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Really? And still be able to report on Diddy, Sharpe, and Trump 😉 We did not need to know this within two hours of it happening. If you want Blow by Blow news out of Spain subscribe to a news service from Spain.

Who else has the resources to do such a thing? Even if one buys into your premise that all women find Black men the sexiest. One would have to believe all the media outlets are colluding with other -- in complete secrecy to bring down successful and innocent Black men with coordinated campaigns. The media are doing this for the same reason we are talking about it now people are interested i this sort of thing and this is how they make money. I heard the woman who Diddy beat in the hotel was forced to have some guy piss in her mouth!

African civilizations, as great as they were, share one thing in common with all civilizations --- they rise and they fall. As "great" as America is -- it will crash and burn too. The prospects of America lasting thousands of years as Arican Civilizations have is truly a testimony to how great they were, Scholars, throughout history, have known western civilization came from the Greek, and the Greeks learned everything they know from Africans. Greek Civilization is in ruins, and they no longer have influence, the same is true with Italy, Spain, Portugal -- all is western Europe, including the Bristish Empire, is a shell of itself. No one wrings their hands over the fall of these civilizations. The fall of African Civilizations has been explained in many books including: Africa: The Mother of Western Civilization by “Dr. Ben” Yosef Ben-Jochannan How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads by John Henrik Clarke Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James The Real Facts About Ethiopia by J. A. Rogers African People in World History by John Henrik Clarke When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilizations by Robin Walker Enjoy!

@ProfD, homie is going away.

Me too which is why I avoids these sources for news. @Pioneer1 a reputable source with fewer resources is slower at gathering facts. I'm not sure how long it took for the news of Spain power outages to hit, but it was not on the order of weeks but days. It happened on the 28th of April I heard about it last week. How soon after the event would have been acceptable to you?

This has become circular. You reject the fact that Shannon is a gender-neutral name, while everyone else here accepts this. You can look up how often the name is given to boys and girls today. Debating facts is a waste of time.

Thank you. @Pioneer1 has his own definition. This flawed belief is what is confusing you. Nothing I, or even a geneticist, can say will make sense to you. Pioneer knows this, but he rejects the implications of this fact. @Pioneer1 do you realize there are more genetic differences between people within a so-called race than between them?

Elizabeth Warren was powerful...These guys are infuriating. Why do these post on X?

lol! Man, I bust out laughing reading that one! The answer to that one is you or the one making these extremeclaims otherwise we won’t be having this conversation. You said flatly that Shannon was a girl’s name. You ridiculed people who would name their boys Shannon. you wrote that the name was not a gender neutral name. You were firm on this. As you are with most of your positions. There was no gray area. I explained how the name usage changed overtime I gave you a variety of other examples. Still, you stood firm on your conviction that Shannon was a girl’s name. Sometimes I think if you change your position, you feel that’s a weakness. The reality is it’s a strength the only way you can progress.

even I “acknowledge” race and racial differences, but that does not mean that it is scientifically valid. It’s just the language we use. I call myself black but I’m not black. I’ll call white people white but they are not white. We’ve gone over this a bazillion times and you will never get it. You will never find any scientific paper or citation or assertion describing a scientifically derived basis for race. What you will find in the modern science is a rejection of race. The scientific community has moved on from this, before you and I were even . The human genome project put the nails in the coffin a quarter century ago. Again, I know people hold onto old ideas because it fucks with their worldview and that’s hard for some people, especially racists. Why any black person would perpetuate a white racist social construct is beyond me.

Most people here don’t consider the name exclusively female on. What basis can you say that most people in society do?! Particularly when half the people who give the name to their kids, give it to their boys. In the face of conflicting information, you continued to double down on your personal observations.. you can look it up. right, assuming all Leroy Jackson’s are Black will be just as foolish as assuming all Shannon’s are girls. but again names and who uses them is not fixed but fluid. do you think all brown skinned people were named Johnson Jackson, or Jones prior to the transatlantic slave trade? I don’t know what your name is, but I guarantee it’s not a name anybody would’ve associated with a black person before people were snatched from Africa.

