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@Pioneer1 there are many Black people in this culture who are healthy, did well in school, have a descent income, and were never incarcerated. No culture is perfect, but all of the ills you mentioned adversely impacts white people too. The problem our culture has is how we practice capitalism. Evil is rewarded when wealth results. Which will be our down fall if nothing changes.

Nah, I'm not a fan if Latinx, as if man=woman. I also am not a fan of dropping Mrs. Nowadays all women regardless of age or marital status are called "Miss." Ms. Would be better. Miss is how we reffered to little girls. It always rubs me the wrong way we I hear a teenager refer to a grown woman as Miss. Calling the woman you love a bitch during intercourse I agree is on the kinky spectrum. The liberal use of bitch and hoes in our music is not good either. Who else calls their women bitch in their music. The language we use informs how we view the world. Whuch is another reason the language of race needs to be discarded.

I never asjed for "proof" of modern races, because i know tgere isn't any. I wanted to know where you git the nition that there was. The articles summarizing studies are written in the colloquial language people understand (unfortunately). Even i soeak in the terms of "race" from time to time. But again it is in the context of causal conversation. Even the term African-American is problematic because that could easily include white people. Still using the word is not proof. I don't believe you are being intellectually honest here. Im sure as you trolled the internet looking fir some to support your argument you cane came across infirmation that asserts there is only one race. You will never find scientific information that say we have multiple races today. Simply using the word us not "proof." LOL! Man I ate like a pig. I just cane frim the super market. I gonna make me some deep fried tacos It does not work that way. Once sonething is proven false, it is discarded. Science does not build upon falsehoods, it learns from errors and moves on.

FL, state fair is held for two weeks in February, so states do their own thing. Syracuse could not hold a fair in February. I had to look up cishet myself last week. It is one of the terms "woke" folks use. Like saying "Latinx."

Maybe it is just adopting the cultural norms of the society you live in. Whenever more than a handful of people live in a community you must adpot some behaviors you may not care for in order to make the society work. Going on about what our "natural" culture was and going back to it is not very helpful. Going back to ancient culture is impossible the conditions are different. Sure, take from it what we can use, but we must move on.

Well I don't personally feel this way, nor does anyone I have ever recall meeting. Yeah, I think a lot of what we expose children is in appropriate is Fast food, some music, many TV programs, etc. I've been guilty of exposing my kids to things that I subsequently learned was a mistake. You live and learn. No. I don't think this is a good idea. When I was a really young kid I walked in on my parents. I was too young to understand what they were doing, but despite my curiousity I immediately left. They did not see me and I never told them what I saw. There are a lot of thing modern people generally don't do in front of each other. We no longer engage in sex in public, defecate in front of each other, or eat each other.

I guess, as a Cishet male I can't really answer your question @Pioneer1 Right now I'm at the NY State Fair about 1,300 miles away from home. But I'm on the gulf coast which is currently not under serious threat. My prayers do go out to the people of the Bahamas.

@Wosey why are you copying and pasting previous comments without adding anything new?

@Pioneer1 your comments about being gay sound stereotypical. sexuality does not always conform to what you describe as being feminine or soft. There are many gay dudes that can kick your ass. (as well as do other things with it ). Yes confidence it attractive and inspiring.

If few "afroamerican are unmixed today, how do you square this with the information provided by those articles that you cited? Scientific American described African-American as a race do you agree with with that? The other article equates race with ethnicity. Do you? The problem here is that you have cherry picked summaries of studys, which I'm positive you have not read, that use that word race, colloquially, as proof there is scientifically more than one race. Do you know what each sources definition is race is? Again, are you now saying "African-American" is a "race" based upon the first article. What are the "multiple races" that make me and Cynique up? Dude who cares about a 200 year old book? Why do you keep bring it up in a conversation about modern genetics? Have you ever had a DNA test? Do these test reveal a person's race,

