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I'm as pro-Black as the come, but stuff like this does not interest me in the least. If someone brought me a ticket I would definitely go, but I'm not going out of my way. @Pioneer1 It will be in youtube soon enough.

@Pioneer1 I had no idea Shakira was 49. She looks GREAT! Shoot, she looks great for a 30-year-old! I have no clue what she may have done to her body. But she is of course wearing makeup and surely the video was edited to enhance her appearance. This is par for the course and no one involved in the production is considering the impact on the self-esteem of the viewer--nor should they. Their concern is to make a good video and I think they accomplished that. The viewer should be knowledgeable enough not to judge themselves by the images seen in magazines and on the screen -- the models themselves don't look like the images of themselves. Finally, 49 is not THAT old man. Now I won't say 49 is the new 30, but you should not be broken down at that age. Here is a video of me at 49. Now I appreciate most people could not do this move at any age, but I was a D1 gymnast. and I was in shape most of my life. Shikira has been wiggling her fine booty for decades; of course she is gonna be better at it than your typical 50-year-old Besides her JOB is to look good .

I don’t know about all that you do know many cities have Self driving taxis. And again self driving trucks are on the road today. I think both are coming faster than you might expect. Dude, there aren’t even white own versions of those companies. Those organizations are unicorns and the true sense of the word. Those companies are formed as a result of a once in a lifetime rallying of the capital markets and government resources (looking the other way as monopoly form), some level of brilliance, and luck. There have been some large Black on organizations created but nothing to the scale of a Walmart or Amazon, alphabet or Meta. But to cap it off, these companies aren’t even immune to AI as they scale back in the number employees. yes, we are a very odd nation when it comes to how we use our financial resources. Immigration is typically a net positive for this country, particularly when we attract the world’s best and brightest. Sure, we also attract people who are struggling or fleeing a wart nation, but even these people have treated properly would be grateful contributors to our society. Our population is not growning fast enough to support our elderly I understand we would deplete the Social Security trust fund in a decade or so…

I enjoy hearing the stories and perspective of people,your age @R. E. Hayes

Well, the answer to that question really depends on how the person wants to spend their life. For example, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone do what I do unless they were really passionate about it. It’s hard to make a living as a full-time musician or artist, but if you’re really passionate about it, you’ll probably figure it out, but I wouldn’t suggest anyone pursuit that as a way to make a living. Now, if you just wanted to make money, I would say do stuff that people really want a human doing or something that would be really hard for a robot or an AI to do. Like nursing Now you mentioned trucking. I wouldn’t recommend that someone pursue that as a vocation because trucks are already self driving. But if you told me you love spending hours on the open road driving then go ahead go for it. Seriously, there is no shortage of company started by Black people — especially in recent years there are all types of incubators funding startups in the tech space. Of course you have the traditional businesses, barbers salons, restaurants all types of service businesses that black folks continue to start. At the rate, I tend to agree with you the proverbial pitchforks will come out. It won’t be pretty, and it will be hard to recover from the aftermath. I just hope people do something before it comes to that. This is a problem that will need to be worked on by people of all so-called races.

Even teachers are at risk some schools have already begun integrating AI into the instruction modality. Until the robots come. No, not impossible but becoming increasingly more difficult. I'm sorry man, but this is not true. There are already self driving trucks on the road right now. This will only increase. Trucking is not a job I would encourage anyone to enter. Sure it will. Again, this is already happening. Agents can be created to secure new customers more efficently. This is a story, a fiction, that is promulgated to create a heartwarming narrative; no different than George Washington's "I cannot tell a lie" Do you really think Jeff was a solo entrepreneur whose goal was to sell books on the web? That is mine story actually -- not Jeff's. Certainly not this one. They have already started. Remember January 6th 2024? All the attackers were granted immunity, and our president is trying to pay them! We are at a critical juncture. Just be glad Trump hasn't built a colosseum and started feeding "Illegal" immigrants and death row convicts to lions.

