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You ever have a crab bomb? It is a Maryland thing. Speaking of salmon I used to make this fish with salmon cheese land other stuff in a puff pastry—delicious

I watched the Little Richard documentary the other night; a fascinating story. It was interesting to see how rock ‘n’ roll was created, based upon black music. When I was a kid we used to say rock sucks. Little did I know that black folks invented it. Amazingly, despite all his hits, Richard never won a Grammy I’m not even sure if he was ever nominated. It was a much more racist time. It was also interesting to see so many white artists covered Little Richard’s, Music from Pat Boone to Elvis Presley to the Beatles and on and on.

Just the crab meat anything else? I’m thinking minced shrimp next. with scallions, garlic, a little old bay, maybe a little aioli on the side.

@Steinsman and @ModestoGarr I'm watching you I guess technically I'm a foodie too. I've been to all the Zagat's top 10 restaurants in NYC back in the day and enjoy cooking myself. I eat pork, typically sage sausage and bacon. I modified a recipe from E-40's cookbook this morning and made a "breakfast lumpia," stuffed with egg, cheese, bacon, sausage, and onion. The lumpia wrapper is great, light and crispy not like an egg roll, more like a spring roll.

From Nathan McCall’s article linked above: I have come to accept that, while America is my homeland, it’s also been my fiercest enemy. In a country that brags about its greatness and exceptionalism, much of what I’ve achieved has been despite — not because of — the system. I hear Nathan but I disagree. I worked in corporate America long enough to see white folks who are less qualified, than their black peers, and be advanced more frequently and be paid more. I also noticed that Black people are usually more impeccably credentialed than their white peers. I’ve worked with ignorant, mildly racist, white people, and I’ve worked with some really decent ones. I would argue. I’ve been held back by some and advanced by others. Every Wall Street job I’ve gotten has been through a white connection. I seriously doubt that an ex con like Nathan McCall has gotten to where he is without the help of a few halfway decent white people. I argue strongly even that much of his success is because of the system. The Salon was a bit more nuanced as illustrated by the quote below: The truth is that both stories are real, and they have coexisted—albeit uneasily. This kind of truth can be difficult to assimilate. It does not fit with a portrait of American history as the story of freedom. Neither does it jibe with an understanding of America as the story of oppression. The larger tale weaves together these warring strands—it is a story befitting a nation that boasts an African American president as well as staggering racial and economic inequality. I grew up in the north, and heard all the stories about the deep racism in the south, the segregation, and all of that. I grew up in New York City and was educated in completely segregated schools. In stark contrast, my cousins, in the south, went to integrated schools. I used to marvel at the fact that in grade school they knew white people. In fact, the first white people I met as a kid were the ones my cousins introduced me to in the south. I did not meet or attend school with a white person until I was in high school and that was largely because I went to magnet school that you had to take a test to get into. If I went to my zoned high school it would’ve been more of the same poor and wrong class black and Puerto Rican kids. The police were never our friends. Our communities were never serviced properly, dirty, and rundown. The south for me was arguably less racist and cleaner. I also worked in corporate environments in the deep south and in the north, and I found the north to be more oppressive than the south.

Everything is influenced from what can before it. The lockers influenced break dancing. b-boys took it to an entirely different level. I was a gymnast and there are break dancing moves that I could not do.

This is the first time I’ve heard of this film myself.

I don’t know.

Funny I know the author of the article. it would be interesting to know who she thinks has brainwashed Black people.

You know how many "stupid" people gave birth to geniuses? Birth control yes. Eugenics no. Taking care of children yes.

Say his brain was sharp until the end. Some consider him a war criminal. The US carpet bombing of Cambodia was orders of magnitude worse than what Israel is doing to civilians in Gaza.

@Pioneer1, I'm not being harsh. Below is a recent Hersey's commercial it is far superior to the poor attempt to appropriate Black culture with little white kids boogalooing all over the place

Imagine how many have lived their entire lives getting away with these monstrous acts. Being a member of the Clergy has provided ample cover for a millennia. I believe pedophiles are born that way. Perhaps being victimized themselves turns on the switch for those predisposed that way. In any event, the poor bastards can't help themselves... and it is unfortunate.

LOL! It was a better than the last one I never saw this one either.

