Culture, Race & Economy

Which is the best use of computers in your life? If someone would offer you one hundred million dollars but only if you could invest in the global debt market would you? Do you think revenge can be sated by fiscal capitalism? not merely in groups but also all individuals? https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/664-economic-corner-36-02282026/

Should we put R Kelly on mute? Is the artist separate from their art? Do celebrated people have a responsibility to their fans? Is the lack of societal bonds creating the need for role models? Should we have a quesadilla or a burrito?

THE CU THE CURSE OF HAM & The Black Plight Police Shootings Justified Today Because of the thread topic about Professor Tony Martin’s research, it would be good to cross reference the book he quoted by a Jew name H. Bachman on the Judgment of Noah. Mr. Martin states in order to set up the African Slave Trade, justifications were made on the beliefs that Blacks were subhuman and that Noah cursed his son Ham and all his generations to be Black and Ugly. Martin further states that the Talmud constructed around the AD 500s states that Ham entered the tent and “buggered” raped Noah. And, if this sort of justification was embraced then, could this ki…

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…

The Deer, the Goblet & the Lily Bells—BLACK AFRICAN ORIGIN Solomon & the Beja, Part I In the past, I have had an intense debate and dialogue on the ancient book written by Solomon, THE SONGS OF SOLOMON, and presented a lot of detailed references. This book becomes extremely intense at times for me because I am a woman and Solomon’s writings are graphic, and from a man’s point-of-view. WHEW. At any rate, his book also becomes mind blowing and flattering to the affect that it takes a lot of emotional preparation in order to study it. No wonder I have never heard this book preached from the pulpit, or at least, that becomes my wonder. Something ha…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, January, 29, 2025 The Demise of DEI: A New Dawn for Black Economic Autonomy with the Inauguration of Black Business Enterprise (BBE) Certification, Echoing Booker T. Washington's Legacy The National Business League Secures Historic USPTO Federal Trademark for Black Business Enterprise (BBE), Revolutionizing Economic Equity and Sovereignty for Black En…

This should be their campaign slogan: You don't like the shape the country's in? The Republicans did it! If you want more, vote for them! They should hammer that in over and over. They should say it in reply to every question put to them. Unless they totally demonize them they don't stand a chance. I don't think they have the balls for it.

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…

Lord, help us. Pioneer is now shielding himself behind a new avatar, one that brings to mind a biblical patriarch. Guess he figures he needs a make-over to dispel the devilishness that has recently burnished his aura. I always did say he had a "Messianic Complex", and now he's representing himself with a image he probably hopes will bring to mind a black Moses parting the Red Sea and leading his people to the promised land, - a far cry from the reality of his actually muddying the waters and misleading his tribesmen to the dead sea of Pseudo-Africanism. 😀 =

The Diwali Festival in America-- Not Recognized in Ethiopia So now, I brought this up years ago because of the hidden reasons why it has become so crucial to pass laws here in America when Obama became became president. Now this festival was recognized before Obama by the Bush presidents, but they keep bring it out more and more under Obama. It is so important that it is a festival honored in the White House. It has been observed on a huge scale in grand palaces and arenas here in America. But this will NEVER be accepted in Ethiopia among the Original Israelites for a reason that has been suppressed. Alth…

I'm sure you've done numerous threads about this issue already but......... I like controversial events like this because it's a good illustration of the compexities of racism in the United States. People in other parts of the West often wonder about the love/hate relationship between the races in this nation. How can White people love Black music, sports, and food so much but yet not like Black people? How can the same White man who has a Black wife, mistress, or girlfriend be racist at the same time? I tell people that White slave masters used to love to bang the hell out of Black female slaves and even give them money and land.....all while lynching Bla…

The Dozens. A Black game of supposedly friendly rivalry and name calling ; in reality, a crucial exercise in learning how to absorb verbal abuse without faltering Audre Lorde .

