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All Roads Lead to DC on May 17th - National Reparations Rally! On behalf of the National Reparations Network, we are thrilled to invite you and your friends to join the National Reparations Rally on May 17, 2024 from 11am-5pm at Washington, DC’s Lansburgh Park, 1098 Delaware Ave, SW. Endorsed by over 100 organizations, the Rally/Festival will also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Malcolm X. The day will consist of a mixture of national and local speakers, entertainment, networking and jubilee. Inner-attainment throughout the day includes Ras Kass, Ayanna Gregory, Afi Soul, Luci Murphy, Randi Payton and more! Vendors for the Afrikan Marketplace welcome. Please email rep@reparationeducationproject.org for details. Get ready for a complete experience that Saturday. The evening will feature the United Black Community’s annual Kuzaliwa event, in commemoration of the Malcolm X centennial. Stay tuned for all details! Note: there is still time to endorse the Rally as well as to purchase an ad in the Historic National Reparations Rally Commemorative Journal. Firm deadline for ads is March 31st. Details HERE. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, May 17th. Feel free to share widely! Warmly, Nkechi, on behalf of the National Reparations Network! —Nkechi Taifa @ProfD I guess you'll be there. Let me know how it goes.

this is true, but another fact that you must consider is that this is also tied to monetary benefit. It’s not just the white man’s ice being colder is the white man’s ice can generate more wealth. This is true because Black people tend to support white platforms, more than they support black platforms, so it has a fly wheel effect, the more we support them the more money they make. The less we support Black platforms, the more they struggle. In the early days of this website, I often lamented the fact that many Black Writers would write for a white site for free but turn their nose up at a $50 payment from a Black site. Of course there’s much more “perceived” prestige of being published on say the old Huffington Post versus aalbc.com. There are black consultants who aggressively sell Black people on how to monetize the content that they freely provide to the wealthy social media platforms. Think about that. Imagine if the countries best and brightest high school students all fought vigorously to get into an HBCU as opposed to one of those north eastern majority white schools. I get customers who buy from me because they want to support a black business and do not want to support Amazon. I know this is true because they tell me. Their dollars matter big time! I don’t care It is not clear to me why some people understand this and others, most others, don’t. Maybe they don’t care….

You can also Eric Williams‘s books here each book has its own page with the lake to your closest local library with a copy 🙂 If you made the ending the teaching of black history or African history rather than that’s a problem. If you mean, no longer keep track of the color of people skin again I think it a long-term we would be better served. If you can give me a counter argument, on why you think we need to keep track of people’s skin color and how that has served us, I’m all eyes. I think the argument about genders is different than the one about so-called race. How many genders are there?

Here we go again… You simply cannot look at someone and tell they are Hispanic — any more than you could tell where they were born. Of course there is confusion. You just choose not to acknowledge it. They screw up on all aspects of a physical appearance height, so-called race, even gender. Race is a diversion. Irish people Italian people weren’t considered white until recently. Who do you think came up with the term poor white trash. Over the centuries, religion class ethnicity, and yes, so-called race was used for the wealthy to maintain their power. Over us morons arguing over a race. This is nonsensical. Race is not based on science! If Candace decided to call herself white, it makes perfect sense given how many phenotypically white people were deemed as black because of the one drop rule. I’m not sure specifically what you’re referring to. But I do think in the final analysis we’d be better off not keeping track of this so-called race…. In the long-term.

Dude you should find a different word to use than race. It is impossible to create a universally accepted method of determine one's race, as you already know there is no genetic test one can take -- you could even assign a race to someone consistently. Plus what Richard said.

George was the pitchman for several products. The NY Times has an interesting obituary.

@umbrarchist Here is a reading list I share whenever people ask for must read books for Black people: Ben-Jochannan, Clarke & Van Sertima’s Reading Lists Yes @richardmurray anywhere Black people are lorded over by people who don't care about them is a problem and yes Harlem was one of those problematic locations. I heard school were desegregated in 1954, but I went to segregated underfunded schools. Meanwhile down the street from me literally the white kids got to go to private schools or great public schools. We were all taught the Black history started with slavery and that MLK was a great man and Europeans gave the world civilization.

So apparently the first message was not strong enough. A drug dealer shooting up the house of another known drug dealer does not rise to a case of domestic terrorism any more than torching a single Tesla.

@Pioneer1 when people start throwing around the word populace then you’ll know the influence is complete 😉 I think it is great that Jim Crow laws have been repealed. “Segregation” where people were forced to drink from different fountains could not stay in public hotels use public pools were forced into crappy schools could not get meaningful employment. All those things were bad. however, in desperation to integrate we effectively destroyed many black communities as the professionals and working middle class abandoned “separate” black neighborhoods in favor of white ones. This has been bad too. There have been a bunch of books written on this subject. Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinsonis one that I read recently another that I just added to the site is, Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra.