I've moved this list to the website proper and will begin to promote it widely. One concern I do have, and it is the same concern I have for a soon to be promoted monthly National Black Authors Bestselling Books list (you heard it here first), and that is some people may see this as "ghettoization." You know, segmenting Black people and shunting off out of the way of all other people (ie. white folks whose validation we need). Clearly, I don't feel that way, because the alternative is marginalization. The publishing industry has a legacy of both de jure and de facto racism spanning centuries. Today we live in the legacy of this and as a result there are systemic problems which marginalize Black authors and books. I hope the list I'm creating will help elevate these books. There are allys of all colors who understand this and support this effort -- I need and welcome their support. However, my work is hampered if my people do not embrace these lists. I it is our validation I value most... though I appreciate not all of us will be on board with this effort. The 100 Bestselling Black Authors for 2024

🙂 Well you are feisty, and I mean that in the best sense of the word. Well, time is not guaranteed to anyone. I feel like I've observed a great deal of change in my life. You've seen much more than I have and have enough marbles left to not only bear witness to it, but to relate it through your cynical and satirical eye.

Actually, if you look deeper a century ago, perhaps, the names were roughly equal between men and women. In the 70's the name was given to women a lot more frequently, though not exclusively (this is probably why you see it as a girls name as the 70s is when you came of age). Today in the name is given to both boys and girls equally. The name by YOUR definition is unisex, gender neutral. Again. limiting the evidence to you own observations. @Pioneer1 If you encountered the name "Shannon" on a resumè, could you guarantee that the person was female?

@aka Contrarian would you take offense at being described as "Fiesty?"

I'm trying a different technique by asking questions that I hope will help you see things in a different way. If you are trying to count the number of people Black and white people with diabetes give me a reason to justify excluding the Hispanic ones? My answer is there isn't one, but I'd like to read you justification for it.

Bingo. @Pioneer1 the key word here is implicit. Where did you get this definition of the Black race? Is this your opinion again? You do realize most ADOS have European, or so called "white" ancestry, right? You have in the past call people who to your reckoning are white, when they are ethnically Black. What makes your reasoning problematic is that you reject people who claim a Black ethnicity because don't like the way they look.

What race are Native Americans?

Yes, of course, but of all the ethnicities that exist, why choose that one to break out when you could easily put them in the black and white buckets

Again Why breakout Hispanics? Do you have black and white? Just put the black Hispanics in the black group and the white Hispanics in the white group.

Sure, but they are profoundly different. One is dogmatic, resistant to change, and based on a the words of someone. The other is open to change and is based on proof. The article breaks out black and white But then has a separate section for Hispanics, which you say includes black and white. Why do you think they pull out Hispanics?

I push back because you’re so strident in an absolute in your incorrect position,; this is your MO. There is no subtlely in your positions. Everything is black and white. In this case, every reasonable person knows there are plenty of women and men with the name Shannon., thereby making it a gender-neutral name. But for some unexplained, incomprehensible reason you reject this idea, and provide no coherent explanation. I imagine holding onto positions like this would be frustrating when they are vetted with other other people.

Fortunately, many schools read literature that is much more diverse -- seemingly too diverse for some.

To clarify @Delano ; Even though it rejects everything modern science tell us, race will exist as long as there are enough people like @Pioneer1 to perpetuate it. Racism, and all that comes along with it (i.e. white superiority), will continue as long as enough people embrace race. There are many beliefs founded on complete and utter falsehoods. These beliefs all come to an end... eventually.

You skipped over all my questions @Pioneer1. now you demanding I answer yours. Ok, here is a direct answer to your question which was implied by my response that homosexuality predates white racism: No, I do not think white racists have formulated a method of turning Black people into homosexuals for the purpose of reducing our numbers (Ignoring the fact that homosexuals do procreate).