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Thanks for the old-time flick! I love seeing those old black-n-white films and photographs of how our people lived back in those days. The older I get, the more respect I have for them and the more enjoyment I seem to get from them. I guess because I gain more knowledge and experience to put what I'm watching in proper context and perspective so it makes me appreciate it more. I remember as a kid they used to feature VERY old Black movies at night on one particular television channel. I'm talking movies done in the 1920s and 1930s featuring only AfroAmericans! I believe the above movie was one of them but there was another that I won't forget but don't know the name of it, and this movie actually featured NUDITY! It was an old black-n-white flick that looked like it was done either in the 20s or early 30s about a man who was cheating on his wife and the wife caught the mistress and beat her up and stripped her of her clothes leaving her naked on the floor. Her bare breasts were actually exposed! I was surprised they even allowed that on public television at that time, let alone in a movie. Been trying to find the name of that movie and the movie itself for YEARS.

Damn......

Which is why I likened his response to that of a woman on her menstrual cycle. Overly emotional and a bit juvenile TBH. And THAT reply reminds me of something ProfD would say.....lol. AfroAmericans collectively have had a bad habit of doing shit that clearly DOES NOT WORK to solve many of our problems instead of seeing the problems clearly and focusing on solutions that actually work. Focusing on court decisions and passing one useless un-enforced law after another has proven to be INEFFECTIVE in increasing the Black voter turn out in the United States since 1965. The reasons for poor voter turn out in the AfroAmerican community are two major ones: 1. Indifference/apathy because most AfroAmericans don't see a reason to get up off the couch and vote in most local, state, or federal elections. 2. Felony convictions that deny most the right to vote, which is actually unconstitutional THOSE are the main reasons and THOSE two reasons are what AfroAmericans as a collective should be focused on dealing with in order to increase our political power in this nation. Wasting time and money going in and out of courts and passing one useless un-enforced "voting law" after another has PROVEN to be ineffective in increasing the Black voter turn out. Give our people a VISIBLE and TANGIBLE reason to show up to the votes and vote and they will. The Obama Presidency is proof of that fact. When we have something that we can CLEARLY see is in our best interests, we WILL turn up to vote for it by the millions. As far as felons not being allowed to exercise their constitutional rights...EXECUTIVE ORDERS at the federal and state levels could easily take care of that....not some damn "court rulings" that mean next to nothing.

People think I'm joking when I say Oprah should run for President because she has an EXCELLENT chance to do so. She's loved by over 75% of the population if you combine most AfroAmericans (male and female) with most White and Latina women.

Troy Thanks for the correction. What ROLAND MARTIN has on half the time is an ascot...lol.

Yes, I heard about this sista. Or that when a finger was amputated from St. John of the Cross several months after his death, it was immediately observed that blood began to flow from the wound? They cut off his finger only a few MONTHS after he "died"? Brutha might have been only in a COMA but still alive and they just didn't know it at that time!

Man....look at all them educated sistas on the cover grinning! If they were sitting on a couch together, it would make you wanna just DIVE right in between them, kick your shoes off, and enjoy a good conversation!

-After reading THAT....some of you still believe men can't have menstrual cycles? You don't think Black people needed the Supreme Court during their Civil Rights battles? Sure, but not for voting. We already had that right. What we NEEDED was for the Executive branches of government at the Federal and State level to do THEIR job by engineering the prosecution of anyone who tried to deny our people the rights they already had. Just like today. The Constitution gurantees ALL U.S. citizens the right to vote. So let me ask you a question, genius...... If ALL citizens are guaranteed the right to vote....why are some felons NOT allowed to vote? They are U.S. citizens and most aren't incarcerated anymore, so why are laws allowed to be made that directly contradict the U.S. Constitution which is supposedly the highest law of the land? And stop calling people "stupid".....lol....that's not nice.

Obama and Biden "succeeded" the same way Clinton did......moving closer to the right-wing. Which isn't really a success so much as it's a capitulation. Or as Kwame Brown would say, "Go along to get along".

