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FAS I can't tell which owner is more intelligent, but I can tell you I would like to be the owner of and work for company #1. If the goals of both owners was to maximize wealth, controlling for all other variables, one could easily argue owner #2 is more intelligent given she is more successful at generating more more profits. America is optimized to encourage owner #2's, which is one reason wealth disparity is so high, workers are under so much strife, and our best and brightest clamor work for the likes of Facebook.

@Pioneer1 don't start counting your chickens before they are hatched; it ain't ova 'till that fat lady sings. All 45 needs is PA,NC, GA, and NV, which is completely plausible.

🙂 Man there are so many choices for some products, it does not make any sense. Recently I spent at least 5 minutes mentally evaluating the various tooth brushes on the shelves before I kicked my self saying "negro it is just a damn tooth brush pick one and lets get the heck outta here." Don't be too hard on yourself 🙂 I think this is what The Nation of Islam recognizes in the these men, good solders (can deal with all those rules 😉), but you will definitely find leaders among these Brothers, if the attribute is nourished. Something mainstream American culture is not too keen on doing.

Well I hope 45 does not win, for you sake 😉

Thanks Brother man!

Yeah it would be helpful to me if you created an account. Why won't you do it FAS? What is you concern?

Mosaicbooks.com folded years ago. Another one of the many Black-owned book sites we've lost. The number of web based, Black-owned booksellers is shocking small. AALBC. might even be the only site that has been their online bookstore from scratch. Ron is still active on the literary scene though he runs a non-for-profit called the Literary Freedom Project. Ron built his site from scratch too, but the web development dand ecommerce battles did not interest him. Man that is a great question. Your participation in this forum helps. Basically if a fraction of the people who brought their books from Amazon, or conversed on social media did so here it would be a different story. If a few celebrities did so on a regular basis forget about it LOL!

This might sound good to some, but this will not happen, for the reason you mentioned and more. That would be like telling Amazon they must fund AALBC's operations and 200 more sites like it.

Yes, I am who do you think was smarter? If you think Hilter was just as smart as Einstein, pick any dumb Nazi you can think of, then make a choice.

I come from a blue collar background too. Like many ADOS my age I was the first to go to college, first to work a desk job, etc in my family. This was a disadvantage of course... That said, are you telling me that of the people you grew up with you can not determine who will act the fool on a job you hooked them up with?

So we live in a "demonocracy" huh? Dude you are the one who should be looking it up. Whenever I present you with facts you don't change your belief. The word Democracy is not derived from the same root as Demon. But believe what you want, you are going to do it regardless of what I say, or what the fact are... All of them and none of them. The answer depends upon your meaning of "people of color" and "stable." Since the words mean what you say they mean, the answer is what you say it is.

I believe the young couple will get married (if they are not already), have a couple beautiful kids, and live a long happy life together. Just putting something more positive into the universe to counter all your negative energy against this couple. 😇

I'm forcing you to give me a specific incident because the are a variety or reasons any unarmed person might disarm someone with a gun, without a great discrepancy of intelligence being the reason. Maybe the unarmed person was faster and stronger, maybe the unarmed person was a Karate expert, maybe the gun jammed, maybe the wind blew something into the gun man's eye, who knows. Bottom line, in the vast, most cases he with the gun, assuming he is winning to use it, will call the shots. Who would put your money on in a physical altercation an unarmed Einstein or Hitler with an Uzi? ------------ Well any caption would be funny with this photo ... hell. this photo is funny without a caption. :-)

Mr. Strawman (aka @daniellegfny) you've changed the focus and are defending something I never contested but that is fine. I just want to point it out because I don't think you honestly actually see what your are doing.

I'm glad I have not encountered any women who have expressed this sentiment to me. Of course that is possible, but people in power don't have to stress over that possibility. There are plenty of Brothers who would not behave that way in a professional environment. I would think you would be able to determine whether someone you recommended would behave that way before making the recommendation. Your concern seems contrived. Honestly, neither do I, not really. I do know I can't possibly do what they have done. The system does not work that way for us. These guys have access to the capital markets (investors), schools (quality education) and connections (being white in America) that Black people can not possibly have for several generations at least. Think about it. roughly 25 years ago Jeff decided to sell books online. Not exactly a novel idea, but he had connections on walls street who gave him enough money to sell books at a loss until he dominated not just the book business bit online commerce in general. Jeff did not make profit for at least a decade. but the kept pouring in. If you were I were operating that like we would have viewed as failures for not making any money. But Jeff and the wall street backers were playing the long game, for they knew Jeff was building a monopoly. No Black man has ever been allowed to do this, however the tech sector is exploding with young white boy with ideas that are being funded to see what sticks. The best we can do is hold out hand out on some crowd funding site.... Good, she does not need to know him LOL. I hope you hipped her to AALBC 😉

Here we go!!! ROTFLMBAO! Sterotypes have destroyed you ability to reason ... seriously.