@Pioneer1 no woman (or man) likes a wimpy dude, who would let someone just walk all over them. It is almost a cliche that, "every woman wants a little thug in their man." People from, or in, the south aren't gonna let someone punk them and get away with it. I'm sure you were raised like I was; if some hits you hit them back harder. I've argued loudy with guys superior to me in a corporate environment, but i was pushed and other person was objectively wrong. Once I told a guy in his office if we were in the street i would bust his ass. He apologized, but i was serious. He was the only adult I ever threatened. But he would bully people and everyone let him get away with it. But i have been in situations were i stood up to someone and both men and women later mentioned to me later that they appreciated it. This never sat well with me cause it was always a guy in a position to say something too. Now aggression, and a confrontational attitude, for no justiable reason is just mean or stupid. A woman who is indifferent to the reason for the man's aggression and atrracted to him even if he is just bully or common thug is not very sophisticated.

Yes. I believed in races too. Then the science made it clear there is only one race and i changed my position. What race is Cynique then? What race are you? This is a completely false statement. No, my friend, you have to actually read the book before you talk about what it contains. Besides the structure of DNA would not be discovered for another 100 years. Why do you insist in citing Darwin an allele would have been as alien to him as Facebook. This statement is completely false too. Do some basic research man! We are not talking quantum physics here.

After all I wrote, I'm sure I can't articulate what my impressions are in term that will make to you. I don't have beliefs that are that firm. Im expressing a concern based upon trends that don't seem positive. The time of our youth (60s and 70s) had some negatives but there were a lot of positives. The periods you describe the 80 and 90s had many of the ills we see today. So answer your question, yes. I raised my kids in the 90s.

@Pioneer1 Ok. so obviousky yiuvreject the sexual nature of the video. Unlike our debate in race, this is open to opinion, subjective. Im not gonna try to convince you otherwise. I could in fact be overeacting Im just glad im not trying raise my kids in a world were this type of stuff is shoved at them 24/7. Im not calling for Shari'a law, but we've gone from Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin dominating the charts to Cardi B and Pusha T. Google uses their dominance to push Normani for ad revenue and ticket sales by appealing to our baser emotions. But it is all good to you and if no consequence. Im just not convinced that is true.

@Pioneer1 that is like asking if MLK or X were technically illiterare because the never used a PC. The human genone was seqenced in 2003, since then we've known that there is only one race. What makes you a racist is that you reject the science and cling to the discredited belief that people have differences, like intelligence, due to the type of hair they have or their skin color. What other physical characteristics does Cynique possess that warrants you kicking out your so-called Black race? I read, and so can you, so look it up. What is the source of your knowledge on "race?" Obviously it is not current scientific information, so where do yiu get this stuff? What?! First I have not read Darwins document (have you read the whole book?), so I have no idea what it says. Second, it was published in the middle of the 19th century, when white people were still blood letting as a medical procedure. Why would you reference a document that old and dismiss 200 years of subsequent scientistic discovery? Race is an artificial, socio-polical, construct with no foundation in science. Racism is alive and well.

I suspect the "free man" bit sounded hyperbolic. I never spent so much time on Blog post. The first draft, you read, was almost 1,800 words, this version is down to about 800. I considered using that "free man" language in my article, but I chose not too because it struck me as too angry -- despite it being how I feel. Basically, many of us are enslaved to the Amazon's of the world -- doing their bidding and getting little of real value in return. We are evening paying Amazon for the privilege of doing business with them -- and happy to it! If you can image a plantation where slaves are actually happy, that is the world Anazon has helped create. I say "Hell No" to Amazon. I've already rejected Facebook last year and this year will be the best year in traffic AALBC has received from Facebook ever. I suspect their algorithm is designed to drive traffic to brands not engaged on the Facebook in order to get them to buy ads to further increase traffic. I'm not going for the okie doke any more. Free men (people) are not dependent upon Amazon or any greedy plantation owner. Free people depend upon themselves and other free people.

1. No, again because there only one race. Believing in multiple races and the inherent differences of those races makes one racist. 2. Ok so then why take Cynique out of the so called black race solely because of her skin color? Genetically, there are more differences bewteen Africans than there between you and any given white person. You have more in common genetically with jared taylor than you do with many of the native people of Africa. 3. Humanity, homo Sapiens, did evolve out of Africa. That does not mean they are less evolved or have remained frozen in time. Again not nearly enought time has elapsed for any of the ancestors who left africa 200k year ago to evolve into a diffetent race. The are a lot things that scientists believed 200 years ago, that has since been proven false. They have naturally moved and so should you.

