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@Mel Hopkins I’m glad you were serving him drinks and not the other way around. @Pioneer1 welcome back!

History class was kicking my butt! It was a short semester class jammed packed with a lot of work including up to the very present. I did get an "A" and learned a lot about the United States that even I didn't know! And I read a lot! Some of it was so depressing I felt like I was struggling through PTSD. Thank goodness my professor was a Black woman with a PhD - she held the light towards the finish line. I took the summer off from school. I needed a break. 👋🏽🙋🏽‍♀️

My father & mother. Music & books allowed me to see a world beyond my own environment & expand my knowledge respectively. Life experiences & traveling & meeting & kicking it with different people.😎

More than anything, my parents shaped my views growing up, but after a certain age it was school and reading. My parents were religious and not racist, and I don't recall ever hearing the "N" word from them, but they grew up poor in the South, with separate water fountains and facilities. They held distinct views about minorities, especially Black people. Our humble home was right next to what my parents called a "colored" neighborhood. So I frequently saw colored kids but was not allowed to play with them (and I don't think they wanted to play with me). There was only one colored girl in my high school class of 400. As I became a teenager and exposed to the news on TV and reading, I realized there was something fundamentally wrong with our society. Now that I'm am older white man, I see our country recently going backwards towards more unacceptance and hatred of others, especially minorities. It’s scary. To me, MAGA means pull minorities down or send them home to make some white majority greater. That's one of the reasons I wrote my novel, The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw. It tells the tragic story of an enslaved man that history wants to forget. The novel is framed with the murderous events that occur in Graham, North Carolina, on February 26, 1870. The atmosphere is thick with political tension and impending violence. Wyatt Outlaw, a Black town commissioner, master carpenter, and Union veteran, is marked for death by the White Brotherhood and KKK. To me, Wyatt Outlaw is a hero who overcame great odds to become successful. To me, our country has made great strides in accepting people who are different, but we still have a ways to go. I hate to see us going backwards. It would be nice if, on our 250th anniversary, we could celebrate for all Americans, and not just for a select group.

I thought when Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy and was on its last legs, this would've been a good opportunity for a black investment group to step in and take it over. There are enough wealthy black entertainers out there to pool their funds and take over ownership of an economy flight airline company. They could've changed its name from "Spirit" Airlines to "Soul" Airborne. Byron Allen should've made this a project instead of buying air time from CBS to showcase panels of unknown comedians to fill the late night time slot made available by the termination of Stephen Colbert.

Here's when I hung out with PRINCE. 😉 I'm really having fun doing what it's possible to do nowadays!😜

🫩 Tired of hearing about the war in Iran? Disgusted by the Supreme Court's dismantling of the Voting Rights act? Mad because your team got eliminated from the NBA Playoffs?Unimpressed by the ridiculously extravagant garb of the celebrities at the annual Met Gala? Worried about the possibility of a new virus epidemic? Fed up with high gas and grocery prices? Broke because you blew $500 on 2 tickets to the upcoming Usher-Chris Brown concert tour coming to a theater near you? Saddened by the evening news reporting the shooting death of yet another inner city black teen? How about something to take your mind off of these bummers? Read on... Rule No. 1 is the foundation to lure an athlete with a pick-me mindset: “He’s the prize. Remember he can change your life; you can’t change his.” Rule No. 2: “Dealing with cheating, DON’T LOOK FOR IT… if it’s just a fling, LET IT GO!” He’s the prize, remember he can change your life, you can’t change his …” Rule No. 3: “Completely integrate yourself in his life to where he can’t function without you.” Rule No. 4: “Don’t embarrass him. Don’t cheat, don’t text other men.” Rule No. 5: “Go completely WILD ON HIM IN BED!” Rule No. 6: “DO NOT tell his mom ANY personal information.” Rule No. 7: “Always look good and appealing." **************** OK, back to things worth caring about. 🥴

Welcome back bro.👍🏿 Thought I was gonna have to roll up to Michigan to find your whereabouts.😁 How so you might ask? I would've started by interrogating African women.🤣😎

ProfD Or maybe he's still trying to climb out of the rubble of the OLD website format that was demolished without warning....lol. Right before everything collapsed, I read something about Troy changing his mind about updating or reformatting the website. Next thing I know, the site vanished and when it re-appeared it required me to use some old email address for over a decade ago to access it again....which took me 2 months to dig up, lol.

