Troy

Pioneer, no I don't believe the government is spraying chemicals in the air to make Negroes more violent; One, there is no way to just target Black people and; (2) because how do they control who the Black violence is directed against. Man this is too far fetched to even argue seriously, especially when there are so many easier ways for white people to annihilate Black people. But you should also consider something else: Do you know, for example, that there are more white people who die from suicide than there are Black people who commit murder? White people are suffering a suicide epidemic, but outside of the outrageously high levels in the military you don't hear anything about it. Black people do not corner the market on dysfunction the media just talks about our ills more. This of course reinforces it in the psyche of the culture as well as our own minds. Similarly you never read about "white-on-white" murder, but the media loves to talk about Black people killing other Blacks. Of course everyone knows people tend to kill people in their own groups, but you will rarely hear it presented that way in the mainstream press.

Dick Gregory is my man, but sometimes the things he says sounds nuts (I thought the video I posted included the clip with Dick from the state of the union). Then you have someone like Prince, though musically gifted, does not strike me a very intelligent man, spreading this information as if it was fact. It is scary. Of course Tavis just sat their unwilling to challenge Prince on anything coming out his mouth. Tavis even phrased the voting question as if his viewers would demand he asked it. Personally I could care less if Prince votes. It is Tavis who is always exclaiming how our ancestors sacrificed and died to give us the privilege to vote and if you don't vote you are spitting on their graves. The US Government is so wicked at times there is nothing most people will not put past her. So the prospect of spraying chemicals in the air which target only Black people, making then homicidal maniacs is completely plausible to many. The clouds coming from the airplanes are called contrails and, like clouds, are mostly water. You can see them today. The only really controversial thing about them is their potential impact on the weather or the environment. Here is the video Prince was referencing:

Here are some replies from Facebook. No matter how hard I try it is very difficult to pull people away from Facebook -- it is like trying to get a mad dog off the back of a meat truck :-) Here are a few posts left there: "Beverly Jenkins, Destiny Surrender. Catching up on all Maureen Smith books." "Im reading Mind Your Own Business by Lutishia Lovely" "The manuscript to Check Your Keys second edition. It's my book that I have to submit to the editor. LOL" 600 pages! -- sounds like Danny's book could have used a bit of editing. As you wrote the Miss Anne book is about 1/4 notes.

I don't want to feed into your conspiracy theories Pioneer but maybe this will explain the physical mutation you describe and the violence we see in the inner city He does not vote He is a Jehovah's Witness He wants to fill in the blanks of the whole story. Wants to smack someone for not telling him there were 8 presidents before George Washington Good thing he is a musical genius

Google recently announced that they will penalize sites that are not optimized for mobile. Google pulls the strings and we jump Ideally they want a URL or webpage called up on a desktop computer will render differently than the same URL brought up on a cell phone. This is something I can do, but I'm contemplating if it is worth the effort. I think AALBC.com pages come up find just as it is now. I can turn the phone sideways to get a better view or even increase the size of the screen. I'm also not keen on making the changes as the additional complexity will make the site more difficult to maintain. Consider that I already make sure the site displays on Internet Explorer, Safari, Fire Fox, Chrome, (just the most recent versions) and on my cell phone and IPad. The mobile specific versions will just add another level of compatibility testing. I know that 27% of my visitors in via a tablet or desktop device today. Facebook told us in a presentation I attended yesterday the they make up 20% of all data traffic over the cellular network. Ok, ok, I know that is already too much detail. So if you can let me know if the AALBC.com is viewable on your mobile device, I'd appreciate it.

The following was a bulletin board at from this year's (2013) Brooklyn Book Festival (click here fore more photos a few videos). It struck me because the question was a popular one here so I figured I kick it off here :-) My little sticky shows the book I last read, which was Jaron Lanier's Who Owns the Future. Honestly, the last book I actually finished was H.N.I.C. by Prodigy, but I did not feel like mentioning it. The book was fine, but not really suited for me. I imagine a teenager would enjoy it. I would certainly recommended it to a high school student it is a very quick read.

Today I learned a struggling indie bookstore in Brooklyn will close atthe end of the month: True South Bookstore Coincidentally I also leaned that the last Black owned indie bookstore in the entire state of Alabama (Expansion Books in Huntsville) closed back in April. One former book store owner says the mom & pop bookstore model is no longer viable. Perhaps she is right. We are witnessing a dramatic demographic shift which is lead by schools and corportions (the same thing really), and facilitiated by our government. Today I also discovered a web site called http://blacksread.com/ they just registered their domain in August of 2013, but it is encouraging to see a new site launch in this space. I also see that they installed my bookstore database on their own: http://blacksread.com/resources/black-owned-bookstores/ they are already off to a good start! ;-)

Kaplan was interviewed on NPR recently: http://www.npr.org/2013/09/16/221452333/introducing-miss-anne-the-white-women-of-a-black-renaissance

HB, don't you see the people perputrating all of the violence are no different than the preachers and politicians you complain about, sure they operate on a different level but we are all on the same court, playing the same game. We have been trained to behave in our own self interest. Black politicans are no different than anyone else. Indeed if they were, they would be unelectable. Obama, clearly, is no exception. Malcom X, nor Dr. King would have made a difference if they were in the Oval Office in Obama's place, but they would never have compromised on their principals to ever be elected. The Black genocide is an American genocide. We are just the canaries in the mineshaft. Anyone with mental acuity to be in the Klan is almosty certainly suffering like the rest of us. Probably wondering, like you, why white folks don't organize. Have you ever considered that the KKK is a Christian organization?

