Culture, Race & Economy

How do we, as melanin rich people around the world, measure up in capitalism? Essentially, do we have any leverage in this monetary system that could globally affect change for us? Why or why not?

I've noticed these discussions seem to get stuck on etymology, connotation, and or denotation of words that we use. I find it fascinating that our conversations continue to take this turn especially on this is literary website. Maybe there's a message in our musings. I'm not sure what is but like earth wind and fire sings: "Watch for the signs That lead in the right direction Not to heed them is a bad reflection They'll show you the way Into what you have been seeking To ignore them you're only cheating..."

Well, that settles it! Harassed "Me too" damsels in distress have nobody but God to blame for men being unable to resist their charms.

Stop the Gun Violence Is this what Democracy looks like? I'm commenting on the recent school shooting in Florida as well as some of the trigger happy policeman too. I'm commenting on the wreckeless use of firearms in this country period.Not only do I comment on the lone terrorists who just try to slaughter as many people as they can at one time but by police who would break into the whom of an unarmed mother breast feeding her baby and shooting her. Do we need to rewrite the 2nd amendment?Because some people obviously think that owning a weapon means stockpiling arsenal and slaughtering innocent people. I don't see Cuban and Russian…

A popular site on FaceBook currently has millions of people clicking on to in order to have their pictures photo-shopped in different identities. This nonsense is such good escape from the BS going in the world, that i knock myself having fun going there. The ludicrous example included here is my latest side-buster. LMAO Say what you will about FaceBook, there are a lot of memes which appear there that i so relate to and i'm going to start posting them here on a regular basis to serve as a change of pace.

This is a short (sub-3 minute) video. If made me think of conversations we have been having here. Particularly as if concern race. Anyone who has been active on these forums knows I believe we should dispense with the concept of race in its entirety because it is flawed scientifically and it provides a mechanism for us to hold onto racist stereotypes that have never served us. The video below speaks to the later. Leonce, the Brother speaking in this video is a novelist. His book, I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang is an 18 time AALBC.com besteller. He is currently the 20th bestselling author on this site over the past 20 years. …

Within The entertainment industry as well as film and television, it took a while before I found someone that represented me.. Therefore, I didn't feel that I was belonging, that I was accepted. I am currently writing a thesis on the "Representation of Black culture in films and Sense of belongingness". I would like to receive your help and opinion on that matter during 10 minutes As I am looking for Black women and men aged between 18-35 years old to fill this anonymous survey. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI1Ipm6A7cWsjKC_V-vnmej31Xyd7-BfartsVNwwc9tXL_Ew/viewform#responses Thank you for your time .. "Know Justice, Know Peace, Know L…

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AUTHOR MICHAEL BASIDEN HAS A BOOK,WHY MEN CHEAT,REASON WHY MEN CHEAT BECAUSE OF THEIR UPBRINGING.BLACK HOMES, PARENT IS UNFAITHFUL.PARENTS CREATE CHEATERS.. I SAY, BOY SEES HIS FATHER WITH LOTS OF WOMEN, THINKING THAT'S GOOD..FATHER HAS CHILDREN WITH OTHER WOMEN NOT TAKING CARE OF ANY.....I MENTIONED DESMOND HATCHETT WHO HAS 30 CHILDREN WITH 11 WOMEN, HOW ARE THOSE BLACK BOYS RAISED,/OK TO HAVE LOT'S OF CHILDREN, WITH LOT'S OF WOMEN////ACTRESS RUBY DEE HAS DIED ,SAW ON TAVIS SMILEY, LAST NIGHT,SEEING WHETHER HE WAS TALKING TO HER ABOUT HER CAREER,OR IF SHE HAD DIE…

From hangry to mansplain: spend a little ‘me time’ with the latest OED update The latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary includes more than 1,100 new entries, phrases, and senses from around the alphabet, including a selection of new entries relating to the language of modern parenting. Our Head of US Dictionaries, Katherine Connor Martin, takes a closer look at some of the highlights below. Mansplain Just a decade ago, the verb mansplain did not exist, but the word and the concept (a man’s action of explaining something needlessly, overbearingly, or condescendingly, especially to a woman, in a manner thought to reveal a patronizing or chauvinistic attitu…

I watched this video last night. I found it very interesting as it pulled together pieces to a puzzle I always found curious. If we look at the Pyramids of Giza, for example, how could we possibly ignore the fact the humanity MUST have known a lot more, in the past, than we recognize. This is more than about failing to recognize the accomplishments of Black people, I don't expect white folks to do that, but clearly in an effort to erase the accomplishments of Black people, we are throwing the baby with the bath water. I also believe our mortally corrupt and inept level of spiritual consciousness is also far behind what ancient an MUST have known. …

Freedom is the ability to choose your entertainment.

