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@daniellegfny "Lurker" describes someone who reads the forum but does not post comments. Posters, like you, are important for any discussion forum (thank you), but lurkers are important too because they provide the traffic required to sustain the website. No, that not it. My emotion attachment is to Black people. So when people do things, that I perceive will hurt us, I have an issue with that. There was a guy who posted here for just before you arrived. His name was Kareem. Like you he minimized covid-19, but he was in far deeper denial. He even maintained a blog in which is said that Black people were immune and that the deaths would never reach even a fraction of what they have already reached. I called him out on each provable piece of information shared. He ultimately he deleted all of his posts and left. I believe he was a true "troll." Danielle I don't think you are a troll, but i do believe that you have influenced by them. That Candice Owens meme you shared is evidence of this (do you know if the quite actually belongs to Owens?).

I'm no fan of Harris either, but you have three choices; Vote for Trump; Vote for Biden; or Sit out the election What are you gonna do @AJJones1007? Personally, I'ma hold my nose and do a #2 (pun intended).

I appreciate your candor @Jeffrey I wish more people would express themselves on the subject of book here, so thanks. Yeah, I was a diver back in the day the best in NYC Public schools my Sr. Year so I found Jabri Jumps cute yes the author is white https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Gaia+Cornwall in this case the author's race was immaterial to me. Same goes for Ezra Jack Keats, Diane Dillion, etc. This is America -- everthing is unfair to us especially in the book world. If you really believe in what you're created you'll figure it out. There is no other way. It will be hard, but try not to reinvent the wheel completely, learn from others.

Why don't you use this reasoning for you understanding of race? It wasn't the error that tells me that you are not a mathematician, how you interpret numbers reveals this. For example when you write, It just additional evidence. I won't waste time trying to explain to you why, on it's face, this is false, because you'll simply come up with reasons to dismiss it or ignore it like my reaction to your belief you can calculate covid death rate with the total population and the number of deaths. AIDS and Ebola require the exchange of bodily fluids. You can get covid19 from touching a surface or just being the same room with someone who has it. FAR more people will die from covid19 in any given period of time than will die from Elbola or AIDS. Maybe a few people close to you must die before this registers. Again, I know i'm wasting my time with you, but maybe some lurker who holds your belief will reconsider their position as a result of reading this exchange.

There are a couple of great friendships I have with a few white guys. If i treated them with the same distrust you would have my life would be less rich.

... and another thing @Mel Hopkins you know AALBC does not get get pre-publication galleys for any of the "big books" that come out. Books like Caste or How to Be an Anitracist , etc -- books that I sell a bazillion copies of... If I get one I have to request it every time. where white owned store get multiple copies final copies -- just because. I don't have to do this with indie publishers, like Akashic Books or Lee & Low or Red Sea Press or Black Classic Press or Kensington Books or Blue Nile I could go on ... Indie presses reach out and nurture relationships. with me. One exception, for me is is Amistad an Imprint of HarperCollins, they are exceptional, but that is due to the imprint's editorial director leader Tracy Sherrod. Our course I can go on about how Black booksellers are over looked by the large publishers for events. t is also true that big name Black authors themselves do not want to do Black bookstore events! In fact big name authors should, follow Walter Mosely's lead and do a lot more to support Black platforms. It is not just that the "Big 5" publishers do not give large advances to authors. Besides writers like Jesmyn Ward and NK Jemisen quickly earn out their advances and make a pretty penny on royalties. In fact, that is really what the conversation that should be -- forget advance size -- how much are Black authors earning and why, because the vast majority of published authors, or any color, do not get large advances. Where are The Big Five spending their ad dollars? Where are they touring their authors, do their in house publicists have a clue on how to reach Black readers? Do they even know the Black stores, sites, events to support utilize? At the end of the day the industry is steeped in classism founded in a culture of racism. the people who can made the changes are the ones writing Dana's check. Dana sounds serious about trying to make changes. I'm willing to give her a chance, but I'm definitively not holding my breath.

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Do you understand why you can't perform the calculation that way? Why do you reject the CDC's guidelines and data? You obviously are not a mathematician; are you an epidemiologist? Have you even reviewed the CDC's guidelines, or just do you just rely on social media memes for your information?

So I'm supoosed to base my life on your paranoid imagination? Speaking of gators this photo was taken from my patio. The garage is on the otherside of the house.

