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I'm sure there are Black people working on, and contributing to, the cure, which will be the results of the efforts of many people, not a single individual.

Yes, I knew that I used the quote feature from your post, so it falsely attributed it to you. I corrected it.

Well I'm familiar with this image having grown up a lived in NYC for many years. Where I live now I do not see this behavior, and if I were raised here I doubt I would believe Black people behaved that way. I would reject the idea as sterotypical. Indeed, I'm inclined to reject it on GP, because these individuals are so a small number, talking about them as if they are representative of the whole is the very definition of a stereotype.

Hey @Xeon thanks for popping by. We can definitely benefit from your brain around here more often. 🙂

Hi Nathan, do you have a website (aside from Amazon)? Where readers can learn more about your book? What is the target demo for your book?

The 15-Time AALBC Bestseller, The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing, is Back in Stock! @Pioneer1, I know how much you respect the work of Nelly Fuller, Welsing's mentor, so I'll send you a free copy if you don't have one.

1. Maybe. I had some good teachers who cared while others who did not give a shit. I had one teacher in high school who used to let us shoot craps and drink beer in the back of the class while he read the newspaper -- and I attended one of NYC's best high schools. 2. I dunno. Many HBCUs have horrendous graduation rates. I went to a big private majority white university. However it had a largebenough contingent of Black students that you could in your own social Bkack bubble. Besides people with the wherewithal to attend a major white university, self esteem is usually not our problem -- it is our strength. A white university is a cakewalk compared to an inner city ghetto.

I don't know. Why does our president tell people the stuff he tells them? The masks health care providers and others are frantically trying to secure are the types that are effective. The surgical and fashion statement masks the general public are wearing will not prevent you from inhaling the airborne particles. You expect me to click a link leading to Amazon's newspaper? What did the article say? Welcome to America (#WTA)

@Pioneer1 I know science does little to inform what you think about various subjects (a lot of people are like you probably most). Cursory research will reveal the truth. Here is what the US Surgeon General Tweeted:

Yes my education left a lot to be desired, but it was apparently a lot better than what kids in the same neighborhoods are getting today. I don't know anything about the NOI schools, but if I had to attend a racially segregated school with just Black kids, like the ones i went to in elementary and middle school, I would rather be taught by Black teachers than the Jewish women, however well meaning, that I had.

Yep that's him, Umar.

No, not for me. Besides, the masks I see most people wearing do nothing to prevent you from getting virus, the fabric is simply not fine enough. Why are we wasting the time and money?

You mean like that dude... His name escapes me now. They questioned his educational credentials, overweight, had a shameful public beef with Tariq Nasheed. He took all this contribution money claiming to be raising it for a school which never opened as far as I know...

Obama "aloof" and Bernie "talking over the heads of most people" you gonna have to provide an examolenof this because I completely disagree. Do you mean the dems should appeal to the unwashed masses by blatantly lying to them?

Are you saying K2 threatened you? Seriously?! Authors and others who could benefit from partipating here are too enamored corporate sites. They really can't see the benefit of actively engaging on a Black-owned indie platform and how it is superior to a white run corporate site -- even in 2020. It is why we, for all practical purposes, don't have any Black-owned stores that focus on Black books. Black authors relentless support of Amazon has gutted the platforms who could support their work the most. Now they feel Amazon is the best option and Anazon only cares for them in so far as they can pay. But I understand it took me a long time to really get it too As Woodson showed our education is the reason why. I fundamentally I agree Pioneer we need our own schools -- run by consciousness, culturally Black people -- if anything just to save Black boys.

So Bernie Sanders spoke over the heads of the average American? Obama dud a great job of getting the masses to love him. Communicating with the masses is not the Dems problem it is being gofers for Wall Street and the corporate elites and not delivering to the masses. Obama gave us "hope," but the failure to deliver the change he promised is what led us into the arms of 45.

Yes our generation. Though if you explore "decent opportunity," you might not chose that terminology. Man when you rant about the laziness and self-hatred of Black people relative to whites. It reads like you are saying we have some inherent, therefore genetic inferiority to white people. Is this what you are trying to say?

It is a good idea; the problem is executing on it. I need more time. It you invited him here and he participated, I'd be happy to put some money in your pocket. The transfer would be electronic.

No these people are not civilized if they continue to believe this stuff and act upon these beliefs. They are the exact opposite to civilized they are barbarian. Political postions, money, and power does not make you civilized. Is 45 civilized? Not if he is dead from Malaria... Look, there are stronger people, smarter people, people who are poets, and people who can make you laugh. Some are super nurturing and others can fight like hell. We need each other. No one is inherently better to superior to another. We can not survive without each other. Dinosaurs lasted for millions of years. Humanity will be doing good if we make it out the next century in one piece.... seriously.

Exactly! I messed up now I have to wait another 10 years.

Now you just talking crazy LOL! @Pioneer1 had it ever occurred to you that most of the time all the law enforcement jobs you talking about Black being too lazy to get -- we were excluding from being hired into them until our generation. Most of the teachers I had all through school were white jewish women. I had on Black (gay male) homeroom teacher, from pre kindergarten to 12th grade. I never had a heterosexual Black man as a teacher. Ever. I have two masters degrees. When I was in 3 grade I spend most of the year sitting in the corner in a desk by myself. The white lady did not no what to do with me. I could do all the work given in the class. Do you think I learned very much that year? There are many Black men who were destroyed by the school system. You expect these very same dudes to have the wherewithal to start an educational institution. It is often said, the worst thing for Black people was integration. I completely understand the reasoning. But even when we thrived on our own white folks came in a destroyed it. We have been systematically destroyed by an inherently racist system. You can't continue to blame the victim and expect them to solve the problem. The system has to change and we have to help change it. We will never see the change for it will take generations -- assuming it even happens.

Yeah when the white man created that fantasy for us he knew he'd make mucho bucko off our collective psychological need for something positive. Really? Do you really believe all those Black people in Flint out the lead in their own water destroying a generation of Black children Do you believe all damn near two million Black people locked up actually belong behind bars? Do you blame the shitty schools so many poor Black kids are forced to languish in is their fault too? Man... You could be the first enrollee @Pioneer1. You'd be in science classes all day. 😊

I wish the government would stop wasting my money trying shoe horn people into racial boxes every 10 years. I was planning mark myself as white just to see what benefits I'd get.

I never read the Origin of Species, so I don't know if he was spewing racist propoganda, but if he was a man of his time he probably was. In any event the average 12th grader, from a half way descent school, knows more about genetics than Darwin possibly could. Why linger on 19th century ideas today? The question does not make sense to me. Homo spaiens have approxinately 20K genes some are reccessive others aren't. The relative expression of human genes does not make one inherently superior or inferior. Consider the gene that results in a sickness like sickle cell. If the person with sickle cell is a genius does that make him superior or inferior to a dumb person without sicke cell?

Man personally inviting someone to participate in the forums makes sense. I should do that. I seriously doubt he'll come here and chomp it uo on the regular but maybe talk about his book makes sense. Man I should have thought about something like this long ago. Thanks!