Culture, Race & Economy

Juneteenth Racism. And. Discrimination. Has. Never. Stopped .,,Confined. To. Black. Communities. .Racist. Murdering. Police..,Street. Gangs,Crack Houses. ,Pimp. Houses. ,Brings. Black ,Community. Enslavement...The. Church. Is. A. Slave. Cabin. ,Enslaving. The. Minds. And. Souls. Of. Black. People. For. Profit....,Controlling. Black. Votes. Black. Political. Can. Live. In ,Better. Communities. For. Their. Families. .....CNN. Will. Have. A,Televised. Celebration. Of. Juneteenth . So. What. Are. Black,People. Celebrating. With. Juneteenth ???????

Hundreds of US citizens die every year at the hands of law enforcement officers. Unarmed people being shot, beaten and even suffocated to death by officers, continue to make headlines, despite an almost continuous outcry. The average US citizen is over 10 times more likely be killed by police officer than by terrorists. According to the official sources, the police kill 2 people every day, according to unofficial sources, the police kill 4 people every day. It’s seems that killing people in our country has become the routine, has become something normal. Every video of police shooting of unarmed person is much more terrifying than any horror movie. Is it possi…

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?

Widely hailed as a landmark project, Zun Lee's monograph is at once documentary photography and personal visual storytelling. Through intimate black-and-white frames, 'Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' provides insight into often-overlooked aspects of African-descended family life.The reader gains an intimate view into the daily lives of black men whom Lee has worked with since 2011 and who are parenting under a variety of circumstances - as married fathers, single fathers, social fathers, young and older, middle class and poorer. Lee brings into focus what pervasive father absence stereotypes have distorted - real fathers who are involve…

I just started to read Epicurus Being Happy. It has the following quote, " Most people, however, recoil from death as though it were the greatest of evils; at other times they welcome it as the end all life's ills. @aka Contrarian "living well and dying well are one and the same discipline."

Our black people need to admit something that is very uncomfortable. Our grandparents had to fight for civil rights and they got it indeed. Fast forward almost 60 years later and the black community is MUCH more violent than it ever was and a MUCH HIGHER number of Black babies are born out of wedlock despite having more rights and entitlements today than ever. In fact, blacks have WAY more rights and privileges than whites and hispanics. Despite all the work and sacrifices our black relatives made for the sake of civil rights, our community is much more violent and crime infested than ever. In fact, the black communities in America are amongst the most dangerous in t…

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The city of Buffalo got dumped on by 4 feet of snow. Several dozen people have died as a result. While the city is still digging out, some folks have used the bilzzard as an opportunity to loot: https://www.wivb.com/news/crime/four-arraigned-for-alleged-looting-dollar-stores-during-blizzard/ As of one of the volunteers mentioned, the citizens get the short end when selfish people decide to break in stores and steal. 😎

Hey @Troy are you familiar with her work. Ran into her at the St Mark's Poetry Project. Richard Forman was reading this wild piece of writing. I was laughing and she asked me if I was a writer. She would go on to write Top Dog and Under Dog which starred two of my favourite actors Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright. She also wrote Venus. MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and in 2015 was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Other grants and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a recipient of a Lila-W…

British Petroleum is gonna declare bankruptcy and bail and leave Barry holding the bag. You heard it here first. Alas, poor Obama! I knew him well, Cynique!

I have said it elsewhere I am done talking about any kind of injustice. It's not pointless just fruitless in an emotional mental and spiritual wasteland that resides in too many ...

Next Suday, August 18th will be my 80th birthday. I began my week-long countdown yesterday. Can I make it? I seriously wonder. I feel OK but - who knows? Anything can happen. Life is fickle. Because I want to do it my way, I have planned a family dinner to be held in a private banquet room, where my 5 kids, 8 grandchildren and 3 great grands will gather to help me celebrate. My niece and grand nephew live out of state and won't be able to make it. Except for 3 distant cousins, these are all the blood relatives I have left in the world. Most of my close friends are dead and the 4 surviving female ones don't live close. Only casual acquaintances survive. I…

According to the BBC, WNBA star Britney Griner has been freed in exchange for that Russian arms dealer. This is why one should NEVER count out President Joe Biden. Think that clown Trump would have done much to help free her?

