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I did her about this "story." I wonder what the reaction would be if Laura Bush and Barack were being constantly seen kissing each other on the lips, embracing, and holding hands... I'm sure that will not happen as Barack know he has to be more careful Honestly, I could care less either way. Does anyone else? I gather from the 60 minutes clip the image for Michelle hugging George went viral; was the reaction largely positive or negative?

Thank you.

It could be, but the goal of technology is not to share valuable or useful information or to enlighten the public--the goal is to make money for the owners of the technology. If useful information happens to be shared that is great, but it is not the motivation. Truth is just as valuable as lies in the paradigm. I did not know about this until just now. But you guys are interested in sharing information important to Black people. Y'all still reject the notion that Rev. Al Sharptom is the MLK Jr. of today?

In recent history the last 5 hundred years or so it is obvious people of European ancestry have stolen more than people of African ancestry. Ample examples have already been provided. They invented the concept of rape pillage and plunder and set the standard for the Ponzi scheme. I actually don't buy into the premise of the question, as the propensity to steal is it a cultural thing not something based upon someone's skin color. There are many people of European ancestry that abhor this behavior, so I would not paint such a broad brush.

I just published AALBC's AI Policy, which can be summed up in a nutshell: While we use AI for much of development; All of our editorial (book reviews, articles, author interviews, etc.) content is human generated. While research our policy I came to alarming stats: A 2026 study of online articles found that “AI Now Writes as Many Online Articles as Humans” Thales/Imperva reports that 53% of global web traffic in 2025 was automated rather than human, up from 51% in 2024. (“Bad Bot Report 2026: The Internet Is No Longer Human and It’s Changing How Business Works.” At the risk of sounding "hysterically indignant," this is a really very bad sign for the Internet. I thought social media algorithms were bad (and they are), but AI driven bots taking over the web is far worse. Bots have taken over social media long ago, but the rest of the web was still a relatively free of bot manipulation. That may no longer true today. This is one reason I've been spending months eliminating third party app, and all their nasty, bloated trackers, from AALBC.

That is just word play, something @Pioneer1 loves to do too. Oh, please, share the study of this "famous" case I never heard of nor can find a source to substantiate any such sleep laboratory study Pioneer.. I mean @aka Contrarian 😘 No. What you have always shared are articles where the word race is used. Even I use the word "race" and racial terms like Black, but that does not mean there is a scientific basis for it. You will not find a peer review study supporting a scientific study supporting race, for obvious reasons. Race is a man-made social classification, not a scientifically defined genetic classification. If that is your definition, then we are on the same page. Since our debates I use the word race a lot less frequently in public I might use ethnicity and class when speaking about groups of people. As far as possession demonic or otherwise; The film Get Out was a horror flick, not a documentary Just because people are looking for Zombies does make them real. ...and by the way Zombies are not real, People are willing to say anything, and still others are willing to believe anything. For example, Trump can say something outlandish and their are those tat will defend what he say even thought what is said is provably false. This is one idea I'm inclined to entertain 😉 I just don't buy the Newton went away for a couple of years invented calculus and derived the law of motion, optics, etc. My problem with history of mathematics, science, religion, science (which @Pioneer1 call "white," meaning of European origin), ignores and/or takes credit for contribution of ancient Africans.

Just to close the loop on this conversation I spent about a year working with BISG which resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of BISAC codes for book about Black people: Checout the current {2026} list of "Black" BISAC codes: https://aalbc.com/african_american_bisacs

The indexing problem has been fixed. Well there are other issues but the main ones have been addressed :-) I don't know what you mean by an embedding box?

Yeah the title is not in the index that was generated in fact Tomi herself in not in the index. That is a problem that I need to look into sooner than later. Thanks for taking the time to point that out.

Happy Birthday Connie! You are blessed to have such a sharp mind, still willing to learn new things and explore new tech including AI. Many people 1/2 your age are less capable mentally--seriously.

Oh, on the contrary: Tomi Adeyemi is one of the top-selling authors on AALBC--indeed the nation. Now this begs the question: Why did you think she was not on the website?

