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This is only the 2nd time I listened to 45 speak for more than 5 minutes. The other time was when he gave that press conference where his intern was assaulted. LOL If he is not thrown in jail first, I can easily see him winning, quite handily, in 2020. Man when he introduced those people he got out of jail, I almost forgot about the Central Park Five. Black unemployment the lowest in history -- wow! Stacey Abrams is gonna have he work cut out for her with the Democratic response.

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Since when did Conspiracy Theory become a "right wing" thing? For the past several years now and especially the past several months, the mainstream media has been conflating those who believe in conspiracies and those who question the "official" version of things with Trump Supporter and right-winger. It seems as if they are trying to make both camps synonymous. Even when it comes to the vax. They seem to be ignoring the millions of Blk people who are suspicious of the vax and suggest that the ONLY people who are rejecting it are Trump supporters. Minister Farrakhan and many others have warned Blk America about conspiracies for decades going back into the 60…

Cynique and Sara How about you two agree to a temporary cease in hostilities? Say...until the end of April? It appears both of you find SOME interests in each other's posts, but because of the ongoing feud you probably feel akward trying to give ask a legitimate question or respond to something the other might have said that you find interesting. So worried the other may see you as weak and caving in, you can't even make a serous observation without an insult to let them know it's still "on". "Hey, that sure is a pretty dress.....for an ugly bitch like YOU to be wearing" "Thanks ho.....yo daddy said yo fat ass mama didn't look good in it so he snatched it out…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/nypd-disperses-pro-palestinian-protest-columbia-university/index.html Hundreds of students at Columbia University are protesting the war in Gaza which they have a right to do. Yet, NYPD has been called today. The police have shown up up in riot gear and with buses ready to arrest the protestors. Israel is milking the October 7th Hamas attack against them. They are using that attack as justification to destroy Palestinians and claim Gaza. Apparently, Jews also have enough power to override free speech in the US. Terrorism laws are being used to arrest protestors supporting Israeli oppositio…

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

You run comparative statistics on posters from time to time. I just noticed the "profile views" count. How about ranking the top posters by profile views? Or better yet, by views per post. I checked a few of those ratios: Cynique gets an average of 15 profile views every time she posts; Thumper gets 50 to 1; and ABM gets 100. I have no idea what that means (in absolute numbers, Cynique has five times as many views as ABM), but I find that intriguing.

Biden recently nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson for the supreme court. Initially, I was proud that a black sister was finally nominated. But quickly I went from pride to disappointment when the cameras rolled over to her husband, Patrick G. Jackson, who so happens to be white. It did not help matters that Jackson stood on one side of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (also married to a white guy) was on the other. I know many are not in favor of being told who to love but this matter goes deeper than that. For some odd, unknown reason powerful black women are migrating to white men seemingly without regard for the message this send to a black brother. Secondly, there is the uns…

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Congressman And Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Said He Will Not Attend Trump Inauguration,Because Trump Is Not.A Legitiment ,President. . Fuhr Trump And The Racist Republicans Believe That President Obama Was Born In.Africa Not Hawaii,Birth Certificate Was Forged..John Lewis Who Was With Dr. Martin Luther King, Has No Problem With.All These False Prophets,In The Black Church. 3 Black Preachers In Prison.For Killing Their Wives,Preachers With Prostitutes,Children With Mistressses,Beat Their Wives,Worship Money,Buy Rich Cars And Houses,They Are A Disgrace To Dr. King. Maybe Kanye West Will Sing At Trump.Inauguration,He Loves Trump. Was That Steve Harvey Next To Trump On A New…

Hello, Recently I was invoved in a project sponsored by a group known as ACAM, an organization which invited authors to utilize its site to make monthly installments of their books available on a pay-as-you-go basis. This plan, while innovative, was plagued with the gliches and complications that made its implemation problematic. So, now, I have elected to withdraw from the ACAM experiment and, instead, take advantage of the exposure provided by this site. Thanks to the kind indulgence of AALBC’s founder, Troy Johnson, starting next Monday, I will be serializing my novella in a chapter-a-week format, right here on "Cynique’s Corner". Hope you'e curious e…

NEWS SAYS,NY WHITE POLICE CHOKE BLACK MAN TO DEATH....NOT SURSPRISED...IN FLORIDA WHITE POLICE PROUD MEMBERS OF THE KLAN....U.S. GOVERNMENT ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES HAVING TERRORIST IN THEIR GOVERNMENTS AND POLICE..THIS COUNTRY HAS NEO NAZI KLAN IN POLICE, MILITARY, U.S. GOVERNMENT POLITICIANS..BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE UNITY, WHITE POLICE ARE ALL NEO NAZI TOLD FROM HIGH UP TO ATTACK BLACK MALES/LEBRON JAMES AND MIAMI HEAT WORE HOODIES FOR TRAYVON MARTIN, IS HE CONCERNED ABOUT KLAN POLICE./NO, NOT UNTIL BLACK ENTERTAINERS AND ATHLETES ARE BEATEN UP AND KILLED …