@daniellegfny spare us the big calculator graphic it does not bolster your bad math, reasoning, and data. You simply refuse to see propoganda for what it is and are contorting the lie into your reality. Maybe @Pioneer1's explaination for you doing this is correct, because I have no clue.

If you are a bookseller and do not have a copy of Isabel Wilkerson's new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, in your hands right now, you are probably gonna have to wait until the end the month to score any copies -- assuming you placed your order soon enough in advance to get copies before they sell out again. That is unless of course you are Amazon. Now Amazon is always doing something devilish when popular books are really scarce. Today they are selling a paperback version of Caste, for $41.18 -- more than the $32 retail price of the hardcover. OK Amazon will argue that they are not actually selling the book, but Amazon is providing the platform and profiting from the transactions. Now Caste has been published in hardcover and audiobook formats, but not paperback. So how is Amazon selling paperback version of this book? Are they selling pre-publication galleys (you are not allowed to sell galleys)? Are they selling a bootlegged version (piracy is illegal)? Did Random House give them the exclusive right to sell this the paperback version (that would not surprise me)? Any ideas how are is selling a paperback version of Caste?

Lets see what happens. Publishing is a business of white privilege. I just added L.L. to the site: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=L.L.+McKinney I never heard of her before.

This I believe has always been true. When cost is the only consideration, then people do not do the things that our collective best interest. Imagine cities without publicly funded libraries do you think someone would come up with a business to loan books? Shoot, there are very few people who have figured a way to make selling book profitable. The arts survive because of philanthropy. Think about how New York City is pricing artists completely out gutting the city of it's culture. The platforms exist. What is different today is the pull of a deluge of baser distractions. Are you gonna attract more young men to listen to Jazz or a Cardi B. Are you gonna draw a young lady's attention with TikTok or a literary novel? There was always room and a time for both, but today we aggressively focus on what makes money, so it is TikTok and Cardi B. I don't think Tony Brown and the people who produced his work were solely concerned with money.

I'm not going to bat for race soldiers. I'm just saying people say stupid things online under and alias. Should the person who made this asinine post today lose their job if they were uncovered? I'm sure someone could find something you or I posted here twist it up and make us look like racist, sexist, homophobic, men. No I'm not. Honestly, I was afraid of being killed, or badly beaten and robbed when I was a kid. Living in that kind of fear is not good for anyone. I left my garage door open for a few hours yesterday -- and I'm surrounded by white folks. Do you often encounter these race solders in the real world, or is your hysteria fueled solely from what you watch on TV and find on the web?

See @Pioneer1, @daniellegfny is big enough to admit when he is wrong. It is not that hard; you should try it 😉 Again, this is another example of how emotion clouds reasoning. Rather than seeing the meme for the misleading propaganda for which it is, Danielle doubles down by minimizing the deaths and explaining that all people die?! That retort does not make sense because while we all will die, very few of use do it by committing suicide. One thing I've learned on this forum is that people are not swayed by facts. It does not mean these people are bad, or have ill intent, it is just human nature. I guess. I've been guilty of it myself. I remember early on, I too, though wearing a mask was a waste of time. Because the masks that the general public has access to and wears will not stop the virus. However, I later learned, with Pioneers help, that marks do indeed provide some protection provided everyone wears them and stays a few feet apart from each other. It is a simply way to save some lives until herd immunity is achieved or a vaccine becomes available. Of course the ability to potentially contract covid19 again is a wild card. Life is full of trade offs and I get the fact that the lock downs have adversely impact the people lives. Municipalities must weight and consider a variety of factors. But wearing a mask is easy and should be considered a no-brainier. But again, people get emotional, stop thinking, and make mask wearing a contentious issue. The other thing, and this is important, the people MOST likely to be hurt by the failure to adopt these simple measure like wearing a mask are Black people. The numbers bear this out on every dimension. So why any Black person would do anything to undermine efforts to prevent the spread of this disease is COMPLETELY beyond me.

OK, are we good with "4 deaths for every 10,000 who contract the disease?" In order words, the rate of death being 4/10,000, or 0.0004, or 0.04% You know like; 10,000 deaths for every 10,000 who contracted the disease would be 10,000/10,000, or 1, or 100%.

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I think that is a really good idea what you are doing with the people involved in your books. Have you considered allowing people to leave comments?

Sadly, we don't chose our race. Still you and @E Coli (or @E_Coli) are on the same page with the race thing.