For example, I just saw this video recently with the AUDIO leading up to our brother's assassination..... After all of these years I did not know there was actual audio footage of his assassination. If you read the comments below the video most people said they had no idea it existed either. Why hasn't it been released until recently? Who has held it? And why does it cut off right before the first shots are fired? Surely nobody will record something and then stop it at it's most crucial time.....especially when it's criminal evidence. And if there's AUDIO....as I said...there might be VIDEO! Strange things going on in this world.

frankster Love the lord with all the heart soul and mind Thou shall not Steal THou shall not Covet thy neighbor These aren't things confirmed and vetted AS being true, these are COMMANDMENTS to obey. It is as I have said ....The Idea of a Supreme Being is too Individualistic. So you don't see The SUPREME BEING as an Individual Who Exists outside of Creation? Nature is Neteru/NTR Nature is All - in whom we move and have our Being Well..... This is your opinion, but OK. Nature is the Sum Total of All Beings Oh... I do not believe a Being Created Nature.....Nor do I believe Nature was Created Oh my.... You would be Surprise how Coherent African Thought is across the Continent. I'd be surprised if you could show me where ancient Africans believed God was synonymous with the "ALL". It is a Title for a Being and not necessarily The actual position or abilities of this Being.....definitely not Thee Creator. Supreme means Highest and Greatest. In my opinion it's quite fitting since I believe the same BEING who is Supreme/Highest/Most Powerful is also the same BEING WHO is the Highest CREATOR. Same BEING.

.....which is one of the reasons SECURITY is needed at most public schools today. Not only is security for the students, but for crazy ass parents who want to come up there and TRIP without hearing the full story.

frankster Yes... Can you give me 3/three things from the Bible that you have personally vetted and confirmed as being true? Yes Nature can be a Singularity in which "Beings" Exist. These Beings or Being can express more or less of particular Aspects of Nature. Yes, I agree. Still waiting on why the idea of a Supreme Being is "problematic" for you. The All Pervading and all Encompassing quality of Nature cannot be seen as Individual....... but only consisting of Individuals But we're not talking about "Nature", but the BEING Who Created Nature. Ancient African Scientist simply refer to this as The ......ALL. Perhaps some did...perhaps some didn't. I don't believe there was only ONE school of thought on how to approach or What to call The SUPREME BEING. Further, "ALL/all" is an English word so I'm almost certain ancient Africans didn't use that particular term either even if they maintained the idea it represented. It would seem to me that the INTENT of the word in use...especially when we lack a better or adequate term....carries a certain amount of weight during a discussion....lol I am Not referring in any way to the History or Concept of God or what it represents....but Man's use of the word or the origins of the word God itself. Ok. As you probably already know, the word "God" comes from the Germanic word "Gott". Your observation is one of the reasons I prefer the term "SUPREME BEING" where referring to the HIGHEST MOST POWERFUL BEING and CREATOR of all Existence.

frankster If it's in a dream....I am pretty certain it is a composite of Memories. Well if you're pretty certain about that, there's not much I can tell you over the internet to convince you otherwise...lol Maybe if we were in a laboratory holding experiments.... Time is a part of Physical shared Reality.....The observer influences or creates this Reality. I agree that time is part of a shared Reality. That doesn't mean that those who share that Reality created time or any other component OF that Reality. That may influence time, but to say that "created" it????? Inability to recall "things that happened" is not proof of no memory....Memory can be faulty. While this is true, if a person claims to have had a new observation in their dream then the onus to prove them wrong is on the person who DISPUTES it and claims it was a mere memory. It's not about "what if" or "it's possibly" but proof that this is what you say it is. Why??? Because there's nothing in ancient or recent pre-colonial African philosophy or literature that claims time "doesn't exist". If there is...please show me. Fine by Me Lol...do you have a choice? There are levels to dreaming but One State of Dreaming....Usually denoted by primarily unconsciousness. Having thoughts in Images, Words or Emotion - Daydream(wishful thinking) and exercising your imagination is not Dreaming. I agree. However for the record, some would argue that the same Realities you're tapping into while wishful thinking and "day dreaming" are the same Realities you tap into when you actually dream. Visions are more akin to Trance like States of Consciousness. True All Realities feel Real whilst you are in them. Yes, because they ARE real. Just as real as the Reality you are currently in now. To understand Dreams...one must understand the Structure and Form of the Dream - some dreams need interpretation some do not. I agree. Dream Recall is a Skill....Practise makes perfect(better) as with all skills I agree further. Exactly you do not know all of what you know....you only know about 1% Do you mean we don't REMEMBER or RECALL all of what we actually know?

