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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,

    IN GEORGIA BLACK TEEN DEMARQUISE ELKINS FOUND GUILTY KILLING BABY IN STROLLER//JUDGE ADDED ON 105 YEARS FOR ELKINS ARMED ROBBERY AND SHOOTING PASTOR OUTSIDE A CHURCH////MARQUISE ELKINS GUILTY, LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT PAROLE POSSIBILITY../MORE STUPID BLACK MALES///SOME PEOPLE THINK TRAYVON MARTIN WAS A CRIMINAL BLACK MALE AND DESERVED TO BE KILLED.....////

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  2. Started by Pioneer1,

    I notice that over the past 20 years the grammar of many Black youth seem to be deteriorating. Walk past a group of Black youth today and you're liable to hear terms and phrases that used to be outdated, like "red bone" and "what you name iz" I even notice that the baggy pants many of the boys wear is forcing them to shuffle when they walk like Step'n Fetchit. Young people in their teens and 20s talking and acting like slaves who just stepped off the plantation! Where are they learning this? I think it's a combination of the entertainment industry attempting to establish what we used to be considered country and ignorant in the past, as "Black culture" to…

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  3. Started by harry brown,

    NEWS SAYS A NEW DRUG CALLED MOLLY/IT IS LIKE ECTASY PILLS..DRUG MOLLY STOPS A PERSON ABILITY TO MOVE, BRINGS A HIGH FEVER///AND JUST LIKE COCAINE, BLACK SINGERS ARE GLAMOURIZING THE DRUG MOLLY//WHY ARE BLACK SINGERS CONTINUING TO GLAMOURIZE DRUGS///NEWS SAYS DRUG SELLERS OF MOLLY DRUG AIM AT TEENS AND COLLEAGE STUDENTS//////AMAZING///AMAZING HOW BLACK PEOPLE KEEP BEING INVOLVED IN THEIR RACE GENOCIDE////

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  4. Started by Cynique,

    I don't need to go to church to be reminded to "like" God and accept him as my "friend". All I have to do is to scroll down FaceBook and God, whose screen name is "Jesus" , is shoved down my throat with praises of his glory and promises of his reliability and threats of his wrath. Religion still elicts yawns and shrugs from me. Occasionally, however, it provides me with a good laugh and, ironically, FaceBook is once again the source of this comic relief.

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  5. Started by Pioneer1,

    It's pitiful to see how Obama is constantly manipulated by the Republicans into doing THEIR dirty work for them. Just like Obama Care...... A right wing health care beauracracy designed to make the Insurance companies even richer. The Republicans TRICKED Obama and the Democrats (who originally wanted Universal Healthcare) into not only supporting such a bill but actually spearheading and leading it. It's the same with escalating the war in Afganistan, expanding the war into Pakistan, the war in Libya, and now what looks like the future war in Syria. They love to go to war, but they know the American public is tired of war and is against it so they had to fi…

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  6. Started by harry brown,

    BLACK REPUBLICAN PREACHER JESE LEE PETERSON SAYS TRAYVON MARTIN WAS A POT SMOKING THUG,RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN DEATH/BEYOND SICK OF THESE BLACK REPUBLICANS///AFTER CELEBRATING DR. KING ,THE 50 YEAR CELEBRATION OF MARCH ON WASHINGTON,LAST WEEK/WHY DO BLACK DEMOCRATS, NAACP SO AFRAID TO CONFRONT THESE FAKE PREACHERS,/IF BLACK DEMOCRATS ,NAACP CAN PROTEST CLARENCE BEING NOMINATED IN 1991 BEING ON SUPREME COURT WHERE THE GREAT THURGOOD MARSHALL,JUSTICE MARSHALL ONCE WAS, WHY NOT PROTEST FAKE PREACHERS,..///FIRST DR. BEN CARSON RAMBLING ,DIS RESPECTING THE PRESIDENT,…

  7. Started by Troy,

    http://huria.org/?q=YOURSEARCH With Huria Search you can quickly search 50+ Black owned magazines, 100+ Black owned newspapers, 100+ Black owned booksellers And did I say there were no advertisements?