@Pioneer1 have you considered that they are actually sorry for doing something stupid? Haven't you ever done something dumb, but did not realize it until some called you on it? Once you were made aware if the dumb action you apologized for it. I find it hard to get bent out of shape for something some dummy said on their free time. I'm more interested in what he does. Everybody talks shit.

@Pioneer1. Still think Candice is cute? Assuming her percentage is correct, which would be a BIG assumption, because no one knows the percentage to that degree of accuracy. A 99.96% suvival rate works out to be a 0.04% death rate or 4 deaths for every 10,000 who contract the disease. The US population is about 330 million, using Candice's math we have already exceed that death rate. SMH If Candice is indeed the source of the quote in the meme. I'd be willing to bet she does not have the ability to determine if the quote makes sense. @daniellegfny you gonna continue to spread this misinformation?

So did you stay home?

Note: The links and images below were added by AALBC Black Classic Press Announces, The TMP Series, Books Authored and Formerly Published by The Majority Press Black Classic Press is pleased to announce the republication of selected titles authored by Tony Martin (1942-2013) and formerly published The Majority Press (TMP). At the time of his death, Martin was a preeminent authority on Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The UNIA, founded by Garvey, was the largest Black mass organization ever, with global membership estimated in the millions. A native of Trinidad, Martin introduced a generation of students and others to Marcus Garvey. His meticulous work solidified Garvey’s importance to Pan-African history, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power and African liberation movements around the world. Martin was one of the earliest scholars to view Garvey’s legacy as a lasting testimony in the struggles of Black diasporic people. According to Paul Coates, publisher of Black Classic Press (BCP), “Tony was an unbending scholar who fought hard to correct misperceptions about Marcus Garvey and Pan-African history. He fought just as hard for the rights of Black people to interpret and publish our history, unflinchingly, from our perspective.” In 1983, Martin founded The Majority Press, for those expressed purposes. “I remember talking with Tony prior to the founding of TMP. His first book on Garvey—Race First—had been successfully published in hardcover by a publisher who refused to issue a less expensive paperback edition,” says Coates. “Tony later obtained the rights for Race First and added it to TMP’s list. He issued a paperback edition, and then went on to author and publish other books on Garvey and Pan African culture. He also published several titles by other authors on related themes.” Black Classic Press has agreed with Martin’s estate to publish books from The Majority Press authored by Tony Martin. Initially, BCP will distribute books from the remaining TMP inventory. According to Coates, “As that inventory is exhausted, BCP will print and re-introduce the TMP titles as a series imprint.” With the addition of books from TMP, Black Classic Press becomes the leading publisher of books by and about Marcus Garvey. Race First, largely unavailable for several years, will be re-issued as the first book in the new TMP series. Its publication date, August 17, 2020 marks the 133rd anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s birth. All books in the TMP series will be printed, as needed, by BCP Digital Printing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Black Classic Press. “Our system of printing books as orders come in, has allowed us to survive and grow our list, keeping all of our titles in print and available,” says Coates. Attorney Kervin Simms, who negotiated the publishing arrangement for the estate, says: “We are delighted to make this arrangement with Black Classic Press as we continue to honor the legacy of Professor Anthony Martin. Paul Coates knew Dr. Martin as a scholar and peer publisher. He and Black Classic Press are the right partners to continue the legacy of The Majority Press.” ---------- Anthony “Tony” Martin February 21, 1942 – January 17, 2013 Tony Martin received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He was tenured at Wellesley College where he taught for most of his career. He founded The Majority Press in 1983 and was one of the foremost scholars on Marcus Garvey and the African Diaspora. Black Classic Press W. Paul Coates founded Black Classic Press in 1978. The company specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. Coates founded BCP Digital Printing, a state-of-the-art digital printing company, in 1995 as an affiliate of Black Classic Press.

It occurred to me that Alexa a metric I use in ranking the Top Black Owned Websites is owned by Amazon. They have their greedy little mitts in everything 😞 While not the best metric to evaluate a site it is one of the metrics that I use to evaluate the relative strengths of websites for my list. I have now dropped the links to Alexa and am sourcing the data from a 3rd party, SEOquake. Check out some cool indie Black-owned websites while you are there. I have updated the algorithm and some new sites have not made the top 50.

Angela was only 29 years old during the taping. She is deep. If it were not for its service to the ruling class racusn wouldn't even exist. Our schools, which teach racism, serve the ruling class as well. Fannie Lou would be dead 4 years later, and Stokely would die at 57.