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  1. Close on the heels of the ads featuring gold garnished sneakers bearing the Re-elect Trump brand, is a TV commercial featuring Donald tRump hawking for the modest price of $59.00, a "patriotic" Bible guaranteed to inspire God to Bless America. Holding the leather bound holy book in his raised little pudgy hand, flanked by two gigantic American flags, a salivating Donnie gives his spiel, hardly able to keep a straight face as he anticipates a flood of orders from his faithful following. What a perfect embodiment of the dire warning political pundit, Sinclair Lewis, predicted years ago. to wit: "When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, and carrying a bible." Elsewhere in the news, Robert Kennedy has selected a female Asian Progressive as his presidential running mate. Nobody seemed more stunned than she was in her deer-in-the-headlights TV sound byte. And NBC will have to pay out a ton of money to rescind its hiring of a 2016 election denier, January 6th defender, and former Republican National Committee head. They hired her to give more balance to their news reporting, but they got so much flack from their liberal Talking Heads who thought she'd be more at home on Fox News, that NBC execs backtracked and broke her contract. She gone. Since Fani fired her stud muffin, she's back on the case. Puffy's mansion ransacked and wrecked by a crew of Feds, looking for a weapons stash. Conspiracy rumors already circulating about the Baltimore bridge collapse being a terrorist attack. 10-4, your night owl news reporter signing off...zzzzzzzzz
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  2. It's fascinating how our preferences change as we grow older, isn't it? Musicals, especially those on film, might not have been your thing when you were younger, and that's totally understandable. It's all about personal taste! Have you had a chance to see what movies are out right now?
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  3. @aka Contrarian, excellent weekly news wrap. As a correspondent, I'll add... Former POTUS Orange Julius (POJ) had his $464 million bond reduced to $175 million. NY AG Letitia James is still holding on to it as a win. Meanwhile, POJ's Truth Social hits stock market valued at $3.6 billion. IOW, there was reason to reduce the bond above. As mentioned above, POJ puts sprinkles on his fortune cake hawking a Bible. Also resurfaced is the infamous picture of him standing in front of a church during the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Robert Kennedy Jr. doesn't stand a chance of being elected POTUS. Due to a condition that affects his speaking voice, if RFK Jr. leader, his public addresses would be a painful listen. CNN caught up with Fani Willis at an event in Atlanta. She was looking good and defiantly said the train is still coming in the case against POJ. Puffy aka Diddy is definitely in a tub of hot water as the Feds hink he's involved in sex trafficking. It makes no sense to me that a billionaire would pick that as a side hustle. These raids coincide with other allegations against the music mogul. He's been skating on thin ice for decades. The Baltimore bridge collapse was an unfortunate catastrophe. It happened about 40 minutes driving from my hood.
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  4. Niger has become the latest country in West Africa where the army has seized control, following Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Chad - all former French colonies. Since 1990, a striking 78% of the 27 coups in sub-Saharan Africa have occurred in Francophone states leading some commentators to ask whether France - or the legacy of French colonialism - is to blame? Many of the coup plotters would certainly like us to think so. Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, who was named prime minister by the military junta in Mali in September 2022, launched a scathing attack on France. Criticising "neocolonialist, condescending, paternalist and vengeful policies", Mr Maiga alleged that France had "disowned universal moral values" and stabbed Mali "in the back". Anti-French vitriol has also flourished in Burkina Faso, where the military government ended a long-standing accord that allowed French troops to operate in the country in February, giving France one month to remove its forces. In Niger, which neighbours both countries, allegations that President Mohamed Bazoum was a puppet for French interests were used to legitimise his removal from power, and five military deals with France have since been revoked by the junta led by Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani. Partly as a result, the coup was followed by popular protests and attacks on the French embassy. The historical record provides some support for these grievances. French colonial rule established political systems designed to extract valuable resources while using repressive strategies to retain control. So did British colonial rule, but what was distinctive about France's role in Africa was the extent to which it continued to engage - its critics would say meddle - in the politics and economics of its former territories after independence. Seven of the nine Francophone states in West Africa still use the CFA franc, which is pegged to the euro and guaranteed by France, as their currency, a legacy of French economic policy towards its colonies. France also forged defence agreements that saw it regularly intervene militarily on behalf of unpopular pro-French leaders to keep them in power. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66406137 Mali’s Armed Forces Just Discovered U.S Hidden Mercenaries
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  5. oh thank you @Troy I wanted day 3 and 4 typed up by now, but I am racing against the clock for a contest. but by this end of week i hope ot have all four days in for reading leisure:) thanks for the link. I will add it to my early dos literature group. You look like you can be in the whispers back then:) cool I didn't realize lawrence fishburne was a member of the whispers:)
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  6. I have not had a chance to read this yet, but UII wanted you to know that I appreciate the coverage. Since local media is missing and under resourced the events are not covered -- despite being newsworthy. Your report bring to mind the "Reports from the Field" Kalamu ya Salaam used to publish on our events. Here are The Reports from the Field of the 5th National Black Writers Conference by Kalamu ya Salaam (from April 2000). If we don't preserve the story they never happened
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  7. https://www.tumblr.com/blackexcellence/745411300034772992/whenweallvote-we-are-saddened-to-hear-about-the
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  8. Yeah, the black excellence forum can use a little more love. Even the sister who helped generate the idea rarely contributes.
