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Commentary: Obama Wants the ‘Contest of Ideas’ Rigged https://tennesseestar.com/2022/04/18/commentary-obama-wants-the-contest-of-ideas-rigged/ "Never mind that he rose to power as a manipulative acolyte of Saul Alinsky, the famously amoral Chicago activist who endorsed disinformation as a tool of “community organizing.”" "Obama’s definition of “disinformation,” which he ponderously presented at a recent Chicago powwow on the subject, conforms perfectly to the Alinskyite “rules for radicals” that launched his career: “a systematic effort to either promote false information, to suppress true information, for the purpose of political gain,…

Chapter 4 Carole was at work, on her morning break. Seated in the cafeteria, she was so engrossed in her book that she didn’t notice the person headed her way. “Mind if I join you?” a voice asked. “All the tables seem to be full.” Startled, Carole looked up, hardly able to believe whose compelling eyes she was staring back into. “Have a seat,” she managed to say, trying not to appear flustered. “Glad for some company. I prefer my entertainment live.” Troy Briggs gave her a curious look, and hesitated before sitting down. “Oh?” he said. “Does that mean I’m expected to - perform for you?” “If you’ve got your act together,” she answered, and laughed,…

Greetings All! Hoping you and yours are well. I wanted to share that I’ve just released my 5th book, ‘A Pot to Piss In: Intergenerational Wealth Planning for Black People’ and would love to have it included as a book review on your site. With chapters like, ‘The Fallacy of 401(k)s’, ‘Is Education Really the Key or a Lock?’, ‘The History of #BankingWhileBlack’, and ‘#BlackFinancesMatter’, this book will give you a new understanding on strategies to save for retirement, as well as create residual income without taking on a new job, enabling you to leave the Rat Race before falling victim to corporate ageism. Most importantl…

Well, it seems Lizzo, the poster woman for fat and fabulous may have landed in some lard: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191675195/former-dancers-accuse-lizzo-harassment-creating-hostile-work-environment The white media gets a kick out of building n8gglets up and tearing them down. They don't really need any help from us. I have no idea of whether or not the allegations are true. Considering how many black folks they've taken down well before she came along...Lizzo should have known better. All she had to do is keep that flute over her pie-hole. In case nobody told her today...she's not that "Special"...not to…

From Garland Gregory ("THE NEW BREED REPARATIONS SANCTUARY) The following is knowledge/understanding taught in the classroom (where media news falls short): Chaos in the Republican Party?: Here Is The Sequence To An Unholy Marriage The 1800's northern slavery abolitionist movement was not well received by the Republican Party. However, southern Democrats seceded out of fear that Lincoln and Republicans would acquiesce. Lincoln and Republicans fought a civil war to save the union, not to free the southern black slaves. Northern Republicans won the war as Lincoln's growing conscience led him to i…

Yesterday I went to see Raoul Peck's film Academy Award nominated film I Am Not Your Negro which was based on Remember This House, an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin. The documentary was very well done. Baldwin's work was to focus on his friends Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King, Jr. “By the time each died, their positions had become virtually the same position. It can be said, indeed, that Martin picked up Malcolm’s burden, articulated the vision which Malcolm had begun to see, and for which he paid with his life. And that Malcolm was one of the people Martin saw on the mountaintop.” Baldwin's words and people like these men are sorely…

Starbucks. Is. Closing. Their. Stores. Today,For. Racist. ,Bias,Training..Whatever. Trump. Elected. Has. Brought. Out,Racist. People. From. The. Shadows. Into. The. Sunshine..The. President. Of. This. Country. Supports. Neo,Nazi. . News. Talks. About. Black. Men. Arrested. At,Starbucks, Football. Players. Kneeling. Down. ,They. Will,Not. Talk. About. White. Police. Fired. For. Being. Klan ,Members. Past. 7_ Years. Neo. Nazi. In. The. Military ,Racist,Politicians ,Besides. Trump..Racism. Reason. There,Are,Poor. Inner. City. Black. Schools. And. Rich. White,Schools.....Last. Month. Neo. Nazi. Waving. Nazi,Flags,Celebrating. Adolf. Hitler Birthday ..