..., he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket." No, he will just blame some whomever he is told to blame. Mexicans, The Blacks, Gay People. Muslims, Jews, etc. I was reminded of the quote in a review I just published: Book Review: Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave by Tiffany G. Townsend

Hilarious. White women have been running that playbook since the 1990s.😁 That's why there are so many mixed breed athletes running around nowadays.🤣 Exhibit A....Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry.😁😎

They left out the most important tactic......do not throw away used Condom. As well as.......Lock black women out of his immediate circle - where ever and whenever possible

In a similar vein to "Watermelon Man", I need to add, "The Blackening," which I initially overlooked, but I was drawn in once I saw it on Netflix's "before it leaves soon" page. It's genuinely hilarious and the best satire horror comedy I've seen in a while! It's about a group of college friends meeting up at a cabin in the woods after a hiatus - you know, the "life 'be lifing'" type of excuse for absence. So, like any cabin in the woods horror flick scenario, the first to die is a black person - but who's the first when everybody is Black? Well, surely it has to be the Blackest one, right? I hollered when they pointed to the actual African in the group. Anyway, that's the premise of this satirical flick, and it is really funny. Tongue-in-Cheek funny! So, although The Blackening was released in 2023, it should be a contender for this list because it absolutely has staying power.

@ProfD I didn't know at first that Rachel Scott was a sista - with impeccable journalistic credentials! Trump has also been accused of referring to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson as having a "low IQ". He seems to really be intimidated by black women who, when it comes to being qualified, put that skank Melania to shame whose only notable accomplishment is being multi-lingual, able to say "unzip" in 7 different tongues. 😛

I did! I can’t tell you how many hours I spent shooting craps or playing CeeLow in the stairwells of my building or how many bottles of MD 2020 and night train we drank. Once I started high school I began to cut back on that kind of stuff and spent a lot less time hanging out with the boys from my neighborhood. It was a good thing too… No, she was just a racist piece of shit. It took a lot of control for me not to do something I would later regret. @aka Contrarian I watched the first two games at sports bars and had a good time hanging out with friends and family. During the third game, I was exhausted from hanging out late and drinking the entire weekend before and didn’t even watch game three. I spent the time pulling together the BLK Bestsellers List (an activity. I’m sure I found more interesting than watching the game). While I am rooting for the Knicks I honestly don’t care that much. While I was an athlete and enjoyed playing sports, I’ve never really been a sports fanatic— it is just not in my DNA. It is probably why I’m not into pop culture very much. Speaking of bestsellers lists and pop culture. There was a book that just missed making the adult hardcover non-Fiction category, Live Your Promise: Escape Your Wilderness, Heal Your Pain, So You Can Manifest the Life You Want by Cheyenne Bryant https://aalbc.com/books/9781401998820 I had not heard of the author or book before, but when researching the title, I discovered The Author was the center of a lot of controversy shit, this guy named Toure (who I’ve met) got into a viral argument with her and there are a countless number of videos going in on her being a grifter lying about having a PhD and all sorts of things it was unbelievable the variety and number of people that were creating videos, just talking trash about her. Even the breakfast club had her on their program. While scrolling through that content. I also learned there was a fire storm brewing over Kevin Hart’s roast. Apparently they made a lot of inappropriate joke disrespecting George Floyd, and Cheryl Underwood‘s dead husband; while at the same time cutting jokes at the expense of white people like Melania Trump. Here too there was a tremendous amount of content with everyone and their mother weighing in on the controversy. Kevin Hart was also on the breakfast club defending the roast. It seems like the breakfast clubs business model is interviewing people at the center of controversy. All of this to my mind is contrived, unnecessary, and a colossal waste of time. It’s like a bunch of old maids, getting together and gossiping and talking shit about people and most of the people talking are grown men. I don’t get it. I mean, I do get it. It’s the way a lot of people make money and gain celebrity. This is one of the ways in which I think we were better off 50 years ago when men were incentivize to do things that were more constructive then talking shit about a comedy roast or a Cheyenne Bryant. While we’re on the subject of pop culture, I’m tired of reading about Scott Pelli and the other CBS correspondence who got the boot. They’re getting a bit too, sanctimonious for my taste. These guys have great high, paying high profile jobs, traveled the world met, smart, rich, famous, influential people and did so for decades—boo hoo! They act like losing their jobs is the end of civilization. Trust me, civilization will survive the loss of 60 Minutes.