What?! I keep forgetting the foundation of your understanding of a variety of subjects would allow you to make that statement, so nevermind... LOL! OK, then name three such instances from history. @Pioneer1 step back and reflect on why this statement might be true. Play devil's advocate. So called white people do stupid shit too, as @Delano implied stupidity is evenly distributed. You just did not grow up around white people so you were not exposed to their stupid behaviors. I know you operate on a belief system based upon your personal observations, but surely you can imagine a scenario where white do dumb things too. Do an internet search for "Florida Man." BTW @Pioneer1 your photos with humorous graphics are cute, I know they take a minute to create and I appreciate the effort -- thanks!

If you happen to be lucky enough to live in Los Angeles, CA have access to Malik Books (pictured), Reparations Club, and Eso Won! Both Mailk Books and Eso Won been in business for over 30 years and are cultural institutions. They also approach the business of books from a historical context -- which is important. For example, I don't have to explain why using Bookshop for a store's website is not only bad for your store, but bad for indie bookstores collectively. You may learn more about these terrific stores and others from across the country, on AALBC’s list of Black-owned Bookstores: #readingblack

Ours is the longest running and most visible bestsellers list focused on Black Books. As a result you will learn about book selling well, in the Black community, that will never show up in the venerated NY Times Bestsellers list. Sure there is some overlap with the NY Times list books like Caste, are popular in the white community too I would love to see all of the independent booksellers, who focus on Black books, come up with a bestsellers list, but that is a surprisingly difficult thing to do, for a variety of reasons. Here are the best selling books on AALBC for September and October of 2020. Read more here.

@Pioneer1 you over looked this statement do you agree with it? When has that ever happened? I'm talking about reasoning, critical thinking, history, math, etc, not how to dominate others.

Where do you get you understanding of voting? It is 2020; the country did not even exist in 1761.

Hummm OK @daniellegfny good thing we had Trump in charge during the this global pandemic, huh?

Of course. This is why I left Wall Street brought a place in FL and started running AALBC full-time. Of course I make a lot less money, but I have never been freer. This is why people like Candice, Harris, and Omorosa mess with white folks they value money, power, and fame. @Gibran is right when I got out of grad school and had white connections. I always got my jobs through people I know and all those people where white. There are some Black people who'd hook other Black people up, but those Black people are rare; (1) because we don't often have roles where we are in a position to hire someone and; (2) when they do they are often not included to hook another Black person up. Like Obama, they don't want to be perceived as showing favoritism. I agreed with most of what Boyce said it his video. Too bad his platform his social media, otherwise I might engage with him. This is true and it is hard to communicate this to people, because you come across a reactionary and angry. People often ask me what do you have against Amazon or Facebook. The bottom line is that Jeff Bezos is clear: he wants to completely control ecommerce -- perhaps all commerce. He is not playing; he straps up everyday ready for combat! His wealth is a testament to this attitude. As far as white people valuing our skills, they value their skills first. I remember how these book bloggers would get so much attention from the white media about their little blogs -- how influential, creative, and trailblazing they were. I compared what they were doing to what I was doing with AALBC and could not believe it. Of course all of those Bloggers are gone and AALBC has grown, but do I expect the white media to applaud me -- of course not. In 2020 white media's attention has moved on. Today some instagrammer with 100,000 followers is praised as the next great thing, while AALBC can get that many page views in a day. The white media does not care about what happens on Black platforms, we are invisible to them. Instagram's (owned by Facebook) market cap does not benefit us. Popular people on Instagram --even if the are Black -- benefits Instagram and that Black individual (temporarily). So the media praises and covers whatever goes on Instagram, and the platform is bolstered as a result. For those who care about books this is why I boycott Amazon and the new outfit Booshop.org. Those platforms have waged war against indie booksellers, publishers, distributors, and writers. Again if we don't see it we have already lost. War requires an army and sacrifice. If too many of us partner with the enemy, for personal gain and the rest of us are not willing to sacrifice we are ill prepared for, and can not engage in battle. As a result we are left fending for ourselves and this is pretty much our position today.

So @daniellegfny you do you believe fewer people would have died if Trump had reacted differently to the Covid-19 crisis, which is worsening as we speak? You obviously don't believe Trump benefited from Obama's administration and many of the accomplishments listed are Obama's.

Your premise is flawed. The right to vote has nothing to do with the taxes you pay. However our representation is a function if how much money you have. The very wealthy control our government. The U.S. is a plutocracy. Party does not really matter very much. Real change, to @Pioneer1's point, will only come through revolution. The civil war was needed to end slavery. Real change only comes after some pain Voting only really matters in the short term, real change, at least one that will make our government truly representative and enable everyone to share in the country's prosperity won't come easily.