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The city of Tampa recognizes National Black Bookstore Day.
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Tempus is fugiting. And before we know it, election day will be here and that bad ol Donald Trump will be ousted and Democracy will be restored and gas prices and grocery bills will plummet and the Economy will skyrocket and everybody will be able to afford to be sick. Black folks? They can all come out of hiding .God will be in his heaven and all will be right in the world... Or - maybe not. Hope all you optimists have a Plan B. 🥴3 points
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I don't know how I'm able to post here, having not done the required procedure, but I'm not complaining.😛2 points
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The new look is fantastic. @Troy ...thanks again for everything you do & the sweat equity you pour into the site.😎2 points
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You want to make things better around here? I say bring back Cynique's Corner! ......and put her IN it, lol.2 points
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UN backs resolution calling slave trade ‘gravest crime against humanity’ RFI Thu, March 26, 2026 at 4:08 AM EDT 2 min read A memorial sculpture by Sandrine Plante-Rougeol in Bordeaux, a historic slave-trading port, where the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade remains central to debates on recognition and reparations. (AFP - GEORGES GOBET)More The resolution – proposed by Ghana – was adopted to applause by a vote of 123 in favour. The United States, Israel and Argentina opposed the measure. There were 52 abstentions, including the UK and all 27 members of the EU. Ghana's President John Mahama, one of the African Union's most vocal supporters of slavery reparations, was at the UN headquarters in New York to support the vote. "Today, we come together in solemn solidarity to affirm truth and pursue a route to healing and reparative justice," said Mahama. "The adoption of this resolution serves as a safeguard against forgetting." Transatlantic cruise to turn spotlight on Brazil-Angola slavery past Despite being non-binding, the resolution goes beyond simple acknowledgment and asks nations involved in the slave trade to engage in restorative justice. It also highlights the legacy of slavery via "the persistence of racial discrimination and neo-colonialism" in today's society. "The transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families, and devastated communities," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. "To justify the unjustifiable, slavery's proponents and beneficiaries constructed a racist ideology -- turning prejudice into a pseudoscience." During discussions over the resolution, US ambassador Dan Negrea said the text was highly problematic. "The US also does not recognise a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred." He added: "The US also strongly objects to the resolution's attempt to rank crimes against humanity in any type of hierarchy." The UK and EU countries put forth similar arguments while acknowledging the wrongs of slavery. "The resolution risks pitting historical tragedies against each other that should not be compared, except at the expense of the memory of the victims," said French representative Sylvain Fournel. Heroes who fought to abolish slavery honoured in Paris Pantheon expo For African Union officials, the language of the resolution is central to its purpose. Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah, the AU’s Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Development, said clearly naming these events removes any lingering ambiguity about their nature. “It is to say that what was done to Africans was not a tragic accident of history, but the result of deliberate policies whose legacies structure today’s inequalities,” she said. “Justice begins with calling things by their proper names.” Beyond recognition, the resolution encourages countries historically involved in the slave trade to engage in processes of restorative justice. Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has been explicit about what that could entail. “The perpetrators of the transatlantic slave trade are known – the Europeans, the United States of America,” he told reporters. “We expect all of them to formally apologise to Africa and to all people of African descent.” He pointed to the return of looted cultural artefacts as one possible step, alongside continued efforts to dismantle structural racism and, potentially, financial compensation for affected communities.2 points
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As part of the AALBC upgrade, I have to move to a dedicated server. The shared environment I current run on is not allowing to add the features I'd like to add and to make aalbc.com a truly world class website. This discussion forum may experience a brief outage (hours not days). It is also possible some posts may be lost depending upon when you make them. So please do not share anything you do not want to lose until I give the all-clear. Finally, I will probably migrate to newer discussion forum software (...ugh, I know). The problem with this software is that they are pushing upgrades to a cloud-based solution which is much more expensive. I'm basically broke; so, I (1) can't afford the software and (2) I don't think it is worth it. There are better solutions that I can more easily integrate with aalbc.com and I will pursue one of those. I'm open to suggestions. This software will remain in place, but I will probably lock down the discussion forums and encourage people to begin using whatever new platform I launch. I believe this is the best chance for increasing the number of engaged active users of the site and ultimately building something that someone else or another team and actually maintain after I'm gone. (Sidebar: in the longer term I doubt websites will continue to be a thing, but there will always be a need for to Black-operated and owned platforms we Black people communicate and curate out culture we can't leave this up to Elon and Mark).2 points