PBS NewsRead the DNC's full post-election autopsy for the 2024 ca...Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released a critical study of the party's performance in the 2024 campaign on Thursday, bowing to intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic opeTo avoid raining on a Democratic win parade, the DNC waited until after the 2025 election of VA Governor Abigail Spanberger & a few other Democratic candidates to release their autopsy of the 2024 election. Of course, anyone who pays attention to the news clearly knows how & why the Democrats lost heavily back in 2024 leading to the re-election of POTUS OJ. To date, the Democratic party still has not offered an alternative plan or solution to the GOP BS Americans are dealing with on a daily basis. Democrats believe they will do well in the mid-terms merely as a result of the GOP's own undoing. They think Americans will be fed up enough to vote blue regardless. While it is possible that mid-terms elections could swing the House back to Democrats, there is no guarantee that it will make POTUS OJ a lame duck. The current administration has already shown & proven that they don't need Congressional approval to do much of anything. IMO, POTUS OJ will continue grifting & enriching his family & friends during the last 2 years of his presidency. That should not prevent Democrats from growing a spine & coming with tangible benefits to the American people for whenever the current dark clouds roll away & POTUS OJ the clown leaves the White House.😎

@Del at the risk of being repetitive, the community where I spent my formative years is what shaped my identity and influenced my approach to life. The suburb of Chicago where I was born and raised during the Depression was unique in many ways. It was racially integrated to the extent that Whites, many of whom were Jewish, could and did live anywhere they chose, but because of restrictive convenance regulations, Blacks could only live in a certain area, - not by the railroad tracks surprisingly, but in the middle of town; a little black "island" surrounded by a Caucasian "sea", where the interracial population co-existed and where it was not unusual for Blacks to have white neighbors who didn't flee their homestead when Blacks began moving in. This quaint little village had, overa period of time, become the final destination of Negroes leaving the South seeking a better life via The Great Migration. Although ny father was from Missouri and my mother from Tennessee, most of the slave descendants in my hometown had roots in Mississippi, Alabama. and Georgia. Because Colored and Whites observed an unwritten rule of staying in their own lanes, at that time there was very little racial strife in my town. I always suspected that this was because we Blacks were comfortable and content in our own community which could be described as a carbon copy of its white counterpart, and we were secretly amused by the idea that, in our own special way, we could match the white initiatives when it came to any civic or social undertakings. And we did. No separate but equal scenarios when it came to education, however. Whites and Blacks all attended the same high school, which back then had the reputation of being one of the best in the state. Therefore, an excellent education was ours for the taking and what I learned during my 4 years there, benefitted me throughout the rest of my life. Amongst ourselves,we black residents of this town, also had our own codes and customs. Colorism, for instance, was incidental, superceded by achievement and accomplishment. Those 2 assets were what took priority and gave status, and they always remained at the core of my value system. Nor were we deluded about the plague of the racism that sent our elders fleeing from the South. But we had the luxury of humoring our antagonists. We snickered at their notions of racial superiority and this somehow neutralized them, an approach that I use to this day, arguing on Face Book with MAGAs. Incidently the "we" I refer to, consisted mostly of the circle of people I grew up with during the 1950s, an era often described as being "bland", something that may account for the compromises that defined our lives back then. These folk are all dead now but they remained my friends throughout the years, as we always kept up with each other, always finding things to laugh about, always reminding ourselves of the carefree days of our youth, forever marveling at how we somehow managed to circumvent discrimination, always removed from turmoil which is why I do not claim that my upbringing was typical or ideal . It was, what it was.... I cite all these examples of how growing up where I did, influenced how I later maneuvered through a world where I gradually realized that Life is a crap shoot. Sometimes you get lucky. I am truly a child of the 1950s era. I was very much influenced by the music of those times; both the modern jazz and the luscious melodic ballads and the poetry that was their lyrics. I loved the wry intellectual humor of the comedic satirists popular back then and the film noir movies that always had an ironic twist. The fads and trends that followed temporarily captivated me, but they never replaced my affinity for those idyllic times that first enchanted me. zzzzzzzzzzz

How myopic the above observation is. Nobody here denies the existence of the human race. That's a curious accusation coming from a "forked tongue" patriot.

