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Culture, Race & Economy

This board's purpose is to facilitate the exchange of opinions, ideas, facts, and information as it relates to Black people.

  1. Started by harry brown,

    ITS AMAZING THE SAME PROSECUTORS FROM ZIMMERMAN MURDERING TRAYVON MARTIN TRIAL/////IF JORDAN DAVIS FRIENDS WERE NOT WITH HIM , MURDERER MICHAEL DUNN WILL BE FREE///// PROSECUTION DID NOT BRING IN THE RACIST LETTER DURING TRIAL/////STAND YOUR GROUND CREATED BY KKK REPUBLICANS SHOOT DOWN BLACK MALES LIKE PREY,THEY WANT TO HAVE RACE RIOTS,RACE WAR...BLACK REPUBLICAN, LARRY ELDERS,HE SAYS WELL, O. J. SIMPSON GOT AWAY WITH MURDER,WHAT, ,WHY IS HE BRINGING UP O.J. SIMPSON..LARRY ELDERS SAYS, JORDAN DAVIS KILLED NOT EMIT TILL/YES JORDAN DAVIS, TRAYVON MARTIN, IS EMIT TIL…

  2. Started by Troy,

    "Most of us spend our lives looking for approval from white people, and white institutions and white corporations."

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  3. Started by harry brown,

    WAITING FOR THE VERDICT..HEARD ON THE NEWS, THE MURDERER OF JORDAN DAVIS, SAID THE MORE HE HEARS THAT MUSIC THE MORE HE HATES THOSE PEOPLE.THUG MUSIC MEANING NIGGER MUSIC....HE SAID WHITE PEOPLE SHOULD GET GUNS AND SHOOT THOSE PEOPLE...///HE SOUNDS LIKE A NEO NAZI/// HE SAID THIS ON LETTERS HE WROTE WHILE BEHIND BARS....DO NOT THINK PROSECUTION USED LETTERS IN TRIAL/WHY....ARE THIS THE SAME PROSECUTOR IDIOTS FROM GEORGE ZIMMERMAN TRIAL,THE OTHER MURDER/////...STAND YOUR GROUND DEFENSE, ANOTHER WAY TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE AND NOT SERVE ANY TIME////SOMEONE ONES A R…

  4. This idea is in reaction to CDBurns stating that he would be deleting his Facebook (FB) profile. His motivation was motivated by the fact that is was not working well for him. I’d actually planned to stop using FB myself, save for remote or automated updates, but then I started thinking why even bother with those updates, I should just cut the cord completely too. My motivation for cutting the "FB Cord" however is perhaps little different that CDBurn. I can get FB to drive traffic to my site. However over time I find myself dedicating more time on FB, joining groups, engaging with others, liking stuff, promoting posts and so forth, at the expense on AALBC.…

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  5. Dalton School Apologizes for Screening Slavery Satire By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZJAN. 30, 2014 The Dalton School, one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, has apologized after screening a satirical movie about a world in which the South won the Civil War. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNOAGlnG9g The film above was screened at a mostly white, most wealthy school in NY City's tony upper east side. Apparently the film was screened as a educational tool. I'm sure some white guy, completely obvious and insensitive to how the film would might be perceived, thought the film was funny and decided to share it with his peeps (students).

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  6. Started by harry brown,

    WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF BLACK AWARD SHOWS...BLACK RICH PEOPLE GET AWARDS FOR WHAT//NAACP,ESSENCE,TRUMPET,THEY GIVE THE BLACK RICH AWARDS,BUT WHEN THEY ORGANIZE A PROTEST MARCH ,THEY ROUND UP THE BLACK POOR OR AVERAGE BLACK PEOPLE LIKE CATTLE/WHY CAN THE RICH BLACK AWARD WINNERS EXCLUDE THEMSELVES OR BE EXCLUDED FROM PROTESTING AND MARCHING.IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE SACRIFICING OF BLACK PEOPLE MANY YEARS AGO, THE BLACK RICH WOULD NOT BE WHERE THEY ARE.////.

