Troy

Which one would y'all pick. I watched the trailer for the latest one last night. A couple of thugs tried to car jack her, she doused them as gasoline and torched their car. It as about as funny as you might find burning someone to death would be,,, Instead, I watched some foreign film about people being sealed, inexplicably, sealed inside their apartment. It was an interesting premise, but failed to deliver.

10 years later browsers no longer support .swf (Shockwave Flash) files, an old Adobe Flash format that’s no longer supported in most browsers because of security vulnerabilities. My first attempt to convert the file failed the audio was preserved but the video was corrupted....

@Delano I can only presume the movie you shared is one that you recommend. I will check it out now. @aka Contrarian yes, something from Tyler Perry should’ve made the list given the other crap that’s on it. @Pioneer1 man Viola Davis was great in that film! The main character’s name is Troy so hit m ron a different level 😉

@Pioneer1 your narrative perfectly illustrates the problem.

By the time I started school the environment was certainly optimized for girls -- virtually all my teachers in primary were white women. When I started in the corporate world martinis at lunch, smoking in the office, and female secretaries were common of course that all changed by the time I left, but corporate life was still dominated by white men or people who behaved like them. I'm sure things have changed a great deal depending upon the industry. Anecdotally we need more men in school and women in corporate America. I don't think the current situation is a "plan." Yeah dumb people don't know how dumb they are in a given subject and overestimate their knowledge on said subject. Which is why people who know every little about science will easily reject the conclusions drawn by the scientific community in fair of any lunatic who says something that make sense to someone with limited knowledge or a desired to misled people...

Most people marry and have children with people of their own race, but judging by the proliferation of commercials depicting interracial couple. this used to irk me because it struck me as pandering. I don't think you have to be a bigot to feel this way... I do think the idea of "We can thank the Progressives who are rubbing our noses..." is a problem of progressives. But if they did not do that they would not be "progressives." 🙂

Judging by Viagra sales plenty of men are admitting a problem. Prince was shorter and effeminate and you could not beat the women off him with a stick. Obviously it is much more than stature that attracts women. There are whole bunch of guys who admit they can't attract a woman and have formed communities of Incels. ...including virile nerds

Robin Harris used to have a funny story about the situation.

You too man! I clearly remember the first time I saw you in 1991, because you are a black man in a mostly white environment. You were working in a computer lab a place I ultimately got a job which in some indirect way led to AALBC, Well, I appreciate you and everyone else who spends some of their precious time here. The only thing that will save the rest of the web, including websites like AALBC are human beings. The amount of AI generated content on social media is staggering.

As I wrote, there is clearly nothing that I can post that would change your mind. Even the fact that prisoners died at a higher rate from Covid you distorted what I wrote to imply that prisoners die at a higher rate in general. But again, your bias is so extreme, it borders on being delusional. Has it occurred to you that might be the case because those doctors deserved to have their licenses revoked? I’m not sure what “many doctors” means to you, but I’m quite confident it was a small minority of them. @frankster are you a complete anti-vaxxer or is it just a Covid vaccine? @frankster I don’t suppose you know very many people who died from Covid, was hospitalized from Covid, or is currently suffering from long Covid?

3y 4mo 22d 23h 18m 29s to be exact 🙂

It is not that simple. I was always harassed by NYC police officers even the Black ones! Ome of my earliest memories was a Black cop squeezing my arm so tight that he hurt me because I was walking on the grass in the projects this was like 1965! All of my interactions with police here in Florida has been respectful and even helpful! One even retuned a wallet I lost which required calling around to get my number and driving it to where I was! Something like that happening in NYC is unimaginable. Racism does not respect geographic boundaries. if it did you might find the most racist people in the north east!

