Culture, Race & Economy

College tuition is going through the atmosphere. Student loan debt is ridiculous. Non-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degrees will become less valuable especially as technology takes over jobs that do not require human hands. Folks are beginning to have the conversation that trade schools might be a better option than a 4 year degree from a college or university. STEM degrees will most likely always land a job somewhere. However, Liberal Arts and Business majors might be in trouble. Talk to young Black folks within your circle about considering a trade especially if they aren't STEM strong. …

Annette Gordon-Reed is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer. This offer is only available today, Juneteenth (June 19, 2024). It is a great deal!

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has arrested and charged former police officers who were responsible for the raid and firing shots that led to Breonna Taylor's death. It took almost 2. 5 years to bring these killers to justice but better later than never. I hope AG Merrick Garland brings a solid case against them. Breonna Taylor's family has already won a civil suit. Putting these murderers behind bars would bring justice full circle. 😎

THE WHITE RACIST WHO IS THE MURDERER OF JORDAN DAVIS,SAYS JORDAN DAVIS AND HIS FRIENDS WERE THUGS.THIS RACIST MURDERER SAYS THE JAILS, ARE FILLED WITH BLACKS.JORDAN DAVIS MUSIC TOO LOUD,HE TOLD, HIM TO TURN MUSIC DONE,HE FELT THREATEN, SAYS JORDAN DAVIS HAD A GUN, SO HE CLAIMS A STAND YOUR GROUND DEFENSE...WONDER IF THE BLACK REPUBLICANS WILL SUPPORT THIS MURDER AND MURDERER LIKE THEY DID SUPPORTING GEORGE ZIMMERMAN MURDERING TRAYVON MARTIN......I BELIEVE HE THE MURDERER IS IN COURT TODAY.....BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP,.THEN THERE IS KENDRICK JOHNSON,HIS BODY FOUND BEATE…

@Stefan stated the following A Lie Now, I checked my private messages and found the following in which Stefan messaged me, The following is the set of replies from me the next is his reply and our private dialog ended with the following, from me IN CONCLUSION Note, in no time did I say anything that he suggested in the initial quote, which means he lied. Again, I repeat, I don't mind anyone judging or critiquing me or my art, but don't lie about me. I have never lied about anyone in here and I do find it …

... escalating tensions with China. From the NYT: WASHINGTON — Chinese officials have told the Trump administration that security officers in China might detain American citizens if the Justice Department proceeds with prosecutions of arrested scholars who are members of the Chinese military, American officials said.

The is un-freaking-believable... “Known on Instagram by her handle @lilmiquela, the 19-year-old is biracial and bisexual, loves high-end labels, and for months had a Black Lives Matter shout-out in her bio. She is an influencer—a social media personality who integrates product endorsements into the online documentation of her daily life—and a multi-hyphenate, with side hustles as a singer and a clothing designer. If she seems to check an unrealistic number of boxes, that’s because she isn’t real.” —Read the complete article in The Nation

This interesting, on-point article appeared on May 30th in THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. It was written by one of its black coumnist who is an astute observer if the political scene. Racial panderers wallop Obama by LAURA WASHINGTON Is it the pot calling the kettle black? Or not black enough? Those are the questions swirling in the recent dust-up among some of America’s most prominent black intellectuals and talking heads. African-American names in the news have been exchanging harsh words over the state of black America in the Obama era. President Barack Obama is the piñata at the center of the controversy, but it’s not really about him. It’s abo…

Get ready for more "objectification" of women....lol. This woman is not only intelligent and courageous but as lovely as all get out: I don't see any wedding rings on her finger either....lol.

