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Cynique I was keying off your statement, "He always responded to his harshest critic, Cornel West, by asking him to submit an agenda and be specific about what he wanted the presidency to do." West was always crystal clear on the agenda. Obama was the leader of the democratic party. The democratic party has gotten it clock cleaned by the Republicans. If you don't want to give Obama any credit for the failures of the party that is cool, we'll just have to agree to disagree....

Del what is Jay Z's percent ownership of the Brooklyn Nets?

Pioneer Trump's behavior appears to be motivated by ignorance of the issues, self-aggrandisement, lack of civility, greed, and narcissism. I'll take Obama over that any day of the week--shoot I'll take Bush (1 or 2). I understand that some people confuse Trump's characteristics as desirable in a world leader at this time, but this reflects a profound dysfunction in our culture and the way our government operates, not anything positive about Trump. Cynique, I'm not so sure Obama dismissed West because of a lack of agenda. Keep in mind West campaigned with Obama hard--something like 85 trips. I saw one of these campaign stops in Harlem, when the local democrats were still supporting Hillary Clinton. He knew what West was interested in achieving. I also know West had an agenda, both he and Tavis Smiley (think of him what you will), even published some books in the subject the most popular was The Covenant with Black America, Obama jettisoned West early. West became harshly critical once it became obvious that Obama was not going to do any specifically to address the needs of Black people. West was I 'm sure felt betrayed because Obama presented himself differently during the campaign. Perhaps West, indeed many in the Black community were reading into Obama, because of his brown skin characteristics, he simply did not have Obama then when on to align himself with sycophants (like Sharpton) and Ivy League educated elites who were already with the program...his "advisers." So while "Obama creating Trump," as Pioneer suggests, is a stretch in my view; Black America's complete disillusionment with the democratic party made itself abundantly evident at the polls. Some of this blame ,I'm sorry to say, belongs to the Obama presidency.

ATL does have some fine women! Is talking like that, in mixed company, considered sexist today? Anywho, that is the thing that strikes me every time I visit. The city has more than it's share of beautiful Black people.

Woods is largely washed up, Eninem is white, Jordan is retired, Jay is still running around but rather than try to figure out what Del means lets just wait for him to elaborate. You know dude likes to speak in riddles

Pioneer I was was talking about virginity (before marriage) being prized by women as a desirable characteristic for themselves. I heard Emma Fraser say that in a YouTube video recently. I was not referring to a woman's very first time specifically, I was talking about a person's first time with anyone else. Of course a woman's very first time encounter will be the first time with that specific cat (or kitten). While I concede my statements may not have been precise enough to have been crystal clear, it is interesting to see what folks bring on their own, and how a question about super powers leads to one on fornication

Your position on Tupac is not popular Pioneer, but I see your point. I would not necessarily agree that Tupac was the cause of the thing you enumerated he may have been a victim of it was so many others are. Of course his celebrity help magnify the negative aspects of our culture. This is despite songs like deer momma and a few others.... He was a talented brother. But. this is what you get when you do not control our icons or rather when we allow profit driven corporations to decide the characters and the characteristics we uplift. I have not watched it either. I remember there was a time when I would watch ANY Black movie, I guess there are so many options now.

Funny when I wrote different every time, different partners never occurred to me. I was thinking different way with the same partner. When I wrote it seems like the first time is usually the worst or best, I'm not taking from personal experience just the stories I recall hearing from other people like Mel's story. I often hear women related their own deflowering experience as a relatively bad one. I heard there was a time when virginity was prized by women. @Cynique, can you speak to that?

I selling the book Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It by Charlamagne Tha God. I've priced the book less than Amazon--even with the shipping. Lets see how long it takes me to sell it. The book is a NY Times Bestseller. I can only afford to sell the book at this price because I have a promo copy from the publisher. I generally skew away from celebrity books, focusing on actual writers (keep in mind every book I add to the site is added manually), because writers will generally produce more than one book. Why waste resources building content around a guy who may never writer another book... At any rate, lets see how it goes. I'll put an advertisement on the homepage for this experiment. Simon & Schuster send me books, but they don't buy ads so they are getting over on me now But this happened to be the best book I had to run this test case..

It seems the first time with someone is always the worst of the best, or close to it....

So young.... R.I.P.

Hi LaKesa sounds like an interesting book. Do you have a website? If so please post the URL--thanks.

Hi Denise can you name a few of the stores that you like and why. I like Mother Pearl's store, Underground Book (video above) in Sacramento, CA's historic Oak Park. I also like Oakland Marcus Books (see video below). While I often complain about the lack of stores, I also try to remember to celebrate and patronize the great ones we still have.

Thanks easy, different everytime for a lifetime. The first option would become eventually become hell.

Being omnipotent, I could always kill myself an option immortality lacks. Knowing about something and and doing it are completely different. Would you rather know about making love or actually engage in the act?

What does the list of those entertainer names mean?

Albert “Prodigy” Johnson (November 2, 1974 – June 20, 2017) partners with Akashic Books to create the Infamous Books Imprint. Their first release, in July of 2013, was the novella H.N.I.C., a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed which was also written by Johnson. Prodigy first book was the critically acclaimed autobiography My Infamous Life which was published in 2011. Infamous also published the works of JaQuavis Coleman, Mazaradi Fox, Miasha, Shannon Holmes, and others I meet "The Infamous Don P" in this context. He was a very chill, down to earth Brother. I liked him. I learned he had sickle cell the first time I saw him at a local library, but I never really considered how serious the condition really is.. I know the man died over a week ago, but I only learned of this a few hours ago.

I have not heard any real complaining from "Joe six pack." about the lack of white boys in sports. Again, they want to win, be entertained, get tribal with their boys, and place wagers. Nobody is too racist to give that up. It could be 100% Black and foreign. Now if Negroes and foreigners start dominating ownership they way they dominate the playing field I think we see racism rear it's ugly head, but at the rate things are going we are content just being the Million Dollar Slaves. Now wait until foreigners start to surpass Black folks then you'll here some real bitching and moaning, but it will come from us, and white boys will not care about that either...

Del with omnipotence I could give myself immortality But immortality could be torture. After a few thousand years I'm sure I get tired of these bald apes running around here killing each other. It would be like watching the same bad move over and over again. It would be hell. If I were omnipotent the first thing I would do would be to travel the universe. I'd stop by Earth every one and a while to see how long it takes these greedy little monkeys to make the planet completely uninhabitable for human life. Maybe I'd do some genetic engineering and give Sapiens a few Bonobo genes and watch humanity evolve to a planet of peace, love and sex.

Mother Rose! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts here. Underground Books sets the standard as one of the finest indie bookstores in the country. I just added your store's website to my database of bookseller websites: https://aalbc.com/booksites/index.php?store_name=Underground Books Does you website have its own domain? Something undegrounboostore.com. If so please provide it, I used http://underground-books9.mybigcommerce.com/

Thank God, once HICKSON turns over his brand entirely to Facebook it is a wrap! Keep us posted on the redesigned website.

I had to pull the Discus software off my website. They changed it started collecting to much information from my visitors and serving unsecure content. It was a shame I liked the software and the potential it. i replaced it with some open source commenting software that is much faster, simply because it is not utilizing resources to collect your data.

I'm sure I would spend less than 1 microsecond concerning myself with the affairs of humanity were I their creator and omnipotent. I would think no more of them than I would a discarded toe nail clipping. I'd be doing things I can not conceive of because my puny brain is too limited--maybe I'd be birthing other universes...

Neither am I. I live in New York City.

If would have been more powerful if I could prove it by demonstrating it...If it is still broken after the holiday I'll make a video so that people can at least see it.