school I attended. The problem I have with the chart (assuming you accept the figures as presented, for no primary sources was cited) is that the statement failed to recognize the staggering job losses shown on the very same chart for the first two years of Obama's presidency! This also ignores the net job gains for the 45 adminstration are actually far great than they were for Obama at the same point in his presidency. In other words, this chart, looking at the number…

America, the beautiful... a circus presided over by an inept clown.

Spike Lee's biopic "X" is a really good movie. It tells a great deal, but this documentary, Make it Plain tells a great deal. It deals with the evolution of Brother Malcolm in ways in which many other documentaries and/or even books have not. I believe that Bro. Malcolm's evolution has really been misrepresented purposely and otherwise. This is one of the best documentaries that I have ever seen.

Well, that settles it! Harassed "Me too" damsels in distress have nobody but God to blame for men being unable to resist their charms.

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"Obama-care"... Is it just me or not including the "solid right") are relatively few people talking about the court's decision (re: the constitutionality of the aforementioned/provisions/stipulations)?

Today, June 7th, would've been Prince's 58th birthday. Back in the 1980s, my 2 daughters were Prince fanatics. And it wasn't long before after being constantly exposed to his unique funky sound, I became a fan of his too, even accompanying them to his concerts over the years. In the early 90s, however, I pretty much abandoned the ol boy because his music no longer hooked me like the songs back in his hey day. "Adore" was the last song by him that I really dug. But I did take the title of my last self-published effort "The Only One", from a line in his song "I wanna be your lover." Saturday, my daughter is having a belated birthday observation for Prince. All the inv…

I was on a website this morning whose stated mission is quoted in the subject of this post; "Our goal is to empower all Black communities to invest in one [an]other." I have added it to my site list Black-owned websites, but I could not help but think this site has prominent links to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Pinterest social media platforms! Surely there are Black owned social media platforms we can promote.instead? @NubianFellow can you list a few Black owned social media platforms that provide a social sharing icon that can be used by web sites that purportedly invest and empower Black communities? At some point we…

I was reading a few experiences where Black parents who claim to be pro black express shock and anger that their child decides to marry a white person. They all say the same thing "how could this be? I thought them about black history and took them to multiple museums and surrounded them with exceptional black people". Teaching you Black child about black history will not make them stay away from white people. Teaching your black child about racism will. Teaching black history to black children and teaching black children about racism will yield 2 different outcomes. If your black child looks at every white person as a racist suspect then you have successfull…

This Email is respectively submitted to asked for your assistance in getting my book Sellout published. Sellout tells the story of three African American Student Athletes at predominantly white universities. The book also examines the unfair Student Athlete System. I'm passionate about this subject and believe our young men and women are being exploited for others profits. I honestly lack the resources and connections to bring this important issue to the public. This is my opportunity to provide the lifestyle I want for me and my family. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Email me james mills. Jr8@gmail. com.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — South Africa's Caster Semenya set a meet record in the 800 meters at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday while controversy swirls about a rule that could limit her from competing at the distance. Semenya defended her title in the event in 1 minute, 55.92 seconds, which is also the top mark in the world this year. American Ajee Wilson was second in 1:56.86. Semenya is the two-time Olympic and three-time world champion in the 800. But she could be impacted in the future by a new rule that has drawn criticism. The IAAF, track and field's international governing body, announced last month that starting on Nov. 1 it will…

You know how the word "nigger" is viewed by many? That it was one of the most dehumanizing terms that could ever be used to describe a black human being? Yes, it is of course used by many as a term of endearment while many people, ESPECIALLY older black people abhor the term being used in that sense by the younger generations... but that topic is neither here nor there at this point in the thread. There was a time that our people who were enslaved in North America called themselves and one another niggers because that is all that they were ever called and that is all that many ever knew. At some point, others referring to us as "niggers" became 'fightin' words' an…

Not only were social media sites not an alternative forum for discussion, social media users were less willing to share their opinions in face-to-face settings. So says a study conducted by the Pew Research Center and fielded August 7-September 16, 2013 by Princeton Research Associates International. Over the last few years as activity on these discussion forums has decreased (quite substaintially), I often contemplated why. I recognize that social media takes up more of people time, including my own, but I also recgnize that social media is not a perfect subtitue for a forum like this. In a forum like this one has the opportunity to see everythi…

The House I Live In (2012, Drugs Documentary Movie - Trailer) Pioneer I thought about you when I learned about this film, listening to a recent This American Life episode.

