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I believe this to be true; our best and brightest typically play from the white American playbook, winner take all mentality — do what ever it takes to make money — enslave Africans, work children in sweatshops, go abroad and steal wealth and natural resources, etc. If they can’t emulate white business practices in their own businesses then they strive to work for white businesses. I’m working on a variety of projects involved in what I call, the “Black Wall Street” state of mind, in the spirit, of the Black community that was created in Tulsa Oklahoma before white folks destroyed it — twice. It is not a novel concept, but hopefully on more will embrace moving forward.

After talking to numerous Black people who identify as Conservatives and many more who don't and a few who...like myself...identify as Progressive; I've come to the conclusion that over 95% of all AfroAmericans share the same values and aren't given to one extreme or another like Caucasians tend to be. Despite our political labels, most of us either share the SAME values or aren't actively opposed to those we may not personally share. I'm a Progressive, but I do NOT support excessive regulations, demonizing the rich, or the transgender movement (although I do support homo-bi-sexual rights) and most Black people I know share the same views although they don't identify as Conservative and some even identify as Democrat if not Progressive. I think intelligent politically active AfroAmericans should come to a table of agreement with eachother to nail down what exactly our values are and what would be best to move our community forward WITHOUT the interference of Caucasian Conservatives or Progressives. "That's a GREAT idea! We should have came together years ago instead of wasting time and giving our ideas away to those mayonnaise sandwich eating $%&# !"

************************************************************************************ To me, crack on the brain means you give them a jolt, make people think, enlighten people. Kind of like what happened when you smoked some crack, back in the day when it was more coke than crap. So how old are you anyway? Enquiring minds want to know. ************************************************************************************ ************************************************************************************ Cynique only pretends to be hard, when somebody here insults her, she probably sits around hugging on her cat and crying in her spilt milk. ************************************************************************************

@Delano, it is called modesty, a characteristic that has been completely devalued in our current culture. I’m actually surprised you saw it that way; you have been around long enough. Cynique’s explanation stand on it is own so I won’t try to elaborate. There was this poster that named @Sara that called @Cynique a “nigger bitch.” It was the first time I pulled a post AND cautioned a poster. Cynique argued in Sara’s favor, but I pulled the post anyway. I probably would have let nigger or bitch, used separately slide, but both in the context Sara used them was simply beyond the pale and for no good reason. Sara, deleted all of her posts and never came back. Aside from spammers there only other person’s posts I deleted on occasion and that was Kola Boof. I did not caution Kola because I knew it would be a waste of time 🙂 I did give her her own forum, as she gave @Thumper fits. He wanted her gone, but I would not boot her. Now both of them are long gone… Both Kola and Thumper were great contributors to the forums, but for very different reasons, but they were like water and oil. As @Pioneer1 says…

Bridgeman Sports and Media (EBONY's new owner) isn't expected to and they are no longer based in Chicago - even though a lot of people seem to think so. According to their spokesperson, , for the time being, EBONY is digital format only. Bridgeman Sports and Media, bought the BRAND name, EBONY, and decided to keep the BRAND's money-making events. For example, the EBONY 100 gala. Bridgeman Sports and Media, bought EBONY from the Clear View Group, during the liquidation process. The Clear View Group bought the EBONY brand Name from Johnson Publishing in 2016. The Clear View Group put the magazines (JET Included) under Ebony Media Holdings LLC but the CVG owners were forced into bankruptcy chapter 7 (liqudation) in 2020. So. that is it. In short it is EBONY magazine is a resurrected digital version. OH one more thing - the CVG CEO is allegedly in trouble with the SEC for using cannabis funds to resurrect EBONY. Remember my cover story on Issa Rae in September 2018? Well, that was the next to the last print issue of EBONY. Note: Some of the links are behind paywalls. After the sale, it appears Bridgeman Sports and Media transferred EBONY to another of its business holdings. "EBONY is a property of 1145 Holdings LLC"

@Cynique, I was recently thinking the same! The older I get, the less I have to say too. WHY IS THAT? I began to think about the elderly who have come before us - and they seem to disappear from the script. However, the sad thing is that the young people are simply repeating the same damn things that everyone has said before us. So, while I don't believe you have anything interesting to say - I think anything you would say would be off-script, and we sorely need those words.

Cynique You don't even have the gumption to scroll past my posts like you said you were going to do. 🤔 When did I say I would do that? Lol...why would I deprive myself from the cheap thrill of poking at you from time to time? Mzuri I read what he said, but it was @Delano who first said that you were like crack for the mind, which is a compliment. MAYBE he meant it as a compliment. If someone told ME I was like "crack on their brain" I'd be insulted, lol. And @Pioneer1 is just yanking your chain trying to be funny. He says he’s old but I doubt he needs a caregiver yet. Now WAIT a minute.... I said I was OLDER...but I don't recall calling myself "old"...lol I consider myself a well SEASONED man. "Sho' ya right........"

Not only are the search engines racially sensitive but SOCIAL MEDIA is racially sensitive because both genres tend to be owned and operated by the SAME individuals. What most Black people can hope for is to rise above current social media and search engines and secure enough of the internet itself to develop OUR OWN software, search engines, and social media. There are enough tech saavy Black people both in Africa and in the West to make this happen if they'd stop being so lazy and reliant on White people to initiate everything. How many Black computer manufacturers exist? How many Black search engines? How many Black social media platforms? Who is holding us back from petitioning the government for a "piece" of the internet to secure for ourselves?