Technology and Falling Literacy Rates Are Writing an End to Black-Owned Bookstores by Frederick H. Lowe The number of African-American-owned bookstores has dropped significantly since the late 1970s and 1980s due to a variety of factors, including corporate control of the Internet, waning literacy and fiscal mismanagement. In the 1970s and 1980s, more than 1,000 black-owned bookstores were in business in the United States. Now only slightly more than 100, possibly 116 to 117, if that many, remain open, according to Troy Johnson, founder of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com), which is based in New York. Read the whole article I'm gla…

65th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬: Booker T. Washington author of UP FROM SLAVERY born April 5, 1856

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News. Said. John. Lewis. Died. Yesterday. . He. Did. A. Lot. ,Had. A. lot Of,,Courage. Trying. To. Cross. The. Edmund. Pettus Bridge. He. And. Many. Others. We're. Beaten. . This. Year. He. Saw. The. Protesting ,,Lack. Of Justice. For. Black. People. Racist. Police. Murdering Black-People. Racist. Evil Vile White Police Have Not Changed .. Few ,Days. Before John Lewis Death Preacher C T Vivian Died. He,Also ,Involved In Civil Rights. Do Not Believe John Lewis Or,Preacher -C. T. Vivian Talked. About. Black. Church. Corruption . Preachers. In -Prison. For. Child. Raping. Murdering. Their. Wives ,Sex. With ,Teenage. Girls…

Michigan is a northern and pretty industrialized state with a very large AfroAmerican population of nearly 2 million, but too many people mistakenly believe it's some rural white state full of rednecks running around in the woods. Stories like this portrays a distorted image of my state to the nation and world................. 13 charged in plots against Michigan governor, police LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch her from her vac…

The Only One Chapter 16 “It’s like waitin for the other shoe to drop.” Philip Atkins was saying to his partner Brooks Jones as they rode along, on their way to their favorite greasy spoon diner for lunch, discussing the fact that the garbage dumpster serial killer hadn’t struck lately. “Maybe he’s on a hiatus,” Brooks suggested. “Might have an engagement lined up for tomorrow night, one that shows some promise. And even if the date doesn’t cooperate, he can still get his rocks by killing her." “Man, that’s cold,” Philip scowled.. “You sound more like a misogynistic rap fan than the - cerebral jazz devotee you call yourself!” “I’m just trying to get insid…

THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO MAKE PRESIDENT OBAMA A ANGRY BLACK MAN,,.THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY LOT OF THE WHITE SUPPORT HE GOT IN THE LAST ELECTION..THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER BOEHNER IS THE DEVIL'S OWN....THEY DO NOT WANT HIM TO ACCOMPLISH ANY THING ELSE BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION..THEY WANT THIS BLACK PRESIDENT OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE...

Black. Christian. Men. Black. Religious. Men. Are. No. Different. From The. Crack. Cocaine. Sellers. ,Pimps With. Pimp. Houses. ,Gangsters. Thugs They. All. Genocide. The. Black. Community. ....Black. People. Pay. Preachers. To. Preach. Every. Week. Just. Like. Crack. Users. Buying. Crack. From. Crack. Sellers. Men. Going. To. Pimp. Houses. Buying. Sex. ...Black. Preachers. Preach. Bible. Jesus. Christian. Made. Up. Crap For. Money. Preachers. Worship. Money .Black. People. Got. Every. Racist. White. Religion. ..Black. People. Pay. For. Their. Enslavement. Every. Week. ..Islam. Just. Like. Other. Religions. .Preacher. Farrakhan. Not. Talking. T. D. Jakes An…

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES,WHITE FOOTBALL PLAYER SAYS N WORD//GETS A FINE/WHEN KOBE BRYANT SAID A HOMOPHOBIA REMARK HE GOT A 100,00O.00. FINE I HEARD..PHILADELPHIA EAGLE BLACK FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARE FORGIVING ,SOME ARE CHRISTIANS.WHATEVER///RILEY COOPER WHITE FOOTBAL PLAYER DID HE SAY I WILL JUMP A FENCE AND BEAT UP AL THOSE NIGGERS,OR I WILL JUMP A FENCE AND KILL ALL THOSE NIGGERS/EITHER THE WAY SOUNDS LIKE HE IS AT A KLAN RALLY,OR CAME FROM A KLAN RALLY///..MAYBE HE WAS DRINKING LIQUOR///NFL COMMISIONER DOES NOTHING..NBA COMMISIONER MAKES BASKETBALL PLAYERS PAY FINES WHEN THEY SPEAK DISRESPECTFUL////…

The source of these words can be traced to human opinions. Are they true? Who knows? I. WONDER.