That @Pioneer1 is a very sad commentary. Sounds like it is far worse up north than the former confederate states...

NOOOO!! We are definitely too stupid to know which genes (people) should be prevented from procreating. We live in a culture such that if you can sit in obediently still in a seat for few hours a day and repeat whatever information was given to you for a deacde or two, then you are smart -- we don't know what smart is...

Sorry @Pioneer1 I meant write "swirling." But nevermind... The dude player guitar in times square was a Busker, long after the commercial aired when the "40 deuce" area became respectable. Again, the commercial would have been ridiculed. It was an early example of Hip-Hop being misappropriated by brands. They mixed break dancing with locking and MJ's boogaloo moves.

Of course, monopolies are good for the owners; though I would argue, in the long run, monopolies are bad for them too. I read somewhere that 85% of the people in the US live within 25 miles of a Walmart. Walmart is a massive company and in small communities can put smaller competitors out of business, but Walmart is FAR from a monopoly, with single digit market share. In my neighborhood, I do visit Walmart but only because they are the only place that sells the large box of Swaggerty's sausages. Otherwise, I shop at Costco, Target, Winn Dixie, Aldi, Publix, etc. Walmart is not my only choice; indeed it is not even at the top of my list. If it disappears tomorrow the community would be little changed. The employees could easily find work elsewhere and maybe even make more money. Again, I'm not sure you are clear on what a monopoly, so it is like the race discussing race, vaccinations, or climate change with you. Technically there are probably no pure monopolies but there are plenty of examples that are much closer. Care to try again?

“Boy, don't you go down there fuckin' with them Jews without no money!” —Richard Pryor I always think of this line whenever someone mentions Jewish people in the content of power. The following is a paragraph from a very interesting article “TOWARD THE NEXT LITERARY MAFIA” In the first decade of the 20th century, it was both virtually impossible and virtually unheard of for a Jewish person, irrespective of their individual talents, to be hired for any job at a major American publishing company—even if they were Ivy League graduates, heirs to family fortunes, and had brilliant literary minds. They couldn’t get hired on the editorial staff of a widely circulated American magazine, or be granted a professorship in an English department at a prestigious university, either. But all that started to change in the decades after the 1910s, when Jews entered the industry en masse. In addition to founding many of the today’s largest publishing companies, Jews became so influential throughout the industry that by the 1960s American writers as different as Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Katherine Anne Porter, and Mario Puzo began to complain about a “Jewish literary mafia.” In short, a minority group went from almost complete exclusion to full literary enfranchisement in a matter of decades.

Man, that time is now. I'd be willing to bet you don't walk to down the street worried about some rabid racists. If you did, I suggest that you block all forms of media that "pushes" to content to you whether that is an autoplay YouTube video, social media feed, or search engine result -- yeah, I know that is pretty much everything online

@richardmurray, the Harlem Fete generally caps the year for me when it comes to the Black book world. it takes place in NYC. I'll email details.

Swinging I first learned of this term about 12 years ago.

Someone can bring up an accusation from 30 years ago and it gets international coverage. The Guardian sees fit to withhold the accuser's name but puts him on blast before anything is adjudicated. Side Bar: I'm often told I look like Eric Adams. A couple are Black people who know us both.

Welcome to the forums @Jean2021. The Florida governor is attempting to leverage the fear and insecurity created by an exploitative system that is weakening the middle class and class and keeping many more in poverty. I live in Florida, a relatively liberal area, Tampa, but over the past decade everything has gotten more expensive housing, insurance, water, energy, restaurants -- everything! I have never seen this type of inflation. I brought my mom a pack of cigarettes in NYC the other day and it cost me $18! Take someone to the movies in NYC, get some popcorn and a soda and you are talking 80 bucks. Go to a decent restaurant for dinner meal, order a couple of cocktails, and dessert -- you better have $200! Hotels in NYC fuhgeddaboudit! The mayor got rid of Air BnB, so the hotels have taken advantage. White folks storming the capital is not surprising at all -- especially when you consider all the misinformation on the web...

@Pioneer1 it is cute now, but it definitely would have been unequivocally corny to someone from Money Maker (Manhattan) or The Boogie (the Bronx) back in the day. What say you @Delano? You grew up down the street from Spofford, what do you think those brothers would have thought?