Another item that must be mentioned in the destruction of the black woman is her early sexualization. If you want to bet on one thing that is sure to move a black girl away from her mental assets to a focus on her physical ones is this high-octane sexual-charged atmosphere where her body generates attention long before she is socialized to understand the consequences. In black America, the sexualization of black girls takes place ahead of the socialization of black girls. And this is not a great concept mainly because if a girl’s sexual skills outpace her social skills, then what will be experienced is a generation of babies making babies. Sex is much too powe…

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I’m so satisfied and excited, that I wanted to share my experience with others hoping that they would take advantage of WordPress and establish a web presence of their own. One of the questions I’m most frequently asked by when I speak to groups about the world wide web is, “I don’t have a big budget and I’m not super tech savvy, how do I create my own website?” Today my answer would be, “WordPress is a very good way to get started”. Read Part 1 of Article and Part 2

Living paycheck to paycheck Increased debt Neglected families Media lies and hype Do not be fooled by media reports of a so-called "good economy." When news anchors and pundits talk of how good the economy is, they fail to tell you that there are two different economies. There is the investor economy and there is the working family economy. They are talking about the investor economy, not the working family economy. Read More

NOVEMBER 9, 2017 BY SOULFIRE The End Game It was reported this morning in the Charlotte Observer, the hometown newspaper, that guards were abandoning their jobs in the North Carolina Department of Corrections in droves. And while this is a seemingly new phenomenon, I simply wondered what took it so long to happen. In a deadly game of chance that has been going on for decades, what is now being made manifest is the end game in a war of attrition that convicts knew one day would come. For those of you who may be a little slow to grasp this, I’ll be blunt. The prison system is now entering a phase where “The inmates will be running the asylum” The …

I have said it elsewhere I am done talking about any kind of injustice. It's not pointless just fruitless in an emotional mental and spiritual wasteland that resides in too many ...

I CAN'T STAND IT! I have accused the AALBC Brain Collective of being everything--fat, horny, strungout, bodacious, loquacious, medacious, Cretacious, Toms, ROMS, Goms-- but I didn't think you were a bunch of SQUARES Until nobody here knew who Janelle Monae was http://www.jmonae.com/?cmpid=yt_watch/janellemonae_home The Pain! The T fucking PAIN! I'm all curled up now in a fetalposition. Typing this with my nose. Fading away, slowly, slowly....

The End of Poverty? Globalization Documentary Discusses Paradox of Poverty in Era of Unparalleled Wealth Read Kam Williams Review Check out trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZnEBFYNS0

Universal Basic Income. Tech entrepreneurs are leading the current push for universal basic income, perhaps because they can envision a future where robots do all the jobs, or perhaps because they think, as Andy Stern, the former head of the SEIU and the author of Raising the Floor, does, that it’s the best way to avoid a 1789-style revolution. https://lifehacker.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-universal-basic-income-1825172737?IR=T

T’Challa v Killmonger Good v Evil But who’s who? T’Challa, as king, is fated with protecting Wakanda, the land he rules. It’s customs, its peoples and most important, its resources primarily vibranium. This resource is the most powerful metal on the planet and as a result has transformed the kingdom he inherited into the most advanced technological civilization known to man. He’s ruler of the most dominant nation on earth albeit secretively as part of his protective plan is to keep this resource entirely within his nation. Killmonger, through events, is a native to Wakanda and feels that its his birth nation’s duty to utilize this po…

So now what? We spent our money in support of an African based film; shattering records and propelling Africanism into the global equation. Our consumer aspect has always been evident but the display of unity was something new. Your Black card is revoked; I’ve seen facebook friends de-friend friends who haven’t seen it. Kente cloths in 3D. Dashikis at matinees. Busuutis at the concession stand. The display of pride was unprecedented… But how can we change this into a movement? The beginning of something big. Is it possible? Or was the display ‘for entertainment purposes only.’ One of the hardest conditions Blacks have been battling to over…

Not many are able to handle reality, but this is the truth about how our world exploits the whole of the Black race. I wrote this blog recently and would like to share: http://www.dearricky.com/2015/07/21/the-exploitation-of-black-people/

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/ Frontline has engaged in some old fashioned investigative journalism. If you regularly use Facebook these videos should be required viewing. I just watched the first episode and the things Facebook are knowingly doing exceeds my worse fears. I will delete -- not just suspend -- but delete my account as a result of w…

From the New York Times: The Faces of American Power, Nearly as White as the Oscar Nominees By Haeyoun Park, Josh Keller and Josh Williams, Feb 26, 2016 "We reviewed 503 of the most powerful people in American culture, government, education and business, and found that just 44 are minorities. Any list of the powerful is subjective, but the people here have an outsize influence on the nation’s rules and culture." The article looks at the faces of the the most powerful people the Times has identified. It is interesting to see white power describe white power as white, then seemingly lament the lack of diversity. It seems disingenuous to me; designed more to gra…

