Culture, Race & Economy

During an interview with Wanda Sykes, Erykah said she does not make money through the sales of her CD. She also said budgets are smaller as well. I have to assume this is part of the reason to create such a video. On basis of grabbing attention I doubt she could have done anything which would have been more successful. The "bootyfull" Badu certainly got my attention. The controversy surrounding this video is furthure evidence that there is no such thing as "bad" publicity. Erykah Badu - Window Seat Video Wanda Sykes "Window Seat" Parody However, I purchased the first New Amerykah CD, from a wall Wal-Mart in Western Mass, when it first came out. I …

We (me and the other White racist trolls) have come to the conclusion that some of you are confusing SCIENCE with KNOWLEDGE. Science CONTAINS knowledge, but the two are NOT the same. (kind of like the different Pioneers who make up the composite....lol) When you reference different facts and discoveries from ancient African cultures like Kemet and Nubia or talk about what the ancient Native Americans knew, you're not talking about science. You're talking about their knowledge, which may have been based in whatever concept their particular culture used to arrive at those beliefs. SCIENCE is a uniquely Western concept. It's more than just collecting information;…

The House I Live In (2012, Drugs Documentary Movie - Trailer) Pioneer I thought about you when I learned about this film, listening to a recent This American Life episode.

There are a variety of reasons but one has to do with the nature of the conversations. I was on Lipstick Alley a few moments ago reading a comment posted in a thread I'm following. One of the trending conversation is shown below. The post tickled me because it was so absurdly shallow. There was a time which I was guaranteed to get a laugh visiting these forums, but this was years ago now. I'm not saying forums must post silly shit, like the comment below, to garner participation, but fun has to be mixed in with the seriousness. But alas you need a critical mass of participants in order to generate the humor ---- I'm attr…

Black businesses matter. There is no debate about this. Go to any major Black populated neighborhood and you will not be able to find Black owned businesses. This is because these businesses do not exist. Coincidence? No. This is by design. Since birth, the biggest ambitions our parents generally have for us is to work for someone else and hopefully end up getting a high paying job. We aren't taught to create jobs and thus, create wealth. We can't even rap about that mess in hip hop music. Bet most people don't find it partly odd that most rappers only rap about non-black owned merchandise and how much they want material things that are not created by Black people. That's…

Condi spoke at my kid's graduation on Saturday. It was as good, if not a better, than the speech Steve Jobs gave that everyone was creaming their pants over. Rice is an amazingly accomplished woman. It is astonishing that Black people dislike her. She is often brandished as a war hawk, even disparged as Bush's mistress. Barack Obama is no less a war hawk and is worshipped (literarlly) by most Black folks. The idea that Black folks are not talking about TPP boggles the mind. But I digress... On a related note, on my way to my kid's graduation, in VA, I passed at huge conderate flag blowing in the win, easily visible from I95 near mile mar…

Regardless of what you might think of Roland, we desperately need MORE programs like this not less. I knew Koreans had a lock on Black Hair care but I had no idea how serious it was. Shoot, we should open up Chinese take out restaurants too. Here is the full documentary referenced above. We need to own this industry nationally. The Bronner Bros are large in ATL, why is this not replicated in other cities?

LAST WEEK ON A 2007 EPISODE OF BAISDEN AFTER DARK ON TV ONE..PASTOR HAGGINS SUGGESTED COUPLES WATCH PORN TO GET SEXUALLY STIMULATED,REALLY.SO JESSE JACKSON, JESSE JACKSON JR, BISHOP EDDIE LONG WERE THEY ALL WATCHING PORN,/PREACHERS THAT CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES, OR A PREACHERS SON, .BISHOP EDDIE LONG SHOULD BE OFF THE PULPIT AND BEHIND BARS FOR SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BOYS...,IN THE 1990'S PREACHER HENRY LYONS WAS LOCKED UP FOR STEALING I THINK 4 MILLION.HE CHEATED ON HIS WIVES, AFTER RELEASED HE GOT MARRIED AGAIN.....,IF THE CHURCH WANTS THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE SEX DISCIPLINE,THE PREACHERS SHOULD HAVE SEXUAL SELF CONTROL....I THINK PREACHER J…

@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.

