Culture, Race & Economy

Actually YOUR stance on "race" is illogical. Knowing that race is a CATEGORY, logically speaking there MUST be more than one option. So for you to take the position that there is only ONE race....the human race. Is like saying that there is only ONE flavor of soda pop....the "soda pop" flavor. See my point? To say there is only ONE race....the human race....would be like claiming the words "race" and "human" are almost synonymous.

Post a question and I will attempt to answer it using astrology. However no psychic spying.

NEWS, SEVERAL WOMEN CLAIM BILL COSBY EITHER FORCED HIMSELF ON THEM OR RAPED THEM/.SAW ON THE NEWS WHITE MAN SAID BILL COSBY PAID WOMEN//WHY DOES BILL COSBY NOT SPEAK ON THIS//ALL THE WOMEN SEEM TO BE WHITE/WHY//FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK,MORON IDIOT RUDY GUILANNI ,SAID IF THE GRAND JURY FINDS THE POLICE NOT GUILTY FOR KILLING MICHAEL BROWN,BECAUSE THERE FEAR THEY WILL BE RIOTS ALL OVER AMERICA/NOT JUST IN FERGURSON,MISSOURI//RUDY GUILANNI ,LIKE MOST WHITE POLITICIANS ARE RACIST,PRO WHITE AND SUPPORTING RACIST WHITE POLICE//////THINK I READ SAW FORMER WASHINGTON DC MAYOR MARION BARRY DIED//…

What is culture and cultural traditions that are unique to Africans (ascendant) in America? I hear some folks complain about cultural appropriation. But I’m not sure what we consider cultural isn’t actually assimilation. Without researching, I can think of a few things that are uniquely African American 1) buck dancing 2) gospel singing with 4 part harmony (the quartets) 3) drumming (djembe drums) 3) jazz music composition 4) scat / Rap / hip hop 5) trimming hair on the first friday of the new moon...observing & worshipping nature in general 6) seasoning foods with herbs and animal fats, 7) …

Well, Troy, you asked me whether it was easier to raise kids 60 years ago than it is now, and - you know what happens when you pose a question to me… Back then, kids were kids. Having a baby was just a routine part of life. You got married in your early twenties and in a couple of years started a family. Children were kept in perspective. You had em, you raised em and tried to teach em right from wrong. You often made sacrifices for them. If they were ambitious enough to want to go to college, you got a second job and sent them off to an institution of higher learning. You might have even exhausted your bank account to give your daughter a big wedding. Then, you c…

ON TV,SCIENTIST WERE TALKING.DID GOD CREATE THE HEAVENS AND EARTH OR WAS IT THE BIG BANG THEORY.THE BIG BANG THEORY, THE UNIVERSE APPEARED FROM NOWHERE BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO...GENESIS 1. 1-25.GOD SAID LET US MAKE MANKIND IN OUR IMAGE SO HE MAY RULE OVER THE FISH, BIRDS, LIVESTOCK AND WILD ANIMALS, -MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH, DINOSAURS WERE NOT ON NOAH'S ARK,DESCENDANTS OF DINOSAURS BIRDS AND CROCODILES WERE THEY, ON THE ARK/ -HOW,GOD CREATE THE ANIMALS BIRDS AND CROCODILES,ALLIGATORS,,WHEN DID DINOSAURS APPEAR,SCIENTIST MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO..THERE ARE INCLUDING ANIMALS,,THOSE VERTEBRATE,INVERTEBRATE,PLANTS AND OTHERS ,…

I heard about this social media stupidity on the radio. F*uk the academy awards. See this Instagram video by @kevinhart4real

I was in Atlanta over the weekend, in the running for the “Literary Activist of the Year” Award. The awards ceremony was actually part of an entire weekend of events hosted by AAMBC (African Americans on the Move Book Club). I attended one of the events, a panel discussion billed as the following: “Meet relationship experts Terry Deron, Jevon Dewand, Gregory Alan Williams, and Stephan Labossiere and others in a conversational piece moderated by Rolling Out journalist Christal Jordan.” The Brothers on the panel were all good looking, very articulate, and successful. Two were former professional athletes, one was an author and artist, and the other was an actor.…

Should we put R Kelly on mute? Is the artist separate from their art? Do celebrated people have a responsibility to their fans? Is the lack of societal bonds creating the need for role models? Should we have a quesadilla or a burrito?