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  8. Started by Cynique,

    Well, with a new television season on the horizon, fans of the small acreen are being bombarded with the trailers touting all the new and returning shows. The announcement that jolted me the most was the revelation that Valerie Harper will be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars! It wasn't too long ago that Mary Tyler Moore's TV sidekick, a/k/a Rhoda, was appearing before cameras, putting on a brave face announcing that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Although in her early 70s, Valerie/Rhoda was still feisty and upbeat, vowing to fight to the end. I feel so inadequate. Here this half-dead septagenarian is getting ready to go through her paces,…

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  9. Started by Troy,

    Lifted from Reddit

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  10. Started by harry brown,

    SHOULD THE U.S. ATTACK SYRIA/SYRIA GOVERNMENT KILLING THEIR PEOPLE WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS//IT WAS NOT SYRIA OR IRAN THAT SENT RICIN TO PRESIDENT OBAMA .IT WAS SOME WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY PROBALY KLAN MEMBERS...RICIN IS DEADLY LIKE ANTHRAX, KLAN GROUPS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT WITH BOTH//ATTACK SYRIA THAT MIGHT GET AL QUEDA MORE INVOLVED, MORE DEAD U.S. TROOPS ///THIS COUNTRY GOVERNMENT IS AMAZING, THE U.S. DONT WANT TERRORIST IN OTHER COUNTRY GOVERNMENTS, THIS COUNTRY HAS KLAN MEMBERS IN THE GOVERNMENT///AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN LINDSEY…

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  11. Started by harry brown,

    NEWS SAYS ZIMMERMAN HAVING MARRIAGE PROBLEMS WITH HIS WIFE/I THINK I SPEAK FOR A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE WHEN I SAY/WHO GIVES A DAMN /GEORGE ZIMMERMAN IS A MURDERER ,DELIBERATELY KILLED-MURDERED TRAYVON MARTIN//ZIMMERMAN IS A MURDERING IDIOT,HIS WIFE A LYING IDIOT/////BLACK REPUBLICANS HAVE COMPASSION FOR HIM/BLACK REPUBLICANS THINK TRAYVON MARTIN WAS A THUG DESERVED TO BE KILLED/////DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE MURDERER ZIMMERMAN AND HIS LYING WIFE.////.

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  12. Started by Troy,

    "The Digital Divide, or the disparity between internet adoption rates between various groups, has been a topic of conversation since the internet became a commercial entity two decades ago. There is a great deal of warranted concern about the long term impact on those unable to gain access to the internet. In recent years, due to smart phones, the disparity in internet adoption rates, has narrowed. However, there are problems looming which make the Digital Divide look like a minor inconvenience." Read More: http://aalbc.it/support-black-voices

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  13. Started by harry brown,

    I WATCHED THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT. ON PBS..../FORGOTTEN ARE ROY WILKINS, BAYARD RUSTIN, JAMES FARMER AND WHITNEY YOUNG AND SO MANY OTHERS....LOT OF WHITE AND BLACK MOVIE STARS.. WERE THERE.....DR. KING WOULD BE AMAZED.,IF HE COULD SE HOW THINGS HAVE GOTTEN/BLACK PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THERE OWN ENSLAVEMENT...BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE..DRUGS, IRRESPONSIBLE SEX, GETTING AIDS, HIV VIRUS, HAVING A CHOICE OF ABORTION,.BLACK MEN NOT BEING FATHERS/THEN THERES THE CHURCH...DR. KING WOULD BE DISGUSTED TO SE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH..THE CHURCH USE TO BE A PLACE OF STRATEGY…

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  14. Started by Cynique,

    Twitter is still blowing up and everybody continues to be all up in arms over Miley Cyrus' dancing exhibition at the Video Music awards Sunday. Even more riled are the parents of young fans of wholesome Hannah Montana, the alter ego who Miley formerly portrayed on the Disney channel TV show of the same name. Me, I can't stop laughing. I knew we were in trouble as soon as Miley erupted on stage sporting a close-shaved hair-do that featured 2 horn-like knots sprouting from the sides of her head, lashing her tongue like a seductive serpent. To be honest, her grinding gyrations were devilishly lewd, made even more so when she stripped down to her scanty underwear, …

