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The first article meshes 100% with my observations over the last few years. Of course the impact on Black folks is FAR worse, than what The Nation has observed for news in general. I'm just disappointed that I rarely arti8cles like this in the Black press (perhaps because the Black press has been so devastated). On the surface, the articles may not seem to be related, but they are, very much so. Google's Monopoly on the News by William F. Baker, This article appeared in the February 11, 2013 edition of The Nation. The Federal Trade Commission’s premature decision to close down its investigation of Google is a blow not just to Google’s competitors but t…
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Hello, I have to interview someone from a different culture for my global issues class. I figured this would be a good forum to do so. Preferably it should be someone from the country of Somalia. And they should have been in the U.S. for at least under 10 years. However, someone from a different culture in general is fine and I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much! 1) Identify your culture/and or country of origin? Gender and approximate age? If you are no longer living in your country of birth, how long have you been away? 2) In your country of origin: how do people greet each other (shake hands, bow, embrace, other). Has the tra…
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Black. Sheriff. Was. Murdered. By. A. White. Police. Officer. Son,In,Alabama.. White. Police. Officer. Son. Playing. Music. Loud. In,His. Truck. Black. Sheriff Approached The Truck,White Police,Officer Son Pulled Out A Gun,Shot-Murdered The Black ,Sheriff. .. Louisiana,White Police Officer Son Burned Down 3-Black Churches. . Not Just Racist White Police Murdering Innocent ,Unarmed. Black People. White Police Sons Just As Vile And,Evil.....Alabama Has The Death Penalty. Let's. See. If. The. White,Police. Son. Gets. The Death Penalty.. ..
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I never thought so, but it looks like they are turning it into that. Remember, perception is everything in the United States of Amnesia http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0
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I've noticed a recent pattern in colleges: increasing numbers of non-Black professors as experts in Black studies (African, Diaspora, American). And I personally question my feelings about it. In some ways, I find myself suspect of institutions that may feel more progressive for what could be described as "color-blind" selections. I've voiced similar concerns over book and media publishing. Awards, opportunities, and acknowledgement have often, in my observation, gone to white makers of Black culture (your favorite white rapper and such) or Black makers established with a white publisher. So, my question: How important is the idea of "own voice…
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Hide the white women! Really--if I was one of his opponents I'd make sure there was plenty of blonde white women in the crowd--he's probably been going cold turkey for months since this blew up and it will throw him off his game. Honestly, I heard that there is a questionaire going around for women who want to date Tiger. There is just one question: Are you white? That Negro is going to wind up like O.J. Simpson.
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PRESIDENT WANTS TO NOMINATE SUSAN RICE TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE...REPUBLICAN TRASH TRYING TO BLOCK THE NOMINATION....JOHN MCCAIN IS A IDIOT AND SOUTH CAROLINA LINDSEY GRAHAM WEARS A SHEET AND BURN CROSSES I BELIEVE.//////
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We live in a culture increasingly defined by ideas biased, and elevated, by algorithms designed by young white men to enrich themselves. This creates the false impression that the ideas which rise to the top of our social media feeds must be superior to ideas undiscoverable or unexpressed, on social media. Older media platforms reinforce this notion by trolling social media feeds for "news" to cover. Then working harder to elevation their social media presence than their own platforms. When a Kanye West expresses his political views it makes national news, while the thoughtful perspectives of the few remaining seasoned pollical journalists, who wr…
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Source- npr.org: "A divided Supreme Court has ruled that jail authorities may strip search people arrested for even minor offenses. The majority said courts must defer to prison officials to prevent new inmates from putting lives at risk. Dissenters said corrections officials should have to justify a strip search for someone brought in on a minor charge." http://www.npr.org/2012/04/03/149898842/supreme-court-rules-on-strip-search-issue
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NEWS SAYS ZIMMERMAN HAVING MARRIAGE PROBLEMS WITH HIS WIFE/I THINK I SPEAK FOR A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE WHEN I SAY/WHO GIVES A DAMN /GEORGE ZIMMERMAN IS A MURDERER ,DELIBERATELY KILLED-MURDERED TRAYVON MARTIN//ZIMMERMAN IS A MURDERING IDIOT,HIS WIFE A LYING IDIOT/////BLACK REPUBLICANS HAVE COMPASSION FOR HIM/BLACK REPUBLICANS THINK TRAYVON MARTIN WAS A THUG DESERVED TO BE KILLED/////DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE MURDERER ZIMMERMAN AND HIS LYING WIFE.////.
