Culture, Race & Economy

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My name is Porscha LaDonna Garner (maiden name Johnson). I am a tutor teacher professional of all grades (K-12) normal and special education. My college education was financed with student loans that I was encouraged (by all) to use to a total of $60,000. In my ignorance I did not factor in fees or interest or bad advice and my debt now exceeds $82,000. For the next 15 weeks (see count down) I am going to tell my story here in 15 parts (with weekly video chapter updates) while I ask for donations to liquidate my debt. With your help by the end of this 15 weeks, I will be debt free. It occurs to me that student debt is benefiting banks, schools, etc... every one except the…

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At over 20 years old......AALBC is literally an INSTITUTION right now. A Black Literary institution. I HAVE said over the years that AALBC should receive an ENDOWMENT. Sort of like colleges and universities receive from various agencies like governments, corporations, and even their successful alumni. I think those of us who've benefited from AALBC whether from Troy selling our books, giving our literature free reviews, giving our poetry a place to be read, or just giving us a platform to speak....should show appreciation. I've said often that if I were wealthy I ABSOLUTELY would be sending in funds to not only expand and promote this site but I …

Have any of you proponents of Crypt(interesting prefix)-o-currency investing studied the LAWS regarding how it's mined and how any income generated on it must be reported on your taxes? From what I've been told, it's confusing and painstakingly tedious....not to mention the laws around how any income must be reported to the IRS.

In my mailbox today. I don't see how calling yourself a "New Afrikan" describes and describes you as a citizen of both the Republic of New Afrika and the United States of America. Anywho, here is the original email: --------------- The term African-American is disparaging if Black People use it to indicate they are citizens of the United States. Citizens of the United States are called Americans; a hyphen indicates you are not all the way there. Over the years people have used a lot of terms that did not properly represent who We are. African American is as much one of them as Afro-American, Negro and Colored. Recognizing yourself as a N…

Why does white people have a perpetual hatred for black people?

@ProfDi never heard your last selection before. Surprising choice for somebody who couldn't get into the exquisite 4 part harmony of the Four Freshmen. 😉 In the spirit of diversity i will give a nod to My Latino Amigos.

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I'm not sure why I had a desire to start this subject. I guess it's because I had a COUPLE of work-wives at my old job and I'm starting to miss them already, lol. How many of you had work-spouses? And by "work-spouse" I mean people you had deep emotional connections to, to the point that you almost (or actually did) fell in love with them. You may or may not have even been having sex with them, but that strong love and bond was there -BUT ONLY AT WORK, lol. And DON'T LIE! Don't you DARE get on here and front like yall don't know what I'm talking about. I've had so many jobs in my life where people were screwing around with each other on the job. …

************************************************************************************ @Pioneer1 You finally got some of your wish Philadelphia Ends Pulling Drivers Over for Minor Traffic Offenses ************************************************************************************

Here are the winners https://daniellegfny.com/index.php/2021/10/16/here-are-the-winners/ First Place Winner Second Place Winner #contestalert Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊 #BlackTechTwitter #BlackTwitter #BlackGirlMagic

Day 1-Summers’ End-New Year & HALLOWEEN- It’s NOT Solar but A Lunar Based Holiday When I asked students to choose whether a popular symbol for Halloween would be either the sun or the moon, the unanimous answer has always been ‘THE MOON’. At times the CRESCENT MOON becomes associated with Halloween but mostly it would be a FULL MOON: For many, Halloween becomes a favorite holiday, however, many Christians refer to this holiday as a Harvest Festival. But what has never been taught in my Church education or in the secular curriculum as well would be the scientific truth about Halloween. Because of the Separat…

I started think more about this subject over the last year or two as I started noticing that Google's ads have become increasingly irritating -- especially on these forums. The ads are embed in some posts; popup as you go from one page to the next (often without clear way to close them); and the ones I hate the most, the super large images that appear at the top of the page forcing visitors to scroll to see the pages content. These are the worse, because if you are new to the site, it makes it very confusing to know what to do next. Google AdSense allows webmasters to place advertisement on their websites. Advertisements are sold, placed, and administered by…

I just started making my first NFT. An article and @DCComics pushed me over the edge. I had been hearing about it for awhile. DC Comics gave me my first. I then scanned an article in The Economist which motivated me to take the plunge to create my own. So far I am using OpenSea and Coinbase wallet. I hope to have my first one ready by the end of the weekend. Follow me on OpenSea and let’s see how things develop. https://opensea.io/Daniellegfny

Troy has removed the Go-Daddy Block so you can start new posts now. Write on!

