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Technically Jeff Bezos owns it, but that is mincing words. Perhaps. Hell if I know. I guess the critics are concerned with the optics, sending false or mixed messages. My local Costco was handing out free masks last week as they now require people to wear them in the store, meanwhile restaurants are opening up across the city at 25% capacity I believe. The cloth and surgical masks, as I'm sure you have read, do not protect the wearer from contracting the virus. You need an N95 mask for that. It does however help prevent a carrier from infecting others, but the masks have to be worn properly, people need to wash their hands and stay away from others. We have to do all of it, but we can't because people are suffering -- not from the virus -- but shitty living conditions exacerbated by the pandemic.

For the sake of ease of visitors, @O.W. Showe, I decided to embed your "review of your review " below. Having published more than 1,000 books reviews over the years I have published my fair share of unfavorable book reviews. Some authors react as if I have murdered their first child there are a couple of authors who give me shade for an unfavorable review I published -- though they never admit it (I could be wrong but I doubt it). One guy took a negative review I published and ran with it. Used it to draw more attention to his work. Now if I were to review, your review, of your review. It would be helpful to know where the review was published. Embedding youtube video shared above (for the same reasons). I like the Youtube version better 🙂

Welcome To America How are things down under Del? Are y'all on lock down?

Poem, “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead“ from Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman:

There were three books written by or about Black people that won Pulitzer Prizes last week. There was one book written by a brother of european descent which looks very interesting. I was unfamiliar with Sweet Taste of Liberty. The other two books, especially Whitehead's, has gotten a ton of attention both here on AALBC and the mainstream media (who just love him to death).

#WTA

@Pioneer1 you can't kill something that is not alive... you can kill the host, but that sort of defeats the purpose. All we need is for this thing to start changing up like the seasonal flu and it game over.

@Pioneer1 I'm meant the word "Afro-Latinx." I just never saw it written. I took enough Spanish to know what you are talking about. I prefer Latino and Latina over Latinx, which now requires you to write or say more words communicate gender, it is less efficient. The real pressure for the change came from those who reject the binary gender designations. However making words less clear is not a good solution.

Pioneer AALBC reps Black People no matter where the come from. Most recently, I had an intern profile some Afro-Latinx (did I just make that word up) writers who are prominent in their respective communities or countries but not well known widely Poet, Juan Boria Jesus Colon, Writer, Activist, Father of the Nuyorican Carolina Maria de Jesus, Writer Novelist, Playwright, Enrique A. Laguerre Nuyorican Poet, Tato Laviera Paulo Lins, Writer Author, Poet, Mayra Santos-Febres Historian, Writer & Activist, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Author, Poet, Piri Thomas Of course there are many others here. I could not listen to the interview. After Charlamne told the Amara she should have offered to suck that guys d-ck I just moved on. It was frustrating to hear them expound on ignorance. I'm positive they know better but they were playing dumb to appeal to the masses. There aren't huge platforms owned for Black people in any country run by Europeans.

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.