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I think that we would have another 911 attack given his hatred against Muslims.We would have some kind of war because he seems to like nuclear weapons and encourages some countries to build them.We wouldn't be able to use our freedom of speech rights because he told Chief Justice Gingrich to resign for exercising her freedom of speech rights.We probably will have another Civil War with Mexico like the Alamo years ago in Texas.I learned a lot at the DNC Convention.I know Donald Trump was a "pig" but I didn't know he was that greedy that he wouldn't pay his workers.Now he's crying about people telling lies on him.On top of being stupid, ignorant and arrogant, he's too weak …

Our parents were being born into this world a little more than 50 years ago. They were the children of Black Americans born three generations after the abolishment of slavery. But thanks to governmental acceptance of the institution of segregation, they remained second class citizens. Being second class citizens, they did not have access to the best schools and were ineligible for many good paying jobs. Our grandparents refused to allow this form of segregation to remain in place and demanded change. They made a choice to fight for this change by any means neccessary. This choice cost some people their lives and others their freedom. While fighting for these rights, our g…

I attended the Mississippi Book Festival this past Saturday. It was held in Jackson, MS. Like most cities in the deep south it is a series of profound contradictions. You'll find both moving testaments to civil rights and blatant signs of racism and its legacy. The book fair had a terrific line up of authors: I got so see Charles Frazier, Rick Bragg, and Jon Meacham just to name a few. There were quite a few Black authors of note as well including Jabari Asim, Janet Dewart Bell, Don Tate, Angie Thomas, Nicola Yoon, Quvenzhané Wallis, and many more. The organizers of the festival commissioned the creation of a street marker dedicated to Ward's w…

Mellody Hobson, the 53-year-old co-CEO and president of Ariel Investments, is believed to be the first Black woman to be publicly identified as part of an original ownership group purchasing an NFL team. Here's what Broncos Quarterback Russell Smith had to say about Hobson and the $4.6 Billion historic purchase.

SHOULD SINGER RHIANNON BE SINGING WITH CHRIS BROWN AFTER HE BEAT HER UP IN 2009.CHRIS BROWN GUILTY OF FELONY ASSAULT.SHE COULD SING WITH SOMEONE ELSE, NOT A MAN WHO BEAT HER....WHITNEY HOUSTON'S EX, BOBBY BROWN WANTS TO WRITE A BOOK ON HIS MARRIAGE TO WHITNEY, NEWS SAYS HE WANTS TO CASH IN ON WHITNEY....WHY.IN GEORGIA BLACK MEN WERE ARRESTED ON PROSTITUTION CHARGES.BLACK PIMPS ARRESTED AT A DAYS IN HOTEL IN RINCON GEORGIA....BLACK CHILDREN MISSING IN GEORGIA.IS THE NAACP,BLACK CHURCH,BLACK POLITICIANS LOOKING/NO/////

Help me out here. Nobody has yet to explain to my satisfaction why Democrats should stand on ceremony and stick with a faltering old fart like Joe Biden because when he was at the top of his game, um - he did some good things. Never mind that he is now feeble and in mental decline, - and not polling well! Ignore that Independents and young people are lukewarm about him. Just humor his obstinacy and don't rock the boat. Prop him up, and let him have his way because, well, he is the president and apparently of the same opinion as his opponent when it comes to a president being entitled to special privileges. And above all, continue to wallow in denial and cling to false h…

I've been watching the media coverage of the SUV driver vs Bikers incident and it seems that the media is going out of their way to make sure the public knows that the bikers were Black and Afro-Latino. First of all, I don't understand why in a society where people are PRESUMED innocent before being proven guilty in a court of law....why the media is allowed to post people's faces and names on television, in news papers, and on the computer even before they've offcially been charged and tried. It certainly is unethical but it should be illegal. But there have been hundreds of instances of road-rage in America and I'm sure dozens have happened since this one..... …