@Cynique after reading about your experience missing the movie Us. You don't know how lucky you were. I saw that movie this afternoon and is was the sorriest film I can recall seeing on the little or big screen. We went to see it last night, and the 9 p.m. show was sold out -- in suburban Tampa no less! We went this afternoon instead. It was simply boring. I almost walked out. The only thing that stopped me was the belief that the film could not possibly be so bad to the end. surely something was going to happen. The reveal was obvious, totally underwhelming, and poorly executed. Lupito's fine acting could not make up for an ridiculously i…

...perhaps that is the nature of good filmmaking. OK maybe I'm a hypercrite for (albiet with the private parts on full blast). And maybe I'm a hypercrite for not being overly concerned about Brothers who go to Rio for Sexcapades. And maybe I still a little racist despite by calls for the iradication of the concept, but the premise o this film kinda irks me. You can read Kam's review here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZFB8qwWa4

I never heard about Uptight until I started updating the site with information about the writer, Julian Mayfield. Mayfield stars in, and co-authored the screenplay. Whoever posted the clip mischaracterized the clip as "Blaxploitation" this is an inaccurate description (based upon the clip). Am I the only one who never heard of this flick?

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (Penguin Press HC, May 12, 2011) by Eli Pariser (Author) Hardcover: 304 pages Author Q&A with Eli Pariser Q: What is a “Filter Bubble”? A: We’re used to thinking of the Internet like an enormous library, with services like Google providing a universal map. But that’s no longer really the case. Sites from Google and Facebook to Yahoo News and the New York Times are now increasingly personalized – based on your web history, they filter information to show you the stuff they think you want to see. That can be very different from what everyone else sees – or from what we need to see. Your filter bubble i…

928 people in NYC have been recorded or known to ride outside trains. In a local news report , the words viral/kids/teens/social media was used but no one used the words: money/profit. People don't seem to comprehend popularity is money. The most popular person online, Cristiano Ronaldo, CR7, has more followers than anyone. He gets money for his quantity of followers. Does he need it? no he has multiples of millions in sponsorship money. Multiples of millions in wage from any club he played on since he became a mature player. BUT Could Rich do with his revenue from followings? You damn skippy. Being followed is money. It isn't worthless. media ma…

Protest In Charlotte. Protest For The Black Man Killed By Police. Black Police Chief Does Not Want To Release Video Of The Killing..Mayor Has A Midnight Curfew. Military Soldiers Protecting The Streets. White Republican Politician In North Carolina. Said, Black People Protest, Because White People Are Sucessful And Black People Are Not..What? In Tulsa, Oklahoma, White Police Officer Being Charged For Killing Black Man, I Think.. Black Police ,The F B I Not Saying White Police Have Been Fired For Being Members Of Klan, White Supremacy Groups Last 3 or 4 Years..The News Showing The Protest, News Not Saying White Police Involved In Racist White Groups..F B I Talks About IS…

SURPRISE!--Another Undetected GREEN COMET Has Just Showed Up Near the Sun! The Three Green Comets; SWANN (2025), ZTF & Nishimura of 2023 The First Enigmatic Green Star of 2023– Comet ZTF Part III A comet not seen in 50,000 years is coming. Here's what you need to know News By Joe Rao published January 6, 2023 https://www.space.com/comet-c2022-e3-ztf-visible-naked-eye-january-2023 This was the first time that I had ever heard of a modern day comet that was reported to be a green star! So, for this reason, I was determined to witness this wonder for myself! And for several ev…

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paterna…

THE LATTER DAYS THE LATTER RAINS, The Former Rains & John APRIL 17, 2356 [10] And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. [11] In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. GENESIS 7:11. APRIL 17, 2356 [26] John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; [27] He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not wort…

Hey @Pioneer1 this might be right up your alley: https://thefreedomgeorgiainitiative.com/ The want to develop "...our vast resource-rich 96.71 acres of land in Toomsboro, GA for the establishment of an innovative community for environmentally sustainable-living, health & wellness, agricultural & economic development, arts & culture for generations to come." They misspelled the name of their own organization at the top of the page (I just emailed them a correction).