Or can you tell when you are wrong before experience shows you the truth?

Dr. Umar Johnson chopping it up with a successful young brother and scolding him over smoking weed.... I find it interesting that Umar Johnson smoked an entire joint and nothing happened. I find this interesting because I've had a few similar experiences myself and it one of the reasons I DON'T smoke weed. I've tried weed a few times in highschool and a few more times in my 20s.....once in my 30s...and left it alone. On each occasion (except one where I believe the weed was laced) absolutely nothing happened. I got the same effect as smoking a cigarette. And what I really found interesting was that I was told on multiple occasions …

Brother frankster, in another thread you mentioned the "Watchers": Would you like to know the TRUTH about who these Watchers actually were? They were BLACK MEN....soldiers stationed to the area of and around the Caucasus Mountain range and the Black Sea. They were assigned to keep the Caucasians from escaping and coming back into our civilizations. Some of them saw the Caucasian women as attractive and had sex with them producing mixed offspring. This is where you get the "sons of god mixing with the daughters of man" in Genesis btw.... You'll find that the Book of Enoch....like most so-called "scriptures" that pass throu…

Does MartinLuther King's extramarital affairs with both men and women have any bearing on his legacy.

“There is no such thing as a race.” —Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Author, Historian, Educator @Pioneer1 and anyone else who might reject the so-called "white man's science" and continue hold on to the concept of race. Perhaps you will consider the words of Dr. Clarke.

Were our black women always this damn violent? Its really getting out of control and makes black women look very bad. Black women not only commit violent assaults but also murder and armed robbery MUCH MORE than any other race. Again, this is fact. One just needs to look at recent video footage and news articles, its absolutely insane. Black women are angry, scary, and vicious. Its the black culture and lack of family values, structure, and poor impulse contol.

*Well now, isn’t this interesting. It seems as though Rainbow Push Coalition founder and former Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson is in the hot seat. Karin Stanford, who was Jackson’s mistress and fathered a child with the civil rights leader, is slapping Jackson with court papers claiming that the former Democratic presidential candidate owes $11,64.50 in child support for their 12-year-old daughter Ashley. The National Enquirer exposed the long-term extramarital affair in an exclusive in January 2001. Jackson, who is still married to his wife, Jackie, admitted paternity. He paid court-ordered support and regularly visited Ashley in Stockton, Calif.…

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The Hidden Colors: The Untold History of Aboriginal, Moor & African Descent Hidden Colors is a documentary about the real and untold history of people of color around the globe. This film discusses some of the reasons the contributions of African and aboriginal people have been left out of the pages of history. Traveling around the country, the film features scholars, historians, and social commentators who uncovered such amazing facts about things such as: *The original image of Christ *The true story about the Moors *The original people of Asia *The great west African empires *The presence of Africans in America before Columbus *The real reason slavery was e…

She is Black and 1/16th Indian (from her great great grandpa), and refers to herself as "Blindian". Would you consider her mixed race?

@Pioneer1 and @Kalexander2 has been going at it pretty regularly for a few months now. I was just wondering what others (lurkers please chime in) thought about it. Is it entertaining, destructive, boring, an shame, funny, sad, or something else? I'm really very curious to read what others think. Battles like this are not uncommon indeed when there were more participants they were more frequent, though not as usually as protracted. The last ongoing battle was between Cynique and another poster. I maintained a hands off approach until the other poster wrote something that was really beyond the pale (at least in my book), so I deleted the offending post. The …

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Interesting message I saw recently from Dr. Ray Hagins a former pastor on why the Bible can not be the word of God The content where he offers his evidence really begins at the 43 minute mark for those who have time and want to hear the message: Much of what he said I already know, but maybe some of you may be more interested in hearing it and deciding for yourself.