I'm beginning to sense a pattern in the manner in which Time chooses to depict Black women: Now given our last conversation about Time Magazine's treatment of Viola Davis, one might assume I was on the hunt for more damning evidence against Time's controversial treatment of Black women on their covers, I assure you I wasn't. This controversial cover just landed in my lap. I attended a book fair in Queens, New York yesterday. As I was walking around I decided to check out a panel on feminism; primarily because there were two Black women participating and I wanted to learn more about them. One of them was Andrea Queeley who is currently an Associate Profe…

Or how does a person make sense of life? Or the creation of An Autobiographical Mythology. Can we call such a tome Non Fiction. Ghost writing indeed.

Black History Month,Created For Black People To Observe ,Black People And Events With Black People. Actor Morgan Freeman Says There Should Not Be A Black History Month,But American History. He Says White People Do Not Have White ,History Month. Black People Disrespect Black History Each Day. Do Not Understand How John Lewis Who Walked,Talked,With Dr. King ,Can Be Silent On Corrupt Preachers. Preachers Killing Their Wives,With Prostitutes,Children With Mistresses,Worshipping Money.. Black Men ,Gangs Slaughtering Black People In Streets,Crack,Houses...Black Unity Seem Impossible. Philadelphia Wins Super Bowl ,Wonder How Many Black ,Football Players Will Crawl To White Hous…

Well, February is underway, ushered in by the ground hog seeing his shadow, an event signifying six more weeks of winter. February also signals the start of African American history month, an observance which sets aside 28 days every year for blacks to extol their icons, recognize their unsung heroes and bitch about the shadow cast by the racism that represents the ongoing "winter of their discontent". White racism is indeed at the core of black discontent, even as it sometimes takes a back seat to black freedom. Poster Xeon spoke about blacks being free to do all the things they deem necessary to advance themselves, if they so choose. Conservativ…

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?

In 1944 Recy Taylor Was Raped By White Men In Alabama . She Was Walking Home After Church When She Was Grabbed By White Men And Raped.. The All White Jury Refused To Find,The White Men Guilty. She Was 24 When She Was Raped,By The Racist Trash White Men..She Had To Raise Her,Younger Siblings At 17 When Her Mother Died..She Died,At Age 97 . She Died 3 Weeks After A Documentary ,Was ,Released About Her,The Rape Of Recy Taylor..Another Horror,Chapter In Black History........

Every once in a while i need to connect with the elements and be made aware of my star child status. i arose at 6:am this morning, bundled up and ventured out my front door to stare up at the sky and renew my kinship with my astrological relatives. Local weather forecasters were predicting that a cloud cover would probably obscure the rare celestial phenomenon that was scheduled to take place this dawn. They said the same thing last summer on the day of the much anticipated solar-eclipse. But in both cases, their predictions didn't phase me. Just as i had a clear view of a big orange sun and was able to stand barefoot in the grass and watch its entire eclipse,…

I love it when Black people from different cultures sit down to dialog together, even if we may disagree from time to time. BTW, Watch out for that African sister on the right with the grape kool-aid lip stick! She's a HOT mess....lol.

For a mere $75,000 a year, Detroit will have its own journalist telling its story. Aaron Foley, former editor of Blac Detroit magazine and author of "How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass", is the city's new Chief Storyteller. The Guardian reports this role may be the first of its kind to represent a municipality in the U.S. Foley says "local residents deserve better and more diverse stories about the reality of living in the city." According to the Mayor, having a chief storyteller will help Detroiters and their neighborhoods a stronger voice in the media.

Entertainer Jay Z Has A Twitter War With Racist Lunatic ,President Trump. Trump Says He Is The Reason There Is Low,Black Unemployment. Jay Z Upset With Trump Saying,Africa,Haiti And Emptiness Salvador Are S-Hole -,Countries.. .Trump Has A Problem With Rich Black People ..He ,Hates People Who Are Not White......Black Republicans On The,News Supporting Trump. Annoying..!!!!

