Troy

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.

Well when you shared that quote in isolation it reads pretty harsh, but I not sharing anymore of Candice's nonsense any more. How do you define smart? But I think I found the source of my distain of Candice. She Black, articulate, and easy on the eyes. This stands in stark contrast to words that spew from her pie hole. This creates a cognitive dissonance in my head. If she were an white man saying the same thing it would not bother me nearly as much -- this rhetoric is expected. Imagine if Candice used her power for good instead of evil. She would be a very powerful sister!

This really is a good idea. Actually this is the kind of thing that I do on my own. How would this be funded?

Please share this documentation. How did it escape the scrutiny of journalist I wonder?

Are you signing up to do it. I'll be at your disposal to answer any questions you might have. When we had the conversation back in March, booksellers were facing an existential threat -- indeed some still are. But, shortly after the public execution of George Floyd things changed abruptly. Large numbers of people, most white, begin to buying "anti-racist" books. These people actively supported Black-owned bookstores. Not only were some bookstores thrown a life line, many experienced record levels of sales! This surge on business exposed some problems. Many booksellers could not scale to mean demand. Companies like Amazon and, most aggressively Bookshop.org, swooped in a took business that really was intended for Black booksellers. Many platforms from the American Booksellers Association to Orpah Magazine (online) helped play up Bookshop while marginalizing or outright ignoring Black booksellers. I'm in the process of trying to create a coalition of booksellers committed to working together and sharing best practices. This will be hard because I'm resources constrained as are many booksellers. Seven months have already passed and we have not reconvened...

Guest are you looking for a paid internship? What type of role or experience are you seeking?

YouTube really knows how to incite me... I may need to take a break from YouTube or figure out a way to put on blinders when I'm uploading my videos. At any rate, the woman @Pioneer1 lusts after has a new book out. Below is a video in which she discusses ideas from the book. One is the statement that Black living in American today are the luckiest ones to have ever lived. Besides the statement being absurd on it's face. The implication (correct me if I'm wrong) is that we should, on some level be grateful that our ancestors we enslaved. When Candice gets in front of white people and say shit like this I just want to stomp her into the ground. @Pioneer1 this person physically revolts me -- seriously. I like to share all of our voices on this site, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to share Candice's work here. I'm not even sure if sharing her ideas -- if only to refute them is worth the effort... Maybe there is a reason Simon & Shuster (S&S), the publisher of Candice's book is the only major publisher to have never purchase an ad on AALBC. S&S authors have purchased advertisements, but never the company.

First these are not debates. The pretense is annoying. Why can't the people running these debates simply cut the speakers mics? Why can't the moderator force the speaker to answer the questions asked. The Dems are unhappy the Republicans are going to confirm another Supreme Court Justice; they should have worried about that 4 years ago. If they plan to add more justices -- admit it. It is obvious they plan to do that. Pence saying democrats want to allow abortions up to the the moment of delivery is aburd. How can the candidates be to simply say anything. There was very little useful information related during the debates. I already voted so the debates can't influence my vote, but none of these debates made me feel better about my choice. Brace yourself sports fans...

howabout covidiots and covidiablos 🙂 Is Dr. Wesley a medical doctor? None of what he said passes muster with me. But I can easily understand why people would believe it. @Pioneer1 did you observed many covid-19 effected white boys running around your neighborhood coughing on money and going on shipping sprees?

The government could buy the data from Facebook 😉 Seriously the Government has all kind of demographic information on us fron a variety of sources. Of course the government does not really know how much money people actually make, because everyone has an incentive to hide income. Does anyone believe waiters and hair dressers report all of their tips? A good panhandler can rake into more money than an uber/lyft driver and the government has no clue how much that is. The numbers are however indicative. Given the number of people being evicted and waiting on lines for free food. There are too many people not making a decent wage while wealthy people pay little or no taxes.