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/29/not-how-you-talk-to-allies-danish-fm-tells-the-us-over-greenland Since day 1 of assuming office, the current administration has been talking about acquiring Greenland. Nevermind that Greenland is not up for sale. The inhabitants have not expressed a burning desire for their territory to become a part of the US. Greenland would rather remain sovereign or at least tucked in with Denmark. The question for the forum is 1) should Greenland should become a part of the US and 2) will it become a vacation destination.😁😎

Nothing surprises me anymore. Lunacy is rampant in the land! And when what constitutes blackness is juxtaposed with what constitutes craziness, there’s a common thread. In addition to all the bizarre occurrences daily reported by the media, I have never in my life encountered so many people who strike me as crazy as the ones I come across on the internet. When folks don't have to be accountable for their behavior because they can hide behind avatars and anonymity, their true selves emerge. And it ain't pretty. I find myself wondering that if one's behavior is sociopathic, is one a sociopath no matter what one's facade masks? Applying this question to race I ask if, as…

I don’t know what Ice Cube was thinking. Especially since he believed at one time Trump should be arrested for his war on the poor. Ice Cube’s lawyer called a lawyer who knows Jared Kushner and the meet was on. at Bedminster Country Club. Ice Cube was able to get Kushner to ask Trump to boost the “Platinum Plan” supposedly to raise $500 billion in capital for Black folks in the U.S. Of course, Kushner agreed to ask for an increase. The better to show Blacks remain divided and eager to turn on each other for some good media. All Ice Cube really did was give this racist and phony billionaire an excuse to silence critics for his four-year war against Blacks, Latinos, Wom…

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WOW Jare Ijalana ~ She’s Only 5 Years Old! Back in July, this news broke due to photos of this little girl from Nigeria. She’s been dubbed ‘the Most Beautiful Girl in the World’. A little girl from Nigeria named Jare Ijalana has earned the title of “The most beautiful girl in the world” after three of her pictures went viral on social media. The 5-year-old child was photographed by Mofe Bamuyiwa who revealed that she chose not to make Jare laugh or smile but instead wanted to create a natural moment…. https://www.blackpeopleforum.com/2018/07/26/jare-ijalana-nigerian-girl-5-is-called-the-most-be…

Yesterday. Racist. Terrorist. White. Man. Murdered. Black., People,At,A. Store. In. A. Black. Community. In. Buffalo. New York..,,Not. Surprised. They. Trying. To. Have. A. Race., War....This,Can. Happen. At. Any. Time. Racist. Mass. Shootings..,No. Black. Unity. Being. Organized. By. The. Church. ,NAACP,Black. Politicians. ..They. Want. A. White. Only. Country...,The, Black. Entertainers. ,Sports. Athletes. Think. They,Are. Safe. White. Terrorist. Cannot. Get. Them. Black. People., In. Poor. Communities. Or. The. Black. Rich. Are. Seen. By. The,,Racist. White. As. NIGGERS...Would. Not. Be. Surprised. If. The,Racist. White. Terrorist. Begun. Attacking. The. Black. Ric…

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I thought this would be interesting to revisit on a Black Book site since I wasn't here when the fall out occurred. **SOME** huge GAY fans of Kola Boof were greatly offended by something I did & it became a big article on WomanistMusings.Com. For my reading at the National Black Theater last year, I invited some of the so called "Drag Queens" who impersonate me (I think I'm the first author to have impersonators--which is why I'm supposedly a Diva according to my friend Dream Hampton). Anyway, the behavior of the "girls" and our comedy routine drew a huge and resounding criticism. Photo of the REAL KOLA BOOF posing with Tamarrah, my …

A BOOK CALLED SLAVE RELIGION,INVISIBLE INSTITUTION OF THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH/BOOK IS ABOUT THE FORCED TRANSFORMATION OF THE CAPTIVE AFRICAN PLANTATION SLAVES,THEIR AFRICAN RELIGION TO WHITE AMERICAN PLANTATION CHRISTIAN RELIGION//SLAVES COULD NOT WORSHIP WITHOUT WHITE SUPERVISION....THIS GOES ON AS I SPEAK///BLACK CHURCHES CONTROLLED BY ,CAMOUFLAGED, WHITE POLITICIANS AND CLOAKED WHITE CHRISTIANS.BLACK PREACHERS ARE PLANTATION OVERSEER'S....BLACK PEOPLE REMAIN SPIRITUALLY ENSLAVED......IF THEY REALLY READ THE BIBLE IT DOES NOT SAY GOD AND CHRIST IS WHITE.//////DO BLACK PREACHERS SPEAK OF AN…

