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Reading the speech it's easy to see why the great Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey had issues with certain aspects of Booker T. Washington's ideology. Self-reliance is critical to independence. But, trying to cozy up to white supremacists especially in the South was the equivalence of making deals with the devil. 😎

Sounds a bit overly optimistic. Any perceived list of power is met by opposition. To the point where groups are organised against the dissolution of inequality. Most country's wealth is due to exploitation, I don't see any paradigm shifts occuring soon.

I hear you man and need to adopt that mentality. I have a lot of stuff some of it I consider archival material. I've donated well over 1,000 books in the past and need to donate hundreds more. When I left my last corporate job 15 years ago (wow). One of the managers asked me on my way out the door, "Troy, you don't have anything to take with you?" I was like. "Nope." I was acutely aware that I was not going to around months before I left. I just discovered that I lost all of the discussion forum data prior to 2010! Well I did not lose the data. I transferred the domain registrar to Google from a much smaller company and I broke the site?! I need to fix it because there were some great posts there. @richardmurray I see now that it is up to the individual to maintain their information, but technology failures and changes, and individual fallibility really make it difficult for individuals to save their own information.

Chev I used to believe it could get so cold it couldn't snow.....until we experienced the Polar Vortex of 2013-14. In Michigan it was 30 degrees below zero (actual temperature not wind chill) on a regular basis for weeks and STILL snowed! I mean HEAVY snow! Up until that time, even since childhood....it was my understanding that once it got below a certain temperature, it was simply too cold to snow and others would say the same thing. That Winter turned that theory up on it's head....lol

The Internet archive is great. I’ve found found files from AALBC that i lost. Maintaining AALBC over the decades and through various upgrades has been a challenge. I lost the first few years of this discussion forum because i could not maintain the software that was driving it. At some point this discussion software will likely become obsolete. There is a cloud version but I’m not using it as I’m storing it on my server. But eventually the OS or PHP will evolve to the point where it can no longer run the discussion forum software. The data will still be on a database but there will be no way to access it. i used the Internet archives wayback machine to find one of the first posts on this discussion forum “de self-hate debate” The wayback machine showed the link but not the actual post. I then used the search engine on this discussion forum (which is not very good) to find the post, but it did not come up. I then went to Google and found the actual post from almost 13 years ago: At some point the company that built the software that runs this forum may go out of business and it then it will be a real challenge to manage this discussion forum’s data.