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Hi Michael what is your new book's ISBN13 I'll add it to your AALBC page.

Wait, WHAT!? Please provide an example of this @Delano. Sometime I will use personal anecdotes to help explain a point but the notion that I use personal statement to "win" arguments is absurd. That fact that you would use the term "Win an argument" does not reflect what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to learn, share knowledge, vent my frustration and comment on the passing scene, and ideally have a few laughs along the way, all the while expressing myself in a manner that I often would not do in the real world -- less politically correct and less filtered (honest).

Yes @Chevdove, despite the typo the quote you copied shows you understood what I meant. Your point illustrated perfectly the point I was trying to make which is escaping some people. I only visited Eatonville because if it's history. Otherwise I would not have known about it or even cared to have visited the place. Many people know every little about their own communities, states, or country despite living here all their lives.

Today someone texted me saying that my Facebook account had been hacked. This seemed unlikely (I don't even know my facebook password -- it was auto generated and I let my computer remember it), but I checked it out anyway. Here was the post my friend thought was posted by a hacker: After I told my friend, a woman, that I was the one who posted the message she was very surprised at me -- almost incredulous. I told her that from time to time I deliberately make salacious posts to see if they would draw more traffic that my regular posts. She saw the post because she went to my wall. This post did not appear in her newsfeed, or anyone else's that I can tell. After 27 hours only 10 people from Facebook have viewed the post (12% of the total views of the post) and only one person actually engaged with it on Facebook. Bottom line, Facebook's algorithm does not share plain text posts with external links, even if the content is somewhat scandalous. Now I'm sure if I posted the actual email on Facebook I would have gotten more engagement. But I don't post content on Facebook because I'm interested in people visiting AALBC not reading my stuff on Facebook Does anyone else think that I hurt my reputation on Facebook by making this post? Does anyone thing I crossed a line in terms of decency? I considered removing the post given my friend's reaction, but then I'm not concerned about Facebook... and I can't be fired from anywhere because of what I post. I do however care what my people think. So let me know what you think.

@Chevdove are you saying that you know of family members who also survived the transatlantic slave trade? Perhaps they are part of the same "cargo." Is your family from LA or MS? Where in Florida does your family live? Depending upon where you are in the state some parts are easily more cosmopotitial that the North.

I guess the hackers did not want to make you feel inadequate. They don't call me "johnson" for nothing 😉

@Cynique good point. I don't mean to suggest the information can only be communicated through books. Videos are a great way to learn about far flung places and cultures. Before technology we replied upon an oral communication. The bottom line is personal first hand information is not always the best or even possible. @Mel Hopkins I never studied journalism but something is unclear to me. First hand experience, as I understand it is, one witnessing something happen. Now if you read something I witnessed is what I wrote considered a "First/Primary" source?

I'll take that as a "yes." You'd make a fine capitalist. Slave owners convinced themselves too that they were providing better opportunities for their darkies too.

This is why you can simply consume american propaganda. We have to read widely and outside out culture. If one did that they would not need to visit any place to learn this. It would take less time and be far cheaper. In fact it is the only way most of us can learn since most of us don't have the resources to travel the world. Most of us however can travel to the library.

@Pioneer1 aren't you asking for proof in this statement? This reads to me as if you are asking for proof. What did I miss? Again, the correlation between the educational levels of those incarcerated compared to the general public are well know -- I should not have to prove this to you. You can easily look it up. Yes, of course, I see how evil people can and do use the this correlation to purposely label less educated people as more violent. I have not taken, nor asserted, that beflier -- despite the fact that you and @Delano have reacted, quite irrationally, to me as if I had.

I knew women like this, indeed one is still a very close friend after 35 years. They were tough on the outside and sweet on the inside. Don't get me wrong cross her and she'll fu*k you up. But if you are cool there is no better friend. Sometimes I think the initial dissing or tough exterior is a defense mechanism, an unwillingness to show any vulnerability which some men will attempt to exploit. So these sisters preempt all of the by going on the offensive. As I engage more in the dating scene today I have not come across this behavior at all. I think women don't want to risk needlessly turning off a potential prospect. As far as producing stronger men and better relationships -- who knows? I don't think the behavior is very common.

