Culture, Race & Economy

DEBTOR’S PRISON is Back in AMERICA Robin Ebersohl closes her eyes as she recalls the experience of being arrested in Macoupin County and jailed for four days over an outstanding debt owed for medical bills she could not pay. (AP Photo / The Telegraph, John Badman) I just saw an article yesterday about Mississippi and it is so misleading, but nonetheless, very eye opening. The article highlighted a woman named Annita Husband but stated that Mississippi has had a Debtor Prison system for years now and alludes to a falsity in that this would be the only state in USA. But, this is so not true. The comments after the article wer…

@Pioneer1, mentioned, in an off-handed comment on another conversation, a number of prominent Black women with white husbands. While I don't care who people marry, it got me thinking about the number of prominent Black women (non entertainers) who don't chose ADOS husbands. While we celebrate the 1st Black president and Kamala Harris (married a white guy) neither are ADOS. Is this a racist conspiracy against us as Pioneer1 would probably say, or is it a consequence of ADOS being less desirable because we've allowed ourselves to be weakened by our fixating on race, as I believe @daniellegfny would suggest. Candice Owens (married a white…

A VALENTINE'S DAY SONG GONE WRONG @richardmurray I thought about posting this song in your Valentine's Day thread but I did not want you to be upset because of this 'song gone wrong' prank. The song is a popular love song but the video 'short' is a prank. The title of the video is called "We Broke Up After This". AND THE SONG IS CALLED A Thousand Years Song by Christina Perri Heart Beats fast Colors and promises How to be brave How can I love when I'm afraid to fall But watching you stand alone All of my doubt, suddenly goes away somehow One step closer …

photo reference Tolmer Falls | Litchfield National Park Sunset | Louise Denton | Flickr Happy June Solstice May all be cool in the northern hemisphere summer, may all be warm in the southern hemisphere winter. A solstice is when the a pole is angled most toward the sun, thus causing the effect of the sun standing still. Another way of saying it, is the ecliptic , or axis based on the equator of the earth has the largest angle distance to a line from the sun center to the earth. Enjoy two stories Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/?tab=comments#comment-909 Story 2 https://aalbc.…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-drops-out-oval-office-address/ POTUS PJB officially bowed out of running for re-election. Highlighted his record of governance. Tepidly endorsed VP Harris as nominee. POTUS PJB says that democracy is on the ballot. He seems to believe the country will be less great if Dems don't win again. POTUS PJB vows to continue doing his job until it's time to leave office. Remains to be seen how much he'll support VP Harris as his successor.😎

With all of this talk of UFOs, UAPs, and these "drones" flying around the Eastcoast, I look at it THIS way..... If you're coming here to help us...then HELP. UFOs existed...during Slavery UFOs existed...during the Holocaust UFOs existed...when the U.S. nuked Hiroshima UFOs existed...during the Genocide in Rwanda You OBSERVED these events take place, but you didn't stop them. Why not? What EXACTLY is your purpose for coming here? A woman is being severely abused by her husband. It happens over and over again and she cries out for help. I send a well trained well armed professional officer inside her home. Th…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/politics/joe-biden-prostate-cancer Former POTUS Joe Biden has revealed that he has prostate cancer. An outpour of respect has come from both sides of the political aisle for his diagnosis and well wishes for his recovery. Let's see if this situation throws a wet blanket on the petty, partisan, political theater currently playing in Washington, DC. Hopefully, POTUS Biden's treatment will be successful. Cancer still sucks. 😎

I had not previously heard of Chris Hedges prior to Kam's report on one of his lectures. The man poses some interesting, sobering ideas. Explaining the inevitable negative consequence which will result from our illeracy, lack of critical thinking, focus on celebrity, and a host of other things we've complaining abou ton these boards. I just downed Hedges latest book to my Kindle. Link to Chris Hedges Profile on AALBC.com

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great many children from the town of Hamlin, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied (multicolored, LIKE A PIMP) clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizenry refuses to "pay the piper" for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. Now, look at that pimpish dressing pied pip…

