Culture, Race & Economy

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…

"The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely? In a spectacular rant, Scott Galloway shares insights and eye-opening stats about their dominance and motivation -- and what happens when a society prizes shareholder value over everything else." I Think Scott does a really good job of presenting data in a way that connection on a emotional level.

...something for @harry brown Harry L. Thomas, founder of the Creation Festival and senior pastor of Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford, New Jersey, has been accused of sexually assaulting four children over a 16-year period between 1999 and 2015. (as reported by Christianity Today). This is not a problem with the Church, per se, but a problem with powerful degenerates abusing their power. We've seen a rash of revelations coming from Hollyweird, politicians, media, and obviously the Church. What puzzles me is the complete lack of sexual abuse revelations coming from Wall Street. I guess those cats have enough power than to pre…

Or why critical thinking is disappearing. @Troy @Pioneer1 @Mel Hopkins @Cynique

Ex White Police Michael Slager Found Guilty Of Shooting,Murdering, Unarmed Walter Scott In South Carolina..Judge Announced Police Michael Slager Guilty Of,2nd,Degree Murder And Obstruction Of Justice....I Am,Surprised He Was Found Guilty . Black Males Shot Down,By White Police ,Get Away With It...News Lunatic President Trump,Will Slither To Mississippi To The Civil Rights Museum. Trump Supporting Neo Nazi In Charlottesville,Again. Saying ,President Obama Was Born In Africa ,Not Hawaii ,Going To A,Civil Rights Museum..Politician Conyers Resigns At Age 88 I Think,He Is 88 .Preachers Who Act Like Pimps ,Lusting For Women And,Money Can Remain On The Pulpit.. Black People Love…

This op-ed is from South Africa but it could easily apply to us here in the United States... It's a long read but well worth it... WAKE UP!!! https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-12-05-media-rules-society.-it-is-a-business-not-some-crusader-for-equality-and-justice/ Media rules society. It is a business, not some crusader for equality and justice 05 Dec 2017 01:12 (South Africa) Opinionista Sandile Memela Writers and journalists are employed and handled by supremacist capitalists to attack and denigrate Zuma’s government, to perpetuate racism and protect supremaci…

Black Preacher In Savannah ,Georgia ,Caught In A Prostitution ,Sting. Preacher Enters Room,Not One Minute Before The Preacher Gives The Woman Money,He Says To .The Woman,I Want To See You Without Your Clothes . She Goes To Another,Room,Police Come In,Preacher Says ,He Was Not,Going,To Do Anything...Then He Weeps. I Don't Want Problems, With My Wife ,I Am A Pastor Of A Church....A Black,Preacher In Florida Was Having Sex With A Married Woman ..Her Husband Came Home ,Saw What Was Going On ,Got One Of His Guns ,Preacher Ran Outside Naked...No Clothes On....Preacher,Caught With Prostitute Is On Video...Why Do ,People Go To Church? Some Call Churches Night Clubs And Pimp Hou…

News, Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Receives The Muhammed Ali Legacy Award.. . White America Angry At Black Players Kneeling Down,Saying They Disrespect The Flag. White America,Has No Problem With Neo Nazi Carrying The U S. Flag,And The Nazi Flag In The Streets Of Charlottesville....December 7 ,1941 Attack On Pearl Harbor. Dorie Miller Enlisted In The Navy To Earn Money For His Family. Blacks,Who Joined The Navy Was Not Trained For Combat...They Were Cooks Or Cabin Boys. When Pearl Harbor Was Attacked,He,Used The Machine Gun Protecting The Navy Ship And His. Country. Dorie Miller The First African American To Receive The Navy Cross...Also Carried Wounded Sailors To Safe…

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed their version of Senate bill which is a large tax cut bill that benefits anyone who earns more than $900,000 a year ...47 Million Americans (what's left of the middle class) are expected to be impacted ... We aren't inching towards the haves and have nots... we are there - slaves and slave masters... This documentary shows how we got there... From the dailymotion video with english subtitles " http://filmow.com/the-end-of-poverty-t71910 The End of Poverty? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. It began with milit…

Pro Football Owners an To Give 100 Million Dollars For Social- Justice Organizations . Football Owners Want The Kneeling Down,To Stop. 100 Million Dollars For Social Justice. Former ,NBA Players Magic Johnson And Jamal. Mashburn Who Have,Business Should Give Their Advice. Black Football Players,Should Get Together . Not The Preachers,NAACP,Politicians . They Will Be Jackals,Hyenas ,Snakes And Vultures With Money. Preachers Only Care About,Money . Believe Jesse Jackson Jr. Was Behind Bars For Stealing Campaign Money....Black Police Mouths Shut With Racist White Police Fired For Being KLAN Members,Or Getting,Away With Murdering Unarmed Black Males.. .NAACP-Do ,Not Want …

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 whole reality exists outside the boundaries of language. Maybe words, rather than defining, are instead, confining?