Posted Monday at 03:51 PM · IP When it came to the Covid vaccine, the U.S.Government sure missed an opportunity to corral black people into the fold. As it is, a sizable number of black anti-vaxxers have become strange bedfellows with defiant Retrumpican magahats. These 2 factions of the conspiracy theory community are now united by a common foe: the ubiquitous "they", the deep state government they believe is currently intent on controlling the population and making it dependent on the output of Big Pharma. What could the Administration have done differently to convert…

The family of Henrietta Lacks' has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore, MD B against ThermoFisher Scientific. The pharmaceutical company, listed as a defendant in the case, is allegedly responsible for profiting off Henrietta Lacks' cancerous cells to develop the HeLa cell line. According to AP News, the lawsuit asks the court to "disgorge the full amount of its net profits obtained by commercializing the HeLa cell line to the Estate of Henrietta Lacks." That amount could total over $250 Billion. You may recall published reports, indicate in 1951, John Hopkins Hospital admitted Henrietta Lacks to treat cervical cancer. Doctors took the cells of the…

What is CRT & Can this be Correlated to Face Mask Mandates? It seems like some aggressive parents, students, teachers, and school members are angry about what is being taught in the classroom about ‘Racism’ but in some strange twist, the issue of ‘wearing face mask’ is being associated with this concern about ‘teaching about racism’ as it correlates to the First Amendment. Or are they two separate issues that happened to be crucial topics of the day? Last week I read an article about some school board members and their complaint about teaching CRT [C.R.T.—Critical Race Theory] and then later analyst say that this may be a First Amendment violation!?…

School Members & Parents Clash Over First Amendment Issues & Face Mask Mandates A few days ago, government officials became involved due to some violent and potentially violent conflicts that have occurred amongst certain school board members and parents in America over the recent issues of whether or not to impose face mask mandates in the classroom and also what legally can be taught in the classroom on the subject of ‘racism’. This morning I came across this article about two mothers in the state of Wisconsin who are now bringing a lawsuit against the public schools because face masks were not required yet, their children and several other students …

************************************************************************************ My favorite song from them is 'Start Me Up' and I never paid much attention to this one. Rolling Stones RETIRE 'Brown Sugar' after criticism over slavery lyrics: Keith Richards says 50-year-old song is about 'horrors' of the trade but he's tired of fighting with people 'trying to bury it' and band will not play it anymore Rolling Stones RETIRE 'Brown Sugar' after criticism over slavery lyrics *****************************************************************************…

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Basketball Star Russell Westbrook. Was. Wearing. A. Dress. And. A,Skirt. .Why. .Black. Men. Have. No. Problem. Wearing. Dresses. And,Skirts. .Tyler. Perry. ,Martin. Lawrence. .Others. ...The. Tv ,Black, Entertainment. Dramas. .Black. Mafia. Family. Black. ,Cocaine ,Business ???..Black. Entertainment. Shows. On. The. OWN ,Channel.. ,Black. Men. By. The. White. Entertainment. Media. ..,Gangs,Drugs. Glamourized Has. Not. Stopped ........ .Does,Black ,,Entertainment. Matter. ?? Lot. Of. Black People. Are. Missing ,Black. Gangs. ,Genocide. Black. Communities ,Crack. Houses ,,Pimp,,Houses ,,Churches. Preachers. Steal. Money. Not. Uplifting ,Black. Communities. ..Do. Bl…

"She" doesn't want to say good-by to "her". Give 'em a break, Dave.

