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@Chevdove what does the nonexistence of the of Y chromosome Neanderthal DNA in modern Homo Sapien DNA (interesting and previously unknown to me) have to do with anything we are talking about? Homo Sapiens emerged about 200K years ago, civilizations emerged about 6K years ago, the oldest structures are about 3K years old. Everybody came from Africa which was the birthplace of civilization the birthplace of farming, architecture, medicine, astronomy, philosophy, religion, art, writing language, etc. This can be proven. Despite the fact that some historian like to say shit like Columbus discovered America or the Greeks create philosophy and medicine. The stuff @Pioneer1 is talking about men running around millions of years ago can be true, because millions of years is a VERY long time, but there is simply is no evidence of this.

One of my regular tasks involves removing spam from the site. ANYTIME you allow people to post information on your site, you open your site to spam. Here is something I deleted today. I'm sharing it here because I could very easily see where people would believe the absurd information presented. It reminds me of the article @Kareem shared about covid-19 and the idea that Black people are resistant to it. You'll have to click the image to read it. I think you can easily see someone who already believes that Black people are inferior would eat this stuff up. Sprinkle in a few facts and people will much more easily believe the lies -- no matter how outrageous.

@Chevdove your assertion that man is not older than 6,000 years old is easily refuted. I'm not sure why you say that. Is it because civilizations, as we know it, started about 6K years ago? @Pioneer1 when you talk about humans being millions of years ago due to counting Homo Erectus and other pre-homo Sapien races?

Last year one f the most frequently visited pages on this discussion forum was the following page" It was not a particularly popular page with forum participants, but it brought almost 5,000 visitors to the site last 0n 2019 which is pretty good for a post made in 2011 almost 9 years ago to the day. If you Google the term Nigger and Flies, on my search AALBC comes up #3. Now one can argue that I should be happy for the traffic. Google does not serve ads on that discussion forum post, so I don't make money on the page. However, almost everyone who visits the page visits another page, and that is indeed a good thing. What I do lament is the fact that I have much more substantive pages and rank poorly relative to other websites on Google search engine. Those pages typically get more -- MUCH MORE -- traffic from social media sources. Facebook sourced traffic to my children's book pages is eclipsed by traffic from search. This site is not the only one with good children's book content that should rank better in search. One such site is The Brown Bookshelf. My point is Google ranks this site much better on scandalous controversial stuff like "Niggers and Flies" but poorly on content that truly serves Black people. Is this a deliberate conspiracy on Google part? No, I doubt it, it is just a consequence of having young privileged white boys control the WWW.

@Kareem who is behind that blog? It is full of misinformation. The opening paragraph should give you a clue" "The United States has about 14,000 infections and 200 deaths. That means Americans as of today have a .0043% chance of contracting the virus and a .000062% chance of dying from it." No, pecent infection does not equal probability of contraction. This reasoning is a function of a failed education system or a deliberate attempt to mislead people. Whatever the motivation it is bad. @Pioneer1 i joking said that Africans are immune myself, but there are demographic reasons to help explain this that have nothing to do with melanin. We know younger people are less effected than the old. African countires are much younger than European and asian countires like italy and china. We also pretty sure the outbreak started in chins and it makes sense that the epicenter with a much older population would be impacted much more severly. Than a young, less mobile, population much further away -- At least at the early stage. Think critically and view everything on the web with skepticism.

@Pioneer1 Yes, the Brady Sluders of the world may not be stopped from partying but he'll, fingers crossed, be stopoed from reproducing more numbskulls.

Man being 6,000 years old was based upon religious doctrine not scientific evidence. No one knows for a "fact" when midern man emerged. We have evidence that man 2 to 3 hundred thousand years old and zero evidence of us being a million years old. Of course in the event anyone find evidence of humans being millions of years old the scientific community will vet then ultimately embrace the new proof. Do you have any evidence of man being millions of years old @Pioneer1? Surely we would have evolved beyond our current state. We are little than homicidal apes with handheld computers.

At @Walkman93 every event on my calendar, scheduled during the month of March, across the globe, was canceled or postponed. Events scheduled for April and May are falling like dominoes. Spring is one of the busiest times of the year for book events.

They shut the beach down this weekend.

You all have heard me talk about the importance of the Black Book Ecosystem Strong, and why it is so important to us as a culture to maintain our agency when it comes to determining who an how our stories are told. #readingblack is one effort and the community conversations are another. THIS Sunday, March 22, 2020, 6 - 7:30 pm Eastern, I to invite you to participate our first community conversation, “Keeping the Black Book Ecosystem Strong: Black Books in the Age of the Corona Virus.” The conversation will take place online in the form of a video conference using Zoom and will be by Paul Coates (Black Classic Press in Baltimore), Kassahun Checole (African World Press in Trenton), James Fugate (Eso Won Books in Los Angeles), Shirikiana Germina (Sankofa Video and Books in DC), Cheryl and Wade Hudson (Just Us Books West Orange, NJ, and Troy Johnson (AALBC.com, Tampa). This will be the first of several conversations. You will need to register in advance it you are interested in joining us. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/v5AlcuqprTIrCWOmPSMLh5fwrZ6HBNLM_Q

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Wow! The big casino here (Tampa) is still open 24 hours a day. Dude, this is the situation for most of us already. Maybe Kareem has the right idea. Have y'all read Parable of the Sower?