Me and my daughters hangin' out. Aim for the center to hit the Bulls Eye.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL YOU JIVE TURKEYS!

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.

Amazing. On The News ,African Men And Boys, Being Sold In 2017. CNN News ,Went Undercover To Libya. African Man's Voice ,,Do You Need ,A Digger Or A Farm Worker ,Hands Go Up Bids Up To $650.00. Dollars, Some Slave Bidders On The Phone Bidding.. . The Men And Boys Came To Libya Hoping To Be Smuggled To Europe ,For, Economic Opportunities . The Smugglers ,Were Stopped. So The Smugglers Became The Slave Sellers ,The People That Were Hoping To Be Smuggled To Europe ,Became Slaves Being ,Sold,In Slave Auctions...CNN News Has Some Of ,This On Video. Some Of The Men And Boys Were Interviewed...Amazing......

What is it about White men that you two love so much? I mean...seriously? If you look at this board, most of the men....Black men...are complaining about what White men are doing to the world. Now granted, Troy hasn't come out and said "White men" have done such and such. But he DOES complain about the problems of Wall Street, and Jeff Bezos and others who are White who he feels is making problems in the world. But YOU TWO........... You ladies RARELY talk about White people being racist and the problems racism is causing. Instead you speak in vague GENERAL terms that seem to implicate EVERYBODY like: 　 "Oh the world is in troubl…

I just sat down to look at some youtube videos before calling it a night. I generally watch Youtube video on a regular TV. I usually search for subjects that interest me. I started to watch an Inconvenient Truth but after a few minutes I grew bored... I decided to see what was trending on youtube (something I almost never do), the #9 video was the one shown below . This video was watched over 8 million since in the last two days. That is 8 times more than the number of view all of my videos have received in the last decade! I watched at least 1/2 of the video. I doubt anyone would confuse the music with being great, but after watching the video …

I Think All Are Almost All This Country's Wars Black Soldiers Have Been In. Defending This Country , While Being Deprived,Of Freedom ,,Equality And The Pursuit Of Happiness... On Veterans Day ,We Should Honor Our Own ,With Reflecting ,Memories And Prayers.. Those Living And Those Dead, ...

In the twilight of my years, there are a lot of things about which i've been trying to not let my baser instincts prevail. But lately, i have become inundated with current events that i am just not compatible with or sympathetic about. In my ongoing search for the truth, i have begun to look inward and if i am to be honest, i have no choice but to confess that i am descending into a state of "i don't give a damnism". i am not proud of this but the truth is not always pretty and, in my case, there are many things that have neutralized my humanity and no longer inspire my concern. Where to begin? What don't i give a damn about? Well, i don't care about the p…

Stop chasing around these White men making up their own philosophies to FOOL you out of your money and further confuse your mind. Start studying THIS man: Mr Neely Fuller Jr. THIS is the man who mentored and inspired Dr Frances Cress Welsing! He's nearly 90 years old and STILL teaching hard on White Supremacy and how it dominates the world.

LOL. If you think the arguing and debunking that has been going on here from day one will suddenly reverse itself, Antonio, and everybody is going be of one mind, you're in for a rude awakening. Like Troy suggests, this is an open forum where a lively exchange of ideas prevails, and nobody is encouraged to defer to another person just for the sake of harmony. Different opinions are the name of the game here, because this broadens the perspective and keeps things interesting. The regulars here routinely argue and feud with each other and then move on. We don't really take each other that seriously and "insults" roll off our backs. There does, however, seem to be a consen…

Hello, my fellow black writers. I’m a recent graduate (June 2017) of Full Sail University with a Bachelor’s degree for Creative Writing in Entertainment. I write character-driven drama films focused around the young black man to give our society a different viewpoint of who we are and to show that we’re living humans like everyone else. I introduce myself to you all on here in frustration. I feel that I’m not being given fair consideration when it comes to the writing jobs out there. Here it is November again, I’ve been looking for a writing job since last November. And don’t mean I’m just out her trying to zap a screenwriting career, I mean me securing a writ…

@Cynique, since you were there, I'm not going to challenge your knowledge of the Panthers. Besides I don't think the Black Panthers represented the greatest movement led by Black folks in any event. I'd of course put this civil rights movement at the top of the list; there were clear goals out that were achieved, and which have had lasting impact. I'd also add Garvey's UNIA there are still active branches today. I'm seriously considering joining one. What was the greatest movement in your book?