I'm writing a blog about this and need some feedback.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/02/us/slavery-myths-clint-smith-blake-cec/index.html

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

Actually I didn't JUST quit...I quit my job about a week ago. Dozens of us did. I've heard that anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of the entire workforce at the company I worked for have quit over the vaccine mandates that they are imposing. ((Don't worry Troy this isn't gonna be an anti-vaxx propaganda post....lol)) They sent us an email and a letter the other month and I told them to go jump in a lake of shit, lol. We walked away a week ago. First a few of us, then more and more as the week progressed. But it wasn't finalized and we thought there might be a chance through litigations and other actions to halt the mandate coming from corporate, but apparently it d…

In my new status as a divorcee from the black race, it's a relief to be excused from plowing through the bumper crop of "what black folks need to do" farmers. In an economy of opinions, talk is cheap. Yada, yada. Here's my 2 cents. A couple of the many factors that contribute to this country's chaotic state of affairs are: Misinformation. (false or inaccurate information. ) and Cognitive dissonance("when people hold a core belief that is very strong and when, they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted so they will rationalize, ignore, or even deny anything that doesn't fit with the core belief." Franz Fanon) …

Neely Fuller Jr said that if you don't understand RACISM....what it is and how it works...everything else that you DO understand will CONFUSE you. He didn't say what you "think" you understand, but what you actually UNDERSTAND...will still confuse you. Why? You'll be running around scratching your head trying to figure out why there are so many homeless people, or so many sick people, why don't your insurance cover this, why are the police allowing that.... So much injustice and so many problems in this society won't make ANY sense to you, because you left the factor of RACISM (what it is and how it works) out of the equation. Take RACIS…

************************************************************************************ According to NBC, Black workers were the only racial or ethnic group whose unemployment rate increased overall in August. The nation’s economic recovery is still unequal for Black workers ************************************************************************************

How many of you believe that the so called RACE is CURSED?

AMERICA, IT'S NOT THE DEMS: CLICK JUST BELOW TO SEE WHY IT'S NOT: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Or52uxxrM)!!! IT'S M.C.mitch-THE-GRINCH WHO HAS ALIGNED-his-CONGRESSIONAL-POCKETS W/BILLIONS, BUT NOW... WHERE IS THE $$$20.00'S OF TAX$$$ AMERICANS PAID??? BLAME-IT-ON-moscow-mitch-DO-NOTHING GRINCH-mcconnell-IS-HOLDING UP PAYING BILLS-THAT-moscow/republicans-MADE----- RACKING-UP-republican-DEBT-2016-2020: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HFyJc889ks); (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D3ihri6o1M); (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HFyJc889ks); (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luP3Tk5blXw); (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37nYWVTW2…

Re: https://www.theroot.com/our-kind-of-people-is-a-treasure-trove-of-good-writing-1847768924 IMO, regarding Lee Daniels' TV series on Fox called Our Kind of People, the series sucks. It's contrived erratic dialogue that drives the convoluted story line and disjointed interaction between skin color-sensitive upper-crusters and wannabees, appears to make them all come across as phony unrealistic achievers. Nearly the entire cast looks like it was assembled to mimic a geographically incorrect fake Redbone-fluid high society, burdened by the insecurity of their own existence and racial identity. Being or being perceived or classified as black, looks like it is …

Written more than 15 years ago, “Can Black People Go 5 Minutes Without Music?” remains one of my most popular Blog posts. It is also one of my most popular conversations on AALBC that is not on this discussion forum: https://aalbc.com/blog/index.php/2006/07/09/can-black-people-go-5-minutes-without-music/#disqus_thread it got 31 comments in the past year. Which is more than I got when I first made the blog post. All of the traffic came from search and I'm not sure what is responsible for the increase. Are Black people increasingly blasting music? Id does seems like some of the respondents are racist, but what would you expects with the subject lin…

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,…

Brothers and sisters from mother Africa I’m here here to dismantled all the lies that we have been taught as we are the elects of this worlds. Now I just want you to imagine that everything that you have been told so far have been lies with a sprinkle of truth because no man can speak all lies evidence can’t be hidden but but I want to begins this discussion with what is civilization because that roots of our problem and solution.

