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Well I have to believe they are mentioned in the book, even if they did not make the CD collection. Their were a few other questionable inclusions and omissions. I bet Jeff Chang had a lot of influence on the songs that were included. I think they got the Fatback Band right. It was the very first rap song I ever heard on vinyl. I remember exactly where I was, in 1979, when I first heard it.

I just discovered the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop in my local library yesterday. I was previously unaware of it -- it is almost as if the publishers did not want to make it well known. The book does not have an ISBN (as far as I can tell) and I can not find it in distribution. Of course Amazon and B&N have copies -- don't ask me how they got them. I broke my own rule and linked to Amazon to by the book 😞 The book comes with 9 CD (do people still use CDs?) that includes 129 rap songs. I created a playlist (below) of all the songs on YouTube. I was very familiar with most of them, but 2 or 3 I never heard before. They were rappers from Memphis and Houston, who did not get a lot of air play in New York City, where I'm from. The Smithsonian raised almost $400K in a Kickstarter campaign to get he book produced. It is interesting that they chose to go that route, but it also explains why they did not have to invest enough in promotion of the book for me to be aware of it. On some level this comes across as white institutions doing something, just to say they did it. As opposed to doing something to truly reflect the culture. This also explain how Vanilla Ice can make the CD and KRS 1 can be left off.... When creating an intro to the playlist I discovered a photo of Harlem World, a venue where one could dance to rap music. It is directly across the street from the old Mosque #7, where Malcom X preached. It started out as a Woolworths, After Harlem World it became a super markets, today it is a retailer of inexpensive goods and clothing. I'd be interested in hearing what any of you hip-hop heads think of this list. Where is @CDBurns when you need him 😉 https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=978Smithsonia#video

I have not been following the story, nor did i read the article. I would assume this is more for intellectual property and protecting trade secrets. Am I wrong about this? The FDA approved the vaccine, so Isn’t it fair to assume it is safe, especially when one considers the lives saved? Besides, knowing what the vaccine contains is not gonna help me, I’m still dependent upon someone else explaning it to me and we are back to the transparency issue… i got boosted yesterday.

Arguing with the cops from from the passenger side, oh my.

Again, people are human. Why do you think your husband reacted that way? Surely, he did not think not cooperating and arguing with the police would help his cause? Again cops have to be trained to deal with this... I suspect your husband has trouble seeing at night and was driving below the speed limit as a result. Our course he was probably already tense before the cops pulled him over 00 hence his reaction. Again 5-0 needs to consider all of this.... Dealing with the public is already hard. Add the potential for danger and constantly dealing with people in hot situations and the role becomes extremely difficult -- even for a good cop. When I get pulled over I try to make the situation as smooth as possible --- especially when I know I've violated the law... Yeah, I don't now anything about that/ One of my earliest memories is a cops squeezing my arm really tightly (hurting me), because I was walking on the grass in my housing project. I was a little boy, about 4 at the time. The cop was a Black man too. His treatment of me -- even in hindsight seemed unreasonable. I never had an affinity for the police. The perform a vital task, but I suspect most are simply not that good at it.

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Me neither LOL. As I've gotten older I try not to do anything that would get me pulled over -- like speed or driving while buzzed.

Posting hyperlink https://daniellegfny.com/index.php/2021/10/08/2021-winners-of-the-annual-global-coloring-contest-to-be-announced/ I saw this cover on Amazon art work looks good

I don’t know i would not be surprised to see Smollett show up somewhere. i wonder if any of this negativity will run off on his sister… I’m surprised to hear about parents calling the military about the disciple of their kids… that just sounds crazy.

You’re speaking Harry language 😉 but we’ve seen cases where resisting was not a factor. Sometimes resisting is harder given stress and constant pressure. Have you ever snapped at someone , or over reacted in a situation, only to regret it and even apologize for it later. Unfortunately some of us are unfortunate enough do that in the presence of the police and lose our lives over it….