Again my friend, your reasoning is shoddy. There are indeed different sexes, however there aren't different races. Again believing in different races makes you racist -- by definition. Actually, I'm not. In fact while you wrote a lot you did not address my question about failing to consuder "Chinese" eyes in determining race. I'll bite. No, I did not realize evolution was racist. Please, enlighten me (us).

@Pioneer1 while you aren't the get-a-rope-string-someone-up-and-pose-for-pics type racist, you are a racist. Your very belief system makes you one. And no, I don't suppose I'd have any better chance convincing Jared Taylor that races don't exist any more than I would convincing you. Looking at the people you posted I see they have monolids, wouldn't that make them mongoloid, Asian, or whatever racial category you use? Why does Cynique's skin color disqualify her from being Black or "African," if you prefer, when having Chinese eyes does not? Again, you muddy the water when you say things like: Africans are the most genetically diverse people on Earth. You can't call all of them "pure" without including the rest of humanity in the purity. We are all born of Africa including Jared and his people. They did not morph into a new race when their people left Africa 200,00 years ago -- that is a split sec on the eveloutionary scale.

I've been working on an article for my blog over the past few days, “AALBC is Done With Amazon!” I'm looking for, and can use, your feedback before sharing the it widely. The bottom line is that since 2009 the amount of money I make from Amazon selling books has dropped almost 90%. it has gotten to the point that I don't even trust the commission reports they send me. A they reduced the cookie duration from 30 days to 1 day -- or even sooner if the users logs out of Amazon. Last year Amazon cut the commissions in half! Amazon also push ebooks over other books and formats -- I'm sure because they are more profitable to Amazon but we pennies on the sale of Amazon's ebooks. Now as you know I've been griping about Amazon for years, not so much because they don;t pay the website who sell book through them, but because they have become a monopoly and effectively own the Black Book ecosystem. As a free man, I can no longer stomach giving Amazon any support. I'm not selling Audible or Kindle products either. Now if an author paying for a profile wants to sell these things on their AALBC page, I'll hold my nose and make an exception. But I'm already removed the site's links to Amazon.

@Pioneer1 you can described the differences in people's skin tones without attributing it to the loaded and scientifically flawed racial designations you and other racists cling to so tightly. Also as previously mentioned you don't consider someone of Cynique complexion "Black," so how would you treat her mistreatment by a white man compared to that of a blond-haired, blue-eyes woman? What type of lotion and soap should she use -- the same on as Barack Obama who actually has a white moth but is darker than Cynique. Del is darker than I am; in fact, Del is darker than many actual native African peoples. Is he a better breed, or a or more superior version, of a so called Black person? We are all human dude. Our skin color does not make as any more or less so, our behavior does that.

@Delano, from a personal perspective the video does not bother me. As I said I watched it in it's entirety. My concern is for younger kids and the potential impact on them -- something that no one seems to be concerned about. There was a time when people seemed to be concerned about the misogyny, homophobia, violence, and hyper sexulaitzation in the music, but I guess this has become normalized, and my views are anachronistic. @Pioneer1 I would much rather meet you in person than any of those women. I communicated with Tootie last year. Her book was on "The Tea," but for some reason we could not arrange to get her on camera. She was just too busy I guess.

Hi Tiffany thanks for sharing information about the Urban Fiction Experience here. I really which you would have linked to the authors' websites or their AALBC pages instead of Facebook. I almost did not approve this post for that reason. Is the Urban Experience an annual event and does it have a website? If so please share the site's URL and I'll add the it to our Events Calendar.

@David doc Robertson, if you have a website, please share it.

Here is a good interview between Jenn Baker of MiP (Minorities in Publishing) and Tracy Sherrod from Amistad. Check out some of the titles published by Amistad on AALBC.