Speaking of @aka Contrarian and longevity. This popped in my inbox this morning. I first met Carolyn at least 20 years ago, she is part of the NYC literati founding a literary magazine and a film festival. Celebrate Harlem's Newest Centenarian! Happy 100th Birthday, Mom! Dear Fam, Today, join my family and I in honoring my mother's 100th birthday celebration! I'm taking pause over the next few days to rejoice my mom's longevity and contributions to her Harlem community. We have lost so many loved ones during the past few years that it is necessary to take time to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and special milestones (personal and professional) in our lives. NYC's hustle culture rarely allows you to honor important moments in your life or take time to be present in the moment and relax. We are human and not machines. As a Libra, I am committed to practicing the art of balance and invite you to take time to reflect and shout out "Happy 100th Birthday" to my special mom. She inspired me to be courageous during the pandemic and return to the foundation she established when I was five years old. Mom was the first vegetarian I know who started a personal protest in buying food filled with "chemicals" and "Yellow Dye Number 9." Her favorite book was "Back to Eden," which favored holistic living and natural foods. I attribute my mom's longevity not only to what she put in her body but her mental capacity to put faith, love and compassion above everything. May mom continue to enjoy more years with us! Enclosed is my short poem dedicated to mom that I wrote years ago! Wishing you a happy holiday weekend and joy! peace and blessings, Carolyn Executive Director African Voices Declaration of Independence (The Day My Mother Went Insane) the day she went insane my mother declared herself a Sovereign State She threw away money Washington, Lincoln & Jackson went up in flames she hung a red flag in the living room, declared her home a new nation The day my mother went insane started 25 years ago She passed a law against Red meat, declared it an illegal contraband in her home She tossed pork chops, steak and even the leftover fried chicken in the trash Her insanity she says Is God´s Wisdom the day my mother went insane she threw away her pressing comb, let her hair lock she screamed about conspiracies against Black boys and girls, attending schools that don't teach and dying at the hands of cops that kill the day my mother went insane American doctors held her hostage, tried to make her believe Prozac and talk shows were real tried to make her believe that killing babies was okay tried to make her believe their insanity was reality the day my mother went insane I cried, silently because she was Free A nation unto her own. © January 1999, Carolyn A. Butts

Sorry this conversation started back in April, and I have not read all of it. Still, I'm curious to know what right you believe what "right" a man has that cannot be usurped or granted by a government.

Yeah, you can't legally pump your own gas in NJ. I have not stopped for gas there in a long time, but they would occasionally clean your windshield and check your fluids. Today I get my gas at Costco and all the attendant there does is make sure you turn your car off before pumping gas are not installing a skimming device

Sadly this is true. I'm thoroughly convinced the susceptibility to being brainwashed to join a cult, strap on a bomb, jump on the MAGA train, or exterminate Jews is genetic. When the culture reenforced these notions it is a dangerous combination.

This is all great! (sorry I got the year wrong). Yes they do, which is why I, at 5'7'' have never been challenged in the lady department 🥰

By definition. I had not though about it that way. But what people call "microaggressions" today would have been laughable when I was a young man. If I see a brother wringing his hands over a micro-aggression in the office... well that is good example of puss*fication of society. There was a program in NOR this week talking about how to educate boys (white ones). The education system was optimized for white boys! I did not listen closely to the program (honestly not very interested) but geesh what the heck has happened?! Wow! With this as your foundation there I clearly have nothing I can say that would absolve you of this outrageous notion. I know you are not alone in this belief. Still, it astonishes me that in world with access to more information than ever people can be informed to result in completely diametrically opposed understanding on such an important issue. Incarcerated people, and staff, contracted covid and died at a higher rate than the general population. "Decimated" is hyperbolic, but one might argue that prison populations, nursing homes, indigenous communities, people with co-morbities were "decimated" during the pandemic. The vaccine helped save a great many lives. Sure, many people would have survived without getting vaccinated but that would NOT have helped the more vulnerable people who could have contracted from someone presenting with no symptoms.

All Americans.

The quality isn’t great, but this is better than not recording the moment at all, because twenty years ago, given the media's coverage, you would have had no idea Black folks had such a large presence at BEA. C-SPAN published hours of coverage: https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/bookexpo-america/145533 and you barely see Black people. I always cringe when I see myself on video, that is probably why it took me 20 years to post the video 🙂

Sure, and despite that benefit they are still worse off. Sure, and this is out of necessity. Today if you are a 30-year-old man still living at home that is perfectly acceptable. When I was 30 you could not legitimately call yourself, a man still sulking at momma teat in your childhood bedroom. Of course. We/they have to.

...I can't LOL! I don't have the mental energy to follow this shit. I'm not saying it is not real. I'm just saying it is a tactic. He will use white racists, Black people, evangelicals, the entire Republican party, tech bros, woke liberals, whoever to achieve his means. If we deal with Trump as though he is purely a white nationalist, a republican, a Bible hawking evangelical, we will fail to stop him, for we have misunderstood his motivation.

Hey man, I went back and re-read the original statement we were debating. Of course information does not mean explanation. I think I got caught up on my comment symbols or sounds being information. My bad. Thanks for your patience with me.

I’ll DM you the questions but you can put the answer here. Does that work?

Sure, I'm game what do you need to know?