6 KILLED AT RELIGIOUS TEMPLE..NOT SURPRISED.. NEO NAZI TRASH RESPONSIBLE...A FEW YEARS AGO WHITE PREACHERS ON THE NEWS, ONE BURNING THE KORAN, ANOTHER ONE SAYING GOD WANTS OBAMA DEAD...TEA PARTY HOLDING UP SIGNS SAYING OBAMA THE N----- PRESIDENT, REPUBLICANS SAYING OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGED....THIS WAS DOMESTIC TERROR ,HAT ELSE IS PLANNED.///.THIS COUNTRY SHOULD A STATUE OF VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS WHEN THEY STOP PLAYING TENNIS.THEY WON THEIR 3RD WOMENS DOUBLES GOLD MEDAL.SERENA WON GOLD AS THE WOMEN CHAMPION...VENUS WON WOMEN CHAMPION IN AUSTRALIA OLYMPICS...THEY HAVE CARRIED U.S. TENNIS FOR YEARS.......GIFTED HANDS MOVIE AGAIN, REA…

I was not familiar with this film until reading Ross Sarano's article, Is Ralph Bakshi's "Coonskin" Still Controversial in 2014? in Complex Pop Culture

Some of you may have noticed an Amazon advertisement for watches, very expensive watches. I just put the ad up taking a rare someone, who visited this site will actually buy one of these watches. Of course now that I've looked at thes watched on Amazon the ad has been following me all over the WWW. On another site I clicked the ad, because I never really looked at the information about the watches. Curious I decided to read about the watches and learn why someone would pay so much for a watch particularly the one shown below, which costs $86,000. I read the review and it made my night :-) I hope you enjoy it too. Of course my affiliate code is applied (just in case).…

Question: What is your strongest psychic (ESP -Extrasensory perception) ability? Would you, Could you and/or Do you use it for economic gain? Note: Below are general definitions from Merriam-Webster - not necessarily accurate but provided for discussion. Feel free to expand. intuition - (M-W) a quick and ready insight telepathy - (M-W) communication from one mind to another by extrasensory means psychometry - (M-W) divination of facts concerning an object or its owner through contact with or proximity to the object clairaudience -, (M-W) the power or faculty of hearing something not present to the ear but regarded as having objective reality …

“At least one of the Facebook ads bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign referenced Black Lives Matter and was specifically targeted to reach audiences in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, sources with knowledge of the ads told CNN. Ferguson and Baltimore had gained widespread attention for the large and violent protests over police shootings of black men. The decision to target the ad in those two cities offers the first look at how accounts linked to the Russian government-affiliated troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency used geographically targeted advertising to sow political chaos in the United States, the sources said.” —Dylan Byers, …

New. Movie. Super. Fly . Black. Drug. King. Pin,Goes. To. ,Mexico, To. Get. Cocaine. Cocaine. ,Pimps And. Prostitution ,,Gangs,Have. Been Made. Glamorous ,By. Black. ,,Movies,Music. Black. Community. Has. Crack. Houses,Pimp ,Houses,Gangs. Slaughter. Black. People. In. The. ,Streets...The,Black. Panther. Movie ,Super. Hero. Entertainment, Will. Not. Stop,Making ,Black Genocide. Glamorous...Racist. White. Do. Not. Have. ,To,Do. Anything,Let. Black. People. Genocide. ,Corrupt. ,Future,Black. Generation.....

Join me for the Curator’s Coffee Chat @ the Langston Hughes’ Library Today 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. We discuss running a web-based business in the age of Facebook, Amazon, and Google. Register: https://bit.ly/2AJOdlq

HYPERLINK TO AMAZON DELETED Cover image, author information, publication date, and book description on am*zon via above link. This is an intriguing account of three murders in the Jim Crow Segregationist South between the 1930s and the 1950s. All murders were connected with the illegal gambling game of bolita. The book covers a period on the Jim Crow south from the 1930s to the 1950s when African Americans were unable to call the police if attacked, and could not seek justice in the legal system. Readers will be fascinated to find that today’s police force originated with slave patrols, formed to return “property” to the pl…

.....said the immortal Tony Montana, lol. Just dropped by to see how everyone's doing and let you know I'm still kicking. Been busy working over 60 hours a week and looking at various investment strategies trying to figure out a way to get myself out of poverty. I see there's still a lot of crypto-currency talk going on in these threads lately. When I have time I'm going to have to read a little more deeply into them. If I have time I'll post a few comments today, but in the mean time.....peace family!

After reading this article, it’s looking like crypto maybe a good way to have the Black American community support the Caribbean nations. I want to know what your thoughts are. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-10/jamaica-offers-free-money-to-digital-currency-s-first-adopters

🙄 Don't look like too much has changed on Twitter to me. They're still making up excuses to delete posts by and ban accounts of Black users while justifying why they let White users come on spewing all types of vile filth in the name of "freedom of speech".