We have three main challenges facing the Black book world; 1 - The Economy 2 - Corporate Control of the Web 3 - Waning Literacy To help combat these trends we've spent most of the Summer creating free utilities on the Huria Search web site. All of this information and content can be added to any website with just a few lines of code. The idea is to help elevate and promote independent websites. At the end of the day, fewer places selling Black books means few books will be sold. Fewer books being sold will result in fewer books being produced, published and ultimately read. Individual authors, even in a social media world, can’t take up the slack. These tools can help. If you are an author, or anyone with a website, consider adding one or more of these databases to your website and spread the word. It is certainly not a solution to the three things pointed out above, but it is a start, a step in the right direction. A step that is desperately needed. Bookstores Database http://huria.org/bookstores/index.php?state=Null Database 100+ Black owned booksellers The Book Look http://huria.org/able/the-book-look.html Video Book Program which can be added to your site The Power List http://www.huria.org/powerlist The only National Bestsellers List of books read by African Americans Book Sites http://huria.org/booksites/index.php Database of the top Black book websites sorted by Alexa ranking Newspapers http://www.huria.org/newspapers/ Database of 100+ Black owned newspapers Magazines http://www.huria.org/able/independent-black-magazines.html A list of 50+ Black owned magazines (a sharable database coming soon) Huria Search http://www.huria.org/able/public-search.html With Huria Search you can quickly search 50+ Black owned magazines, 100+ Black owned newspapers, 100+ Black owned booksellers (including all of the sites above) Plus there are no advertisements! The Top Black Websites Here is a preliminary list: http://aalbc.it/10bestblacksites Of course this problem is bigger than what happens on-line. What we see happening online is merely a reflection of what is happening in the “real world”. Eventually a solution will have to come from the real world. Again this is just a step… Peace, Troy Johnson

Our Giants have started the season at 0-3... What is happening in Chicago is, I'm beining to see, is a natural consequence of what happens when take a group of uneducated disinfranschised people and corral them together. You see the same thing in all over the country it is just that Chi-town has the distinction of having the largest concentration of folks like this than anywhere else in the country. Plus the main stream press loves writing about Chicago so very much. It seems murders in chicago make national news all the time. I'm sure there are white communities like this, but the mainstream media loves to highlight Black dysfunction -- it feed into their world view.. Maybe Black media should go into dysfunctional white communties an report on their crime.... Yeah, I enjoy Boardwalk Empire too. Right now it is the only program I watch. I will be watching Sunday's episode later this eveneing. They manage to keep the too often gratuiitous sex scences common in HBO series down in Broadwalk Empire. I'm liking the Jeff Wright character -- epecially fater he took care of "Miss Anne". The Emmy don't interested beyond what you have to say about it. I don't watch any of the shows, though I did watch an episode of Scandal once to see what the hullabaloo was all about. I quickly realized it must be a "chick" thing, 'cause I don't get it :-) '

EXCELLENT! Let us know what yout think. My wife really like Kaplan's book on Zora Neale Hurston's letters.

When I was a kid it was not uncommon to see a women dressed exactly like Cynique (on the left) out and about in the street. It is quote a vivid memory because I would wonder where one would by a dress like that. The ones I remember didn't even have buttons. I guess the woman would just slip it over her head and she was good to go. It is interesting to see the before and after photos I have to admit both images conjure different impressions -- emotions even. I guess in the finally analysis nothing I perceive is the "real" Cynique. I suspect though our own self-perceptions are just as flawed. There was an interesting story in this American life recently. The brilliant college professor believed his success was due to the efforts of a single substitute teacher who something special in him as a result of a paper he plagiarized. She got him into an elite private school he then went on to Harvard and is recognized as a top professor at the University of Chicago. Trouble is his beliefs and the story he tells about his reason for success was completely wrong. They were able to track down the teacher who related a completely different story. They were able to verify what he believe was inaccurate from the condition of the school and how he got into the private school. If was difficult for him to accept the truth, it was as if the fact screwed up his word view. I think most of us do this, if we don;t we should 'cause the world is a pretty harsh place and with our a little glossing over of the past and present to lessen the pain and some dreams for the future what is the point? A periodic dose of the "Blue Pill" keeps people sane.