Editor's Note: This conversation is being continued here because it was a dramatic digression from the subject where it picked up, "Another Controversial Time Magazine or Can Black Women Catch a Break" Del, the definition of what you wrote about my response was "dismissive." Why do you get away with being dismissive? Del you understand is statistics, no one has disputed it all called that into question, what I've called into question is your knowledge about climate, a subject you have neither asserted or demonstrated, detailed knowledge of. Am I wrong about that? Statistics is a tool, like a hammer, nothing more. Understanding how to use a hammer does not …

@frankster I'm not sure why you would find the concept of "degrees of Blackness" so much more divisive. It's not like AfroAmerica hasn't ALREADY been divided since it's inception by degrees of Blackness. Most mixed and light skinned people have historically enjoyed privileges that the majority of our people weren't privy to, whether they asked for those privileges or not. In the past most mixed and light skinned people saw themselves not only as different than other AfroAmericans but in many ways BETTER than other AfroAmericans. Today this isn't so much the case AS MUCH as it was in the past...but it's still there in many circles. Infact, many AfroAmer…

I watched this film on Netflix last night (yeah I could have read a book but I was too lazy). It is also available on youtube (I've posted links below). I thought Zeitgeist was fascinating. I don't know how much of it was true, but much of it resonated with me: I could not understand, from day one, how the Twin Towers simply imploded in on themselves. The collapse of build 7 simply dd not make any sense. I already knew many of the well known stories from the Bible are at the same as much older stories, and religions. I don;t even want to get started on the financial system... I appreciate that I've shared a lot of information below. If it is too much you can a…

I recently came across an article on Reddit speaking on the traumas many black Americans face growing up. Many of the points the author made really resonated with me, the disparities in the black communist does a great deal of harm to all of us whether we know it or not. The most interesting part of the article to me was the idea that the majority don't see as human so they assume we commit crimes because we're just prone to it. But whites are seen as humans, because when they commit crimes they are seen as mentally ill. If there any thoughts about this article let me know, I think this is a problem that needs to be discussed in great detail. I haven't found to many other…

I never heard of Rachel Dolezal before this morning. Esther's message was at the top of my Facebook wall when I went in to check my messages a few moments ago, so this was difficult to ignore. As a practice, I try to ignore the stuff on my wall; (1) much of it is stuff like this, and (2) I'm on a mission to support indie sites with my online activity. But this message interested me because Esther mentioned "Black Twitter." Black Twitter is a phenomenon I don't quite understand... at any rate, my daughter a recent marketing grad, told me I should take advantage of Black Twitter for my website. I asked her to tell me what to do it for me because, from my observations, …

Though the opening credits have nothing to do (that is apparent) to the film, it is pretty cool to watch: Kam completely trashed the film, in an uncharacteristic fashion, in his review: …a boring vampire adventure that’s severely lacking in terms of tension, thrills, premise, storyline, special f/x, plausibility, production value, editing and character development… I had a renewed distain, after learning about the final product, for Spike use of the Kickstarter platform. It seems like the public was taken advantage of, or rather simply taken by this campaign. I blogged about it.