I've been working on my top Black owned website project I've modified my formula for ranking sites, adding the age of the website as a factor. This seems to have elevated sites with more serious content, as they tend to have the oldest domains. I been removing many tops sites because quite a few websites focused on Black content are simply not Black owned. We don’t own the web-based hip-hop presence. It really is worse than i thought... Fortunately there are many great sites out there. We just need to patronize them. I'm afraid if we don't Facebook and the website they own will be our only options, and then we'll really be in de…

https://socialjusticebooks.org/about/why-boycott-amazon/ A review of 190 articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Bezos-owned Washington Post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly uncritical–ofttimes boosterish–coverage. None of the articles were investigative exposes, 6 percent leaned negative, 54 percent were straight reporting or neutral in tone, and 40 percent were positive, mostly with a fawning or even press release–like tone. The last major investigative piece we found in any of these three publications was a 4,500-word critique of Amazon’s labor practices in the New York Times (8/16/15) almost two yea…

In New Jersey, Racist White Police ,Charged With Hate Crimes. He Was Caught On Tape Saying , Niggers Are Like ISIS ,They Have,No Value. He Bought A Police Dog To Intimidate Black,People At A Basketball Game. I Think He Slammed A Black,Male's Head Into A Steel Door,Who Was A Suspect..Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Should Be On The News,Now Saying ,This Is Why I Was Kneeling Down...They Need To Show How Many White Police Have Been Fired For Klan Members On The News,Those Caught Saying Racist Things...When Robert Mueller Finish Investigating Trump And The Russians ,He Should Investigate Neo Nazi,KLAN In Police And ,U. S. Military...

You know I have no idea what Krispy Kream Jelly Beans are. Are they like really small donut holes?

Have a scary Halloween!

In Charleston South Carolina ,Black Man Named Joe McGill ,Sleeps In Slave Cabins .He Talks About How He Felt ,Sleeping ,In Slave Cabins,The Experience.. .In Winston Salem ,A Black Man There ,Wants To Save The Slave Cabins,His Family History,,He Wants Contributions To Save The Slave Cabins,Slave Houses,Other People Say They Should Be Demolished...In ,Virginia A Lost And Forgotten Slave Cemetery Was Found. So,Many Slave Cemetery Have Been Forgotten ,Abandoned .....The,Church ,NAACP,Politicians Should Preserve ,..Slave,Cemeteries .

Poor movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, the serial molester who has supplanted Bill Cosby as the poster boy for horny ol lechers. Why am i not outraged by his being outed by all of the mostly white damsels in distress coming out of the wood work, making accusations My entrenched cynicism no doubt. Or maybe, i feel rejected because I could not add my name to the swelling ranks of the "me, too" sisterhood of sexually harassed females. More likely because the "casting couch" has been a long standing joke in the movie business, wherein ambitious young starlets anxious to advance their careers, submitted to the sexual overtures of powerful Hollywood tycoons. Now a…

“(October 24, 2017) – The NAACP, the nation’s original and largest social justice advocacy organization, has released the following statement today announcing a travel advisory warning African Americans about their safety and well being when patronizing American Airlines or traveling on American Airlines flights: “The NAACP for several months now has been monitoring a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines. In light of these confrontations, we have today taken the action of issuing national advisory alerting travelers—especially African Americans—to exercise caution, in that booking and boarding flights on Am…

Widow Of Fallen Soldier La David Johnson Speaks. Soldier,La David Johnson Was Killed With 3 Others In Africa. ,They Were ,Ambushed. Other 3 Soldiers Were White. Lunatic Trump Spoke,To La David Johnson Widow. She Said She Felt Worse ,After Listening To Trump. Trump Said ,He Knew What He Signed,Up For. Disrespectful. Trump Talking Disrespectful,To A Fallen Soldiers Family, As He Says Football Players Are Disrespectful When They Kneel Down During The National Anthem. News ,Politicians Did Not Know U. S. Soldiers were In,Niger -Africa. Trump Is A Racist Lunatic ,Disrespecting ,A Black Fallen Soldiers Family ,He Supported Neo Nazi With Nazi Flag,And The U. S. Flag Marching…