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  9. @Troy I made the one in the black excellence forum after your comment
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  10. Black folks have never needed white folks to teach them how to farm or do anything else. Europeans stole everything they ever learned from Black folks. As the originators, Black folks don't have to discover or invent ways of doing anything. We just need to eliminate the system of racism white supremacy. As evidenced by the title of this thread, if white folks left Blacks alone and stopped stealing their resources and colonizing them, Black folks would be totally self-sufficient. There's enough intelligence among Black folks to do anything we desire. Just a matter of removing foreigners from our lands and building strategic alliances among ourselves using our collective knowledge, skills and abilities. Black folks can totally thrive and survive without white folks.
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  11. Not at this point. I missed the one in the black excellence forum.
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  12. @richardmurray maybe. Perhaps as it will be less of a campaign speech and opinion polls and more about running the country.
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  13. Black people who fall under the sway of Christianity do so for the same reason as white folks do. After all, as ProfD infers Christianity is just a whitewashed version of an Egyptian religion whose Jesus counterpart was Horus. You are all familiar with that claim. Same guy, different color. These "buddhas" like Christ and Horus are central to all religions, all charismatic figures offering salvation. Obviously, religion fills a need. It's the "opiate of the masses". When you tell down trodden people of all colors existing in the throes of oppression/depression, that they will be justly rewarded when they die by going to heaven, a paradise that washes away all their cares, and that all they have to do to get there is to pledge allegiance to a father figure and his son, then gullible desperate people believe it! That, along with endeavoring to resist the evil perpetrated by the satanic enemy of their savior, becomes a way of life that helps them cope and survive, as flawed a formula as this is, it offers HOPE. I don't know why pioneer poses this question. Does he ask himself why he reveres the Bible and believes that God exists. What he criticizes is an off shoot of his mind set, cloaked in faith. Nobody asked me, but from my own personal experiences, I imagine that there is a higher power which you can download into your spiritual computer and program the daily miracles that get you through life. Feel free to remind me how "I know that I know nothing". źzzzzzzzz
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  14. Aunt Lute Books, of San Francisco, CA is thrilled to announce the release of Kathya Alexander’s debut novel, Keep A’Livin’ which will be available April 2, 2024. Thank you for taking the time to read a bit more about the book and its inspiring author. My hope is that after reviewing the content you will be as excited as we are about this upcoming piece and will be inspired to review the book on your platform. Keep A’Livin’ is a distinctive novel written in verse which follows the coming of age story of the young protagonist, Mandy, a girl growing up in Arkansas in the 1960s amid the turbulence of the Civil Rights Movement. The reader accompanies Mandy as she comes to realize the complicated nuances of her social status, learns about her current social and political climate, and contemplates the role faith and God plays in American race relations and fights for social justice. When asked about intentions of her book, Alexander writes: I want to make people aware of all those ordinary men and women who worked at the local level to make the Civil Rights Movement a success… I want Keep A’Livin’ to honor and acknowledge the local people, the grassroots activists that are often neglected in the history of that era. Keep A’Livin’ is a commentary on what it means to be young, Black, a woman, a daughter, a sister, a student, and queer in the American south at a time of social and political uncertainty. With a focus on historical dialect and the spoken word throughout, the novel is a testament to the Civil Rights Movement’s fundamental reliance on oral tradition, elevating the voices of community, collaborating with others, and finding space to listen. The verse and dialectical form of this novel allows for a channel of speech that harnesses this essence of the Civil Rights Movement itself. This intimate style gives more character to the history than mere recordings or clippings of descriptions of key events ever could. It is in the conversation between characters, the interweaving of fable, tradition, religion, and storytelling that we can come away from this book with a deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement and ultimately what makes the political, personal and vice versa. At Aunt Lute Books, we are beyond excited to publish this truly craftful novel, and hope you are as well after reading. More information about Keep A’Livin’ and Kathya Alexander can be found on our website. The advanced reader copy is also available for review. Please let me know if you are interested in reviewing this book and I will gladly send over a copy for you to take a look at.