THE NAACP, TRUMPET AND ESSENCE AWARD WINNERS. DO THEY MARCH AND PROTEST WHEN MARCHES AND PROTESTING IS ORGANIZED, OR IS THAT BENEATH THEM/ IF THEY CAN SHOW UP IN FRONT OF CAMERAS RECEIVING AWARDS , THEY CAN MARCH AND PROTEST, WHY ARE THEY EXCLUDED//IF IT WAS NOT FOR SCARIFICES YEARS AGO ,THEY WOULD NOT BE WHERE THEY ARE..NAACP HAS INVOLVED INTO A BUSINESS...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-charges-james-comey-lying-congress-rcna233581 Looks like the revenge and retribution of POTUS OJ weaponizing Department of Justice (DOJ) to go after his political enemies has begun. Today, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on two counts of lying to Congress. Most likely, these charges will be an inconvenience to Comey. I don't believe he will be convicted of anything. Therefore, no fines or prison time. POTUS OJ also wants DOJ to press charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and Senator Adam Schiff. These people eit…

What have we here? A beginning or an ending? A dream or a nightmare? Or the result of taking the red pill.

Who's crazy? It is really the natural healer Dr. Sebi or is it really the profit centered system that says which suggests that he is crazy? Dr. Sebi

EX BASKET BALL PLAYER DENNIS RODMAN IN NORTH KOREA,WHO CARES/AXIS OF EVIL ,IRAN,IRAQ, NORTH KOREA....REPUBLICAN MITT ROMNEY 2012 WANTED TO DROP BOMBS ON SYRIA AND IRAN, PRESIDENT BUSH SENT TROOPS IN IRAQ KNOWING NO WEAPONS WAS THERE..IRAN MIGHT BE PLAN TO HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS//WHY THE U.S. WANT SEND TROOPS IN NORTH KOREA, OR DROP BOMBS ON NORTH KOREA WHO HAS NUCLEAR PLANT AND MISSLES, AMAZING//////IN 2012 U.S. KU KLUX KLAN NEO NAZI DAVID DUKES IN SYRIA SUPPORTING TERORIST,2006 IN IRAN SUPPORTING IRAN PRESIDENT, WHY IS THIS OKAY, TERRORIST SUPPORTING …

THE LYRID METEOR SHOWER Happening Now in APRIL 2023! https://www.photopills.com/articles/meteor-shower-photography-guide https://allevents.in/elizabeth/lyrids-meteor-shower-2023/200024073032924?ref=footer-up-cityhome What is so fascinationg to me is that most Meteor Showers are actually due to a particular COMET that has come to orbit our solar system! And as I shared in another thread about the recent orit of THE GREEN COMET, I do not believe that scientist teach us everything that they may know about comets. That fact that meteor showers are the mostly the result of a comet that has orbited and then le…

How American Antiwar and Solidarity Movements in 60s Impeded an Effective Invasion of Cuba Fair Play for Cuba and the Cuban Revolution by BILL SIMPICH July 26, Cuba’s most important holiday, is the commemorative date in 1953 when Castro and his forces unsuccessfully stormed the government stockade at Moncada and ignited the Cuban revolution. On a day like today, it should be noted that Americans made a successful Cuban invasion impossible with a campaign of determined resistance. Antiwar and solidarity activists came together to protect the Cuban revolution during the era of 1960-1963 – the era of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and the JFK as…

