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All the Hillary Haters are up in arms because the FBI gave her a pass in regard to the E-Mail controversy she was involved in. She wasn't found innocent but there wasn't enough hard evidence to indict and bring her to trial. Prosecutors wouldn't have had a concrete case against her. Apparently if Trump and all the Bernie die-hards had their way she should just be thrown in prison and denied her day in court. Yet another example of how emotional irrationality is fueling this election and how much each side is reacting to what the candidates have allegedly done instead of what they will possibly do if elected. If you believe Hillary Clinton is going to repeat the mistakes of the past, don't vote Democratic. If you have no problem with Donald Trump attempting to keep his promises, then vote Republican, and if you simply choose to sit out the election, make sure you're prepared to live with what that and any other alternatives could bring about. It's as simple as that, and certainly a lot less hysterical. IMO

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London. What if she pursued her master’s at an English university? Or left Florida to its sun and swamps, and feasted her eyes instead on historic towers set against overcast skies? What if crossing the ocean was the path to a brighter future? Stuck in a dismal job and entangled in a back-and-forth relationship, Adia Kamaria ponders this unexpected idea for quite a while before finally taking the plunge. But when she does, she does so wholeheartedly. Yellow Tulips & Red Buses reads like a journal in its vulnerability and hopeful honesty as it recounts Adia’s romantic escapades—first with a young Pakistani bloke, followed by a Nigerian prince—and traces her travels in the United Kingdom and beyond when she’s not hard at work studying. While she quickly learns she can’t leave her problems behind, she does realize that a fresh perspective can do wonders for the soul. An inspiring view of life and love through the eyes of a thirty-something woman who’s had her heart broken one too many times, this no-filters account will make you laugh, cry, and long for adventures of your own. ISBN: 1502553317 Number of Pages: 148 Specific genre category: Memoir, International

Fallout continues from what stole the show at the recently BET awards telecast. The tributes to Prince by various artists were supposed to be the highlight of the night but their performances along with a surprise opening act appearance by Beyonce were all overshadowed when Jesse Williams, a featured actor on the hit TV show, "Greys Anatomy", was presented with a humanitarian award. His acceptance speech turned out to be what I'd describe as a kind of spoken word lament about - you guessed it - race in America. It was a very articulate and dynamic, not to mention provocative indictment of the white power structure, and it brought down the house. Predictably, it was just a matter of time before Jesse's rant which also criticized certain blacks for being complicit in the plight of their race, spilled over into the social media. While blacks were full of praise, whites were offended by the way Williams excoriated them, and a post by superstar Justin Timberlake was the most notable response shot down on black twitter. As a result, a campaign presumably by whites to have Jesse fired from Grey's Anatomy got underway. Shondra Rhimes, however, the producer of this series was having no parts of it and defended Williams' right to his opinion. But the controversy continues as the question remains as to whether a black celebrity has a right to do what a white one would be branded as a racist for doing had he aired his grievances against blacks... The following is an excerpt from Jesse Williams' speech and is what he spat in bringing it to a close. "...We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real."

Yep. Talk is cheap. That's why black folks do so much of it.

I've deliberately avoided consuming any material related to this "controversy," on social media. As these things go viral on social media, they just strengthen the very structures and systems that we, and even Jesse, complain about. So while Jesse's spoken word piece was moving, it will not change a thing. Going viral on Twitter only enriches the owners of Twitter. The only thing that will change anything is a change in our behavior. White folks don't "extract" our culture we give it way, in many cases freely. We boast about writing for the Huffington Post for free, while turning our noses up a payments deemed to small from a Black owned platform. We even go as far as claiming ownership when none belongs, to the point when some people actually believe that "black Twitter" or BET are things that Black people own.

Oh yeah please give me feedback on the page. I'm going to roll out hosting an authors website using the template shown. I'm encountering too many authors who simply don't have a website. It will be much better than using a Facebook page as one main web presence. I also believe I can also improve upon what Amazon is doing with their author's pages. I've stripped out the right hand side ads for these users, but it does not seem like the best use of space on the page. I guess I'm so used to pages bombarded with ads when you see a web page missing them, it almost does not look right. I just have to figure out why your icon image is not displaying in the browser tab when I use your domain name, but it is showing up with the AALBC.com URL: http://aalbc.com/authors/home.php?author_name=Christopher+D.+Burns I've also added the Twitter feeds for some authors. I also need to find a good calendar widget so that authors can maintain their events calendar on the pages as well. Ultimately, I may grant authors the ability to make their own updates, but than brings in a whole 'nother level of complexity. Again, if you can think of anything to improve things let me know