The image above is from a screen grab of a video I saw on the New York Times website (I'm pretty sure). They wrote an article about the election on Tulsa's mayor, a white guy in his early 40's. The most striking thing is that mayor, on his second term, the 4th Mayor of Tulsa in his family going back to the late 19th century! There was at least one Black guy running against him, the Black community is not happy with how the local government is treating their Black citizens. What else is new this is America... But I digress... Pictured s what is left of Tulsa's famed Black Wall Street. There is a tee shirt shop in the middle of the block. I did not see any d…

Science VS https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs @Pioneer1 I recently discovered this podcast. Interestingly, they covered most of the subjects we discussed here including; race, vaccines, and climate change. You (everyone) should check this podcast out.

I know I'm getting old when I see something like this and think to myself, how silly can you be? If you don't like the job are wanna sell herb instead, just quit, like a professional--sheesh. I discovered this video on the News One website. Someone suggested to me that they are the most prominent sources of Black news on the web. I disagreed saying the it would be the Huffington Post. I'm not happy saying that, but that is my take. Plus I don't consider this particular story "news." Again, I get that it is starling, alarming and sensational. Indeed, I was even promoted to post it here. But if our most prominent new source has to broker in this type of n…

Poor movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, the serial molester who has supplanted Bill Cosby as the poster boy for horny ol lechers. Why am i not outraged by his being outed by all of the mostly white damsels in distress coming out of the wood work, making accusations My entrenched cynicism no doubt. Or maybe, i feel rejected because I could not add my name to the swelling ranks of the "me, too" sisterhood of sexually harassed females. More likely because the "casting couch" has been a long standing joke in the movie business, wherein ambitious young starlets anxious to advance their careers, submitted to the sexual overtures of powerful Hollywood tycoons. Now a…

@Troy this is Cynique. Apparently my new posts are being monitored for content and i am being blocked from stating a new topic for security measures. What's up wid dat??? Are you trying to tell me something?

Well, it finally came to pass. What folks being interviewed on the evening news lament about when describing whatever calamity they always figured happened to someone else had suddenly happened to them, has happened to me. .It all started on Memorial Day at a family cook-out. There I sat gnawing on a barbequed rib, licking my lips to savor the sauce when I was joined by my oldest granddaughter, the one I had christened my "golden girl" because she was so smart, accomplished, and pretty. A mischievous grin creased her face as she plopped down and promptly informed that she had something to tell me. Before I could wonder what, she made her 2-word announcemen…

Even though blacks and Southern "redneck" white have traditionally been arch enemies throughout American history, they may have more of a common cultural heritage than meets the eye. On Youtube, black conservative columnist Thomas Sowell posted a video called Where Does Current Black Culture Come From. I have a link below to the abridged version of the video. The unabridged version is about an hour long. If you have the time, it might be worth checking out. That video was really an eye-opener! Not too many people would suspect that the urban, gh…

Well, in a matter of hours, Donald Trump will officially become the next president of the Divided States of America and the head of a Republican regime that is about to take control of the country. What does the future hold? For one thing, forget about traditions and civility and fairness. It's a new day and none of the old rules will apply because the boorish, narcissist commander-in-chief makes his own rules. Those in control will simply do as they please and will not be held accountable because there is no defense when lies replace truth, thereby creating a new reality. Meanwhile, vindictiveness will vindicate the resentment of the political correctness harbored by t…

In the 1930’s, the Public Health Service—a US government entity working with the Tuskegee Institute—intentionally injected 399 African-Americans with syphilis. It goes without saying that they infected otherwise healthy African-American males with sexually transmitted diseases without their consent in the name of science. I would say this was a stain on the fabric of the American government, except this was not an outlier. Experimenting on US citizens is something that our government does as a norm. Fast-forward twenty years and the CIA developed a program that utilized LSD, yet again in the name of science. This time around, the US government used American and Canad…

The incoming POTUS will take credit for keeping the lights on at TIkTok. The CEO of TikTok will be attending pre-inauguration events too. In the meantime, TikTok parent company, ByteDance, is looking for $40-$50 billion dollars to sell it to an American company. I don't use the platform so buying into it is of no interest to me.😁😎

@ChevdoveHi. Did you watch the World Track and Field Finals on NBC tonight? Weren't the relays thrilling! Our girls really did their thing, taking first place. The first person I thought about was you, wondering if you were checking this out. 😃