In Mcintosh County, Georgia Racist White Police Fired For Targeting Black Drivers, Say It Again, Targeting Black Drivers.He Also Put Racist Comments On Face Book, Mocking Dr. Martin Luther King'S I Have A Dream Speech, Saying I Have A Dream,That My People Will Stop Acting Like Animals.White Police In Texas ,Fired For Being Klan Member. Louisiana White Police For Being At A Klan Rally Giving Hitler Salute.Chicago White Police Fired ,He A Klan Recruiter.FBI Want Talk About These Terrorist On The News..Black Police Want Talk About Klan Police On The News,Black News Anchors Will Not Talk About White Police For Being Klan Members. CNN Don Lemon, NBC Lester Holt ,MSNBC Joy Reid…

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You know I started watching a screener of Skip Gates new series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross which will broadcast on PBS starting on the 22. It is interesting enough and I'd recommend it. After watched the 1st two parts of a six part series we decided to take a break and watch Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story this was a really fascinating movie! Booker's place made Gates program seem sanitized, almost boring, by comparison There are a few segments of the film which are just priceless. (1) was Booker describing how her felt about being a waiter (the version is the actual film is better than what is shown in the trailer), and (2), perhaps ev…

When I live in NYC I used to attend these conversation which addressed controversial subjects and always provided both side of the argument. email bashlefi at gmail to RSVP Biographies of the Speakers Professor Vernelia Ruth Randall Law professor Vernellia Ruth Randall was born March 6, 1948, in Gladewater, Texas to Mary Pauline Hall Randall and Ernest Randall. Both parents were associated with Jarvis Christian College. Raised by her father in difficult circumstances in Mule Shoe, Texas, Randall attended the colored school there and graduated from Carver High School in Amarillo in 1966. Receiving her A.A. degree from Amarillo College, she e…

THE KILLER OF TRAYVON MARTIN IS BEING PROTECTED BY WHITE POLICE..IF THE KILLER HAD KILLED A WHITE BOY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED OR SHOT BY POLICE..REV. SHARPTON IS PROTESTING,PEOPLE ARE ON THE NEWS...WHAT ABOUT INNER BLACK MALES SHOT DOWN BY STREET GANGS,DRUG GANGS../NO PROTESTING FOR THEIR JUSTICE..WHERE IS THE BLACK CHURCH /ONLY THING BLACK PREACHERS CARE ABOUT, IS MONEY MOSTLY WHITE POLITICAL MONEY..WHERE ARE THE RICH BLACK ATHLETES, ENTERTAINERS/THEY CAN SHOW UP FOR AWARDS BUT NOT PROTEST,.THIS TRASH THAT, KILLED TRAYVON MARTIN LOKS HISPANIC,THE WHITE PEOPLE SUPPORTING HIM, WOULD, NOT BE IF HE GUNNED DOWN A WHITE PERSON....EVERY B…

On The News, Video Of A White Police Saying We Only Kill Black,People. Last Year In Georgia A White Police Officer Stopped,A White Woman For A DUI,White Woman Said She Was,Afraid To Reach For Her Phone,White Police Told Her We,Only Kill. Black People ..Racist Police Was Put On,Administrative Duty.. White Police Have Been Fired, For ,Being ,Klan Members,Klan A Terrorist Organization..White Police Were Fired In Georgia Last Year For Targeting Black .Drivers,This Year In Georgia White Police Fired For Stomping A Black Man On The Ground...Black Police Association Silent..As The Idiot President,Showed On The News Saying There Are Some Good,People Among The Neo Nazi That Mar…

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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…

You'll need birth times for both charts. Your rising is the ascendant. The house their Sun is in your chart, shows how you see them. The house their Part of Fortune is in your chart, shows you their role in your life.