ProfD Well, perhaps I'm a little too critical of our brothers and sisters when it comes to wealth building....especially since I'M not very wealthy myself, lol. Perhaps at the end of the day, most of our people are just doing the best they know how to do anyway. They're doing what their intellectual limits allow them to. I've observed that most people of ANY race aren't qualified to even be managers of a business.....let alone build one and own one successfully. All they can do IS work....for someone else....and many can barely show up on time and do that properly. Ideally...that "someone" they work for would be another AfroAmerican but if there aren't enough Black businesses that are paying enough money for them to consider, then they do what they have to. Even when it comes to White and Chinese folks running Black countries...... I will criticize it all day long but if I'm the leader of a Black nation in Africa and the nation next to me brings White folks and Chinese in to shape and build their economy and I see some of their people improving their economic situation almost overnight....it will be hard for me to convince MY people that the foreign blood-suckers should be kept out, lol. Just like it's hard for the brother on the block to NOT atleast play around with selling dope for some money when so many on is block ARE and making money doing so.

I believe that EVERYTHING that is done and said and even thought is recorded.....Divinely in the Spiritual world. But wouldn't it be something if we come to find out that nearly everything that has occurred in this society for the past 50 years or so has been recorded by some sort of modern human technology? Just think about that. What if nearly everything we heard about in recent history was actually caught on video even before we THOUGHT that technology even existed? And it existed in some sort of vault or archive somewhere only to be accessed by the elite. I mentioned this idea because it was rumored that the assassination of brother Malcolm was actually recorded on video! We don't know.....the assassination of Lincoln MAY have even been recorded on some ancient camera and kept in some sort of top secret archive.

Yes, as ProfD already stated...he claims Jewish heritage. As I said before, when you go to the Eastcoast you'll find MANY Jews who look like him or are darker with more African features. When I lived in Pennsylvania I met Jews who were so dark they looked like East Indians and I thought they may have been Ethiopian Jews and they said NO, they were raised in America but their parents were from parts of Europe like Hungary, Poland, and Russia. Karl Marx was Jewish and if you see pictures of him, he looks kind of like Frederick Douglass.

While this is true to a CERTAIN extent keep in mind...... The "nigga culture" is so strong it often pulls the children OF the middle-class and affluent AfroAmericans into the "gangsta" lifestyle. A lot of Black children who grow up in rich and so-called "good" households often get bored or think they aren't living "Black enough" so they rebel against their upbringing and go ghetto and get thugged out. Which brings me to another point..... Black wealth is too UNSTABLE in the U.S. Unlike the White and even Asian communities in the U.S. where the wealthy will pass down wealth to their offspring generation after generation and their progeny will often either maintain or add to that wealth -too often AfroAmerican wealth and affluence only lasts for ONE generation. Brutha man or sista girl works hard, fights against racism and obstacles, sacrifices and struggles to build wealth and establish a multi-million-dollar business and leaves it to their children only for them to lose it by: -getting involved in criminal activities and having it confiscated by the government -marrying a White or non-Black spouse and having it taken in divorce -or simply losing the wealth their parents left them through neglect and poor business management. But this is a different subject all together.

richardmurray I started a few threads suggesting that we support brother Troy and turn AALBC into an actual bonafide certified INSTITUTION that will be around for many many decades even after Troy himself is no longer here. If I had it my way, not only would AALBC be online but he'd have an actual physical building full of books and rooms where authors can be interviewed or give lectures to promote their products. I'm talking Smithsonian level. And to help maintain this....besides the profits received from the institution itself there would also be an ENDOWMENT from the more successful authors who had their careers launched by publicity from AALBC. ....and yes, Troy and his children including his brand new daughter should GET RICH from this! I personally give ZERO FUCKS about people thinking you should dedicate your life to building an institution and providing services for people but not get rich from it. That's not MY religion. If somebody has a religion that tells them they should go around building institutions and helping people but not get rich or not collect money to enjoy themselves or not live a lavish life for their efforts....they should keep THAT religion to themselves. I will NOT be a part of that religion. In my opinion, If Troy dedicated so much of his life and sacrificed so much of his time and turned down careers in corporate America just to provide a separate space for Black authors to have a voice and get their works noticed, then he should be REWARDED HANDSOMELY for this!

ProfD No no..... I when I say other people, I mean THEM "other people"....lol. Ofcourse we'll confront ANOTHER Black person. Black folks see eachother as competition and have little problem or hesitation walking up to eachother and asking questions. Go to the south side of Chicago or South Central Los Angeles and the Black gangs will confront another Black man all day long about what he's doing up in "their" hood! But let a White or even Latino male stroll through there and ACTIVELY pursue money or women and they'll stand back looking at him, or peep out of closed curtains staring at them but not saying a word. They'll assume they're the police or just leave them alone....ignore them....and others will actually run out to GREET them and do business with them! The same nigga who will pull a gun an a Black man for simply driving through his neighborhood will HELP a White or Latino man get some dope or coochie and act as an ambassador showing him around the 'hood.