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  7. The video above was done in jest, but it is funny and somewhat sad because it is so true. I was talking to someone the other day and was trying to explain that anyone who thinks they know me based upon my Facebook profile is a fool. I have actually stopped using Facebook for personal reasons because what originally started out as an ego stroke no longer works. I now recognize that Facebook is literally pimping me to make money with a complete using a complete false version of who I am. I'm also tired of reading everyone else false images of themselves. I prefer the flawed, imperfect and occasionally inspired people you encounter in the real world. …

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  8. Started by Cynique,

    A recent article by controversial Chicago Sun-times columnist, Neil Steinberg, advanced a theory that he shared with his readers because he wanted to observe Black history month from a different angle. In making his case, Steinberg cited a study that took place over 20 years ago. It was administered by Harvard sociologists and it tested young children to determine the long term effects of an experiment where these kindergarteners were given a choice to accept a single treat right away, or to wait until later and get 2 treats. The testers followed the particpants in this study for 20 years and found that those who waited and got the extra treat, fared better in lif…

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  9. Started by harry brown,

    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…

  10. Started by harry brown,

    IN JASPER TEXAS, BLACK MAN ALFRED WRIGHT WAS MURDERED..HIS EAR CUT OF,THROAT CUT..WHITE POLICE SAY DRUGS,FAMILY SAID HE DID NOT USE DRUGS///JASPER SOUNDED FAMILIAR..JAMES BYRD WHO WAS DRAGGED TO DEATH BY THE KU KLUX KLAN IN JASPER TEXAS , YEARS AGO....IS THIS ANOTHER KLAN KILLING..THIS IS THE TERRORIST BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT, NOT MIDDLE EAST NORTH KOREA OR CUBA...YES, THEY HAVE MEMBERS IN HIGH PLACES, POLICE AND POLITICIANS/////WATCH THIS WEBSITES , HACKERS ON BLACK WEBSITES I JOINED//////

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  11. Started by harry brown,

    ON THE NEWS, BLACK BABY MAYBE 2 YEARS OLD, NOT SURE,BEING TOLD TO SAY BITCH AND CURSE WORDS,BY BLACK IDIOTS./THEY PUT IT ON YOUTUBE,WHITE POLICE IN OMAHA,NEBRASKA,SHOWED IT// SAYING THIS IS THE CULTURE OF THUGGERY...CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS WERE UPSET...BLACK BABY AND HIS MOTHER WERE BOTH SHOT LAST YEAR..BABY WAS SHOT ON HIS FOOT I THINK...THIS IS WHY BLACK BOYS GROW UP TO BE CRIMINALS.HOW,THEY ARE RAISED,NOT RAISED.....NEBRASKA HAS BLACK PEOPLE AND GANGS, DID NOT KNOW THAT...BLACK GANGS IN MAJORITY WHITE STATES..AS FOR THE WHITE POLICE ,SPEAKING THE CULTURE OF THUGGERY, WHAT ABOUT THE WHI…

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  12. Started by Cynique,

    Today is Groundhog Day. Wonder if the little varmint saw his shadow. And, speaking of shadows, it's also the beginning of Black History Month, a celebration that hovers in the shade of White History Year. People have started to voice disapproval of this annual observance but, something is needed to rival the the 4th of July, a holiday which is the sole domain of white America. So, let us remember a few of those who serve to fill us with black pride.

  13. Started by harry brown,

    READ ON A WEBSITE THAT IN 2008 A BLACK PREACHER LED A PROTEST OUTSIDE NAACP OFFICE ABOUT ABORTION//SEEMS BLACK CHURCH WANTS TO END ROE VERSUS WADE//ABORTION RIGHTS FOR WOMEN///READ THAT EACH DAY OVER 1,000 ABORTIONS DONE BY BLACK WOMEN//SINCE 1973, 16 MILLION ABORTIONS OF BLACK BABIES HAVE BEEN DONE, DO NOT KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE//YES WE GENOCIDE THE BLACK RACE IN LOTS OF WAYS/WHY DOES THE WOMEN LET THE MAN DECIDE IF HE WANTS TO WEAR A CONDOM///SHE GETS PREGNANT,SHE HAS TO DECIDE FOR ABORTION OR RAISE THE CHILD ALONE///AIDS- HIV VIRUS NOT A …

