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It was Monday, a new work week and maybe a new beginning Carole thought as, spotting an opening, she decided to go for it. Why not? Troy Briggs had no problem invading her space during break-time. So, she’d return the favor, using the occasion to try and smooth things over between them. Glad she had decided to glam-up while getting dressed that morning, she was an appealing sight in her black leather knee-high boots and the snug little red skirt that was set off by a flower-printed blouse with frilly sleeves and scooped neckline. Strutting her way through the congested cafeteria, she approached the table where her antagonist sat reading a newspaper, looking rath…

The Only One Chapter 22 When Troy Briggs had shown up at Carole Everly’s apartment casually attired in a yellow polo shirt, tan dockers, and white Nikes, everything about this sensual, buffed, charismatic man reminded her of why she found him so irresistible, why she was so taken by someone she’d never even had, except in her dreams. Idling there in the middle of her front room, grabbing her hand when she returned from the kitchen where she’d deposited the pizza he’d brought, it was if her reaction to him was a primitive one, - that of a female seeking a mate, instinctively drawn to an Alpha male. “Do we have to go through a lot of drama about - this situ…

There's something I've been noticing about White society and especially the "alternative" and "conspiracy" communties in White society, for some time now.... I've looked at this closely and it appears that the ONLY time they go against the grain, against the establishment, and reveal something "new" is AFTER a Black person reveals it. What do I mean? I'll give a few examples.............. Take Troy's thread on fake news and how so many people NOW acknowledge that the news is fake and manipulative. Well, prior to the 60s you didn't hear any talk. Back then and before it was assumed that everything reported in the mainstream media was "gospel trut…

Okay, let me preview this article: I posted this scientific finding about the MUTATION of Brown eyes to being Blue due to a recent post on the subjects in a couple of threads. My parents tell me, out of my siblings that I was born with blue eyes and red hair and red skin. By the time of my 4th month baby picture, I can see that my eyes were light brown, and my hair and skin was very red. Not anymore. My siblings came out brown. One of my younger siblings was born very chocolate and she was clean bald but later, she grew beautiful and very black hair that does not ‘fro’, but it has a combination texture. A couple of years ago, scientist determined that BLUE EY…

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Agency Sides With Theory That Lab Leak Sparked Pandemic Energy Department agrees with FBI's conclusion, for a different reason The COVID-19 pandemic probably began with a laboratory leak, the Energy Department has decided. The agency, which had not expressed a view on the origin of the coronavirus, added its finding to a previous classified intelligence report sent to the White House and certain members of Congress, the Wall Street Journal reports. The conclusion, which is based on new intelligence, is far from being the last word: US agencies are divided on the issue, and the Energy Department said in the document that its assessment was reached …

I've been gone a minute. Still Busy but hoping to get back and read some threads. But, I just saw this and wanted to share it. This man violently raped a 3 Year Old little Black girl and was just recently sentenced to prison. The case was supposedly widely publicized but I did not hear about it until now: The Pedophile Murderer Robert Fisher Found Dead in Prison Robert Fisher, a 34 Year Old Pedophile and child killer found dead in prison Little Josefina Catherine Cunningham was only 3 years old. Josefina Catherine Cunningham So, her mother Laquesha Stewart met her boyfriend, Robert Fish…

If you are a reader wondering why it seems harder to discover good websites, or you run website or Blog that writes about authors or books you need to read this article. The Pimping of Wikipedia: Contributing to the Decline of the World Wide Web The mid- and late 1990s was an exciting time for the Web because so much new, rarely shared, or difficult-to-access information was now accessible. Today, there is more reason for concern, outrage even, than there is for excitement. The reasons are plentiful. One reason is the pimping of Wikipedia. (the full article: http://aalbc.it/pimpwiki) )

When I look at that right-wing fool Herschel Walker the Republicans are pushing down in Georgia. And then you have another right-wing Black dude up here in Michigan that the Republican Conservatives are trying to get in Congress. Now you got Kanye West steady pushing right-wing garbage and wearing "White Lives Matter" t-shirts. I'm beginning to put some things together 🤔 I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that White racists are trying to pull a "slick" move by using foolish Black people to be the MASK of their diabolical agenda. So when the shit hits the fan and they're called into account for what they've done.....they can point the finge…

Since when did Conspiracy Theory become a "right wing" thing? For the past several years now and especially the past several months, the mainstream media has been conflating those who believe in conspiracies and those who question the "official" version of things with Trump Supporter and right-winger. It seems as if they are trying to make both camps synonymous. Even when it comes to the vax. They seem to be ignoring the millions of Blk people who are suspicious of the vax and suggest that the ONLY people who are rejecting it are Trump supporters. Minister Farrakhan and many others have warned Blk America about conspiracies for decades going back into the 60…