PREACHER BURLESON IS IN PRISON WITH HIS SON AND GIRLFRIEND FOR KILLING HIS WIFE..PREACHER TRACY BURLESON PAID HIS SON TO KILL HIS WIFE.. GIRLFRIEND HELPED GET RID OF THE GUN. I THINK SHE WAS HAVING SEX WITH THE PREACHER AND HIS SON,.PREACHER BURLESON WAS CAUGHT HAVING SEX WITH A WOMAN IN THE CHURCH, HIS WIFE CAUGHT HIM,,THE CHURCH KNEW HE WAS A ADULTEROUS AND A THIEF ,YET HE WAS STILL THE PREACHER,WHY, CHURCH BURNED DOWM,THEY THINK HE DID IT....WHAT DEFINES RELIGION TO BLACK CHURCH GOERS,//. SEE JESSE JACKSON IS BEHIND IN CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS..////THESE PREACHERS ARE NOT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING,THAT IS TOLERATED..CLARENCE THOMAS IS HATED BECAUSE HE IS…

The Trump election was indeed about color—green. Perhaps now people will see this election wasn't about race. This election, like all of the others, was about power and money. Wealth inequality will continue to grow. The Trumps of the country will get richer and we'll all get an upgraded iPhones that we struggle to pay for driving for Uber, delivering groceries for Google or delivering books for Amazon, in this exploitative "gig" economy. Now that Trump is dissing his own supporters by appointing more Goldman Sachs bazillionaires. Trump even hired that guy, Steve Mnuchin, who stole homes from elderly people who took out reverse mortgages (I didn't even know you…

"Hopes and prayers." Get ready, folks. You're gonna hear this tired and oft-used phrase many times in coming days. Some idiot in Texas just allegedly murdered 14 grade school children and a teacher in Uvalde, Texas, This is an elementary school. And I guarantee the dummies on the Right Wing of politics will defend the ownership of guns. Some of those folks will also be in this discussion group. The suspect, a student at a high school in the same Texas town, allegedly shot his grandmother to death before the school shooting. Again, I will not post a link since this an evolving news story and I am certain that whole bunch of more before we reach the…

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…

I've given up. When it comes to the upcoming presidential election, let the chips fall where they may. Not only is the country divided, but so is the Democratic party. Die hard Biden supporters are holding steady, siding with the DNC and Biden's campaign committee members who seem to be viewing the president through a different set of lenses."Forget the polls", they scoff. "Biden will redeem himself." Yeah, right, all they need is a miracle to turn things around. Ol Joe will snap out of it, manage to finish a sentence and Democrats will be back in business! Seems to me. Biden is stubbornly putting himself before his country. The black vote is also fragmented …

From last week's Wall Street Journal (@Pioneer1 I guess this is more proof of the superiority of white people huh 😉) Black Americans are dying of Covid-19 at a higher rate than whites. Socioeconomic factors such as gaps in access last week's Wall Street Journato health care no doubt play a role. But another possible factor has been largely overlooked: vitamin D deficiency that weakens the immune system. ... Vitamin D supplementation in African-Americans reduced cancer risk 23%. How? Cancer cells develop regularly in most animals, including humans, as the result of toxic injuries or glitches in DNA replication, but a healthy immune system destroys the…

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Watch the trailer for Shahadah's new film, Motherland. And get an earful of this song from the soundtrack, "Come Into The Sunshine," by Shahadah's band, Ocacia. I don't know who that woman is, but what a voice! The documentary features commentary by a host of prominent Africans and Americans, including Jacob Zuma, Meles Zenawi, Molefi Kete Asante, and Harry Belafonte. According to Wikipedia, Shahadah filmed an interview with Desmond Tutu but edited out the remarks of the Nobel Peace Prize winner after Tutu said President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe should be forced out of office if he won't leave. Don't know if I trust Wikipedia on that one -- Tutu said that 15 m…

When I study Cuba, Venuzula, China and other nations ran by strong central governments and how organized they are as opposed to most other third world nations who try to adopt Western style Democracy............ When I look at places like Iraq and Libya that were ran by strong men or dictators who kept order in society and how things deteriorated after these dictators were taken out of power...... And the more I look at the sad economic, social, and moral situation so many AfroAmericans find themselves in in a so-called "free" society...... The more I wonder is Democracy the best form of government for US as AfroAmericans. This may sound outrageous but I actua…

This is picking up on the Roots conversation started by Harry which segued into a conversation about Race. I still don't think remaking Roots was necessary given, as we've discussed the great many other stories which have yet to make it to the screen. It is curious The Atlantic failed to mention the fact the Alex's story was largely fictional, as if this does not matter. When Roots broadcast it was presented as truth. (@Sara, do you think Haley would have paid over $500,000, in an out of court settlement, for plagiarizing a single paragraph?) The Atlantic did mention Nate Parker’s record-breaking Birth of a Nation. I heard something about a film being…