  14. Started by Cynique,

    The above lampoon pretty much sums up how seriously I take everything that goes on in this country. Obama gave it the ol college try in his state of the union speeach. He talked tough. Hard to do when your tongue is a noodle. And the beat goes on. I'm still swallowing back barf over how some crazy, white, gay-friendly duo beat out perennial black winners like JayZ, Drake, Kanye and break-out new artist, Lamar, for the best rap album of the year at the Grammys. Explanations refer to Rap now being mainstream. Who'd have ever thought this genre would find a home among white dorks. And speaking of the Grammys, why is everyone raggin on Beyonce for acting like…

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  15. 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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  16. Started by harry brown,

    SAW LAST WEEK EPISODE OF PATERNITY COURT//BLACK FEMALE JUDGE..THE USUAL BLACK WOMEN AND BLACK MEN//A MARRIED BLACK MAN, HIS WIFE.HE CHEATING ON HER WITH OTHER WOMEN, SHE KEPT TAKING HIM BACK///HE WAS ON TO SEE IF HE HAD A CHILD WITH HIS MISTRESS,YES HE DID,HE WAS ON THE SHOW TO SEE IF HE HAD A CHILD WITH ANOTHER MISTRESS ,YES HE DID..3 CHILDREN WITH HIS WIFE.HE HAS 5 ALL TOGETHER..THE MISTRESES ARE ARGUING OVER THIS IDIOT.......HE SAYS THIS IS THE CULTURE FROM THE BLACK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE HE LIVES.....WHY DO BLACK MEN CONTINUE TO HAVE CHILDREN WI…

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  17. These kids, from Bed-Stuy and Brownsville, deliver a powerful protest about race relations in America. The children are introduced by Roxie Roker (Mrs. Willis from The Jefferson's. Lenny Kavitz's mom) On "Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant", Charles Hobson captured his neighborhood in black and white — local celebrities, activists, musicians, and regular residents all made appearances on the weekly show. The program ran for two years, and Hobson moved on to produce shows like "Black Journal" and "Like It Is". Described by Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant producer Charles Hobson as one of the program's "most-requested pieces", this video features the Leroi Jones Young Sp…

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  18. Started by harry brown,

    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 …

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  19. ...otherwise our stories would be completely overlooked by the "Academy." Nominees for the 86th Oscars® Actor in a Leading Role Christian Bale in “American Hustle” Bruce Dern in “Nebraska” Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street” Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave” Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club” Actor in a Supporting Role Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips” Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle” Michael Fassbender in “12 Years a Slave” Jonah Hill in “The Wolf of Wall Street” Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club” Actress in a Leading Role Amy Adams in “American Hustle” Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine” Sandra Bullock in “Gravit…

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  21. Started by Cynique,

    Standing on the threshold of 2014, one of my new year's resolutions is to keep in mind what a big joke life is and to, therefore, appreciate what good medicine laughter is. The list below, pilfered from FaceBook, cracked me up, because I relate to it. And it was such great relief from all of the platitudes and religious testimonies that saturate this site.

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  22. Started by Cynique,

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  23. Started by Cynique,

    Hello 2014. Glad to meet you. I knew you were a possibility but I was never sure you'd be a reality for me. Sooo, here I am, out here in the frigid heartland, snowed in and holed up in my woman cave, emerging briefly from the malaise of my cabin fever to marvel at the news that records may be broken when it comes to the winter weather besieging the Chicagoland area. Baby, it's cold outside, and somebody got the memo to let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. What to do, what to say?? My writer's block is descending into a deep freeze. Let's see; I ended up being locked out in the wee small hours of January 1, 2014. Having attended a small gathering at …