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  15. NEWS,ZIMMERMAN CANNOT GET BACK THE GUN HE USED TO KILL-MURDER TRAVON MARTIN WITH, BUT HE CAN BUY GUNS./WHITE GUN GROUPS SENDING MONEY TO ZIMMERMAN SO HE CAN BUY GUNS FOR PROTECTION////THE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SHOULD GET GUNS AND WATCH ZIMMERMAN//DOES HE PLAN TO GUN DOWN MORE BLACK MALES AND CLAIM STAND YOUR GROUND////BILL COSBY SAID CRAZY PEOPLE LIKE ZIMMMERMAN SHOULD NOT HAVE GUNS,////

  16. Started by Cynique,

    I went to see "Lee Daniels' The Butler" over the week-end with my granddaughter. She loved it, declaring it to be a great history lesson. I liked it OK. I think my luke warm endorsement has to do with me finding out that a white person wrote the screen play. When asked about his credentials to undertake this, his answer was predictable. He said he did research and interviews and then put his empathy and writing skills to work. The result was a fictionalized episodic journey, plodding through the 1930s Jim Crow South up until the Ronald Reagan presidency in the 1980s. Although I could not relate to everything in the movie, all the events were familiar …

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  17. NOT LONG AGO THE NAACP PROTSTED THE OXYGEN CHANNEL SHOW ALL MY BABIES MAMAS, ABOUT RAPPER SHAWNTY LO AND HIS 9 CHILDEN BY 9 WOMEN//OXYGEN CHANNEL NEW SHOW PREACHERS OF L.A,////ABOUT PREACHERS WHO LIVE LIKE MVIE STARS, WITH EXPENSIVE CARS AND HOMES,/PREACHERS ARE PIMP CROOKS//BLACK CONGREGATION ARE NOT JUST MIS GUIDED SHEEP THEY ARE PROSTITUTES.../BLACK PREACHERS ARE NOT DR MARTIN LUTHER KING//IF BACK IN 1991 NAACP CAN PROTEST CLARENCE THOMAS NOMINATED FOR SUPREME COURT BECAUSE HE IS NOT LIKE THURGOOD MARSHALL, NAACP SHOULD PROTEST FAKE PREACHERS WHO ARE NOT LIKE DR. KING…

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  18. Started by Cynique,

    When it comes to TV, summertime is re-run season. For me it's a time to stray from the channels I usually watch because I've seen all of their episodes more than once. I still haven't gotten into sit-coms or drama series. I just look for quick fixes, and that can involve reality shows. But I only watch one type of reality show; the talent competition ones; or the untalented competitions, as the case may be. What I have observed while watching these shows is a simple lesson. A lesson that is not new but one that TV enhances and dramatizes because it exposes the power of reactions. I have become a regular viewer of a show called The Shark Tank, a progr…

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  19. Started by harry brown,

    NEWS,FALSE PREACHER PAT ROBERTSON WANTS ALL CHRISTIANS TO RISE UP AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS HEALTH PLAN//PAT ROBERTSON SAID REASON FOR HAITI EARTH QUAKE ,HAITI PEOPLE WERE DEVIL WORSHIPPERS./TEA PARTY CHRITIANS BELIEVE PRESIDENT OBAMA IS THE ANTI CHRIST../WILL BLACK CHRISTIANS RISE UP AND HELP THE NEO TEA PARTY VOCALLY ATTACK PRESIDENT OBAMA , WHICH THEY DO EVERY DAY///THE BLACK REPUBLICAN CHRISTIANS ARE LED BY DR. BEN CARSON...DOES DR. CARSON BELIEVE PRESIDENT OBAMA IS THE ANTI CHRIST,PRESIDENT WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA, TRAYVON MARTIN DESERVED TO BE KILLED,BECAUSE,THAT IS WHA…

  20. Started by Cynique,

    Well, I made it. The big 8-0. Now what? Only time will tell.

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  21. Started by Troy,

    Pioneer the organization behind this publication may be of interest to you. http://detroitceomag.com/ A Detroit based online publication that profiles local entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations, enlightening readers on the subjects of Business, Lifestyle, Community and Fashion in the city of Detroit. They are dedicated to sharing the news and success stories of local business owners, in and around the city of Detroit.

