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The other thing is independent bookstores are also a nodal point for both the reader and the author. It's a culture that supports both and helps them both grow.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/08/27/oprahs-magazine-makes-guide-117-black-owned-bookstores-america/5651873002/

I am not so certain, but I hope so, @Troy.

The other thing I realised is that most people believe they are right. So it is very difficult to have an open minded discussion.

There's a distinction between what is good for the country versus what is good for any subset of the population. So if it puts money in the pocket, the person may say that's good. However having national debt and GDP on parity is not good. It's like raising your standard of living by increasing your debt and not paying it down.

Trump has filed for business bankruptcy four times: the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991, Trump Plaza Hotel in 1992, Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts in 2004 and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009. Each time, the bankruptcy was a Chapter 11 filing. While Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy deal with personal bankruptcies,

How many times did Trump go broke?

If you are poor no amount of money can change your perspective. You are just a poor person with money. Donald Trump is poor and will most likely end up broke as well.

Troy around the September 2015, I said we are heading towards large geopolitical change culminating I believe in 2024.

Troy it could be that some portion of the population that are not your customers, feel threatened by the protest. Which even though you are having records sales there are probably thousands of them.

@Pioneer1 maybe it wasn't powerful white men, maybe they just didn't like you. That is also a possibility.

Where in Australia did you visit? Since like most countries there are regional differences. Did you meet mostly men?

Have you been to Australia or met any Australians? It is profitable. The far right are armed and organised. Kyle Rittenhouse is going to be the litmus test for the far right and White Nationalists.

You may have missed that police car with the search light on him that backed up.

@Troy I no longer go out. However my feeling is that everything is more segregated.

I feel the US is having several civil wars, the winners will decide the tone of the country. The Big Money remains entrenched.

Troy I went to a movie premiere because I was friend's with one of the principals. I was in the Limo with his wife, his brother, his brother's girlfriend and his childhood friend. I was hanging out at at this afterhours club and was talking to a woman. She said she was a poet I said can i buy you a drink she said save your money I'm hanging out with trust fund kids. I hung out two to three nights a week from 1986 - 2000. A friend offer to introduce me to a Morgan when I was working on Wall Street. A guy I worked with in 1986 was the number 2 for Max Chapman I ran into him when I was temping around 1997, we had a bit of a chat. I broke bread with people who literally had millions of dollars more than i did, I didn't care about their wealth or their fame. Read what Nelson George had to say about New York night life. You and I clearly have different perspectives due to our experiences. don't mistake your world for The World.

Thanks for your insight. I have personally seen that this is not true. In fact wealthy at time do this to have a dose of reality. https://www.crfashionbook.com/culture/a23784668/cr-muse-brigid-berlin-rejection-of-status/ Among these talents was Brigid Berlin, a photographer and painter who found herself after rejecting the upper class lifestyle she was born into. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/arts/brigid-berlin-dead.html This may have been somewhat true on Nancy Cunard heiress to the Cunard Cruise ship fortune http://cup.columbia.edu/book/nancy-cunard/9780231139380 Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro, the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others.

If you find a way to remove people's shackles and upset the game, you can be assured there are some bullets coming for you.

There is the emotional and spiritual side. What straight Man is concerned about whether another man is Gay... I think the Lad doth protest too much.

I have wonder whether Pioneer was Black as well.

Nevermind @Pioneer1 I have made a mistake.

Madonna is probably the closest to what Pioneer is talking about in terms of how a sexual partner is chosen vs a marriage partner.

Why call it African American sexuality when it is just men commenting on what they find sexually attractive in women they haven't met?

Your response has made my point. No further questions.