We’ve reached that point already. That is the reason for all the pushback against DEI, critical race theory, or anything that has a whiff of affirmative action. This will get worse as more and more people compete for entry level white college jobs. But they’re always the trades we can become electricians plumbers. Those type of jobs will still be in demand although many of us are using AI to help us with repairs and become more handy around the house so even those jobs aren’t completely immune to AI. There is the gig economy, but that’s more a kin to sharecropping. Creating businesses that can provide job opportunities for large numbers of college graduates is not particularly easy. Besides most jobs are created by the government, not private industry, but when you look at private industry, the biggest employers, Amazon Walmart a lot of these companies are effective monopolies and have crowded out competition. AI itself should help increase entrepreneurship, but I personally don’t see that as a long-term solution. Even in my business AI has helped tremendously, but at the same time AI is using my business to train their models. Ultimately AI may make websites obsolete. Expecting Black people to create large companies that only hire other Black people is a tall order. Most businesses, including Black ones a small. Ultimately, we will need governments and the people to actively deal with the threat of AI in the hands of monopolies. Otherwise, we will have a handful of trillionaire’s and billions of others fighting for crumbs. There are white men complaining about reverse discrimination about illegal aliens taking their jobs. This is an old story and it’s getting worse.

@Phil Lamar I consult on issues related to this, but the fact that you reached out here, tells me that you probably reached out to other groups and that is a good an inexpensive way to get started. How did you find this site? Your book's metadata is much better on Amazon than it is in Ingram's database (which is what booksellers' reference). Who published your book and where did they or you publish it? I suspect Amazon KDP was used. I never heard of Wyatt Outaw, but it is also not realistic to expect someone from outside the region to know who he is. As you know there were just so many men lynched in America it is not possible for anyone to know them all. On top of the fact that much of this type of information is being actively suppressed today. I appreciate and commend you for sharing it here. Most of my ancestry is from North Carolina east you (Nash, Wake, Edgecomb). NC, despite its beauty is about as racist as they come. Your perspective on Wyatt Outlaw's story could be very interesting to me. You were a grown man in the Jim Crow south. You witnessed; and may have participated in racists acts. You very likely know someone who attended a lynching. You quite possibly know someone who owned slaves or were the children enslavers -- indeed you may even be one of these children. This is not ancient history, I know people whose grandparents were enslaved here in America. I say that all to say I don't want to read a book written a white man telling a Black family's story from the Black family's perspective. What I would want to read. possibly, is Outlaw's story form the white person's perspective. Which story are you telling?

Yesh I remember both sounds well. They took a bubble gum pop song and made it gangsta 😆

From the Washington Informer And as is usually the case...

@Phil Lamar You are being coy 😉 According to your bio on Amazon, you have a Ph.D., so you're clearly smart. Judging by your photo you are firmly in the Boomer generation. I took the liberty of sharing more information about your book (BTW your book is fiction, but you gave it a nonfiction BSISAC code, "Family & Relationships | General" you should change this a fiction code, choose three) I presume you are from North Carolina (or at least the south). If so, I'd like to pose some questions about your book and background. The questions will be pointed. If you are up for this, I'll start another conversation and use the Q and A on the site. let me know what you think.

I just discovered this by accident. I went to YouTube to look for something this morning got distracted by the algorithm, forgot what I went to YouTube for, and ended up watching video of the Silver Family on the Groucho Marx You Bet Your Life show. I was curious about the age of Foster (thinking he might be about my age) an learned he died a couple of weeks ago! He is about 6 weeks older than I am and wasn't born when the family appears on Marx's show.

Yeah, completely different cultures.

Danny Simmons, was a Brooklyn based novelist, poet, and artist. I think he is the eldest of the more famous Simmons brother the Rap mogul Russell Simmns and the Hall of Fame Rap Artist Joseph (Rev Run). I would not be surprised if @Delano has seen or knew Danny. You really could not be in the Brooklyn arts scence and not have crossed oaths with him. I did not know him personally, but I've seen him around several times I believe I been to him home one for a fund raiser. One of the hardest things about getting older is losing people. An elderly friend once said it really starts to pick up once you hit your sixties.

This photo hangs in my home. It was taken in my old neighborhood, a version of Harlem I would never really know. At the turn of the century, I lived in a Brownstone like the one pictured, just 7 blocks south. I often wondered what happened to the little boys in the shot. It is a sign of the times to see so many of the musicians posed for a picture holding cigarettes. I saw Dizzy perform once seeing him poking his tongue out does not surprise me 🙂 Taken today there would be more women in the shot. RIP Mr. Rollins.

