Troy

Publisher Weekly, America's premier trade magazine for the publishing industry is the first to cover this one of the first initiatives of the Black Book Accelerator: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/97829-new-bestseller-list-seeks-to-boost-black-book-sales.html

Deep. Agreed.

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In addition to The Matrix. On the subject of AI, I would also recommend the movies Ex Machina and Her. If you have not seen either one I highlight recommend them. @umbrarchist I have ordered the book Two Faces of Tomorrow.

... and the longer they wait the less likely people will be willing to make Reparations a reality. Indeed, we may have already reached that point. It is a class issue, leaders like upper middle-class brothers like Wes Moore will not fight for it, they don't believe it, they can't relate to it, and really aren't interested in benefiting the people who have been wronged by it -- including "the other Wes Moore."

that might be true, but what difference does it make? People are so stupid. We could be easily manipulated by an artificial Superintelligence. Shoot we are easily manipulated by Facebook today. i’m sure artificial intelligence as possible. We have simulated intelligence today. sound line an interesting book describing the alignment problem. to answer your question @delano; yes, absolutely.

Apparently, the bill is “veto proof,” so I guess they can go ahead and do the study. I don’t see the harm in doing the study. Seems to me it should be done at the National level, but the state level is better than nothing. Are they only gonna consider people who were enslaved in the state of Maryland? The other problem is where is Maryland gonna get the money to pay reparations Maryland State taxpayers? A study would address both of these questions and more. I don’t see how you can talk about cutting checks without at least looking at those two things. Speaking of supporters, one of the people mentioned in the article is a supporter of AALBC not Wes Moore, but one of the supporters of reparations, Nkechi Taifa. Makes sense huh?

You mean you’ve heard of her outside of this forum? Yeah she was a regular one of the most prolific posters this forum has ever had, but she got on Thumper‘s last nerve at one point. I set up a separate forum just for her to try to keep the two apart. That didn’t work very well, she needed a foil. Eventually, she ran Thumper out of here… which killed the online book club which was a loss. my problem with Ms Boof is that she would do things in the real world and that really took things too far for my liking. Well @Pioneer1 as incorrigible as you can be, folks should know, for the record, that you are financial supporter of the website and your last contribution will in fact cover the forum’s software subscription for a year. The reality is that anybody who takes the time to post here provides true value to the website in general and this forum in particular. Your time is valuable so thank you for sharing it here.

I don’t know. He did return briefy, but did not stay long. I reached out to him a few times to no avail that was 15 years ago. I don’t know if he is still reviewing books.

My bad! You remember a lot more about the details of some of these personalities than I do. Did you ever know ABM’s story?

True, black men are not treated the same way as white men when they commit crimes, particularly when they’re poor. But in his high profile celebrity cases of Black people committing crimes against other Black people we are acting like they should get a pass simply because white men get away with crimes. We have video of Diddy kicking that girls’s butt. The girl is getting those multimillion dollar deals because Diddy has the money. If Diddy was broke, she wouldn’t have gotten that big payday and more than likely she wouldn’t be fu*king with Diddy the first place. That situation is all his fault. You can’t completely blame white media for that one did he dug his own grave.

lived in a different era. I’m surprised he was not straight up punched. Cosby is a different story in a different era. I’ve previously posted content in which a brother I knew did quite a bit of research to argue against about 50 of the claims however, I have to believe he drugged at least a few women if not dozens. no, I was not there and I can’t prove anything but you don’t get that many women making all those claims just to take a black man down. There are a lot of rich black men that can be taken down. I think somebody’s brothers do chesty shit call called on it it is simple as that Robert Johnson is not in jail. His wife might’ve taken half his shit. But no one’s talking about Buck breaking him and he’s not in jail and he had a medium empire.

Well it should be know that @Pioneer1’s voluntary financial contributions actually fund this discussion forum. He has never boasted that himself, but is it true. Now obviously that has not stopped me from disagreeing with him, nor has my agreeing with him been a condition of his support. @aka Contrarian, yes it was Mzuri’s “nigger bitch” comment is what got her banned, but it was a last straw thing. Her tirades were just ad hominem and irrational. She did not add anything to the forum. Kola Boof was another story altogether. A talented writer but gave me a ton of grief… I was willing to put up with she creep, but she managed to run Thumper off which was a huge loss. Then she left after using the site to get the notoriety that she desired. The Kola Book, Cynique, ABM repartee were classic though,

Who is the Black media? Out of curiosity name the largest platform. I ask because if it ain’t on Meta, Google, or Tik Toc we ain’t trying to hear it (is black Twitter still a thing?). It might be black media’s responsibility, but if we don’t consume it what difference does it make? I’m not sure I understand this point: Stewart is a multi-billionaire. He IS the hand doing the feeding. Plus he does not run freak offs sexually abusing people. Are you arguing that the likes of R Kelly does not belong in jail?