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The Deer, the Goblet & the Lily Bells—BLACK AFRICAN ORIGIN Solomon & the Beja, Part I In the past, I have had an intense debate and dialogue on the ancient book written by Solomon, THE SONGS OF SOLOMON, and presented a lot of detailed references. This book becomes extremely intense at times for me because I am a woman and Solomon’s writings are graphic, and from a man’s point-of-view. WHEW. At any rate, his book also becomes mind blowing and flattering to the affect that it takes a lot of emotional preparation in order to study it. No wonder I have never heard this book preached from the pulpit, or at least, that becomes my wonder. Something ha…
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IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, BLACK MAN GUNNED DOWN,BY WHITE POLICE//BLACK MAN FLEEING WHITE POLICE, HE TASERS AT HIM, THEN HE SHOOTS HIM 5 TIMES IN THE BACK..ON VIDEO WHITE POLICE IS SAYING BLACK MAN GRABBED HIS TASER GUN, VIDEO SHOWS WHITE POLICE USING TASER GUN AT HIM/ AFTER SHOOTING AT HIM WITH BULLETS, 5 TIMES TO HIS BACK, 4 OR 5 TIMES,//HE, WHITE POLICE PUTS TASER GUN BY THE BLACK MAN, AFTER HE HANDS CUFFS,HIM AS HE LAY DYING...WHITE POLICE CALLS POLICE STATION, WHOEVER SAYING MAN GRABBED HIS TASER,NOT TRUE, HE ZAPPING HIM WITH TASER, THEN PUTS IT BY TH…
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Well, the televised re-make of Roots came to an end and I, personally, was enriched and educated by ignoring calls to boycott it. I have yet to see the gangsta rap film, "Straight Outta Compton", which I assume would be Snoop Dog's preference for black folks to watch instead of a saga about slavery, but I don't think it could have been any better than this re-make of Roots. In critiquing this TV special, I am not inspired to give a long detailed analysis. My impression of it can be summed up in a paragraph. IMO, Roots was in the genre of a classic, character-driven epic and was well-produced, well-directed, well-cast and well-acted. Its in-depth portrayal of the …
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Circa half of the populace in the usa wants to dominate the world using military might gardless of the violence. Circa half of the populace in the usa wants the usa to be the center of a dysfunctional global order that every human is shackled to gardless the fiscal poverty for most humans. Circa nearest one hundred percent of the populace in the usa wants the usa live along time after its two hundred and fiftieth birthday but nearest zero percent of the populace in the usa want to lead it in uncomfortable ways to live along time. Is the USA in the way of a better humanity? Absent the USA would the militaristic impotency of all other governments or racial balance of …
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Another item that must be mentioned in the destruction of the black woman is her early sexualization. If you want to bet on one thing that is sure to move a black girl away from her mental assets to a focus on her physical ones is this high-octane sexual-charged atmosphere where her body generates attention long before she is socialized to understand the consequences. In black America, the sexualization of black girls takes place ahead of the socialization of black girls. And this is not a great concept mainly because if a girl’s sexual skills outpace her social skills, then what will be experienced is a generation of babies making babies. Sex is much too powe…
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Saw. A. Young. Black. Female. On. The. News , Talking. About. R. Kelly.. The. Documentary. Surviving. R. Kelly, Talks. About. His. Sexual. Abuse,Misconduct. With. Teenage. Girls!. For. Decades. He. Has. Been,Having. Sex With Teenage Girls,Abuse Them. ,Holding ,Them,Hostage. Read He Married A Singer When She Was 15_. ,R-Kelly ,Sex Addict ,Abusive Sex Fiend Who Is Obsessed With ,Teenage. Girls. Don't Know. Who More Lunatic R Kelly Or Kanye-West??????
