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K2 I see you simply can't wrap your head around the fact that some people love 45. Here in the deep south you can see evidence of it everywhere. Some people believe the treason allegations are a smear campaign -- for real!

The problem K2 is that your statement: is simply not true. Many people love him. Therefore the reaction you expect will not happen.

The video describes the situation but not why. When you have multiple competing vendor specific platforms this lowers adoption and sales. Amazon's effective monoply and proprietary kindle has actually made things worse. Imagine if the only place you could buy and listen to music was on Apples Itunes and Apple hardware.

AMP, developed by Google, is also used to rank pages in search by mobike devices. All of my Wordpress websites use AMO fir this reason alone. I even considered making the entire AALBC website AMP. I decided against it for now. But given Google's dominance I may be forced to implement there nonstandard HTML markup... I'll check out your story now. BTW @Mel Hopkins the link to the Black Enterprise article is broken. I seem to remember reading it before but it would interesting to reread it now.

Yes because ADOS are greedy too. @Pioneer1 half the country lives in, or near, poverty. Most of these people are white. Again, our media highlights the Black dysfunction that exists and they highlight white success and diminish their dysfunction. 45, before he became POTUS, was presented as a successful businessman when he was little more than a crook.

Long time @Kalexander2 My understanding in the human need to survive leads me to understand that it is trumped by greed. Politicians bolster the fossil fuel industry allowing it to put the planet on a path of not being able to support human life. Allowing 45 to get into, or even remain, in office is a small thing, relatively speaking.

@Pioneer1 there are far more people who think like me (speaking for myself) than you might realize. We just are just marginalized in the poular Black press. Consider my stance on Amazon. It was covered by white business media: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/81153-aalbc-cuts-buy-links-to-amazon.html which is only read by a few Black people. Now the media most people consume cive3rs the dysfunction you described. Sure it exists, but it is not nearly as dominant as we are all led to believe. Africans are subjected to the same prograganda which highlights ADOS dysfunction.

45 will finish his term unscathed and will be followed by another criminal. Yiu can send my $50 in the same fashion. Ill put it to good use.

Your point?

As far as African immigrants dissing us. It actually went both ways with ADOS disrespecting Africans as the larger Anerucan culture did. Divisiveness is not something I'm in favor of. But I not interested in sacificing focus of clarity in favor if it. When people talking abiut "people of color," a term i don't use it muddies the water. I'll begin to use ADOS. Is it pronounced "A Dos?" Today Africans are the "model minority" while ADOS are continually marginalized. This is currentlt evident in the literature elevated by mainstream publishing. I have no problem with actress cast to play Tubman; she is very talented and it is not like Tubman's warrior spirit is that far removed from Africa. Who would ya'll rather play the part, Zoe Saldana?

ROTFLMBAO! Yeah you are the reference to Wakanda was everywhere. It got to the point where I was sick of seeing it because young white boys invented it and now Black people embrace it believing it is real and are trying visit the fictional place. We are so needy having so much of our history stolen from us -- you ain't missing anything. I see you missed the reason i keep the book on my site. Also there are plenty of books on the site that i dont believe in or even particularly care for personally, but the are on the site because I know there is an audience for them. I'm not sure what definition of capitalism you are working with but aalbc is fundamentally a capitalist entity, but I'm also mission driven and will call hoaxes out as i become aware if them because I care about ADOS.

ADOS is certainly more descriptive. I like the term too -- especially if it includes decendants of the enslaved across the Americas. These 4 letters is an easy way to help explain the difference between a Barack Obama and me. It focuses more on culture rather than skin color or so called "race." However, does anyone think the term might be divisive for the reason i just mentioned?

Then why lead with the big image of the newspaper. Obviously it was put there fir a reason. What was the reason? Then what point were you making for introducing the film? @Kareem I'll take you at your word, but I find hard to believe that you are completely unaware of the most popular "cultural" reference associated with Blackness in recent memory. That would be an inaccurate asssessment. If you look at the page I make it quite plain the the book is a hoax with a link to a page explaining why. The book was on the sites before I became aware that the letter was a hoax. Today if you search the site fir the letter you will discover content explaining the same. I keep the book on the site just for that reason. Beside you must know that real capitalist would NEVER run this site. There are far easier ways to make money. This is correct, but @Delano's comment was appropriate, because you wrote, The implication being that I shouldn't do it. I'm not aware of a book promoting a conspiracy theory or something that is factually inaccurate, on the cover, that is worth opening. There are too many other books and life is short.

