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You tell me. Would you like to go back to 1821, or 1921? That is an interesting statement I can’t think of a scenario in the United States in which the historic levels of wealth any quality can be justify or construed into being something good. I guess you have to think more deeply about the subject. Martin, Malcolm, and Fred all worked within grassroots organizations. I seriously doubt they would’ve had any impact in 2021 in an era where we consume news and information from the likes of Twitter. Today we let our social media feeds tell us what to think and how to feel. That is not hyperbolic; this is today’s reality. This has divided even more and exacerbated our differences. There are People doing real work in their communities however it is increasingly difficult to gain a meaningful following. These people don’t have time to post bullshit on Instagram. Even if they did who’s the say that the little white boys who run the social media platforms will allow their messages to be seen. Someone like Fred Hampton would be working in relative obscurity today.

OK, then tell me who Santa Claus. Is he your brother-in-law from Detriot?

OK I’ll bite; there is no jolly fat bearded white guy who maintains a naughty and nice list and flys around faster that the speed of light with reindeer distributing toys made by elves in the North Pole.

Sure he did, don't fixate on the young Malcolm regurgitate the white devil stuff from the NOI. Think about what he was saying upon his return from his Haji, wehn he was speaking for himself Then you understand why he was killed. Exactly -- which is why he was killed. Same with Fred. Sure, racism is real, but is dying along with the ignoramuses who believe and practice it. If you can't see it getting better in this country as far as racism is concerned, there is nothing I can tell you to change your mind. What is getting worse is wealth inequality. Again, this is fueled by greed and the way our system of capitalism works. Greed, and the winner take all mentality, is rewarded. This has always been counter productive and I'd argue against human nature. Racism is a byproduct, not the source. But I agree @Pioneer1, the sooner we stop seeking the approval of, and financially supporting, our enemies the better off we we all be in the long term. As long as we, ourselves, are motivated by greed and self interest, the longer our people will suffer. People like Malcolm, Martin, and Fred exist today, but they but they will never emerge as leaders because we simply do not have the platforms for them -- because we don't support them. They "serve" at the whim of our enemies. They can instantly be de-platformed -- not unlike the useful idiot "45" once his usefulness was exhausted. The proxies for our so-called "leaders" are trying to attract followers on Twitter. When was they last time a Black person posed a real threat to doing something really substantive for Black folks? This is why I knew Obama would never be assassinated. Kamala has nothing to worry about either -- even when she takes over for Biden.

I listened to the first minute or so of the video couple; do you know what he is smoking? As far as I can tell he doesn’t say. But what he does say is that he hope he doesn’t overdose. You can’t OD on marijuana. I suspect if you really listen to the lyrics you might come away with the idea that the young man may be lamenting getting high, on more serious drugs, by himself, as a means to deal with this life.

@Pioneer1 YOU were the one who asked the question. Did you ever watch the film Judas and the Black Messiah? If So you would see that the protagonist Fred Hampton was murdered by the FBI primarily because he was a leader who recognized that poor whites, Hispanics, black people all were fighting the same injustices. You also recognized the MLK and Malcolm X were killed for the same reasons recognizing the fact that Hatred of white people is Simply because they are white makes no sense and the we are all victims I need to work together to fight the injustices that are crippling us all. Slavery and The prison industrial complex are fueled by greed. Slavery pre-dated The concept of racism. In fact I’m sure most slaves who ever lived were white. The whole system of feudalism was founded on slavery it’s not taught that way but that’s what it was.

This book helps explain why racism is bad for everyone.

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Explains why racism is bad even for the white racist. This book came to mind after one of @Pioneer1’s comments on the futility every trying to get along.

yeah, why not?

Honestly that would explain their behavior. Oprahs is the face of the publication and it gives the implicit impression that supporting Bookshop.org is the same as supporting an indie web based bookseller.

No, not at all. People make up stuff all the time. That does not mean what they make up exists. If you simply thought about it for a few minutes, rather than digging in you heals, you could easily think of many examples.

Thanks @Milton! Amber and the Enchanted Sword is now available on AALBC 🙂

Variation within the RACES...again, implies that there are multiple race. Here again, Pioneer, you have quoted a sentence that refutes your belief about race, but you have somehow managed to contort it to mean something completely contradictory. You really can't see it can you? Do you have any idea, for example, why the word race is bounded by quotes? @Delano here is evidence that "reading" requires active mental engagement.

Dude, just use a throw-away email address like everyone else. Well, no one I ever spoke to, past or present, refers to herb as dope. Dope as in "dopehead" or "dope fiend" (are you familiar with these term) was restricted to people who were on narcotics not weed. Would you refer to a frequent user of marijuana as a dope fiend?

I agree wholeheartedly, but would ask you to reconsider associating the active of reading with a "low involvement" activity. Reading is not a low involvement, because it requires active mental engagement. Reading is not a passive activity. If it were, far more people would be doing it. Watching TV, on the other hand, is a much more passive and low involvement activity any one can do it. You can do it while inebriated, high, tired, and even while engaged in another activity.