Wow! As @ProfD suggested this song was not only played everywhere it was guaranteed to people on the dance floor especially back in the day when men and women danced together.

Why is that @ProfD? Don’t you think that is weird for a grown azz man to want to spend his free time having sleep over we’ll young boys and his pet chimp?

Yeah, but would you let your young son spend the night at Michael Jackson’s house @ProfD 🧐

@Pioneer1 You are the first Brother that I know of who has expressed an interest in seeing the film, let alone enjoying it. Well, I'm glad to read that you found some joy in watching the Jackson film @Pioneer1 Are you a big time Michael Jackson fan? I was more a fan of the Jackson Five as a group than I was of Michael as a solo artist.

Yes, this is the problem I'm pointing out. Mainstream media never really covert our stories sufficiently and the vacuum left by the dearth of Black journalism is filled by the likes of Rashad and Tariq I'm sure they are entertaining. But like Roland Martin or Steven A. Smith they are just spouting opinions. Probably better than nothing but not the same as having a newsroom. The Final Call is better than all of the above IMHO, but they have an obvious bias to the Nation's ideals. Period. ...Mic drop. Yeah, I watch Bill Maher as well. But I would never confuse him we with being source of journalism any more than Tariq Nasheed. What Maher does do is expose me to the opinions of people I would not otherwise encounter. He had Mike Pence on recently and I did now know Mike could smile or any semblance of a personality. Maher can be funny, but I'm not sure I would actually like him as a person. I suspect Maher is less racist than the average wealthy white man in American. He seems to love Donna Brazille, Neil Degrass-Tyson, John McWorther, Van Jones, Killer Mike, and others liberals and right-wingers are frequently on the show.

I guess Musk as also dethroned Mansa Musa and the richest person the world has even known. I not sure anyone can truly wrap their brains around just how rich this one man is. It is scary.

Yeah, a lot of people thought that. even believing the series it would go 7 games just to generate more revenue. The knicks have basically restored Villanova's Championship team. Bronson dad played for the last knicks team to make the finals. Such a great story!

Recently @Pioneer1 asked, "Are Things Better Today Than 40 or 50 Years Ago?" One thing that is worse is the lack of reputable sources of news, covering topic important to Black folks. There is no shortage of individuals spouting opinions, but far fewer sources of true journalism. Journalism where verified factual information is collected and presented with as little bias as possible. It is so bad today, people reject facts in favor of anything that comports with their current worldview; even rejected science in favor of their own research typically sources from individuals spouting opinions or just outright lying. I lean liberal so I listen to NPR fairly regularly and I'll get headline from Democracy Now every now and then. I have subscriptions to the Amsterdam News and the Afro. That sadly is about it for me. I really liked Emerge back in the day. Where do you consume news and information important to Black folks?

Really?! OK then man let me ask you think question knowing what you know now would you have let you son of yours spend the night with Michaal Jackson? Agreed about #1. #2 was incidental -- Netflix could care less about his legacy. CLEARLY you have not been on social media -- EVER! LOL! Wait, what?! You do not believe OJ killed his wife? Humm OK. I believe both MJ and OJ got away with wrong doings largely they were celebrities. If it were you or I in those cases we would both be in prison right now. Both men actually transcended race and Michael managed to change his 😁 We obviously travel in different circles. Did you talk to any Black men (the cisgendered hetero variety) who enjoyed the film 🤔 Nearly $900K (according to IMDB) and most of that was outside the US and canada. In the US and Canada the gross is currently $356,714,075. If we assume an average ticket price of $16 we are looking at 22 million in tickets sales across two counties and we all already not everyone liked the movie. I'm sure many who went to see the film wanted to see more of the "legacy tarnishing things" instead of that stupid monkey and Michael moonwalking. 5 times the number of people watched the following video in 2 weeks...

Big bullies are the worse, if someone fights back, the bully can't complain about what happens when the victim retaliates. If the above is true I hope Karmelo gets off with an apology. I don't get the impression that Karemlo intended to kill the bully at least not with a 3-inch pocket-knife. Hopefully the twin bullying learned to stop bullying people, as opposed to believing he was the victim Again, it the above is true, there is no comparison to Kyle Rittenhouse or George Zimmerman (I don't know who Daniel Penny is).