The Christmas Star—Great Conjunction Tonight! —An African American POV The Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn of December 21, 2020 So, the information reported about this Christmas Star of December 21, 2020, The Great Conjunction, goes hand-in-hand with the age-old Star of Bethlehem shows that have been featured across the modern world during the December Christmas Season for more than 50 years, however, like those shows too, a lot of deception has been reported as well. Here in America, there were only three (3) states that featured these planetarium shows that began to be shown around the 1950s; one in Texas, two in Pennsylvan…

Michelle Obama death threat by D.C. cop under investigation Michelle Obama death threat? A Washington D.C. motorcycle cop said he would shoot the first lady, the Washington Post reported. But some officials say it was a 'joke.' By Staff, Associated Press / July 13, 2012 Washington A District of Columbia police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for the White House and other officials has been moved to administrative duty after he allegedly made threatening comments about Michelle Obama, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The officer was overheard making the comments Wednesday as several officers from the Special Operations Divisio…

Richard. Overton. Dies. At. Age 112-. He. Was. The. Oldest. Living,World. War. 2-Veteran And. This. Country. Oldest. Man..News,Said. Richard. Overton. Volunteered For. The. Army,During,World War 2-Was At Pearl Harbor After The Attack. He Served With A All Black Unit. At Guam And Iwa Jima ...He. Said,Whiskey And Smoking Cigars Helped Him Live Long. Maybe,It,Did. He Died Thursday. In Texas At The Age Of. ,112.News,Showed News Clips Of Him Talking. Seemed Like. A,Interesting. Man. He. Was. Honoured. By. President. Obama.....

The big swing bands of the 1930s and early 40s were who provided dance music for hep cats and fly chicks. I can see my older sisters and brother jitterbuggin now, - or “cuttin a rug” as it was also called. This era was the hey day of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Who hasn’t heard of these giants? The name Jimmy Lunceford may not be as familiar but he was also a trail blazer in this domain. For trivia buffs Lunceford was once the rival of Harlem Renaissance poet, Countee Cullin for the hand of W.E.B.DuBois’ daughter. Countee got the girl because her family found him more acceptable than a transient saxophone player. Jimmy got the last laugh, however, when …

Did I miss something? I thought today is @aka Contrarian's Birthday! I run late sometimes... I am affected with the CPT plague, but I was hoping to get this right! I hope I got this right. If so, this is an incredible day! Happy Birthday @aka Contrarian and may you enjoy this special day and many more!!! This is a very special month for me because I have a lot of relatives who were born this month. My uncle lived to be 100 years old was born in the month of August. My Grandmother was born in this month, my Step-father was born in this month and he just had a birthday and is now 87 years old.

Well, I made it. The big 8-0. Now what? Only time will tell.

Only Michelle Obama bests Trump as an alternative to Biden in 2024 The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that about one-third of Democrats say Biden should drop out of the presidential race after the debate 2 July 2024 Washington, DC, July 2, 2024—Following the first 2024 presidential debate, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump remain in dead heat for November’s election. In hypothetical matchups with Democratic candidates other than Biden, former first lady Michelle Obama is the only hypothetical candidate to definitively defeat Trump in this poll. Michelle Obama also tops the charts in favorability among …

70+ Japanese & Asian American Organizations Wrote President Biden a letter to give African Americans Reparations. December 2022. I am so grateful for these Japanese and Asian humanitarians! My heart goes out to them. In this video, it was mentioned by the Japanese the awful hardship that they endured in the concentrations camps here in America when they were severely persecuted during the World War, nevertheless, today, some of them have come forward to plead the present status of African Americans today. Again, I believe that there is something going on politically, globally, and at a high level about the issue of African American DOS over here i…

I don't often talk about my kids on these forums but I have to admit my baby girl is developing into a very good writer. She writes a regular column for her school newspaper. Her latest column is on Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's kid Jaden Smith's recent declaration that “School Is The Tool Used To Brainwash The Youth.” http://flathatnews.com/2013/09/30/if-newborn-babies-could-speak-twitters-philosopher-king/ I always that that was what mainstream media was for. At any rate, maybe one day I'll be able to get her to write for AALBC.com ;-)

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Piggy backing off of the discussion we're having over the popularity of social media among our people............ Growing up I wasn't considered very attractive and thus wasn't very popular with the girls OR with other boys (for reasons having little to do with looks). Fortunately girls weren't AS concerned with looks as boys are so there are other attributes males can develop to offset what they're lacking in looks. But I spent long periods of time wondering why I wasn't "coolest" or "cutest" boy in school with all of the friends. I didn't notice it as a kid, all I saw were the BENEFITS of being very popular. But when I got older and into my 2…