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  29. Yes it is Monster Porn (no I'm not making this up). Cum For Bigfoot It began in December of 2011. A stay-at-home mother from Parker, Colo., Wade had no ambition to be a published author and no real writing experience other than a few attempts at historical romance in the mid-90s. But then, she says, "I got this crazy idea for a story." So she sat down and wrote the entire book — more of a novella, at just 12,000 words — in a matter of weeks. She never even considered trying to sell it to a mainstream publisher. Instead, she went directly to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform for self-publishing with a 70% royalty rate for authors. (The a…

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  30. Started by harry brown,

    I SUPPOSE YOU CAN LOVE WHO YOU WANT....BUT THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY WILL NOT HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH BLACK PEOPLE.WHY/BLACK MEN SAY BLACK WOMEN, WANT TO DOMINATE THE RELATIONSHIP,THEY ARE CONTROLLING, IGNORANT.SO THESE BLACK MEN PREFER DATING WHITE WOMEN, HISPANIC,LATINO OR ASIAN//BLACK WOMEN THEY WILL NOT HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH BLACK MEN,WHY/BECAUSE BLACK MEN, TO CONTROLLING,WANT TO DOMINATE,IRRESPONSIBLE,DONT WANT TO BE FATHERS TO CHILDREN THEY HAVE, CRIMINALS AND GHETTO//////OKAY//BLACK MALE, ATHLETES AND ENTERTAINERS PREFER WOMEN OF OTHER RACES INSTEAD …

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  31. 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…

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  32. Started by Troy,

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  33. Started by Troy,

    From time to time I review the queries that drive traffic to the website. Once such query is for the term "PAWG." I was unfamiliar with the term and searched for it until I found my my site (an earlier version of Thumper's Corner) where I found this conversation: Black men do you ignore PAWGS? Cynique, I'd actually forgotten how wild y'all used to get I miss those days...before the corporate take over of the net. Can you image a conversation like that on, say, Facebook today? Assuming you got past the sensors and the prudes, it is still technically impossible because of the restrictions on what people are permitted to do social media. There is so much le…

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  34. Started by Troy,

    Visit: http://www.putonblast.com, click the “Sign Up Now” button and select “POB! Main List (Arts & Activism)” box at the bottom of the form and be sure to put Troy Johnson or AALBC.com in the section that asks “How did you learn about us?” In return, AALBC.com will be shouted out to the POB (Put on Blast) Arts & Activism audience.

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  35. Started by Troy,

    http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/documents/KwanzaaUsandtheWell-beingoftheWorld12-13-12.pdf

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  36. Started by harry brown,

    IF BLACK PEOPLE EMBRACED THE PRINCIPLES OF KWANZAA ,THERE COULD BE BLACK WALL STREET AGAIN///WHY IS THIS DIFFICULT///KWANZAA PRINCIPLES RESPECTING OUR ANCESTORS,HERITAGE,COMMUNITIES AND HAVING UNITY////BLACK PEOPLE ENSLAVED THEMSELVES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES.../////BLACK LEADERS YOU CANNOT TRUST../////BLACK PEOPLE DOING WHAT SLAVERY AND SOUTHERN LYNCHING AND HANGING COULD NOT DO../BRINGING A BLACK RACE EXTINCTION///AM I THE ONLY ONE FEARING WE ARE ON THE PATH TO POSSIBLE EXTINCTION LIKE DINOSAURS.////.

  37. Started by Cynique,

    HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE! HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY! HO! HO! HO!

