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I'm not surprised at all by the silence in reaction to this question. Several years ago the strongest critics to to the idea of an all out boycott of Amazon came from indie authors. Many indie authors are beholden to Amazon. In fact they have given Anazon the exclusive right to sell books. Even if they haven't given Amazon exclusivity, Amazon published their book and the terms to other booksellers are so bad it is not profitable for other booksellers to sell their books. Now if you posed that question in a room full of booksellers with physcial bookstores you would not have been able to shut anyone up. I think one solution is helping readers who buy books to buy from anyone but Amazon. The other problem is that too many indie booksellers use Amazon's marketplace to sell books. Unless this stops Amazon's virtual monopoly will grow stronger. They won't stop because these booksellers would be out of business without Amazon's platform. Ultimately, the only solution is a boycott of Amazon. I'm boycotting them and I know others who are too. Talk to you later this afternoon Wendy. I was thinking about creating a drop squad to deal with Black booksellers who sell books on Amazon. 🙂

Yes, because that is where the money is, but it is a self fulling prophesy. That is where the money is because the is where we go. The reason Twitter can't be our news source is because profit drives how the information one sees is curated, not how important it is to know. How else would you explain way social media provides completely different information to different people? You wrote: Sure, and Twitter was optimized to do just that. Keep in mind most people are not professionally trained journalists like you with ability to tease out fact from fiction, to understand the biases of different sources. Most are content to watch their feeds scroll by without giving it very much thought. It is easy. People are too stressed out and tired. ______________ Did you know Black people just love Joe Biden? Everthing I read or heard says that this is true. Funny, I don't know any Black people who love him as much as the media says.

Yes I'm aware thisecwhites were using junk science to advance the udea of racial superiority. I must have missed them. Do me a favor and pose them again.

John Brown was WAY off script -- especially for his day. Even Fred Douglas was said "dat nigga's crazy!" 😀 Yeah Tim Wise is cool; he is even on this site. Wise is not alone there are many conscious white folks. Once you realize that you can see they are not all devils and are needed to make this country better. Even Malcom the 10th knew that.

Really? I guess I'll never see it. It is interesting to me that I have zero interest in anything BET does. Thirty years ago i watched everything they showed. The last time I watched anything on the network was Tavis Smiley and honesty i was nit that craxy about him, but once he was gone it was a wrap for me. Perhaps. Clearly, Europeans have destroyed numerous cultures across the globe. But it is unknowable what the world would be like today if they just played nice and did not rape, pillage, and plunder the world. Why you so hard on our people knowing what we are going through?

Thanks @Mel Hopkins I always view opinion pieces as opinions. But some opinions are more valuable than others. This particular opinion seemed suspect, things simply were not adding up. If anything this CEO was saying was true then it is newsworthy and the WSJ should be reporting on it. I kept asking myself why is in the opinion section and not a news story? And if it is not newsworthy why put this stuff on the paper at all?! If you read the entire piece it clearly bolsters 45 position. Up until this point I had not put Fox News in the same category as the WSJ. With this type of propganda out there 45's chances at a 2nd term are not as bad as thought. We could be looking at a 2nd trump term followed by two years of pence

From last week's Wall Street Journal (@Pioneer1 I guess this is more proof of the superiority of white people huh 😉) Black Americans are dying of Covid-19 at a higher rate than whites. Socioeconomic factors such as gaps in access last week's Wall Street Journato health care no doubt play a role. But another possible factor has been largely overlooked: vitamin D deficiency that weakens the immune system. ... Vitamin D supplementation in African-Americans reduced cancer risk 23%. How? Cancer cells develop regularly in most animals, including humans, as the result of toxic injuries or glitches in DNA replication, but a healthy immune system destroys them. There is evidence that low vitamin D levels make the immune system go blind.

Excerpted from the opinion section of today's the Wall Street Journal. @Mel Hopkins are there any standards for truth and accuracy in opinion pieces. If the following is true that's crazy. On April 20 we put out a press release titled “Aytu BioScience Signs Exclusive Global License with Cedars-Sinai for Potential Coronavirus Treatment.” The treatment is called Healight, and it was developed by research physicians at the hospital’s Medically Associated Science and Technology Program. The technology, which has been in development since 2016, uses ultraviolet light as an antimicrobial and is a promising potential treatment for Covid-19. Aytu and Cedars-Sinai have engaged with the Food and Drug Administration to pursue a rapid path to human use through an Emergency Use Authorization. But hardly anyone noticed—until Thursday, when President Trump mused, “. . . supposing you brought the light inside the body . . .” My team and I knew the president’s comments could trigger a backlash against the idea of UV light as a treatment, which might hinder our ability to get the word out. We decided to create a YouTube account, upload a video animation we had created, and tweet it out. It received some 50,000 views in 24 hours. Then YouTube took it down. So did Vimeo. Twitter suspended our account. The narrative changed from whether UV light can be used to treat Covid-19 to “Aytu is being censored.” These days, politics seems to dictate that if one party says, “The sky is blue,” the other party is obligated to reply, “No, it’s not, and you’re a terrible human being for thinking that.” That leaves no room for science, in which the data speak for themselves, regardless of ideology, and only when they’re ready. Unfortunately, the visceral excitement of political conflict draws far more clicks and better ratings than the methodical world of science. Technologies like Healight, which if borne out through clinical studies may represent a viable way to kill coronaviruses, aren’t provided the clear-headed consideration they deserve but are instead flushed into the political mosh-pit of “us vs. them.”

