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So now the African lady is not so crazy. Let's discuss this article about the 2nd largest Indian Tribe in America (the Cherokee) officially kicking out the "black" slave descendants. http://news.yahoo.com/second-largest-u-indian-tribe-expels-slave-descendants-011650136.html One of these centuries....dumb ass blacks are going to listen to their real mother!!

This is the cover of the latest issue of Ebony. The adjoining opinion piece appears, apparently, in the same issue. I say apparently, as I have not received my issue yet; I found these images on their website. Much of the critique about Rachel is that she misrepresented herself as Black. We misrepresent ourselves as white every day of the week. The notion that we do not state that we are white, makes no difference. What we do, what we celebrate makes this quite plain. As an aside, two weeks ago I got the May issue. Yesterday, I got my June issue with the Father's Day buying guide?! Is anyone else getting their issues of Ebony magazine so late?

2- Mass. Shootings. Done. By. White. Men. News. Says. In. Texas,And,Ohio. Racist. White. Men. Murdering,Wounding People..In. Texas. ,,,Racist. White. Man. Hated Hispanic,Hispanic Communities...Some News Idiots Saying ,White Men With. Mental-Problems.. No Place Is Safe. . White News Talkers. Not Talking About,Neo Nazi In The U. S. Military ,Or Klan Police,,White Police,Fired For Being Klan Members. Black News Talkers Not ,Talking. About Black Street Gangs,Being Domestic Terrorist,Slaughtering. Black. People. In. The. Streets.. Seems. Black. Men. Genociding Black. People. Is. Condoned. By, NAACP ,Black-Politicians ,Black. Churc…

I READ OVER 230,000 BLACK PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM AIDS... IN THE BLACK YOUTH, HIV IS INCREASING/WHY//OF THE OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE IN U.S. WITH AIDS ALMOST HALF ARE BLACK///WHAT MORE DO BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW///UN PROTECTED SEX, DRUG USERS DRUG NEEDLES,SEX SWINGERS,////I HAVE COMPASSION FOR BABIES BORN WITH AIDS OR HIV VIRUS, NOT THEIR FAULT....//TENNIS GREAT ARTHUR ASHE DIED FROM A BLOOD TRANFUSION, HE GOT BLOOD WITH AIDS IN IT, BASKET BALL GREAT MAGIC JOHNSON HAS HIV VIRUS//HE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE BEING CAREFUL AND RESPONSIBLE.IS ANYONE LISTENING//////MORE BLACK SELF DESTRUCTION…

In A Dove Soap .Commercial A Black Woman Using Dove Soap ,Becomes White . Yes, There Was A Uproar. .Criticism. They Were ,Trying To Represent Women Of Color. .Using Dove Soap A Black --,Woman Cleanse To Whiteness...Black Woman Uses Dove -Soap,Pulls Off Her Shirt ,A White Woman ,Appears...Amazing..Black Is Beautiful....

IS THE SPIRIT OF REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING IN BLACK CHURCHES/NO/DR. KING SACRIFICED HIMSELF, HE KNEW HE WOULD BE KILLED,BLACK PREACHERS A SACRIFICED TO THEM WOULD BE NOT TAKING UP A COLLECTION 3 OR 4 TIMES ON SUNDAY,PREACHERS NEED TO DRIVE NEW CARS..PREACHERS CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES, HAVE CHILDREN WITH MISTRESSES, 3 BLACK PREACHERS ARE IN PRISON FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES.. PREACHERS ARE CROOKS.PREACHER HENRY LYONS WAS LOCKED UP 5 YEARS FOR STEALING 4 MILLION DOLLARS...THE BLACK CHURCH IS LIKE A PLANTATION CHURCH, WITH THE SOULS OF BLACK PEOPLE ENSLAVED BY THE PREACHER A BLACK SLAVE OWNER AND OVERSEER..///////

Recently acquitted NYC subway killer will be one of POTUS OJ'S invited guests at the Army-Navy football game today. Like Zimmerman and Rittenhouse before him, Penny will be paraded as a hero and he will become well off financially for putting in work as a race soldier.😎

https://apnews.com/live/sean-diddy-combs-sex-trafficking-trial-5-12-2025 The Diddy trial is happening. A jury has been seated. It will be interesting to see if prosecutors can make a s8x trafficking case stick and put Diddy away for years. I don't believe Diddy will be found guilty. His freaky bizness will be put out in the street though. He might have a harder time picking up dates once he's acquitted. 😁😎