I've been a bookseller for over 20 years, yes I judge books by their cover -- every single day. The cover contains clues on what is inside. If a nonfiction book is asserting that the willie lynch letter is factual im putting down and looking for a source that has done some basic research. Dosen't that make sense? The Washington Times is a questionable source conclusions drawn from it are therefore questionable. If someone stepped to me and said, "President Trump said ... " I've stopped listening at "Trump." There is only so much time in a day Brother. As an aside, I believe the guy who wrote the Willie lynch letter is still running around, but that can as much a hoax as the letter. Why mention the great debators? I know you are not using a Hollywood film to bolster your argument? There are people looking for flights to Wakanda too. People still buy the letter through the site , https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9781930097087 despite me stating it is a hoax. I keep it in the site as a historical record

@Mel Hopkins he's misinterpreted "skin in the game," which mean one has taken on risk. Amazon assumes no risk when they provide an author with self publishing services. Amazon makes money, no matter what, because the author pay Amazon every step of the way. That aside, everthing you decribed is perfectly valid. You can simply make more money without Amazon. For the direct online sale of books I've used two systems. PayPal and Square. There is no recurring cost and you pay a small transaction fee. These system are ok for small budgets and a small number of products. I find Square to be slightly better, than PayPal but the differences are not substantial for POS and online sales. Now that I'm selling thousands of products PayPal and Square do not scale up. After using and evaluating Big Commerce and Shopify; Big Commerce was far and away the best option. I'm going write more about this soon. ---- You can get a free SSL certificate, but Godaddy does not allow you to use it on their webservers (last i checked) I have a website on a host that allows the free SSL certificate and i save a ton of money using it: https://letsencrypt.org/ My web host is ifast.net. The plan I have is 19.99 for the year: https://ifastnet.com/portal/sharedhosting.php one can get a free .co domain so now we are looking at less than $20 a year including the SSL certificate. I have been running this site https://cis3630.org for almost 5 years for less than 30 bucks a year (Im paying for my domain name https://domainsforauthors.com) There are actually free web hosting options out there and used one with my students though these may not host Wordpress very well.

The book cover on "the site that begins with A," that you linked to, says the book includes the infamous willie lynch letter. You should know that letter is a hoax, which makes me question the rest of book.

I've heard so many of these stories of "Beckys" getting off, for stuff they lock Brother up for, it is not funny. I was talking to a former NYC criminal defense attorney last night. She had a bunch of stories of how they through Brother under the jail and realized white women for the same offenses. It was so heart wrenching to see this over and over again she could not continue to do the Job. She also told me some judges are notoriously wicked -- it really makes a difference who hears you case. Justice is not blind, fair, or consistent. White conservatives fair to consider this when they lament that fact that Black people are disproportionately represented in our prisons.

To the no-TV-owning folks that is very commendable. I own a TV but don't have cable or an antenna. My kids and I share various streaming services. I spend more time here than watching TV. I have not turned mine on in over a week. I think social media is far worse. Unlike TV the interaction is two-way and TV can't continue collecting information about you after you've turned it off. As a result social media is far more manipulative.

OK. As soon as the information (see metadata below) for the book is available just share it here. Title: We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters Author: Brian Gilmore Publication Date: Aug 31, 2014 List Price: $12.00 Format1: (Paperback, Hardcover) Page Count: 88 pages Classification: (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's) ISBN13: 9780692273272 Imprint: Cherry Castle Publishing Publisher: Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC BISAC CODES: POE005050, POE000000 (look them up here) Awards: Hurston/Wright Award (2015), NAACP Image Award Nominee (2015) Book Description: 150 to 500 words Book Cover: Image of front of book or a link to it Optional Excerpt: (a full chapter minimum) YouTube Video: (or video from another embeddable source like Vimeo) 1 Physical book formats are preferred, as this these are the only format we sell directly. If the book is only available in ebook or audiobook format a $25 fee is charged to add it to our database. You will also need to provide a link to where the ebook/audiobook may be purchased.

Thanks the Amiri Baraka video was professionally shot and edited. The Quincy Thrope video was just me and my cell phone. But some recording of the event, for the record, is better than none. I don't promote my YouTube channel because i embed all the videos on the site and i prefer people to visit AALBC -- not YouTube -- to watch my videos. A couple of years ago I needed a 1,000 subscribers to unlock a YouTube feature. i asked people to subscribe to my channel then, but that was the only time.

Money, land, gold, cowery shells same difference. Many African nations welcome our businesses all we have to do is take advantage of ghe opportunities.

Sure I can agree to that. What do you think motivates the likes if Jay-Z or Jeff Bezos?

Interestingly I've never watched Blackish but I've seen two episodes of Empire. One during a panel discussion hosted by my then local NPR affiliate WNYC. I never heard of "Stars." As a kid i watched EVERY show with Black people. I often wonder why none pique my interest today. I did watch each if the new twilight zones {yawn}. @Coach Michael Taylor, ill share the metadata i need to add your book to the site tomorrow.

I have no problem with you mentioning your business. 1/3 of the post here are people promoting their books and nothing else.