Well, I went out and did my civic duty by exercising the right those who came before me fought and died for. Casting my vote for a women for president now belongs right up there with the the other historical milestones I participated in when I voted for John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president, and Barack Obama, the first black one, not to mention being a witness to the Chicago Cubs winning their first world series in 108 years. Now what? Is the turmoil that America is currently experiencing the natural result of a republic where the diverse population gradually evolved into "a house divided against itself". Can we stand? Are we overacting? Will this hectic…

This is Cynique. As previously announced, my new user name is "aka Contrarian" so "A" is now me. I don't know why I'm still alive. But I am. Since I have nothing better to do, unless I sudndenly croak, I'll be hanging around here, injecting my contrary opinions from time to time. zzzzz

The following are quotes from an article written by an employee of IPS Inc., the company who developed the discussion forum software I'm use here. The article was written to help explain why privacy is an important aspect to building and online community and growing a discussion forum. This article struck me because I did observe an great migration away from indie forums like this one to the large social media platform and I'm interested in growing this forum. Participation way down from a peak about a decade ago. Competing against the large social media sites is very hard, for the simple fact is that sites like Facebook utilize everything they kn…

In the land of the free and the home of the brave... This is the only country where the "majority"(White People) can own, have, and control and still not be satisfied. Anytime someone black does anything amazing; "someone that does not look like us"(white people) studies what we did, replicate it, and the monetize it and then becomes a millionaire or billionaire off of our "one thing". Thus, the power of one... Now, when that one thing doesn't go their way "they" (white people)become really petty and petulant acting as if the world is about to end. Let me give you a few examples of "power of one moments". On October 3, 1995 Orenthal Jam…

Many say that Donald Trump's actions are unprecedented in the usa, or uncommon and yet, historians in the usa oppose this position. The question is simple, why do people in the usa claim things as unprecedented or uncommon in the usa when they have more precedence than many other things or at one time were more common than later actions?

This is a short (sub-3 minute) video. If made me think of conversations we have been having here. Particularly as if concern race. Anyone who has been active on these forums knows I believe we should dispense with the concept of race in its entirety because it is flawed scientifically and it provides a mechanism for us to hold onto racist stereotypes that have never served us. The video below speaks to the later. Leonce, the Brother speaking in this video is a novelist. His book, I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang is an 18 time AALBC.com besteller. He is currently the 20th bestselling author on this site over the past 20 years. …

I haven't watched ANY of those "Madea" movies. Purposely. Nor have I watched Martin Lawrence's "Big Mamma" movies. I think both franchise films disgrace and insult Black women by portraying them as masculine and ultra-violent, and really those movies make them easier targets for racist violence. While the older White woman is portrayed as a sweet, kind hearted, cookie baking grand ma....Tyler's Madea portrays the older Black woman as a foul mouthed, combative, violent, half-masculine, heathen who not only deserves heavy handed treatment but is strong enough to and built to tolerate as much abuse as you can inflict on her. So the nex…

Cleopatra and the media https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2317&type=status

Women and Blacks were the property of white men. We may be going back to the future.

For the past 25-years (as a personal project of interest) I've been reading, staying abreast of controversial arguments surrounding "THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION " contents of which continue to raise questions about world domination attempts by Jews. Reduced to notions of a worldwide conspiracy theory, questions abound, for me, as to how such an effort effect Blacks, globally. My question remains, could such a doctrine exist in today’s reality? Economic Wars, State powers and Methods of Conquest, Materialism Replacing human values and Religion, Despotism and Modern Progress, World-Wide Wars, ideas of Provisional Government, Re-education tech…

...repeated in so many different variations, across the nation, for generations When the Pruitt-Igoe housing project opened back in 1956, its 33 high-rise towers were hailed as a symbol of the future of American urban renewal. Located on a 57-acre tract on St. Louis’ north side, the federally-funded development was created to provide shelter for 12,000 African-American refugees of the city’s crumbling slums. Read the Rest of the Film's Review

Many Black Trump supporters, particularly the ones who aren’t famous or super rich, are usually seething inside. They're lacking something socially or emotionally and their false belief they are superior to other Blacks does not fill this void. This is why so many lack empathy for Blacks who are abused, experience misfortunes or are poor. They tend to devalue the misery of those in need. What remains unfathomable to me is how so many blithely ignore Donald Trump’s racism. I blame cognitive dissonance for this. And it occurs in Black Trump supporters because they want to desperately believe he is a successful business man, incredibly moral and smart and supportin…

Inspired into the forum by @ProfD the purpose of educational institutions in the english colonies to 2022 in the usa. You have three avenues. White european Indigenous Black White european mass education < meaning schools> was originally for religious teaching. Apprenticeship , was the primary tool for education in the crafts or philosophical arts. The first colleges in the usa had one function, that they all still maintain today, a place where rich white male children can come together and make alliances for the future. ... now going through time, white women gained colleges but they were designed to prepare for wifedom, not work…

The Race for Africa This has become one of my favorite sites to watch every now and then. She really gives some interesting news. This one video is about ‘The Race for Africa’.