The 'Race' Card By Karen Hatter The majority of people of African descent, living in America, do not have the luxury of compartmentalizing our collective experience here in America, beginning with forced immigration, enslavement, Jim Crow, the Black Codes and after slavery, in modern times, the long list of inequalities and abuses that have been brought down upon our heads as a result of who we are and our past relationship to those in stewardship, of non African descent, in America, when we express our feelings, beliefs and concerns over our past and for our as yet to be known futures in America. Many Americans find it difficult and it makes them uneasy to …

I finally finished the 620-page “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Isabel Wilkerson, and it was a trip! Literally, - its subtitle being “the epic story of America’s great migration.” This was an amazing, magnificent book chronicling the history of great numbers of Blacks who began leaving the south to seek a better life in the big cities of the North during the time period between 1915 through 1970. I was particularly interested in checking this book out because my mother was a part of this exodus, having left her home town of Franklin, Tennessee, in 1916 to seek her fortune in Chicago. My father, who was a midwestern farm boy from Kansas, had a…

Toward Fair Trade in the Hood There is a trade deficit in the hood. This trade imbalance is initially internal: North American Africans refuse to patronize each other, preferring to enrich others who rarely buy from North American Africans, including whites, Asians, Arabs, Latinos, et al. As we make our daily round, we should ask ourselves how much money do we spend with each other and how much with others than our own kind? It is simple math that our businesses will soon go out of business for lack patronizing by us. Yes, other culture groups thrive on each other and us. Ask your self why we have a trade deficit with Arabs, Asians, Africans, Latins,et al. Ask…

The Fall of Indie Discussion Forums I'm not sharing this here because I expect a lot of people to read it, or find it particularly interesting. When I saw the level of engagement, overtime, and the variety of opinions expressed, it reminded me of these forums back in their heyday, so that is why I shared it. I always prefered Youtube as a social media network over Facebook. You can make money on Youtube, when you post content. As far as I know they are they only major social network that does that. The quality of youtube content (videos) is simply better overall and Youtube doesn't censor content and exert so much control over what people get to see. The differences c…

PBS Special Forum "The Issue is Race" Panelists include: Alan Keyes (then black republican candidate for Senate), Richard Nathan (then director of Rockefeller Institute/researcher), Sister Souljah (then raptivist/PoliSci major), Jonathan Kozol (educator and author) Anna Deavere Smith (playwright), Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly (then mayor of Washington) , Dhoruba bin Wasad (former political prisoner/wrongly imprisoned Black Panther, activist) Tony Brown (then journalist/author), Cornel West (then director of African American Studies at Princeton), and Sylvester Monroe (then of Time Magazine). This was in 1992. One of the main questions then was "What have we …

Listen to the MADNESS coming out of this dude's mouth and how he giggles and wiggles around like a disturbed little child while talking...... Now keep in mind that Daylyt was a MARRIED man when he said all of this and as the interview progressed it becomes fairly obvious that he is NOT gay. But the question is what would make an adult straight man even MAKE a statement like this, even in jest? He was clearly provoked into it by Vlad......a Ukrainian born Caucasian who has gotten rich off of interviewing and exploiting AfroAmerican Hiphop artists. But the real question is why Daylyt and other AfroAmerican artists are so…

This is a 50 sec clip from an hour-long interview from with Dr. Claud Anderson and The Breakfast Club, that I uploaded to YouTube in January of 2020. I'm sharing it here, because it has been watched 33K times -- virtually all of those view have been within that past 30 days -- more than 1,000 views a day! There is always a reason for when something goes low-key viral. I don't know what it is, but if you have any theories please share.

“Goodreads is one of the bookiest online places to be. It’s got avid readers, book lovers, and tons of reviews. With over 300 million pageviews and 45 million unique visitors a month, GR also very influential and I recommend you join if you haven’t already.” I got this in an email today. Well actually it was linked in an email to an article with the headline, "Goodreads is a great spot for readers." Of course I was intrigued and read the article. The author, who is Black, was promoting a giveaway on Goodreads. Of course this is a reasonable way to promote one's work to a broad audience. However, I did find great promotion of Goodreads, which is…