Troy

Your skin folk ain't always your kin folk. Similarly, people who aren't your skin folk can be your kin folk in action and mentality. While the prospect of me marrying a white woman is virtually nill, I can not really come up with a good reason to tell another Brother not to do it. If you subscribe to Cress-Welsings idea that Black people can annihilate white people generically perhaps this is something we should encourage 😉

This is a terrible solution. Sometimes, even advertisers, will tell me that they don't see their ads on AALBC. 100% of the time the reason was that they were blocking ads -- all my ads are books. Users of ad blockers don't understand that this hurts sites like AALBC. Ad block users are usually not sophisticated enough to white list the sites support. As indie sites are hobbled and the ultra-massive corporate sites get stronger. Google ads often get around these ad blockers. You can't "opt out" it is built into the way the internet works. If you visit a site you also communicate the last site you were on and where you came physically located. This info is logged and shared. That is just the tip of the iceberg

So you take Google at their word?

I think this a great idea. In fact this is my reasoning with the book I have. There are many book that are published by Black people that we could monopolize, but the problem is too many Black people are making too much money selling these books on Amazon as third-party booksellers. Unless that changes we will never be able reap the financial rewards that come with ownership. Black people did not publish Morrison, but we published Brooks. But again today most* of the books published by TWP make their way to Amazon. If we stopped selling to, and buying, our book from Amazon, the Black Book Ecosystem could thrive. Getting Amazon out the mix would help a great deal. *I don't know what percentage of Third World Press' (Haki's publishing company) books are sold on Amazon, but it is significant.

It seems there is a big difference between what Google shows you and what they show me. Remember back in the summer I asked what if I married a white woman? It seems Boyce is clear on how he feels about that.

What Google shows you will be different than what google shows me. Don't believe me, this is what Google says. Your searchs are definitely used to decide what to show you. The Google ads you see here are customized to you. Even your sesrch results are customized. You really did not know this huh? The web is our best hope for media control. But too many of our people are fixated on the facebook sites and Twitter. This will change over time I believe.

This will be the very next thing i read, once I get my hands on it. Given how much has changed since it was written i doubt it will have much practical application today. I'm interested in the the motivation and goals. Plus we have the benefit of hindsight.

I just uploaded a video and here was what Google's YouTube showed me. Ever since I watched the Candice Owen's Video YouTube as been showing me here videos every single day. Now it is unfortunate Google shoves these video in from of me. Does Google have a plan to marginalize Kamala Harris and discourage Black people from voting for her with these videos? I dunno, but YouTube's behavior would be indistinguishable from a planform that had that agenda

Not necessarily. Sometimes you have the share the thing you are talking about to make a point. I do it myself from time to time. The question you really should be asking yourself is, what is it about your behavior that tells the entire WWW to send you this type of content? I was completely unaware of the "controversy" until you posted it here. I agree with you; it much ado about nothing, designed to incite engagement and revenue for the platforms sharing this bullshit.

Plus 45 is not exactly the picture of health. Since 45's lying may be pathological. I would not put it past him make up this lie to say the had the virus, and beat it in a few days, to demonstrate to people like Danelle that the virus is nothing to worry about and to show how strong he is compared to that pus*y Biden, who is running around with a mask on 24/7. Getting others to follow this scheme would not be a heavy lift for him. So no, I would not be surprised if it is ever discovered that 45 did not have the virus.

Sad but somewhat true...

Yeah you have a proclivity for exaggerating @Pioneer1. What you initially described were actions. The evidence you posted was merely talk. There is a big difference between the too. I would have believed that white supremacists would talk about spreading covid-19 in the Black community; they talk about a lot of things. You have not presented proof of them actually doing it. I mean neither you or I have gotten it, but their president has (supposedly), so if did actually do what you claim, things seem to have backfired.

The book Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation Edited by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson was published in March of 2020. Tragically the owner of the publishing company passed earlier this year, so I was never informed of the book's publication until I inquired about it this summer. I immediately purchased a box of books which I promptly sold (making it an AALBC bestseller for the upcoming period). I noticed the books were not in distribution and inquired about the remaining inventory. The family decided to shut down the publishing company (Konecky & Konecky) and were motivated to sell the books. I made an offer to buy out the entire inventory, and the following week a pallet of books were dropped of at my front door. Have you ever stored a pallet of books in your home? Fortunately, I have a two car garage and one small vehicle. Now, how the heck do I sell all of these books? Amazon has a $1.7T (yes trillion) market capitalization, and sells more printed books, online, than all other booksellers combined. At first glance it seems foolhardy to ignore Amazon as a platform to sell one's book. Well you can call me Troy "foolhardy" Johnson, because I'd rather give the books away than sell them on Amazon. Since I have a monopoly on this book, I can keep all new copies of this book off Amazon's site. The screen shoot of the book on Amazon, from October 12, 2020, below shows three used copies of the book on Amazon. There are three sellers of the book on Amazon and each sells has only one copy. I'll monitor Amazon to see if any of the copies I sell end up on Amazon as new. Other than a newsletter mention and a couple of social media posts I have not done much to push this book. I did have an ad running, but I took it down to make room for paid advertisers. Here is what I plan to do moving forward: I will create an affiliate program such that anyone who direct a reader to AALBC who buys the books will earn $5. $5 is a huge commission on the sale of a book retailing for $19.99. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I will also reach out to indie booksellers and offer them the book at a 60% discount and pay for shipping. Below is a video I created for the purpose. I have not shared the video yet. Lets see what happens.