  22. Started by harry brown,

    A BOOK CALLED WHY BLACK MEN DONT GO TO CHURCH//MY OPINION ONE REASON WHY BLACK PEOPLE DONT GO TO CHURCH,THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO GO///BLACK PREACHERS AND THEIR USHERS TAKE UP CHURCH OFFERINGS 5 TIMES//PREACHERS USE MONEY TO BUY NEW CARS, BIG HOUSES////PREACHERS HAVE MISTRESSES, CHILDREN WITH WOMEN,THEY CROOKS,PIMPS, 3 BLACK PREACHERS IN PRISON FOR KILING THEIR WIVES..WHY IS THIS TOLERATED BY BLACK PEOPLE/////BLACK PREACHERS ARE NOT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING///A SACRIFICER////THE 50TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY MARCH ON WASHINGTON IS NEAR/BLACK PREACHERS DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF DR. KING//THEY P…

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  23. I've been publishing film reviews almost as long as I have been publishing book reviews -- more than 15 years. About seven years ago, in an efforts to bolster traffic, I began regularly publishing film reviewsy. Some months, for a number of reasons, I may actually pub more film reviews than book reviews. Since someone has to write the screenplay and often screenwriters are also novelist, film and books are related so I don't see film reviews as a radical departure from the focus of AALBC.com. Generally, I try to publish reviews of certainly the most prominent Black indie films (domestic and foreign). I'm actually quite happy to be working with Kam Williams w…

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  24. Started by harry brown,

    BLACK PEOPLE BELIEVING JESUS AND GIOD IS WHITE IS AS BAD AS RAP LYRICS GLAMOURIZING DRUGS, GANG VIOLENCE,PIMP AND PROSTITUTIONS//NOT A BIBLE READER , BUT THE BILBE DOES NOT SAY JESUS AND GOD IS WHITE/WHY DO BLACK PREACHERS GIVE THE RELIGIOUS THAT THEY ARE//TO GET WHITE PLITICIANS MONEY,TO BE TELEVISED EVERY WEEK//WHAT/SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT AS BAD AS BLACK PEOPLE USING, SELLING DRUGS, INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION//GANGS/RAPPERS,PREACHERS BOTH GET PAID FOR CONFINDMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE//ARE PREACHERS SERMONS AS BAD AS RAP SONG LYRICS//YES////LIKE SOME RAPPERS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS// 3 BLACK PREACHERS I…

  25. Started by harry brown,

    BLACK INVENTORS WEBSITE SAYS GEORGE CRUM INVENTED THE POTATO CHIPS/REALLY/EVRY TIME YOU EAT POTATO CHIPS THINK OF GEORGE CRUM//YUM//LOOK IT UP BLACK INVENTORS.///

  26. Started by Cynique,

    Next Suday, August 18th will be my 80th birthday. I began my week-long countdown yesterday. Can I make it? I seriously wonder. I feel OK but - who knows? Anything can happen. Life is fickle. Because I want to do it my way, I have planned a family dinner to be held in a private banquet room, where my 5 kids, 8 grandchildren and 3 great grands will gather to help me celebrate. My niece and grand nephew live out of state and won't be able to make it. Except for 3 distant cousins, these are all the blood relatives I have left in the world. Most of my close friends are dead and the 4 surviving female ones don't live close. Only casual acquaintances survive. I…

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  27. Started by harry brown,

    1920'S IN TULSA OKLAHOMA,THERE WAS BLACK WALL STREET.SUCESSFUL BLACK BUISNESSES,.BLACK BANKS THAT KEPT BLACK PEOPLE MONEY/THERE WAS THEATRES, SCHOOLS, STORES/HOW WAS THERE UNITY BACK THEN/PREACHERS DID NOT USE THERE OWN PEOPLE/HOW WERE BLACK COLLEGES BUILT//SOME SEGREGATED BLACK SCHOOLS HAD DISCIPLINE//BLACK WALL STREET COULD RETURN/OVER 20 MILLION BLACK PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY I THINK//THOSE WHO CAN GIVE 1 OR 2 DOLLARS A YEAR//WE COULD SOLVE BLACK COMMUNITY PROBLEMS./BLACK PEOPLE COULD BE MORE LIKE HARRY POTTER MOVIES///MUGGLES THE HUMANS UNAWARE OF THE WIZARDS THAT LIVE AMONG THE HUMANS///THE BLACK …

  28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZMCfxWN_X3Q I heard some others talking about it on the Sunday Morning News shows a couple weeks ago. Why are so many WHITE MEN interested in the rebuilding of America's blackest major city while Black folks all but ignore it?

