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@harry brown informed us about this book five years ago! I only discovered this post looking for our more recent conversation about Hebrew to Negros. I had completely forgotten about this book and the film. Kyrie Irving in his tweet (image below) has prompted the media to heap a great deal of attention on the film which is a top streaming film on Amazon and the book. Kyrie is blamed and punished for simply tweeting a link to Amazon who is profiting from selling and streaming the film. Kyrie is called "antisemitic" for sharing a link, but what about Amazon for making now a lot more money for selling it. Kyrie is blamed for promoting the film, but the media is really responsible for bringing the book to the attention of the general public -- most of whom are not on twitter. Seriously who is on Twitter reading Kyrie Irving's every post. yeah I know he has 4.6M followers, but those numbers don't truly reflect the number of human beings who read the tweet about the film. The tweet has been removed, but the media continues to share it which is how I found it. As I said before beating up on Kyrie or any man who share a link to Amazon is unfor and just plain stupid. The first book will be an AALBC bestseller when I publish my next list. Yesterday someone asked about all four volumes. I did not know there were 4 volumes! But I have added them to the site. @Chevdove and @Pioneer1 this material seems to be related to the stuff you all talk about. I had no interest in the film or book, which why I did not react to Harry's post back in 2017. Clearly, there is interest in the subject matter, but if you think there is something I (we) should know please share.

Deep. I'm sure so much knowledge has been lost... or maybe it is hidden, kept out of public view. Well, they had something, and I don't think we know what it was. They also had knowledge, that we don't have, which allowed them to build elaborate pyramids. @Delano what do you think of John Dee and Edward Kelley?

Sounds like a sad and pathetic Brother. So in all your conversations, you did not pick up on this trait and the resulting behavior? Now I've heard of brothers doing nothing to help another brother advance, as not to appear to show favoritism to another Black person (I assume), but I have been fortunate enough not to witness someone actively trying to harpoon another Black person. I have heard of this though; the mentality is that there can be only one, and maybe there was a time this was true and it made sense to make sure if they had to have one negro in the big house that it better be you. I just watched that video @Boxingfan posted. That was an interesting story, but what is it supposed to prove -- that white can be nice to Black people. Is that supposed to be revelatory?! Did boxingfan feel like he was enlightening us to the obvious?! Then he had the nerve to call folks here racist. He sounds just like the white liberals he complained about being racist. People are very interesting.

GTS: Google That Shit 11 and 33 are master numbers, What is a "master Number" 11 is a prime, but 33 is not. It can't be doubled numbers because 22 is apparently not one as no one mentioned 11/11 2:22 as being anything special. What is the next master number 55, 99? Also why p.m. and not a.m. too? I guess I could just GTS, huh? 😉 Honestly, I'm tired of using Google and subjecting myself to their advertisement engine, which use to be a search engine.

In a text to me a couple of minutes ago: "...today is the best day in the entire century to manifest ... so put your dreams in the universe. I say waddya have to lose? Del are you aware of this and the reasoning behind it (I have not attempted to GTS I came here first 😉

On this we can can agree 🙂

It was probably part of the plan to gin up demand for the movie. Amazon is selling Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America for $50 bucks! If the film is for sale anywhere I can't find it. Kyrie is not profiting off this film, but it is all his fault, SMH! The reviews (if you can trust these on Amazon at all) were excellent. And we are unable to protect him, because we don't pay him. The entertainers in the NBA are virtually all Black. Imagine if they just said "We're out" and set up their own league. Then people like Kyrie could voice their opinion without repercussions. These ball players will not make as much money as they do now, so creating our own league is not within the realm of possibility. I also found a book: Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.

I assume you concede the point about "pari-mutuel payout." Since that describes how the jackpot is determined, not how the prize is paid out, and does not factor into the these calculations right? Now you are assuming a 37% tax hit every year for 20 years which not an assumption I'd make. There are a variety of ways to avoid and minimize tax liability. You are also assuming the money is gonna be stuffed in a mattress somewhere and not invested or appreciate in value. But the question boils down to this: Is $600 million today worth more or less to you than $2 billion paid out over 20 years virtually riskless?

I don't follow your math on how a payout of 1.9B gets down knocked down by a whopping 1.3B due to taxes. Of course, but that payout has been announced. Are you saying the payout is different than what is being announced? Someone won the Lotto -- 2 billion dollars -- Can you imagine! @Cynique The democrats did not do badly in the midterms. 🙂

@ProfD One think Kanye would understand that. I really have not been flowing kaynes musings. Is he expressing remorse or doubling down. The crazy thing is Amazon has been selling the movie for years and no one is trying to take Bezos’ money. Kyrie just mentions the film and he is vilified. Explain that to me.

@SarahBelle Selig sure send at copy. please keep in mind we don’t review at lot of books at no cost to the publisher. Also can you provide a headshot of Sifiso and let me know which other books isbn and title are appropriate for the site: https://aalbc.com/authors/imprint.php?imprint=Catalyst+Press

Hi @SarahBelle Selig I missed this post. Impressive resume. Does Bridget self-identify as Black? We would still consider the book for review, given the content.