I wasn't aware of the film -- thanks

Well, I'm a baby boomer but I can relate to much of what was said in the video. I only watched about 1/2 of it as there was nothing particular revelatory about it and it was getting redundant. Plus it struck me as AI. I apparently was not as moved by it as you were. Sure, shit is hard for a lot of older Black men, what else is new? It is not just Black men. I see a lot of white seniors greeting folks at walmat, driving ubers, working checkout at Costco, I doubt people do these jobs for just something to do. I know a few retirees who make more money in retirement than they did working -- usually some disability claim in involved...

Alcohol reduces inhibitions... man you act like you never drank to excess or been around someone who has. Making the leap to possession is absurd. One would have though experience would have taught you that. Dude! You do this all the time -- without exception you cite a source claiming to support an assertion of yours and it DOES THE EXACT OPPOSITE. I have pointed this out to you previously that is when I started calling you incorrigible. Did you even read the study? Seriously, tell the truth. I actually read it before I responded to you the first time. Read it. The paper CLEARLY states patients switch to a secondary language in which they have some proficiency... Again, you want to believe these people are possessed so you cite paper you have not read and share video of lay people taking shit. FLS is not possession! SMH, oh my goodness... Between you and Franster this week LOL! No, I do not believe in a spirit that could be trapped in a bottle coke bottle or gain it's freedom only after granting you three wishes. I do not reject the idea of spirits at all. I just don't believe they are responsible for FLS, the behavior of black out drunks, or any of the other conditions you have attributed simply because there are more reasonable explanations available. Occam's Razor, Brother.

We still talkin' 'bout Puffy here? Clearly you are unfamiliar with this story. This is not just based upon hoover statements. Hoover attempted to use this information against MLK. LOL! I'm completely satisfied never giving the entire Dollar store franchise, nationally, another penny. I got a nicer (obviously) bottle later that day from a more respectable establishment 😁

You're speaking with a forked tongue or don't know what anecdote means. The story you related is an anecdote. It is interesting fodder for a conversation, but irrelevant to understanding what is really going on. For that you need data and for the prison population we have pretty good data: Here is peer reviewed research from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which reports that from April 2020 through April 2021, the age- and sex-standardized COVID-19 mortality rate was about 2.5 to 3 times higher among people in prison. Here The European Medicines Agency (EMA) states plainly: A vaccine against an infectious disease is not considered a gene therapy, as it does not aim to restore, correct or modify human genes. Therefore, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are not considered gene therapies. Now you are free to reject all of these facts, but you must understand at that point we are no longer having a meaning or serious conversation. Because a using a clip, taken out of context, but a technically illiterate CEO speaking sloppy about gene therapy is insufficient to reject the science. Wouldn't you agree Frankster? BTW: Is the reason you have not visited Africa is because of the vaccines or is there another reason cost, obligations at home, afraid of being eaten by a cannibal (I'm assuming you are Black)?

@ProfD Since I don't allow people, who can't be bothered to create an account, post message. This is entirely due to the fact that the site would be completely overrun with spam. Spammer create account but I kill them before they can post. Anywho... You'll be pleased to know that someone reported your comment writing; "This post is clearly full of racism and calling for hate towards a specific color of people are absolutely insane. That post is contradicting themselves. Let’s keep spreading hate amongst color." 🙂

This year? Please share a link or tell us where you read this. I found this story, "A Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi," from just a few days ago. The same article referenced a white man found hanging from a tree, this just a few hours after a Black student was found hanging from a tree on DSU's campus. That is three within the past year in Just MS alone. None of these instances were attributed to foul play. The NAACP reports, based upon data from Tuskegee, that in the 86-year period from 1882 to 1968 that there were 581 documented (which means there were probably more) lynchings in MS--that is more that 1 every two weeks for nearly a century. Mississippi God Damn!

The military videos have already been shared here... Calling everything from schizophrenia to drunkenness is just a renaming of possession makes no sense -- where is your scientific objectivity?

