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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’"

At lot of people will be surprised that Dickey has a new novel coming out in April:

That is funny that you would say this because as I was reading the article I kept saying to myself this sounds exactly like @Pioneer1 would say. First, I could give a rat’s ass about Megan Markel and the riyal family. That said, the whole thing with Candice and our comments are profoundly absurd on several levels. This statement, for example, makes no sense, but it is a classic Pioneerism.

Nah, it was a video designed for people who don’t like to read. Anybody can be a bigot. The young man that you’re describing is just the narrator. The video was high production quality and took, I’m sure, a team of people to create. Much of the text in the video I’ve seen before in descriptions of Bacon’s rebellion. Although the emphasis on Black and white people fighting together was emphasized and the slaughter of Native Americans was deemphasized, but the focus of the video was on the creation of race, not the rebellion. Multiple sources are required to get anywhere close to the truth, but the fact of the matter remains; the concept of race, and it’s demon spawn racism, is founded here in America — Even the Nazis pulled from America’s playbook.

Is that you took away from the video. I'm hurt that you think so poorly of your Black brothers and sisters that you would write the above. It is hyperbolic statement, based upon nothing more than your prejudiced and bigoted imagination. @Pioneer1 who then invented "race," indeed institutional racism, other than the greedy white boys here?

@Pioneer1 Hey man does this video above help you?

I know you reject science (genetics) and the meaning of words (concepts) when They don’t fit into your worldview. Both are mere inconveniences that you willingly reshape or reject out right to support a belief. It does not matter, for example, that science tells us there is only one human race. You have previously share articles that stated this explicitly but somehow you misread them to believe they supported the idea that there are multiple human races as defined by our genes. I’ll never give up on my brothers man. You peeped how pioneer finally acknowledged that he would rather live in 2021 than 1821 or even 1921. Baby steps man, baby steps...

Yep already on in: https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9780525509561 This book has gotten a lot of media attention.

LOL! Man, an unqualified reversal of your statement would be too much huh? Pray tell, what is the darn asterisk for? You know damn is someone could you butt back to 1921 or 1821 you would be fighting like hell. Do you think you would last more than 5 minutes in 1921? No TV, no Internet, no protection from STD's, no legal alcohol, no rights that white man was required to respect.

@Pioneer1 reread (with comprehension this time):

Dude I did not take the option away?! Pick any of the three years that you would like to live in. I chose 2021 and the choice is easy based upon all the available information I have consumed.