The total number of books on AALBC published in 2022 was the lowest it has been since 2005! The difference is not a few book books but hundreds of books! Now I don't have every Black book published on AALBC -- but my information is certainly indicative of the books published by the major publishers and the larger independents. I also capture more Black indie books than any other independent online store. This data tells me substantially fewer Black books were published in 2022 than in the past two decades! There were 35% fewer books published in 2022 than in 2021 and almost 50% fewer than the peak published in 2015, as reflected on the AALBC web…

Snoop Dog vs The Clark Sisters & Wendy Williams Oh no! I didn't know Snoop Dog recently made a #1 Gospel Song! And, Wendy Williams mentioned this on her show and apparently received a lot of negativity for what she said.

My final take on the "Black Panther" euphoria, has predictably congealed into cynicism. The black panther character first appeared as an antagonist to Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four in 1966. which according to some accounts, was the same year a cabal of young black militants in Oakland, California, inspired by the heroics of this character, envisioned the image of a black panther as a logo for their nascent organization. Subsequently learning that the symbol had already been adopted in 1965 by another political group from Alabama known as the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, Bobby Seal and Huey Newton perhaps made these activists an offer they couldn't refuse and - …

Over the years, I've encountered many individuals who remain curious about who was Black in the Bible. A lot of them spout legends and myths are absolute falsehoods. Some even mention individuals who actually never appear in the Scriptures. So I did research and here are my findings. When compiling this data, I incorporated the claims made on different Websites and by individuals. I chose to stick with only what I found in the Bible. This way, I would not codify legends, myths and feel good tales. That's how we ended up with a White Jesus. One of the things that stood out is that the Bible rarely mentions the skin color of individuals, despite widesprea…

Are Men Instinctively Different Than Women? I am thinking about this topic due to the thread Pioneer posted about male attractivness versus female attractiveness. I think this is a very broad subject that has expanded over time especially due to western civilization. Today, this idea is extremely varied especially amongst the African American culture from past to present. In America, our culture is based upon the set up of chattel slavery but overtime, it has become diverse. But in the Old World, meaning 'the Mediterranean World', I think that the roles of males were much more defined as being distinct from the roles of females. I think th…

IS BLACK UNITY POSSIBLE,I SAY NO/BLACK LEADERS CANNOT BE TRUSTED, BLACK CHURCHES AND POLITICIANS CONTROLLED BY WHITE SUPREMACY DEMONS AND SERPENTS/BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE...BLACK ELDERS DO NOT HAVE RESPECT FOR BLACK HISTORY SACRIFICERS,LIKE THE BLACK REPUBLICANS LED BY DR. BEN CARSON/////PRINCIPLE IMANI-FAITH,BELIEVE IN OUR PEOPLE,HAVE RESPECT FOR THE VICTORY OF OUR STRUGGLE,THAT-S THE FIRST PRINCIPLE THAT CANNOT HAPPEN,BLACK PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY ENSLAVED....NIA-PURPOSE,BRING BACK GREATNESS,NO/.BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE,,ELDERS HAVE FORGOTTEN BLACK HISTORY,UJAMAA,COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, THIS WOULD REQIURE , BLACK UNITY,NO/////WE ENSL…

You're telling me THIS: ...is the man Serena Williams CHOSE to lay up and open her legs to and have babies with???? Psychological Warfare is REAL, people.

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…

Dear Troy, I was so overjoyed to see you at my book event in Harlem last month. Since AALBC is where it all started for me in America, I wanted to share with you & everyone how my new book is taking off! Thanks so much for your support and understanding. SUNDAY BOSTON GLOBE Madison Smartt Bell, one of the nation's most respected literary authors, wrote a glowing review of "The Sexy Part of the Bible" in SUNDAY's edition of the Boston Globe. Book Review of Sexy Part BOOKLIST review of Kola Boof's "The Sexy Part of the Bible" REVIEW of The Sexy Part BLACK EXPRESSIONS BOOK PICK FOR AUGUST!! *H…