ProfD Again, what are people doing with that information to make life better for future generations? Your guess is as good as mine, lol. My point was that in modernity, there are Black folks who are perfectly fine with living under s system of racism white supremacy. They don't see it as oppressive as slavery Correct. Or atleast many can't think of a better system to replace it with. So they live under this one. All poverty is created by human greed. So you don't think the individual is at fault in bringing poverty on themselves in atleast some cases? Happiness is relative. Most people don't care or know whether they're poor orbl rich until they compare themselves to others. Correct, and that's one of my points. Pocket watching others. Angry....not because they don't have enough wealth....but because somebody else has more wealth than them. The Western value system of what matters in life is terrible especially between the systems of racism white supremacy & capitalism. I agree that it's not the best. But when you compare it to OTHER systems, where you have gangs of young men roaming around with rifles on the back of mopeds raiding villages and killing other people and TAKING what little wealthy there is....the Western system is much better. The systems promote both sides of that equation. The majority of people on the planet will never have more than they need to survive. But is that the fault of the West, or is much of it the fault of a FAILED CULTURE in which they are not taught how to prepare for famine, drought, winter, and hard times? Too busy spreading carpets out on sand and dirt floors throwing weddings and feasts every other week instead of getting their ass out in the field and producing crops, irrigating the land, and building stable infrastructures. Yet, people will be told that through education & hard work they can have more than just enough. Meanwhile, becoming a millionaire or billionaire has little or nothing to do with education &/or hard work. Most millionaires and billionaires INHERITED their wealth....from parents and grandparents who thought enough of them to actually LEAVE them wealth for their future. That's love. A lot of poor people don't even PLAN to have children, let alone plan on having anything to leave them. Reminds me of that Temptations song about Papa was a rolling stone....when he died all the nigga left his kids was ALONE, lol. I can't get angry at the billionaire or millionaire leaving a fortune for their children when you got these some of these poor ass muthasuckaz who ain't leaving shit for their many many children...but a lot debt and car notes. Fortunes are built on everything from someone else's labor to hoarding natural resources to trading in the stock market. So, when the average person is confronted with that reality, it can lead to disenfranchisement or despaire or destructive behavior. So a woman chose to smoke crack....because she was angry about people making a fortune on Wallstreet? Laws are constructed to control &/or contain people who try to buck the systems which can lead up to everything from greater confinement to wars & death. Richard Pryor said the same thing about prisons, until he actually WENT to one and talked with a few of the inmates. He left saying THANK GOD FOR PRISONS 👮🏾‍♂️ -Muthafucka, why did you kill EVERYBODY in the house??? "Well.....they was home!"

Right. It's easier to curate Black TV shows & movies to a streaming platform than removing Black books from libraries & rewriting Black history.😁😎

@ProfD Maybe Paramount bought BET so it could relegate all of CBS's black-oriented shows to it - a practice commonly known as "racial segregation"...

Shows you how much I've been keeping up with things....lol.....I thought BET Plus was still owned by Viacom along with the rest of the BET outlets. I didn't know Tyler Perry had bought it.