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  29. Started by harry brown,

    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////…

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  30. Started by Pioneer1,

    The George Zimmerman trial and especially the peripheral affairs that surrounded it has really forced me to re-evaluate my political and social ideaology. I'm not talking about the behavior of George Zimmerman himself. That's an easy one....he murdered that boy. But more specifically I'm talking about: -The defense of Rachel Jeantel's disgraceful testimony by so many responsible Black people. -During the trial when it came to listening to public responses, I saw so many Black people who seemed not to be able to talk properly or express themselves adequately despite the fact that they were born and raised in this nation and it was embarassing. -The fact that li…

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  31. Started by harry brown,

    ON C-SPAN BLACK AUTHORS,COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND A PREACHER DISCUSSION ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE AND RELIGION//DISCUSSION WAS AT THE SCHOMBERG CENTER.I LISTENED TO SOME OF IT////IM NOT A BIBLE READER,BIBLE DOES NOT SAY GOD AND CHRIST IS WHITE///WHY DONT PREACHERS BEGIN AT GENESIS WHEN THEY SPEAK AND PREACH//EXPLAING WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS AND DOES NOT SAY///BLACK PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY CONFINED BY BLACK PREACHERS EVERY SUNDAY../RIGHT WING HAS CONVINCED SOME BLACK PREACHERS GOD AND CHRIST IS WHITE//REPUBLICANS SAY OBAMA IS THE ANTI CHRIST////.SLAVERY TIME,FREE SLAVES BUILT CHURCH OF FREE SLAVES/HOW FREE ARE BLACK CHURCHES IN 2013////WHITE POLITIC…

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  32. Started by Troy,

    AALBC.com's credit for a quote from Kam's review of the blockbuster film, OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (http://aalbc.it/ohf2013). Sony Pictures could have pulled a quote from anyone. It is nice when small independent source is recognized.

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  33. The House I Live In (2012, Drugs Documentary Movie - Trailer) Pioneer I thought about you when I learned about this film, listening to a recent This American Life episode.

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  34. Started by harry brown,

    NEWS,BLACK WOMAN ARRESTED FOR SELLING HER 5 YEAR OILD CHILD INTO SEX TRAFFICKING/CHILD FOUND DEAD///BLACK GIRLS ARE 40 PERCENT OF FEMALES IN SEX TRAFFICKING/BLACK MEN AS PIMPS ARE 48 PERCENT IN SEX TRAFFICKING.//AMAZING/// BLACK PEOPLE A RACE OF PEOPLE THAT STEAL ARE CONFINED BECAUSE OF OUR BLACK SKIN BY WHITE AMERICA,, FIND WAYS TO ENSLAVE OUR BLACK RACE//SEX TRAFFICKING/PIMPS PROSTITUTES,STREET CORNERS,GOING BEYOND THAT///DRUGS AND STEET GANG VIOLENCE HAS BLACK COMMUNITIES ENSLAVED CONFINED..//BLACK MEN PIMPING TEENAGE BLACK GIRLS MAKES ME SICK///////////BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BECOME BLACK SLAVE OWNERS…

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  35. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9rXXcsXX3c&feature=player_detailpage

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  36. FOX NEWS IDIOT,BILL O'REILLY SAYS WHITE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF BLACK PEOPLE,REASON WHITE PEOPLE SUPPORT ZIMMERMAN KILLING TRAYVON MARTIN///ARE WHITE PEOPLE AFRAID TO GO TO MOVIE THEATRES,NO/COLRADO MOVIE THEATRE KILLER WAS WHITE/CONNETICUT,SCHOOL, KILLER OF 20 6 YEAR OLDS WAS WHITE,IS IT TIME TO RACIALY PROFILE WHITE MEN///ANOTHER REPUBLICAN IDIOT SAYS BLACK PEOPLE CULTURE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DETROIT BANKRUPTCY//REALLY/////