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https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1126754169/opec-oil-production-cut In order to satisfy Russia and snub the US, OPEC will be decreasing oil production by 2 million barrels per day. After a couple months of falling gas prices, expect it to creep back up just in time for the holiday season. 😁 I'm not surprised that it's being allowed to happen. Politicians are good at playing both sides against the middle. Follow the money. Watch their hands. 😎

I REALLY wish the media would stop writing shit like "strong economy" and "low unemployment rate." The terms are even used in an article describing how 7 million American are about to have their cars repossessed. Strong economy for who, the rich corporations and the people who run and own them? What does low unemployment rate mean when you don't count the incarcerated or those who have given up looking but want to work. Even those who do work the wages are are low and benefits are nonexistent. In states like Florida almost half the population makes less than $20 an hour. At some point, the chickens will come home to roost and we will have to dea…

Do you know the circumstances? Convicted of the murder of a state trooper in 1973, Joanne Chesimard was sentenced to life in prison; no parole. She escaped in 1979, fled to Cuba and has lived there in exile ever since. But first, who was Ms. Chesimard? Born during Jim Crow (having to witness overt segregation, separate but ‘equal’ laws, the disparity in wages, earnings gaps between whites and blacks, having to live in government formed dilapidated ghettos, etc.), she grew up destined to be a part of the Black Liberation Movement of the Sixties (She was choice-ed with non-violence but deciding to not not fight back if someone spits in her face was too mu…

WAITING TO SEE HOW MANY BLACK PREACHERS ARE ON THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE.. THERE ARE 3 BLACK PREACHERS IN PRISON FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES, NOT TALKED ABOUT.. BLACK PREACHERS DO NOT CONFRONT GANGS , OR DRUG GANGSTERS IN BLACK COMMUNITIES,YET THEY HAVE FAITH LIKE JOB/// /THEY ARE A DISGRACED ALONG WITH NAACP AND BLACK POLITICIANS........./THEY CANNOT TAKE ON GANGS BUT THEY WANT BLACK VOTES AND MONEY.////

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I just want to start out by saying that I am not a race denier. I believe, from an anthropological standpoint, that there are only three races. There is the Caucasian race, the Negroid race, and the Mongoloid race. Although originating in the Caucasus Mountains, the Caucasian race consists of white Europeans, Arabs, and East Indian (both dark skinned and light-skinned). The Mongoloid or Asian race includes the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Indonesians, and what we would term American Indians. The Negroid or Africoid race involves Sub-Saharan black Africans. However, the Australoid race kind of defies a racial category because they have a sim…

Preacher Craig Davis Is In Prison For Having Sex With Women,Not Telling Them He Was HIV,Had HIV.I Think One,Woman He Had Sex With Tested Positive For The HIV,Virus.. Preacher Craig Davis Put In Prison 3, Years Ago. Preacher Demetrius McFarland Has AIDS ,He Was Having Sex,With Women. Knowing He Had AIDS .Read This On,Websites. Black Community 44% ,With HIV,More Than ,Any Other Race In This Country .Reasons, Poverty,Health Care,Someone Like These Preachers Having Sex With People,Not Telling People They Have It Knowing They Have It.Amazing,These Preachers Having Sex With Women In Their,Church Congregation. Amazing People Having Sex Without, Protection...Black Population 12…

In a text to me a couple of minutes ago: "...today is the best day in the entire century to manifest ... so put your dreams in the universe. I say waddya have to lose? Del are you aware of this and the reasoning behind it (I have not attempted to GTS I came here first 😉

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

Hillary Clinton is leading in the polls and I believe that most Americans don't give a damn about those emails whether they under stand them or not. The American people want a president who knows how to talk to them, to give a speech; to represent the U.S. among the heads of states;to run the armed forces;to stabilize or balance the economy;to make race relations better and not worse; to negotiate where there is problems in foreign policy and to ease tension in immigration;and make sure everyone benefits from this economy besides just the super rich people. We want a president who will deal with the issues concerning US,the American citizens and not what…

In Mexico and Peru Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people—the two countries together received far more slaves than did the United States —brought to these countries as early as the 16th and 17th centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. Watch full episode. Another Louis Gates documentary: Also, Dr. Ivan van Sertima, author of "They Came Before Columbus" (about African Presence in Ancient America) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nceKy72vV0