(Not a new article but informative the same way.) The Fugitive: Why has the FBI placed a million-dollar bounty on Assata Shakur? By Kathleen Cleaver Twenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur, regularly increasing the bounty on her head and classifying her as a “domestic terrorist.” Last May the Justice Department issued an unpreced…

Lord knows just how incredibly short-sighted many Black folk can be. It seems some of you want to argue, insult other Black people and ignore the signs that Trump will win in November. (I sure hope it’s not because so many of you probably WANT Trump to win). Here is what you’re missing: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just pardoned a White man convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in the summer of 2020. Daniel Perry WAS serving a 25-year prison sentence for the murder of the protester, Garrett Foster, who was attending a racial justice protest with his Black fiancee. But Perry, an armed White man, didn’t fancy that one bit. Abbott had faced pressu…

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

I buy paper books. I know many who do. But I think paper based books industry will not include retail sales. I think the future of paper based books is in libraries, or with specific communities with publications that cater to them. Yes, I know examples exists of fiction/magazines/newspapers/perodicals that statistically show financial growth or at least stability. But overall I think the paper based book industry while it will grow will not grow in the direct sales way. Whereas the same books in ebook or audiobook, will grow. So thoughts for all the authors /artists in this group THE ARTICLE https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1822&a…

I'm going to stick with this software. As I plow through all the problems on the rest of the site. I don't think the trade off of moving to new software is worth the the learning curve. Besides this forum's posting capabilities are better than most other solutions I reviewed. This software has a major upgrade available. I think I will use it. I also want to better integrate this forum with the design of aalbc I also want to use the same login for the forum as well as the rest of the site. I'll try to get all of that working with the new version of the forums software. I'm also getting rid of the Google Analytics code and Google ads (they don't …

Obviously this thread is open to discussion from everyone..... Cynique said something in another thread that I've been meaning to question her on for weeks but when I log on I tend to get so involved in other topics that I forget to ask. She said: "All my female friends tended to be like me. Our tough bitchy facades were almost a litmus test. If a guy could hold his own with us, we'd let down our guards and be nice and sweet. Unfortunately, i think more flunked the test than passed it. We were in the vanguard of ball-bustin' black sistas. (Something I'm not particularly proud of.)" https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/5260-what-do-you-think-of-the-ongoin…

Greetings. The idea that people who are homosexual and wish to be married should be able to do so and have this marriage recognized in all aspects is becoming increasingly popular. Perceptions of gender/roles are changing rapidly, as are families and society in general in response to these changes in perceptions. (From Michel Martin's "Tell me More" show on npr.) When people debate gay marriage, some argue that it could lead to legalized polygamy. Host Michel Martin asks how, and if it would even matter. She speaks with Austin Nimocks of the Alliance Defense Fund and Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution. http://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/154064922/would-…

There is a female counterpart to the gender war. I am not sure what it is officially called but I think it is the Sisterhood. Their spaces on You Tube and the internet are targeted toward black women just as the black manosphere is toward black men. The "the black womansphere" as I called it is divided into three sectors 1. The Anti-Colorist. 2. The Hypergamist. 3. The Divestors. Examples of anti-colorist content creators are Chrissie, Paris Milan, I Am Eloho, and the more feminist For Harriet. They explain how…

Shrek Is A Black Man: The Prince Yaphet Kotto. The grandson of King Alexander Bell, ruler of Cameroon. Come on now, look at that nose and those teeth, that's Shrek!{photo} Okay, need more proof? What, you're not convinced? Follow me. ***See all photos at blog*** See, in the movie, Shrek hung out with two other brown skinned men. Yep, Antonio Banderas.....{photo} And, Eddie Murphy.{photo} Of course they had to be a donkey and a cat. You know, a jackass and a kissin' boots. And Eddie was married to a big fat red woman with a bunch of babies. For real, did you see the picture? On top of that, ol'kissin' boots turned against Eddie and Yaphet. Y…

The Democrats are about to get their backsides waxed in this year's midterm elections. Several mistakes are to blame and most are unforced errors. 1) Too many Black people remain ignorant of what Critical Race Theory actually is. It's not Black History, although many well-meaning Black folks claim that it is. And sadly, they cling to this errant view on social media. But Critical Race Theory is NOT Black History, which is a collection of truths and facts. Theories are simply suppositions. I will maintain that CRT is taught only at the university level not in grade, intermediate or any high schools. The problem lies in that few have come up with a ONE S…