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"Supreme" accomplishment is a bit much, because most people have no desire to become president, especially the smartest and most talented people in the country. Still it is an impressive accomplishment, not I ever wrote implied that. My point is considering 99% of the previous presidents were white men it is much less of an accomplishment that it would be of an ADOS. @daniellegfny with all due respect that is magical thinking. "Investment" implies the possibility of a positive return. I'm sure your contribution, certainly not nearly large enough to even register, will have zero impact on the decisions made by this administration or any other republican administration. If I'm wrong tell me what you got, or plan to get, in return for money you gifted to Donald.

Maybe you guys are right. Someone just texted me an article describing increased violence in Portland. Apparently militia groups are killing protesters with aplomb. Oregon is very white state 78%. I believe it was even illegal for free Black people to live there. The vast majority of my new sales came from (presumably white folks) Seattle, so I don;t believe all the white folks feel threatened by the protests.

No doubt. white supremacy perverts both religion and science.

Yeah that line resonated with me too. I don't talk about my personal life much online ... But believe it, or not, my ex did not want to have anything to do with AALBC ... can you imagine? I never got any encouragement for her indeed I can point to concrete example of when she actively thwarted my efforts. I'll leave it at that. I never looked to the wider audience (white folks) for validation, thought I fully appreciate that it is needed today to make any real money. I work for the validation from Black people. If white folks appreciate what I do great, but that is not what motives me. While I don't need the validation of my partner, I will never enter into a long term relationship with a woman who does not support my work. I can only imagine what having a supportive Black woman by my side would have done for me and AALBC. Shoot, what would strong Black relationships do for the Black community in general? It is unimaginable.

Today, August 9, 2020 only, Pre-order the print version of The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley or His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie and choose a bestselling audiobook, of your choice. Here's how to do it: When you pre-order these print books from AALBC today, you’ll either receive the audiobook version or a bestselling audiobook from the author, courtesy of Libro.fm! Just email hello@libro.fm with your receipt from 8/29 (email purchase confirmation is fine), and Libro will send you an email with a link to your free audiobook, which you can keep for yourself or gift to a friend! The deadline to submit your receipt is Monday, August 31st, 2020. Learn more at Libro.

I'm currently reading. S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland. It is in the category of what I would put in a category of a "Man's Man" book LOL. In fact let me create a category for that and add a few titles ....stepping way for a few minutes ... Here are some books in the new A Man's Man Literature Category. The author S.A. Cosby will be in an online chat tomorrow (August 30, 2020) at 6:00 p.m. Eastern I'm one of the designated booksellers. In fact I have 9 autographed copies left. Click here to Register to Chat with S.A. Cosby

You are not sure why it is a bad thing to overcharge for a book? The explanation is self explanatory. You said it is a great book. If you truly believe that, then you should also believe getting into the hands of readers is important ... right? Think about this for a few minutes. Not as a greedy capitalist, but as a Black man who loves his people ... presuming that you do.

This is a big deal. A very big deal.

@daniellegfny I'm not going to try to explain how warped this perspective is, because you won't see it. Hopefully me saying it will get you to reconsider giving your money to a rich person who does not need it. That and a wiliness to burn other people= and go bankrupt numerous times. His tax records will become public one day and I imagine they will be quite revealing. The fact is 45 started life as a rich white man and has been successful is not a tremendous accomplishment. What is remarkable has been his ability make himself relatable, indeed a role model, to people like @daniellegfny.

Most ebook publishers will produces files in multiple ebook formats. I may not be able to listen live, but I'll check out the archive.

So you can relate to Trump @daniellegfny? That is remarkable given your background. I have no clue what this means.

Morning! Early bird! NRA membership, boy we defintely have different world views. What do you get out of the NRA? Besides supporting the people who fight to arm the poor soul who shoot up protests, schools, churches, night clubs, social gatherings, street corners, what purpose does the NRA serve?

I appreciate the sentiments @Dee Miller! I'm sure none of the Sisters discussed in this conversation would understand anything you wrote.

Wasn't Australia original populated with people formerly incarcerated in Europe? Never 🙂 Few starve to death from pride. They rob you first. We dont care of poor who are mentally ill due to fault of their own (lead in water, big phrama, drugs etc) We contribute to poor's ignorance, then hold it against then. I guess you have to define "civil war" @Pioneer1. I thought you meant armed conflict. When @Delano speaks of several civil wars he is not speaking of armed conflicts, so I'm more inclined to agree with him when speaks on the subject. How many guns do you own?

What are all the Trump supporters from the deep south? You would think Negros from the south would be the last people to support a Donald Trump. @Pioneer1 You talking about Hershel Walker with lip gloss? Leave him alone. That Brother is my age and he has a head full of thick jet black hair. I saw that brother run 100 meter dash once. When he said he would run people over that Brother ain't lying. The rest of the stuff I'm not so sure about... It is common knowledge that Donald does not treat all people like VIPs we know he beat countless vendors and contractors out of payments he owed them. we know he weaseled many students out of money with that bogus school he setup. I don't know if Hershel believed everything he was reading or how much he was paid to read it, but that was hard to watch. It was just as hard as it was to watch Jim Brown in the Oval office with the Kayne West. ----- The 2nd Brother was interesting until started the bullshit equating the old Republican Party of the middle 19th century with the Republican party 200 years later is tiring. Why do Black republicans keep raining that nonsense @daniellegfny? They pulled that crap in the Uncle Tom movie too. You do they think is stupid enough to fall for that -- besides themselves.. ----- The 3rd guy proves you can find anyone to do anything. A Black Democratic congressman, from Georgia, who openly supports Donald Trump is probably. He said Trump "destroyed the negative forces that has victimized the Black community" for decades. @daniellegfny, anyone, please tell me anything 45 did did to warrant that statement. I did not watch either convention. I can't subject myself to hours of lying.