Rev Al Sharpton Met With Ministers To Discuss Social Problems,Lunatic President Trump Plans To Send Federal Agents Into Chicago To Stop The Violence. Some Think This Might Make Things Worse..Black Street Gangs Are Like Neo Nazi,KKK,Domestic Terrorist.. Rev. Sharpton Should Talk About The Church,Preachers Worship Money ,Lust For Women,Steal Church Money To Buy Cars,Homes,Entertain Women,Preachers,Beat Their Wives ,Be With Prostitutes,Have Children With Mistresses,, 3 Black Preachers In Prison For Killing Their Wives..Talk About Black Men Having Multiple Children ,With Multiple Women...Preachers,Politicians,NAACP Should Be Mentors To Black Boys Before They Get To High Sch…

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Trump has grunted out his latest verbal turd and referred to Africa and Haiti as shit-holes, - rich and famous white women are on the rampage, taking no prisoners in their belated accusation about sexual misconduct - a flu epidemic is sweeping the land, - a murder one is infecting Chicago's inner city, false warnings of missile attacks caused a real Hawaiian panic attacks, - mud slides buried California, frigid temperatures are crippling the South, net neutrality is endangered, immigration reform is turning dreams into nightmare and - Egads! Oprah is being urged to run for President as the USA stumbles forward on a mission to emulate The Roman Empire before its fall,…

Word is that 2018 will be a strong Capricorn year. There are 4 Planets in that sign right now. Capricorn rules Saturn and it's predicted that this relationship will manifest itself by placing stringent demands on humanity. Whether in one's personal life, one's job, or political leanings, this configuration in the heavens supposedly portends that things are going to get very complicated. So say the astrologers. What say you, Del? Taking everything into consideration, i tend to subscribe to the idea that things will get worse before they get better. Not a far-fetched notion considering the quixotic economy and the polarized populace at home, and the possible repercussi…

A provocative article by one of America's premiere black Conservative spokesman. Black Protest Has Lost Its Power by Shelby Steele Jan. 12, 2018 6:40 p.m. ET The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness. They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally—an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement in American life. There…

Some People Want Oprah Winfrey To Be President In The Next,President Election. Neo Nazi Trump Says He Would Beat,Oprah Winfrey..It Amazes Me He Is Still The President. He Is Doing What The Racist White Want Him To Do..Trump Honours,Dr. Martin Luther King,Not Long After Saying Why Are ,People From Africa And Haiti ,S--- Hole Countries In This Country? .He Supports Neo Nazi In This Country. I Read That ,In 2008 Neo Nazi Was Planning To Assassinate Barack Obama ,Before The Election. They Were Going To Attack A Black School,Kill A Lot Of Black People ,Then Try To Assassinate Barack Obama Before The Election. The Nazi Christian Will Not,Let Another Black Person Become Pr…

Congressman John Lewis Who Marched And Talked With Dr. Martin Luther King Talks About Moral Obligation. He Will .Not Talk About Black Preachers Corrupt Behavior. Preachers Killing Their Wives,Beating Their Wives,Having Children With ,Mistresses,Worshipping Money. Not Talking About Black Men Having Children With Many Women Not Raising Them. Street Gangs Slaughtering Black People In Streets . Crack Houses,Sex ,Houses .Difference Between Black Holocaust And The Jewish Holocaust, The Jewish People Are Not Continuing Their Holocaust. Racist White Can Watch Black People Genocide Themselves. The Church Used To Be A Place Of Unity And Strategy..Black Politicians ,NAACP.,Black C…

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She basically spends basically an hour berating Black men for using ALL forms of communication in displaying their attraction towards Black women. I mean just about everything. As far as this woman is concerned, even calling a woman "beautiful" or asking her where she goes to church is an insult....lol.