Black and blue or gold and white? (OK, Troy, I assume this is something you aren't familiar with since you boycott pop culture trivia, but bear with me.) I found interesting the much ado about how people perceived the colors of a dress posted on social media, and how this pitted them against each other to the point of belligerancy. This controversy created such a stir that scientists chimed in and offered explanations, calling the phenomenon that went viral on the internet an optical illlusion, an example of how our brains are wired differently when it comes to processing what we see, explaining further that lighting can have an influence on an image and how th…

I've been trying to ignore Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson, in the hope that he would go away, once people discerned that he's more suited to be a cult leader rather than a world one. No such luck. I underestimated the vindictiveness of those who hate the Media and love the Bible. I learned a lesson about blind faith and arrogant science and how they neutralize each other, leaving the truth in limbo, and conflict in command. I personally reject everything Carson represents: his fanatical Evangelical beliefs, his right-wing Conservative politics, his blatant racial naivete and his anti-feminism, but I am discovering how presumptuous I was to think my senti…

It is really hard to craft a good short story. I though this one was fascinating.

Should the U.S. provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow? Carlton Mark Waterhouse, Indiana University Editor’s note: This article is part of our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH that will next air on Tuesday, May 10 on PBS and online at pbs.org. The show features fact-based debate on major issues of the day, without the shouting. The debate over reparations in the United States began even before slavery ended in 1865. It continues today. The overwhelming majority of academics studying the issue have supported the calls for compensating black Americans for the centuries of chattel slavery and the 100 years of lynching, mob viol…

I thought about donald trump owing eighty three million to a woman already getting money from him for defamation over years. It occurs to me, black men of nyc who have been in the prison system are settling for too low. IF defamation over ten years can get eighty three million then seven million is too little to someone falsely imprisoned for over two decades. CANNABIS NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today celebrated the opening of Matawana Dispensary, the first Black woman-owned legal cannabis dispensary in Brooklyn. Building on an announcement in his State of the City address last month, Mayor Ad…

A Black Trans Woman Was Killed in Her Home in Greece Story by Samantha Riedel • Yesterday 3:24 PM Anna Ivankova, a Black transgender woman from Cuba who was also known as Anna Hernández and Ivanka, was found dead in her apartment in Athens, Greece earlier this week. She was 46 years old. According to information released by Greek police, Ivankova’s body was discovered by her l…

What are the real world effects if Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 999 tax plan went into effect?

"There were two kind of slaves. There was the house negro and the field negro. The house negro, they lived in the house, with master. They dressed pretty good. They ate good, cause they ate his food, what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near their master, and they loved their master, more than their master loved himself. They would give their life to save their masters house quicker than their master would. The house negro, if the master said "we got a good house here" the house negro say "yeah, we got a good house here". Whenever the master would said we, he'd say we. That's how you can tell a house negro. If…

Millie Riley’s Daughter THE FIRST LADY OF LITTLE ROCK DDD—An Essay On The Late Daisy Gaston Bates I had never heard of Daisy Lee Bates, perhaps because I was born a few years after this time or perhaps because it was not part of my formal education, nevertheless, I think that she was amazing. So, she is my feature today, DDD—Dove’s Doll of the Day. Although, I researched this story a few years ago and planned to share this information in some type of written format, however, it upset me so much that I chose to distance myself from it for a while, until I felt emotionally strong enough to absorb it better. …

I've been hearing so much about the surprise box office hit, "Get Out" written and directed by comedian Jordan Peele, that I actually bestirred myself to go see it. I give it a thumps up! It was quite well done, good acting, great comic relief; a satirical romp with a sly take-away. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I was amused by its off-beat plot.

Oscar Predictions 2012 Who Will Win, Who Deserves to Win, Who Was Snubbed by Kam Williams On May 16, 1929, the first Academy Awards were staged in Hollywood at the Hotel Roosevelt. Wings, a silent film, won the Oscar for Best Picture that night, a feat which would never be repeated, given the impending innovations in sound technology that ushered in the age of the talkies. But, as they say, wait long enough, and everything comes back into style, and such is the case with The Artist, a nostalgic throwback that’s the prohibitive favorite to prevail at this year’s ceremony. Who’d a thunk that a black & white, silent flick from France would eclip…

This thread is prompted by an observation by Cynique on another thread but it goes into the response by Black men in general society when it comes to conflict in the community and especially between Black women. Why do so many Black men allow people and especially women to fight without doing the "manly" thing of stepping in to resolve it? I can't speak for other male posters, I can only speak from my personal experiences and observations as to why this often happens....... First of all, a lot of Black men actually DO step in Especially when things get physical....as I have on several occasions when women started fighting eachother in my presence. But as long a…

