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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.

The image above is from a screen grab of a video I saw on the New York Times website (I'm pretty sure). They wrote an article about the election on Tulsa's mayor, a white guy in his early 40's. The most striking thing is that mayor, on his second term, the 4th Mayor of Tulsa in his family going back to the late 19th century! There was at least one Black guy running against him, the Black community is not happy with how the local government is treating their Black citizens. What else is new this is America... But I digress... Pictured s what is left of Tulsa's famed Black Wall Street. There is a tee shirt shop in the middle of the block. I did not see any designs I liked but I'll go back until I find one There is a modest museum and a church off the the right on the next block, but that is it. The Black Lives Matter sign painted on the street is actually controversial ... SMH @daniellegfny do you believe racism places a part in the destruction of what has become known as Black Walls Street? Do you believe that race has nothing to do with the guy currently running the city? The legacy of racism is broad and deep in this country. Why people on the right have difficulty seeing this is beyond me. The problems caused by the plutocracy and their most effective weapon racism is the cause. The new Mayor of Tulsa is incapable of solving the problems of the Black people there. He is the problem.

So not having to eat out of the trash is your standard, in one of the richest countries in the world? As far as shelter have you been to any major city lately? You obviously have not been to Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco.... unless you consider an overpass or tent "shelter." Righ wingers are way too comfortable enriching themselves even while those around them suffer. They rationalize this by saying the poor are at fault. Generally I find people who have really seen poverty and wealth are a bit more understanding and sympathetic, unless they are just sociopaths.

The kid was not viewed as a threat to the police, he is one of them. They encouraged him to get out of the street while they searched for unarmed innocent Bkack people to shoot.

Define high standard of living?

@Delano those examples are high profile exceptions, not the rule. I seriously doubt Nancy Cunard had a true friendship with any poor people. Man middle class Black peopledon't even hang with poor Blacks -- even if they are in their own families. There really us a caste system here in the U.S. At Stern we got to rub elbows with very wealthy people. How many are you regularly in contact with today?

I don't know any police procedure that would approve if shiiting someone in the back if they ate fleeing. Yes, I think there are many people with valueae lives who are handicapped (or whatever the PC term is). What is "Sodapop?"

Rothflmbao! Well I was married for almost 30 years so... But now that I'm single and have messed around a bit, I'd say a 40/50 sonething woman is superior to a 20 sonething. Yes there are women in there 40 who are tight and know what they are working with 😉 i dont have any experience with women older than me (that i can recall). I don't plan on hittin anything over 60 until im 70+ unless her name is Oprah Lol! But check this out when you share yourself with someone sexually way you exchange something more profound than a physical activity. I know I'd be happier now with one good woman that many different ones i don't have spiritual energy. When i was younger i did not care about that.

Word! There are several books on Shirley coming out, but they are getting drowned out by all the bullshit going down now. I try to associate myself with good people. I really don't care how much money they have. The way the country works we all tend to socialize with people in our same social class. Wealthy people don't hang out with wage earners. That only happens in Tyler Perry movies.

I did not watch the George Floyd execution yet. I did just now watch this shooting. I can see why the police would want to stop the guy from going into his car, but seems like they could have easily stopped him by just grabbing him. Did both cops shoot him? It is hard for me to believe "race" was not part of this action. The guy is lucky to be alive. It will be interesting to hear what he was thinking when walked around the car and reached into it whike two white officers have guns trained on. That act was suicudal. Don't we all know by now once guns are drawn you don't do anything you are not told to do? Sure @Pioneer1 if that white women was a billionaire and gave me unfretted access to her money she might have chance lol!

@daniellegfny you should certainly consider your sources. I used to listen to right wing talk shows all the time. The good hosts were entertaining and informative. In fact that is how I discovered Thomas Sowell. But these shows have devolved. The guys aren't relating conservative ideology they are exposing conspiracies and lies. Unfortunately the conservative talk are trash now. The scitechdaily site you linked to is very questionable too.

Dude if Danielle was able to say, That means we are talking at least 100 women. By the time a guys is as old as we are that is a realistic number. I'm not surprised. Guys in their 20s will screw anything not nailed down. The benefit to the Belgian senior citizen goes without saying. She probably related her experience with a young Black buck the rest of her life. Obviously. Melody does not strike me a being "needy" she is smart, attractive, young, and wealthy. She had her pick of quality Brothers and she chose George. She is operating on a level I don't understand. Obviously a vigorous sex life (they had a kid) is not important, which is surprising cause she is in her prime, while George looks like he would have trouble walking around the block. I think it was as simple as access to even more wealth and power. More power to her I doubt I could do it though.

Here is another example:

@Pioneer1 you are continuing to muddy the conversation and I don't want to go down a convoluted rabbit hole with you 😉 At the end of the day, there is no scientific basis to support your assertions in a genetic basis for the behavioral differences between people based upon their skin color. I don't buy into the idea that white people were created in a lab, are devils, and genetically predisposed to be evil. We will just continue to disagree on this.

I have not used them. But please share your experiences.