@Pioneer1 I did not know you ran for office, now I have to look at you differently and understand why you've remained anonymous all these years. 😉 As far as the end of civilization, I've started a new conversation on the subject, cause I know you can't help hijacking this one @Chevdove I wish more scholars and writers posted here more regularly. The ones who post regularly to social should absolutely post here. Also, if you don't read email how do people contact and communicate with you? Letter, telephone, Instagram?

There is no scientific evidence that human civilizations have been here for millions of years. But I agree, Western civilization will absolutely collapse. We can debate the timeframe, but it will happen and we are seeing indications of it today.

Natural selection at work...

Then defintely everyone is probably smarter than me on something especially when it comes to the major sports, pop culture, fashion, contemporary music, automobiles, Instagram,...

Yeah start another conversation @Pioneer1. However, let me assure you rumors (or hopes) of the Rapture abound at the first sign of strife WWI, WWWII, Y2K, 911, 45's Presidency, ... let me know when you want me to stop...

This is the programming the "Discovery" Channel has stooped to showing. Sad.

Actually I agree with you. The reaction in NYC is far worse than 911. Dude they shut down schools, restaurants, churches, etc expecting everything to be done online, but the digital divide is real and many people will be left out in the cold. With hourly and gig workers losing income things will just get worse. Pray this situation does not last long.

Wisdom is more a function of experience, versus the accumulation of information. I think as far as the purpose of @Delano's question smart and intelligent are interchangeable.

Hi @Florenza Lee can you send me a bio and the ISBN13s of your books for your aalbc page: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Florenza+Denise+Lee No, there is no ap for the forums but the mobile version works really well. Check it out. I usually post from my phone. I'm posting this from my phone. 😊 @Lori Elayne It actually requires a lot of work to get people to "stumble across" this site -- trust me, but I'm glad you found it. Yes you are brand spanking new! Welcome and thanks for posting. Hey @Pioneer1 just to be clear, it is not the lack of traffic that is hurting the site (you'd probably be surprised to learn what the most popular posts are here -- ill share a few in another post), it that small number of regular posters and the low ratio of members to posters. I'm sure there have spies here and even agent provocateurs, but I doubt the numbers are large enough to be significant and it can't explain the thousands of accounts I'm talking about. I did not mention that I have rejected most accounts that were registered. If I approved 8,000 accounts, I'm sure I rejected at least 10,000. @Marion Hill thanks for replying, but please do not wait for a conversation to participate in. I encourage you to start one yourself 🙂 Guest Clarification thanks for the thoughful message. Also do you have an account? Please post a link to your company's website. Also is your publishing company on our list https://aalbc.com/books/all-imprints.php? If not, please provide share information of at least one of one of your most popular or significant titles. Thanks! Also must say that the earlier poster Dave Covin is a publisher, hosts the Sacramento Black Book Festival, and is the author of one of AALBC's top selling books. Raisins in Milk

@Mel-Robert and @David Covin first thanks for sharing your thoughts. Mel-Robert, marketing is hard unless you have a boatload of money. I'd argue today it is probably hard than in the past. Forums and l=sites like AALBC can help at no cost or relatively low cost, but there are FAR fewer AALBCs that there were 10, 15 years ago. David, yes I imagine most regular posters would agree with your points. Sure there are some exceptions to your observations, but part of the problem is one too few participants and the forums could probably benefit from more active moderation. I've always maintained a hands off approach, primarily because I don't really have the time to actively moderate. Moderate means not just removing bad actors or posts, but leading the discussion.

@Maurice I just now reached out to forum member who have previously participated. Any results will be evident here.

I just reviewed information on the people who've registered accounts on this discussion forum over the past 10 years. I will call these folks "members." Members are different from "Guests," people who post here without creating an account. Over the past 10 years 8,050 members joined this forum. However, only 3,131 members revisited our discussion forum after creating an account, and only 608 posted here. The fact that only 8% of the people who create an account actually post, always confounded me. I think it may be that some visitors believe you have to create an account just to read the posts or maybe once they create an account and can't figure out how to post. In any case, despite asking, I have no idea why so few members post. As you might imagine, of the members who post, 10% of us are responsible for 90% of all posts. Most of the top posters have not participated in over a year. As a result, I've decided to reach out, via email, to all 608 members who have posted. Two hundred members has have requested that they not be emailed or the email address they signed up with is no longer valid. Thanks leaves 408 members you will get the email. If 10% of these member participated regularly we'd actually have a pretty vibrant forum, which I'm sure anyone reading this would like to see. Of course lurkers (people who read the forums but never participate), you are free to join as well 🙂 Also, all discussion forum members are entitled to enjoy a 10% off everything in the AALBC bookstore just use coupon code: thumperscorner when checking out. This is on top of free shipping for orders of $40 or more and no sales tax collection (save the state of Florida). This is a one-time use coupon.

Years ago I tried emailing all registered users. Maybe I try that again with links to some popular posts.