Study: Whites Think Black People Feel Less Pain NPR, JULY 11, 2013 Racial disparities exist, but what causes them can be complicated. Harvard anthropology student Jason Silverstein says it has to do with a lack of empathy. Host Michel Michel Martin talks with Silverstein about a Slate article he wrote titled, 'I Don't Feel Your Pain.' Skin color affects ability to empathize with pain Health.com, May 27, 2010 "Pain empathy is basically feeling someone else's pain," says Carmen Green, M.D.,"This paper tells us that race plays a role in pain empathy." Ya Think?

From: African Writing Online Toyin Agbetu, the Nigerian founder of the African rights campaign organisation, Ligali, was recently in the news for disrupting the slavery abolition anniversary ceremonies at Westminster Abbey. He had risen to protest the sanitized and elliptical official version of the abolition story in an occasion at which the Queen and royal family, the Prime Minister and many distinguished others were present. Toyin Agbetu was arrested for his action. considers his Westminster intervention in the light of a continuing struggle for African emancipation. There are iconic moments, oc…

Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in School Dave Zirin on July 25, 2012 - 11:16 AM ET Nation readers —Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing about the 2012 London Olympics. I’m going to try to write about the stories not just on the field but off: the Counter Olympics demonstrators, the workers behind the scenes, the athletes with personal stories that speak less to their desire for athletic success than a desire for human rights. It seemed fitting to start by looking back at perhaps the most political, controversial, inspiring moment in Olympics, if not sports, history: the medal stand black gloved salute of 200 meter runners Tommie Smith and …

Although Bill Cosby was a Successful African American actress on the Bill Cosby show, and a professor at Spelman university, he has secrets, Bill Cosby was a good sponsorship for spelman university, he donated 20 million dollars. Even the daughters of Bill Cosby attended spelman, and his son attended more house college a men's college associated with spelman. the producers even went to spelman to talk o the students on script ideas. So this sounds all good and dandy right? well it was alleged that Bill Cosby has been drugging young women with Quaaludes a drug that is sedative, and while theses women were sedated, he has been having sex with them, which is rape, as far as…

I'm not religious, but the belief that our sista Sonya Massey's murder was demonic and a manifestation of a spiritual battle SHOULD be on the lips of every so-called Christian...especially Black Christian....in the United States. I personally think it was just a racist doing what racists do which is harm and mistreat people of color; however to a Christian...for somebody to be murdered after uttering the name of Jesus -should be alarming. And the fact that it's not, and the conversation has pretty much "moved on" from this tragedy is disturbing. What these non-Black people discussed in these videos and their insight were not only SPOT ON but it was actuall…

Time and time again, black America falls for the Democrat party dupe every four-year election cycle without missing a beat, and it still hasn't learned its lesson. NO, the script has never flipped and neither the Republican, Independent, Green or other parties (not mentioned here) have supplanted its violent history or taken its place. Generally speaking, blacks drink the Kool-Aid religiously, Jim Jones-Guyana style, succumbing to the rush of old and phony promises made by failing black leadership, big government, corporate America; big tech, pharma, finance, banking, and the list goes on and on and on. Will black America ever come to its senses and peel back the onion to…

Many blacks have been called “ Uncle Tom’s” including myself. I actually wear that with a badge of honor. I noticed a common theme, almost every black that is called an Uncle Tom is a responsible law abiding citizen . An “Uncle Tom “ wakes up every morning and goes to work, takes care of his family, and leads a responsible lifestyle. You will rarely see an Uncle Tom in prison or having a bunch of out of wedlock children. An Uncle Tom supports family structure and 2 parent household’s which our black community so desperately needs. Its extremely troubling that a black man who is a hard working family man and lives a responsible lifestyle is frowned upon in our communit…

The following is a conversation I've been having with some on my blog under the post Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America. It is one of my post popular posts. If you have not read it check it out and share it with others . Recently someone made the following statement in reaction to my article: “The individual who wrote this article did a disservice to the real truth as to why black book stores are so few and far between - it is simply the fact that over 80% of blacks do not read books as much as their contemporaries...whites and Asians. If you do a study which has been done, blacks are the less likely to have a library card, a newspaper subscript…