Admittedly, I do not watch BET+ but I know a lot of people that do. IMO, Paramount would not have bought BET+ if there was no value there. Even if BET+ had become a streaming platform with ads, the same people would have watched it. Especially as folks cut the cable. Another missed opportunity for Black investment. Soul Airborne could have given Southwest Airlines a run for the money. Whole lotta Black folks bring their chicken & Chinese food on their Southwest flights.🤣😎

The handwriting has been om the wall since the Ellisons through Paramount Skydance have been gobbling up mass media companies. Before POTUS OJ leaves office, a lot of news will be right-wing & TV programming will be heavily white nationalistic. Paramount bought BET+ from Tyler Perry. It will be absorbed into Paramount+. I do not foresee Paramount pushing Black content. Hopefully the move to white nationalism will disappear whenever the reign of POTUS OJ ends.😎

Probably. That and the NBA Finals :-)

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/peabo-bryson-dead-beauty-and-the-beast-1236765354/ Peabo Bryson, the man who could really sang, has passed away. He suffered a stroke a few days ago. Some of Peabo's hits were "Feel the Fire", "Reaching for the Sky", "I'm So Into You", "Can You Stop the Rain", "If Ever You're in My Arms Again", "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love", "A Whole New World" & "Beauty & the Beast". Thanks for the legacy of music. RIP Mr. Peabo Bryson.😎

Understood. If today's climate is any indication, there's no major protests or backlash against the current administration. The left doesn't have any fight in them. They've all but disappeared as POTUS OJ & the GOP run roughshod over the government. Remains to be seen if there will be a wider scale January 6th type event if the right loses the White House. Regardless of whether the GOP wins or loses, POTUS OJ will have to leave. He doesn't have that kind of power over the US military. IMO, both the GOP & MAGA folks are enjoying the circus as they did the 1st time around. This is its last merry-go-round. They will go home when it's over. I predict that 3 years from now, the divide in this country will tamp down & some semblance of normalcy will return. All of this chaos will be a distant memory like the pandemic.😁😎

China has been the blue-collar labor force for the United States of America (USA) for several decades now. Every person living in the USA has at least 5 things that were made in China.🤣 Also, there's at least 5 million Chinese people living in the USA. Yet, the US government wants the American people to believe China is a threat. If China wanted to destroy America it would be very easy to do wirhout firing a single shot. Everything from contaminated clothing & products to a little something extra in egg rolls & Chinese food would kill millions of Americans.🤣 First, it was the nuclear arms race that made Russia a boogeyman. China has become one too mainly because it owns a huge amount of US debt. White people in America make up enemies to justify the military & owning a bunch of guns. If American white folks would stop creating enemies through colonization, imperialism & racism, etc., they would have nothing to fear.😎

ProfD It could last forever if someone was willing to keep it going beyond him. I don't see that kind of movement among the MAGA base. These people will enjoy the BS POTUS OJ is creating & when the proverbial picnic is over, they'll get in their pick-up trucks & go home. In fact, the MAGA base is already becoming jaded. In 2 years or less, they will fade away like the Tea Party. If I may, allow me to use YOUR OWN WORDS to push back against this belief.... Don't think out of 74 million people none of them will try to take advantage of the atmosphere he's made by keeping the flame burning and keeping the momentum going long past his presidency. They're using him and his presidency as the "pilot episode" for a long term series. POTUS Obama was the 1st of a kind that we'll never see again in our lifetime. If we don't, trust me...I won't be shedding any tears over it. We needs a full fledged FBA brutha (or sista....but preferably a brutha) in the White House. No more funny ass niggaz with funny names of questionable racial backgrounds. We needs a JEROME JACKSON up in that Oval Office. I believe starting with the 2028 election, the next few POTUS will be plain in terms of their personality & actions; rather dull & boring. The fact that you believe there will even BE a 2028 election gets you marked as "Optimist Of The Year" in my book....lol.

The issue is not about whether this generation is worse than the preceding ones or about finger pointing. That's all a waste of time. It concerns what to do about what is currently happening. Problem solving gets lost in the shuffle of idle reminiscing. Maybe fines and jail sentences will have an effect. Or perhaps these roving hordes of young folks will get scared straight, after a body count builds up at the hands of trigger happy cops... Such is life.

Black folks are masochistic; like an abused wife who stays with her mate because - it hurts so good.