I don't know Dr. Westley, but I do know you are prone to buying into conspiracy theories, so... Dude, what is with all the theatrics? Do you have a credible source, substantiating organized white supremacists executing a plan to infect Black communities with Covid-19 by using infected supremacists, or not?

No I've not read the book, but the book has been on the site since it first came out. I added it for the reason you brought it up. Have you read it?

1990 seems like yesterday hard to imagine it was 30 years ago. So mych has changed since then The list is missing a few stores that I know were open in 1990 at least two are still open Hakim's in Philly and Marcus in Oakland. National Memorial Bookstore is long gone the building ut wasnin was torn down years ago. Now there is a statue Memorializing Adam Clayton Powell.

Curiously, i didn't consider that possibility. Naive on my part. Then you are in the minority. Take an articulate person and an emotionally charged topic and you'll have someone that can wreck havoc or motivate people to do great things.

More than 60% of the products Amazon sells on it's website are sold by third-party vendors. These third-party vendors are known to artificially inflate the prices, and sell counterfeit, of books. If you care about book and the people who wrote them skip Amazon's Prime Day and buy your books from a real bookseller. Amazon Often Sells Books for More than the Retail Price. Consider, PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson. This book sells well in the Black community, but is largely marginalized by the mainstream media (why is a topic for another post). Amazon, as you can see from the screen shot below (taken Oct 12, 2020), is selling the book for $36 (not including tax and shipping). This is a 30% increase over the book's listed retail price of $28. If you look at a few of, the Black-owned bookstores who are selling PowerNomics. You will find we all are selling the book at $28. AALBC.com MahoganyBooks Sankofa Video Books & Cafe Umoja Books and Products (selling at $26) African Bookstore You can also buy the book directly from the publisher My new archrival, bookshop.org, does offer PowerNomics for sale. Some will argue that Amazon is not the entity selling PowerNomics, and are not to blame for the inflated price. Amazon is simply providing the platform to sell this book. This may be true, but after two decades of training consumers that they are the best place to buy books cheaply, most shoppers will not make the distinction and often pay more for a book they can buy more cheaply from an honorable bookseller. You'll also note that Amazon does not present the retail price of the book when they over charge for it. This tells me they are aware of the practice and are deliberately hiding the fact that the book is being sold at a price higher than retail. If PowerNomics were a rare, or out of print book, the price increase would be understandable. But this is not the case, the motivation is purely profit. This situation with Amazon is the antitheist of the principles and spirit of "PowerNomics." In a 2017 letter to share holders Amazon announced, "In 2017, for the first time in our history, more than half of the units sold on Amazon worldwide were from our third-party sellers..." In 2019 the percentage was 60%. Who are these third-party booksellers anyway? Last year the New York Times reported on the sale of counterfeit books on Amazon: "But Amazon takes a hands-off approach to what goes on in its bookstore, never checking the authenticity, much less the quality, of what it sells. It does not oversee the sellers who have flocked to its site in any organized way. That has resulted in a kind of lawlessness. Publishers, writers and groups such as the Authors Guild said counterfeiting of books on Amazon had surged." We know third party booksellers on Amazon often sell the promotional copies of book provided by publishers. They also sell used books as new. When this happens neither the publisher, or the author, makes a penny on these sales -- but Amazon profits on each of these sales, so the practice continues unabated. Amazon's practices weaken the entire book industry. The only beneficiary is Amazon. Readers, if you want to do something positive for Amazon Prime Day, and in the spirit of PowerNomics, shop @AALBC, and #ShopLocalBookstores

1. The likelihood is high, almost certain (assuming you are not holding the document back to play some silly game). 2. Sure if it came from a reputable source -- like the FBI themselves

So Candice saying as if it were an undeniable fact, rather than her misguided opinion, that Black today in American are better off than any that ever lived is "Knowledge" and reflective of a high level of intelligence? It is not uncommon for other to confuse someone who speaks well with intelligence. We used to call that the gift of gab in the corporate world. An attractive white person with the gift of gap could do quite well for themselves financially.

I think if most people could earn a wage that you described with benefits and a retirement plan, people would work -- even jobs they did not care for.

So the correctness of one's knowledge does not matter?

Everything else you wrote after this can be ignored, since you can not produce the evidence as reoorted by the FBI.

Is this before or after taxes? If $52K a year is what you are earning in NYC you'd be struggling, without any additional resources of support, you'd be struggling. Some of my middle class peers were able to pay their kids college tuition, start them out with a car, and a down payment on a home. Most of us, like myself, start out in the hole. Owning your own business is a way to create wealth, but it is a LOT harder that getting a job with a decent wage and benefits. I did both for years.

I actually disliked Kamala's 'tude, but I appreciate that many Black people find that appealing. Thought I'm not sure if that was the best strategy to deal with Pence. It would have been much better against Trump, because he would have blown a gasket. To his credit Pence kept his composure. The surprising thing about the fly was the length of time it spent on his head. I heard it said that flies are attracted to shit.