This year, I noticed that many television channels both broadcast and cable are coming out with new shows where the cast are predominately made up of AfroAmerican men who are flamboyantly gay, drag queens, and queer. And although you can find gay and transgendered men in ALL races......I've noticed that there are almost NO shows on television featuring a cast predominately made up of gay and transgendered men who are Latino, Jewish, or Native American. I've also noticed at a lot of the George Floyd protests there were a lot of LGBTQIA+ demonstrators and flags attempting to conflate their interests with police brutality and Civil Rights. From observing o…

60 Minutes was my must-see TV, and on Sunday, May 5th, it will be again as I watch these two young women make their mathematical debut. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Part of me always will believe that certain unconscionable individuals mostly remain insulated from the resultant violence, but enjoy the money made from the trafficking of guns. It's our young people who are being slaughtered continuously and relentlessly.

Dear Daddy is a feature length documentary about the life long effects of fatherlessness on women. The film follows the dramatic journeys of eight young women from the tough city streets of Washington,DC as they struggle to overcome poverty, poor educational systems, no healthcare, and the most difficult life circumstance they have been dealt... the absence of their fathers. More information about Dear Daddy Dark Girls is the upcoming documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture. More information about Dark Girls

I Did Not Know That Carol Channing's Grandmother was Black!? By Allan Warren - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10973223 colour portrait Carol Channing Although her career was before my time, from rewinds, I found her to be fabulous. She passed away in 2019. I loved to watch two episodes of her and the late Betty White on a Love Boat episode. She has a unique, strong voice and she's funny. And I just read that, although she was considered a White woman all her life, in the later years, she admitted that she had recent Black ancestry! So, on this wise, I wonder would she fit the old category …

I recently I got into a confrontation at work with a manager (not mine) over a particular issue and it got to the point that our voices were raised. It didn't help that he was Caucasian also, lol. The issue was resolved (although I'm sure he hasn't forgotten my challenging him) by a higher up but later on after it was over a female co-worker from Nepal whom I flirt with a couple time but she rarely flirted back confided in me how hot and attractive it was to see me being loud and turning red while standing up to that particular manager whom she didn't like either. She said it felt like I was standing up for her (although she wasn't even on my mind at the time) and that th…

Christianity. Is. White. Supremacy. Slave. Owners. Used. The. Bible -Christ. On. The. Slaves. Ephesians. Slaves. Obey. Your. Earthly. -Masters. With. Fear. And. A. Sincere. Heart. Like. You. Would. For. -Christ.. .The. White. Image. Of. Jesus. White. Christian Go. All. Over -The. World. Forcing. This. Image. On. Non. White. People. -Darkness-Is, Evil. White. Christians. Believe. They. Cannot. Envision. Jesus -Or-Christ. Being. Dark. Skin.. Black. Church. Preachers. Would. -Worship -A. White. Image. Of. Jesus. For. Profit.. Christianity. Has. Been. Used. -By. Racist. White. To. Have. White. Supremacy. . All. The. Black. -Church. Praying. Has. Not. Stopped. Evil. By…

Well I saw For Colored Girls last night. For Carey's benefit every comment that ever made about the movie stands. Actually I could have said that before I saw the movie because I never previously offered an opinion of the film itself, just commentary on the debate and on the comments of others. The film itself was OK. I'd give it 2 stars out of five. One tremendous plus was For Colored Girls was an excellent showcase of some of the best or most popular Black actresses working today. I enjoyed Thandie, though her accent grated on my nerves. Even the secondary males characters were quite good. Loretta Divnine's faux beau was perfectly cast and Kimberly Elise's b…

In October, I lost my youngest twin daughter to breast cancer. She didn't have health insurance when she found out. Still, she got health insurance through Obamacare (Affordable Care Act.) Several months after cancer treatments, she went into remission after treatments. Still, she refused radiation because there was a possibility of leaving her mentally and physically disabled. By then, the cost of her treatment was nearly a quarter of a million dollars, a poisoned and mutilated body. She lost so much, but she refused to give up her way of life. The cancer treatments didn't extinguish her light, though. She was still helping others see what a gift life was …

