Troy

Dude, stop that. This is beyond setting up a strawman. No one is saying, or have ever said, being successful is callous. We can't have a debate or even conversations if you keep making insanely broad generalizations. Louisianan plantation owners were some of the most wealthy people on Earth at the time. But they were also the most brutal. Do you understand the manner in which one creates their wealth should matter?

Be sure to share a link to the recording.

Most cubans are "Black."

Sounds like a good idea, but would the drug dealers be disciplined, and do the right thing? It is worth trying. None of the pharmaceutical execs will do time for getting all those white kids strung out. 45 is pardoning all is Co-conspirators, some believe he will even pardon himself. Why shouldn't we be pardoned too?

Well I agree with that point. However the rest of it not so much. while it is true most of the world's billionaires live in the United States, the wealth gap here is probably greater than it is anywhere else on Earth. Most of the world's planet lives in relative poverty. Yes the United States is relatively much better off than the rest of the planet. But for a country so wealthy why does anyone here have to live in poverty? The reason is the system is truly rigged against black people we have been disenfranchised for hundreds of years here. So while whiteness by itself is not sufficient to explain the reason it is unbounded greed and that greed just happens to be held mostly by white people. I truly don't understand how a billionaire can live on the upper East side of New York City physically adjacent to East Harlem with some of the highest poverty in the country (when I was coming up) it boggles the mind how people can be so callous.

I did not know this either. Notice the word choice, "Niggas are broke these days."

Again, and I know this is beating a dead horse with you @Pioneer1, but there is no such thing as a genetic test for race, simply because there is only one race. Pioneer even you can't even look a person and clearly determine their so called race, as demonstrated by your balking at describing Master W. Fard Muhammad as a Black man.

...and the time and resources to time to train. It is not exactly trivial indeed it is a luxury most can't afford.

Dude don't hesitate to ask questions like that. Cynique did make her intentions known priori to leaving. We've exchanged a few emails since she left, but my most recent email to her fall did not get a reply. I considered checking facebook, but never did try. My mother used to always say, "all good things come to an end."

Sure, if that belief helps you get though your Turkey Day Danielle -- enjoy!

Absolutely, but this has nothing to do with what you understand as "race." Consider your statement: "When you have KNOWLEDGE OF SELF you will know better than to give AfroAmerican adults milk based products because most of our people are lactose intolerant." You know many so called Black people are not lactose and many white people are. The ability to break down that sugar come from a gene that came from those descended from farming cultures where the gene was naturally selected. You find these cultures in Europe and Africa.

🙂 No, we don't need Webster to validate our language -- we do that. True. Context is everything.

I have, and that is how my opinion was formed. Please share any documented story of one of the millions of people who have died and resurrected and I'll take a look at it (no Bible stories please). You, yourself, called the conversation "Near Death Experiences." Why go off the deep end and now say people have died and been brought back to life? Sure it seems real to them, but this is a mental disorder.

@Pioneer1 here is a comment from a guest poster that illustrates your point Questions are not the problem. Questions like, "What advancements were made by Blacks when they got the Pandemic Stimulus money?" Make no sense. My assertion that you are exhibiting troll-like behavior is not limited to this question it is based upon a pattern of your posts. Your strong, but baseless support of Trump, your Coiid denial, and other things strain credulity. Even your question, “What happen to the money all those instant millionaires received from the lottery?” tells me you did no research onto why some lottery winners burn through all their money. Still this has nothing to do with Black-owned businesses and just seems like weak attempt to disparage Black people, something a Troll does. Again, if I truly believed you were a troll you would have been banned already. It is not an attack just an observation. I've been running forums for over two decades my opinion is an informed one. If the "guru's" income is derived from telling YOU how to to get rich, then you are generally being deceived, because they are getting rich off of you.

@daniellegfny sorry, but previous experience tells me doing so would be a complete waste of my time.

Indeed.

Tulsa 1921

Yeah, things seemed to be better for us when we were forced to run our own schools and businesses. But I once we were free to patronize white businesses, Black-owned ones suffered -- unless they got the "white co-sign," which signals to Blacks that the business has been validated.

Humm your statements regarding slavery in this thread are a good start ...

Bacon, there is actually is no such thing as "mixed race." Culture is a completely separate issue and you should learn about both of your parent's cultures. We are all better served by learning about other cultures. That is one reason I operate this site, to provide a way for people to learn about different so called "Black" cultures.

Interestingly, I have never really distinguished the two words in this manner, but now that I think about it "Nigga" is the word I most often hear, as in; "Yo, wassup my nigga?" Now there is a distinction between different words and pronunciation. I believe nigga is just ebonics for nigger, so I'd still discourage use of the word, however you wanna pronounce it, unless you are interesting in being crass or strongly insulting someone.

I don't know about "many" Danielle, as Lisa wrote she only heard back from two. As a bookseller I don't want to have a bunch of accounts to manage, so if there is an indie title that I want to sell that is not in distribution I will just buy the titles from the author. There also has to be a good reason for me to buy the books outright. @Lisa Washington as a previous AALAS winner I'd be happy to add your books to AALBC. just email me your ISBNs as well as your bio and head shot troy@aalbc.com. If your books are in distribution great, otherwise we can talk about alternative way of selling your books on AALBC.

Hi @Lisa Washington, have you considered sharing the list of awards you are aware of here? I share the Black winners of almost 20 different awards here: https://aalbc.com/awards/ including some of the African American Literary Award Show. I would share more, but I can't get a list of the previous winners. Tell me which book of your's won, and the year, and I'll add it to the site. I'm not familiar with the Author Elite Award. Please share info and a website about it.

First, no one has ever "died" and been ressurected. People say a lot of things, but it does not mean these things actually happened. People hear voices all the time and some believe God or Satan is talking to them. Do you take these people at their word too?

Not me. Has anyone? This state can be induced with drugs. It is a mental state (biological), not a spiritual one.