Below is an example of how self-serving people can use the bible to justify anything and this includes slavery There is always some obscure verse they can come up with to reinforce their position. I'm so sick of the same-sex marriage controversy because Gays always want to lay guilt trips on heterosexual people as if we're the ones who are queer. But nothing will drive me into the corner of homosexuals quicker than hypocritical bible-thumping Christians who pick and choose the "sins" they want to condemn. For all we know, Jesus may have been gay. He hung out with 12 other guys and "love thy fellow man" was a motto he lived by. …

IN CASE ANYONE WANTS 2 KNOW! I am a writer, and from a very young age, I clearly understood that this obsession would either purify or crucify me. To date, it has done both but neither the purification nor the crucifixion has made my literary journey any less troubling. What else truly puzzles me sometimes is that I don’t honestly know if writing has ruined my life or if my life has ruined my writing. Either way, it—this obsession– struck early. As a boy, I toyed with the alphabets like most kids my age played with marbles, and before long I had discovered how to make them perform their magic for me. I became so intimate with their immense power and g…

Black Excellence-- UCLA Gymnast Get Viral Attention & Much More Nia Dennis Like most superb athletes at the level that Nia Dennis achieved, she also wanted to make to the Olympics, however, that dream was deferred I believe due to injuries. Nevertheless, awhile back, two of her floor routines received viral attention and much more. Her routines were dedicated to Black culture and because she executed her gymnastic skills so brilliantly, she received a lot of media attention from many celebrities and was invited to appear on many popular talk shows. She even received comments from former First Lady Michelle Obama. She dedicated music in her routines to…

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Troy, I see you've done some reformatting. I can handle not having the smiley emoticons to play with, but the "delete" option seems to have disappeared again. It was my safety net... BTW, I am duplicating this new topic in this forum where it really belongs because I couldn't "delete" it from the Literary forum where I posted it by mistake.

James Baldwin Tells Us All How to Cool It This Summer Is it too late, now, to put out the fire this time? An interview, forty-five years later. By The Editors In Esquire's July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. In light of the Trayvon Martin case, we've republished the interview in full below. Q. How can we get the black people to cool it? BALDWIN: It is not for us to cool it. Q. But aren't you the ones who are getting hurt the most? BALDWIN: No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest. Q. Can we still cool it?…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099 On cue, somebody accuses Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio of eating pets. Former POTUS Orange Julius picked up on this BS and used it as a talking point during the debate. Surely, he's repeating it at rallies too. Interestingly, it's the Black and Brown immigrants who are being targeted with the most ridiculous sh8t. White immigrants aren't being threatened with deportation or accused of using up resources that should be spent on US citizens. The hypocrisy in the immigration issue is Bla…

ON THE NEWS,THE SECRET SERVICE THAT PROTECTS THE PRESIDENT IS INVOLVED IN A SEX SCANDAL/SECRET SERVICE INVOLVED WITH PROSTITUTES..ROCKIN ROLL RED NECK RIGHT WING TED NUGENT SAID IF THE PRESIDENT GET REELECTED HE WOULD EITHER BE IN JAIL OR DEAD/WHAT DOES TED NUGENT MEAN/ IS HE PLANNING SOMETHING/ IN 2009,WHITE PREACHER ON THE NEWS SAYING,GOD WANTS OBAMA DEAD,MICHELLE OBAMA SHOULD BE A WIDOW...GOD WANTS OBAMA DEAD.. LAST YEAR ON 60 MINUTES NEWS SHOW, NEO NAZI'S ON THE NEWS PLANNING TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY WHITE BY FORCE...THEN, NEO MILITIA CAUGHT WITH RICIN. THEY WERE PLANNING TO RELEASE THE RICIN IN WASHINGTON DC.RICIN IS DEADLY LIKE ANTHRAX..KLAN HAVE BEEN CAU…

Tomorrow's. Christmas. Sermons. In. Black. Churches. Preachers ,Will. Not. Preach. There. Was. No. Miracle. Birth. No. Angels. Singing,No. Kings. Came. No. Halo. Above. His. Head. It. Wss. Not. A,Miracle. Birth. No. Drummer. Boy. Playing. Drums. There. Was. No,Conversation. With. A. Inn. Keeper. I. Read. This. Was. All. Made,Up. There. Was. Not. A. Miracle. Birth. ......Some. Believe. ,He,Jesus. Did. Not. Exist. ..Christianity. Was. Tortured. Forced. On,Our. Ancestors. ..There. Is. A. Book. Called. How. To. Make. A,Negro. Christian. The. Racist. White. Preacher. Told. The. Slave,Owners. Put. Christianity in. The. Minds Of. The. Slaves. ,,They,Can. Have. Them. Controlled.…