Last night, at the much-anticipated Golden Globe Awards telecast from Hollywood, amidst an ebony sea of sexually-harassed women and their sympathizers, all of whom were garbed in black to display their protest against male predators in the work place, Queen Oprah took to the stage and hit the ball out the park with her speech. There to accept a life time achievement award, Winfrey took the occasion to address the issue that has spawned the "me too" movement made up of women who have long endured being humiliated and disrespected by employers in a position to get away doing this. From all walks of life, victims are now coming out of the woodwork to tell their stories …

CharliePeach🍑Follow GATech Alum - World Traveler, Unbossed & Unbought: #DarrenSeals #AssataShakur #FreeGaza #DemExit - End the Duopoly #Independent & Critical Thinker Jan 8 Oprah Winfrey’s Shameful Comparison of Black Women’s Jim Crow Era Rape to that of Rich White Women’s #MeToo… I have to admit that I purposely ignored the Golden Globes and all of its Hollywood Rich Women’s #MeToo moments. However, I was more than insulted listening online this morning to Oprah compare the violent and brutal pain of rapes and even murders that Black women endured by racist white men during Jim Crow to that of ri…

I Read 17 Million People Practice The 7 Principals Of Kwanzaa,World Wide. Few Or None Are In This Country. No Black Unity Reason For A Lot Of Problems. No Black Unity,With Poverty ,And Racism....Black Police Not Involved As Racist White Police,Gun Down Black Males. Black Political Leaders ,Support Corrupt Preachers Who Steal Money To Buy Cars And Entertain,Women..Black Men Having Children They Do Not Want...Gangs Slaughtering Black People In Streets,Crack Houses,Sex. Houses. New Year Will Be Like This Year. This Year,Was Like Last Year..

Hello everyone, my name is David age 34 from Spain. I am writing to you today because I am curious about the topic of black-face makeup. It is the 5th of January 2018 today, and everyone is getting ready for Christmas. See, where I live, Christmas is not on the 25th of December, it is on the 6th and 7th of January. Instead of celebrating the birth of Jesus on the 25th, the Spanish celebrate the arrival of the 3 kings who came brining gifts for Jesus a few days later. On the 6th, all the kids go to Church, and ask for their gifts, then on the 7th, the 3 kings show up in a convertible car and hand out gifts. Traditionally, 2 of the kings are depicted as…

News 58 Dead In Las Vegas. White man Begun Shooting At A ,Country Music Concert. White Man Killing White People. News,Was It ISIS Related Or A Lone Wolf Killer. Lunatic ,President,This Was A Evil Man. He Did Not Say Neo Nazi ,In ,Charlottesville Was Evil..Neo Nazi Terrorist Organization ,Praising,Adolf Hitler With Guns And Torches In American,Streets ..News Likes To Talk About Black Men And Violence..Hitler ,Trump,I Think Plans To Go To Last Vegas. He Did Not Go ,To,Charlottesville ,WHITE Women Murdered By A Neo Nazi,Seem ,To Condone This..Gun .Control Talk On The News ,Again...700,Dead Last Year In Chicago . Black Lives Matter ,Depends On Who Kills A Black Person. Stre…

Listening To Four Tops ,Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. Wishing Everyone A Merry And Safe Christmas. Will Be Eating ,Not Cooking. I Am Sure Cynique ,Troy And Pioneer Are All Good ,Cooks. ..Fortunate To Have Family And Friends. Watching The News,Homeless Shelters Feeding The Homeless And Poor. As,Trump Celebrates His Tax Bill..Wishing For Black Unity And,World Peace As I Listen To Oscar Peterson Christmas Jazz,Music..Oscar Peterson Forgotten Great Talent.....

400+ years of social & economic disparity, white supremacy has dazed Black folks psych and focus. Now, ineffective struggles for ‘change’ have transformed Black demands into a monster, with an eye on ‘replacing’ White hegemony (with our own brand of oppression) as a solution to Black disparity. Power does, indeed, corrupt! Instead of continuing a united fight for control over Black lives as a whole, we struggle for equality, equal opportunity to oppress; alongside White folks. In Libya, Blacks have reverted back to the slave trade (selling their own people), some Europeans and other countries are buying them. …

400+ years of social & economic disparity, white supremacy has dazed Black folks psych and focus. Now, ineffective struggles for ‘change’ have transformed Black demands into a monster, with an eye on ‘replacing’ White hegemony (with our own brand of oppression) as a solution to Black disparity. Power does, indeed, corrupt! Instead of continuing a united fight for control over Black lives as a whole, we struggle for equality, equal opportunity to oppress; alongside White folks. In Libya, Blacks have reverted back to the slave trade (selling their own people), some Europeans and other countries are buying them. …