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH ‘Nipsey’ Hussle Nipsey Hussle’s Killer Sentenced To 60 Years To Life In Prison AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER LAST YEAR, ERIC HOLDER WAS FINALLY SENTENCED THIS WEEK RIP Joseph 'Nipsey Hussle' Nipsey Hussle’s Killer Sentenced To 60 Years To Life In Prison AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER LAST YEAR, ERIC HOLDER WAS FINALLY SENTENCED THIS WEEK https://www.essence.com/news/nipsey-hussle-killer-sentenced/ _______________________________________________________ Rare cold winter storm in the Los Angeles area © Thomson Reuters …

The Life of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster | EWTN News In Depth June 2, 2023 The Incorruptibles are saints whose bodies are miraculously preserved after death, defying the normal process of decomposition. St. Cecilia is probably the first saint known to be incorrupt, but the bodies of these saints can be found in many places throughout the world. They are not like mummies, for their skin is soft and their limbs pliable, nothing at all like the dry, skeletal remains of mummies. Under usual circumstances, nothing at all has been done to preserve the bodies of these saints. In fact, some of them have been covered in quicklime, which should have easily destroyed any hum…

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…

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-will-meet-with-netanyahu-wednesday-2024-07-23/ The Israeli Prime Minister is here in the US to address Congress regarding the conflict in Gaza. It seems on Friday, former POTUS Orange Julius will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Mar-A-Lago. POTUS PJB will meet with PM Netanyahu tomorrow. I don't recall any other former POTUS meeting with world leaders when they come to visit. Since he left the White House, they've been treating former POTUS OJ as if he is shadowing current POTUS PJB.😎

https://apnews.com/article/trump-fani-willis-georgia-election-indictment-removed-0aa6db3b7abed22eb08ed9323f687972 No surprise. Fulton County DA Fani Willis has been pulled from the Georgia election interference case against clown POTUS OJ. No shortage of time and money wasted on cases that didn't prevent Teflon Don from going back to the White House. Guess DA Willis will go back to prosecuting the YSL racketeering case instead of dropping those charges too. It would be a middle finger to DA Willis if POTUS OJ pardoned YSL defendants.😎

Hey, Hoping all is well with you all. Wondering if any of my well-read folks belonging to this group can help me with a bit of dissertation research. Can anyone name a prominent African American writer, soldier, intellectual, athlete or entertainer from the south who experienced an epiphany after traveling/living outside the segregated south/US. Were they emboldened by newly found freedom elswhere? Did they go on to protest inequality in a monumental way? Especially interested in those figures who have published their experiences but fictional short stories or novels are useful too. Seeking names, authors and book titles. Blessings ; )

Her firing happened awful fast, as did the offer of reinstatement. There has been no word of any punishment for Tom Vilsack, the man who did the awful deed. Obama himself was quick to get on tv and get to apologizing and calling her up. A couple weeks ago he had a supposedly secret meeting with that skunk, Slick Willie Clinton--who threw Sistah Souljah under the bus in order to get elected. Did he do it? If so, should he confess?

In Louisiana (Delhi Charter School), any young woman who is a student in the school suspected to be pregnant must take a pregnancy test and if the test is positive, she is kicked out of the school, unable to return. Young women are being forced to take back-to-school pregnancy tests and the same "two lines = three strikes" law applies. What do you think about this? ------------------------------------ Delhi Charter School In Louisiana Forces Girls To Take Pregnancy Tests, Kicks Out Students Who Test Positive Or Refuse One Louisiana public school's no-nonsense approach to preventing teen pregnancy is "in blatant violation of federal law and the U.S. …

LOS ANGELES BLACK CHURCH INVITED DONALD STERLING TO COME,HE DID,WHY/ DONALD STERLING THE RACIST SLUM LORD,HE TOLD HIS MISTRESS NOT TO BRING BLACK PEOPLE TO HIS L.A. CLIPPERS BASKETBALL GAMES..I HAVE SAID BLACK PREACHERS ARE AS BAD AS PIMPS,DRUG DEALERS../NAACP HAVE SEVERAL MEMBERS CHARGED WITH BRIBERY,..ACCORDING TO STEPHEN A. SMITH//NAACP AND THE CHURCH ARE CORRUPT..../I THINK DONALD STERLING'S MISTRESS WAS CALLED NIGGER BY 2 WHITE MEN/////WELL..NOT SURPRISED//////BLACK CHURCH IS PROBALY STUPID ENOUGH TO HAVE NEO NAZI GRAND DRAGON IN CHURCH IF THEY COULD GET MON…