There has been for some time now. I believe there are inherent emotional differences between men and women. These differences are both natural necessary. Some in our culture seemingly prefer to believe that men are really just women with penises, or that they should be… I’m talking about the general case; Physically and emotionally men and women are on a spectrum. There are some women who are physically stronger than some men, but in general men are stronger. The differences between men and women should be celebrated, not blurred or erased.

Lol! Even the threat that could happen would have avoided this whole fiasco. I’m not sure it will hurt his career though. we have now a couple of generations of men who were raised with privilege relative to previous generations; Great economies, never forced to go to war, participation trophies, etc… men who were coddled. Mothers would spank kids from my generation for crying, today the call their kid’s bosses to complain about their kids performance review… In this young man’s world this hair brained scheme seemed like a perfectly good idea; so used to sympathy, so accustomed to accommodations why would he expect anything but outrage for being treated so badly—poor baby even had a scratch under his eye…. of course people saw through this, because most of us, fortunately live in a more realistic world.

I watched Passing last night and thought it was very well done, an art piece really. It was filmed entirely in black and white and will probably be nominated for an Academy Award for cinemaphotography or something to do with the visual appeal of the film. Learn more about the novel Passing and the Harlem Renaissance. @daniellegfny, for what it is worth, Reconstruction would get my vote too 🙂 I also wonder about the notion of ATL being a Black mecca in the way that Harlem was or is.... Harlem was and is a community not very large. ATL is a major urban center. It can't be what Harlem was.

Hi tccbutterfly, interesting premise. You can share your website's address. Also, where may one purchase our book (other than Amazon)?

We have to be able to assume police departments don’t put racist on the streets. That is where the problem starts. I believe there are so called “race soldiers “ in police departments across the country, and i believe I’ve encountered a few. After that i don’t think it should matter what the cop looks like

It might start a conversation about gun control, but it will not amount to anything in places like MI. I’m surprised the parents tried to run. It makes them look as guilty as hell.

I also think many New Yorkers remember when crime was terrible and the current uptick in crime is not the direction people want to head.

I don't think anyone will live that long, it is not in our DNA. Whenever different groups of us get together we always end up killing each other and taking their resources. We can't help ourselves. The best we can do is carve our a community for ourselves in which life is tolerable, and occasional pleasurable 😉 Perhaps in 100 millennia, homo spaiens will evolve to a point where there is indeed balance and harmony across the entire species. I think the asteroid has a non-zero change of actually hitting us, we just don't want to cause a panic. Whatever came of those aliens that we filmed flying around here recently?

Abso-feaking-lutely. You don't even have to leave Detroit to see Black people who, phenotypically, are all over the map. They are still so called Black people. This become even more confusing and scientifically unfounded when you introduce the notion of "race" into the picture. There is one human race. It is best to talk about humans in terms of culture or ethnicity, these matter much more than what people look like.

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Hi Pamela, Do you have a website of your own? Is your book only available from Amazon and B&N.com?

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OK @ProfD that was just a sanity check. There is no history between me an Stefan (that I'm aware of). His commentary, from my perspective, is coming out of left field.

I may have to check the flick out. I bet all of us could think of at least three, non-trivial, African American "firsts." Probably worth starting another threat 🙂

Please explain how I attacked you personally. Actually if you don't mind, just copy and paste the words you construed as "ad hominem." I definitely do not know what you are talking about with regard to "...former nemesis who returned to haunt you." The only former nemesis was not a true forum participant they were straight up trolls. I do not not think, nor did I ever suggest, you were in this class. I asked you why you think your memes are not wanted when I said that the exact opposite is true. Why are you so sensitive? Oh please, you clearly don't know what you are talking about, and because it is so absurd it is not worth the effort to explain it to you. Again, anyone who as paid attention to this forum, for more than 5 minutes, knows how ridiculous what you wrote above is. Which one? @ProfD, you've been here more than 5 minutes, based upon what you know is the anything that would leave you to believe that I would removed anything that Stefan has posted? If you decline to answer I'll understand, but I simply do not know where Stefan is getting these ideas. I'm inclined not to believe he is even serious. ----------------- Speaking of tech @Stefan did you know @Mel Hopkins went there?