If by “modern day Buck breaking” breaking you mean raping and murdering other back people, then yeah. David Stewart, Robert f. smith, Ken Chennault, Reginald F. Lewis and many others achieved far greater wealth, but were never “buck broken” because they did not rape under age vulnerable children. Again there are giants of industry who you talk about. Why? I’ll tell you, because the racist greedy feed you get your “news” from does not talk about these brothers accomplished brothers. Rather they feed you a mountain of nonsense on the perverted criminal ones.

Really? And still be able to report on Diddy, Sharpe, and Trump We did not need to know this within two hours of it happening. If you want Blow by Blow news out of Spain subscribe to a news service from Spain.

Who else has the resources to do such a thing? Even if one buys into your premise that all women find Black men the sexiest. One would have to believe all the media outlets are colluding with other -- in complete secrecy to bring down successful and innocent Black men with coordinated campaigns. The media are doing this for the same reason we are talking about it now people are interested i this sort of thing and this is how they make money. I heard the woman who Diddy beat in the hotel was forced to have some guy piss in her mouth!

African civilizations, as great as they were, share one thing in common with all civilizations --- they rise and they fall. As "great" as America is -- it will crash and burn too. The prospects of America lasting thousands of years as Arican Civilizations have is truly a testimony to how great they were, Scholars, throughout history, have known western civilization came from the Greek, and the Greeks learned everything they know from Africans. Greek Civilization is in ruins, and they no longer have influence, the same is true with Italy, Spain, Portugal -- all is western Europe, including the Bristish Empire, is a shell of itself. No one wrings their hands over the fall of these civilizations. The fall of African Civilizations has been explained in many books including: Africa: The Mother of Western Civilization by “Dr. Ben” Yosef Ben-Jochannan How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads by John Henrik Clarke Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James The Real Facts About Ethiopia by J. A. Rogers African People in World History by John Henrik Clarke When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilizations by Robin Walker Enjoy!

@ProfD, homie is going away.

Me too which is why I avoids these sources for news. @Pioneer1 a reputable source with fewer resources is slower at gathering facts. I'm not sure how long it took for the news of Spain power outages to hit, but it was not on the order of weeks but days. It happened on the 28th of April I heard about it last week. How soon after the event would have been acceptable to you?

This has become circular. You reject the fact that Shannon is a gender-neutral name, while everyone else here accepts this. You can look up how often the name is given to boys and girls today. Debating facts is a waste of time.

Thank you. @Pioneer1 has his own definition. This flawed belief is what is confusing you. Nothing I, or even a geneticist, can say will make sense to you. Pioneer knows this, but he rejects the implications of this fact. @Pioneer1 do you realize there are more genetic differences between people within a so-called race than between them?

Elizabeth Warren was powerful...These guys are infuriating. Why do these post on X?

lol! Man, I bust out laughing reading that one! The answer to that one is you or the one making these extremeclaims otherwise we won’t be having this conversation. You said flatly that Shannon was a girl’s name. You ridiculed people who would name their boys Shannon. you wrote that the name was not a gender neutral name. You were firm on this. As you are with most of your positions. There was no gray area. I explained how the name usage changed overtime I gave you a variety of other examples. Still, you stood firm on your conviction that Shannon was a girl’s name. Sometimes I think if you change your position, you feel that’s a weakness. The reality is it’s a strength the only way you can progress.

even I “acknowledge” race and racial differences, but that does not mean that it is scientifically valid. It’s just the language we use. I call myself black but I’m not black. I’ll call white people white but they are not white. We’ve gone over this a bazillion times and you will never get it. You will never find any scientific paper or citation or assertion describing a scientifically derived basis for race. What you will find in the modern science is a rejection of race. The scientific community has moved on from this, before you and I were even . The human genome project put the nails in the coffin a quarter century ago. Again, I know people hold onto old ideas because it fucks with their worldview and that’s hard for some people, especially racists. Why any black person would perpetuate a white racist social construct is beyond me.