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Those "poor Caucasians" were flimflammed, bamboozled, led astray... This is SO much easier to do today than ever before. If white folks were so happy why are the complaining so much? Why did they vote for Obama and then turn around and vote for Trump. Why did they storm the Whitehouse? Those "poor Caucasians" are suffering. life expectancy is lower, suicides are higher. Look at Texas right now millions of people without power and water because the weather is unusually cold and the privately run power grid can deal with the spike in demand. The roads go untreated and there is a 100+ car pile up. The city of Houston gets flooded with a heavy rain. Texas is no better than a 3rd world country. Do you think white people really want to live like this? But ask any of them and they'll proclaim how great Texas is -- it is CRAZY! This is why books like Heather's are so important. But I already know the people who need to read this book the most will probably never learn about it -- they are not visiting AALBC or listening to NPR. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is in Mexico.

There is a new book that has been getting plenty of media coverage, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. I learned about the book on my local NPR affiliate. The author makes the case that racism, in particular racist legislation actually hurts more white people. Predatory loans in the 1980s originally targeted Black folks, but millions of white people ended up losing their homes. College only became prohibitively expensive when Black people started attending in greater numbers. The author acknowledges despite the harm done to white people, Black people, collectively are hurt even more. This made me think of @Pioneer1 who has consistently argued that white people are more than willing to be hurt if Black people will be hurt more. That is concept that I personally reject, simply because it seemingly defies reason. Sure there might be some nuts out there willing to lose a home, go without health care, and not send their kids to college if it means that Black people will not enjoy these benefits too. But these are not rationale people. Then again racism is irrational. Maybe white people are willing to "take one for the team" if Black people are hurt even more. As crazy as it sounds it probably is worth really looking into.

This video was shot during the Self-Publishing Symposium back in 2008. A lot has changed since then, but the video holds up 13 years later. Don't ask me why the video is smushed, blame Google 😉

@Pioneer1 moving forward I'm not going to read any more of the articles that you link to. The reason is that every single time I invest in reading your articles one of two things happen; either the article actually refutes the point you're making, or it doesn't support it at all. Now this article does not support a genetic test for race. Perhaps I missed it. If so, would you be kind enough to copy and paste the paragraph that shows proof of a test to determine one's race.

I guess you'll need to watch the film, before you can formulate a valid conspiracy theory. Among other things it was a love story, a love story between a man and a woman, between a man and his community, and someone, who only loved himself, helped destroy it all. If you go into any form of art with a wide variety of preconceived notions you'll fail to really appreciate it. That is not to say that we don't all have biases we do. But when you are already working so hard to figure out what something is trying to be before you even see it you are already setting up walls that will prevent you from truly "seeing" the film. I hope you smoke a blunt, relax and enjoy the film. The young people who put it together did a fantastic job.

Sure they can. It was done for the majority of time that governments have existed. @Chevdove , @Pioneer1 if race exists, can you tell me why there is no genetic test for race? I'll wait....

So you missed me! 🙂 Yeah I just been pretty busy. Socializing, starting new semester, and obviously the work of AALBC. (Just don't tell @Delano, I don't want him to think that I don't have any "free" time). Yes. Technology has brought us closer together. As this continues we have no choice but to become one global family. Whether it's covid-19 or climate change we have to behave as if we have our all of our best interests at heart --otherwise we will not survive as a species. The whole notion of "race" just divides us unnecessarily. It won't be long before people who think of race in the way that you do will be dead and conversations like this will be unnecessary. In much the same way that we look at laws that prevented so-called Black people and so-called white people from marrying each other, we will look at statements like yours @Pioneer1 in the same light. Belief in race leads to anti-miscegenation laws and to the disdain of the so-called mongrel mixing of the races. This is the logic that flows from a belief in genetically defined racial differences in Humans. I'm assuming you agree it is okay for so-called White and so-called Black people to marry each other.... right? Is Kamala Harris and Barack Obama Black, in your book? I know you've called Barack Obama mixed race, but what race is that? The term mixed race is inherently unclear and therefore relatively meaningless. What race would a child between Barack Obama and Kamala Harris be? For that matter, in your book, what race am I?

I actually did quite a bit around Zora Neal's hurston's book. I visited Africatown. It was even a book club selection or online book club.

The video is the better part of two hours. I skipped around but really couldn't figure out what was going on. Presumably you were trying to warn me, but whether the office space is shared or belongs to a single organization is probably immaterial when it comes down to how people are being treated. That said my office space is actually pretty cool. I have 24-hour access a parking spot and nowadays with the crappy weather and the pandemic there's often only a handful of people in the entire building.

I saw this film at a drive-in theater a couple weeks ago. The guy who played Fred Hampton deserves an academy award nomination.

