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About a quarter way through Travellng Soul, a biography on Curtis Mayfield by Todd Mayfield. Dipping into Jimmys Blues, a small volume of Baldwins poetry. A lovely gift from my daughter.

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin Fledgling by Octavia Butler Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin Fledgling by Octavia Butler

I know he is the POTUS and all, but I'll never understand why people give a flying f*ck what 45 has to say on twitter on anywhere else. We use to call it “poppin' shit.” If you get upset or bent out of shape everytime someone pops some shit you'll never be very happy and the shit talker will just target you because that is how he has fun. Bitchin' and moanin' about what 45 says is not gonna stop him; in fact it will fire him up and keep him going. People crying over his silly comments is what fuels him and his base. We really need to concern ourselves with his actions. Unless he croaks first 45 will serve out his term (sorry @Delano), and he is very likely to win a second. Unfortunately, some of my twitter followers also follow 45 and seemingly comment on his every post -- so now I have to see 45 tweets when I react to a comment on a link I've posted. I'm going to have to actually unfriend some otherwise cool people just to avoid seeing these dumb tweets. On a positive note the US Government managed to fine Facebook 5 Billion dollars. Of course this is just the cost of doing business for Facebook and will have no impact until they throw Mark and his ilk in prison for their crimes. And to think we have Brothers doing time for doing nothing at all -- guilty of being poor.

From what I heard, the father was grooming the son to take over the business but the son passed away. The daughter went to business school but allegedly her “heart and mind” wasn’t into it. Also overheard in one of the editorial meeting “LJR didn’t care for the target market” that EBONY served. So, yes I agree it would be an excellent story!!!