Pioneer1

Hmmmm....... I asked, and you answered.....lol. BTW..... Your avatar said you joined this site in 2021. Is that accurate? It seems like you've been here much longer than that....lol. I want to say around 5 years or so for some reason.

Troy, you should know that just as you don't stop thinking of ways to improve AALBC and make it better, there are those of us who feel the same about your site. Obviously not as intensely and with not as much dedication, however from time to time as I'm out and about or surfing the web for something I'll see something that I feel would be great for AALBC to consider. After being here for over a decade and counting, there are a few things I've noticed about this site............ 1. Most of the literature being presented is that of a fictional nature. Not a lot of scientific or financial books. Not too many political books. Some....but not the majority. Most are fictional and poetic. A lot of poetry. 2. Most of the literature deals with 2 main topics: a) Our experiences with racism in the United States. b) Sexual relationships. Again, not all books are about these 2 topics but most of them seem to be. 3. A majority.....not sure if it's a vast majority or slight majority...of the authors seem to be female. I understand that most of the POSTS are from men! Most of the participation is from men! But when you look at the books and poetry themselves being presented, the majority of the work seems to be coming from women who come and go through out the site. They'll pop up....leave...some come back again to post something.....leave again. Troy, you can correct me if what I've observed was inaccurate. Also, these observations aren't a reflection of the site itself but a reflection of the content much of our people seem to be interested in. When I go to Black book stores or the Black SECTION of most book stores....I often have the same observations. Not being judgmental but looking at things from a social-scientific point of view, if my observations are correct then it tells me a lot about the state of Black America and where our interests and focuses often lay.

As ProfD pretty much articulated already......BOTH the Republicans and Democrats are complicit in allowed these people into this nation to replace or atleast compete with the native Black population. Why you don't believe Republicans are just as guilty and are hypocritical in their rhetoric....is beyond me. It's as clear as day that Republicans support them being here. They are good for business as they provide sources of cheap labor. As I said, Mr.Conservative himself Ronald Reagan LEGALIZED over 20 million illegal immigrant back in the 80s. Donald Trump didn't build a wall like he claimed....and has thousands of illegals working for him in his hotels and at Mar-a-Lago. It's pretty obvious at this point.

Troy Well if you grew up in THAT neighborhood during THAT time, I don't know whether to feel sorry for you or be amazed that you made it out....lol. That 'hood looked hard core and run down even at the beginning of the video with the little boy running through it.....then got progressively WORSE as the video continued, lol. Not sure how you felt like even going to school and getting an education let alone good grades and going to college coming from a community like that where you could walk down the street and anything could happen to you at any time. I probably would have either became an outlaw or radical community organizer determined to clean up the place....lol. Growing up to go to college would be one of the last things on my list to seek. Another thing I noticed about Heron's video was the sizeable number of Puerto Ricans I saw in it. I knew New York had a large Puerto Rican population but I thought they lived separately in their own barrios like East Harlem and the Bronx. The few times I've been to Harlem I barely saw any Puerto Ricans (unless they were Black and I didn't hear them speak) unless they were driving through to get to another neighborhood. Seems to me that in Harlem at that time they lived pretty integrated in with the AfroAmerican population.

Well, we need to have set and established standards that most of us can agree on in order to measure progress. Unfortunately, the only human civilization in this world that is advanced enough to compare ourselves with is Western/European civilization. Western medicine, schools, buildings, militaries....are the institutions most nations measure themselves by to determine how developed they are. Is it the best? Obviously not. However what are we in America or those in Africa producing that is better? I'm not talking shit....I SERIOUSLY believe that if we just focused on it and put a decent amount of effort to it and UNIFIED for it....we could produce a civilization far more superior than Western/European civilization. And we could do so in less than 100 years.....easily. But as a group we need to get our minds straight and focused and stop it with juvenile criticizing of White institutions WHILE not having even one comparable to them of our own. You don't like the White man's criminal justice system or the police....understandably. But we don't have a decent reliable one of our own as an alternative. Who do Black women in America or African women run to or call on when criminals, murderers, and rapists try to victimize them? Niggas running wild and loose in the ghetto and in many parts of Africa, killing families and sometimes entire villages with nobody (outside of White folks who pretend to help) to check them on it and bring them to justice. You have some police departments and militaries copied after the White folks ones....but many of them do a shitty job or protecting and enforcing law and order. Outside of the Nation of Islam and a few other scattered Black groups, how many qualified Black policing organizations are in effect today? You don't like the White man's medical system.....understandably. It often makes more diseases and problems than it cures. But do we have one BETTER? How many hospitals do Black folks operate where if you get sick you can lay up in a clean bed and get cared for by qualified Black doctors who will cure you and qualified Black nurses who will give you tender loving care and bathe you as you recooperate? Here OR in Africa? I haven't seen PICTURES of clean and well organized Black doctors and nurses since the days of Marcus Garvey. Where are the team of Black nurses like we had under Marcus Garvey back in the 1910s and 1920s???? We need to get on the ball.