I would like to clear up a possible misconception pertaining to my last post about mixed bloods and the one drop rule. It was inappropriately entitled Why Blacks Continue To Hold On To The One Drop Rule and Mixed People. On face value, it may have seemed as though I was blaming black people for perpetuating the one drop rule. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was just pointing out reasons why blacks may be a little leery of bi racial people having their own racial category. The one drop rule was established by Anglo American colonizers to maintain white social status and preserve the purity of the ra…

************************************************************************************ Mayor Lightfoot told the District Attorney that she should have filed criminal charges against the shootout culprits, after Kim Foxx said there was insufficient evidence, but the whole thing was caught on camera!!! Woke War Erupts Between Chicago DA Kim Foxx and Mayor Lori Lightfoot And In other news: China warns World War Three could be triggered 'at any time' after it sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's airspace as U.S. and Japanese warships take part in Philippine sea training exercise China Wa…

What's up with so many sistaz running around in bonnets and shower caps lately? You can't go into a gas station or a Popeyes Chicken joint without seeing some young sista toddling around with a cell phone stuck to her hear and a shower cap on her head, lol. If she ain't got a shower cap on, she's got one of those hand-kerchiefs wrapped around her head and tied in the front calling it a bonnet.

My divorce from the black race is final. I am no longer wed to this sprawling entity reeling under the spell of the "what black folks need to do" mantra, an insanity that chants the same things over and over again, expecting different results, blaming the same conditions, fixating on the same villains, excusing the same behavior, mesmerized by the same denial, creating the seductive narrative that my diminished appeal couldn't compete with. My own unfaithfulness made things worse. Love didn't conquer all. Now, here i am, on my own, lanquishing under the radar, living out my remaining days, realizing that some things are just not meant to be... Should a gr…

Black Americans Are Seeing Biden For Who He Is - Dr. Carol Miller Swain https://rumble.com/vnctd1-black-americans-are-seeing-biden-for-who-he-is.html

Algorithms Of Oppression speaks to the exact problem Facebook is demonstrating by rejecting my ability to sell the book on their website. The book's author, Safiya Umoja Noble, provides "a revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms." Algorithms Of Oppression came out in 2018 but I noticed this problem more than decade ago, as Google's search results displayed a clear bias toward the most negative aspects of Black women authors in their search results. Read how Google search results focused upon Terry McMillan's scandals over the successes. See how Google's search resu…

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In a world that has become increasingly computerized, artificial intelligence (A.I.) occupies a prominent place in the technology equation. It also poses an ominous threat. How so? Because it makes humans dispensable, and does so in some of the most unlikely areas of every day life; such as card games. I read somewhere that with all of their high-tech programming, robots do not make especially good bridge payers. Something l can attest to. I am a fan of this game which i have been playing since i entered college 70 yeas ago. Back in the 1950s before the advent of television, and the Internet, Bridge was a very popular past time among campus denizens. Today …

In the latter years of his career, jazz legend Mils Davis and Prince became friends. During the MTV era in the 1980s Miles, looking very Princesque, even made a video playing his version of Cyndi Lauper's, 'Time after time". Jazz purists were miffed by Miles' cross over into the pop domain, but he brushed them off. ''So What?" is vintage Miles, and a phrase that could sum up his approach to life. Also appearing on this video another jazz icon, John Coultrane. https://fb.watch/8pW5Nyh5Hm/

Really starting to appreciate what a great alternative to words music can be.

Racist. White. Believe. They Will. Become. Extinct. Like. The,Dinosaurs. Soon. They. Want. Abortion. Stopped. They. Want. ,To. Stop. Black. And. Brown. People. Coming. Into. The. Country ..Families. Of. Missing. Black. People. On. The. News. Talking., About,Why. Black. And. Brown. People. Missing. Not. On. The. News... Do. Black. Politicians. NAACP. The. Black. Church. Involved ,In. Looking. For. Missing. Black. People. ?? .If. Black. Lives., Matter,To,Them. . ..

One of the things I do for a hobby is study a phenomena commonly referred to as "Near Death Experiences" For those of you who aren't familiar with the term or it's details..... It's pretty much when a person actually DIES briefly (it could be from an illness or accident or anything that takes their life) and are resuscitated/brought back to life; but while they're dead they have a spiritual experience where their soul often go towards a bright light, enters a garden or some other beautiful area full of indescribable love, is met by deceased Ancestors and/or powerful Beings, given a review of their entire lives up to their death, and sent back often with a message…