Troy

Without listening to the video, I sure Roland was relatively rude, compared to the young man. I sure he spoke over the kid and raised his voice, giving him little chance to speak. I stopped listening to Roland for this very reason. But since you posted the video here I will listen to it and give you my opinion. I see that it is 30 minutes long, so it will take me a minute to find the time, but I should get to it today.

@Pioneer1 First you definitely put you money (and energy) where your mouth is. As a request participant and financial supporter of this site. YOU are one of the reason I still run this forum. Thank You! Facebook has a bunch of advantages; It is, by design, addictive. People can spend hours scrolling through their feed, as a result they have amassed a large audience. It is easier, faster, cheaper to establish a Facebook page creating and maintaining a website, as as result many have migrated away from websites to Facebook. OFTEN I have to go to a author/business/event/bookstore Facebook page because I can obtain what I'm looking for more easily than I can from their own website. White folks run Facebook. If Facebook was Black-owned, or God forbid targeted Black people, it would have died a long time ago. Facebook has access to investors and the capital markets. I could go on but if AALBC discussion forums had 100 Pioneers we would not be having this conversation. Nor would you have to worry about your privacy, psychometric manipulation, or any of the crap Facebook get away with.

We’ve only demonstrated a desire to build her own shit when we had no choice in the matter. Even when we were given no choice that was up to white folks to decide. I’ve been listening in on a few conversations on Clubhouse. All of the conversations, and this could be biased by my current set of friends, are all focused on how important Clubhouse can be for black people for organizing and the like. I’ll already know I’m not gonna be on the platform very long. What was surprising however was a lot of mentions of “black LinkedIn.” Apparently it is the new “black Twitter.” Again the focus is all wrong in my opinion. We continually focus on utilizing white folks platforms, rather than creating or even supporting the existing platforms that we have. White boys benefit a great deal from black support on their platforms. Then we complain about how they shadow ban us, delete our posts, or fail to show them to others. Minister Farrakhan was banned from a couple of platforms I don’t know if he was ever reinstated. Did anyone care I don’t know...

Nefarious or not the outcomes are indistinguishable. one would think we could control our own email lists, but if you don’t control the delivery systems and software you don’t control email. Even my website is vulnerable to these greedy little children running the largest and most powerful corporations. AALBC is at the mercy of these people.

... or is YT Just Better at Getting Around It? I've maintained a mailing list about as long as I've run this website, pushing 25 years. To this day, my mailing list remains one of the best ways of reaching my audience, as it not subject to the whims of algorithms created by white boys in silicon valley -- or so I thought. I'm hearing a lot of complaints from other Brothers and Sisters who tell me that their emails are increasingly ending up in spam folders. Just yesterday an important email from a organization I've been working with for 15 years was diverted to my spam folder. Meanwhile, obvious spam from white business, I've never communicated with, hits my inbox seemingly unfettered. This morning a friend inquired abut some information that happened to be included in the newsletter that I send just yesterday. I chided her for not subscribing to my newsletter and sent her a link to my email. She replied by saying that she does subscribe and that she ultimately found my newsletter in her spam folder! OK, lets say that all the pin heads on the west coast want to do is clean up people inboxes by reducing spam which is great, but it seems Black people emails are being treating with the heavy hand. This is no different than "driving while Black." It is the same mentality that has lead to Black people being disproportionately jailed while white people get a warning for similar offenses. Black people are largely absent, I'm sure, during the conversations about how spam filters work. While white boys discuss these strategies with each other over beer, so they know what to do to get around these spam filters. They even strike deals with each other to guarantee that their email get through. When was the last time a brand new Black-owned website launched? New sites have to deal with Google's search algorithm, they are to deal with social media algorithms, and now even our email messages are subjects to gate keepers. All of these systems are demonstrably biased against us. In order to help ensure that you get my newsletter you will have to whitelist troy@aalbc.com -- even the description of the remedy, "whitelist," is racist.

Yes, it works now.

Thanks for the link to AALBC on your homepage Me Time Book Club!

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@Pioneer1 again complexity confuses you especially when if conflicts with your world view see below from https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/history/article/who-were-moors Still, even if the definition of moor was as point blank as you believe it to be, it still is no justification to prove that any government was founded on the principles of racial superiority before the US novel “race” based implementation of slavery. Though the term can be found throughout literature, art, and history books, it does not actually describe a specific ethnicity or race. Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively the reign of Muslims in Spain, Europeans of African descent, and others for centuries.

Sorry, there was a typo in my question which explains your misunderstanding. originally I asked you if you would rather live in 2021 or in either 1821 or 1921. At the end of the day you have admitted that you would rather live in 2021 than and either 1821 or 1921 — And for good reason! That is the only point I’m making.