OK I see the book. It looks like it is set up as POD. The terms are work for me as a web based book seller, who collects payment before the book is mailed to a customer. For a physical bookstore it may be more difficult because the books are non-returnable. Most stores will not take a chance, like that, on a new unknown author. Black Press Radio Posted this on Twitter 🙂 I'm not aware of a site selling all three formats (there are more than three), other than Amazon. Right now I see books directly. I use Libro.fm for audiobooks (Libro has plans to do ebooks), and My Must Reads for eBooks (they also sell audiobooks). Neither of these companies sell physical books.

You are right @daniellegfny do you want me to delete everything after this comment, the one that took everything off track? Also what is the ISBN13 of the book I'll check availability of in from Ingram. @Pioneer1 I can move your comments to another conversation

Is this for real? I did not know this. Seems Sistas like Ilhan are the rule, not the exception. He does not strike me as Muslim either. I'm still waiting to hear about a few one that married an ADOS.

Recently an article was published on the Oprah Magazine website, “119 Black-Owned Bookstores in America That Amplify the Best in Literature.” While I was not attributed as a source of the list, I know I was because my bookstore list contains at least one bookstore that is not a bookstore 😉. But the list was widely copied so who knows where they sourced the info (including my rouge “bookstore”). Unlike many of the other sites which used the list, Oprah Mag at least included AALBC as a store, so I’m good. Oprah Magazine also created another article, "12 Authors Share Their Favorite Black-Owned Bookstores." This is was an really cool thing to do too! One of the 12 authors, Mitchell Jackson, even cited AALBC.com as his favorite bookstore! But here’s is the thing, and it is a big deal, when mentioning the author’s books, the Oprah Magazine did not send readers to a single Black-owned store. Instead they linked to a white-owned business (bookshop.org), for the book sales — missing a tremendous opportunity to direct those sales to Black-owned bookstores’ websites! It is fine to say how much you support indie booksellers, but the biggest thing supporters of Black-owned bookstores can do is to send book buyer to our stores and websites. Far too many “supporters” send book buyers link to Amazon, and now increasingly, to Bookshop, while voicing support of Black owned bookstores (read more on why linking to Bookshop.org does not support Black-owned Bookstores). Several authors have told me that they don't want to show favoritism for one Black independent over another. However these authors easily show favoritism by linking to Amazon or Bookshop. In 2020 no one needs to be told they can buy a book from Amazon, and Bookshop gets free promotion that really was intended for Black-owned stores If you want to support Black-owned bookstores, stop promoting Amazon and promote a Black-owned bookstores instead! I know most supporters of Black-owned bookstores simply don’t know this, and this is why I'm writing the message. I didn’t know either; While I've been selling books, on the web for almost 23 years, most of that time I was selling books as an Amazon affiliate. Despite my advocacy for Black owned bookstores, I was completely unaware of how my affiliation with Amazon was undermining independent booksellers. Once I started selling books directly, boycotting Amazon just made common sense. However replacing Amazon with Bookshop is only a marginally better solution. Amazon pays affiliates 4% and Bookshop pays 10%, far less that what an indie bookseller would make on a sale. You have to actively support Black-owned stores if you believe they are important. The idea that Amazon has the best prices is often not true, so that argument no longer holds. Often books sales on Amazon are actually fulfilled by third parties anyway, so Amazon is not really adding any value. Indeed, they are reducing value by acting as an intermediary who make money on every transaction with zero risk. The American Booksellers Association (ABA) used to tout an solution called Indiebound.org which allowed supporters of indie bookstores to provide book links without showing "favoritism" to any particular bookseller or linking to Amazon. For example, if someone wanted to provide a buy to Mitchell S. Jackson's book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family they could use a link like this: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501131707. Once the book buyer reached the indiebound site they could enter a zip code, say my local zip code 33647, and a list of local booksellers would be shown. Indiebound would send readers to local indie bookseller sites to complete the sale. It seems like the ABA is pushing the Bookshop solution which is a mistake in my opinion, but again I advocate for independence. Reliance on Bookshop or Amazon to process our book orders and take most of the profit, is the opposite of Independence. Clearly Amazon wants us to be dependent upon them. I doubt Bookshop is any different. Now I understand that some brick and mortar booksellers are unable to sell books on the web and the pandemic has only made things worse by closing some — not all — physical stores. But imagine if the Black independent booksellers, who can handle the sales, got the business that we are sending to Bookshop. Support Black-Owned Booksellers.

How did white supremacy inform the behavior of Africans thousands of years ago? @Chevdove i say "myth" because i do not believe that some guy named Ham is the father of Black people (Africans) and that we have been cursed as a result. As far as African traveling through Europe with being the targets of white supremacy how would you explain the African popes?

I've been called a lot of things, but feeder of posion is a new one 🙂 Are you talking about enslaved Black people?

Two quick things. Why are you doing the reading in a car? The book cover graphic does not match the book you have in your hand. Is there a hardcover version also? Now I understand your screen name 🙂

Sorry i forgot who i was talking to. I wasn't talking about myself either. I've been to two of Reginald Lewis' homes and have been to at least one Billionares home on park have a triplex that took up three entire gloor of an apartment building on 5th ave... The vast majority of poor people will not do the things you or i just described. I really careful about taking my experiences and extending them to the general population. You should read a book called Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.