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H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science journals. wrote an editorial, "Persuasive words are not enough." Thorp concludes with the following: "The scientific community is losing the battle against this digital leviathan of misinformation. A well-reasoned and highly placed op-ed on this topic is not going to move the needle, no matter how well it is crafted to adhere to the best practices in science communication. Neither is a perfect trade book, television appearance, or speaking tour by a scientific leader. The only way to win this fight is to harness the same sophisticated tools in the name of science that are being used to tear science down. With social media companies afraid to challenge the misinformation machine, even when their own platforms are being misused, the task is daunting. But we can at least move on from the idea that if we could just find those perfect, persuasive words, everyone would suddenly realize that facts are facts with no alternatives." I stumbled across article as a result of listening to Bill Nye argue with Fox News Tucker Carlson over climate change. I usually ignore everything combining out of Fox News, but I like Bill Nye and I wanted see how he'd fare against Tucker. I did not agree that scientists have to "the same" sophisticated tools. Fox news and social media will not work. They are designed and optimized to spread disinformation. Tucker absolutely cast Bill Nye's message in doubt, especially if you are already inclined to disbelieve that man has any impact on climate change or have little background in logic. Science does sophisticated tools, but they will need to be new ones. The rate of climate change will continue to accelerate.

Nothing Kareem saud was backed by the news or science. Nothing in his Blog (did you ever read his blog) posts ever came to pass. That is why he never came back, cause he was a troll or not willing to swallow his words. No, i agree with you. Just not for the same reason. Wealth inequality is powerful tool to protect rich white folks. You are fortunate to have this option, many people do not. Which again is why wealthy people who are disproportionately white are relatively safe or will be properly cared fornuf infected ... unlike most of us.

At the end of the day you are probably. Social media has brilliantly exploited human nature to get people to engage and share in ways that most of us would have looked down upon. Most people don't really want ideas challenged. Many will say what is politically correct to get approval. Then of course there are trolls... I think this, of course, is superior to just a couple raising a kid, in isolation, having to pay for a baby sister and living in communities where they don't know their neighbors. But Black people have had to move for opportunity, so community for many have been destroyed. I've never seen a study on this but anecdotally, seemingly, many of use no longer have this.

Went over my head...

...humm reopen the case and proclaim him innocent? Seems highly unlikely, but i have not really followed the story, so you may know better.

There is a lot to follow here with sources ranging from fox news to tariq nasheed. Have any serious jounalists covered this story? What are yiu conclusions about what is going on here @Pioneer1?

What do you mean? Sharing a tweet is perfectly legal -- they encourage it. Just use the embed code

I have no immediate plans to visit NYC, so I'm not sure I'll be effected @Pioneer1. I however have my two daughters from NYC visiting. I'll let you know how NYC treats them when they go back. Interestingly, Florida is has reopened. Went to the beach yesterday, bars and restaurants are wide open as new inffections and hospitalizations increase.

While I get a grip Melissa, why don't you get some research and some manners.

As a result, of Libro.fm's campaign $67,462 will be shared between 42 Black-owned Libro.fm partner bookstores.

The 14th annual Austin African American Book Festival celebrates the Black literary experience with a virtual event, Saturday, June 27. New York Times bestselling authors Isabel Wilkerson and Dr. Damon Tweedy will head up the Fourteenth Annual Austin African American Book Festival. The event will be held on June 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and for the first time will be a virtual event. The Festival remains free and open to the public, but attendees must register on Eventbrite. This year’s festival falls on the birthday of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Our festival theme, We Wear The Mask, pays homage to one of Dunbar’s most famous works. Like the poem of the same name, the festival will explore the masks and methods we employ to deal with the social hierarchies, challenges to identity and implicit biases we must face to succeed within the broader society. Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns. The book tells the story of the great migration through the journeys of three Americans who made their way north and west in search of better opportunities for themselves and their families. Wilkerson’s next book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, uncovers a system of human rankings that has shaped America today and throughout its history. Caste will be released in August. Black Man in a White Coat, Tweedy’s memoir, explores the continued impact of racial biases in medical education and the distribution of healthcare resources. Dr. Tweedy has written articles about race and medicine for such prestigious publications as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). His columns and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Kymberly Keeton, M.L.S., C.A., the African American community archivist at the Austin History Center, will lead a creative writing workshop that highlights the value of archiving African American stories. Local scholar, Dr. Mark Cunningham will lead a discussion about the thematic influence of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry and his relevance in our current racial climate. For more information, contact the Austin African American Book Festival, at info@aaabookfest.org.