@Mel Hopkins, Hackers are the ban of the internet. It is another reason we have fewer indie websites. It you don't stay on top of your website it will be brought down. Mis a couple of WordPress Updates and you are toast. Well @Pioneer1 this is why this particular scam should not work. If they had the goods on you they would simply send them. Besides assuming they actually had the goods what is to stop them from asking for more money even after you paid them. But again try this millions of times and you will fool someone.

I'm not sure we are in disagreement @Mel Hopkins I agree one's motivation, for travel and reading, is important. If I substituted MIami for Disney would that make a difference in my analogy? Again, I say both visiting and reading is ideal and that I personally prefer visiting than reading, but visiting requires a lot more time than reading. I think I know Florida better than more Floridians. I been to every corner of the state from Panama City to Dry Tortugus. I've lived in Tampa and West Palm Beach I recruited students at FAMU and done volunteer work in Okeechobee. I've swam in every major beach, visited most of the Black-owned bookstores, vacation in Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Sanibel and Captiva, I've ridden an airboat in the everglades, fished on both coasts, etc etc. But this is after more than 30 years of experience. I can learn about all of this and more in a few good books in a san of a few months. Bottom line, you can not know a place simple by visiting. You really need to do both. If you visit a place and believe you know it without reading about it, I think you will simply be under-informed. @Pioneer1 you make a good point regarding eyewitness testimony. I think we put too much weight our personal experiences in terms of what we believe to be true. We simply can't experience more than we can read in a book. Indeed our collective hubris believing that we can is responsible for repeating historical errors and failing to lean from the experiences of others.

Fuck Zuck! That scumbag is so greedy he is more concerned about making money than he is about providing a platform for the propagation of fake news and information. For a fee his algorithms make sure the information disseminated by holocaust deniers is pushed into the news feeds of people stupid enough to believe it. It is why 45 is in office and the reason Zuck is bazillionare.

Hello ladies I was trying to research your book but i could not find a website. Can you post the book's ISBN13? -- thanks

I was out to dinner with a some friends last night and one of the women described how she was victimized in an online scam. She was also trolled with an email similar to the ones I receive all the time. When an entity hacks into say Target's servers and steals passwords this is a VERY big deal. Many of us use the same passwords on multiple systems. So if your password is stolen from Target they may now also have your bank account's password. This data is freely available to the dark web and sophisticated scammers know how to exploit people beyond simple identity thief. I've included an example of a scam email below. Now I would NEVER pay someone under these conditions so this scam can not work on me. Besides I don't have three grand laying around. Still I could see where someone would be quite concerned about seeing an email of this, because my actual password (long since changed) is included and the nature of the treat. Like the "NIgerian prince" scam. If one sends enough of these messages out you'll snag a few live ones. Plus the email sounds plausible; It is of course possible to hack into a computer and take over the camera, and people do and visit porn sites and jack off to them 😲. Before the advent of social media porn was the largest form of traffic on the internet. Here is the email: “I will cut to the chase. I do know johnsonpcc1 is your password. Moreover, I know your secret and I've evidence of it. You do not know me personally and nobody hired me to look into you. It's just your misfortune that I found your misadventures. Well, I setup a malware on the adult video clips (sex sites) and you visited this site to have fun (you know what I mean). When you were busy watching videos, your web browser started working as a Rdp (Remote control desktop) that has a keylogger which provided me access to your display and also web camera. Immediately after that, my software collected all of your contacts from messenger, facebook, and mailbox. I then gave in more time than I probably should've into your life and generated a double-screen video. First part shows the video you had been watching and 2nd part displays the view of your web camera (its you doing inappropriate things). Honestly, I'm ready to forget about you and let you get on with your life. And my goal is to provide you two options that can accomplish this. The two choices with the idea to ignore this letter, or just pay me $ 3200. Let’s understand those 2 options in details. Option 1 is to ignore this mail. You should know what is going to happen if you take this path. I will definitely send your video recording to all of your contacts including close relatives, co-workers, and so on. It does not help you avoid the humiliation your household will feel when friends uncover your sordid videos from me. Other Option is to pay me $ 3200. We’ll call it my “privacy tip”. Now let me tell you what happens if you choose this path. Your secret remains your secret. I will destroy the recording immediately. You move on with your routine life like none of this ever happened. Now you must be thinking, “I should go to the cops”. Without a doubt, I have taken steps to ensure this message cannot be tracked returning to me and yes it will not steer clear of the evidence from destroying your life. I am not planning to dig a hole in your pocket. I just want to be paid for time I place into investigating you. Let's assume you decide to generate all this vanish entirely and pay me the confidentiality fee. You will make the payment through Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search "how to buy bitcoins" in google search) Amount to be sent: $ 3200 Receiving Bitcoin Address: 1AeMyWdsjHk4rAexuAz46R6yjPjvHTLyB9 (It's cASe sensitive, so copy and paste it carefully) Tell nobody what you would be sending the Bitcoins for or they possibly will not sell it to you. The process to acquire bitcoin usually takes a short time so do not delay. I've a specific pixel within this email message, and now I know that you have read this mail. You have 24 hours to make the payment. If I don't receive the BitCoins, I will definately send your video recording to all of your contacts including friends and family, coworkers, and many others. You better come up with an excuse for friends and family before they find out. Nevertheless, if I receive the payment, I will destroy the video immediately. It's a non negotiable one time offer, thus don't ruin my personal time and yours. Your time has started.” The web is still like the wild wild west. I don’t like to play with hackers because they could easily destroy my site before breakfast — and there would be nothing I could do about it — no place to go for justice… not even street justice. Given the nature of the corporate dominated web today, a video of me pleasuring myself would help raise the profile of the website tremendously. As “45” proves, time and time again, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