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@Troy....thanks again for everything you're doing to maintain this site.😎2 points
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2 pointsAbolish the need for Visas to cross International Borders.....Advocate for the Right To freely Travel the Globe as a Basic and Foundamental Human Right. Travel is Education2 points
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The great experiment that is the United States of America (USA) even in its relative youth as a 250-year old nation has studied the history of empires...their rise & fall. The *smartest* thing the USA did was allowing people from all of the planet to come & live in this country. Though its institutions, the USA has tapped into the best & brightest minds from around the world. Through its power of money & influence & military strength, the USA has become the leading super power in the world. There is no other country on the planet to which more people immigrate. I don't believe the USA will implode or self-destruct under the weight of its own largesse. Nor will disputes & bickering among disparate groups of people (tribes) derail the USA either. I believe it will take an act of of the universe i.e. series of natural disasters to dismantle &/or destroy the USA. There's always the remote possibility that white people will get fed up with each other & start firing off those nuclear bombs. Of course, going nuclear means game over for humanity as we know.😎2 points
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Impressive word usage there. Let me know how much you'd charge to write my posts.😁😎2 points
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2 pointsWe are going toward the "light" aka the longest day of the year. Wouldn't it be reaffirming if America reversed its course and the current powers-that-be dissipated and were blown away by solar winds! What say you, Delano and Chevdov?? 💥💫🗯2 points
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2 pointsIn the mean time, silky-voiced Nat Cole, a Chicago product, enjoyed tremendous popularity among his own people. He put out a lot of single 78 vinyl records in the '50s as I recall, and they were all hits! We loved us some Nat "King" Cole. Back in the day, a lot of - perish the thought - colorist negro women used to pay him the left-handed compliment by declaring that "the only thing they liked black were Cadillacs and Nat Cole". To this day, like one of his best sellers, he remains "Unforgettable".2 points
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There are a bunch of thing I need to work through, but the most important thing is that one. Resetting your password does not work yet (did it ever?). I hope to have that working sometime this evening. If you can login you are free to use the forum. After I get the password reset working I'm begin making some esthetic changes. Fun facts: We have been using this software since Sunday, September 13, 2009! The last time I upgraded to a new server was in 2019 and the forum was down for 10 days (at least)!1 point
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Yes I just hit the link. No login required Thank you, I appreciate your labour of love.1 point
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@ProfD Trump always takes the low ground, never the high ground. He says what a lot of prople really think and appeals to the worst in people, with his lack of propriety. England's royal couple, King Charles and his consort Queen Camilla are coming to America as a good will gesture in connection with America's celebration of its 250th birthday. Wouldn't be surprised if the meglomanical Trump tries to upstage them, and a lot of people will approve of this. Trump is an iconoclast, which wouldn't be such a bad thing if he, himself, wasn’t such a depraved, narcisstic, ignoramus. As POTUS, he's a terrible embodiment of the America spirit on the occasion of its 250th anniversity.1 point
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Not a chance. Cynique resides permanently inside your head. ☺️1 point
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The Legendary actress Bette Davis was one of the others who took credit for this Academy Award nickname, claiming the statue reminded her of her Uncle Oscar. Maybe Oscar Micheaux was her uncle. Who knows?1 point
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1 pointLooks like you deleted the thread What is Wrong with Her? or or Where Is She? or something to that effect.😎1 point
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1 point@richardmurrayin answer to your question asking why I think anyone born in America is automatically a citizen, I tend to think in the abstract when it comes to land ownership, maps, boundaries,territories,etc. The Earth is ground under our feet and doesn't belong to anybody! All claims to it, like treaties and deeds are man made agreements; just pieces of paper. So, technically, wherever you were born, is your birthplace and that qualifies you to claim citizenship in the place where you came to life. It's that simple to me. All the rest is superficial. I neither love nor hate my birthplace. It is what it is. and I take that in my stride.1 point
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Even when you're spending time with your family......you're thinking about me and scrolling down awaiting my responses. Talk about obsession.1 point
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1 point@ProfDProfD Well, so much for Arizona. Michigan looks like the real deal. Guess having the Fab Five show up brought them luck.