This was at the top of my Twitter feed today. I did not comment on it, but it struck me because the person who posted it cares for 45 about as much as I do and they went to the same business school I attended. The problem I have with the chart (assuming you accept the figures as presented, for no primary sources was cited) is that the statement failed to recognize the staggering job losses shown on the very same chart for the first two years of Obama's presidency! This also ignores the net job gains for the 45 adminstration are actually far great than they were for Obama at the same point in his presidency. In other words, this chart, looking at the number…

Fluoride exposure in utero linked to lower IQ in kids, study says "Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure may be associated with lower cognitive function in children, a new study says. . " http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/health/fluoride-iq-neurotoxin-study/

Milo Yiannopoulos is laughing all the way to the bank. The interviewer from CNN, despite her faux outrage, is greatly helping this Milo's profile. CNN is doing this because these interviews generate mucho dinero for their company. The hypocrisy is sickening. This is all about money. Milo is no different than Twitter, CNN, and CNBC. This was the exact same thing that raised Trump's profile. Outrageous statements are profitable. Now I appreciate I'm is actually feeding into the frenzy of Milo, but I do this because I know full well I'm not going to make money from this effort because corporations own that market. I just hope to make some points that will help…

News ,Opioid Killing White People In America. It's A Epidemic,Some Say. The Heroin Opioid Users,Should Get Counseling Not Jail Time. Black And Brown Get Prison Time...The Crack Epidemic ,Put Black And Brown Behind ,Bars...In The White Communities Where There Is Heroin Opioid ,Is There ,Dead Bodies From Shoot Outs?Black Crack Gangsters ,,They Do Not Care About Innocent People They Shoot When There Is A,Crack Selling Territory War Battle..Crack Buyers And Crack Sellers Are The Same,Crack Buyers Bring Gangsters In Communities....White .Supremacy Trying To Control Other Races,,White People Are Becoming Expendable..Watch The News,White People Dying From Opioid Is A National…

I really enjoyed watching this.

In A Dove Soap .Commercial A Black Woman Using Dove Soap ,Becomes White . Yes, There Was A Uproar. .Criticism. They Were ,Trying To Represent Women Of Color. .Using Dove Soap A Black --,Woman Cleanse To Whiteness...Black Woman Uses Dove -Soap,Pulls Off Her Shirt ,A White Woman ,Appears...Amazing..Black Is Beautiful....

It appears record executives have created another Nicki Minaj except this one, unlike any other female rapper of the past three decades, has a #1 Single on Billboard's "Hot 100." Arguably this achievement makes Cardi B the hottest female rapper today. Until an hour ago I never heard of Cardi B or this song. Educate2Empower, sent me the following email message. I don't know how I got on their mailing list, but given our recent, and similar conversation about Nicki Minaj, I figured I'd share their email here. Of course there will many who will argue that men have no say on the matter. This is the case of a powerful woman freely exhibiting her sexual…

...why Black celebritie's skin tones are often recorded much lighter than they really are.

AALBC.com’s mission is to help promote and uplift independent websites created by, and for, people of African descent. To that end, I’ve been researching the “best” Black owned websites. Interestingly, many of the ones I through l were Black owned; The Root, Very Smart Brothas, etc; are not. I'm also seeing sites that, based upon publicly available data, have a lot less traffic than I thought. Sites in this category include, Awesomely Luvvie and Your Black World. As a result, I actually don't have very many sites that I'm working with to compile a best of list. Can you all take a look at my list and let me know if I’m missing any popular Black o…

I've heard so much hype about the impact a total solar eclipse has on people that I plan to check it out. https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/south-carolina/ I'm planning to head to South Carolina to view this event.

This thread is prompted by an observation by Cynique on another thread but it goes into the response by Black men in general society when it comes to conflict in the community and especially between Black women. Why do so many Black men allow people and especially women to fight without doing the "manly" thing of stepping in to resolve it? I can't speak for other male posters, I can only speak from my personal experiences and observations as to why this often happens....... First of all, a lot of Black men actually DO step in Especially when things get physical....as I have on several occasions when women started fighting eachother in my presence. But as long a…

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Hello all. Not sure where to post a general greeting so I'm just getting in where I fit in. I've had an account since last year and had intentions of joining the party then but got sidetracked by the fascination/horror of the election season. I also was in the process of preparing to exit the restaurant business of which I've been involved with for many years. I'm happy to talk about that and whatever else. Just don't ask me to cook. (Although I make potato salad you can trust.) Congratulations on a great community and I look forward to participating.