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Wow 22 years later and this story is still weighing on your mind. I would have defintely given you something i don't know how much but at least a few hundred dollars. Did you ever quit that job @Willie J Moye?

@Pioneer1 are you really and truly puzzled over why white men get away with shit Black men get put away for? Still, Harvey is not out of the woods yet

@Pioneer1, well I deleted my personal account and just post links to my business account. If the traffic from facebook to AALBC drops i'll stop posting links. I never read anything on Twitter. Why didnt you ever create a facebook account?

Yes, live and let live.

This strikes me as illogical, or at least the strangest behavior of a racist I've ever heard of. I fail to see what this has to with racism. Besides the question is biased and flawed, because the only examples I'd be able to come up with, that you would be familiar with, are celebrities who are all bread winners. That is because what you understand as racism is not inherent to human nature; it is something that is taught. Fear of "the other" has nothing to do with skin color; that is incidental. The white racism exhibited in the western world today is relatively new energing with the Atlantic slave trade. Our racism @Cynique is a consequence of being Black in America. Our difference is that I won't accept it as "normal," for there is no evidence of racism, based upon skin color, being natural. @Cynique I hear the word nigger used so much it means nothing to me in most circumstances. Obviously if a group of white men carrying a noose are using it you won't find me hanging around videoing it for social media

Here are the most popular book categories on the AALBC website. If you follow the links you will be sent to a page where the book in each category is listed. The first list has over 800 books in it. There are currently 288 books in the “Poetry / American / General” category. I found this personally interesting that this category of books is in the top 10, because poetry does not sell as well as it did which I launched the site over 20 years ago. Despite that it is obvious my focus on the genre has not wavered. A website can afford to do this, a physical bookstore can not because it is much wiser to dedicate floor space to products that are moving Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / African American / Urban Fiction / African American / Women Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Poetry / American / General Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American Fiction / African American / General Fiction / Urban Fiction / Romance / African American Poetry / American / African American Fiction / Women Biography & Autobiography / Women Fiction / Historical / General Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations Fiction / Romance / General History / United States / 20th Century Literary Criticism / American / African American Juvenile Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author) Fiction / Erotica / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American Biography & Autobiography / General Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational Fiction / African American / Christian Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship Social Science / Minority Studies Social Science / Women’s Studies Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Political Science / Civil Rights @Mel Hopkins this is just more fun with BISAC codes

I clearly understand your point @Cynique. I recently had a conversation with a writer who described a situation they were in, which I witnessed as, racist. The problem was that there were were a variety of other potential reasons for the perceived slight. I looked into the situation and concluded that writer was actually being given a benefit rather than being slighted. Admittedly, this was not obvious to either of us at the time. Collectively we are far too eager to call someone racist. If you see racism everywhere you look, you'll find racism everywhere you look. Every white woman who does something stupid is simply not a racist. All racists are stupid, but not all stupid people are racist. I'll be the first to admit it is hard not to be racist in America -- especially when every single incident is exaggerated and viewed under the lense of racism. I have to force myself to consider people as individuals and not assume every negative incident involving a white person is a result of racism. Usually the reason is much more base, like fear, greed, or envy, If the quote you attributed to Biden was considered racist; that strikes me as absurd, more a reflection of Black paranoia. It also does not surprise me, in the least bit, that Obama and Biden are BFFs. Now if you said Obama was best buds with Al Sharpton I would be very surprised Obama used Sharpton well. I knew that Sharpton's MSNBC show would not last beyond Obama's presidency.

@Cynique Well said. I had not formulated my own opinion, but after reading what you wrote. I cosign it. Of course the more hysterical #metoo folks would probably offense with the mere thought of considering the whole man, context, and tradeoffs.

Well it was Bill's money. But we will never know the true depths of Cosby's depravity. If, as you imply, that the Fisk, Spelman, and others helped keep Bill's wickedness hidden in exchange for contributions, that is horrible. The HBCUs may have dropped Bill like a "hot potato," but let me know which ones returned any of the money he gave them. Does anyone think Black folks are worse off or better off, all things considered because of Bill Cosby?

I agree; naps and sleep, as paradoxical as it may seem, are key to life. So is staying up past 9:30 p.m., the good stuff does not happen before then LOL.

@TiciaLuv, The November book may be found here: https://aalbc.com/bookclubs/cwmyb.php?year=2018 I have been lackadaisical in my responsibility of updating the site, partially because I've been wrestling with the configuration of the online club and partially because I fully engaged in other areas of the website. But there are some good things coming to the club -- stay tuned!