Conveniently Black A few days ago Jim Crow Joe Biden gave the descendants of the former American slaves the proverbial middle finger by picking a US born South Asian-Jamaican to be his vice presidential running mate. A South Asian from the country of India whose immigrant parents had nothing in common with our Ancestors’ experience from the Institution of American Slavery and the Jim Crow era. These facts should not be lost those of us care about the lineage and legacy of the Ancestors who bled, died and are buried on this soil. Joe Biden like Donald Trump and many of the ‘Pocahontas’ mindset minions either think we are too stupid or politically uneducated to know …

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What do you consistently do to become a better person?

This Trump supporting CEO wouldn't hire me because I am black and old. He called me a boomer and tried to talk like a brother. I passed very coding test, but in the end, he said there is no room for someone as experienced as me. He tried to bond with me calling me a broza and asking if Knicks are my favorite basketball team. CEO is white and clueless. We need to stop racism at work. Please leave a review here: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Vowel-Reviews-E5492257.htm

I am interested in hearing other opinions before I post mine

In order for us to capitalize 😏 Oops! ....gain from the knowledge we collect, we must first determine what IS knowledge vs what is mere words and documentation. Key to recognizing what is knowledge is knowing the difference between EVIDENCE and PROOF. Evidence is just facts/data that support an assertion. Proof...on the other hand...is evidence that not only support it but eliminates all legitimate/reasonable doubt of it being true. For example...... One could assert that violent crime is higher in St. Louis than it is in Cincinnati. Siting statistics found online and in law enforcement and crime data books is EVIDENCE of this, but it's …

Maybe Tyler should have played all the parts in drag. Or had a bunch of other dragsters--Jamie Foxx, Martin Lawrence, Idris Elba, et al http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2010/nov/04/perry-treatment-for-colored-girls/

All over the internet a lot of AfroAmericans in the conscious community are claiming that a 21 year old "beat" Roland Martin in an interview and clowned him on his own show. I decided to check the interview out and judge for myself who out-did who. Here's the interview that so many people are talking about: While King Randall is a very intelligent and ambitious young man who I think has a bright future, his youth and inexperience with the world shows in this interview. Roland does indeed "school" the young brother on the importance of voting and politics in general in my opinion.

Black people do NOT need reparations ! Our community needs more fathers, more family structure, and more trade schools. Far too many blacks are sitting around and waiting for that big reparations pay day rather than trying to lift themselves up. Playing the victim is easy but how about our community teaching our youth that they arent victims? Thats a much better and more constructive idea. Slavery happened 160 years ago, how would they even determine who gets reparations? So many blacks have white or hispanic blood anyway. Should the families of White Union soldiers who died freeing slaves also get reparations? Should black Africans that sold their own people to s…

Shannon. Sharp. This. Is. A. White. Female. ? News. Says. He. Got. Involve. With. Her. When. She. Was. 19. ....ESPN. Was. He. Fired. Or. Did. He. Stop. Talking. On. ESPN. Till. This. Is. Over. ..News. Says. ,,,She. Wanted. 50. Fifty. Million. Dollars. ? Tape. Of. Him. And. Her. Talking. Was. Released. .. I. Think. News. Says. He. Raped. Her. ...He. On. Tape. Saying. He. Wants. Her To. Wear. A. Dog. Collar. ???. This. Sounds. Like. Puffy. Combs. .. Wild. Freak. Offs. ........Was. Shannon. Sharp. Going. To. Pay. Her. 50. Million. Dollars. . .? .....The. Tape. Of. Them. Talking. .These,,,Wealthy. Celebrity. ,Black. Men. ........???

