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Dr Francis Cress Welsing said that Black people shouldn't get married and have children until they were over 30. I have mixed feelings over that but I understand her point. Most Black people in THIS society aren't mentally mature enough to handle relationships and child rearing until after 30....and many aren't ready for it after that. Black people are TAUGHT dysfunction in this society. This is one of the reasons I have so much love and respect for the Nation of Islam. It takes adult Black men and women who have been broken by a system designed to make them dysfunctional...and teaches them responsibility, adulthood, and how to be functional members of society. In other words....they help clean up the mess this system has made of so many of our people.

************************************************** @Cynique I didn’t bash Obama, I even voted for his sorry behind. Twice. I posted those two videos of him for fun. You’re the one that said the mulatto had PURPLE lips. He put some lesbians on SCOTUS, gave us gay marriage and ObamaCare. Spent a bazillion dollars on a website that kept crashing. He foisted HRC and Biden on us. But what did he really do for Black people other than throwing parties at the White House and giving his celebrity friends awards and medallions. And making a bunch of long-winded speeches and laughing at his own corny jokes? And BTW, I have a big ass tapestry of Obama on the wall of the room I am in right now. And a framed portrait of him in another spot. I even have a couple of his books. **************************************************

Still trippin' off those earlier clips of Gladys Knight! The woman was fine as all GET OUT when she was younger. She doesn't look bad now, but she was SOMETHING SCRUMPTIOUS back then...didn't know it until I saw those clips. So I guess this brother was before Don Cornelius and Soul Train. There was another brother out in Oakland....I forget his name....but he also had a nice little show going on that was getting to be pretty main stream. He had Paul Mooney on the show and Paul had an AFRO...lol...so it had to be pretty far back in the day. I'm thinking late 60s.

@MzuriI'm not a free-thinker anymore. I have become partisan and, like you, who identifies as a conservative Republican, i am a luke warm Democrat. (Not a far-left AOC one.) I also reserve the right to bash Hershel Walker, something you have consistently done to Obama. I now indulge my tendencies to like people based on nothing more than their agreeing with my political views, no matter how irrational they may be.. Consequently, i abhor what the conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, lying, fascistic Retrumpican party has become, which means I am repelled by the likes of Tim Scott, Hershel Walker, Ben Carson, Candance Owens, Larry Elder and any black denizens of FOX ''news". In the midnight of my years, the primitive area of my brain now dominates motivating me to dislike the unlike. Most revealing of all. is that what civilized instincts i have left, are what force me to tolerate the political correctness which i secretly hate. Whew! I feel like I'm lying on a psychiatrist's couch, bearing my soul and acknowledging my hypocrisy. 🤪

ST. LOUIS — July 20, 2020 — Something in Madness, the gripping conclusion to Ed Protzel’s Southern historical DarkHorse Trilogy, illuminates Reconstruction, one of the darkest and least understood periods in American history and the roots of America’s racial divide. The book will be released Oct. 23, 2020, by TouchPoint Press. Protzel utilizes real events and attitudes from the era, as well as varied points of view — black, white, mixed-race, Native American, male and female — to ground both the characters and the story in reality, leaving readers questioning their own place in society. “Sadly, the struggle for social justice depicted in this fictional story is still with us today,” notes Protzel. “But hope for a better future is strong in the human spirit, and that’s what I wanted to convey in writing the trilogy.” Story Summary: Appomattox ended the war with a penstroke…but the struggle for freedom had only begun. 1865. Abolitionist Durksen Hurst and three black friends return home to a devastated Mississippi, the sole survivors of a Union colored cavalry regiment. But instead of peace, they find unregenerate Confederates who reject emancipation still in charge. Undeterred, Durk opens a law practice to help disenfranchised freedmen — only to be threatened by powerful planters and nightriders. A black school is burned; a petition march to Jackson is terrorized. And when one of his friends goes missing, Durk is horrified to discover Black Codes being used to force freedmen into brutal servitude. Clever Durk schemes to liberate them, but must contend with armed ruffians — and a rigged court system. Will fire and bullets prevail? About the Author: Screenwriter turned novelist Ed Protzel is the author of the Southern historical DarkHorse Trilogy (The Lies That Bind, Honor Among Outcasts, Something in Madness), and sci-fi thriller The Antiquities Dealer. A graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in English, Ed lives in St. Louis. ### Reviews wanted. ARC, sell sheet available. Contact: Ed Protzel, (314) 721-0035 / ed.protzel@att.net. Ashley Carlson ,TouchPoint Press, (662) 595-4192, touchpointpressmedia@gmail.com, https://touchpointpress.com/; Jeanie Loiocano, Loiocano Literary Agency, (912) 230-2207, jeanie.loiacono@gmail.com, https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/