If you guys weren't constantly bitchin' and whining about the lingering injustices of slavery in this country and the institutionalized racism that is designed to stifle Blacks, and keep them in their place and the omnipresent spectre of white supremacy and on and on and on, maybe Richard wouldn't look askance at the ambiguity of your relationship with this country. Troy bristles with his contempt f or the pervasiveness of social media and all it involves, and ProfD makes no secret about being armed and amenable to vigilancy, never wavering in his goal of reparations. Funny, I never got the impression that Richard was a member of a different generation than you two. His thinking is not archaic, to me. All of which contributes to the elusiveness of black unity. In watching the recentPBS special on WEB DuBois, I can't help but wonder what tribe he would belong to, were he still with us. I, personally, have given up categorizing folks. How one views the world depends on their core personality, imo. 🙄

Gregory Chaitin is a mathematician and he says the base level of reality may not be particles but information. DNA is information encoded chemically. While based on my experiences with Astrology and time. I also feel the base level is information. I have found that time both Astrological and clock time has information that I can access. It is an interesting hypothesis that we may be in a simulation. It is one of the most interesting questions in philosophy. Unfortunately it may impossible or nearly so to find and answer. I think it's more plausible that our perceptions colour our reality. But also that our thoughts create our reality. Which may imply that everyone is right in their beliefs. However this is only true on a subjective level. Which is the level most people experience the world

Good day, everyone - My name is Kevin Parham, and I am seeking an AALBC review for my upcoming 350-page historical novel, Orange Line to Forest Hills. The story follows the intense emotional arc of the protagonist, Sadie Mae Beckham, as she navigates mid-20th-century challenges in an environment that denies people of color the opportunity to achieve their goals and take their rightful place in American society. Consideration of my submission would be greatly appreciated. Respectfully, Kevin Name: Kevin Parham (Author) https://priapublishing.com/ Book Title: Orange Line to Forest Hills ISBN: 978-0-9849485-9-8 Publication Date: July 14, 2026 List Price: $17.99 (paperback) $4.99 (digital) Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Sadie Mae Beckham has grown up knowing the cruelty of racism in the Jim Crow South, but nothing prepares her for the brutal lynching of her father. Determined not to let hatred define her future, Sadie Mae leaves everything she knows behind and travels to Boston, Massachusetts, driven by a single goal: to gain an education and one day become a doctor. In her new high school, Sadie Mae forms an unlikely friendship with two girls, one Black, one white, who share her belief that injustice must be challenged, even when doing so comes at a cost. As the girls navigate peer pressure, family expectations, and quiet hostility in classrooms and summer jobs, their convictions are tested again and again. When relationships across racial lines begin to draw unwanted attention, the friends are forced to confront a society determined to keep them apart. Each choice they make carries consequences, not just for themselves, but for those they care about. Will Sadie Mae hold onto her dream without compromising her values? Can friendship survive in a world built on division? And is moral courage enough to challenge a system designed to punish those who stand against it? Orange Line to Forest Hills--a powerful story of friendship, determination, and the courage to choose what is right in a would shaped by fear and inequality.

Humm going back to the subject of Becky's 7 Point Plan for Snagging a Wealthy Brother. Maybe Brothers like Arsenio are not prejudiced, so "race" was not a factor they simply got with whoever appealed to them most on a mental, compatibility, shared interest, spiritual-soul-mate thang. 😏

@Troy Nah. That review that you supplied a link to said it all. I shouldn't have described what I was going to post as a "review". It would've only been about a paragraph. In answer to your question, I read the hard cover (library) book. Arsenio's memoir was just a typical show business success story. He went from rags to riches, encountered a lot of subtle racism, met and became friends with a lot of celebrities, including Eddie Murphy, along the way. And, oh yeah, his current.live-in companion is white and so was the baby mama he had a son with. The End. 😉

Good to know you are back and in the space.......