I grew up in a building that looked very much like the one shown in this animation. I clearly recall reasoning that Santa was fiction based upon the fact that we had no fire place from Santa to descend. The projects, however, actually do have chimneys. When I was a kid we would dump our trash down a chute where it was periodically incinerated and the noxious smoke was released through a chimney. Today they use compactors and God know where the smushed-up rubbish goes from there. I recall trying to explain my reasoning to another kid, in an attempt to dispel the myth of Kris Kringle. The kid simply would not believe me. Many years later, I heard the kid we…

IN CLEVELAND ANTHONY SOWELL,KILLED 11 WOMEN,AND HE IS TRYING TO AVOID DEATH ROW.WHERE HE SHOULD BE....

TRAYVON MARTIN KILLED BY A LUNATIC MURDERER WHO IS HISPANIC HELPED BY GESTAPO POLICE..CHAVIS CARTER HANDCUFFED IN ARKANSAS KILLED BY GESTAPO POLICE..ROBERT CHAMPION BEATING TO DEATH ON A BLACK COLLEGE BAND BUS.,WHERE WAS THE PROTESTING FOR HIM./////PROTESTING FOR THE JENA 6 IN LOUISIANA... THOSE BLACK BOYS ,IF SHOULD HAVE BEEN//WHERE WAS THE CONCERN FOR THE BLACK BOYS BISHOP EDDIE LONG WAS SEXUALLY ROMANCING///WHY IS HE STILL ON THE CHURCH PULPIT../////WHY IS SOME BLACK LIFE VALUED OTHERS OR NOT.///

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1Km_SdBYI&feature=related ************************************* One summary of the movie***** “My name is Alex. I may look like a little boy, but I am a grown up.” The opening scene of the 2010 film I Want To Be A Soldier leads the viewer to believe that the film will be about a rebellious youngster who won’t tolerate authority and won’t give in to threats. That’s Alex and he is only eight years old. But then we see other scenes from earlier in his life which portray an ideal upbringing of a young boy – recorded via the family camcorder. But is it the same boy? And if it is, what may have caused the transformation tha…

Hello Folks. Just stopping by to extend Holiday Greetings, and inform that I'm still alive and kickin', doing OK. I do check things out here occasionally, hoping to find something that captivates my interest, (avoiding the verbal diarrhea of black unity's main proponent), grateful for the Pepto Bismo Kenneth always provides with his insightful observations. My cynicism, as usual, prevails and I remain indifferent about the "what-black-folks-need-to-do" litany. In my opinion, black folks are ironically becoming enslaved by racism, aided and abetted by a vocal minority sending the message that unless African Americans are absolved and excused o…

As Family And Friends Gather To Eat.. Black People Should Be,Grateful For The Black Soldiers Past And Present. Civil Rights,Activist Who Were Beaten Up,Jailed ,Lynched For Us,To ,Have What We Have...Some Black Politicians . Black Preachers,Years Ago,When The Church , Was A Place Of Unity And Strategy . The Black Church Has Become Slave Cabins And Pimp,Houses... Enslaving The Souls Of Black Folks And Worshipping Money.....

A Black man's view of Daniel Handler's Racist Remarks During the National Book Awards. The idea that when I search for Jacqueline Woodson and National Book Awards I don't get information about her accomplishment first, I get news about the "Racist" comments made by the night's MC Daniel Handler (of Lemony Snicket fame). I was at the event it was a sea of white folks. All of the people who were so bent out of shape about the stupid joke could care less that there were virtually no Black people in the audience, at arguably the most prominent book event of the year. Of course the media could care less about us and utilized tremendous energy talking a…

The recent fires that have ravaged Altadena, CA and Pacific Palisades, CA have something unique in common. Both are highly liberal Democrat-focused enclaves that (housed many who) tended to look down their noses at the average everyday person; i.e., the small fry world. Altadena’s average home price is $1,248,945. Pacific Palisade’s average home price is $3,462,178. Each of the(se) two areas impacted, sit(s) directly at the foot of towering mountain ranges and take in majestic views. Two days before the reported up to 109 to 110 mile per hour-plus winds and pillars of fire savagely burned through everything like gigantic atomic powered flamethrowers, the Hollywood Go…