I was just thinking about how much I like Tesla’s and once they deal with that shitty battery charging time I would definitely line up to buy one or similar vehicle. I really would not consider buying a Tesla today. I’m surprised by my reaction, but I really don’t wanna do anything to support that dude financially. Someone from X reached out to me to advertise and I explained to him how I’ve been locked out of my account for 18 months and suggested it may have been some DEI bullshit. THE GUY CATEGORICALLY DENIED THAT IT WOULD BE DEI. I SENT THEM A SCREENSHOT SHOWING HOW I CAN’T EVEN SEE MY ACCOUNT AND I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING BACK SINCE. I’M NOT SURPRISED HE’S IS JUST A SALES GUY (I have no idea why that block of text changed to all caps. I’m not going back and re-dictating it again.) But back to the question; unless there were people inside the car when it was set on fire I don’t think it’s an act of domestic terrorism. Anyone setting cars on fire should be punished to the full extent of the law, but it’s not like some guy with a vest strapped to himself, walking into a mall and blowing himself and anyone nearby up.

3 People will use fake eggs like they usually do.

"Asked Wednesday about Green's measure, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), the No. 3 House Democrat, said it wasn't a focus for the caucus."

Below are the signups since the last newsletter went out. As you can see, I banned most of the accounts out of the gate. This is typical. I believe there are only two new accounts as a direct result of my outreach. The outreach has to be a sustained effort. There were more than 2K new views on the "Child Rearing 50s Style," most of that was from views it would have gotten any way from search. There was a brief bump in the number of views on the "Do We Really Need 'The ReidOut?'” (none of which came from organic search, which will take more time, if it ever happens).

I dunno man, I don't think one gender is inherently better than the other when it comes to improving society. There are many you complain that a lot of the money given to Black Lives Matter when to enrich the woman in charge... The real key all the genders (there is more than two 🙂) working together.

@Pioneer1 even if what you wrote is true. There are still enough sub-35-year-olds who are capable of stringing more than two sentences together to make an argument. All the data I've been seeing does suggest that literacy rates are declining, so @frankster may have a point too. But still, there are enough people with the ability to participate. They just too many other more compelling things to do. On the web, the pull of the algorithm is tough to compete against it. Even without the algorithm. Nobody is going to go through the effort of creating entertaining videos and post them here, the way they post them on TikToc, Youtube, Instrgram. It is a brilliant business model -- -take free content and push it to people to the point of addiction. The vast majority of content creators don't make much money or notoriety -- but the promise of doing so is enough to keep them trying, thus creating a never-ending supply of free content for the platform.

Are you 100% sure? If so, are you willing to base that certainty on a couple of videos and George Stephanopoulos? All I’m saying is you might be right, but you might also be wrong. Likely wrong given the bias of the media and generations of conditioning to see Black woman as irrationally angry,

yeah, one of the videos posted showed the alleged clobbered, and tears saying it was an accident. you obviously did not listen to the other girls story you just have one side of the story and have formed opinions the video may not tell the whole story, even if you were right there and watched it. You might not really understand what actually happened or what the girls intention was. I haven’t watched the video recently but I recall the girl reaching out to the girl that she accidentally struck with the baton. She did not stop running… It was a race. I’m still looking for a motive…. again, the way, good morning America cover the story I could see why people would jump to the conclusion that this was a heinous act by a violent and evil girl — because that’s the way they portrayed it… ridiculous.

Aka_contrarian is older and wiser 🙂 .

@Pioneer1 at this point I reject the premise that it was a deliberate attack. But yes, I agree Black promoting Black dysfunctions no matter how obscure or unproven is what mainstream media loves to promote. We do a great many positive things that they chose to ignore.

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

I get the impression the “victim” has lawyered up and is fixing to sue somebody. And the more I think about it, I don’t believe for a split second the girl was concussed. It’s not like the baton is a solid, steel rod. Plus both girls were in motion. There’s just no way…. Did anybody mention a motive?

@ProfD I never watched the show either. Nothing against Joy. I just don’t watch broadcast TV. Everything I watch nowadays is streaming on demand. I was aware of the call, but did not join it. I’d support efforts to restore her program on a new platform.

FYI: @Cynique and @aka Contrarian are the same person. @Dr. Lorna thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and sharing it with you chairperson (chairperson of what?).

🙂 All those great-grands I'm sure you are tired -- whew! Seriously, It must be fascinating to see so many of your descendants. When you first wrote that post, 15 years ago, most of those great-grands were not born. It would be great to see a few more comments.