Marking History with Astronomy -- 2 Comets This Month October 2024; Comet C/2023 A3 & Comet C/2024 S1 Comet C/2023 A3 I saw this comet! It took me 'forever' to figure out how to use my binoculars and then where to look to see it. I went to my usual spot that I have driven to for the past couple of years but I could not see it from that position. This comet was located in the western skies and like most comets I've looked for, they seem to come into a region near the horizon and also they seem to all head towards the sun. It's like the sun is a 'gas station' for comets because they pick up a lot more energy t…

JUNETEENTH WAS IN 1865/WEBSITE SAYS...IN TEXAS ALL SLAVES WERE SAID TO BE FREE///RIGHTS AS WHITE PEOPLE///////BLACK PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING JUNE TEENTH WHY///BLACK PEOLE AT THE PRESENT TIME HAVE RE ENSLAVED THEMSELVES AND THE BLACK COMMUNITIES/////BLACK LEADERS HAVE BECOME PLANTATION OVERSEERS///BLACK PEOPLE ENSLAVED BY DRUG ADDICTION///BLACK WOMEN AND CHILDEN ENSLAVED BY BLACK MEN WHO ARE IRRESPONSIBLE....SEX HAS BLACK PEOPLE ENSLAVED.......THE CHURCH PREACHERS CORRUPT HAVE THE CHURCH CONGREGATION CONFINED.....STREET GANGS AND DRUG GANGS HAVE COMMUNITIES ENSLAVED AS IF BLACK…

This video is sad and resonates because in 1978 or '79 I experienced something very similar in the same borough of NYC. My girlfriend, at the time, and I were walking, not too far from her neighborhood, just like these kids were doing on their bicycles. It is something we did as kids—explored our surroundings. We were not surrounded by a mob but white kids started throwing rocks at us and made it clear we were not welcome and would not be allowed to walk on their streets. When you get a mob involved things can really escalate quickly. If the camera's were not around things could have been much worse for these kids. If they were livi…

WHAT SHOULD PRESIDENT OBAMA DO IF ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN//IF ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN THE U.S. TROOPS WILL BE SENT TO PROTECT PRECIOUS ISRAEL//ISRAEL IS ALMOST AS BAD AS ADOLF HITLER, ISRAEL WANTS TO GENOCIDE THE PALESTINE PEOPLE./I AM SICK ISRAEL,PRESIDENT SEEMS TO FEAR ISRAEL,WHY,, BECAUSE HE NEEDS VOTES FROM THE U.S. CHRISTIANS/WHEN IT COMES TO FAKE CHRISTIANS NERO HAD THE RIGHT IDEA, CHRISTIANS THROWN TO THE LIONS.WHITE AND BLACK FAKE CHRISTIANS////

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION NAMES MOONLIGHT THE TOP FILM OF HISTORIC 2016 QUEEN SUGAR NAMED THE TOP TV SHOW Denzel Washington, Ruth Negga, Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis Receive Acting Wins from the Nation’s Premiere Black Critics Group Ava DuVernay's 13th and Beyonce's Lemonade also take key honors AWARDS GALA WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE TAGLYAN COMPLEX IN LOS ANGELES FEBRUARY 9th AT 9PM ET/ 6 PM PT Los Angeles, CA (December 13, 2016) – Movies, documentaries and TV shows about the black experience were in abundance in 2016 making it a truly historic year in terms of the number of movies, documentaries and TV s…

FOOD QUEEN PAULA DEEN SAYS THE N WORD/////WHO CARES//WHY IS THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE GETTING INVOLVED/////THEY DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN BLACK CHURCH CORRUPTION///3 BLACK PREACHERS IN PRISON FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES,PREACHERS BEAT THEIR WIVES,THEY ARE CROOKS,, JESE JACKSON NOT THE ONLY PREACHER HAD A CHILD WITH A MISTRESS////SCLC IS WHERE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ONCE WAS..//////BLACK DEMOCRATS,BLACK CHURCH ,SCLC SUPPORTED DEMOCRAT KLAN MEMBER ROBERT BYRD FOR DECADES./////

Can You Name Your Most Favorite AFrican American Cultural Festival You Would LIke to Attend? I am not the kind of person who has had the privilege to travel a lot and go to many festivals but if I could, there are some cultural festivals that I would like to attend. And, until I did a little research, I did not realize there were that many African Amercian festivals here in the States. I have posted this one link of the top ten most popular African American Cultural Festivals in America, and well, I have never heard of any of them, except for New York! I was so surprised to learn about a festival in Indiana being the most visited! I couldn't belie…

