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... and Black people too. The speaker, Jeffery Robinson, offers a thoughtful, factual, measured, and critical lecture on racism's impact on Black Americans. Some of you may be tired of trying off explaining to good meaning white folks what racism is and how it has hampered Black people and enriched white people. When white people ask you to explain racism, you can point them to this video.

DeAngelo, I definitely did not expect you to reveal your government (assuming you actually did 😉). I deleted the extra posts. Sure we know there are racists on the police force. They are in every facit of society. Whether they are actively planning an armed race war is debatable. Why? The mental race war has been quite effective thus far.

Sure, I can add the other books. Just list the ISBN13s here. List the Audiobook ISBN13s too. I can add that you are interested in speaking to clubs and at festivals but that is generally assumed. If you also give me your website addresd I'll add it to your page so that people can contact you.

Hi Yvonne thanks for popping by. I'm familiar with your work of course: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Yvonne+Battle-Felton I see I made your book unavailable for sale on the site which means I could not buy it from a distributor. I was not aware of the 2020 version. I'll check out and update my site with that version. Let me know if there is anything else I can add to your pages here on AALBC.

Some would rather see the country go down in flames first. But most, enough I believe, have some sense and are not threatened by this inevitable change.

It is interesting Schtever that you touted facts and statistics however you emphasized a statement in capitals that is simply wrong. A Black man in America has a much higher chance of being killed by a cop than being stuck by lightning. When people mix facts with falsehoods I begin to consider whether the person is ill-informed or deliberately trying to decieve. I never have to consider it very long becsuse it is always revealed rather quickly. How would you prefer to see people react to the lynching of a man, in broad daylight, by an officer of the law over 20 bucks? Please feel free to express yourself freely. In 20+ years I've only removed one post. Sow away 😉

Obviously, so why use it to justify the alarm? I don't even give people, who bullshit in Instagram any grief. Short of providing AALBC, I can't do anything for them to make their lives bearable. Pictured is Clay county's entire police force. It is located between nowhere and the boondocks. No one has plans to protest there. There will be no need for them to 'round up a posse.

I think Marc was just trying to take advantage to Candice's platform to sell his book, Nobody, which is quote timely, but I think the white community lowered his value after he defended Palestine. They have moved on to Ibram Kendi as the Black spokesperson on race.

True, but and most of us, like me, just ignore the information. Just there are some nosy people who poke around but they are largely harmless. Savvy marketers, trolls, business, and the government are mining the internet and using it to exploit us, but that cat horse left the barn long ago.

FAS To reduce Candice to a "scumbag" is overly simplistic. A failure to understand her motivation and why she is so effective would be a grave error. @Pioneer1, Candice dominated the conversation because she was FAR more prepared than Marc was -- even down to their demeanor, posture, and attire. He was clearly on the defensive because he failed to intellectualize her, and got run over as a result.

@Pioneer1 I would happily open up the site and allow people to post completely anonymously. Unfortunately, that became impossible long ago as hackers, spammers, and trolls take advantage and abuse open systems. Still all AALBC requires is an email address, which is easy to create anonymously. Billions of people give social media far more. Posters should just help me out and create an account. The Black church is still an institution. I just don't know how well they serve the most needy in our community.

We are definitely capable. However, we will not do it until we start to respect the institutions we have in place and build more. This is why the best and best and brightest, in the global Black community fight to give talent to enrich likes of Facebook or Goldman Sachs. @Pioneer1 if folks like FAS and Queenx created or used their accounts it would make things so much simpler -- I have to manually approve their posts, which is a pain really.

@Pioneer1 we do not control any of this. We did not choose to use Floyd's murder to ignite the recent rash of civil unrest. And damn, I wish we could have generated the campaign that has recently enriched so many Black bookstore owners. I mean stores were look at failing and many are looking at recorded profits! (revenue any way, as actually fulfilling orders of high demand books during a pandemic has been particularly challenging). I did not know Floyd committed an armed home invasion (did I mis-hear Candice?). Sure I can agree that Floyd is not the poster child for model behavior, but again we did not choose him as the cause celebre. So he is the guy. Yeah they are sound the same, as they use the same playbook. Candice strikes me as genuinely sincere, sort of like Thomas Sowell. I've read several of Sowell's books and he helped me think about race in ways that you would not normally if you only listened to the left. I found it interesting that Candice referenced Sowell. I did not get the impression that Marc knew who Sowell was. The thing that both Sowell and Owens seem to miss is that white folks don't play fair, because they do not have to. They are in the majority, have benefited from centuries of white privilege. They control our narrative, and as a result control our lives in ways most don't appreciate.