Man, time flies..................

Great video. I started to flip right past it as I thought it may have been a cartoon clip that you and your young daughter like to watch together, lol. Much of it just reiterates the same ideas I've said about the After Life on this site but were pretty much ignored or questioned. I guess it sounds better or more credulous coming from a White man to some people....lol. Although I'm not sure about the "living through every human who existed" part. I do believe there is a certain individualism or separateness among most humans where you live YOUR particular set of lives and they live theirs. As I said, already knew much of what was talked about in the video but what really made it great for me was the ending of it when the Universe was called a big EGG for us to develop in and eventually move on from for further growth. That really did it because then I understood the term I've been hearing for decades about the COSMIC EGG. I'm curious as to what @ProfD thinks of this video and it's message....lol.

This reminds me of one of the most haunting scenes in the movie Black Panther when the Wakandan prince decided to stay in America to help Black Americans and was confronted by the King. That scene and statement really hit hard. There was so much truth in it, especially the way it was put together. The way Malcolm and King were killed and then drugs were flooded into Black America directly after.....makes me hope for a Wakanda or any pro-Black organization with the strength to come and save our community.

Troy As a movie watcher, I was glad that they eventually took the brother down and walked him away unharmed. However as a realist, I was a bit disappointed that they didn't show the young man actually be hung and killed as they often DID do. Realstically speaking, how often do lynch mobs form and tie up Black men only to swing them around on a play ground a few times and then let them go unharmed? Perhaps that scene was designed to paint a less barbaric and more humane picture of southern White folks than they actually were. ProD Yeah, the 2019 "Intruder" kept popping up when I tried to look for the 1962 film. I haven't seen the 2019 movie. I'm not sure if it's an updated version but from the brief pictures I saw of it, it looked like a totally different movie all together with a different theme.

Troy Yeah, I was wondering why I hadn't seen that movie before and I think it's because "nigger" is used so much. There's virtually no cussing in the movie, no nudity, no real graphic violence except for the preach and the reporter. But that "n-word" is pretty much banned on regular television and has been since atleast the mid-80s. The funny thing is, they could say it pretty openly in the 70s.....look at George Jefferson, Sandford and Son, and other shows where it was frequently used. I'm wondering how did his conversations go with Nichelle Nichols when he tried to explain his role in the movie while they were making Star Trek episodes.....lol. "Yall want me to do a show with HIM? Mr. Cross burner? Mr. Klan rallier? Is yall serious?????"

Oooooh lord.........here it is. I saw that one in the news earlier. I was feeling kind of happy for the sista that Newsome selected her to fill Feinstein's seat........UNTIL you dropped the "LGBT" bit, lol. Florida Evans said..... Couldn't have been just a regular ole typical educated Black woman. Just HAD to get somebody out of the queer community. Man... if these devils ain't promoting a sista with a White man -then they're promoting a sista who's "funny"....."queerd"....."a-sexual"......"questionable". Just can't give a normal well balanced professional sista a job.

Lol....that takes the FUN out of it!!! Just posting a video of a movie and watching it individually......we can do that NOW, lol. I know what you mean about focusing on watching the movie itself instead of being pre-occupied with conversing with others. Even back when I was younger, if I REALLY wanted to check out a movie that I thought was going to be good and deep......I wouldn't go on date to it. I'd go by myself so I could focus on it. Besides being preoccupied with trying to get my squeeze on, a lot of females would bring too much "talk" while I'm trying to focus on the movie....lol. However in THIS case......... Actually, most of the movies I'm thinking about that would be posted would be movies most of us have already seen before but just would get together as a community and watch it for the sake of nostalgia. Like some Spike Lee flicks or Richard Pryor movies...lol. What really sparked the idea for me was that pro-Black video posted a few months ago from back in 1968...the name escapes me at the moment. That.....and last week a few of you were discussing William Shatner's performance in "The Intruder" back in 1962. I hadn't even heard of that movie until reading the comments on it....checked it out....and loved it.