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1 point@aka Contrarian....late on the response but I thought UConn would win that game. I'm going with Arizona getting past Michigan to meet UConn in the championship game. In my tournament challenge, I picked Arizona to win it all. We'll see. On the women's side, I'm glad the South Carolina Gamecocks under head coach Dawn Staley sent undefeated UConn packing.🤣 IMO, NCAA Tournament Basketball is more fun to watch because those kids play their hearts out.😎1 point
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Read the quote below; the words of Pioneer directed at frankster "Who's side are you on....the victimizer or the victim? You're talking like you'd rather things remain the way they are and have been for hundreds of years RATHER than see the Black community be on top, out of fear that it may harm one little hair of the chinny chin chin of some White person." This is the jive-ass nigga who wants to lecture me about America, and how grateful I should be to live here. A blatant example of someone who should never be taken seriously. "The sound and the fury of an idiot saying nothing"1 point
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Mel "Between nine and fifteen thousand years ago, scholars believe that a land bridge existed between Asia and North America that we now call Beringia. The first inhabitants of what would be named the Americas migrated across this bridge in search of food. When the glaciers melted, water engulfed Beringia, and the Bering Strait was formed." ( Mack 1.1) We just walked on over to the Americas. There were Black people here before Columbus It was easy to migrate to the Americas While this is a probability for how Black people arrived in the Americas in the distant past, we actually have more recent examples of how Black people arrived in the Americas before Columbus. A prime example would be Mansa Musa's brother Mansa Abu Bakr 2. I'm sure you've heard of Mansa Musa, the king of the Ghana kingdom and at one time the world's richest man. He had a brother....Mansa Abu Bakr II......who built ships and actually led an expedition of men to the Americas back in 1311. Over 100 years before Columbus! The First African Voyage To The Americas, a story - African American Registry Exploration Mysteries: An Early African Voyage to the Americas? » Explorersweb African King, Mansa Abubakari II Discovered America in 1312, 180 Years Before Columbus – The Savannah Tribune It's been said that the large stone sculptures of helmeted heads that are clearly of African descent found down on the coasts of Central America are tributes to Mansa Abu Bakr II and his men. heck most indigenous people and Hawaiians were Black first.. Facts. That was before the Asians started arriving and mixing in with the native population. Here are some pictures of the last Queen of Hawaii. TELL ME if she doesn't look like a sister Anita Baker never knew she had....lol. As far as your video..... While "Black Caucasian" is an oxymoron.....lol....just like the Hawaiians were originally Black but became mixed with Asians, this appears to be the case all over the Pacific Island from Polynesia to Melanesia to the Somoan and Fiji islands. Islands full of dark and Black people with an Asian admixture. ProfD Gotcha! I knew something strange was happening....lol. Reminds me of that movie "Who Cloned Tyrone"....where no matter what he did or went through....the next day looked the same as the day before, lol.1 point
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1 pointSame here. I'm not patriotic in the sense of wearing flags &/or putting them on my property.😁 However, in the same way that I didn't get to choose my parents, I didn't have a choice of where I was born. The USA with all of its warts is my birthplace. It is my *home* country. I do not believe there is another country on this planet that is as diverse & with more opportunities than the USA. For that reason, I feel that gives me even more *right* to call out racism white supremacy & every other form of BS from the USA & its citizens. Reaching that stage in life of being able to call balls & strikes without giving a d8mn is a perk too.😁😎1 point
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1 pointI've never given the immigration issue a whole lot of thought probably because it has never directly impacted on my life. But I do agree that criminal illegal immigrants should be deported back to where they came from. And - that anyone born in this country is automatically an American citizen. I'm not a particularly patriotic person, and I'm always amused at how black people can chronically complain about racism, and express so little regard for their white countrymen yet so resolutely declare their love for this country. As somebody famous, Winston Churchill(?), once said: "America is the worst, most flawed country in the world... except for all the others." That sentiment kinda resonated with me.1 point