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  37. Started by Cynique,

    Damn. I ask myself why am I’m so negative. And my answer is because it‘s hard to stay positive. My idealism was long ago usurped by my cynicism thanks to the impact of realism. Everyday new headlines fuel my frustration over how things are, instead of how they should be. Everything is just so haywire. So fucked up. So disgusting. How can people retain their faith when trouble is rampant and their prayers for the world to get better go unanswered. Justice is certainly elusive, whether it allows George Zimmerman to go free while Trayvon Martin rots in his grave, whether it penalizes struggling loan-strapped college students while granting the war mongering Military a…

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  38. Started by Troy,

    Someone posted cartoon in reaction to an article on The Guardian's website: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley do a disservice to African Americans This links to the video interview with West on Democracy Now! where he called Obama a "global George Zimmerman

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  39. MALCOLM X SPEECH,YOU CANT HATE THE ROOTS WITHOUT HATING THE TREE...MALCOLM X SAID EUROPEANS SAID THE AFRICANS WERE SAVAGES,WERE CANNIBLES,.REASON WHY THE WHITE MAN IN THIS COUNTRY STRATEGICALLY HAD BLACK PEOPLE HATING THEMSELVES///OUR FEATURES,HAIR,NOSE,LIPS, BLACK PEOPLE BRAIN WASHED.. OUR COLOR HAD BECOME LIKE A CHAIN ,PRISON, WE ARE CONFINED..HAD US THINKING BLACK IS INFERIOR///DEFINITION OF BLACK EVIL, SINISTER.SOME BLACK PEOPLE OF LIGHT SKIN, SEE THEMSELVES BIRACIAL ,ANOTHER RACE, NOT BLACK AT ALL.BLACK WOMEN WANT LIGHT SKIN MEN,OR ANOTHER RACE, BLACK MEN WANT LIGHT SKIN WOMEN OR ANOTHER RACE.THE BLACK RICH THE MORE MONEY GRR…

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  40. James Baldwin Tells Us All How to Cool It This Summer Is it too late, now, to put out the fire this time? An interview, forty-five years later. By The Editors In Esquire's July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. In light of the Trayvon Martin case, we've republished the interview in full below. Q. How can we get the black people to cool it? BALDWIN: It is not for us to cool it. Q. But aren't you the ones who are getting hurt the most? BALDWIN: No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest. Q. Can we still cool it?…

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  41. Started by harry brown,

    IN STATESBORO GEORGIA, PREACHER KILLED BY HIS WIFE//SUNDAY MORNING PREACHER WIFE KILLS PREACHER,.AT THE NEW BIRTH CHURCH CONGREGATION WAITS FOR THEIR PREACHER THEY ARE TOLD HE IS DEAD//WIFE IN JAIL ARRESTED TUESDAY////PREACHER DAUGHTER, AND 2 OTHER BLACK MEN MENTIONED IN PREACHER'S MURDER//////3 BLACK PREACHERS IN PRISON FOR KILLING THEIR WIFES///PREACHER HENRY LYON WAS LOCKED UP FOR STEALING 4 MILLION//ABRAHAM KENNARD IN PRISON FOR STEALING//THEN THERE IS BISHOP EDDIE LONG BEGINS A LIST OF FALSE PROPHETS THAT USES BLACK PEOPLE/JESSE JACKSON JR WAITING TO BE SENTENCED FOR STEALING CAMPAIGN…

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  42. Black on black violence/crime is quite profiitable. Perhaps this is why we do not hear too many complaints about it from the dominant culture until there is a need to distract, divide, and deflect. The counternarrative of black on black violence has been especially hot in conservative circles. Quite crafty obviously, because this counternarrative has been adopted by many who probably would otherwise actually be discussing the injustice of the Zimmerman trial and the injustice of black life in America. How easily we are distracted. What really is our logic behind those who have never cared about black people killing one another spending so much time, energy, an…

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  43. In light of the recent events, the question is raised in the black community often: "What has the Zimmerman trial taught you?" I am not trying to be funny here, yet to me, the previous question is comparable to the question "What has calculus taught you about subtraction?" The concept of subtraction was understood well before encountering calculus, so what exactly was calculus "supposed" to teach me about subtraction? At any rate, there are many of us to whom the concept of injustice seemed a bit unfamiliar until the Zimmerman verdict was announced. Perhaps in some cases this is because some of our people thought that we had "overcome". It is said that that i…

