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Yes. One would never go wrong underestimating the quality of Brothers women choose to become impregnated by. True. This reminds me of a book you might like @Chevdove Sacred Woman the 20th anniversary edition is coming out in September. Send your address troy@aalbc.com I'll send a cooy when it comes out. I agree, but I don't think that community exists in America. Indeed, the way America is setup I don't believe it can exist... This is only partially true, for the idea completely ignores the systems in place that have benefited white men over Black people for centuries. Your experience @daniellegfny is an anecdote, a good one but not reflective of the whole. It is like saying, "look at Lebron James, Oprah, or Barack Obama, make the same choices they made and you can be just like them." Again sounds good in writing. In practice is a completely different story. Read about Tusla, OK, less than 100 years ago. Do you think, Lebron James, Oprah, or Barack Obama live in Black neighborhoods? Where do you think they buy their books? Imagine a strong Black community in which we could bump into one of those three in the local Black-owned book store. It will never happen.

Hate, like racism, are manifestations of ignorance. The expression of these may have a genetic basis, but we are not wild animal; we can rise above these primal emotions and ignorant ideas. Look greedy and evil people will exploit whatever economic system is in place, American capitalism just makes this easier because of private ownership. The American system allowed the private ownership of land -- nevermind they had to run the people living on it off. It also allowed the private ownership of other humans. A great deal of wealth was created this way. There are also degrees of exploitation. A 18th century Louisianan cotton farmer was far more exploitative of its workers than Amazon.

Perhaps, but if they loved it so much why did they Martyr Dr. King?

Amazon started by getting indie authors to give them exclusive rights to sell their books, but now major publishers are doing the same thing?! I recently added 1,500 audiobooks to AALBC that you can listen to on any platform -- not just a Kindle. Here you may find the newest audiobooks. However, Trevor Noah's audiobook, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is only available from Amazon. If is a short sited strategy to give Amazon exclusive rights to sell a book. Let's see how that work for them. I already know consumers are increasingly dissatisfied with Amazon. But then again major publishers have never been known to be the most forward thinking entities -- shoot we are still trying to convince them that Black people read...

Hi Kevin, Your book sounds very interesting -- indeed fascinating. I never considered Oreos belonging to a culture different than the one in which they were born. The concept of a biracial person, like Barack Obama, passing for Black is intriguing as well. I always considered an Oreos as a person who is "Black" phenotypically, but is culturally "white." One does not have to be biracial to be an Oreo.

ROTFLMBAO! Yeah I hooked up with a white woman from the 18 century 😉

@Pioneer1 poppycock! You must choose a different word than "race" to the describe the phenotypical and psychological differences of people. Every educated person knows there is only one race and the all the dimensions you use can not be universally applied to all humans. This is junk science, filed in the same draw as the flat earth idea.

@Pioneer1 while I can't speak for @Cynique I'm not so sure she would be as closed minded as you, not to even consider watching the movie. It would be interesting to hear what see thinks. But that boat has sailed... Now I will admit the film did not provide any revelations to me and was created to appeal to viewers on an emotional level. Which in my mind makes it propaganda, but many so called documentaries -- indeed most movies -- are propaganda. Pioneer this is true. It is also true that we can not know the mental state of the people in those situations we surmise based upon a wide variety of criteria... Pioneer have you ever raised biological children?

On that we can agree. The way we practice capitalism is herently and, as you say, dependent upon exploitation. The fact that Black people have been exploited here is stems from pure greed, racism was invented to justify this insanely evil form of greed. People who practice racism are not always doing out of greed or evil. They are often poorly educated and woefully ill informed ... brain washed, some irredeemably so.

Thank you @Chevdove if nothing written here prompts you to consider your current views or exposes you to new ones, then you missed the point. Too many people get mad because of something someone typed. I was trying to figure out how I missed you being a Black Israelite. I figured, if true, you must have gone rogue cause I don't think I seen a public facing female Black Israelite. As Pioneer says, welcome back we missed you.

Putting in a good word 🥰 No, school (teaching Baruch) starts for me at the end off August -- fully online.

Cadallic Range, a work of art near Amarillo, TX.

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Conincidentally, you popped into my head today @Delano. Maybe it was not a coincidence 🤔

“Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks” This was the title of a post on our forum from January 2008. I stumbled across it looking for something else. The woman who shared the article left the following comment. “Great, the boogie Blacks have scored another sharp ass instrument to back-stab the Black masses with. And all we got is Jet & Ebony, that’s just f/ucked all up. That's the DEFINITION of OPPRESSION.” —Tonya It was interesting to read the the press-release-like article from the NY Times. The Root's website bares little resemblance to the hype from it's launch. In a subsequent post Tonya recommended the Black Agenda Report. All is not lost ... yet.

Larry Elder should thank you @daniellegfny: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Larry+Elder I should get to the film review next week. @Pioneer1 enslaved Africans let massa rape their women (often children), sell their family away, and beat them sometimes to death. I guess none of these Negroes loved their people either huh?

People also have children for emotional reasons -- too many to list, but I'm sure you can think of a few. Those you think don't care about their children may care very much. Some people think it is cruel to bring a child, any child, into this world today. Do you think these parents don't care about the children they will be bringing into the world?

Hi @Jeffrey You are encouraged to link to your website: http://sleepingelephant.com/abc/ I have hyperlinked your book cover about to your site. Amazon sites are the only sites visitors are no allowed to link to. This is a relatively new rule that I have taken to actively enforcing.

White oppression by elites predates white supremacy -- by centuries. Race (or, absurdly "acting") does not have anything to do with this.

Thanks for the advice. Yes I appreciate the legal aspects of marrying anyone. Of course you know I don't by into any of that spy stuff ... SMH 😉 Nope, unless I missed it no white woman has stepped to me in the last 40 years. Actually there was one other, but I was married and I made like I did not know what the woman was trying to do, for she knew I was married 😞

Congrats on your honor @Neal Owens. I removed the link to Amazon. AALBC boycotts that company. I encourage you to link to the website of the entity that bestowed your award and to your own website.

@Pioneer1 These "actors" go back hundreds of years, as long as the nonsense of racism. Poor whites where reviled and rejected by white elities. They still are...

You are operating in a different space/time continuum. Our realities have intersected on this forum, but we operate in different worlds. In my world, white bums are just bums, not actors living on the street to annihilate Black people. I've never asked myself that question, but maybe. I don't think we are better off dead, maybe some of the enslaved Africans might have been better off, they endured a tremendous amount of suffering. I doubt they felt the would better off.

Our government's participation, or lack there of, has determined where how well or badly Black people have been treated. You'll get no argument from me about how Bill Clinton's legislation has hurt Black people and how American's slavish devotion to the Democratic party has led our vote to be marginalized and taken for granted ... At the same time 45's, gutting of the EPA spells disaster for all American's, but especially for Black american's because our neighborhoods are the one most likely to be polluted. Interesting. I wonder if that will really make a difference.