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🤔....is Go Daddy gone yet? Mel I'm assuming this stands for "Foundational Black Americans" and ADOS American Descendants of Slaves? Correct What is the difference? Pretty much the same ideology that focuses on us as Black Americans having a separate and distinct identity and culture from other Blacks in the Diaspora. Yvette Carnell who is a staunch proponent of Reparations started the ADOS movement to establish a separate identity for us as Black Americans separate from Africans and West Indians so that IF and WHEN we do get Reparations, supposedly they'd only go to US and not other Black people who didn't descent from U.S. slavery specifically. The FBA movement was started by Tariq Nasheed because he liked the idea of AfroAmericans having our own separate identity and promoting our culture, but he did NOT like Yvette Carnell and didn't want to join HER organization....lol. So he started his own. Both groups are similar but many of those in the FBA movement don't believe that they or most Black Americans descended from slavery. They believe most of us descended from Black people who were already here in the Americans. Many of them don't recognize any ties to Africa what so ever. So I'm not sure how that will work in favor of their argument for Reparations. Many of the followers of both groups are so ignorant, they don't realize that most Caribbeans and Black South Americans also descended from slavery. The fact is, there were many Black people already here through out the Americas for hundreds if not thousands of years before Columbus. While that is true, the vast majority of us are descended from the Black people who were brought her from Africa during the Middle Passage. So both sides are correct. I guess it depends which history one wants to put the most weight on. But like I said, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If a Black American wants to hold on to the claim that they didn't descend from slaves and have no connections to Africa, then they won't be entitled to any Reparations money or benefits.1 point
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I have to disagree. Some Africans were reported to be sold because they were imprisoned or had debts. But the Portuguese literally built a fort at what is now Ghana's shoreline because they had already invaded West Africa and had to fight other invading Europeans who headed to the continent to get goodies. But we are talking about the 1400s. This was just the beginning of what historians call the Atlantic Slave trade. Elmina Castle "In 1482, Portuguese traders built Elmina Castle (also called São Jorge da Mina, or Saint George’s of the Mine) in present-day Ghana, on the west coast of Africa. (Mack 1.1 Portuguese Exploration..") But the millions of enslaved Africans wasn't sold by Africans, that was the British, French, and Spain until they finally got out of the human trafficking business. Then the newly minted Amerricans started a second middle passage - and imported a few million more. By the time of the Civil war there were four million Africans in the southern states (also why they lost) ...Africans selling Africans is white propaganda to deflect from the truth of the slave trade that harmed so many lives. The reason why historians know they trafficked all those Africans to various Carribbean islands and the Americas is because of the hubris of the white man who kept-effing records. Like Thomas Jefferson who had a list of his 600 slaves, they kept records everything!1 point
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Mel Now wait a minute...... I wasn't ready for all of THAT.....shit, lol. Some women can live a lifetime alone and men can't imagine a life without someone in it. Facts. I noticed pretty early on, either as a teenager or my very early 20s......that psychologically speaking, men need women far more than women need men, lol. I've been to many parties and clubs and I've routinely seen groups of women sitting a table with no men around laughing and having a good time or on the floor dancing with eachother partying it up. "Ooooo........go on girl." "Yall is crazy.....I can't take yall nowhere!" I have YET to see a group of men at a club or party all crowded together dancing with eachother oblivious to the women in the area. But then again....I've never been to a gay club. Maybe that's normal there.....lol.1 point
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Of course, some here be against it because we look, pretty shitty. The US would probably most of the top 5 over the past 400 years. Chattel Slavery, Genocide of indigenous populations, lobbing two Nukes, etc, etc. This appears to reflect a small area. There are many middle class and upper middle-class areas where you can find people these types of people who are from FBA Black families. We are the majority in these classes.1 point
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@aka Contrarian ain't workin' right now. Tell her to put the phone down and help you get things going....lol.1 point
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1 pointI'll give you one guess... Money! ...yeah basically. I made that observation myself, thought I don't hear it expressed very often perhaps that is considered poor form. It is the kind of observation I would expect @Pioneer1 to comment about, albeit wrapped in some conspiracy. I was always curious about bridge when I learned it had similarities to whist which I play pretty regularly now. Bidding makes all the difference in Whist too. That or when our leaders become entertainers. Robots which can do all of that are on the way. If first one will do a longer more than kiss and hug you. That is a problem that trust will go away with the webserver I'm migrating to.1 point
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I'm fine with Black folks self-identifying &/or aligning with a tribe. Humans have been tribal for centuries whether it is by country or ethnicity or culture. More importantly, FBA/ADOS/AfroAmericans/Freedmen need to build stronger strategic alliances with other Black folks & groups of people with shared common interests. As both you & brotha @frankster mention...there are Pan-African & other Black groups working together. Millions of Black people were not kidnapped. Moving that many people requires coordination. African leaders were selling people as if they were pieces of gold.🤣 For as long as I've been sitting in an armchair around here, I've mentioned that government & politics do not work that way.😁 Black folks even in the highest-level positions of government do not have enough power to give us anything. Cases in point...POTUS Obama or Justice Uncle Tom Thomas or pick a name. They cannot take unilateral action or make decisions. Everything requires some type of consensus.😎1 point