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NOT A FAN OF BASEBALL OR BARRY BONDS ,I BELIEVE HANK ARRON IS STILL THE HOME RUN LEADER.BARRY BONDS MIGHT HAVE USED STEROIDS..BASEBALL PEOPLE TRYING TO KEEP HIM AND OTHERS OUT OF THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME BECAUSE OF STEROIDS///NEW YORK YANKEES PICTURE ANDY PETITTE,I HEARD HE USED HUMAN GROWTH HARMONES,WHY IS HE STILL PLAYING//WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STEROIDS AND HUMAN GROWTH HARMONES//////.
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Joe Biden really ticked off Republicans in his first State of the Union Speech. He stressed Equality, Fairness, healthcare and wants to push to cure all cancers and lower prescription medicines. He is not interested in giving free crack pipes to anyone. This is the delusion of Trump lovers. Unlike Trump, Biden can actually boast of his job creation record. Trump cannot. Because Trump left the Oval Office with less people working than when he first arrived. Under President Biden, Covid-19 is in full retreat. Because Biden’s administration took to this dangerous virus seriously. Republicans and those who worship Trump opposed vaccines and mask mandates and h…
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If you are asking yourself how can this question even be debatable; you need to attend, or watch the video when I post it.
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In. Louisiana, 3 Black. Churches. We're. Burned, Down. White. Man. ,Was,Arrested.. White. Man. That. Was. Arrested. Is. A. Sheriff. Deputy,Son, I. Think. . Black. Preacher. Henry. Lyons. Is,Suspectied,Of. ,Burning Down His Church,I Read. The Same, Preacher Lyons That. ,Was,In,Prison For Stealing 4:Million Dollars. ,Back In The 1990's. ,In,Houston ,Preacher Burleson Who Is In Prison For Organizing,,,,His,Wife Murder, Church Flock Think He Burned ,Down,The. Church Where He Preached.... 25- Years. Ago. Rwanda,Genocide. War.,Many . 100,000,s. Murdered. .....Black. People,Here. And. Africa. Have. No. Unity...
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Economic Corner - what is the truth of investment in the sport industry in the usa? Key points One hundred and fifty million is the most recent value of starting a WNBA franchise , fifty million initially and then one hundred million through promised infrastructure plans. The WNBA franchise in Chicago was started for five million dollars, in Oprah Winfrey's beloved town, by a white man who had less money than Oprah, and was absent any promises of future investment. No major league, major league defined as a team determined the primary athletic tier, from the NFL to the National Women's Hockey League has a black owner. For example, baseball has a black owner in…
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Recently, a man who had no home found a bag with gold coins with a value of $70,000. Good for him. Source: New York Daily News Homeless man in Texas wins right to keep bag containing $70,000 in cash, gold ERIK ORTIZ Thursday, June 14, 2012 Down on his luck, Timothy Yost is finally getting his pay day. Earlier this year, the 46-year-old homeless man said he found a bag containing cash and gold coins on the banks of the Colorado River in Bastrop, Texas, and now the City Council there is allowing him to claim ownership of the contents — worth at least $70,000. “It is a great day for Bastrop; it is a great day for Mr. Yost,” the man’s attorney…
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@Pioneer1 this is basically the same concept you assert regarding Black people. You say it is because we've adopted a Eurocentric life style. I say it is because we live in a culture dominated by greedy people ... Most of whom are white I suppose. At the end of the day the story is really that we, all Americans, eat too much an move to little. All the stuff about indigenous culture is superfluous window dressing. Just eat well and excerise. They are an attractive duo...