Quick... Rabbi Marvin Hier? What, his name is not on the Who's Who of the great black leaders of history. Well, of course not. How about Simon Wiesenthal, have you heard of him? Of course you have... I think? Rabbi Marvin Hier is the Dean and Founder of the Los Angeles based, Simon Wiesenthal Center. But Carey, what does that have to do with Black History Month? Well, I can show you, better than I can tell you. Come on, I'm gonna take you by a friend's house. He's actually a turtle but we are going to listen in on a conversation between him and The Wizard. There they are over there, over there by that Wishing Well. Hush up, be quiet, listen: Wizard: …

BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE MURDERS UP IN CHICAGO.DOES ANYBODY CARE THAT WE ARE IN A SELF GENOCIDE/NAACP ARE THEY PLANNING THEIR NEXT AWARD SHOW/ BLACK POLITICIANS BLACK CHURCH WHY BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT THEM BEYOND ME, .....BLACK OVER SEERER'S ON PLANTATIONS GIVING AWARDS TO THE RICH BLACK HOUSE NEGROES TIME FOR A PROTEST MARCH GATHER UP THE FIELD NEGROES...../

I haven't a clue.

Travis Smiley Plans To Use PBS ,For Firing. Him Claiming It ,Was Because Of Sexual Misconduct . Travis Smiley Says He ,,Was Fired Because Of Racism ,Not Sexual Misconduct. Sexual -Misconduct ,Assault Upon Women In ,Hollywood,Politics,Sports ,Not Mentioned Religion. . Black And White Preachers Are In Prison. For Killing. Their Wives. White People Have Conversations On The News ,After The ,Massacre Of The Innocent At The Florida High School. Black -Males Unarmed Shot Dead By. Racist White Police ,Getting Away With It Except In. South Carolina , That White Police Officer Was Found Guilty Of Murdering Walter Scott.. In Florida George Zimmerman Got Away With. Murd…

Good point on slavery, the only question is, why did black people push against the use of the word slavery?was it the truth or what they fantasized?

Dear Friends, I am happy to report that Kevin Young will be joining NYPL as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He will begin his tenure at the Library in the late fall. Kevin succeeds Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who led the Schomburg with great distinction for the last five years. Kevin joins NYPL from Emory University, where he was both Curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library and Curator of Literary Collections at the newly named Rose Library. He simultaneously held the Charles Howard Candler Professorship of Creative Writing and English. Under Kevin's leadership, the Danowski Poetry Library and the Rose Libra…

Derek Chauvin's Third-Degree Murder Charge Dropped in Connection to George Floyd's Death The third-degree murder charge filed against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in connection with the death of George Floyd was dismissed by a Minnesota judge on Wednesday. The decision issued by Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill said that charges against Chauvin of unintentional second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter will remain. In the decision—which was made public on Thursday—Cahill wrote that "probable cause does not exist" for the third-degree murder charge that was filed against Cha…

Brother Manning Marable just passed away after a long battle with lung complications. He was only 60 years old. But the scholary contributions he made cannot be understated. I, like so many other black Americans, knew little if anything about this brilliant black scholar. Sadly, he did not see the final publication of his meticulously researched and documented biography of Malcolm X (which has just been released). His biography of our Shining Black Prince (given by Ossie Davis) should be at the top of your books to get list. This is one of numerous videos of brother Manny at Democracy Now. Manny Marble and Malcolm X

Don't F this one up Donald! Signed, a trying to be loyal but you keep disappointing me fan.

https://aalbc.com/pdf/growing up in east harlem.pdf This article was originally published in May of 1990. The PDF file is 25 printed pages and can be leisurely read in 35 minutes. I was raised in this community when I first read the article in the 90s it did not feel like it was my old neighborhood. It was a very limited perspective and completely ignored everything that caused the community to end up the why it did. It was basically poverty porn to me.

(Not a new article but informative the same way.) The Fugitive: Why has the FBI placed a million-dollar bounty on Assata Shakur? By Kathleen Cleaver Twenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur, regularly increasing the bounty on her head and classifying her as a “domestic terrorist.” Last May the Justice Department issued an unpreced…

Virgins can't describe sexual intercourse. Nor can you explain it to them in a way that is meaningful to them. You can only compare and contrast it with their past experiences. @Cynique So while I don't experience time differently than other people. I can engage with it in a different manner.