In my ongoing quest to do what some will find boring, the next two entries are meant to remind people that before Motown, Disco, Psychadelic Funk, Hip-hop, and Rap, black people snapped their fingers and patted their feet to other types of R&B music. Yeah, you know a little about the Blues. BB King. Roberty Cray. But, let’s go back a little further, back to the 1930s. Myth has it that musician Robert Johnson went to the crossroads and while there, sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the amazing guitar skills he inexplicably acquired. Nobody does, or did it better. Blues aficionados claim Johnson approached his guitar like a keyboard and treated the strin…

Hey Everybody Long time...I know. I trust you all have been well. It's good to be back, but this new site is crazy. I hope to get the hang of it soon. Ciao

Nah, it didn't sink.....it was BLOWN away! By the BLACK PANTHER! Black Panther's box office dominance continues to shatter records as the Marvel blockbuster vaulted past Titanic to become the third highest-grossing film of all time. https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/black-panther-passes-titanic-on-all-time-box-office-list/ar-AAvAWMQ?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=ansmsnnews11

You can read the details here. When I saw this I admit I was pissed. But then I had to ask myself why this would piss me off. This is a trivial slight perhaps done by a know-nothing-unpaid-intern. I mean I have taken some abuse and have even gotten a death threat running this site, that angered me less, so why did this bother me? I thought about it for a second. The answer is pretty simple. I'm very frustrated than Black websites have still not figured out how to work together. In this instance in the interest of self-preservation, through ignorance, Ebony Magazine has flagged my post as spam. They could have simply not allowed it to be seen. Th…

The following sentence was in an email I received this morning promoting a virtual Juneteenth celebration: "We are outraged by the legacy of racism in the United States and we actively protest the use of absurd and needless violence against BIPOC." I was like, "BIPOC," what heck is that? I had to look it up because presumably I'm one since it was used in an email addressed to me. After looking it up, I decided it is an acronym I will never use.

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

Read About Black Presence In The Bible.In Hebrew,It Says That,Adam Was Of Dark Skin .Garden Of Eden, ,In Genesis,Garden Of Eden Was Near Land Of Cush.Today That Land Is Near Ethiopia,Sudan In Africa.Science And The Bible ,Confirm The Birth Place Of Humanity Is East Africa.Black Preachers Cannot Preach This,They Are Busy ,With Prostitutes,Having Children With Mistresses,Stealing In The Name Of The Lord.,Beating Their Wives, Or Killing Their Wives..Black Church Sunday Teach The Young Faith With The Truth.White Christians Bible Lovers Will Not Speak Of The Black Presence In The Bible,Bible They Love So Much.!

.....sincere questions Why do you habitually refer to members of the African/Black race with the archaic term "Negro"? I notice you don't refer to Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans collectively by THEIR archaic term "oriental" . Is Spanish your first language or something?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/al-green-censure-trump-protest-house/index.html Not the "Let's Stay Together" singer but Rep. Al Green (D-TX) got himself censured today. 10 of his fellow Democrtas voted in favor of it. During POTUS OJ's Tuesday night speech, Rep. Al Green decided it was time for him to perform. He was given a chance to settle down. Instead, he kept yelling and the Sargeant at Arms escorted him out of the building. Rep. Al Green didn't get himself kicked out of the Capitol stomping on behalf of Black folks. His concern was Medicaid/Medicare.😎

BLACK NURSE AMBER VINSON GOT EBOLA,SHE AND OTHER MEDICAL PEOPLE TREATED ERIC DUNCAN WHO DIED LAST WEEK/SHE FLEW ON A PLAN TO OHIO , WITH FEVER, NOW EVERYBODY'S IN FEAR.//ON PBS LAST WEEK ,TOPIC WAS EBOLA.PERSON SAID EBOLA WAS IN AFRICAN BATS,AFRICAN PEOPLE PROBALY ATE BATS AND GOT EBOLA.WHAT/SO EBOLA AND AIDS ORGINATED FROM AFRICA..AMAZING....IVE SEEN,DOCUMENTARIES ON ADOLF HITLER'S SCIENTIST CREATED LABORATORY TERROR,MAKES YOU WONDER./////

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/dan-makes-watermelon-quip-depicting-gop-attacks-obama/ Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, speaking on the GOP's expected strategy against Democrats in elections this fall, said Republicans would describe President Obama as "a nice person ... very articulate" but an ineffective leader who "couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic." O jeez! Ain't it November, 2012 yet?