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  15. Well the issue is......if this IS it...we wouldn't know it, lol.
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  16. ProfD Fear of mortality. People are afraid to die. They've been programmed into believing their soul could spend eternity in h8ll. Nearly every African religion before Christianity or Islam not only taught that Life existed after death and that their Ancestors lived in that After-life, they also had rituals and herbs they used that allowed certain medicine men to ENTER those Realms and communicate with Entities in them! Now whether they could do this or not is obviously questioned by some, but the fact that they certainly BELIEVED in it isn't up for questioning. All Africans believed in Higher Beings and Life after physical death. Neither Islam or Christianity introduced these concepts to them. So how a bunch of European Caucasians or Arab Caucasians could come along with other religions and SINCERELY convince them to stop believing in that and believe in a bunch of words written down in a book that THEY didn't write and couldn't even understand the language of is - Come on bro. Jim Jones. People's Temple. Jonestown Guyana. A 47-year old clown convinced 909 people to commit suicide. Great example. And Jim Jones was a WHITE man! And most of those who followed that fool down there were BLACK folks! Look at that. Like the wino on Good Times would say: "Now what does that tell you? Huh? Huh??"
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  17. Reportedly, there was a woman in bed with Kevin Samuels when he died. So, he wasn't alone. Probably had a crooked smile on his face too.
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  18. Day 2 part 1 Virtual Scholarly Presentations on Conference Theme scholars : dionne bennett, levi catoe , russell nurick, hosted by thabdi lewis, jason hendrikson, lea byrd levi catoe the literature accessed or utilized to children in school settings in the usa maintains a phenotypical order with blacks under whites. He uses as an example phyllis wheatley. Oral history he suggest can be used to aid in strengthening the black vision of the history or times of the usa and offering a opposing parallel to the literature in scholastic settings in school mentioned before. He suggests black people are deemed against civilization but I argue, that it is better to say, the black populace in the usa born from the enslaved have usually to their own detriment pushed the combined populace in the usa to civilization in spite of white terror, maintaining black hate. I wish he would had stated the destruction of the native american. The usa first pillar is the destruction of the native american to literally obtain their land,and delete their claim or at least the ability of them to claim with violence. But all to often black people in their desire to be part of the usa or their belief in the usa myhtological destination don't mention the native american because that sin of the usa is unrepairable. russell nurick focuses on bernice mcfadden work sugar. Good point on sugar, its browner color and the processed white. and uses the bok to emphasize the strategy of getting others to think a way. And how it is pervasaive between phenotypical groups but also in each phenotypical group. He goes through how mcfadden uses pearl to speak on black women's view to themselves,their suffering in the usa locally plus the condition of the black populace on earth aside the white populace. I think many black viewers are not interested in viewing such graphic physical abuses, as in the book sugar. Same to octavia butler's kindred. Black people and white folk seem to be able to accept the physical violence of the past in the usa easier in book form than video form.The thing that is absent in many fictions by black people to fisctional persons is how they act like a punching bag to white violence, but never come to a violent rebuttal or an exodus plan. In the end these Dionne Bennett The black populace literary exploration to black movements document the central role of Black people to making the usa what it is today. Frederick Douglass, pernile joseph, angela davis she use as examples. The literary intellectual tradition is the foundation of usa's modern form. She wants to recenter black american literature as central to the path to the modern form of the usa. She echoes joseph's a goal of shared multiracial