This statement does not resonate with me at all. Ideally, it is best to read and visit a place. But if you are interested in learning about a place, and can only read about it or visit it. I would choose reading. I say reading because you can get more more information about a place than you can visiting it. You can read about more locations you can read the historical context you can read the perspectives of locals, and the collective observations of many others. You simply can't do this on a visit. Don;t get me wrong I love to travel and if I personally had a choice I would rather visit a place than read about it, but I'd also recognize that my experience is very limited and may even be misleading. It is saying you know something about Florida, because you visited Disney. When I visited Nigeria the Brother I was staying with told me I should read Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa before I came. He told me it would help me understand what I would see on my visit. I followed his advice and I'm glad I did. I simply would not have had a clue why NIgeria is in the state that it is in. Indeed many of the people who live there don't know. I also came to discover that I knew more about Nigerian writers than many of the locals. Personal experience can only take you so far @Pioneer1 books and the internet have the potential to advance man's knowledge tremendously. It is just unfortunate that capitalists have perverted the internet and it is having the opposite effect -- making us less informed or worse, ill informed. Sure books can be used for evil too, but we can choose the books we read, while the garbage on social media is pushed to us and we consume it unfiltered.

I have copied the protocols document to the AALBC server as it appears to be in the public domain: https://aalbc.com/pdf/protocols.pdf I will read it later maybe make it available in printed form -- just to make it easier to read. I hate reading long form content on a computer screen and none of my ebook readers still work.

Del I'm afraid to admit I'm a "Google House Nigga." As much as I complain about Amazon and social media, Google is the real Massa of this here Internet. Google can put me on the whipping post or allow me to enjoy the craps of heir dominance. I make far more money from Google than I do from the sale of books... Let that sit with you for a minute.

Speaking of "Moors" I created a mug that I thought would attack interest but I never sold a single one:

@Delano you don't use Google. I proud of you. @Cynique, absolutely. It is all about secure and maintaining power.

“The white world — the West — is seen now as a dying creature, totally bereft of spirituality. This being the case, the only hope is for some kind of psychic withdrawal from its values and assumption. Not just America, but most of the noncolored world had been in the process of destroying the spiritual roots of mankind, while not substituting anything meaningful for this destruction.” –Larry Neal I just now posted an article, “The Black Arts Movement’s Attack on W.E.B. Du Bois’ Theory of Double Consciousness,” written by our new book club moderator, @Tony Lindsay. Reading Neal's quote made me think about this conversation and we see nothings has change, indeed it has probably gotten worse. Seems to me we need a new movement not unlike the Black Arts Movement or the Negritude Movement. In some ways I really do think we are at the beginning of a new movement. Some historian will name it later, but really do think we are witnessing the beginning of a positive change.

I'm actually planning to pitch a workshop for this event next year.

BIte me Del LOL!

@Delano I suspect my Google query skills are probably better than yours; I used a time filter on my query. I did not have to go past page one (again it took me 5 seconds of effort). Rand is not the only prominent Republic supporting Trump's statements. I'm confident I could find others, but I suspect you'd just give me another hoop to jump if I produced one.