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  38. Started by harry brown,

    HEARD ON BLACK TALK RADIO ABOUT A 16 YEAR OLD DISABLED BLACK BOY IN PRISON FOR KILLING FOUR PEOPLE AT A DETROIT DRUG HOUSE//HIS LAWYERS SAYS HE WAS COERCED INTO CONFESSING//HIT MAN ,NOW, CONFESSING TO KILLING 7 PEOPLE,/MOTHER HOPES HE GETS NEW TRIAL///BUT ON THE NEWS 16 YEAR OLD WHITE BOY DRIVES DRUNK ,KILLS 4 PEOPLE AND GETS PROBATION//WHITE BOY FAMILY RICH/////WILL GO TO RICH REHABILITATION PLACE..WHITE PEOPLE ANGRY ON THE NEWS, YET CONDONES GEORGE ZIMMERMAN KILLING TRAYVON MARTIN///. IT MAKES ME SICK HEARING BLACK REPUBLICAN PREACHER JESSE LEE PETERSO…

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  39. Started by harry brown,

    THE GREAT FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER JIM BROWN SAID .BACK YEARS AGO WHEN BLACK ATHLETES CAME TOGETHER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, SPEAKING AGAINST, RACISM AND SUPPORTING MUHAMMED ALI, HE WOULD NOT HAVE CALLED FOR KOBE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE COME///KOBE GOT UPSET/////SPORTS SPEAKER STEPHEN A. SMITH COMING TO KOBE BRYANT DEFENSE///JIM BROWN AND SMITH BOTH ON ARSENIO HALL SHOW////A LOT OF BLACK ATHLETES DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH BLACK, AMERICA'S PROBLEMS//SOME WHO BECOME WEALTHY ARE NOT BLACK ANYMORE THEY TRANSFORM INTO SOMETHING ELSE////WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF/WHO ARE THEY AFRAID O…

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  40. Started by harry brown,

    HISPANIC REPUBLICANS UPSET BECAUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA SHAKING HANDS WITH FIDEL CASTRO'S BROTHER.SO WHAT////ARE THE HISPANIC REPUBLICANS UPSET WITH THE PATRIOT REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAND AT THE BORDER WITH LOADED GUNS, SHOOTING AT THE MEXICANS THAT COME INTO THE U.S./WERE THEY UPSET WITH GEORGE ZIMMERMAN GUNNING DOWN TRAYVON MARTIN//SOME REPUBLICANS TALK LIKE THEY WOULD LIKE THE MEXICANS IN THIS COUNTRY ROUNDED UP AND SENT BACK TO MEXICO////////ARE THE HISPANIC REPUBLICANS UPSET WITH RACIST VIDEO GAMES MADE IN THE U.S., IN VIDEO GAMES NEO NAZI TROOPS SHOOTING AT…

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  41. I grew up in a building that looked very much like the one shown in this animation. I clearly recall reasoning that Santa was fiction based upon the fact that we had no fire place from Santa to descend. The projects, however, actually do have chimneys. When I was a kid we would dump our trash down a chute where it was periodically incinerated and the noxious smoke was released through a chimney. Today they use compactors and God know where the smushed-up rubbish goes from there. I recall trying to explain my reasoning to another kid, in an attempt to dispel the myth of Kris Kringle. The kid simply would not believe me. Many years later, I heard the kid we…

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  42. Started by Troy,

    Apparently these photos were taken during the Nelson Mandela Memorial Oh by the way, First lady not peeved, says photographer who caught the Obama selfie

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  43. Started by harry brown,

    NELSON MANDELA HAD A LOT IN COMMON WITH DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING...BOTH HAD TO LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED RACISM//IN AMERICA LIKE SOUTH AFRICA, RACE SEGREGATION AND AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES..HEARD ON THE NEWS THE HIGH UP IN AMEICA SUPPORTED APARTHEID IN SOUTH- AFRICA, THE HIGH UP IN THIS COUNTRY SUPPORTED SOUTH AFRICA EUROPEANS SEEING NELSON MANDELA AS A TERRORIST//AMAZING NELSON MANDELA WAS NOT KILLED WHILE IN PRISON//AMAZING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS NOT KILLED WHILE IN JAIL, OR WAS NOT LOCKED UP A LONG TIME LIKE NELSON MANDELA WAS..//THE DIFFERENC…

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  44. I guess I find it funny because it just epitomizes the absurdity of "high" fashion. But on a more practical matter these super high heeled shoes are simply bad for you. How many women have I seen, often overweight who have to pack a pair a flat shoes to wear home after attending an event in 5 inch heals... I'm glad men have no pressure to wear shoes that are just bad for your feet. The days of hammer toes from wearing pointy shoes are long gone. We don't have to worry about processing our hair, painting our faces, or showing up to an event wearing the same suit.