The ongoing discussion blowing up the board, started out with the question "is science the new religion", and proceeded to morph into a slugfest over whether science espouses religion. As a debate, it exemplified the "irresistible force meeting an immovable object" axiom. The passion with which participants proselytized their arguments was akin to religious fervor, with everybody trying to exorcise the demons of those with opposing views. From another perspective, the heated exchanges were also a war of words, aiming verbal weapons that missed as often as they hit their targets. Truth was twisted and facts were bent. What had an equally interesting effect was th…

This is big news. The Black candidtate for the governor race of Florida in 2020 was just arrested by the FBI on multiple charges of fraud. Andrew Gillum was arrested on multiple federal charges and seems to of been caught on video committing fraud and conspiracy. This criminal was endorsed by Obama. Another reason not to vote for people just based on skin color. I felt something was up with Gillum from day one. Andrew Gillum lost to Florida’s popular rising star Ron Desantis. Gillum campained about gun control probably because he just proved you dont need a gun to steal from people by his multiple acts of fraud. Gillum will probably go to prison for a long time.…

"I come to realize that I'm wasting way too much time on here. The real movers and shakers aren't on here, just us everyday working joes. I want to be a mover and shaker. It's time to get my hustle on, so I will only be checking my FB once a week to post any signings or dj gigs I might have. FB is keeping us from making any real moves, it's a drug and I need to stop being a junky." --Anthony L. Wallace Is he right?

I thought he would have been in prison by now.

During the discussion of The Woman King movie I told you all that Neely Fuller Jr. predicted years ago that there was a plot by the Racists to get Black women to fall in love with each other and become soldiers to fight for White men. I said that movies like The Woman King were just a piece of the puzzle of propaganda promoting this plan. Well, this quote from Neely Fuller that was made OVER 2 YEARS AGO outlining this plot: And now, you have a movie glorifying Black women warriors! Telling little Black girls how honorable and glorious it is to swear off men and dedicate their lives to become soldiers and have each other's backs …

The documentary "Classified X" by Melvin Van Peebles is a classic. Movie images sustain racism. Over and over again, Hollywood made blacks the objects of derision or fear: African-Americans were illiterate primitives, rustic fools, fumbling servants, or simply outside society. Young blacks began to surrender to these self-images, while whites accepted them comfortably. Using images from classic American films as chilling reference, Van Peebles explains with wit and anger why popular culture is still a matter of black and white. - Laurence Kardish

We are in the midst of changing times. All around us things are evolving; subtly in some areas and blatantly in others. Uncertainty permeates all facets of our lives. Young people look ahead, focusing on the future, oblivious to how much they have to learn. Old people look back, resigned to what the past has taught them. Some say what lies ahead has been prophesied and that what awaits will be either The End or The Beginning. I say WHO knows. And upon deciding to make “who knows” a statement rather than a question, I am inspired to contemplate. In the seventh year of the seventh decade of my life, I look around, seduced by the implications of the 77 that defines…

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NFL Hall of Famer, Jim Brown , gives the best definition of racism I've heard. I completely agree with this definition—particularly from the perspective of a bookseller and someone who celebrates Black culture. You see, we typically do not value anything that we create unless it has the white cosign (validation). We don't value our writers unless they write for a white publication, we don't value our books unless that have been published by a white-owned publisher and have been acclaimed by the white media or some white-owned institution. Of course, in today's economy, there are those who seek white validation because that is where the money is, But t…

************************************************************************************ This discussion is about the trial of the white supremacists that murdered an innocent Black man while he was out for a jog, minding his own business. Their defense for killing him was that they thought he was a burglar, running away from some imaginary crime. For the record, I hope that this scum are found guilty and executed in a most painful fashion. IN TODAY'S NEWS: Three white men on trial for murder of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery 'KNEW' he was not a burglar, jury hears: Judge allows pho…

April 4, 1968-- Martin Luther King got his brains blowed out in Memphis. I am so crude because everybody likes to act like he just "passed away" or something. No. His brains were blowed out, all over the balcony at the Lorraine Hotel, like he was a crip or a blood or something. He had his pants hitched up. He used the King's English. He preached non violence. He was married to the mother of his children and supporting them--best he could while he was running all over the country trying to do right by folks. He was not strapped. Nor any of his associates. Remember--

1) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. 2) The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo. 3) Surely you must be joking by Richard Feynman. 4) A Brief history of time Stephen Hawking. 5) The easy tarot guide by Marsha Marshino. 6) The Faces at the bottom of the well. by Derrick Bell. 7) Negrophobia by Darius James. 8) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. 9) The places you'll go by Doctor Seuss. 10) Eastern and Western Mysteries David Alan Hulse.