It is so damn frustrating constantly seeing certain ethnically charged, social group issues get the spotlight for matters they care about and important to their causes, to the detriment of other groups. And even some minorities go against their own causes. Kenneth Alexander Now, comes the most unpopular observation of ethnic (race) relations today, equally drawing the most popular condemnation neither side wants to hear from the other. “400+ years discrimination imposed on Blacks fuels racism towards all minorities in America today, and that minorities always use the ‘race card’ as an excuse for social and justice inequality.” People hardly ev…

I have been patiently waiting for 2018 to arrive so that i could enjoy the final season of Game of Thrones. This was my incentive for hangin' around another year, and i'll be damned if the fools haven't pushed the airing of the final season up to 2019! WTF! (Thank you, Pioneer.) Suppose i croak before then, and never find out how it ends and whether my human race sweetie, Jon Snow, - Snow as in "white" , (sorry Troy, ) finally gains his rightful place as ruler of the 7 Kingdoms! i'm now trying to convince myself that if i leave this crazy-assed world before 2019, i will have an excuse to take time off from languishing in the spirit realm and come back as a spook so …

Alabama Election Night,Democrat Who Won Prosecuted The Klan,Members That Bombed The Alabama Church In 1963..Last,Night One Of The Four Girls That Died When The Church Was Bombed ,Her Sister Was On The News Last Night. Denise Mcnair's Sister. She Voted For Doug Jones....News Big,Black Voting Turn Out,,Help Doug Jones Win..News ,Talk Show Host,Tavis Smiley ,PBS Suspends His Show Because Of ,Misconduct Allegations..Seems Each Week Somebody Is,Resigning,Or A High Up Man ,Is Accused... Black Talkers On The,News Talking About Women Disrespected. NAACP,--Not,Explaining Why A Black Woman Not President Of The,NAACP....

@Pioneer1, I could not help but think about you as I looked at this photo. Which of your racial buckets would you put this lady? She wrote a book that the New York Times called one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2017. I'm in the process of making sure that all of the called "Black" writers who earned this recognition have that fact reflected on the website.

I know that title reads exactly like something I would say, but if comes from a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, “How to Get Your Mind to Read.” In one experiment, third graders — some identified by a reading test as good readers, some as poor — were asked to read a passage about soccer. The poor readers who knew a lot about soccer were three times as likely to make accurate inferences about the passage as the good readers who didn’t know much about the game. That implies that students who score well on reading tests are those with broad knowledge; they usually know at least a little about the topics of the passages on the test. One expe…

Actor Chris Rock Says Black Christians,Are Black People With No Memory. On Slave Plantations ,Slaves Were Given The Bible. The Kidnapped Slaves,African People Had Their Own Religion. Slave Owner Telling The Slaves Should Follow Bible Become Christians,When Slave Owner Is Beating,Killing Them, After Buying Them Like Cattle,Using The Bible To Condone Their Own,Evil Wicked Behavior..Bible Does Not Say A White Baby Was In The Manger... Bible Contradictions About The Season Time Of The Birth..Dark Religious Question,If Not For Slave Owners,Christian Belief Would Their Be Christianity In The Black Community. Forgotten Original African Religion..Present Time,White Supremacy -Wh…

When I heard that Roland Martin lost his talk show, my first impression was damn don't tell me Roland sexually abused someone too! I have not dug deeply into the reason for the show's pending cancellation, so I don't really know why it is being cancelled. I was not a fan of Martin's show and did not watch it. I caught a few youtube videos and I just did not vibe with Marin's personality. His show was one of a shrinking number of political talk shows and I would rather have his show exist than for it not to exist. That might sound like a contraction, but it really is not. We have so few platforms where Black people can talk about Black issues with…

I've learned from videos like this and in conversations here that I have to change the way I communicate with the general public on technical issues. Sharing data with graphics and charts really does not work with people unfamiliar with the domain in which you are speaking. You have to appeal to people on an emotional level. In the video Van Jones said; I know this to be true from personal experience because people have no problem saying they don’t care how much education someone has when they disagree with them. They’ll argue with climatologist easily dismissing what the scientist knows in favor of what they themselves feel. I have a ta…