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Which is crazy because back in the 50s and 60s not only did every Black community have it's own paper but nearly every Black highschool had it's own Black newspaper. You didn't need a Scripts Howard back then. Black students were learning journalism (among other skills and trades) BEFORE they graduated from Highschool.1 point
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Yep. Most people don't know that this is where the word "slave" comes from....the Slavs Places like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and Slovenia....the slavic regions of Europe where the Arabs and Africans used to go and get slaves to bring back to the Middle East and North Africa. Called "Mamlukes" So.... Are you done hibernating? Like a bear or groundhog.....lol....you've decided to come outside and join us for the Spring?1 point
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Some African dudes at work are the same way. I mean, you can barely get a "hello" or "good morning" out of some of them UNLESS they want something from you. Every morning you can say, "Hey my man....what's up....how are you this morning!" All you get is a dry: "Yeah yeah....hey mon'......" Nigga glancing over at the White folks HOPING they don't see him talking to you. Now if they need something from you or need for you to talk to somebody for them: "Hey bruda! I need to get some important papers copied. Who can do that for me?" I tell them: "I'm sure the Immigration Department at the Federal Building downtown has a copier and a fax machine you can use! Why don't you run down there after work and ask them can you use it!"1 point
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Liquor and White women.....his two vices, lol.1 point
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There was & is a lot of *work* to be done around here. Takes all kinds of labor (skilled & unskilled, educated, under-educated, etc.) to get it done. Sure. Slavery, genocide, exploitation, trafficking, etc., every human ill is woven into the fabric of a wealthy nation. The great thing about dialog/discussion is there is plenty room for hypothesis, speculation, hyperbole, etc. The discourse does not have to remain literal down to every last work, phrase or belief.😎1 point
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1 pointChaka not only still has those amazing pipes but, at 74, she looks great! Stephanie is still hangin in there too, her mellow voice retaining its smooth quality. Didn't she recently go on tour with Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, and Chaka,- the Grand Dames of R&B?1 point
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@Pioneer1 what do you want exactly? I am a little confused. You know that Black owned media exists and black owned media emphasizes black love between black people who are not yella/light skin/ideal mulatto/ or similar. you know black people have access to black owned media in the usa. So when I see your complaint, it seems to me, what you really want is for non black owned media to present black people a certain way. Am I right? My problem with your desire is, how can that happen in the USA? is not the usa a multiracial country? Many people talk about white jews but many websites in the usa, many groups in the usa are publicly anti jewish, no matter a jews phenotype. All the American civil liberties unions and Defamation Leagues don't stop said anti jewish organizations from posting whole movies online stating the jewish populace, any phenotype, has to be... removed. So what do you want exactly?1 point
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1 pointChaka Khan will always be my personal favorite vocalist of all time. However, there is no denying that Stephanie Mills has always been an incredible vocalist too. My favorite Stephanie Mills song is "What You Gonna Do with my Lovin".😎1 point
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No surprise that clebrity gossip has always pushed the Willie Lynch narrative & colorism. Over time, there have been moments where Hollywood showed dark-skinned actors & actresses. As mentioned in another thread, Hip-Hop music brought a lot of dark-skinned entertainers to the forefront. Examples of Hollywood Black couples: Owning media outlets is one way of promoting the images that reflect Black people across the spectrum. Producing content that features Black folks in healthy, functional situations is another way of reversing the colorism narrative & other stereotypes. Black folks cannot merely complain about how we are being mistreated &/or portrayed. We have to rewrite the narratives.😎1 point
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It is a sad state of affairs that the only hope of getting out of a man-made quagmire is some type of celestial intervention.😎1 point
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1 pointThat reminded me of the late great Robin Harris when he would talk about how "holey" somebody's shoes and clothes were....lol.1 point
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1 pointNo doubt AI will be used to resurrect the image/likeness of our Black icons. I believe Shahid Bolsen uses AI to copy the speech pattern & cadence & mannerisms of our late Brother Malcolm X: Folks will find creative ways to use technology.😎1 point