Let's parse this because I think we're dealing with two separate issues...... One is the treatment of women, the other is the treatment of homosexuals. First of all, NO ONE should be mis-treated....male or female.....gay or straight. Dealing with the treatment of females....... I think the AfroAmerican community mistreats our females in a number of ways. First of all, we force them into too many LEADERSHIP roles in which they aren't qualified to be in like being forced to be the breadwinner of the family, the father/disciplinarian, and doing things husbands should do. Also when there's an assault on the AfroAmerican community by outside of our community...too often it's the WOMEN who confront the attackers instead of the men. That right there is a form of mistreatment and abuse of the woman. As far as physical abuse, it's far too much of it for a number of reasons. Too often Black men get frustrated with Black women and can't handle them verbally or intellectually and out of frustration the only thing they can resort to is physical violence as a way of "shutting up" the sista or hurting her. Another problem too is a lot of our people both male and female are JUVENILE in their thinking. They may be over 21 but they have the mentality of 12 or 13 year olds and only know how to solve problems with physical aggression and violence. And yet another problem is a lot of AfroAmerican women are taught by society and school that it's ok for THEM to physically assault a man but a man shouldn't put his hands on them....and a lot of bruthaz don't play that and will not only hit back but seriously injure her. All of these issues must be dealt with as it relates to violence towards our sistaz. As far as violence towards homosexuals........... AfroAmericans aren't known for being especially violent towards homosexuals simply BECAUSE they are homosexual. It's just not something we do. If you are a gay man and hit on a straight man and get knocked out....lol...you weren't knocked out because you were GAY.....you were knocked out because you insulted the straight dude. If your gay ass kept on using the bathroom and minded your own business instead of trying to molest another dude in the bathroom....you wouldn't have gotten hurt. Same with trans. Trans aren't being killed simply for being trans. They have been killed by PRETENDING to be women and not telling straight dudes they are trans UNTIL they get home and into an intimate situation and then an extra dick is discovered. Should they be KILLED because of this? I say no....however I've never been in that type of situation so I don't know what's going through a man's mind who reached down into a woman's jeans only to find out she's not really a WOMAN!!! -Yikes!!! "Boy, what's wrong with you! Why you lookin' at me like daaat!"

I'm glad I'm in the company of like minds.....because the lion is ABSOLUTELY one of my favorite animals! I LOVE lions for many many reasons. And like the good Professor said, lions are always on code. It's in their nature. Like Chris Rock said in one of his stand-up routines: "When somebody goes into a lion's cage and get's attacked and eaten, they say the lion went crazy. No! The lion just went LION. He did what a lion is SUPPOSED to do! The man was the crazy one for walking onto that lion's cage!" Lions are on code and do what THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO....especially when they're out in the wild. Run up in their territory and the Pride will IMMEDIATELY investigate to see what you're up to! Are you competition? Are you trying to take one of our females? Are you trying to take some of our land/territory away from us? What's your aim....your purpose.....your angle? They instinctively know you want SOMETHING or you wouldn't have brought your ass up in there....lol. Now compare lions to the average nigga and what THEY do when other people come up in their neighborhood!

Wiggling around on that couch like she's being possessed....lol. I don't know her music too well but based on the clip you just provide....I get a "Macy Gray" vibe from her. Not a lot of talent, just a pretty face and a lot of antics designed to appeal to the ego of her White fanbase and especially the fantasies of White men. Even the White camera men she has zooming around in her video seems to bolster this. Like Macy, she reminds me of a Black girl raised around White people. Or a Black girl who seeks fame and fortune by DIRECTLY appealing to a White audience and giving them what they want to see in a Black person. White men LOVE a crazy Black woman. I mean crazy as in CRAZY - truly mentally disturbed .....not "cuss you out and hit you with a shoe for being racist, crazy...lol. They LOVE to find a sista with some sort of mental problem because they can take all types of advantage of them without as much backlash.

Such a beautiful woman. It wasn't until a few days ago that I learned that the song "Hot Stuff" was actually by Donna Summer!!!! All of these years I've been hearing that song, and thought it was a White woman who sung it....lol.