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ESPN Sports Talker Jemelle Hill Said President Trump Is A,Racist. Whitehouse Said She Should Be Fired. Trump Said Obama Was Not Born In This Country,,Trump Supports Neo Nazi,,He Has Done,Enough To Be Impeached,Said President Obama Was Spying On Him. ESPN Accepted Jemelle Hill Apology...Trump Is,Racist ESPN Knows It ,The Whitehouse Knows It. Trump Had,Neo Nazi Friends In The Whitehouse.....

The video below had the title, Monique says 'Girls Trip' was a low budget movie & Will Power Packer is a low budget producer. Since I just posted information about the success of Girls Trip. If was surprising to learn that these actresses will not earn what they deserve. "Make 'em famous, not rich." These are the earnings reported by Forbes Magazine for actress from June 2016 to June 2017. #10 - Amy Adams ($11.5 Million) #9 - Julia Roberts ($12 Million) #8 - Cate Blanchett ($12 Million) #7 - Charllize Theron ($14 Million) #6 - Emma Watson ($14 Million) #5 - Mila Kunis ($15.5 Million) #4 - Melissa McCarthy ($18 Million) #3 - Jennifer Lawrence ($24 Million) #2 - Jennifer Aniston ($25.5 Million) #1 - Emma Stone ($26 Million) Apparently, no Black actress, including all of the Oscar winners, will come close. According to Monique, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and Lee Daniels. Are not just complicit but help keep this condition in place. For perspective, all of these white women made less that the top 10 basketball players (#10, Kyrie Irving earned $30.6MM), all of whom are Black. This gives you an idea of just how much money the NBA makes. Something tells me even Lebron James who earned close to $90MM (if memory serves), deserves to earn even more. What are the owners earning.

The video did not lie, except for when they spoke about "talent" of the relativity TV show participants.

The Pink Panther Clique a new novel by Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark: Enjoy the book, but check the stories behind the book. All four of these Sisters were incarcerated for at least 8 years! Now I've known of Wahida since she was locked up with Martha Stewart (they were friends). She was a popular author while she was still jailed up. We have become friendly over the years and she is a supporter of AALBC.com. I was always struck by Wahda, because she is just a hard working woman. On top of that she is real cool people, a very likeable and friendly person. Wahida took out a banner advertisement for the book above (if has not started running yet), but I took the opportunity to update her page with the new book. Since the book had three other co-authors that meant I had to add three more authors to the site. While researching information about the three other ladies I was just amazed by their stories. Aisha, for example was convicted for lend leasingloan fraud,. Basically people pay to have a bank account set up and a large deposit made so that they can then go out and borrow money, or get a or get mortgage. I had not idea this was even legal. The people lending the money charge a relatively high fee in return for the service. What jammed Aisha up was that they created fake bank statements, never depositing the money, and keeping the fees. She was just in her twenties and quite wealthy at the time. They all have really have remarkable stories. I also stumbled across this video of an interview with Sunshine when looking for videos of each author. It was a little too raunchy to post on her page, but I found it really interesting and it is entirely appropriate of our forum

Ok, let me get this straight............. On early Sunday MORNING hurricane Irma made landfall and started going straight up the middle of Florida. But late Sunday NIGHTt....YOU....decide to make an obviously WRONG "prediction" about the path it WILL take despite the fact that it has ALREADY taken a path and is even beginning to weaken and whither away. Wanna know MY prediction? I predict that if you don't seek professional help quick.....your imagination is going to carry you to a place you probably won't want to go, lol.

Hi Brenda thanks for the comment. One of my kids told me her friend, a young lady in her twenties, middle class, educated, professional, said the movie was "horrible." I never expected the film to have any socially redeeming values. That fact that the writers tried work something in is commendable, but somewhat formulaic (think: Tyler Perry). I was just expecting a Black female version of The Hangover, which obviously is a formula that has been working for Hollywood. I'm sure there will be a Girls Trip 2, 3, 4 until the franchise becomes a parody of itself and fails to make as much money. Further to your point, about the images we put out; I agree. White white folks can make films like The Hangover without a concern for adverse cultural impact, because there is far more diversity in the variety of films featuring their images. For Black folks, this is not the case. We usually just get buffoonery or what I call the "victim/triumph" narrative; stories of us rising up from the ghetto, racist south, or some plantation. Of course our stories are so much more than this, but i guess people don't want to pay see that side of us.