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1 pointClinics hand out free contraceptives. I do not recall where I typed that people should kill themselves and/or have abortions. Humans have found ways to avoid procreation for a very long time. Humans have been given the ability to think & rationalize. Maturity is understanding the responsibility that comes with it.😎1 point
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1 pointSure. Entrenched blue states do not make as much of a difference in the POTUS election. Same goes for red states. Swing states flip-flopping play a huge role in determining POTUS election outcome. Those are the states that Democrats need to pour the most time & energy convincing folks to "vote blue no matter who".😎1 point
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Wayne Lewis of Atlantic Starr born April 13th, In 1957 Wayne Lewis- of Atlantic Starr who cowrote Always https://www.al.com/news/2025/06/pop-singer-in-iconic-rb-group-who-co-wrote-popular-wedding-song-dead-at-68.html song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM-CiPKZF4g LYRIC [Verse 1: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Girl, you are to me All that a woman should be And I dedicate my life To you, always The love like yours is rare It must have been Sent from up above And I know you'll stay this way For always [Pre-Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers, Barbara Weathers] And we both know That our love will grow And forever It will be You and me, hey [Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, you're like the sun Chasin' all of the rain away When you come around You bring brighter days You're the perfect one For me and you Forever will be And I will love you so For always [Verse 2: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Come with me, my sweet Let's go make a family And they will bring us joy For always Oh, boy I love you so I can't find enough ways To let you know But you can be sure I'm yours For always [Pre-Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers, Barbara Weathers] And we both know That our love will grow And forever It will be You and me, hey yeah [Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, you're like the sun Chasing all of the rain away When you come around You bring brighter days You're the perfect one For me and you Forever will be And I will love you so For always [Bridge: Barbara Weathers] Hey, yeah [Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, you're like the sun Chasing all of the rain away When you come around You bring brighter days You're the perfect one For me and you Forever will be And I will love you so For always [Outro: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, ooh I will love you so For always Ooh, ooh I will love you so For always Ooh, ooh I will love you so For always lyrics from David Lewis Wayne Lewis Funny how they wrote one of the most well known romantic songs of the late 1970s early 1980s while also one of the best if not most well known cheating couple song song SECRET LOVERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwQ-PNJtPg song with stage intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe2UXqFo0DY LYRICS [stage intro] - San Bernardino! (crowd cheering) can we talk? [laughter] Okay. Right now I'd like to tell you a story, okay? But in order for me to tell you the story, you must, you just must use your imagination. Okay, ladies. (gentle music) Okay, first, imagine that this is the finest man you have ever seen in your life! (crowd cheering) Whoo! Is he fine or what? (crowd cheering) But he's mine. And I love him. But on my way to rehearsal, I saw this man. Whoo-whee! And girlfriend, let me tell you, he was finer than my man was! So I wanted to mess around with him a little bit. You know what I'm saying? But I couldn't leave my man, could I? - No. - So in order to have my cake and eat it too, I had to keep him a secret. Do we have any secret lovers out here in the house tonight? (crowd cheering) This is for you. [official song] Here we are, the two of us together Takin' this crazy chance to be all alone We both know that we should not be together 'Cause if we're found out, it could mess up both our happy homes I hate to think about us all meetin' up together 'Cause as soon as I look at you, it will show on my face, yeah Then they'll know that we've been loving each other We can't let 'em know, no, no, no, we can't leave a trace Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are We shouldn't be together But we can't let go, no, no 'Cause we love each other so (ooh) Sittin' at home, I do nothin' all day But think about you and hope that you're okay Hopin' you'll call before anyone gets home I wait anxiously alone by the phone How could something so wrong be so right? I wish we didn't have to keep our love out of sight, yeah Livin' two lives just ain't easy at all But we gotta hang on in there or fall Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are Tryin' so hard to hide the way we feel 'Cause we both belong to someone else But we can't let it go 'Cause what we feel is, oh, so real So real, so real You and me, are we fair? Is this cruel? Or do we care? Can they tell what's in our minds? Maybe they've had secret love all of the time In the middle of makin' love we notice the time We both get nervous 'cause it's way after nine Even though we hate it, we know it's time that we go We gotta be careful so that no one will know Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are Tryin' so hard to hide the way we feel 'Cause we both belong to someone else But we can't let it go 'Cause what we feel is, oh, so real So real, so real So real, so real Songwriters: Wayne I. Lewis, David E. Lewis1 point
