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A Jubilant Time Indeed at the Center for Black Literature’s 20th Anniversary! “It’s terrific to see so many friends and what really feels like family!” said Johnson. “It’s always a great thing to be honored by the people you’re really trying to serve. It’s been almost 25 years to the day––October of 1997––that I started, and I would never have thought it would be my livelihood. And being honored for it is just unimaginable!”

@richardmurray yes, thank you. You write so well. Thank you so much for this.

Troy Congratulations bro! It's hard to believe you started this institution in the the previous CENTURY and it's still going strong. BTW.... That short lady standing next you looks like she could be your daughter....lol. Same "full tooth" smile and everything. Are yall related?

Another congratulations to brotha @Troy on being recognized by his peers for his 25 years and counting of service to the literary community. 👍🏿😎

@DelDeep. Mind boggling.

Oh puleeze. This thread was started by Del and as usual you stuck your nose in and added your worthless 2 cents. And when Chevdove joined the discussion a year later and started expressing her interest in the subject, you got miffed because she disagreed with you and took an interest in what Del was saying, something that frosted your balls. Now you're trying to make everybody at fault but you. You're really a piece of work!

Then why are you still talking?

@Chevdove oh, well glad I informed:) it was a great documentary film. was fair to mom's mabley. For those who love comedians it is a gem. In my assessment of history , east africa or west africa had black people involved in stealing other black people. For me, I don't find insult in the dahomey female warriors. I have known about them since I was a kid. I knew they served the king of dahomey, who legends say, was presented as a boogeyman to the children of west africa. This is again an ancient thing, common throughout all humanity, usually unbounded. Anyone can be enslaved in dahomey, just like in the roman empire, just like in qin, just like in tenochtichlan. The American continent post 1492 was the first place that made slavery bounded. All of a sudden, a white man , no money , illiterate, alone, can not be enslaved. In the roman empire, he would be enslaved. Someone would catch him. If any group that dealt with high volumes of enslaving other individuals can not have a movie made about them then, no movie should be made concerning any history before the 1900s. And then the question is, why should the black communities old or ancient slavers be undepicted while everyone else's is? But comprehend Chevdone , I know your thinking. I am not saying I concur to your thinking but I comprehend it. Al sharpton who I strategically oppose, said a simple truth, about Black people committing violence in the USA, if you are going to preach nonviolence you have to be nonviolent yourself. it is lead by example. It means black non violent leaders chastise black people committing violence. It doesn't mean other communities follow yours or follow the black community. It means you don't just talk the talk, you walk the walk, and demand others in your community do the same, no matter the outcome. Black statians from Frederick douglass onward has always upheld the idea that government protected universal individual rights is more important than black advantages. It isn't that they hate Black collective or communal activity, but their idea is, even if Black groups are poor , if all Black individuals have a platform to positive, that can make everybody in the black community positive even if the black community collective management is poor. I comprehend why this beautiful film, in art or production, in my view, is insulting to you. It isn't just slavery, it is black people involved in it, like an everyday. You like quite a few others in this forum champion government protected universal individual rights, by default slavery allowed under any government means that government does not protected universal individual rights, and I comprehend why you have such negativity to that.

What I meant is, I see the Sun before Londoners. If it were possible to see a person in London. I am looking back into the past. Since there line of latitude was in the same position as mine 10 hours ago. You are making progress in understanding something that took me 20 years.