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A few months ago I said I was going to write a letter to Congress and the President to make Life Every Voice and Sing the Official United States of America 🇺🇸 national anthem. Here is the body of the letter. Please 🙏🏾 let me know if any additions or deletions should be made. To Whom It May Concern, Thank you for your service. I am writing you because I am requesting that a Bill be introduced to make Lift Every Voice and Sing the Official National Anthem of the United States of America. The following is an overview of my reasoning: Introduction The Star Spangled Banner has been the national anthem of the United States of America since 193…
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Rep. Matt Gaetz was instrumental in getting Rep. Kevin McCarthy booted as House Speaker. While Rep. Gaetz has more baggage than an airport, he could possibly run for Governor of Florida in 2026. Amazing that the state of Florida could be run by consecutive clowns. DeStupid should be an easy act to follow. Good thing oranges are the major export of Florida. Disney is the major attraction. It's the biggest retirement community in the US too. Yhe US doesn't rely on Florida for too much of anything. Another clown governor wouldn't break the state.🤣😎
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Never count out Democrats! Because it was TWO Democratic Presidents who have struck the most devastating blows against this country’s most intractable opponent: al Qaeda. First, after Dubya failed in seven years to even find him, it took President Barack Obama to order U.S. Special Forces to strike and take out Osama bin Laden and snatch his body to prove it. And two days ago, President Joe Biden ordered a drone strike which obliterated bin Laden's successor Ayman al-Zawahiri. Methinks Joe, might be on to something here. Because during his presidency. Barack Obama was a true U.S. Commander-in-Chief, killing terrorist after terrorist and nary breaking a sweat. …
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Reuters reports Lead Poisoning in New York City, at levels worst that Flint Michigan! In some areas of New York City, children tested high for lead at double the rate in Flint – the latest finding in a Reuters investigation that has identified 3,800 such lead hotspots nationwide. Until now, many have remained hidden. Maybe @Pioneer1's conspiracy theories have merit.
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Maybe it is just me, but I'll never understand why we so strongly believe the tools of the 1% will ever be instrumental in improving our situation. For example it is alarming how few in the online Black community are talking about TPP. Social media was ablaze when on non-issues like Rachel, or Obama's use of the n-word. But virtually quiet on TPP. In fact, I'm cynical enough to believe that Obama dropped the n-bomb and sang Amazing Grace just to divert attention from topics like TPP, which adversely affect all middle class and poor Americans--particularly Black people. At anyrate, TPP does not generate income for social media owners, so it will never be highlighted on …
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The World Wide Web (WWW) has been in a constant state of change since it became available to the general public in the early 1990's. I've had a web presence since 1995. I really can't imagine how the typical 20 year old can possibility understand a pre-WWW world. Things have improved so remarkably and quickly it is almost incomprehensible. There are two trends that I have noticed lately that are adversely effecting the nature of the WWW Large multinational corporate websites are beginning to dominate over independent websites. This is not a bad thing in and of itself. The alarming thing is that the big sites are able to accomplish this with bullshit content and a…
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A week ago I wrote that I had cast my ballot for the 2020 election 🗳. Today I received a call from my State Board of Elections and they helped me set up my vote tracking account. One of the things that it indicates is that my ballot was requested. I didn’t request it. So who did? Fortunately, because I try to stay informed I knew it was coming. But how many people aren’t expecting to receive it? Also the system to track your ballot was hard to register with and I actually had to call because it wouldn’t let me establish my account. Another thing was my normal polling place was changed. I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t created my account I might …
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ATLANTA SCHOOL CHEATING SCANDAL SOME ARE BLACK THAT ARE INVOLVED...FIND ON CNN NEWS...PROFESSOR ERIC DYSON UPSET OVER REPUBLICAN COMMENT THAT DURING THE BLACK FAMILY HAD THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER, A NICE FAMILY IMAGE..SLAVERY MOTHER ,FATHER AND CHILDREN WERE SOLD AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.....MAURY POVICH, IT IS AMAZING THE BLACK PEOPLE ON THEIR, WOMEN WHO DO NOT KNOW MOST OF THE TIME THE FATHER OF THEIR CHILD IS, BLACK MEN WHO DENIES BEING INVOLVED WITH WOMEN ON THE SHOW, MOST OF THE TIME IS THE FATHER OF A CHILD.. BLACK UNITY FUTURE IS GLOOMY TO ME...AIDS DOES NOT BRING FEAR TO SEXUALLY ACTIVE BLACK FOLKS...
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2014 Grammys Recap by Kam Williams A Royal Night to Remember! From Queen B’s Wardrobe Malfunction to Queen Latifah’s Mass Wedding Although the Grammys were dominated by the French robot duo Daft Punk, rapper/producer team Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and New Zealand teen singing sensation Lorde, their wins were easily upstaged by memorable appearances by two black queens, namely, Queen B and Queen Latifah. For, the night to remember’s highlights featured a wardrobe malfunction during Beyoncé’s performance of “Drunk in Love” and Reverend Latifah’s officiating the wedding of 33 couples (with the power vested in her by the State of California) following M…
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The following is an except from a speech delivered at a high school graduation ceremony by David McCullough Jr., an English teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts, and has created a national stir. "You are not exceptional. Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you… you’re nothing special...Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped... But do not get the idea you’re anything special. …
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Who knew a Brother invented the Super-Soaker? I admit I had no idea. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, or maybe it is simply not common knolwedge. Lonnie Johnson became a multi-millionaire, pretty quickly as a result. Share the story with you a young person in a brand new book for children: Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton and illustrated by another Brother Don Tate.