Kam told me about his connection with the Johnson & Johnson family years ago. Kam, a very modest and low key guy, actually showed me the masion he lived in during a visit a few years ago but he stated almost matter of factly and I did not think much about it. But after reading some of the details the Kam story seems much more compeling. Here is Kam's review of the book. I freely admit it seems unlikely that Kam's revierw would be unbaised and I would not have published it were he not in it. As a result I labeled the page Book "Information" rather than "Review". Again, I find Kam William's portion of the book simply fascinating. If you've been reading his reviews and articles here on AALBC.com you may find it interesting too.

Del regarding bonuses. If the former US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, then CEO got 1 million dollars for every dollar that I got in a ":bonus" (no exaggeration). I would not call it "sharing" where the differences are so inequitable as to be nonesensical. Dude some people may chosose flexibility, fullfilment, ease and all that other stuff, but if you live in New York City you better have a pretty decent bank roll or your life won't be very nice -- especially if you have children. Increasingly throughout the US people are unable to live beyond paycheck to paycheck. Times are really difficult for a lot of folks. Most are too ashamed to talk about it and Obama and his cronies have no incentive to make it an issue of it. I feel it personally, as demand for luxury items like hard cover books continues to weaken. Did you ever work for a firm like Google, Microsoft or Goldman as a full time employee?

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The Brother that shot up all those folks in DC heard voices. Were those voices "real"? To him they were. We are machines, barely senitient, incapable of perceiving, let alone comprehending things that are unknown and perhaps unknowable. The smartest person who ever lived would be analogous to a single celled organism understanding the math required to explain general relativity. It is fun to talk about the quantum, spiritual, religious, and metaphysical world, but given our behavior the point will be moot unless we do something about global warming, poverty, relgious fundamentalism, imperialism, racism.... unless of course you think our understanding of these things will have some bearing on our ability to handle the physical world. I'm all ears.

Del of course I'd agree that one can have a successful company in which the employees shared in the profits. But the vast majority of coporation do not work that way. I'm sure you've read about the disparity in compensation for US CEO and the average worker in the firms they run. Usually the differences is measured in orders of magnitude. When I was at Goldman over 7 years ago. If you took employee compensation divided it by the number of employee the average would have been close to $700,000 oer person. Which would make for a nice life style -- even in New York City. Of course the vast majority of employees did not make any where near $700K. Generally, the top 10% would average well into the millions and the top 1% would be into the tens of millions of dollars a year in annuakl compensation. Now I don't have everyone salary stats. Unlike government employees everyones salary was a secret. But I'm sure the percentages are close. Besides really smart people usually want to work for organizations that pay the most. So an organization the truly shares profits usually does not make very much money as all the talent goes elsewhere where they can make more money.

You did not provide a link (it did not display). Del our peceptions are everything. There are perceptions which can be agreeded upon by most observers. If I have two apples and you give me two more, we all know how many apples I will then have. All of the stuff about perceptions and the mind being an interface to the world is interesting, but not very practical day to day. Sure you can have half a 1/2 person, they just may not live very long.

It is neither genocide or assisted suicide, it is simply profit. If it were more profitable provide an healthy safe enviornment for the masses coporations and rich people would do it. But sharing the wealth is simply not very profitable...

Then I'm not clear what a behaviorist is... I just started a book about how to motivate people. In it an analogy is used to describe how people behave: Imagine a man riding and an elephant. The man, represents our rational brain and the elephant represents our irrational emotions. Now the man can direct the elephant, but the elephant can take complete control very easily. This explains why a guy will have unprotected sex with a girl (or guy) that they just met. The risk of an deadly STD, or an unwanted pregnancy is no deterrent. (my analogy) Often what you find is that you have to appeal to one's elephant (emotions) to motivate them. This is why religions can get people to do some things that make very little sense like justifying slavery, condemn homosexuals, or even rationalizing the extermination of a people. For example, when I wrote about the closing of Black books stores it was much more compelling for me to simply list a couple hundred closed stores (appealing to the elephant), rather than citing the number of closed stores (appealing to the elephant). It is the same information but many more people found the long list of closed store much more compelling and the reaction I received was proof. Another example, we call our unmanned killing machines "drones" and call the innocent people slaughtered "collateral damage". I think if the general public where regularly shown the graphic images of the mutilated bodies of innocence victims there would be much more outrage about what s done in our name If we really told the stories of each of our own solders we would fell differently about these wars.

Hey Del, I'm really limiting our reality to what we can actually observe. In other words we know some very strange thing occur at the quantum level. But we would would never experience these things during "our daily lives". We can also conceptualize a 4th spatial dimension and write formulas to represent it but during the course of our day the 4th dimension may as well not exisit. When I refer to objective reality I'm not talking about anything that we can not observer or interact with. This means that 2 + 2 = 4 I don't doubt that mathematical thought is a "natural outgrowth of the human cognitive apparatus". Indeed I would through religion is too. But one is based upon reality and the other is based upon faith, which are to very different things. Sort of like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize (faith) and he ultimately presides over multiple wars and killing God know who with remote controlled death machines (reality).

Del there is money in exterminating Black people. They have done if before. They are doing it right now. It is not about race, just money. Black crack dealers do it too.

(2+2≠4). Someone described Obama as the only Nobel peace prize winner with a kill list.