The following was a message I posted in another thread: https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/4759-“we-must-patronize-black-owned-websites-or-lose-them”/ I didn't want to hijack the original topic of the thread so I decided to turn most of my response into a thread in and of itself and hopefully initiate discussion. Del What's wrong with giving AfroAmerican women compliments? I thought the entire purpose of AfroAmericans networking with eachother was to strengthen our community and love eachother. Sexuality is an EXPRESSION of Black love. The work that Troy put in and my complimenting these women don't contradict eachother in any way, they are two dif…

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Oscar Grant's Shooting was recorded by witnesses and uploaded to Youtube: Grants story was captured in the new film Fruitvale Station, which we reviewed. What I don't understand is why I had never heard this story until I learned about this film. I did a search of Oscar Grants name on this website and there was nothing (other the information about this film) which is unusual -- especially back then -- because we usually hit on most of the topics of the day. This story, unlike Travon's was captured on film and has tons of eye witnesses. The shooting was inexplicable. The police officer who served just two years in prison say he was confuse…

Have you seen this "documentary"? I am curious as to whether I am the only one in this world, besides Kam Williams, who questions the authenticity of this highly exploitative "documentary".

There will be a presidential debate tomorrow night (June 27th) at 9 pm on CNN. The debate will be between POTUS Joe Biden and former POTUS Donald Trump. Unfortunately, no other POTUS candidates will be onstage including Cornel West and Robert Kennedy Jr. The debate could be similar to 2020 if the geriatric candidates take whatever medication enhances their cognitive abilities. POTUS PJB seems to forget and freeze. Former POTUS Orange Julius has memory lapses and supposedly has a body odor. It's unfortunate that voters have to hold their noses when voting for either of these Rock em Sock em robots in November. …

Greetings. The idea that people who are homosexual and wish to be married should be able to do so and have this marriage recognized in all aspects is becoming increasingly popular. Perceptions of gender/roles are changing rapidly, as are families and society in general in response to these changes in perceptions. (From Michel Martin's "Tell me More" show on npr.) When people debate gay marriage, some argue that it could lead to legalized polygamy. Host Michel Martin asks how, and if it would even matter. She speaks with Austin Nimocks of the Alliance Defense Fund and Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution. http://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/154064922/would-…

It seems Justice Thomas fell a bit under the weather: https://apnews.com/article/clarence-thomas-hospitalization-what-we-know-21418c400b3535036029c251d6d7a17b Justice Thomas has since been released. He can get back to his coloring books on the bench. 😁😎

While I have begun commercial ventures in Africa, which had been hampered by difficulty in funds transfers platform, I am glad to see more efforts to show modern Africa https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGsp5hAlX0e/?igshid=ud7fmasgfzgu

This comment was placed on one of the sites pages, where room is left for comments. Normally I just flag these comments as spam, delete them and keep it moving. The poster also has a "Low Reputation" on Disqus (the commenting software I use throughout the website). They also used a restricted word "smegma." I see nothing wrong with the word, but apparently Disqus see it as a flag for spammers and the like. I started to read the article but I stopped once I got the line in all caps that says, "THE BIBLE IS SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE." Why do some religious folks have to insist that the Bible is scientifically accurate. This is absurd on it's face. However just …

In reality, the "New Year" shouldn't begin in January...but sometime in March or April. On January 1st, Winter is just getting started and a lot of animals are hibernating and plant life is dying. How the hell is that a "new year"??? Around the end of March is when things start to thaw out, RENEW, and REJUVENATE, and the land turns green again. That's when the "new" year should start, in my opinion. But all it takes is some slim White man in a top hat and a cane to TELL you "Happy New Year"....and you're half drunk spilling drinks all over the damn place celebrating. 🤨Some of yall will let these White folks trick you into going along with…