Kenneth Exactly. You don't dismiss or make fun of ONE tragedy to draw attention to another. As unfair and racist as this coverage is.... The fact is, Black media should have BEEN focusing on missing Black men, women, and children anyway instead of complaining so much about what White folks are doing with the media outlets THEY own. No one MADE Black bloggers and social media personalities spend more time beefing with eachother and gossiping than focusing on issues that REALLY matter to our community, they CHOSE to focus on that for the ratings or out of sheer lack of concern. But now want to get mad at White folks for looking after their own. Daniel Typically tearing down American civil society. Something has to EXIST FIRST before you can tear it down. When was this society "civil"?

Good feedback so far.

I have created over 100 categories for terrestrial and celestial time. Which was through the progression of symbols I created on June 17, 2007. I have been working on and with them ever since. I initially started with numbers in 1999. I would ask people for numbers and I would use them as a divination tool. Then I progressed to using words as a divination tool. As also created a formula to transform those numbers into time. The big leap though was creating a set of symbols. The symbols are like hieroglyphics. In that they express ideas and qualities. They also function as numbers so they have a qualitative aspect as well. I had read quite a bit before I started and had consulted with a couple of advanced metaphysicians. Some languages are considered especially Magical although all languages have magical components. However Hebrew Greek Sanskrit have a numerical component associated with some or all of the letters. Devanagari (translates as sacred language) which is a particular type of Sanskrit has words that relate to numbers. Like the void and Sky are zero. Which also connects to Vedic Astrology, Meditation, Yoga and breathing exercises. They all are interconnected. As an aside prana translates as breath, but also means the distance the Sun moves in four seconds. So I created this set of hieroglyphics for every moment of time. And for specific moments in time. So all 139 symbols have a meaning and a numeric value. Also it isn't a base 10 number system. Except I didn't know specifically what all of them mean as it relates to time. I had to figure that out by testing them. Like numbers and letters they have groupings. There are six groupings, and within that grouping there are sub elements. One of the groupings has the quality of quickness. So I picked two sub elements and found that one related to being internally quick and the other to being externally quick. So I picked a few and then extrapolated from those few to the rest. The odd thing is that the meanings are abstract and most are undefined. They get defined by usage. So a querent will want to create an effect. I ask what they want. Then I find the glyphs that most closely match the idea. Then I use their birthday and location to determine the time that best matches that quality. So over time the language is showing me how to define it. It is also changing how I think and see the world. Because it isn't a base ten number system, it allows me to see time from a different perspective. It also shows me there is structure that is inherent in time and place. @Cynique I am very interested in your experiences with time being less linear. The arrow of cause and effect seems multidirectional. So you may feel like the wanderings or connections are madness. Whereas I feel they are a delinking or untethering. Which is a magical act and will assist you to see "reality". By destroying the boundaries or limits, you can see the basis or elemental truths. Which has been my objective since I was a preteen. Perhaps yours as well. So I was and still are keen to give you a time marker of your own choosing. That will assist you in your quest/journey. Sorry for any typos, I typed this on my phone from 2:15 - 3:15. Let me know if you have any questions.

@MelHi! Glad you are still accessible. Too bad i don't have anything of interest to say, which is why i'm not really altogether "back". (Not that having something interesting to say has ever been a criteria here.) 😜

Yeah The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois was just longlisted for a National Book Award. By Veronica Chambers Aug. 24, 2021, New York Times The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers W.E.B. Du Bois has been a part of my intellectual life for as long as I can remember. At 16, I moved to Great Barrington, Mass., to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Great Barrington was the birthplace of Du Bois, and as I learned when I was named a Du Bois scholar, the great man was so many things: an elder statesman of African American life, a distinguished historian, a sociologist, a civil-rights leader and an early model of what it might mean to be a public intellectual. He is, many would argue, the founding father of modern Black America. His writing, his ambitions, his failings and his accomplishments are the bass line of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s sweeping, masterly debut novel, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.” Read the entire review ▶

No, "Guest Purple Crow" hasn't even created an account. Perhaps. I hope you are "write." 🙂

The remark was insensitive. Especially considering that a young lady very likely has lost her life (and possibly the young men). However she was making a much needed BROADER point about how this society and the media in specific places more value on the lives of White women than women of Color. Thousands of Black and Brown women go missing year after year and you don't see the media turning their cases into soap operas and teasing out the details to the public like they do in this case and other cases similar. Injustice has it's consequences. Showing favoritism to ONE child often inspires jealousy and resentment among the others. I would have done it differently. I would have featured several cases of missing Black girls ALONG WITH this high profile case to illustrate what has been missing in the mainstream media.

Just week I sent a number of emails to the leadership of the American Booksellers Association, telling them that needed to be more nuanced in how they describe Bookshop.org’s support of independent booksellers, for they were not supportive of booksellers like AALBC. This ultimately lead to a conference call with Bookshop.org’s leadership. They ultimately addressed my concerns. They asked me to join their advisory board to insure the issues of sites like AALBC are addresses. The issue of Ingram’s virtual monopoly on distribution is another issue. I continue to strategize on this and it is perhaps more challenging.

********************************************************** Our government doesn’t even control the internet since your boy Obama gave it away, probably to the Chinese. Besides that, we have Black women walking around with Chinese people’s hair on their heads. WTF are we going to do with the internet when we can’t even do something rudimentary like producing our own hair! **********************************************************

I haven't read an issue of Ebony lately, but if they're featuring anything like most Black oriented publications online...90% of their articles will be about relationship problems and cheating and the remainer will be about police brutality and racial profiling.