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In another conversation @Pioneer1 shared the following: For those who think that's ridiculous..... Look at what happened to brown skinned Native Americans: Native Americans of the 1800s "Native Americans" today. Pioneer's comment struck me, because I have noticed this too. Just a couple of days ago I watched a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, Battle of Little Big Horn. I visited the site of the battle, for I find what as happen to the indigenous peoples of America incredibly appalling. Interestingly, the "Native Americans" speaking in the documentary all presented as white. Not one looked like the Nativ…

Baby Girl got her father shook! We know who Emily is bringing home for dinner once she's old enough. And what she saw is exactly what the rest of the world sees - and FEARS. So, let's flip the script here and recognize the power of the Black man. When a Black man speaks, everyone listens. I don't even know if we're aware of it. But I saw three women, powerhouses in publishing, all shut up when Troy, the only black person on the WSJ panel, started speaking. Image consultant and multimillionaire Kevin Samuels passed away last month and is still trending on Twitter. Women will take to the…

EMPIRE IS THIS ABOUT GANGSTER RAP MUSIC, PIMPS,PROSTITUTION,COCAINE , GLAMORIZING DESTRUCTION AND SELF DESTRUCTION IN BLACK COMMUNITY//BLACK MAN IN THE MUSIC BUISNESS WITH SONS/ARE THEY COLLEGE BLACK MEN,OR CRIMINALS/BLACK MEN PORTRAYED ON THE NEWS, THUGS, GANGSTERS, BILL COSBY , SERIAL SEX ADDICT, BLACK MEN NOT FATHERS, HAVING CHILDEN NOT CARING ABOUT/YEARS AGO I READ ON AFROAMERICA AFRO AMERICA WEBSITE, THE WAYANS, THE COMEDY FAMILY,THE WAYANS WERE TRYING TO HAVE TEE SHIRT BUSINESS, THE TEE SHIRT, MY NIGGAZ TEE SHIRTS, AFRO AMERICA CALLED THE WAYANS ABOUT THE TEE SHIRTS,AFRO AMERICA SAID…

Here is a 60 second trailer from a much longer video I shot of Michael Eric Dyson critiquing President Obama, during the National Black Writers Conference a few days ago. It has been interesting to observe Michael move to essentially the same position Cornel West took several years ago, a position that Dyson himself beat Dr. West up over publically.

Hi AALBC fam! I was watching this video on YouTube, Comedian Shuler King and Pharaoh Head Part 2. And while I was listening to him drop knowledge, I thought about how much I missed this forum. It is funny how you can go through life and acquire a bunch of skills, knowledge, and still not know how to use them until you add LOVE. I feel like that sometimes, like I ask What's the point? Then, I remembered whenever I lost my balance, my family would fill me up with love, give me that pick-me-up, and I would get energized. But it hit me, there was still something missing. It was the part I felt while listening to Shuler. I remembered when I'd come right back here, get into s…

I just sat down to look at some youtube videos before calling it a night. I generally watch Youtube video on a regular TV. I usually search for subjects that interest me. I started to watch an Inconvenient Truth but after a few minutes I grew bored... I decided to see what was trending on youtube (something I almost never do), the #9 video was the one shown below . This video was watched over 8 million since in the last two days. That is 8 times more than the number of view all of my videos have received in the last decade! I watched at least 1/2 of the video. I doubt anyone would confuse the music with being great, but after watching the video …

“Barack Obama Didn’t Do a Darn Thing For Black People.” —Dr. Claud Anderson Cornel West expressed this sentiment throughout Obama’s Presidency despite aggressively campaigning for Obama. Black folks vilified West for his unrelenting critique of Obama. I wonder how history will record Obama's presidency vis-a-vis Black Americans. You can watch the complete interview here.

Made it! Today's my 92nd birthday. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. Such is life. 🤪

Now I don't think that a man like Minister Farrakhan spends time connecting with family and friends on Facebook. Nor do I think he needs, or desires Facebook, anymore than you or I. I just went to Facebook and still see plenty of Farrakhan related content, so I have know idea what Facebook's banning of Farrakhan really means. I read the NY Times account and it was not illuminating. Then it dawned on me! Facebook made this announcement in desperate move to garner attention and visitors to their site. Well it worked on me, 'cause I scrolled through Facebook site for the first time in the better part of a year. My overall reaction was that…

Russia, Ukraine, China and US debt are messing with the economic future of this technological planet? Spaceship Earth is a Mess! Believing in ideologies is nonsense. The people who claim to be Capitalists want the workers kept ignorant. Adam Smith: Download Wealth of Nations, it has been in the public domain, and free on the internet, since 2001. Search it for "and account", you will find multiple instances of "read, write and account". Why doesn't the right or the left advocate mandatory accounting/finance in the schools? Karl Marx: Search his major work for 'depreciation'. Marx mentioned depreciation of money and machiner…

Does this type of programming matter to you? Do you have any opinions on how if reflects on our culture in general and Black women in particular?