LAST FRIDAY MY GPS LED ME TO A CORNFIELD! Are the Magnetic Poles Shifting? Last Friday, I was on my way to attend a funeral service and so, I used my GPS to locate the church. The destination was only about a fifteen-minute drive from my relative’s home. I had never had any problem prior to this day when I used my GPS to navigate in this area. But since I had never been to this church and wanted to arrive on time, I used my GPS as a safeguard. However, it led me in a ‘wild goose chase’ so-to-speak’. After driving for about ten minutes on one road, then I was signaled to make a left turn at a turnabout and then after one mile, the GPS signaled for me to make a…

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Trumps. Terrorist. Mob. Attacks,,Capitol. Building. ,A. White. Police ,Officer. Screams In. Pain. As. Trumps. Terrorist. Mob. Crushes. Him.-He. Survived. The. Attack. Another. White. Police. Officer. Died. As,Racist. White. Police. Attack. Unarmed. Black. People..White ,Police Watch. The. White. Terrorist. Attack. That. Killed. A. White,Police. Officer. Some. News. Talkers. Not. Calling. It ,Domestic. Terrorist..News. Ask. How. This. Happen. Where. Were,The,Police. National. Guard? Tv. News. Will. Not. Talk. About,,Neo. Nazi. In. The. Military. ,Coast. Guard. ,National. Guard,In,Police. Uniforms. White. Police. Have. Been. Fired. The. ,Past. 12- Years. For. Being K…

This is going on right now. Today. I was reading in The Black Count by Tom Reiss about how Blacks in Africa sold other Blacks and how in the Caribbean Free Blacks helped capture Black Slaves and put down slave rebellion. My questions are “Will there be an effort to reconcile these issues in the quest for reparations?” And “What are Blacks in America do to stop the current Slavery which is going on?”

... 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.

Wait a minute! "Whachoo talkin' bout Pioneer????" "I thought you said it was better for TRUMP to be President!" "Now don't sit up there and lie about what you said!!!!!!" "For the past few months you've been running around saying that you don't support Trump but you support him being in office and how him being in office is good and was going to lead to a glorious future for AfroAmericans." "So why are you contradicting yourself NOW talking about how glad and wonderful it is that Biden is President?????" I didn't say that it's wonderful that Biden IS the President, I said it was wonderful that he was ELECT…

Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote. So her entrenched constituency came through for her. Her problem was that she didn't make any converts. Apparently, the "undecided" voters ended up going for Donald Trump because they were fed up with the Black lives matter movement, with the LGBT community, with Plannned Parenthood, with Mexican Immigrants, with the Muslim presence, with Native American protests, with the assumption that celebrities would influence how they voted, and last but no least, with the idea of Hillary Clinton perpetuating the liberal agenda that Barak Obama represented. Opposing all of this is what they truly believed would make America great again. Thi…

I will share information concerning the first peoples in the usa and biden's actions, but I must first speak. Apologies are useless. Apologies can not repair any damage in the past. I have never liked or I have always opposed apologies. Clinton couldn't undo the damage from whites through acts of enslavement to the Black Descended of Enslaved populace in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it and Biden can't undo the damage from whites through acts of genocide to the First Human populace in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it. The sadness is that, a large percentage, not all, First Peoples in the usa or Black DOSers in the usa in the…

It's strange how illegal Latino immigrants get "emergency housing" in hotels and college dorms, but Black immigrants have to literally sleep and beg on the streets of New York. Not even a damn shelter or tent being built for them.

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Came across a link relating the akashic records to the bible's Book of Life. Any thoughts?

If the Democrats want to win...Biden has gotta go. He needs to drop out the race or they need to invoke the 25th Amendment and get him out. And they don't have too much time to do it. As for his replacement........ Harris is a MAYBE but I'm not sure if she is trusted enough to gain the popular support needed to defeat Trump. Michelle Obama....on the other hand...does. I think she's more trustworthy, less likely to play games with the GOP, and on top of that is SLEEPING WITH one of the best political advisor you could offer....lol. The cherry on top is that she's an FBA sista from the hood of Chicago. Unlike her husband or Kamala, sh…