I have found a a couple of perfect numbers that Mathematicians have missed. @Troy

The first artist had committed suicide before I became a fan. The second artist I actually saw perform live and I inadvertently insulted her. The writer hung himself. The performer died of an overdose of loneliness called drugs.

You know, maybe because of Juneteenth, I have thought about freedom in the black community in the usa and when black people talk about reparations we mention how most black people wanted it, but we don't mention how black leadership in the usa since the war between the states in majority never advocated for reparations. No black leadership group has ever truly advocated reparations. The Black church hasn't, the NAACP hasn't, Black colleges hasn't , black elected officials to any party of governance hasnt. So, yes, most black people in the USA have thought of reparations, wanted reparations, but a majority of black leadership in the usa hasn't advocated it, even if they…

Prigozhin celebrates Niger coup, says his Wagner group can help Story by By Tim Lister, CNN • Yesterday 5:41 AM While the international community, including many African states, have condemned the coup in Niger, Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has his own take. In a long message posted to social media, Prigozhin blamed the situation …

CNN reports that two professors, from Emory University and the University of Hull in England, have analyzed the records of 35,000 slave-trading voyages over three and a half centuries. They have published their findings on a web site -- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database -- and in a book -- Atlas of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The database identifies 67,000 captives by name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation. The atlas features 189 maps showing where Africans were taken from, where they were taken to, and who took them. Among the findings: Four enslaved Africans left the Old World for every European. Almost every port city on the Atlantic was…

There is no scientific evidence that human civilizations have been here for millions of years. But I agree, Western civilization will absolutely collapse. We can debate the timeframe, but it will happen and we are seeing indications of it today.

St. Thomas University has renamed its law school after Attorney Ben Crump: https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15306595/st-thomas-university-law-school-named-benjamin-l-crump-college-of-law Ben Crump is the 1st practicing AfroAmerican lawyer to have a school named after him. There is only one other U.S. law school bearing the name of an AfroAmerican. That was the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.😎

UCSD Frat Denies Involvement In 'Ghetto-Themed' Party UCSD Officials Condemn 'Compton Cookout' Held Last Weekend POSTED: 4:15 am PST February 17, 2010 SAN DIEGO -- Administrators at the University of California, San Diego are condemning a weekend ghetto-themed party thrown off-campus by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but they aren't likely to discipline anyone, it was reported Wednesday. The so-called "Compton Cookout" event urged all participants to wear chains, don cheap clothes and speak very loudly, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Female participants were encouraged to be "ghetto chicks." "It's insulting, it's derogatory, …

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This black sexuality debate between us calls for a separate thread, Pioneer. You seek to santize polygamy by putting it in the context of marriage and you further seek to justify it by citing some mythical, undocumented “scientific studies” which you claim prove that all black men have an overload of testosterone. You then proceed to deduce from this that monogymy is unnatural for these insatiable brutes, further asserting that courtship is a white amenity and that black people are simply imitating Whites when they go through this formality because their true nature is to dispense with any romantic ritual and get right to the business of fuckin’. You add that sympa…

New York Times Fade to White By ISHMAEL REED Published: February 4, 2010 The blacks who are enraged by “Precious” have probably figured out that this film wasn’t meant for them. It was the enthusiastic response from white audiences and critics that culminated in the film being nominated for six Oscars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an outfit whose 43 governors are all white and whose membership in terms of diversity is about 40 years behind Mississippi. In fact, the director, Lee Daniels,said that the honor would bring even more “middle-class white Americans” to his film. Ishmael Reed on AALBC.com http://aalbc.com/authors/ishmael.htm

The video below is a 1 minute clip from a 2017 documentary, Age of Uncertainty - Time, Cosmology, Quantum Physics and Philosophy. I threw in the religion, for religion save the dogmas is philosophical in nature and is related to the issues raised in our recent conversations, The New Religion and Knowledge vs Science.

Has anyone here heard of this black male who makes it clear that he believes black women - specifically darkskinned ones - are violent, hair hatted ghetto hooligans? I have to admit...some things he says about them is VERY true. Seems like A LOT of them keep an attitude, are bitter, bald and barbaric as hell.

Why do we defend our convictions. When We haven't tested them, in addition some assumptions are not possible to verify.

I'm in mourning for the demise of all the provocative observations from regular members that were posted after January 11th, and were deleted along with the spam that attached itself to them. I guess white racists have to be ever vigilant in reminding Blacks how much contempt they hold for them. I can't imagine black people making a project out of going to a white site and saturating it with hate. We find better things to waste our time on.