Yes, I know. It is not the right word. It implies a change from a simpler to a more complex form. White people aren't more complex than or superior to Black people. Even those terms Black and white are not the correct terms because they are sloppy ways of grouping people. Using these arbitrary racial terms just makes having a meaningful conversation about people impossible.

Switzerland, Sweden my bad, but what's the difference to the world? Dynmite has had zero impact on life in the 21st century.

Yeah the Nobel prize ... celebrating the accomplishments of other countries. I'm sure they are greatful. Dynamite, I thought the Chinese came up with gun power. Well thanks Sweden for the crude application of another country's discovery. I know I'm veing hard on those countries but I'm tired of them being held of as paragons of civilization. They would not have the livestyles they enjoy today without the U.S. They are good at sheltering our money.

A white supremacist would not give you, or I, the pleasure.

Utopia, please, what have they contributed to the world? They live in their heterogenous white countries benefiting from the rest of the planet's productivity. Let them open their schools. Again, caucasians are not a monolith. John Brown thought differently than an evil southern plantation owner. Racism wasn't even "a thing" a few hundred years ago. Racism is a tool of the psycopathically greedy.

"Evolved" is not the right word. Again homo sapiens are virtually identical genetically. Less melanated skin doesn't make one homo sapien superior that another. I appreciate there are dumb people who might not accept this and believe Black people are inferior because of this. So what is the answer? Fighting back by using more junk science to say Black people are genetically superior?

Pioneer, don't you think white supremacists have better things to do? Seriously, what can they learn by monitoring AALBC? Now I get why they may come here and troll, but even trolling has lessened in recent years. There are more juicy targets like Zoom video conferences.

Interesting. I did not know this. Imagine what a powerful statement it would have been if Amazon's money was rejected. I can however understand why'd they would take it. I definitely would have kept them anonymous. Revealing who they were played right into their hands. Amazon made an investment. ------- Amazon has a grocery store near where I teach. There are no cashiers. You swipe in pick up what you want and are automatically billed. Amazon has a physical bookstore not too far away. No booksellers, very few Black books, and steps aways from a Borders bookstore that shut down. There are several Wholefoods nearby including one in Harlem... Amazon will not stop until they are the only place you can by anything.

I think more accurately religion is based upon faith. Indeed, I believe reincarnation is part of the religious beliefs of some... All I'm trying to say is that you have to know what reincarnation is (anything really), in order to not believe in it. How can one reject something they are ignorant about about. Again, I'm talking about reasonable people. There are some religious people, for example, who reject any ideas that are not part of their religion. They don't have to know what those ideas might be -- they don't even want to hear them. I'm not talking about these types of people.

A meaningless gesture. It literarlly takes Amazon less than 30 seconds to generate $250K. Bezos' personal net worth has increased by that much in the time it took me to read the article and write this post. I hope those booksellers are not silly enough to think amazon is their friend. Drug dealers occasionally hand out money to the people in communities they help destroy too.

@Maurice who can't engage a Troll. They feed off your reactions and enjoy making you upset. You should never get angry over something, an obvious troll, writes about you.

It is obvious 45 is not above risking lives by playing politics with Covid19. In this case 45's whiteness is incidental. This is not white supremacy at work. The is greed, narcissism, sociopathy, and stupidity at work.

I think the statement is axiomatic. For example, one can say they don't believe in astrology, but unless the understand it their statement has little merit. Can you give me a counter examole to conisder @Delano?

Yes, caucasians evolved to be better suited to live in the northern climates they migrated to. While Black people are better suited to live near the equator. Why should that be surprising? You can't say you don't believe in something unless you know what it is.

Because people supposedly come back to learn something to evolve spirtuality enough to go on to a higher level of existence. But again I don't believe in reincarnation... Besides white people evolved after Black people. Believing what you believe some bkack people must have reincarnated into white people.

Need does not equal Demand. We need better schools for poor Bkack children. Presumably there is insufficient demand for them. Our nation's infrastructure needs maintenance, but apparently there is inadequate demand to effect the repairs Lol. That us a typical Florida retention pond and I happen to live next to preserve. Flooding is unlikely, but I can see an alligator and deer from the window.