I'm a True Crime buff. I love reading about or watching re-creations of murder cases that dedicated detectives and dogged police work eventually solve. I tune into all of the TV staples on this subject: DATELINE, 20/20, 48 hours, Discovery ID, and last but not least, "Fatal Attraction", which is a black series that I watch on a regular basis. Like Maury's show, Fatal Attraction gives you a snap shot of the life styles of the black Section 8 sub culture or, in these cases, the death styles. The story lines on this show are very predictable because they all follow the same pattern. For all the black sistas out there, there are valuable lessons to be gained from watch…

Field & Track Women—Hairstyles I just want to reflect on something else today because I am weary of all of depressing media hype about mass shootings and killing Black people. So, I want to share something about spectator about spectator sports, and something that I like to watch that inspires me to be active and set goals for getting better physical, mental and emotional health. The competition has begun! A few days ago, the recent track and field meets have showed up on my channel and I am amazed at these awesome and powerful beauties. And at first glance, it may not seem to be the main focus, however recently, what seems obvious to me…

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

Lord knows just how incredibly short-sighted many Black folk can be. It seems some of you want to argue, insult other Black people and ignore the signs that Trump will win in November. (I sure hope it’s not because so many of you probably WANT Trump to win). Here is what you’re missing: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just pardoned a White man convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in the summer of 2020. Daniel Perry WAS serving a 25-year prison sentence for the murder of the protester, Garrett Foster, who was attending a racial justice protest with his Black fiancee. But Perry, an armed White man, didn’t fancy that one bit. Abbott had faced pressu…

Name one conspiracy theory you know is BS/just not real or true? Is it still a conspiracy theory if its true? Do you know of any conspiracy theory that is true? Do you know of any that was once thought to be false but is now known or accepted as true?

Black Girl Clobbers Another Black Girl with Baton During Track Relay--Went Viral! I keep watching this over and over in shock! And get this, the perpetrator is now playing the victim. She claims that it was an accident. I am trying to be objective but, it looks suspicious to me. Kaelen Tucker, a Brookville High School athlete

This post was inspired by a students words to me. They struck me. What can we do to improve our childrens image of themselves? Please share your thoughts. Thank you for clicking my posts, commenting and liking them...my gratitude is immeasurable. http://www.cgoodwork.com/blog/2016/3/6/ugly

I realize many of our brothers and sisters are not concerned with segregation. Many are thinking of how to ensure we as a community do not become another Tulsa or Greenwood. How can we use our literary skills to protect our history, community, and churches against the evils that are transpiring against us? As the Black community, we need to stop trying to hurt each other. We must unite to defeat the enemy, which, unfortunately, can be us.

Look at that monkey-see-monkey-do-negro [ picture of negro in blackface playing a banjo not included here]. He's a smart nigga too. But what's he playing on that banjo? Well, if you listen real good, he's playing Mr Charlie's favorite tune, stomp that colored fella. Let me cut to the chase. Some negro political blogs should change their names to BootyForSell. That's right, flash a red sign and adorn it with purple lips and a fat ass. You know, them big booty lips that compliment deep ass kissing. But wait, dez some smart Negros that may not know the errs of their ways. I mean, they have great writing skills that most would die for, but they ain't talking ab…

Du Bois's speech reminded me of a comment @Delano, made in a conversation I started last week. Du Bois died a year after I was born and was old enough to have personally known black people who were formerly enslaved. It is a crying shame that almost 60 years after this speech was delivered the things Du Bois criticized have only gotten worse. His point on what we now refer to as campaign finance reform was particularly telling. W. E. B. Du Bois Criticizes Capitalism in the audio below. He was 93 when this speech was delivered and was a remarkable human. It seems he was wrong about socialism being the dominant world structure. I guess he was far more confident or …

Deleted my posts on all this out of fear that some mentally ill person, white or black, alas, will think my artistic attempt to understand Brown's humanity and his premonitions of impending doom and how it might have influenced his wrong-headed behavior will think or believe it was a justification for his actions.

On a daily basis I see things on my Facebook wall that demonstrates how easily we can be manipulated into believing that something is true, when it should be obvious that it is not. Facebook, for example, has been putting a lot more video on my newsfeed lately. I've started to notice a lot of videos that are clearly fake. However, based upon the comments posted, people believe these fake videos to be true. It is very scary how easily we can be fooled. For example, I saw a video posted by someone I thought was pretty sharp. They used this video to prove how skilled the martial artist Bruce Lee was with nunchucks, which is a weapon made of two, foot-long sticks, co…