Stefan Oelrich said the Mrna is an example of gene therapy and cell therapy. It can't be both because they are two completely different things -- this is just a fact These are facts too some of this stuff is taught in high school DNA is not equal to RNA Genes are part of DNA The Covid Vaccine 19 do not work with or alter DNA, not even the MRNA vaccine. Gene Therapy is used, but not with any Covid vaccines Stefan Oelrich is not a doctor or a scientist. Indeed there is not evident of any technical training in his background. The clip was too short to understand what point he was trying to make. But in this short clip he was speaking sloppily--perhaps from a lack of understanding. Unfortunately, anti-vaxxers are using this clip to cause death to others through the propagation of misinformation. Cognitive dissonance for stressful to most people, so they usually reject anything that conflicts with their world view, Do you know any medical professionals? Did they tell you anything about all the people who died from Covid or did they tell you about the grand conspiracy to misattribute COVID deaths? Sure, that is possible, but that is certainly not the case with the covid vaccine or any other others we normally take and that have been used to greatly extend human life by eradicating diseases like smallpox, polio, etc. No surprise you believe MMR Vaccine causes autism. I'll admit, I have no idea what, "..preservatives adjuvants stabilizers by products cell line DNA sequence module" even mean. Obfuscation is also a tactic of a weak argument. Do you even believe that Polio was even a problem? It killed and parlayed thousands of American in 1952 alone You can talk to people who are alive now, like me, who know people crippled by polio (@aka Contrarian would remember this period). LOL, Phuleese, I think you are projecting. I'm not taking this, in the least bit, personally. I'm learning a lot. Besides, you are conflating gene therapy with covid MRNA vaccines what do you know about "Scientific Objectivity?" Holy Cow! I'm at a loss... I have no idea how to respond, as I've never encountered, in real life, anything so crazy. Is this candid camera? Are you pulling my leg, yanking chain, or trying to wind me up? I know and have spoken with a few people who refused to take the vaccine a couple of them got covid multiple times and got really sick. God only knows how many others they infected who got sick or died. One person I know has long covid and wish they took the vaccine. Of those I know who died I don't know what their position was on taking the vaccine... Personally, I took the vaccine a few times, and I never got covid. But I've never had the flu either. I also know a couple of people who still wear masks in public. I think those who wore masks while walking alone outside or alone in driving in a car may have been taking things to the other extreme. 😊

@Tesa I know what you mean. My Google smart speakers now use AI and they are much more useful. But they will often ask follow-up questions or probe for more detail; they are just trolling for more training data by getting you to engage more.

You got white people tryin' to kill you man? Remember most murders occur within ethnicities. So-called white people murder other white people. You should watch fewer videos like the one you posted, it is distorting your perception of reality. I'm not sure what the motivation is for these folks to be spreading this nonsense, for lack of a better word, on social media. I get the brother is he probably making money, but the women whose videos he shared to bolster his point what are they getting out of it? Now I'm not suggesting you be the only Black person at a Klan rally... Related Side Bar: A few days ago I was in a hotel in Vegas in the lobby was a SEA of white people on a line. I had no idea what they were waiting for, but I saw one sista sister. I looked at her trying to make eye contact as I walked by and she looked through me. I thought that was odd. She was with a white boy, so I figured that might be the reason. A couple of hours later I came back to the hotel and noticed swole dudes with ears pieces and dogs, SWAT vehicles and that same line was still moving! Looking more closely I began to notice red, white and blue and I saw someone sporting a MAGA hat. I was like, yo! Trump must be here. I spotted another sister. The only two Black people or people of ANY color I saw on that long ass line. Those two sistas were derranged, but perfectly safe :-)

Yeah, I think that was because Puffy did not pay him what he was owed. But that could just be a rumor... I seem to recall learning that in some documentary about Puff. After seeing him kick that woman's butt in the hotel hallway, it was hard to see him in a positive light again.

I had to look up "prolapsed uteruses" The uterus can extend outside the vagina -- Yikes!

Really? China does allow foriegn ownership of real estate. HHowever the Chinesse are perhaps the largest for foriegn owners of real estate in the US. Ther US buys far more from VChina than they buy from us. How do white folks "own" China?