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Yeah it was an amazing place @Troy. I recall being there at a party you had. It is hard reading kids since there is less stuff going on their lives.

This much is clear. No Black man becomes fantastically wealthy because of Black dollars. There is no contemporary Madame CJ Walker. Perhaps the last people to become wealthy from Black dollars was the Johnson family out of Chicago. Those who really want to be uber-wealthy today know they need white money. On my end, I can easily tell who is truly supportive of the Black community by the advertisers who spend money with AALBC to reach Black readers. The so called "big" Black books over look platforms like AALBC (the few that exist) and spend big with white-owned media to reach the larger more lucrative white audience. Black platforms cover these books because they usually follow the lead of white platforms. You'll never see AALBC promote any of these books or imprints that marginalize Black platforms, unless a book has won a major award, become a AALBC bestseller, I know the author, or is read by one of the book clubs we follow I'm not going out my way to promote these "big" books. If Black platforms worked together to determine the best and most significant Black books, and Black readers used these platforms to learn which books these were, maybe we could make some serious progress in strengthening the Black book ecosystem. But as long as Black writers are more concerned with making the NYT Bestsellers list than the Black community, Black bookstores will continue as fringe operations.

Good you saved me the effort. Why don't you share this attitude for vaccinations?

Maybe, but that it was not in this planet.