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  45. THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF SLAM, LAUNCHING A 4-DAY MASTERCLASS SERIES WITH AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER MARC LEVIN (DECEMBER 5-8, 2013) Tonight the Maysles Cinema brings you the film that captivated critics and judges from Sundance to Cannes and turned slam poetry into the global phenomenon it is today: Marc Levin's SLAM. Join acclaimed poet and performer Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn (of The Wire), Bonz Malone, Bob Holman, Liza Jessie Peterson, Richard Stratton and Marc Levin at the Dempsey Auditorium in Harlem (127 W. 127th Street) for the 15th Anniversary of this seminal film and the first gathering of the talent behind it since 1998. The discussion will be…

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  46. Started by Cynique,

    Kanye West is a magnet for controversy. Love him or hate him, he bears watching because he epitomizes the excess and egoism that genius and success can give rise to. Here's a link to an article entitled: "Kanye's Frantz Fanon complex". I thought this article by Jessica Ann Mitchell was interesting. "I recently wrote an article called, “Harry Belafonte Was Right About Jay-Z.” The article went viral, generating a huge response from the Black community and beyond. A few readers were puzzled when I stated, “Kanye West…often laments about racism but strives to uphold the same materialistic values that help drive economic disparities.” Now, I will explore this more…

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  47. Started by Cynique,

    Well, it's the last month of the year 2013 as we trudge through the darkness on our way to the end of the winter solstice that will occur December 21st. Getting past that, we begin a new journey toward the light which will reward us with the longest day of the year on June 21st, 2014. If you check out the night sky you'll probably see Venus, the "evening star" blazing extra bright as it does every year at this time when it's closest to our planet, reminding us of how predictable astronomy is. So, there does seem to be order to the universe. But the planet earth didn't get the memo. Everything here seems to be in a random state of flux thanks to a world-wide blitz of …

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  48. Started by harry brown,

    AUTHOR AND THEOLOGIAN ANTHONY B. PINN HAS INTERESTING BOOKS.ONE IS TRANSFORMING THE BLACK CHURCH//HE ASK, WHAT IS THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE BLACK CHURCH/WHAT ARE QUESTIONS, FACING BLACK CHURCHES IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY///THE PURPOSE OF THE BLACK CHURCH, DOES SOMEONE KNOW////BLACK CHURCHES HAVE BECOME SLAVE CABINS ON PLANTATIONS, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS ARE ENSLAVED///CONFINED////.HE WANTS TO TRANSFOR BLACK CHURCHES, THAT IS A POINTLESS MISSION/////BLACK CHURCHES USED TO BE A PLACE OF SPIRITUAL UP LIFTING AND CIVIL RIGHTS STRATEGIES WERE DISCUSSED..///I SAW SUNDAY NIGHT …

  49. Started by harry brown,

    A BOOK CALLED SLAVE RELIGION,INVISIBLE INSTITUTION OF THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH/BOOK IS ABOUT THE FORCED TRANSFORMATION OF THE CAPTIVE AFRICAN PLANTATION SLAVES,THEIR AFRICAN RELIGION TO WHITE AMERICAN PLANTATION CHRISTIAN RELIGION//SLAVES COULD NOT WORSHIP WITHOUT WHITE SUPERVISION....THIS GOES ON AS I SPEAK///BLACK CHURCHES CONTROLLED BY ,CAMOUFLAGED, WHITE POLITICIANS AND CLOAKED WHITE CHRISTIANS.BLACK PREACHERS ARE PLANTATION OVERSEER'S....BLACK PEOPLE REMAIN SPIRITUALLY ENSLAVED......IF THEY REALLY READ THE BIBLE IT DOES NOT SAY GOD AND CHRIST IS WHITE.//////DO BLACK PREACHERS SPEAK OF AN…

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