WHAT IF ZIMMERMAN GOES FREE FOR DELIBERATELY KILLING TRAYVON MARTIN////WHITE PEOPLE SUPORT ZIMMERMAN WOULD SHOOT HIM DOWN IF HE WAS WALKING IN ALL WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS////NEWS WEBSITE SOME EXPERTS ,BELIEVE ZIMMERMAN/ARE THE EXPERTS LISTENING TO THE TAPE, POLICE PERSON TELLING ZIMMERMAN TO STOP FOLLOWING TRAYVON MARTIN/ZIMMERMAN GETS OUT WITH A LOADED GUN POINTING AT TRAYVON MARTIN///ZIMMERMAN WAS GOING TO KILL A BLACK MALE//BLACK REPUBLICANS THINK TRAYVON MARTIN DESERVE TO BE KILLED/WONDER WHAT DR. BEN CARSON THINKS//I THINK DR. CARSON HAS 2 SONS///

1926, BLACK HISTORY MONTH WAS CREATED BY CARTER G. WOODSON...TO OBSERVE IMPORTANT BLACK PEOPLE AND EVENTS...IF THE SPIRITS OF THOSE PEOPLE CAN SEE HOW THINGS HAVE GOTTEN, THEY WOULD AMAZE./AMAED THERE IS A BLACK PRESIDENT BUT THAT IS IT...DR. KING ,FEW BLACK PREACHERS ARE LIKE HIM OR MALCOLM X....BLACK CHILDREN LEARNING ABOUT BLACK HISTORY ,THEY CAN BARELY GET TO SCHOOL WITH OUT BEING SHOT BY STREET GANGS..THE CHURCH, BLACK PREACHERS HAVE BLACK PEOPLE SPIRITUALLY CONFINED..FOR PROFIT, THERE IS NO BIBLE PROOF GOD OR CHRIST IS WHITE , BLACK PREACHERS SAY IT FOR MONEY......BLACK YOUNG CAN HEAR ABOUT BLACK INVENTORS, SCIENTIST,ASTRONAUTS,WAR SOLDIERS…

In another thread Mzuri wrote: Part of a larger discussion about so much of the workforce is now working from home instead of in an office or building in a more professional setting. Many see this becoming the "new normal" for the U.S. workforce and my initial reaction to this was one of disdain. My response was: Besides this worker-employer relationship being so informal, ghetto, and unprofessional....at the end of the day CORPORATE is the benefactor because they no longer have to provide office space or stationary for their employees and can save BILLIONS of dollars.But how much do the employees get out of this deal? But after thinking about it …

************************************************************************************ ICYMI, this is in the news today: U.S. Ramps Up Plan to Expel Haitian Migrants Gathered in Texas I live on the U.S./Mexico border so I'm not thrilled about what is going on with unknown people coming here from who knows where being shipped all over the nation, with many of them remaining in my local area. One of the reasons I don't like it is because of the criminal elements, there's enough crime already going on here without importing more people who are in survival mode, who don't have any other option than to resort…

My personal experience with the world wide web mirrors exactly what Rushkoff is saying in this video. If good to hear that he is hopeful about the long term prospects for the web, for the the same reasons that I am. This video and the commentary below is from the Big Think website. “It's harder for most people to making a living now than it was before the rise of online businesses like Facebook and Amazon. That's because the digital economy is hurting the real economy, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Competition is increasingly fierce in just about every industry, and digital technologies have allowed companies to pursue monopolies like never before — because …

I am finding opposition from people. They believe their way is correct and mine is not. Yet I get better results oh well its good preparation

What he said! Crystal

I recently was made aware of an interview of an up and coming rapper named Jidenna (half Caucasian and half African) and he was pretty well spoken on a number of subjects including religion, sexuality, and the state of African peoples world wide. During the first part of the interview he pretty much sums up my position on how vulgar a lot of females are portrayed in today's rap culture but his commentary on other subjects were equally as interesting. I didn't agree with them all, but I found it a bit refreshing to hear young rappers articulate their opinions about society with a degree of intelligence.

Using utilitarianism theory to justify your answer, respond to the question: Is the Black Lives Matter organization moral?

Now when @Pioneer1 and I said the things this sister is saying in the book. We were excoriated as being mansplainers and clueless about Black beauty and women's hair. So I learned to just keep my mouth shut on the subject. I did not know that Beyonce was also known as the "Queen of the Weave." Again, if a Brother said that he'd be dismissed as a sexist misogynist 😉 At any rate, I discovered this sister, Emma Dabiri ,through a book she has coming out next month, Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture. Sure, the subject matter is well trod, and I'd be surprised of there are any revelations for Black women over 10, but it ma…