Wells Fargo Agrees to $175 Million Settlement Over Lending Discrimination Wells Fargo has denied claims of lending discrimination and said it's settling "solely for the purpose of avoiding contested litigation with" the Justice Department {C} {C} Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Wells Fargo has denied claims of lending discrimination and said it's settling "solely for the purpose of avoiding contested litigation with" the Justice Department Wells Fargo Bank agreed to pay at least $175 million Thursday to resolve allegations it discriminated against black and Latino home buyers, in what the Justice Department called the second largest settlement over fair le…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: amberbks@aol.com TONY ROSE, NAACP IMAGE AWARD-WINNING PUBLISHER AND PIONEERING MUSIC EXECUTIVE, PASSES AWAY AT 74 Phoenix —Tony Rose, acclaimed book publisher, pioneering music executive, Vietnam War veteran, and co-founder of the influential Boston Black music scene, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, May 30, 2025, following a courageous battle with cancer. Born Conant Burleigh Rose in Boston, Massachusetts, “Tony” Rose was raised in the Whittier Street Housing Projects in Roxbury. After serving in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Air Force, Rose studied at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Califo…

The Corrupt Democrat smoke and mirrors freight train is headed straight toward Black America at full speed with its light on, while Black America refuses to look up and get off of the tracks. Warroom.org | Rudy Guiliani and Dr. Maria Ryan Aug 21, 2024 Corruption And Communism Theme Of DNC With Rudy Giuliani And Dr. Maria Ryan https://rumble.com/v5bvtaz-corruption-and-communism-theme-of-dnc-with-rudy-giuliani-and-dr.-maria-ryan.html Check out time marks: 08:40 (Walz is trying to make it a Chinese communist republic) 11:45 (The left-wing Democrats on the street will tell you Walz is a clown) 12:30 (It's all about control) 17:13 (White lib…

D. Amari Jackson, who has participated here in the past (In fact, Cynique reviewed his novel the Savion Sequence) wrote a well written, accurate, and inspiring about Paul Coates, "How an Ex-Black Panther Waged a Successful, Four-Decade Revolution In Publishing Without Planning To" check it out Paul Coates, who is Ta-Nehisi's father has always been supportive of AALBC.com. It is elders like him who provide the inspiration and support (including financial) which allows independent Black-owned business to grow. People like Paul are usually overlooked, by the press, who rather expend valuable resources on degenerates like Milo. The Atlantic Black Star website is an in…

Do new(er) TV shows like ‘Our Kind of People’ and ‘The Kings of Napa’ help showcase the accomplishments and economic potential that black Americans can attain and have achieved, or do they simply highlight the ever widening gap between black elites and everyday black people? Any thoughts or perspectives? - - - Our Kind of People https://deadline.com/2022/01/our-kind-of-people-season-one-finale-spoilers-creator-interview-1234918896/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/our-kind-of-people-tv-review-1235017515/ https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/our-kind-of-people-review-fox-1235070184/ https://www.rottentomat…

Hey everybody! I thought that this topic that I brought up would be a good discussion topic since a lot of Black Americans and Black Latinos have been discussing how they identify themselves as well as others that are apart of the African diaspora. I did a video on YouTube video; which is posted below; a while back discussing this topic and how the Black American and the Black Latino community are not as equal as we all would probably favor it to be. I would like to know what do you guys think. My video: https://youtu.be/3N9IfKEjVdY

When you ask Google Home's Smart Assistant to “name some African American websites,” Google pulls the information from AALBC. While Google cite's AALBC as the source, I would be much happier if they compensated me for my research. If AALBC's information is good enough to reference on a service for which people pay them, shouldn't AALBC.com be compensated? Honesty I don't mind Google or anyone sharing the information -- indeed I encourage it. This is why I researched the information and maintain it on AALBC, but if a multi billion dollar corporation is using it to enhance their services, why shouldn't the underlying sources, like AALBC, be compensated? I'm n…

PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE NEWS SPEAKING ABOUT WOMEN AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE.. THE RELIGIOUS ARE AGAINST WOMEN USING BIRTH CONTROL PILLS IT SEEMS....WHAT IS THE CHURCH OPINION OF CASTRATING MEN WHO DO NOT LIKE PAYING CHILD SUPPORT..THE BLACK CHURCH PREACHERS ACT LIKE OVERSEER'S OVER THEIR PEOPLE ON COMMUNITY PLANTATIONS.......WHAT IS THE CHURCH OPINION ON PREACHERS THAT CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES AND SOMETIMES HAVE A CHILD WITH A MISTRESS.//.....