Well you apparently are immune to the tactics used by social media @Pioneer1 which I think is a good thing. I did not start out that way, and spent several years posting all kinds of personal shit on Facebook in particular before I got wise. I agree women seem to be very enamored of the social media. 2/3’s of the people who visit AALBC are female too. Tic-toc which was apparently designed for young people is used by people my age who scroll through the funny videos and all sorts of things. I understand why people do it but it doesn’t serve us well in the long run. I did just sign up for this platform, called Clubhouse, where are you just talk like in a conference call. LI’ve only used it enough to see how it works. It is an interesting idea. I don’t see how it will be monetized it yet. But like the others once revenue needs to be generated it will start to suck. At some point it seems likely that websites will go to way of the dinosaur. I think that will be a shame because as the Internet coalesces into sites run by Google Amazon and Facebook the web will become far less interesting.

“Moor” is a term given to practitioners of Islam and has nothing to do with what you understand as race. Try again.

Ever hear of the Tulsa Race Massacre?

So you just gonna ignore my questions and pose increasingly irrelevant ones to cloud this issue? Who formed a government based upon white supremacy before the white boys here?

So what is it then @Pioneer1?! Can you give an unqualified response to a simple question? Would you rather be living in, as Black man in America in 1821 or 1921? Choose! I'm sure @Chevdove is capable of giving an honest response.

I think this film is worth watching. Maybe more of us will consider deleting our social media accounts... We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen. The world has long recognized the positive applications of social media, from its role in empowering protesters to speak out against oppression during the Arab Spring uprisings almost a decade ago, to serving an instrumental role in fighting for equity and justice today. And in 2020, during an astonishing global pandemic, social media has become our lifeline to stay in touch with loved ones, as well as proving to be an asset for mobilizing civil rights protests. However, the system that connects us also invisibly controls us. The collective lack of understanding about how these platforms actually operate has led to hidden and often harmful consequences to society—consequences that are becoming more and more evident over time, and consequences that, the subjects in The Social Dilemma suggest, are an existential threat to humanity. The Social Dilemma is a powerful exploration of the disproportionate impact that a relatively small number of engineers in Silicon Valley have over the way we think, act, and live our lives. The film deftly tackles an underlying cause of our viral conspiracy theories, teenage mental health issues, rampant misinformation and political polarization, and makes these issues visceral, understandable, and urgent. Through a unique combination of documentary investigation and entertaining narrative drama, award-winning filmmakers Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral) and Larissa Rhodes (Chasing Coral) have once again exposed the invisible in a manner that is both enlightening and harrowing as they disrupt the disrupters by unveiling the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms. The film features compelling interviews with high-profile tech whistleblowers and innovation leaders including Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology; the co-inventor of the Facebook “Like” button, Justin Rosenstein; Tim Kendall, former President of Pinterest and former Director of Monetization at Facebook; Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction; Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy at the AI Now Institute, and many others. Demonstrating how social media affects consumers on a personal level, these fascinating insider insights are seamlessly woven into a captivating narrative, including Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), that illuminates the very real consequences these seemingly innocent technologies can have on our everyday lives.

Dude, accepting the fact of a single race is not biased. @Pioneer1, can you make a distinction between the genetic reality of a single human race that science has proven and the false idea of multiple races which racists created to elevate themselves of darker skinned people? Why do you cling to this racist idea so fervently?

"...the women's is wearing the pants and the boys wearin' the dresses..." The book Remembering Slavery has been revised

Yeah that’s the problem it’s not simple mathematics. Your insistence that this simple is why you fail to perceive complexity or nuance. Candy can not look at someone and determine the undeterminable. To then make value judgements about any conclusions she draws is fruit of the same stupid tree.

Who was? OK, again who did the white people in American learn racism and the idea that Black people subhuman and inferior to white people?

@Chevdove Pioneer Has already admitted he would rather be living right now than in 1821. So I ask you given everything that you have written and no would you rather live in 1821 or today?

Here is a comment I just got from someone I shared this information with 🤬 "Thank you for this! Just pre-ordered for my Kindle."

Richard Wright’s Estate Calls Google Book Settlement ‘Grievously Flawed’ BY MOTOKO RICH The New York Times JANUARY 27, 2010 12:09 PM In a telephone interview from his home in Sydney, Australia, Malcolm Wright said that he objected to Google being allowed to scan and use his grandfather’s work for commercial ends. “Without displaying it to end users, Google can still derive a lot of value from these works by running their algorithms on them,” Mr. Wright said. “I have the feeling a lot of people don’t necessarily take into account that Google’s entire business is based on artificial intelligence. Google writes algorithms that learn to cater to human demand and so basically, for Google, the Holy Grail is for more and more content to unleash their algorithms on because not only does it bring them advertising revenue, it allows them to have their algorithms grow and mature.”

I know we live in 2021 and the culture is youth oriented and more interested in pop culture than history. But is seems to me that a unpublished novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, by such a heralded Black writer as Richard Wright would cause much more of a splash. Has anyone heard about this book before now? If so, where did you learn about it? On a related note, "Richard Wright’s Estate Calls Google Book Settlement ‘Grievously Flawed’"