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  44. I Believe

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  45. President Obama Speaks On Trayvon Martin At Press Conference http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2013/07/19/president-obama-speaks-trayvon-martin It’s amazing how closely my thoughts line up with what the President said today Zimmerman -Not Guilty – Trayvon Dead - How It Feels – Free Limited Time http://amzn.to/18j01Cy

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  46. The first article meshes 100% with my observations over the last few years. Of course the impact on Black folks is FAR worse, than what The Nation has observed for news in general. I'm just disappointed that I rarely arti8cles like this in the Black press (perhaps because the Black press has been so devastated). On the surface, the articles may not seem to be related, but they are, very much so. Google's Monopoly on the News by William F. Baker, This article appeared in the February 11, 2013 edition of The Nation. The Federal Trade Commission’s premature decision to close down its investigation of Google is a blow not just to Google’s competitors but t…

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  47. FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER CHARLES BARKLEY SUPPORTS ZIMMERMAN VERDICT/REALLY//HE SAYS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO JURY PROVING ZIMMERMAN GUILTY/REALLY//.BARKLEY SAYS,THIS GIVES RACIST BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE A PLATFORM//ZIMMERMAN MIND WAS ON KILLING SOME ONE BLACK AND HE DID,MY OPINION/IF NOT TRAYVON MARTIN ZIMMERMAN WOULD HAVE KILLED ANOTHER BLACK MALE.////.

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  48. BLACK POLITICIAN/FORMER FLORIDA LIEUTENANT GOVENOR , JENNIFER CARROLL SUPPORTS STAND YOUR GROUND DEFENSE BEFORE AND AFTER THE MURDER OF TRAYVON MARTIN..FORMER FLORIDA LIEUTENANT GOVENOR JENNIFER CARROLL DOES NOT CARE ABOUT TRAYVON MARTIN BEING KILLED AT ALL///BLACK REPUBLICANS AE AMAZING//.BLACK PEOPLE IN FLORIDA SHOULD PROTEST THIS IDIOT.///SHE IS THE FORMER FLORIDA LIEUTENANT GOVENOR BECAUSE SHE HAD TO RESIGN AMIDST CRIMINAL THINGS../////

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  49. WILL JORDAN DAVIS BE NEXT,TRAYVON MARTIN/ANOTHER 17,OLD BLACK MALE GUNNED DOWN IN FLORIDA,HIS MUSIC WAS TO LOUD/WHITE MAN SHOT HIM//JORDAN DAVIS AND HIS FRIENDS PLAYING THIER MUSIC IN THE CAR,WHITE MAN SAYS MUSIC WAS TO LOUD,APPROACHED THEM COMPLAINING ABOUT THE MUSIC,JORDAN DAVIS CAME AT HIM ,SHOT AND KILLED HIM IN SELF DEFENSE/CLAIMING FLORIDA STAND YOUR GROUND/////HOW MANY MORE BLACK MALES, KILLED FROM A STAND YOUR GROUND DEFENSE///WILL THIS BE A WHITE JURY///THIS WHITE MAN SOUNDS LIKE ZIMMERMAN ,SOMEBODY WHO HATES BLACK PEOPLE../BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP////

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  50. Started by harry brown,

    ZIMMERMAN TRIAL/WILL THEE BE UNITY GATHERINGS/EXPLAINING CONSERVATION//WILD LIFE CONSERVATION=THE PRACTICE OF PROTECTING ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANT SPECIES/OUR BLACK MALES NOT JUST IN THE INNER CITIES ARE BECOMING LIKE THE ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANTS/////MENTIONING A FEW/THE AFRICAN BLACK RHINO//AFRICAN ELEPHANT/BECAUSE OF POACHERS WANTING THEIR HORNS AND TUSK///CHEETAHS,LEOPARDS,CHIMPANZEE ANDGAZELLE /// //A FEW YEARS AGO IN MICHIGAN A ISRAEL MAN FROM IISRAEL WAS STABBING BLACK MEN,KILLING 2/HE WAS ARRESTED AT AIRPORT BEFORE HE COULD GET ON PLANE, GO BACK TO ISRAEL//HAS NOT SAID WHY HE WAS STABING BLACK MEN////CAN …

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