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No, I actually atrract eyeballs, as in attract eyeballs to their platforms to collect more behavioral data and serve more advertisements. But to your point, it serves to distract us from understanding and knowing what is important. This logic of the statement completely escapes me. Perhaps an example of this would help. Still my reasoning proved far more accurate than your consumption of lies. I'll still with ignoring social provides news and stick with books, long form articles, and lectures by knowledgable people.

I was talking to a woman recently who described applying for public assistance and was told to have a baby that way she would get more money. She was not married at the time...

They are not stars. Even today people look up at the sky see planets and think they are stars. Unless you have some interest in astronomy you would have no clue. In much the same way people cannot read maps because of navigation systems, people look up at the sky and just see a bunch of twinkling lights that have more meaning that text written in a language they can't understand. Most of us live in urban centers which render most star light invisible anyway...

See @Delano that right there is why we see things so differently. To me watching the news on a daily basis is like listening to the daily Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and believing you have a handle on the business world. The "spot" news coverage is largely meaningless -- it is designed to attract eyeballs, and this is done through sensationalism. The news is designed more to get you all riled up and emotional rather than to inform you. Social media is this concept on steroids. People who get there "news" on Twitter, for example, believe they are well informed, but this is an illusion without historical context, nuisance, and broader foundational knowledge than a bunch of 280 characters text messages can provide. Most users of Twitter do not click through and read the underlying source material (when it is provided) and are largely content read quotes out of context, uninformed opinions, and straight up fake news instead. Mainstream in an attempt to compete with social media is not much better. You follow the news regularly. I don't. However, I knew 45 would still be in office after two years and you did not believe he would. How did consuming all that minute by minute news coverage help you? Serious question whether you choose to answer it or not think about it. Again I say to you @Kalexander2 do now be surprised by a 45 victory in 2020. The electoral college as effectively disenfranchised millions of American Voters. By the way K2 well do not have a bet for the 45 lasting another two years is this your understanding?

Yes, time and history has told this story.

@elonawashington, are you looking you for only female respondents, or may anyone respond?

Nope, I never did, but I still believe he'll serve out his term. The wheels of justice turn slowly and for men like 45 they rarely turn at all.

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a rich collection of art, history, literature and personality, director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ film includes discussions about Morrison’s many critically acclaimed works, including novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon, her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature and her time teaching at Princeton University.

@Pioneer1 the reason no one is trying to prove this is because no one made that claim. The idea is obsurd; why you keep forcing the point is lost on me. Now the alignment of the moving stars (planets) and fixed stars can tell you when something happened on Earth, but not what happened. I think that is what @Chevdove was trying to say, but she can speak for herself. Again, post the statement where anyone said what you've claimed about describing specific events based upon the relative positions of heavenly bodies. The student thinking he's ready, does not make so.

Yes this is a Google ad. I'll remove that ad unit from my homepage. Looking at that screenshot, QBD appears to be hijacking my homepage

Dude, no one wrote anything like this. Please provide a quote.

What does "pink blooded" mean?

Or even better; give the money directly to the university so that the students did not need to take the loans on the first place... A billion dollars is a lot of money and there are a lot of ways to spend it -- at least as many ways as there are people. What homeboy did was quite commendable.

Every two months I post a list of our bestselling books. It is typically the most popular item in AALBC’s monthly newsletter and website in general. Here is a link to our March/April 2019 bestselling books. This is not the same list of books that I report to the New York Times (as most of these titles were sold through affiliate programs). Only the books I sell directly are reported to the NY Times.

Is this a serious question to me? Don't be silly 🙂 Besides @Chevdove never asserted that.

@Pioneer1 yes I too remember the jet beauties -- every red blooded Black man does. Few can recall something from Ebony with the same level of fondness. But man any print publication is hard keep afloat today. Who knows what I would really do...

Easy, the laws of physics have not changed. Which is also why we know how the planets were aligned

True. I need to do so as well 🙂

No I did not. It was not my decision and i did not perform the procedure.

@Pioneer1 what you wrote about engineering is true. But for Del. "pedigree" holds no importance.

So let's kill the ones we can't sustain?

True, since there is apparently no such thing as objective sensitivity. Here we go... ok, point to a single article I've written to support your statement. It never ceases to amaze what people will without a shred if evidence....

14 Million Black babies aborted since 1973 is a staggering number, one that I've unfortunately contributed to and regret to this day. But I understand not everyone feels the way I do. On some level we are terminating a life. That 14 million number could have been made a lot smaller through education, and better access to birth control.

@Delano when we were forced into segregated communities. We ran business and built communities -- some quite prosperous -- we had too do this, for there were no other options. Today our options are being restricted again. While segrations is not longer the law. It is the reality even in Places like NYC. Schools were sgregated when I went and they may be more segregated now. The Stuyvesant HS is a popular example. Today, for example, there are more Black owned bookstores than there were five years ago. Amazon is not serving us, Borders closed, B&N is scaling back. These are opportunities, not justy in the book space, but in other areas as well. If Farrakhan can't be in Facebook, he can reach his audience on his own website and people who want to hear him will go there. I'm not the only person who has left Facebook and I will not be the last. I think (hope) it will be a growing trend. It is not that people like me don't engage online any longer -- we just go where we are treated better. I've visited Lipstick Alley in recently years looking for alternatives to Facebook -- I'm sure I'm not the only one.

This is true. But in recent years I see less evidence of it here, as social media is where most Black people engage now. I used to get a LOT more white supremist trolls activity here and even hate mail -- including physical mail, but essentially none in the last year or two.