Chev Yeah, I was about to say that....lol. One Nation Under a Groove was back in the 70s....lol......back in the Afro with the Black Power Fist pick stuck in it -days I Wanna Rock With You and Control.....NOW you're coming up in the 80s with the Jheri Curl juice and Adidas sweat suits.

Pop music was about taking Black music and making it mainstream -but with a White face, lol. White folks love Black music, even when they don't love Black people. So if they can find a White artist who can sing and dance as well, they'll promote the hell out of them. Enter Madonna. Enter Michael McDonald. New Edition is getting too popular.....let's break out with the Back Street Boys.....lol. Or they'll promote artists where you don't know WHAT race they are.....like Paula Abdul or Mariah Carey. Lol.....these devils are something else.

Well hell......since YOU'VE been there then the questions should go to YOU. When YOU were in Africa did you see governments that operated effectively by MY standard as laid out above? And when you were in Africa did you see governments that operated effectively by YOUR personal standards of how they should operate?

And notice how him and other SERIOUS Black Conservatives don't get nearly the attention, airtime, and interviews that these bootlicking clowns like Owens and Peterson get. Sowell has been around for over 50 years, but still hasn't gotten as much airtime as Owens or Armstrong Williams.

Cube is a straight UP hustler. But an intelligent and articulate one. Kanye is a nut. The fact that he put Cube's name out there like that is evidence of that. He may have gotten rich, but not because of his talent or savvy but because the industry pushed a nut like him out there for their purposes. But Cube.....truly self made. There may be some beef....but not for long. That comment from Cube came out relatively lately, so you almost KNOW that Kanye is going to come back with some bullshit verbal attack. But to go off on Cube would be one of the biggest mistakes of his career.

Well....if they were in NWA under the leadership of hell-raising Jerry Heller; then they already sold out...lol. I think Ren took a page from Ice Cube's pro-Black book and became a Nation of Islam promoting pro-Black conscious rappers for a minute. Yella went into the porn business....directing, lol. The question is: What happened to the Arabian Prince?

This is one big joke being played on the Black residents of Cali. States don't give Reparations money anyway.....national governments do. Any serious Reparations payments would have to be made at the Federal level...not the state. They're playing Black Californians for a joke and trying to trick the rest of Black America with this sham.

Larry Elders is a clown. I put him and Jesse Lee Peterson in the same category. I don't have too much more respect for Candace Owens although she's so fine......pretty takes a woman a long way. But the nonsense that comes from her mouth is unacceptable. Herman Cain.....he was just charismatic and a good business man so he was "likable" to me. Thomas Sowell is one of the few Black Conservatives that I actually respect. I have to respect his intellect and principles.

I ain't mad at Cube for that. Kanye better hold is OWN nuts and stop name dropping putting other folks in the mix....lol

Ice Cube started going mainstream right after he made Boyz In The Hood....lol. He began to see that Hollywood and making movies was where the money was. He was really hard on White folks and especially Jews in his earlier albums but after that money from movies started rolling in....he changed his tune and kept quiet. Check out how he had to check Kanye for mentioning him and his former "anti-semitism"......

ProfD They say confession is good for the soul. Not sure if this was the case with THIS dude but, I've heard many times that when some people commit crimes or do something they feel is wrong, they often WISH they were caught because of the guilt they often feel. It often eats away at them.

Well....... These rappers give their listeners MARCHING ORDERS. Nate Dogg said: Smoke weed every day Eazy E said: Never leave the pad without packing a gun Ice Cube said: Told all my friends, don't drink 8-Ball cuz St.Ides is givin' ends. Entertainers SHOULDN'T necessarily be leaders...but unfortunately in many of our communities the entertainers ARE the leaders because there is nobody else around to do it. And I said "necessarily" because being an entertainer doesn't necessarily disqualify you from being a good leader of the people. It's about managing your priorities. Infact....... In OUR community a good leader must provide a bit of entertainment to keep the attention of the people, lol.

Yeah, something we can do as a group. I think most of us are around the same age group.....certainly everyone is over 40. We're all Black and grew up in urban areas so we probably share similar tastes in movies.