narrative to the genesis or identity of the usa's essence is needed to bring the usa to a place of functional unity among the demographs in the usa. Black literature has defined plus redefined the government of the usa and the liberational democracy is embedded in the literature of black writers and the destination of what the usa can be or needed to be for all benefit. She says anti inclusion anti multiversity anti equity is anti democracy or anti american. She uses Sojourney Truth's speech and the hardship of women in getting their voice heard in the battle for gender rights in the context of phenotypical battles and beyond. Being a female warrior doesn't make her battle less than or her value less than black men or any one. Frederick Douglass believed in the usa as the cornerstone of a united humanity through positive interworking or peace. Joseph says the laws to blacks from whites proves black humanity. Didn't know Angela Davis plus Condaleeza Rice both knew one of the four little girls annihilated by bombing in a church. She thinks Angela Davis is not credited enough. I concur. The intersectional of phenotype side gender is underrated as a factor in the legal structure of the usa. She also refers to Davis explanation of how the prison is the method to get rid of what people don't want to see. The majority of whites or majority of blacks never wanted the usa that the minority of black or white leaders have been able to guide the usa to be. Garveyism had more adherent, working adherents than frederick douglass or booker t washington or web dubois or others, because most black people in the usa never liked the usa or whites and always wanted to kill the whites or the usa. the KKK is the largest organization post war between the states because most whites always wanted the usa to be a trick to the non white christian populace in humanity where non white christians are used for white christian empowerment in the usa eternally. She is wrong, the rule of the people in the usa is centered on anti inclusion anti multiversity anti equity. The problem is the usa's form of the rule of the people is designed on one group dominating other groups. But a minority of blacks/whites/native americans want the democracy of the usa to be centered on inclusion/equity/multiversity and speak on the democracy of the usa as if it already was, when it wasn't. Prisons since the war between the states is the way within the white populace originally and then black populace or modern immigrants populace get to not see the problems they don't want to see. Original Questions thought as listening Question : Levi Catoe, can the empowerment of the black populace in the usa in some way repair the earlier sin from the whites in the colonies or the usa later toward the native american? Question: Russell Nurick, What are your thoughts to most high end prostitutes in new orleans in its past stating a lie that they had partial black ancestry? Question: Dionne Bennett, has the failure of black men in leadership positions to embrace black women as equals made the movement by blacks in modulating the usa's democractic form too slow? https://www.clascholars.org/ presented questions Levi Catoe, will the native american populace be healed in the usa at the goal of the black populace ? [he answered the question, he speaks for both naturally] Russell Nurick, what are your thoughts to whites lying about black ancestry in history, like prostitutes in old new orleans? ->I'd be curious to know what particular historical lies you are referring. If you care to elaborate. Russell, yes, in storyville in old new orleans, most high prostitutes were white absent any black ancestry, but many of them said they did because white customers had the myth of black sexuality embedded in them. ->Oh wow, I was not aware of that, but am disturbed, though not, surprised byit. Russell , ah ok, take a look , that theme of advertised black sexuality side how white people commercialize it. Dionne Bennett, I view black music as poetry, I think you do as well, what needs to happen to get more to do so? Dionne Bennett, Do most black leaders in modern usa embrace black women in their struggles equally, with equity? Dionne Bennett, no group votes in high numbers all the time. how can a black populace that can't dictate who is elected on its vote alone protect the DEI agenda if a white populace can vote for an elected official on its own that is opposed?