While we're over here on this site bickering over mundane issues and sniping at each other, the rest of social media is in a growing state of consternation. Half the USA's population in on the verge of a nervous breakdown, frustrated by the idea of having to helplessly stand by while Donald Trump and all he represents gains momentum and the tide slowly turns in his favor. Daily his despotic power grows as he, with his finger on the pulse of those who represent what Americans really are, grow in numbers and trickle into his camp. And now with increasing opportunities to begin stacking the Supreme Court with right-wing conservatives, this incompetent, unscrupulous tyrant…

The other day I was thinking about Gil Scott Heron's Poem the Revolution Will Not be Televised. I was considering writing a updated version to the poem, tentatively called, "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted". Realizing there is nothing new understand sun, I decided to search the term, "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted," and I actually was surprised by the abundance of content on the subject and discovered other people had already written similar poems on the subject, so I abandoned the idea. The Brother's version below is better than what I would have done, though I think far too long. I also discovered a four-year-old article writ…

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…

Dear Troy, I was so overjoyed to see you at my book event in Harlem last month. Since AALBC is where it all started for me in America, I wanted to share with you & everyone how my new book is taking off! Thanks so much for your support and understanding. SUNDAY BOSTON GLOBE Madison Smartt Bell, one of the nation's most respected literary authors, wrote a glowing review of "The Sexy Part of the Bible" in SUNDAY's edition of the Boston Globe. Book Review of Sexy Part BOOKLIST review of Kola Boof's "The Sexy Part of the Bible" REVIEW of The Sexy Part BLACK EXPRESSIONS BOOK PICK FOR AUGUST!! *H…

H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science journals. wrote an editorial, "Persuasive words are not enough." Thorp concludes with the following: "The scientific community is losing the battle against this digital leviathan of misinformation. A well-reasoned and highly placed op-ed on this topic is not going to move the needle, no matter how well it is crafted to adhere to the best practices in science communication. Neither is a perfect trade book, television appearance, or speaking tour by a scientific leader. The only way to win this fight is to harness the same sophisticated tools in the name of science that are being used to tear science down. With social me…

This is from The Secret Lore of Magic by Idries Shah. Who in addition to writing about Sufism was also interested in Magic. Therefore Plato said for a good cause that he which is not very cunning in logicke and wise in the vertues of naturall things likewise the aspects of the starres, shall not see the causes of marvellous things, nor know them, nor participate of the treasures of the Philosophers. XVII. Therefore I know that every thing hath that which is his owne of heat and colde, of which it maketh another thing effectuall by accident, directly and indirectly, and it hath all his vertues of the star…

I was doing some research for a page for Rebecca Walker. Of course, given the was Google search works today Wikipedia comes up on the 1st page of results. Of course I look at the page. The Huria Search Results for Rebecca Walker, are worth looking at, in comparison to a regular search. For example, I found an article in Ebony Magazine that would have been undiscoverable in a regular search. At any rate, I read the Wikipedia citations and learned the following about Rebecca Walker under the category of "Personal Life": Walker is bisexual and previously had a relationship with neo-soul musician Meshell Ndegeocello, whose son she helped raise. Read…

In the book of Leviticus chapter twenty verse 6, God commands the children of Israel not to go after familiar spirits. The Hebrew definition of a familiar spirit is a wizard, a one who practices sorcery. One of the spells that a familiar spirit cast is to mix truth with falsehood. African slaves who were brought to America, the Caribbean and their descendants have been victims of familiar spirits. The “Slave Bible”, was a familiar spirit manifested in the physical form. A sinister plot was put into motion by the publishers of the ‘”Slave Bible” to carefully remove certain chapters from the bible while others remained, thus giving the illusion that the “Slave Bible” was o…

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I will be the first person to my knowledge anywhere (television, online, ect….) to make the prediction that they will RE-OPEN the Jussie Smollett case sometime THIS YEAR and eventually declare him innocent and that he told the truth about his racial attack! So, not only did I make a prediction but I gave you a time frame. Now let's see what happens......

I think this film is worth watching. Maybe more of us will consider deleting our social media accounts... We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen. The world has long recognized the positive applications of social media, from its role in empowering protesters to speak out against oppression during the Arab Spring uprisings almost a decade ago, to serving an inst…

The pineal gland has the shape of a pine cone, where his name that comes from the Latin "pinea "Who wants to say "pin". Technically, the pineal gland is not part of the brain. It is not protected by the blood-brain barrier, in fact, it receives more blood than all the other bodies with the exception of the kidneys. As it is not protected from the blood stream, it accumulates mineral deposits, also called "cerebral sand". With time, this sand accumulation and produces the calcification of the gland, making opaque viscous and the fluid in the interior of the gland.