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ABC News "investigates" why Black Women can't find a Black Man to Marry This was the most popular conversation from the Legacy (old) discussion boards last week. (read the conversation)

But I couldn't get one of the 13 versions because I'm not a NY resident! But my daughter is, and she got the "Hard Knock Life" card pictured below. I did get an eyeful of this beautiful "Book of HOV" two-story, 8-section exhibit. The exhibit has been extended twice and will end on December 4, 2023, coinciding with Jay-Z's birthday. The brilliance of the production lies in Jay-Z's storytelling ability. There will be no re-writing of his story. It is a fully interactive exhibit with artifacts, including signage from The Marcy Projects to a replica of the Baseline studio where Jay-Z recorded his multiplatinum albums. The beauty of this endeavor is that nothing stops…

http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/2010/1222-oprah-winfrey-extras.html I thought she was going to retire and move to Mars?

My White Jewish Girlfriend & the Supernatural In response to a statement a few weeks ago, I shared a past and personal experience that happened to me back in April of 1994. I explained that a week prior to this event, I told my husband that I was suddenly warned about a job termination and other detailed facts that did completely come to light. At that time, initially, my husband did not believe me but afterwards, he now describes my experience as supernatural. Now, because I want to clarify another point about the voice and message that I had heard on that day in that it was definitely not a what was described as a WATCHER, therefore I will share s…

Women with Their Own Naturally Abundant Type 4C Hair— Understanding True African Kinky Hair That Sister.com Did you know that not all Afro hair is the same? Depending on the look, feel and texture, there are various groups your hair can fall into. We as black women generally have what is called type 4 hair. This is kinky hair, rather than it being straight or with light curls. https://www.thatsister.com/what-are-4a-4b-and-4c-hair-types-answers-and-picture-examples-inside/ Okay, so as I touched upon this subject in another post in that, this …

Have you ever found yourself wondering why humans look different? Why some people may have eyes that appear to be slanted? Why some people may have light skin, blue eyes and blonde hair or why others may have dark skin, coarse or kinky hair and dark colored eyes. Well, the answer is called a mutation, which occurs in every generation when the sperm from a male fertilizes the egg of a female. Now mutations are not a bad thing, actually, they're a good thing because without them all humans would look the same. How boring would that be? This ground breaking documentary entitled The Myth of Race and the Evolution of Skin Color answers those questions by combining an…

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am i the only one who was sick to their stomach watching that DISGUSTINGLY obese "female", who played precious, sit there at the oscars, grinning from ear to ear? she should be ashamed of herself that she is SO dam fat, and unattractive. ofcourse everyne has to act like they don't see just how DANGEROUSLY unhealthy she really is, so they just shower her with "praise". oprah was on stage just glowing about how wonderful this 450 pound black girl is. very sad and pathetic. the girl is really unhealthy, and disgusting looking, but fake hollywood MUST shower the most pathetic types with this false praise. this girls family should be ashamed as sh…

JAY Z & the KALIEF BROWDER STORY I never keyed in on this story about Kalief Crowder until I began to research about Jay Z and Beyonce’s sacrifices in their bringing forth the Trayvon Martin Story. But, because this story about Kalief maybe regarded as ‘old news’ in this community and based on what has been aired, however, I would like to take a hard-right turn though and ask some questions and make some conclusions that may lead to solutions not yet considered in this case and the many other cases being reviewed in America on this same wise. In light of this story too, it seems that America would be a system that rewards bad beha…