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The following is the last newsletter I’ll send this year. It is a compilation of all the people on the website who transitioned this year. Given the number of people who thanked me for sending this, it apparently touched more people than any email I sent all year. For that reason, I share it here. In Memoriam 2024

Greetings, AALBC Forum Fsmily: Hope you all had a great Chrustmaa and I wish everyone a Happy New Year! Here's to a prosperoua 2025! 🍸🫶

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Unfortunately, this is why actors and entertainers (celebrities) are often treated as intellectuals to society's detriment. This is also why some intellectuals strain to become celebrities at the expense of the scholarship.

My short attention span prevented me from doing anything other than cherry picking the topics I wanted to respond to in this marathon post that my late night curiosity prompted me to check out. All I can say is the longer I live, the more I realize how much the black experience can vary. I have never been around any black married couples who so desperately desired light skin children that the wife copulated with a white male in order to achieve this goal! People I knew, dealt with however their kids came out, (sometimes being guilty of showing favoritism toward their lighter-skinned offspring albeit.) In my social circle, guys were sometimes intimidated by fair-skinned girls, settling for brown ones. Girls often had a thing for what they perceived as the more masculine darker skinned guys. But none of these tendencies dominated customs. People liked who they liked, and ugliness came in all colors, just as good looks were good looks. This Neely Fuller sounds almost like a cult figure. Mysterious and dogmatic, proselytizing a color conscious doctrine that stems from personal experience and anecdotal examples, all of which enthrall his admirers. I wonder why he hasn't gained more popularity in the black community, why black leaders don't recommend his advice which is purported to be so wise? Not surprised Fuller is said to have mentored Frances Cress Wellsley. the original "angry black woman" with unorthodox views. I went to college with her sister who, unlike dark Frances, was tan colored. They had another sister, who was light skinned but they all 3 looked like each other. What am I to make of this? If I am to believe what was said here, it's possible that their mother was impregnated by a white man instead of her husband, and this accounted for the youngest sister being lightskinned. Get outta here. This may be the case with single women who get pregnant. But, since slave descendants come in various degrees of skin tones the great majority of them have white blood in them due to female slaves being raped by their white masters. So when 2 slave descendants procreate, they are bringing a whole history of bloodlines into the mix. This includes not only skin color but facial features:, hair texture and body builds and even non physical talents and skills. The hybrid slave descendants who comprise the negroid population of America can't be sure what color their children will come out because of "throwbacks". Let's not downplay the science of genealogy, in favor of rumors and superstition. I have actually seen cases where one mate is dark and the other light and their daughters were all dark and the sons all light or vice versa. Dominate and recessive genese may be somehow affected by the sex of the fertilized embryo. All kinds of factors influence how a child looks. Including how melanin reacts to certain conditions. Whatever the case, colorism won't go away. It ebbs and flows but never disappears. it is so pervasive in the "Afro American" community that the preoccupation with it has become neurotic. Even Beyonce has been accused of lightening her skin! Ironically; the ones most conscious of skin color seem to be those with dark skin. They have a love-hate relationship with "high yellow" people. I. personally, suspected that certain sistas didn't vote for Kamala because.they harbored feelings of resentment against her. It does seem that a preference for lighter skin spans all cultures. If Africa is the cradle of mankind, then any species that isn't black is a mutation of the original race. Perhaps it's in the DNA of the mutants to reject those whose skin is darker than theirs.

Since I was 15 years old, i have had black women say it to my face that they procreated with a hispanic, mixed race or white man to have a light skin child then brought it back to their black husbands to pass off as theirs. To me it is still rare for 2 unambiguous, dark skin black people to create a light skin child. Random genetics seems to not occur with anyone else. Im sure you have never seen 2 Filipinos, 2 Mexicans, 2 Argentinian's, 2 southern Italians give birth to a child and it have type 4 hair even though many in those groups have curly hair. NFJ has white grandchildren. Charles drew went to a black school but always identified as white until he saw an advantage to identify as black. Malcolm x went to white schools and looks much blacker than NFJ. I gotta look at what people do, how they are treated vs what they say. Many times its not racism but ethnocentrism if we understand what whiteness actually represents.

@Chevdove not a shock remember peers in nyc acquitted the murderer of eric garner who died by chokehold, acquitted others whites beforehand who murdered blacks, why should this be different now