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  19. Day 1 Eric Dyson was fun, as in media. I argue he is funier. I think he pulls back as he knows the federal audience is mostly not black. He described his youthful self as a "ten year old atheist nerd in the ghetto" As I love libraries as well, my parents home is a library, I stand with him on the value of libraries. His points about the selflessness of great black leaders in the past or how the government of the usa tried to subvert them with displaying personal information to various others while not assisting said black folks in alerting to white threats to them , should be well known but is simply true. The shift as Dyson admitted from black advocacy to black government representatives has been messy. It's funny I saw a version of the robin hood story which took a lot from ivanhoe in my opinion. I do think that added with the immigrant populace post immigration act, the usa is having a mountain to climb to get these populaces all as one. To be honest, multitudes , no matter how many , eventually become one under any government if that government live long enough. Simply because the people eventually merge their own cultures together one by one. His point about older black leaders , like al sharpton who has a hair scenario close to washington the first president [though dyson admitted it is to honor james brown] being spoken to ill by younger black people who lack selflessness , sometimes in a major way [ he referred to some leaders of black lives matter using funds to get homes in parallel to younger black leaders not liking kings desire for silk underwear, though mk jr gave all his money to causes] is also well known or should be, but is a truth. I have to admit I am lucky, but many of the black children I knew well offline growing up had similar parentage that didn't allow disrespect to black leaders or black elders in that way. Opposing strategy is an acceptable thing. Varying aesthetic is an acceptable thing. But rejecting based on aesthetic plus speaking ill while one does worse was not the way I Was raised. He reminded me of sharpton's quote, about how black people who support non violence have to speak till to black violent actors because you can't say white people can't be violent but black people can if the goal is integration under an unbiased law for all, when Dyson said black people not voting cause things didn't go there way is the same as the january 6th from mostly whites. As I have said many times. The Black populace in the usa, which is always under white pressure, has always had a problem handling its many paths. To restate , where do black nonviolent people condone black violence? The obvious answer is no where but when you have black people who have suffered at the hands of white power, telling said black people not to be violent issimply not going to lead to acceptance most of the time. He spoke honest to Trump's ills but explained his one meeting with trump and how congenial it was, regardless of trump's intentions or motives. But admitted he would vote for trump over haley cause people like haley actually believe what trump spews for advantage. I think four years from now will be a time for change as four years from now, the Ocasio Cortez side the Haley's will be in the drivers seat and share an anticentrist stance that has a high chance of leading to violent friction He spoke of how some black people relatively well known didn't think hillary clinton was any different than trump. Though he admitted the failure of hillary clinton wasn't in the popular vote but in the electoral college. The electoral college system which is in the constitution is not accepted enough by people in the usa, even those who active in government advocacy. When Schrumpf won that was the electoral college working the way it is meant to. The point of the electoral college isn't to subvert the majority vote. It is designed to not allow simple majority calculations to dominate the presidency, who at heart is a position at the head of the usa military above all. If popular vote was to dominate, then all you need is new york/california/texas and maybe one other state and all other states can be and will be ignored. It is a myth that strict popular voting with the unevne distribution of populace in the usa will not lead to simple strategic realities. He mentioned not enough local governmental interest by black people. In my own experience I think the past or present has soured many black people on local or state government. I never forget hearing a black woman say, she thinks the states need to go and just have federal law the whole way. Which when I think about it, while an extreme thing, a thing that will definitely lead to friction, has value. Isn't the experience of black people in the usa one where all positives come from the federal level, none from the state or city level? I think at the least you can say the federal government of the usa from a black perspective has yielded positive fruit while states or cities yield much of nothing. If federal power is absent restrictions from smaller municipalities in the usa, then the long game strategies are gone but it does fit the reality of positive returns from government in the usa I had a few questions to him but I didn't deliver in time, I wanted to wait till he was done to give them. But they had collected and presented already when he was finished and I was ready to give. 1) was MLK jr's anti fiscal capitalism that made him misread Black elected officials? 2) is the trump base's inability to be swayed by someone like haley a good sign for the usa? 3) Is the black populace in the usa in modernity hyper federalist? IN AMENDMENT A side note. A black woman with lovely legs, she likes to show off, had on coffee stockings on and, although she had on creamy crack hair in a sea of mostly black women with natural hair, was enjoying the event side her friend. The black man behind me for some reason couldn't hear Dyson or was bothered by their voices, which didn't bother me for a second. I heard Dyson side his host perfectly. As did most people. The man sitting behind them wasn't upset at their voice. So, my point is, if you are a black man, and if you like the way a certain black woman look or like to bother black women for the sake of it, stop or don't. If you want to get laid say you want to get laid, don't make up a false scenario of rudeness, just to get closer or hope to irritate to get black women to act negatively. The host side Dyson shouted out a black writer named Daryl Robinson but I failed to find his content on MSNBC. It was a reply to someone but I forgot it and didn't it write it down on my notes.
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  20. As soon as I hear one chirp, I change the batteries to all of them. yeah, I saw a video with that guy who used to advise women on men. I forget his name, but he died recently. At any rate he told one woman she definitely didn’t have a man in the house because he could hear the smoke alarm chopping during their conversation
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