NEWS SAYS BLACK TUSKEGEE PILOTS HAVE DIED/MILTON PITTS CRENSHAW ,TUSKEGEE PILOT AN D TRAINER OF TUSKEGEE PILOTS DIED LAST WEEK,HE WAS 96/NEWS SAYS HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK PILOT TO FLY COMBAT IN WW2/WORLD WAR 2/MAL WHITFIELD ,WAS A TUSKEGEE PILOT AND WON GOLD MEDALS AT THE OLYMPICS/ HE DIED LAST WEEK ,HE WAS 91.//THESE AND MANY,MANY OTHERS BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR, THE SACRIFICES/

AT LA AIRPORT AIRPORT EMPLOYEE WAS SMUGGLING 60 POUNDS OF COCAINE/THE WOMAN SMUGGLING THE COCAINE ,LEFT THE COCAINE IN 2 SUIT CASES AND HER GUCCI SHOES ,WHEN SHE WAS CHASED BY SECURITY/AIRPORT WORKERS ARE NOT CHECKED/WHAT KIND OF SECURITY IS THIS///ON THE NEWS TERRORIST BOMB BELGIUM , OVER 30 PEOPLE DEAD///// I ASSUMING SHIP CARGO HOLES AND AIRPLANES CARGO HOLES ARE NOT CHECKED, , WITH THE FEAR OF TERROR ATTACKS/I LIKE TO KNOW WHO THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO GIVE THE 60 POUNDS OF COCAINE TO/ .WAS ,THE COCAINE SUPPOSE TO END UP IN CERTAIN COMMUNITIES IN THIS COUNTRY////

All the Hillary Haters are up in arms because the FBI gave her a pass in regard to the E-Mail controversy she was involved in. She wasn't found innocent but there wasn't enough hard evidence to indict and bring her to trial. Prosecutors wouldn't have had a concrete case against her. Apparently if Trump and all the Bernie die-hards had their way she should just be thrown in prison and denied her day in court. Yet another example of how emotional irrationality is fueling this election and how much each side is reacting to what the candidates have allegedly done instead of what they will possibly do if elected. If you believe Hillary Clinton is going to repeat the mistakes o…

So much for bending the knee...

In. Sacramento California, Black People. Protest. ,White. Police. ,Not. Charged. With. Killing. ,Stephon. Clark. In. His. ,Grandmothers, Backyard. What, Amazes. Me, The. Silence. Of, Black. Police. White. Police. Not, In, Fear, When ,Neo. Nazi March Around. With. Real. Guns. ..Can, Black. Police. Shoot. At Nazi Klan, Marching. With Guns?

Today, while still young, may ultimately evolve into a moment long remembered by all of us for some time to come. This Election has been huge, but later after the dust has settled and you check off the things you would like to see occur in exchange for your vote. Nothing will change in some places, and in others, there may be change for us as a collective, but while we are trying to peep what others can will or might do for us, we must look to see what we can do for ourselves. We, I am sure, can all find things for which we would enjoy planting our flag, but I know that if we don't take immediate steps to preserve our literary heritage, then we will find ourselves written…

Here are 3 thugs, or Black Karen’s aka ,” Sheniqua’s“. Look at the deplorable behavior by 3 black women against a defensless Asian in New York, its disgusting. After they destroy his business by breaking and throwing stuff and using very profane language, they then start to do some very strange tribal like dance. The one girl stands on a table and starts doing a strange dance and shaking her fat backside. This seems to be a growing problem with black women getting violent and extremely rude and beligerent. This is actually very disturbing behavior. https://sports.yahoo.com/wild-video-shows-three-women-120942928.html There is also another video from F…

THE BEST STREET STYLE LOOKS FROM NEW YORK FASHION WEEK from Caribeme magazine https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2152&type=status

Just the tip of the iceberg. https://justthenews.com/government/congress/sheila-jackson-lee-says-shes-regretful-after-recording-leaks-profane-rant