@Chevdove I know but your response did not answer my question. Are you suggesting that she was a racist when she married the Black man -- or only became a racist after she divorced him. The former would not make sense and the latter makes her no different than the majority of Black women who married Black men. While calling every slight made my a white person against a Black person racist is great for a social media meme, it is simplistic and reductionist. The answer to your questions are yes, yes, and yes.

Yeah like the gangstervwho hands out turkeys during the holidays in the hood. People are complex. The documentary cosby produced was in a word, great. The Cosby Show, donations to HBCU, great and great -- and I don't like to throw the word great around loosely. But the man also had a dark side. Stallone contributions to society pale in comparion (as far as i know). Cosby was a great humanitarian and a degenerate.

I'm going to watch more football, drink more beer, and look for more women to have uncommitted sex with -- like every red blooded American. Seriously, what can you do? Reason and truth are less profitable than extremism and lies so the masses are woefully misinformed. Trump is our president and Oprah has a great chance to win in 2020... pass me another beer.

@ErnestLiving, man do you really write between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.? I get up early once a week to catch a flight. Today for example, i was up at 3:30 but i took a 4 hour nap around noon my problem is that i don't usually get to sleep until midnight. What time do you got to bed?

@Chevdove you do realize that tbe keyfob woman you keep saying that does not want black people living in her building was married to a Black man? Many Black women cant say that. How do you rationalize her supposedly overt racist behavior having been martied to a brotheer? Yeah @Pioneer1 anytime a Black person kills another Black person in the U.S. they just say Chicago Acutually i believe detriot has a higher murder rate.

Man you guys love citing tabloids huh? Are you trying to compare stallone to cosby. One is a convicted serial sexual predator and the other was falsely accussed.

Answer: None.

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/ Frontline has engaged in some old fashioned investigative journalism. If you regularly use Facebook these videos should be required viewing. I just watched the first episode and the things Facebook are knowingly doing exceeds my worse fears. I will delete -- not just suspend -- but delete my account as a result of watching this.

@Chevdove just for a point of comparison this event deserves attention and action. The "Key Fob Affair"... meh. A race war is not just evil but it is a completely absurd idea. Unfortunately, there seem to be folks trying to start one. So many people in the south have guns -- many of them walking around with them concealed -- just in case someone wants to start something. That combined with stand your ground laws and 45's constantly exclaiming these mass shooting would not see so bad if more people were armed. Unfortunately there are too many mentally disturbed people who own guns. In Florida it is easier to buy a gun than it is to register to vote.

I'm sure you all know that Ntozake Shange passed away this Saturday. I met her a couple of times. Once at a performance across the street from where I lived -- actually in the same building that serves as the barbershop in the Luke Cage TV series. There were only a handful of people in attendance so I go to socialize a bit with Ntozake, her sister, and their peeps. I have a photo somewhere, but I can't find it now... She struggled with mental health issues. I shot video of her discussing this about a decade ago and just now added it to her page. Shange is best known for her "choreopoem," For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, (I saw saw a production of it in the early '80s). She enjoyed a resurgence in popularity back in 2010 when Tyler Perry make a film the work, For Colored Girls. R.I.P.

@Cynique I just read the other post on this Black woman' story. Of course it comes as no surprise to me that this farce could be completely contrived. But I'm not about to gloat over being vindicated. That would be like gloating over my taking @Delano and @Kalexander2's money because 45 make it to the end of the year. It would be like gloating over being right about climate change. All the media's attention on this young lady is a sad use of valuable resources -- unfortunately utilizing journalists to cover this stuff is very lucrative, so it will only get worse.

The New York Daily News is a tabloid, at best one step above the National Enquirer. The sea of click baity ads on the site completely undermines my ability to take the site seriously. @Delano of all the sources of information why do you reference sources like The Daily News? I know a lot of people who participated in the ACN pyramid scheme -- you could not convince any of them that it was a scam. The idea that 45 would promote it comes as no surprise at all. Despite with the Daily News wrote it seems highlighly unlikely this will bring the man down. This is sensationalism. Del for the upteen time, I believe it is possible that 45 will be indicted and it is certainly possible that he will be thrown out of office. However it is becoming increasingly obvious that he will finish the year and that I will collect my money from you. There is a good chance he will finish his term. The possibility of a 2nd term is qute real too. Again the result of the midterms elections will be quite telling.

Oh that's easy: ratings. White people will never go broke putting crazy Black people on display. This is why Kanye West is one of the most popular Black men in America.Insert other media

@Cynique did you miss that the statement you are reacted to, that I wrote was written in jest?