This books is about semiotics and Magic. It's central premise is that Magic is communicative. Words have meanings that are both universal and personal. There are different types of language games: an order or emphatic request; the response to a question; a warning or a password. Words signs and symbols are communicative. And by strengthen your connection and understanding, you magnify the efficacy of your Magical Spell or ritual. A Grimoire is a book of Magical Spells. It literally translates into grammar. So Grammar and Spells are a fundamental component of Magical Workings.

Donald Trump is so intelligent, according to his supporters. Why Lord Dampnut maintains a keen grasp of world affairs and is someone global analysts seek out for his genius solutions to difficulties that frighten off lesser men. Herewith is further proof of the incredible thanks we owe his loyal band of knuckleheads. I don't know about you, but I bet Vladimir Putin is positively quaking with fear.

On December 7,1941, Pearl Harbor Was Attacked By Japan. Black Soldiers Were There. Doris Miller Receive Awards For Bravery. 2013, Website, Said Nelson Mitchell.Was The Oldest, Living African American,Soldier At 92 ,That Was At Pearl Harbor.. Will Try To.Find Out If He Still Alive. When The News Talks About Pearl.Harbor 1941 Attack December 7,Documentaries,Or Movies ,Remember The Black Soldiers That Were There..

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Notice how SPECIFIC he was in his criticism of BLM and didn't push the typical right-wing Republican narratives about the movement. Nor did he let the hosts trick him or trap him into focusing ONLY on BLM when it comes to political corruption when they come no where close to the most corrupt out there. He was SURGICAL in his words and critique. Pay attention to both what he said AND what he was careful not to say.....less he inadvertently send the wrong message that we should support one devil (Republican party) over the other (Democat Party). He said ALL of them do it.....not just BLM or the Democrat party. Hell, if you want to start exposing politica…

after reading the article, sharon stone said six months ago after receiving an award in nyc that she wants pay equity. she said that black women need to get ay equal to white women and women need to get aid to men. She said it is the law in the usa but isn't adhered to. So, Taraji Henson isn't lying but, I must say, the issue is the community of workers a well as the willingness of people to produce films. I will give an example. The reality is, every single film taraji p henson has made recently, like hidden figures, if she would had said no, for the wage offered, another black female thespian would had said yes. That is the blunt truth. That is how labor works …

One of the difference I've observed between men and women is how who a woman is attracted to can change so easily. With most men, if a woman is attractive to us.....usually physically with a sweet personality....she's ATTRACTIVE. That usually doesn't change. A woman would have to either undergo a physical change OR become so vulgar or heinous in her behavior for her to no longer be attractive to us. Now a woman can do things to piss us off, but as long as it's not TOO bad...we'll either ignore it or stay away from her briefly until she changes her attitude...but we'll STILL find her attractive. Men, am I wrong yet? However what I've OBSERVED.…

WRITING GOD'S OBITUARY IS A BOOK BY ANTHONY B. PINN/HE WAS A PREACHER ,NOW A ATHEIST,AUTHOR,PROFESSOR, HUMANITARIAN..HE SAYS RELIGION IS NOT NEEDED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS/MY OPINION,/ATHEIST DON'T ALWAYS MEAN NON BELIEVERS IN GOD, PREACHERS, MINISTERS ARE CORRUPT, YOU CANNOT BELIEVE THEM./.FEW PREACHERS LIVE BY TEN COMMANDMENTS/THERE IS A CRIME SHOW THAT COMES ON SINISTER MINISTERS,ABOUT PREACHERS WHO KILL, HAVE WOMEN ON THE SIDE THEY HAVE SEX WITH,THEY STEAL/WHITE AND BLACK PREACHERS ARE IN PRISON, INTERESTING THE RELIGIOUS BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT SPEAK OF THIS////SUP…

WTF!? Amazon has stooped to a new low by making this claim. To make matters FAR worse, they have the unmitigated gall to fly the Black Liberation Flag in one of their corporate offices! This is outrageous! When I saw this photo on Amazon's site (despite Boycotting Amazon I visit periodically to see what Amazon is doing with Ibram's book). Amazon is the antithesis of Black liberation which is what this flag represents. I have not taken out an ad on Twitter in years, but I took one out today -- just to highlight Amazon's hypocrisy (we will see how that works out). Sure Amazon gave out $10 million to some civil r…