So.... A couple of White cops with skull and Viking tattoos come into this sista's home. After a brief exchange, one of the cops TELLS her to go to the stove and take care of it so that it doesn't cause a fire, and she does. Some words were exchanged. And she tells one of the cops "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus". At which point he says, "YOU BETTER NOT or I swear I'll shoot you in the fucking face" Hmmm......That right there was strange as hell. Then he draws his gat, she apologizes, ducks down in fear, and gets shot in the face. Hollywood itself couldn't make this shit up! I hope our beautiful sista is at peace right now. …

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/media/elon-musk-political-spending-bill-shutdown/index.html Elon Musk has been riding with POTUS OJ before he was re-elected. Musk donated millions of dollars to the POTUS campaign. He's been appointed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This week, Musk had influence in the government spending bill. Some folks were asking if he wants to be House Speaker. One doesn't have to in Congress to hold the position. Musk is South African. He also holds Canadian and American citizenship. His business interests makes meddling in government a conflict of interest. Yet, nobody i…

Xeon's post about what black women name their children got me thinking about the weird habit whites in the American west have of giving their boys names that start with "La-"...LaDell, LaVell, LaVern, etc. I went looking for popular names online and found that the government tracks that. That got me thinking about comparing white names and black names with some real data. So I went to a Social Security web site where you can look up the most popular baby names in each state. I pulled up the top 100 girl names from 2008 where there are the highest and lowest percentages of blacks: District of Columbia (60 percent black) and Montana (0.3 percent black). Then I crossed off t…

This is gonna be a long next two years He should have declared victory and got the hell out the day after he was sworn in But he didn't want to appear "soft" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html Well, how does he look now?

I spent a leisurely week-end checking out a marathon of "Through The The Worm Hole" episodes, a series that has been running on the Science cable channel and that is narrated by Morgan Freeman. After trying to wrap my brain around all of the scienfic theories that attempt to explain the origin of the universe and the creation of life and the nature of reality, and the existence of time, I came to the conclusion that the answers to these mind-boggling questions lie in the mind of a supreme, omniscient, omnipotent intelligence and the explanations are beyond the comprehension of human beings. Christianity and Judaism and Islam attempt to personify this force and…

ABC News Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics By COLLEEN CURRY May 18, 2012 The number of radical hate groups and militias has exploded in recent years in reaction to the changing makeup of America, and new census figures showing the majority of babies born in 2011 were non-white could fuel those simmering tensions, experts who track hate groups warned. "White supremacist groups have been having a meltdown since the census bureau predicted that non-Hispanic whites would lose the majority by 2050," said Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. "The demographic change in this country i…

"My God, the process of aging brings senility. My mind decays and forgetfulness of the things of yesterday has already begun. Feebleness has come and weakness grows. Childlike one sleeps all day. The eyes are dim and the ears are becoming deaf. The strength is being sapped. The mouth has grown silent and does not speak. The bones ache through and through. Good things now seem evil. The taste is gone. What old age does to people in evil is every thing. Thhe nose is clogged and does not breathe. It is painful even to stand or to sit. May your servant be authorized to use the status that old age affords to teach the hearers so as to tell them the words of those who have…

ZIMMERMAN TRIAL/WILL THEE BE UNITY GATHERINGS/EXPLAINING CONSERVATION//WILD LIFE CONSERVATION=THE PRACTICE OF PROTECTING ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANT SPECIES/OUR BLACK MALES NOT JUST IN THE INNER CITIES ARE BECOMING LIKE THE ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANTS/////MENTIONING A FEW/THE AFRICAN BLACK RHINO//AFRICAN ELEPHANT/BECAUSE OF POACHERS WANTING THEIR HORNS AND TUSK///CHEETAHS,LEOPARDS,CHIMPANZEE ANDGAZELLE /// //A FEW YEARS AGO IN MICHIGAN A ISRAEL MAN FROM IISRAEL WAS STABBING BLACK MEN,KILLING 2/HE WAS ARRESTED AT AIRPORT BEFORE HE COULD GET ON PLANE, GO BACK TO ISRAEL//HAS NOT SAID WHY HE WAS STABING BLACK MEN////CAN …

Oliver's take, in the video below is too alarming, disheartening and scary to be funny. We used to complain about the "digital divide" (the disparity in internet access for Black folks relative the white Americans). Today we have cell phones with social media apps and have stopped complaining about the lack of access. Meanwhile a cable bill for those with internet access is now over $100 per month, with some paying much more. A smart phone with a data package is typically over $100 too. Bang for the buck we are getting a terrible deal relative to the rest of the industrialized world. Truth be told, "Net Neutrality" disappeared years ago for small business…