Since forum users have not spoken up (I know some use Libro.fm). I actually have a paid Libro.fm account myself. I have only listened to 2 audiobooks, but I have 8 "credits" (the ability to download 8 more audiobooks without paying for extra for them). Members get one credit each month and we also earn a free audiobook with each referral. I'm actually going to put my Libro membership on hold until I have caught up and listened to 8 audiobooks. The good thing about Libro.fm is that, unlike Amazon's Audible, your credits never expire, even after you put your membership on hold or cancel it. With Audible, "Credits expire immediately upon the cancellation or termination of your membership unless used prior to cancellation or termination." That sucks 😞

Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters is a two-hour History Channel documentary that depicts the system of slave policing—enforced by militia, armed community slave patrols, paid slave catchers, and federal law. The stories are set in both the South and the North, from the mid-1700’s colonial era through the end of the Civil War and its aftermath, and told through archival material, scholar interviews and recreations. While the stories show the brutality of the slave system, they also reveal another, often-overlooked side of the history—the strength and ingenuity of the enslaved. As historian Peter Wood observes, “Would they [the enslaved] go willingly into a situation of perpetual racial servitude? No way!” In the South, we portray slave hunters and their bloodhounds, who sometimes lost against the intelligence and fight-to-the-death courage of the enslaved. And in the North, we show slave catchers who were sometimes blocked by an organized—and armed—black community. Historian James O. Horton comments: “Boston is not a safe place for slave catchers to operate… Blacks—and sometimes whites—formed as groups to protect fugitives.” Even in the South, plantations were like pressure cookers, as our film illustrates. Sometimes they exploded into full-scale rebellions—like the 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina or the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia. But, more often, they were plagued by the low-level simmering of individual acts of resistance. One Philadelphia company even refused to issue fire insurance policies in slave states because of the high incidence of arson. However, as we make clear, the main problem for slave owners was not rebellion, but runaways. Historian Loren Schweninger notes, “A minimum number of slaves per year that ran away was 50,000 and probably many more… It was almost routine.” Most ran simply to be reunited with family members who’d been sold away. During the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson noted that thousands of slaves fled Virginia plantations alone, including some from Jefferson’s own plantation. One of Patrick Henry’s slaves took to heart Henry’s cry of “Give me liberty, or give me death”—and fled. Even the power granted the slaveholding states in the new Constitution could not stop slave escapes. Historian Sylvia Frey states, “The enslaved population had waged a desperate… but unsuccessful struggle for freedom, [but] the impetus that the Revolution provided persisted.” To stanch the flow of escaping slaves, plantation owners used a variety of methods over time: an elaborate system of slave patrols with rigid rules, Negro Acts and other legislation, “Negro dogs” especially bred to track runaways (including some bred by a future U.S. president), and slave catchers hired in the South and the North. Our documentary tells true stories of slave catchers and escaping slaves that have never before been portrayed on film. And threaded throughout these unusual and little-known stories is information about the tools slave hunters used to bring back runaway slaves, the strategies used by the enslaved to thwart their pursuers… and the lengths to which both would go to achieve their goal. We close on the aftermath of the Civil War, as the newly freed people work to build their communities, with farms, schools and churches. But the system of slave police has not disappeared—it is soon reborn in an even more violent form: the Ku Klux Klan. As historian Sally Hadden, author of the definitive book on slave patrols, explains, “The Klan is an extension of slave patrols in most direct, obvious ways… they’ve changed the names from patrols to Klan, they’ve put on sheets, but the activities and the purpose remain pretty much the same.” Yet, while these stories acknowledge the brutality of slavery, they reveal something much deeper: that within the darkness, there was also light. For, even during the darkest days of slavery—even when freedom seemed no more than an illusive dream—the enslaved and their supporters continued to struggle against overwhelming odds…and sometimes won. Produced by Judy Richardson of Northern Light Productions. Judy Richardson is also the filmmaker for Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968, series associate producer of Eyes on the Prize, and co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. --Judy Richardson, Producer

No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory Hey @Pioneer1 this books seems right up your alley. Send me your address (a mailing address) and I shoot you a free copy! Hopefully the rest of y'all (including you lurkers) will buy a copy from AALBC. In fact, I'll give lurkers a 10% discount on all orders from AALBC until the end of the month know as Black History Month. Use discount code: lurker10 (good for one use) 🙂

Brilliant, I will used that one. You did not read (or comprehend) the article I shared. If you had, you would not have made that statement. But even if we were to pursue the flawed statement Malcolm X had read hair was he "probably a Caucasian" too? Have you ever taken a DNA test, like the ones offered by Ancestry and the like. Have you ever wondered why, with all the information they provide, they never say anything about anyone's race?

Where did you grow up? Smack yes, Mary Jane no. I was told you may watch JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH for free here: https://thrpresentsjatbm.splashthat.com/ Enjoy (and don't forget the weed 😉)

I like the folktales on your website @MissKorang

Wow you know who your African Ancestor is. Did you know did you know your grandfather?

OK, think of it this way; when did governments start tracking people by race? NOOO! You inferring things that were not written. Do you actually know what the genetics referenced in the article did? Again, THERE IS NO GENETIC TEST FOR RACE, other than the one that determines you are human a member of the human race. Try reading this: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/ for some additional insight.

I saw it in a drive-in. But stop being a pu**y. Wear a mask and stay 6 feet away from people other people -- you'll live. But I bet you can see it on a streaming service. BTW: Herb is not "dope." Who told you that?

Here is a better link 😉: https://libro.fm/aalbc