I would not have known anything about the movie Kyrie was touting, now I wanna see it. If white folks want to hide something so badly then it must be something that Black folks need to see. 😉 It is amazing every word out of Kayne's mouth is dissected, evaluated, judgment is passed, and public punishment meted out. I don't like it. If half the shit we wrote on these forums was subjected to the same scrutiny almost all of us would be in trouble -- but that is the price of celebrity I guess...

I'm free now. So it depends on how you define freedom because more money does not make me less free and if it does -- gimme the money. If the odds are 292M to 1 and I take all 292M chances, explain how I would not win? Oh, OK I assumed it was $1 a ticket. Thanks for the explanation Mel. Still, if I needed to spend $600M to win $1.5B -- i'd take that bet every day of the week -- even with taxes. I'm also assuming that the stated prize pool is $1.5B for person who picks all the numbers. The only other real risk is that someone else pick the correct numbers too forcing you the share the prize. Still given the odds I'd still take the bet. If I shared the prize with someone else and only win $750M I'm still ahead. While gambling winnings are taxable, gambling losses should be tax deducible. @Delano do you still think it would not work? Me neither! This is not a factor, in my reasoning, as it just describes how the size of the prize is determined, not the odds of winning.

Well, Twitter will be different, but it will not be so different as to serve Black people.

Well, @ProfD there have been many Black Agendas' in fact there is a new book called The Black Agenda. Closer to an actual agenda has been Tavis Smiley's The Covenant with Black America which we reviewed as well. Of course there were organizations with agenda for Black people including The Nation of Islam, The Black Panther Party, and even the Universal Negro Improvement Associations. We are not lacking agenda's we are lacking unity. We have been sliced up and minced into a veritable Black tower of Babel. We have no problem eviscerating and writing off a Kayne West or Hershel Walker simply because the white-run media tells us to do so. We embrace Black-Twitter because white folks tell us to do it and then we complain when we can get a blue check mark next to our name and get nervous when another rich white man takes over the company -- exactly the way the enslaved did when they another white man took over the plantation... We also lack a desire to support and embrace our own -- that unless a white entity tells us it is okay to do it, and those people are usually not worth supporting. You know someone was worth supporting? When they have been assassinated Evers, X, King, Hampton, Turner, etc...

Well Twitter is irrelevant to me; it could go away tomorrow and i would not care. That said, it is interesting that if you are pominent and say something sideways about Jewish people the reaction is swift and substantial.

I dunno. Seems like Kanye is doing things for himself. What could racist Republican give him that makes up for all the blow black from black folks and lost endorsements? Herschel on the other hand does come across as you describe @Pioneer1 but i would stop short of exclaiming it as if it were fact, because i don’t know the man. i also know the sound bites I’ve heard up until that point were biased and positioned to make him look dumb. My expectations were so low, he came across better than i expected when i actually heard him speak. the media (Fox really) is hyping the elections the way they used to hype heavyweight boxing matches it is all show and very little substance. All of it is an interesting study of our species.

I’ve watched the debate Hershel did better than I expected. Warnock did worse than I expected. I don’t think anyone’s mind will be changed by the debate. I thought Herschel scored points when he exclaimed, “what about the babies” in response to Warnock’s focus on women’s right to rights. If was also interesting to see hear Herschel play up his Christianity much more than the minister…

that is actually pretty good the odds of winning anything are pretty high. is that is right? i thought it was higher someone with 292 million could buy 292 million and turn it into 1.5B if they could get past the hurdle of buying buy the tickets. i voted here in Florida, by mail, a couple of weeks ago — Far and away the easiest state i ever voted in. You can even track your vote view online. They even send you emails giving you a history of your voting. This is counterintuitive given the coverage of the state. @Delano I’d take the Powerball over the answer to any question. 😉

Kalisha will be able to send signed copies if you like just return the one I sent (or keep it as a gift) and I'll have her send you a signed one. Sorry about that.

@Mel Hopkins another fun fact Talib Kweli graduated from Tech. The sister on the far left has bav regular talk show on Sirrus XM on the urban view channel. I did not know that until a this week.

Sorry Mel the copies I have are not signed, but thanks for your order. I'll ask Ron to add a link to the Evite to buy the book.

We just published a review of The Lurking Place The reviewer, Robert Fleming wrote: Here's one of the last books Clarence Major will publish. At 85, Major has done himself proud as an artist, not only as a novelist, poet, painter, professor, and cultural critic. As my mentor, John A. Williams, used to say, some critics applaud the early works of an artist, but it is the richness and creativity of the work done by the artist in the autumn of his years that should receive praise. This is such a book. It should receive our attention. Enjoy!

Please consider joining author Kalisha Buckhanon; literary activist Ron Kavanaugh ( @Mel Hopkins Ron is BTHS '80); and myself for the virtual book launch, for Running to Fall. You may register here: https://bit.ly/RTFzoom