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As if white people need additional material to use against us... At the risk of lecturing, mansplaining, or whatever you wanna call my expression of ideas, I think the crime in chicago is a combination of a wide variety of things. Obviously people who go around shooting others were not raised properly -- that goes without saying. But we are talking about a cycle of familia dysfunction that was caused and is perpetuated by living in a hostile environment. Maybe your generation, "the greatest generation," was indeed better that ours. But I'm not sure how well y'all would have fared in this handheld-device-carrying, social-media-controlled world we live in today: You had MLK we have Al Sharpton. Y'all have Malcolm X, we have Barack Obama. Y'all had newspapers, we have Twitter. Y'all had bookstores we have Amazon.Y'all had JKF, we have 45 I dunno many of us are doing the best we can too, but it is a different world today. The mental shackles are backed the most powerful computer system invented with machine learning. No one is immune... @Delano, Who is better off in America a wealthy, educated, Black man; or a poor, uneducated white man? Which one would you rather be?

OK lets put things in perspective here. Do you believe Colin would have started any of this if he thought it would actually cost him his job? I don't. I say that because he is trying very hard to get it back. Still he lost his job and it has become a sacrifice. What?! You know I have an MBA and worked on Wall Street right? The role of a financial manager is to maximize shareholder wealth -- I know how it works. However I don't think that we, as a society, are best served with that mentality, thought it has been incredibly successful strategy for most wealthy people including the POTUS. I believe, NIke has had a net negative impact on the world. Exploiting what Colin started does not change this. I'm sure I did not lose my mind over a meme, I've already forgotten about, from Facebook. Maybe Facebook does have a sense of humor and the joke is one us.

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@Chevdove, Unfortunately Colins message was immediately co-opted, because one of disrespecting the flag. When Colin lost his job our reaction -- the reaction of this fellow player -- should have been to shut the NFL down. They have the power to do it. But they won't exercise that power because everyone is more concerned about getting paid. Meanwhile, Colin gets paid, Nike sells more sneakers, The NFL grows richer, and unarmed negroes continued to be gunned down in the street by those sworn to protect.

That is a good point @Cynique. Mental shackles are often FAR more effective than the physical ones. With that in mind, maybe you can generate a little more understanding for your fellow man. Being from Chicago, and having to constantly hear about all the Black on Black shootings, surely you don't believe our treatment in the country is not partially to blame. WHAT?! I completely missed that fact that Oska had a blond ponytail! (What is it with Black women and blond hair) At any rate, I'm compelled to go back to my original sentiment since the cartoon is actually a more accurate depiction of Naomi than I thought. Perception is everything. "We see what we want to see." Deep! I'm actually liking the cartoon more now as it is so revealing...

What?! @Cynique you led this conversation with the Nike ad, then went on to THANK Nike for helping Colin. Cynique you are absolutely hold Michael Jordan to a different standard that Colin. Indeed using your argument I can say that Colin is helping to exploit works by helping Nike. Workers feared for their lives in one incident when 28 people collapsed rushing to escape a fire at a factory supplying Nike. -Cambodia 2017 Nike factory worker shares story of abusive working conditions -- Thailand, 2016 Nike factory worker shares story of abusive working conditions - Vietnam, 2018 Workers at the plant – owned by the world's largest maker of sneakers, Yue Yuen – earn as little as $1.67 an hour making shoes that can sell for up to 100 times as much in the United States. -- China 2014 The gratitude afforded Nike is the notion that I reject, simply because Nike only cares for Colin in so far as he can generate revenue for them -- no different that the master that feeds and provides shelter for his slave. @Chevdove I believe one can support Colin AND reject Nike. I can also believe one can support Colin AND be critical of his tactics. Colin is not sancrocant or above critic -- no one man is. Indeed this critique can help him be more effective... coming from the right people.

@Pioneer1, Forget about celebrity beefs. It is difficult to distinguish between actual beef and marketing hype to attract attention. Also social media, media in generalexaggerate these beefs in order to attract an audience. In the real, World isn't the how most of us handle our conflicts a

@Pioneer1 please reveal the source I'm curious.

@Pioneer1, I don't think this society was designed for anyone other than rich people.

Please. Hyperbole may be compelling, but when used to attribute sentiments I do not homd and have not expressed it is just wrong. My gripe is with Nike and the people who elevate them as is Nike gives a Fu*k about Black people. Why hold Nike at a different standard than Michael Jordan?