The Black man who killed my father while he was trying to prevent a robbery of his uncle store was convicted with life with no expected parole. He is free today and has been for some time, so I suspect there are a lot who are free today. But that crime spree back in the day - sent me fleeing NY so, I'm not mad at that crime bill that saved other Black families who couldn't leave New York. If there were people falsely imprisoned my heart breaks for them and I hope some liberal project got them out. But it wasn't like Black people caught up in that bill were innocent. They left a lot of Black families without fathers, sons, mothers and daughters. In other news, Hi @ProfD ! I hope you are doing well on this Memorial Day!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2026/05/11/hantavirus-cruise-ship-quarantine-passengers-updates--live/90023430007/ A few people have died & others are sick after picking up Hantavirus on a cruise ship. Hantavirus comes from rodent excretions. They seem to think a stop in Argentina may have exposed passengers to the virus. Hantavirus is spread among humans by close contact. Supposedly, it's not transmitted as easily as other viruses. There's no cure for Hantavirus. It has to run its course. People with healthy immune systems recover. Compromised folks may have a harder time. The World Health Organization and other medical professionals are telling folks not to worry too much about the spread of Hantavirus. Guess they don't want the pandemic panic attacks. In the meantime, passengers are being quarantined & traced. The media is running with scissors. 😁😎

ProfD .....and if you had talked to more than 3 -one of them would have surely snagged you with a smile and you would have been TRAPPED in Michigan for the forseeable future...lol. These African girls are getting pretty good with their lacefront and wore-jeans game....lol.

Welcome back! 🙋🏽‍♀️👋🏽 I was in HIST class while Troy was tinkering and missed the upgrade entirely!

I didn't know about this I lived more than a decade of my adult life in BK. Maybe you had to be in "the life" for it to be a problem? I actually emailed @Pioneer1 to now avail. I hope he is OK.

Excellent video breaking down who benefits from the various types of monetization on social media platforms. Black folks should definitely watch & take heed of it. Hopefully, as most things in life move in a circle, people will shut off their computers & cell phones & get back to socializing among each other in various types of establishments. For example, listening to music sounds much better in a venue i.e. theater, bar, lounge, restaurant, etc., with musicians playing instruments. Watching videos online doesn't provide the same vibe, energy &/or experience as in person.😎

https://thehill.com/homenews/5868640-clyburn-trump-sc-redistricting/ Rep. Jim Clyburn is fighting to save the lone South Carolina Democratic Congressional seat from a redistricting effort. At 85 years old, Rep. Clyburn is running for re-election. It would be his 18th term in Congress. Having earned several million dollars already & the pension he'll receive, there's no reason for America's favorite sharecropper, er, Rep. Clyburn to continue working in Congress.😁 I'm fairly certain Rep. Clyburn isn't taking care of hoes in different area codes either..🤣 The senior citizen squad that is Rep. Clyburn, Rep. Nancy Pelosi & Rep. Maxine Waters & every other member over 75 years old needs to retire & give younger folks a chance to sit in those seats. Term limits are totally necessary. There's no reason for these people to be taking naps during sessions &/or having the chamber smell like linimint or Aspercreme.🤣 We need a campaign telling Rep. Clyburn & others that its time to go home & enjoy retirement.😁😎

The amount of money Political Action Committees (PACs) are spending to put folks in office is ridiculous. If Black candidates are beholden to a PAC on either side, Democrat or Republican, their marching orders are already set. Candidates funded through grassroot efforts & regular campaign donations have an uphill climb. That's why Independents are rare. Campaign finance reform is a joke. So, the 2-horse race between Democrats & Republicans remains status quo. Just a matter of selected candidates out-fundraising each other. Once the politicians get to Capitol Hill, they go about the business of enforcing the agenda of & enriching the folks who sent them.😎

America! Ya gotta luv it. 😉

Did anyone actually hear what Trump said? The website you shared @ProfD won't let you listen to the clip unless you subscribe. I don't know if they are a reputable news source given their use of this tactic... Report the "news" or don't, but don't bait me with scandalous content and fail to deliver. At any rate. they use terms like "appears" and "apparently" when it comes to his use of the word. So I can only assume it was not blatant - still he has to play to his base.. approval rating are down. I guess he'll be hurling the N-bomb soon--that will really rally his supporters. He'll probably hold that card until right before the midterms 😉

I am I. Facebook is only for a few minutes. Sometimes I post to my Astrology group. That's very little response or interaction. That's about 800 members. I may get a few comments and 20 likes. I still check in to AALBC. However I don't post that much. Although I may attempt to explain my Time Markers system again. Or I may ask for volunteers to test Astrological Techniques.

This is not Del,. Del just popped into my mind when I saw the cover :-) I bet it does favor him as a kid