Join us on June 28, 2020 for #TheBookAwardCelebration! The American Library Association (ALA) is offering an exciting new free all-day virtual event celebrating the winners of several of its major book awards, including the esteemed Newbery and Caldecott medals, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, the Printz Award, and the Stonewall youth and adult Book Awards. Beginning at 9 a.m. CT on Sunday, June 28, 2020, on ALA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/AmLibraryAssociation ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), Booklist Magazine, Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services, and Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), along with Belpré Award co-sponsor, The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking (REFORMA) have organized a brand new virtual celebration to honor award winning authors, illustrators, publishers, and producers. Pre-recorded videos from book award winners will premiere for the first time throughout the day, according to the times designated by the schedule below. Viewers can watch live and share comments in chat, or view event videos on ALA’s YouTube channel soon after their premiere. 9 a.m. CT - Coretta Scott King Book Awards 10:30 a.m. CT - Batchelder, Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media, Geisel and Sibert Awards Noon CT - Stonewall Book Awards 2 p.m. CT - Belpré Celebración 3:30 p.m. CT - Odyssey Award Ceremony 5 p.m. CT - Printz Award Ceremony 7 p.m. CT - Newbery and Caldecott Medals and Children’s Literature Legacy Award Virtual Banquet Also, the event will highlight a variety of award-winning books throughout the day including winning selections from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Sydney Taylor Book Award, and the American Indian Youth Literature Award . Book lovers from around the world are expected to participate and are encouraged to hold watch parties and post photos and videos on social media with the hashtag #TheBookAwardCelebration. Viewer social media posts will be automatically entered into giveaways taking place during the celebration. To learn more about the event and participating authors, illustrators, and producers, please follow the hashtag #TheBookAwardCelebration on Twitter. Note: The emphasis of the text is mine, to highlight areas of AALBC were we track books that were written by Black writers or contains Black characters. In the case of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards all of the award winning books fit into that category.

True but they do change to mirror the people behind them. Look, the country was founded on the principals of all freedom and liberty for all, and we are still working at accomplishing this 230 years later, because virtually all of the people in government were sexist white supremacists. As those people died off, or were voted out things begin to change. Sure 45 represents some regression, but even he is a reflection of what the people want. Now that most reasonable people know he was a mistake, I'm confident to predict he will be booted out of office in 2020. Things will start to improve, for everyone, after 2020 for everyone barring a Russian invasion, another pandemic, or some other calamity. As far as your example with police departments. They have changed a great deal -- even in my life time. It was not long ago when minorities and women were excluded from the ranks of police officers. Today is a completely different picture in places like NYC. Improving is a work in progress. The cry for defunding the police is getting louder today. Cities recognize that these departments need to be completely rebooted. Police department need people reflect the values of the communities. The Police Department in Camden NJ did this: they fired everyone and hired the people willing to serve the communities and indications are that it was been an unqualified success! Institution bend to the will of the people they are intended to serve. They must, or they will collapse.

Well they are our Brothers and Sisters. Now they may not be out "Soul Brothers and Sistas" but we all belong to the same family man. Failure to recognize this is why we are still running around killing each other. See that is the problem you can't know what all so called AfroAmericans want. Many Afro-American don't even know what they want. For example I never had a desire to live in an all white neighborhood, shoot I found working in an all white work environment bad enough. I always wanted to live a nice, crime free neighborhood with people who shared my cultural background. Find me that neighborhood, and if I can afford it I will move there. (Remember ladies I'm single 🥰) Most of my peers who live is white neighborhoods settled for the nice and crime free, but were willing to sacrifice not living with people who shared their cultural background. ...and recognize America's blatant hypocrisy.

Nah, KKK member are pretty clear on the position regarding racial superior and the goal to protect the white race. Your pictorial equation was quite satirical. Did you just make that up?

This does not last very long. Institutions take time to create and by virtue of the fact that they are institutions they are necessarily slow moving. There is a lag but institutions ultimately reflect the people who run them. Give me a counter example?

In a group text with some buddies one of them wrote: "At some level we have to act as spirit for our brothers and sisters [white people] .... some are trying to make amends, but they just don;t know how..." I agreed with the sentiment. There is also the realization that what we want is all over the map, so the inability to understand what will make Black folks happy is understandable confusing. The global reaction to what is happening here is America is also so telling isn't it?