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@Delano sometimes I think that you just want to disagree. You made a few statement that I did not make (or imply) and that I disagree with. I don't even know where to begin.... However I'll ask you this simple question Del: Who is better off in America a wealthy, educated, Black man; or a poor, uneducated white man?

@Missy, I wonder f the audio book will read the glossary and the notes which were quite extensive and revealing. After reading the book seems nothing that has happened to me, or will ever happen to me, with compare the what Kossola (Cudjo Lewis) experienced.

Man, I was about to dismiss this site straight away as the URL is smh.com, which I initially took that to stand for "shaking my head dot com." before I took a peek at the article which I will read later. LOL!

For clarity's sake @Delano I did not say "poorer," as in less rich than Serena. I wrote "poor" as impoverished. Tell me about any poor white white man's tantrums that get any attention. They have to shoot up some place to get any attention then it is only negative. Both Black and white people came to Serena's defense. Who defends poor white people? We all all just relegate them to the as poor white trailer park trash bucket and forget about them. Big banks take their homes, we send them to die in senseless wars, we send jobs with decent wages to foreign countries and we educate them so poorly that they defend all of the abuse heaped onto them. We don't even think about them until they start ODing on Oxycodone, put 45 in the white house, or shoot up a school. If you are poor and Black in America you have your work cut out for you -- I won't even debate about relative gender differences for poor black people, because they are too small to be of much consequence and there are so many variables; size, darkness of skin, education, accent, geography, age, etc...

Well a lot of authors need to be educated -- they dominated the responses against boycotting Amazon in the survey I took last year. Of course the reason was because they could only sell their books through Amazon?! It is like we are operating in some alternative universe...

I think I would put black male ahead of white female. Black men got the right to vote first. Black man handily defeated a white woman for the democratic nomination for president. I would also include class in the equation @Delano. Rich, white men rule the world. But a rich Black woman trumps a poor white man. As long as the difference in class is visibly obvious.

Yeah this process will jack up a lot of indie authors. The video (below) makes the transition it look simple, but even a simple process that is unfamiliar will cause a lot of frustration for the less than super tech savvy. Of course there will be no shortage of professionals to help authors make the transition. I already see that CreateSpace Cover Creator designs aren't compatible with Cover Creator on KDP. What is MOST amazing is the "Amazon Royalty." Here is where Amazon gets you and their own price calculator make the very plain. I will write more about this when i get a second. But here is the gist: For a 240 page book if you print with me (AALBC Prints Books) the unit cost is $3.87 per book (assuming a 200 book print run, less for larger print runs). If you sell the book you will make $11.13 (ignoring shipping). Now if you print and sell the books via Amazon, the pricing cost is $3.73/book, but Amazon wants an astonishing $5.27 or $7.54 (with expanded distribution) that is 2/3's of the profit of the book! @Mel Hopkins I gather KDP requires that authors give Amazon the exclusive right to sell their books -- unless the author pays for expanded distribution. Is that right? Amazon can get away with this because they monopolize the online sale of books. For Black books, they essential monopolize the sale of ALL book bt electronic and physical ebooks.

@Delano Serena was behind and clearly losing the match. The notion that the umpire was trying to hurt Serena's chances is a stretch and unnecessary. That is another problem with social media it exaggerated everything. The cartoonist can rest assured social media will be on to the next shiny thing is 2 minutes, his cartoon will be completely forgotten, and he can fade back into obscurity.

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Now was the cartoonist engaging in satire, a racist trying to put her in her place by demeaning her, or reflecting a culture that elevates whiteness and marginalizes Blackness subtly, directly, and everything in between? I doubt Serena's reaction was just about that specific penalty, but a culmination of a entire career of unfair treatment (perceived or otherwise). When people fly off the handle that way it usually is not about that specific event, but more like the straw that broke the camel's back.

Yeah, Google also does a good job serving up new videos to keep you engaged on their platform -- happens to me all the time, which is probably why stopped watching network TV.

I read your blog article Believe in Yo’Self; yep, you can be in a creative business without believing in yourself.

That is how Facebook (social media) works. I have not seens a single favorable reaction to this cartoon -- not one. The cartoonists Facebook page would certainly skew favorable, as it is his filter bubble of friends and fans. My filter bubble is mostly Black women. It is worth considering if that fact is one of the reasons I've changed my position... It would be interesting to read what the female posters, @Cynique, @Mel Hopkins, @Chevdove, and readers here think.

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