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In Baltimore, White Police Caught On Video ,Planting Drugs,Not Surprised. FBI Has Said White Police Are KKK,Klan Members..White Police Been Fired For Being Klan Members,Past 6 Years..Black Men Are Guilty Of Buying Selling,Drugs,Crack Cocaine. I Believe A Lot Of Racist Klan,Hitler Police Plant Drugs In Black Communities..San Francisco White Police Said,Black People Are Animals,Not,A Crime. To Shoot Black People. News,O. J .Simpson Gets,Parole,Leave Prison In October,White People Upset...
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I've briefly followed a story recently where apparently some Asian man who was speaking at a beauty pageant talked rudely to a Mexican contestant and in a show of solidarity against his "racism" most of the women got up and walked out. Here's a brother doing a show about the incident: I have a few questions about this incident: 1. Although he was indeed rude, what did he say that was racist or anti Latino? 2. Do they consider just TALKING to a Latina woman in that manner "anti-Latino" or "anti-woman"? 3. When we see video after video of bosses, police officers, and other public figures talking rudely and even being violent w…
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IN NORTH CAROLINA BLACK TEEN MALE 17, LENNON LACY WAS FOUND HANGING FROM A SWING SET...LENNON LACY WENT FOR A EVENING WALK, NEVER CAME BACK HOME..EARLY NEXT MORNING HIS BODY WAS FOUND HANGING FROM A SWING SET COVERED WITH ANTS....POLICE CLAIM SUICIDE,FAMILY SAY HOMICIDE,BELIEVE HE WAS LYNCHED.FBI IS INVESTIGATING, NAACP,HIRED A FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST TO HELP INVESTIGATE/FAMILY DO NOT TRUST POLICE////,KU KLUX KLAN IS IN EVERY CITY,BLACK ON BLACK GANG VIOLENCE,WAITING TO SEE WHO LYNCHED THIS YOUNG BLACK MALE,HE PLAYED ,HIGH SCHOOL, FOOTBALL////FAMLIY DO NOT BELIEVE SUICIDE....////YOU CANNO…
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😏Lol....I know good and well I shouldn't be cluttering up the board with this excess thread but I guess I'm just trying to be cute. To those who feel AfroAmericans NEED to go out of our way to form alliances and coalitions with other groups outside of our community in order to be successful: -We are statistically tied with Latinos for the largest demographic behind White Americans, so we have the numbers -We have more political power than any other demographic except White Americans. -And although it's disproportionate, I "believe" we actually have more WEALTH than any other group outside of White Americans! Asians and Latinos have a lot of weal…
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COMMENTING ON BLACK ASTRONAUTS..GUY BLUFORD IS THE FIRST BLACK ASTRONAUT TO GO INTO SPACE..ROBERT HENRY LAWRENCE JR. WAS FIRST BLACK SELECTED FOR ASTRONAUT TRAINING.HE DIED IN 1967 IN AIRCRAFT TRAINING..MAE JEMISON IS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TO GO INTO SPACE.I THINK ASTRONAUT MAE JEMISON SAID NICHELLE NICHOLLS WHO PLAYED LIEUTENANT UHURA ON STAR TREK WAS A INSPIRATION FOR HER...FREDERICK GREGORY IS THE FIRST BLAK ASTRONAUT TO PILOT,COMMAND A SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION...BERNARD HARRIS THE FIRST BLACK ASTRONAUT TO WALK IN SPACE..WINSTON SCOTT ASTRONAUT VETERAN OF 3 SPACE WALKS.. RONALD MCNAIR BLACK ASTRONAUT KILLED IN 1986 SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER.PHILLIP ANDE…
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ON CNN NANCY GRACE NEWS, SHOWED A BLACK MAN WHO HAS 30 CHIDREN IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE..HE IS IN JAIL.DOES NOT PAY CHILD SUPPORT.WHY ARE BLACK WOMEN SEXUALLY INVOLVED WITH IRRESPONSIBLE STUPID BLACK MEN//WHY DO BLACK MEN HAVE MORE CHILDREN ,WHEN THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT CHILDREN THEY ALREADY HAVE...SEXUALLY DISCIPLINE SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN CHURCH/BUT PREACHERS CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES AND BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT IT.....AT A LAUNDROMAT A BLACK MAN PUT A BABY IN THE WASHER AND DRIER , BABY IS FINE AMAZINGLY...MORE BLACK MORONS..PUTTING A BABY IN THE WASHER AND DRIER.......BLACK MAN HAS 30 CHILDREN WITH 11 WOMEN.. .FEAR OF AIDS DOES NOT EXIST IN BLACK COMMUNITIES...…