The article is pretty interesting, not because there were any revelations for me, but the Times spoke with a great mix of people. Professionals that have about 200 years of experience in the world of books. Janifer runs the only Black-owned bookstore in Manhattan, Sister's Uptown. In 20 years of selling books, she admitted that she has never profited from the sale of books until this June (AALBC made more money selling books in June of 2020 than we did selling book in all of 2019). Tracey Sherrod's Amistad is a sponsor of AALBC. AALBC is the largest platform dedicated Black books in the history of the web. It is because of Tracey that AALBC sponsorship from a major publisher. It is not charity, because we provide great exposure for books, but don't have to explain this to Tracey. Linda Duggins is an old friend, we first met during the Harlem Book Fair over 20 years ago. She has cohosted the Black Pack Party with me since it's inception. In fact, Cherise and Ebony have attended the several Back pack parties in the past. This years celebration was cancelled for obvious reasons 😞 Actually there was one revelation; I was previously unaware of Kerri Greenidge's work, however I was familiar with William Trotter, the subject of her most recent book. Erroll McDonald is the most senior person, both in position and age, in the group. Indeed, he is probably the most senior Black person in all of publishing. We have never met.

An author, literary agent, marketer, publicist, editors and booksellers talk about how race affects their careers — and the books you read. Clockwise from top left: Linda Duggins, Tracy Sherrod, Erroll McDonald, Cherise Fisher, Janifer Wilson, Kori Wilson, Kerri K. Greenidge and Ebony LaDelle. “The industry has long been criticized for hiring and retaining so few employees of color — according to a survey of the work force released this year by the children’s book publisher Lee & Low Books, only 5 percent are Black. But the calls to diversify have intensified in recent weeks, as Black professionals have publicly shared long-suppressed frustrations about how racial prejudice has affected their work. In publishing, that has included discussions of hiring practices, workplace microaggressions and publishing companies’ treatment of books by Black writers.” Read the entire article at the New York Times.

True. My problem is that few seem understand this. As a result, we don't do anything about it. I'm not so confident this will change.

@QueenX which profit would that be?

I have not seen anything nearly as compelling as these videos from tbe Dems -- and I avoid misinformation from 45's camp. A conventional election can not take place. Many more ballots will be cast by mail, which 45 already says is rigged. Perhaps this is how "stealing" an election takes place.

This was going to be done anyway, before covid, before civil unrest. If he is released it is probably because he does not belong in jail.

Pure Evil. Probably pulled over for a busted tail light.

Now you really getting carried away, LOL!

I shared a link to the above of Twitter. Again using Twitter will not make a difference. Garbage that is twitter's stock in trade. Note: right at the top of my feed is a retweet of one of 45's tweets. It was retweeted by a Black author. The following is not a personal attack, but this Black author, whose work I've supported for almost 20 years, has not retweeted anything I've written about Black books in a very long time, but she actively engages with 45 -- retweeting, commenting, and sharing. She is not alone. Fully a 1/3 of my 7K followers on Twitter follow 45! Everyone justifies covering 45's tweets because he is the president, but this started when he was running. People love to talk about him, which merely amplifies his message. I don't know anyone who likes the individual mandate, so retweeting the message may actually be helping 45. I say never feed the trolls, but trolls know how to get their messages amplified. 6k comments, 6K shares and 22.6K likes in 32 minutes. This is POWERFUL. To put this in perspective, this kind of engagement always results in thousands of dollars of revenue when it happens to my social posts, and 45 can do this this several times a day! Someone is making many millions of dollars off 45 tweets. If anyone shared my link, it would be a small miracle. In fact, I really don't believe many of my followers will even see my post and if they do they really won't care about it enough to comments, share, like, or visit the site to read more. We can not use social media to get people to think differently about science, climate change, or Covid19.