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Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers by Ibram X. Kendi

I hear the joint chief are now all cis gendered white men

Right, I meant post reconstruction leading into an including the civil rights era. @Pioneer1 tread @frankster’s last post with your thinking cap on.

I would really like to hear this advice in context if you can share a link to a video that would be cool thanks.

Indeed, the fact that they resigned under these conditions will actually make them more marketable for having such a high-level of integrity. I don’t buy into the whole idea that this is just about Eric‘s race. If he had not misbehaved, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

CRAZY!!!

This is at once sad, crazy, and scary. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures Book 34) 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,391) 4.2 on Goodreads Best Seller in Gay Studies Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith’s slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.

No there are many factors that contribute to poverty. However, the businesses I described make it harder to escape poverty creating cycles of generational poverty. You don't own it then. Paid off homes can be lost to failure to pay taxes or HOA fees. In Florida if you don't pay your taxes for three years they will throw your butt out of the home you "own." Again this is victim blaming. I wonder @Pioneer1 during the century of reconstruction do you blame the Black people, who were impoverished for making "poor" decisions? Yes or No?

I believe DEI is a relatively new term. Well, I spend a couple of decades working a several fortunate 100 companies. Most of the places would not hire Black people unless they were absolutely brillant, culturally white, or forced to do so. My first Job out of college was with a GE (at the time the multinational conglomerate was a household name). I'm sure I was hired because government contractors were forced to hire a certain number of Black people in order to get government contracts. The fight against DEI is not just about DEI. They are not just firing people, they are destroying records, a high-tech book burning. This is serious business...

Well, I thought it was a good question. Years ago, I dyed my goatee, but I'm too lazy/cheap to keep it up. I wear a goatee, because every woman I've asked said they prefer me with one. Sometimes the comment was unsolicited. I was clean shaven for years including my head prior to that. I have no idea what the color of the hair on my head is or what the hair line looks like. I'm sure if I grew it in it would age me by two decades 🙂

Al Sharpton, said Trump could just pardon him, but he won't because they need Eric as Mayor and their leash. He will not resign. The people resigning are not playing one guys said only a coward or a fool would actually drop the charges. Despite the headlines to the contrary the charges have not been officially dropped. Everyone asked to do it has resigned. What a soap opera!

I always thought DEI initiatives benefited everyone except CIS gendered white men.— the group who pushed back the most against it. Now based upon feedback from others, Black people are being hurt disproportionately by the removal of DEI initiatives. Filed under “ain’t that a bitch!”

It does not look like Eazy-E is out of the woods yet. New York’s governor is under pressure to give him the boot. And it’s still not clear that he won’t be brought up for charges apparently what he’s accused of is far more serious than just taken some fancy trips from the Turkish government

Look at any ghetto and you will find payday loans check, cashin businessesg, any credit card with exorbitant interest rates some of them over 30% these all contribute to keeping poor people poor destroying entire generations Or you can look at the housing cities, Rusonis, where Wall Street and collusion with lenders rating agencies and appraisers inflated. The value of homes built financial instruments based upon these toxic assets, stripping millions of people of their wealth and enriching themselves.

Why are you sorry? The same reason I'd feel sorry for any 13-year-old who still believed in Santa. But that goes back to a belief that a supreme being treats (punishes) people for what they believe, indeed what they were exposed to while living.

It has already started... There are quite a few places in Africa that would welcome you back home. Many Black American's retire to Ghana for example. You are right no place is free of BS. America was founded a white nationalist country and has largely operated as such since then. The covert distinction is irrelevant because it can't be done in practice -- you simply can't hide it from the non-white people. Maybe when we put some Black faces on the currency we can talk about moving away from our white nationalists' roots.

Being America you don't have to look very hard to find Whitopias -- they are everywhere.

I'm sorry to read this, seriously. Well, the world will end for all of us when we kick the bucket. But as far was the planet, life on it will end when the sun exhausts it's fuel in about 5 billion years. Why do you believe "The Supreme Being?" That sounds like a remnant of your religiosity. What does the Supreme being do for you, us?

They all defiantly deny the accusations. The question remains, how can someone begin a legal procedure with such damaging accusations then say "never mind" without any penalty or repercussions -- Unless they were paid? Such a payment would, of course, be bound by a nondisclosure agreement. So, we never know the truth.

@ProfD, acknowledged. I guess Eric's co-conspirators have been left holding the bag. Reading the reasons for Eric's indictments seems rather trivial compared to what Trump and Clarence Thomas, for example, are known to have done. How is what the Turkish government has done for Eric different from any K Street Lobbyist does for any member of Congress?

I just read the article. The charges have not been dropped, at least not yet. The DOJ made the request, but they have not been carried out yet.

Maybe she was paid off. Is that a possibility? If Puffy can do an “Eric Adams” he can make federal charges disappear.

Tell me what to do please.

Yeah, that video appeared in my feet too. I’m beginning to dislike YouTube even more. They positioned the video as if Obama was weighing in on the Drake Lamar beef or I don’t think he really was. Google will do anything for money. I don’t think growing up hard is a requirement for being a good rapper. It doesn’t disqualify you either. Does Drake rap about growing up hard or ghetto life as if he was about it? If he did who really cares he definitely won’t be the first person to do that ice cube is a gangster rapper and he didn’t grow up in the life and he was great. Again, I don’t follow this stuff, but it’s been shoved in my face… I heard that Drake was large before anybody knew who Kendrick was and that Drake put Kendrick on one of his tours helping him out. Obviously Kendrick is about as large as you can get right now but it’s not like Drake is a nobody. I did not know Drake was Jewish. He wouldn’t be the first Jewish person to exploit the rap industry

I’m not a musician, but I’m definitely a lover of music but not I was oblivious to the childish beef. I think Chris handled it wel,l certainly better than I would have. Most musicians don’t write their own music or song lyrics. I would not hold that against Drake. But I agree he should not release a song dissing anyone. I don’t think any rap artist should producers rap dissing another artist for the enjoyment of white folks — which is the primary purpose of rap today.