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yeah, I could have been something special, but one night I saw something that had rocked my world. From almost the very first day that I was able to discern the nuances of speech and language, I was cautioned against going on 7th Street at night, especially a Friday night. During the day, 7th Street, it seemed, was no different than 6th Street where I stayed, but on the weekend, something or someone—the devil, perhaps—shook 7th Street up until it vomited, throwing up all the bitterness and anger of helpless niggas trapped in a maze of hopelessness. For nine long years, I had dutifully stayed away, running into the house …
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Source NPR: Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) signed into law a ban on classes that are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnicity. The law targets any ethnic studies classes in the state's public school system that "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals (May 24, 2010) Source: Huffington Post: "Shooting the Messenger" On January 18th, NPR aired an interview with John Hupenthal the Superintendent of Arizona Public Instruction and the author of a state law banning ethnic studies programs. According to Hupenthal, the law was conceived, in part, because of the "failure of the Tucson Unified School District to prov…
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Dear Friends, Last year marked our 55th anniversary in the publishing business. We are very proud to have built the oldest, independent, continuously operating Black publishing company in the nation. In October, we celebrated with gusto and invited our supporters, friends, authors and family to our headquarters to commemorate with us. The winter season is traditionally busy for us as we fill holiday orders for the Kwanzaa and Christmas gift giving season. This year however, our efforts were dampened when a water pipe burst beneath our building on a Friday night and quickly flooded the entire basement. Unfortunately, the flooded area housed the majo…
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To see more art from Gdbee, click the link https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2074&type=status
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WHEN THE PREACHERS BEGIN PREACHING EASTER SUNDAY,JESUS ON THE CROSS, HIS RESURRECTION,,,BIBLE DOES NOT SAY A BLOND BLUE,EYED CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED/WHITE CHRISTIANS WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO A BLACK JESUS PICTURE,BUT BLACK CHRISTIANS WILL KNEEL DOWN TO WHITE JESUS PICTURES/IM NOT RELIGIOUS AND I KNOW BIBLE DOES NOT SAY JESUS IS WHITE////
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Last. Year. In. The. Trump. Support. Crowd. There. Were. Black. People. Supporting. Trump. ,Blacks. ,. For. Trump. Signs. ..Where. Are. ,,They. Now. ....??. ,President. Musk. Vice. President. Trump. ,There. ,Are. No. Black. Trump. Supporters. On. The. News. ....Democrats. ,,Who. Were. Against. Black. Democrat. All. Green. Attacking. Trump ,,,,Democrats. Are. Racist. Like. The. Republicans. Are. Racist. ,,,,,Both. Democrats. Republicans. Racist. And. Evil. Neither. Wants. ,,Black. Unity. In. This. Country. ......Reason. The. Jobs. Were. Taking. Out. Of. Inner. City. Communities. ,Poor. Schools. ,,Guns. And ,,Drugs. Dumped. In. Inner. City. Communities. For. Black. …
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https://apnews.com/live/mike-johnson-speaker-congress-updates GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson won re-election today with 218 votes. The GOP Freedom Caucus threatened to oust Rep. Johnson but POTUS-elect was always behind him. No way Johnson was going to lose the gavel. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (Dem) won 215 votes. As customary, he handed the gavel over to the House Speaker. Rep. Byron Donalds received 1 vote. Of course, he's just happy to be the GOP chief water-boy. Remains to be seen how productive government will be with the GOP essentially controlling all three branches of it. No excuses in terms of opposition.😎
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