Now Black people have always supported AALBC. Indeed, they have allowed the site to grow for over nearly a quarter of a century—despite ferocious competition from Amazon, social media, and the reckless behavior of Google's search algorithm. But starting in the end of May and continuing to this day White folks are buying books from AALBC and other Black booksellers at historical levels — I mean HISTORIC! I have never sold as many books, in any three month period, as I have sold in the top three days of the last three weeks. I have only taken off one day in the last three weeks and that is with an additional employee who has also worked every day save today, and last Sunday. The only bad part is that everyone wants to buy the same few books, like Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist. The combination of a spike in demand the pandemic have made replenishing inventory difficult. This impacts customer service and creates more shipping costs, as I've been breaking up orders into separate shipments. I have to raise the threshold for free shipping from $40 to $75 and spend a lot of time writing emails explaining why orders would be delayed or refunded. Despite it all my customers have be amazing understanding. The Hardcover version of So You Want to Talk about Race because unavailable so I offered people the paperback version and a $10 for the difference. Do you know that EVERYONE said something to the effect of , "No problem. Keep the $10 I just was want to support!" Imagine that! Libro.fm has pledged to share 100% of revenue on Juneteenth with their Black bookseller partners. That is over $1,600 to AALBC. I use Libro.fm to sell audiobooks here on AALBC. The outpouring of supportive email, purchases, sharing of AALBC content by folks customers, has been remarkable. I feel like, I'm finally getting my reparations. 🙂 Seriously, it made me think: what AALBC would have been like with this level of support over that last two decades. It also confirms that there is a vast number of potential customers who have can actually enrich all Black-owned bookstores. I hold no illusions that this level of support from white book buyers will last forever (I hope I'm proven wrong). The reality is that it will most likely be a temporary thing. I also wonder what it would be like to get 90% of the Black community to consistent support our stores — not just readers, but authors, and publishers. The potential is unlimited and even exciting to think about, because what we could do with those resources for our communities is virtually limitless. Far too many Black folks (I was one too) give our money to Jeff Bezos' company. It would not be so bad if Amazon returned a fair share — how much money does a company need to earn? How rich do a few people have to become before they share any of their wealth with their workers and contractors? I pay my employee more to sit behind a desk than Amazon pays a warehouse worker to bust their ass packing shipments . I boycott Amazon because Amazon has done everything in the power to control or impoverish Black-booksellers (indeed all online merchants) ...But this is not an Anti-amazon rank Why do you think white folks have been so supportive of Black-owned bookstores these last few weeks? Have you increased your support of our stores, or were you always on board? Could this simply be the collective reaction to the senseless murder of George Floyd by a sociopathic cop, in the context of a Trump presidency? I do know that social media influencers have issued a call to action to buy specific books and to buy those books from Black-owned bookstores. Both could be true, but I think it is deeper than either of these explanations. @Pioneer1 this is one reason my "white people" anecdotes, don't lead me to conclude that all white people are rabid racists — even the 45 supporters. I did not begin to really understand this until I left the racially segregated community of the Harlem of my youth Harlem and get to know some white people beyond the stereotypes shown on TV. Today I live in a racially diverse community and I find that people are people. They are dumb and smart, racist and colorblind, homophobic and gay. Some kiss dogs in the mouth and others can't stand them. We humans are a complicated mix, and stereotypes are a shortcut to understanding each other that does us a disservice, because they can never adequately describe any individual.

A MAGA hat is not a symbol of racism to many of the white who wear them. That is you projecting your sterotype. Had you even consudered that the old guy might have simply been trying to help you? Or is white skin and a red hat enough to set you off? Man you act like it is still the 19th century. Things are nit oerfect but they are FAR better than what they used to be. Indications are, given recent events, white people want to improve things for us too. Lol!

It could be both... we'll see how long the supports lasts.

No, I don't see the difference. Institutions are not autonomous or sentient entities. They reflect the will of the people who run them. Racist people run institutions that write antimesigenation laws.

Institutions are run by people. If those people believe in thqlstereotypes, like white supremacy.

Nope I have never heard white people celebrate or even acknowledge Juneteenth anywhere near the extent they have this year. Honestly, I think white folks were horrified by the cop murdering George Floyd -- such wonton disregard for life in broad daylight on camera. White folks largely uneffected and even benefiting from the pandemic probably feel really bad seeing all the Black suffering...

Of course personal experiences are important in making decisions. If you live in come urban ghetto, it might make sense to assume a young Black man may rob you. However it was be illogical to assume all young Black men will rob you. Do you see the difference? You choose to distrust all white people based upon all the bad shit some of them have done over the centuries. That is fine. I don't have the emotional and mental capacity to distrust the majority of the people who live in this country. Besides I'm don't think it is necessary. That said, while i think you overcreacted, I would have avoided the old guy too 🙂 True, but you are the one pushing stereotypes as fact, based uoon nothing more than personal observations. I try not to do that for the reasons stated. The only penis i'm interested is in my own. You obviously have a lot of interest and knowledge about other penises. Can you be more specific on how you've come to be so knowledgeable on the subject of penises? Does do you believe thst people with big feet have big ones too?

My point is the "rule" should not be based upon one's gender (or sexuality or skin color). The rule should be based upon who is best suited for the role - no matter what the role is. There have been far too many situations in which people have been excluded from particular roles because of characteristics that have nothing to do with the skills required for the role. Collectively we all lose out because of this.