With NYC Central Park Condos going for nearly $10 million, imagine how much Seneca Village would be worth today? Descendants of the Lyons family may know the dollar amount but they probably will never see a penny. I shared this NYT article from my account it should be open to read. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. A new sculpture will honor the Lyons family, black activists and property owners who once lived in Seneca Village, a community destroyed by the creation of the park. A double ambrotype portrait of Albro and Mary Joseph Lyons. The city is planning a monument depicting them,…

Not certain if I had posted tis before or not. It seems especially relevant both here and in your world. I have recently noticed a power dynamic. The dominant segment and the passive segment don't communicate as equals along the following lines. Wealth, Class, Race, Colour, and Sex, Northern location in the Northern Hemisphere. Southern Location in the Southern Hemisphere. This is the case in Northern, Central and South America, England, China, Australia New Zealand. Other parts of the world the dynamic. applies with fewer categories. But it applies subtlety. - Del S trachen

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…

Abby Phillip of CNN I don't know what formula they shook up and poured out to MAKE this sista........ But she's one of the most beautiful women on television. PERIOD. I.... I uhhh..... I wouldn't mind waking up and looking over at the sheeply shy brown face every morning for a FEW years, lol. "Yall like my hat?" She's been on CNN for a while, but they're really working Abby tonight. Every 30 minutes they have my sister on giving updates on the selection election.....lol.

There's no shortage of this story. The internet has blown up, as it should. In this brief video, Sonya Massey's handsome son, Malachi, is interviewed and he does and awesome job.

The Dozens. A Black game of supposedly friendly rivalry and name calling ; in reality, a crucial exercise in learning how to absorb verbal abuse without faltering Audre Lorde .

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1)What defines a Black comic book to you, no answer is wrong? 2)From your definition of Black Comic book, which will you like to see made into a video game?

There was a mass shooting in Minneapolis, MN today. 2 children killed and 17 people injured. The shooter killed himself. So far, there has been no mention of sending the national guard to MN or hiring more police officers. Nor have they addressed mental health and gun control to stop these crazy mass shooters from getting an arsenal of weapons and ammunition. The reality is that white folks are perfectly fine with killing each other and anybody who gets in their way. White folks' biggest fear is Black folks having enough nerve to stop killing each other and redirecting that energy. Their objective is to control it.😎

@Pioneer1 I thought about you Paul MOoney talks about DNA and race.

Black on black violence/crime is quite profiitable. Perhaps this is why we do not hear too many complaints about it from the dominant culture until there is a need to distract, divide, and deflect. The counternarrative of black on black violence has been especially hot in conservative circles. Quite crafty obviously, because this counternarrative has been adopted by many who probably would otherwise actually be discussing the injustice of the Zimmerman trial and the injustice of black life in America. How easily we are distracted. What really is our logic behind those who have never cared about black people killing one another spending so much time, energy, an…

Hello AALBC Family, I recently watched the documentary Dark Girls, that was featured on the OWN Network recently. The documentary addressed colorism issues in the Black community. I created my own reaction video including some interesting dialogue. Please check it out and tell me what you think.

Straight out of a movie, the US has captured Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and his wife after launching airstrikes on the country. The Maduros have been flown out of Venezuela. It is being reported that Maduro will stand trial here in the US on drug trafficking charges. I believe end game is the Maduros will be exiled to a friendly country of choice. They will be allowed to live a rich and peaceful life elsewhere. A puppet president will be installed to run Venezuela according to US interests. Textbook regime change.😎

For almost a decade a few buddies and myself have a March Madness Pool. Over the last several years we have been using PayPal to send the entry fee. I already take it for granted that PayPal mines all our transactions for information. Perhaps the information they obtain is a revenue stream. But when they read our messages and arbitrary decide what is an acceptable transaction they have overstepped their bounds, on so many levels. When I send someone a check, Citibank does not email me to say, "Hey we don't approve of the reason for you writing a check, stop it." This is absurd!

NEWS,THE BLACK CHURCH NOT SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF GAY MARRIAGE..THE BLACK CHURCH SUPPORTS PREACHERS WHO CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES,BEAT THEIR WIVES AND KILL THEIR WIVES.YES BLACK PREACHERS HAVE KILLED THEIR WIVES...BLACK PREACHERS SUPPORT NAZI KLAN POLITICIANS FOR MONEY... HOMOSEXUALS ,IF THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE SPAWNS OF SATAN,WHY IS BISHOP EDDIE LONG ON THE PILPIT.BISHOP EDDIE LONG WAS SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BLACK MALES..WHY DID THE CHURCH NOT CONFRONT BISHOP EDDIE LONG,OR JESSE JACKSON,JESSE JACKSON JR SEX SCANDALS..PREACHER HENRY LYONS IN THE 1990'S WAS LOCKED UP FOR STEALING 4 MILLION DOLLARS.MONEY THAT WAS FOR BLACK CHURCHES THAT WAS BURNED …