Thanks for taking the time to share your insight Maybe. I currently reside in Indian territory in Oklahoma. One of the things I learned in the book I'm reading. Is that when oil was discovered on the land, it was not uncommon for a white man to marry an indigenous woman who "owned" the land, that woman would "disappear" shortly after the marriage and the land would be taken over by her white male husband. That of course is not to suggest that is your history. The problem is the situations are complex and wrought with a tremendous amount of evil and violence. The impact of genocide will be felt for as long as there are people who know the history.

No nothing you posted really mad too much. At the end of the day you believe there are multiple races as defined in our genetics. I don't believe that because the science tells us something different. I understand your position on the death of mission of race based upon the social construct. However I don't like the term even though you enjoy it. I think it's causes more problems than it solves.

Well I hope you create an account so that you can post without your posts having to be approved by me KChriselle. I've decided from a marketing perspective to utilize Google's business features I just now started focusing on getting reviews. I'm not going crazy about it because frankly I'm not crazy about supporting Google in that way but it does help SEO. I don't think is it a tactic that can help authors, but it would help certainly help the stores that sell their books -- which in turn helps those authors.

...and no we will not be discussing love in this session -- maybe next week. I'll be on her program again February 19th.

The 29th Annual African American Children's Book Fair will be held virtually on Saturday, February 6, 2021, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. Hosted by the African American Children’s Book Project (AACBP), the book fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day events for children's books in the country. Register Here. Here is a preview of some of the books to be sold this year and a video from last year.

@Pioneer1 you need simple answers sometimes the truth is just more complicated. You want to really try to understand by looking at a sentence or two from the dictionary definition of one form of the word. I read all the definitions and I read the articles it pointed to for more information context. Since I know you don't like to probe very deeply into subjects I'll share one of the links https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human why don't you read that entire article it explains race pretty clearly. if you don't come away with a different understanding then it is what it is. Again these are your sources not mine. Finally, I see one really profound difference between you and I. I felt about race as you do now, But once I read the current information I easily put away my prior beliefs. You on the other hand seemingly dig deeper, go through linguistic contortions to "win" a the argument. It is a religious battle for you, facts, logic reason, science -- none of it matters to you.

What I'm trying to understand is what you feel I'm disagreeing with. That would me reply. The title of the post, "Anthropologists Claim Ancient Semites Were Black (Negro) People." In my circle, that is common knowledge and I have not challenged the premise of this thread.

At @Tazarah help me out here and be more specific. Provide a claim "provided by these collegiate/scholastic institutions" that I disputed. If you want me to provide proof of a single race. I previously provided over the years here and this can easily be found by any one will a trivial amount of effort. Is there anything else that you'd like me to address specifically?

This is purely a figment of your imagination and not supported by anything said in the article. We can't have a serious debate if we can even agree the information being communicated with words. Maybe this is the problem. It is not about winning -- at east not to me. I would much rather have my knowledge advanced even if it means that what I previously believed was shown to be false. So if your during the course of debate or argument enlighten me to something I did not previously know I would welcome this. In fact that is what I'd call winning. Racist white men created racial categories to justify the oppressions of the so called "non-white" people. We know now that despite the phenotypical difference in people that generically we are one race barely indistinguishable from each other.

Yes the term race is a sloppy term. there is no genetic test for race and two people cannot determine the race of any given individual with any level of confidence. I can look at someone and say they're black and you can look at someone and say they're not black it's just a sloppy silly term and I wish we would stop using it. @Pioneer1 they're white people in this country that have more in common with you genetically and culturally than another black person from the continent of Africa. Using purely racial terms to describe people is dumb.

Fascinating article.

That was a good segment. I saw the Ma Rainey film; Davis was excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing the Black female Braveheart project she is working on. Hard to believe she's only 55. I would have thought she was older as long as she's been working.

My dear Brother @Pioneer1 here once again either you simply did not read the article or you failed to comprehend it. If you had both read and understood the article you would not have used it to prove your point indeed the article completely backs up what I have been saying all along. Why I invest all this time trying to help you understand this is really beyond me maybe because I know you are sincere but you are really too grounded in the belief racial categories that when you read something that goes against your belief you still see it as supporting your argument?! I understand why @Delanohas given up, because it is very frustrating to debate you because you can't be reasoned with and facts don't mean a damn thing. This is a direct quote from the article: "Second, the study reinforced the idea that race is a social construct rather than a homogeneous genetic or ancestral category. After adjustment for differences in life experiences the differences in mortality were not statistically significant." This should come as no surprise to anyone that understands that the racial categories are bullshit. Again no one is arguing that the people who you understand to be black are dying at a higher rates -- the reasons for that are obvious and described in the article.

I'll print and read the article later, then get back to you.