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He is great in everything he does. Omne of the best actors of his generation.

I could not help but think of Mushmouth from the Cosby Kids, as I was looking at this "Brother."

This is beyond a shame. The “pastor’s” body language said more then the first ladies admission of his guilt. maybe I’m out of touch and @harry brown is right…

The technology in and of itself is great. In the hands of Google, I’m not a fan. Google has single-handedly destroyed the web. They started out with the terrific search engine, then turned it a tool that undermines the entire rest of the World Wide Web. The search engine has been completely perverted. They’ve allowed advertisers to completely dominate the search engine results , page often leading people to shitty websites. But when you’re introduce these AI, I can see Google very easily just using AI to answer peoples questions rather than sending people to websites. That may seem good, but in order to train their AI they have to scrape the All the information provided by websites, books, and other content creators, without compensation, of course. As this continues, the rest of the web is undermined and users stay locked into Google. This is not good. This is even worse than Amazon, being the only place people buy things online. For the time being Google will remain dominant, and the potential of the web will be stunted for another generation.

Big, illustrated and written by Vashti Harrison, is the 2024 Caldecott Medal Winner. Harrison is the first Black woman to win the award! This a "big" deal I remember the first time I saw this book; It was on display at the Bus Boys and Poets near U Street in Washington DC. I was struck by how beautiful the book is, and disappointed that I only learned about this book at white-owned bookstore, a month or two after publication. This is one of the reasons Black people are under the impression that there are not very many good books for Black children being published. Publishers are not hitting all the right places when it comes to promotion... but that is another conversation. At any rate congrats to Vashti for a great book!

Ok @Jeromex, please stop your unsubstantiated, ad hominem statements about Black people. You sound like a broken record, and it is grating on my nerves. I try to provide an open forum, but you, apparently intentionally, are undermining this. @ProfD Celebrity "platforms" are provided by major corporations., who have no interest recognizing, uplifting, or encouraging the Black folks putting the work. Case in point is the activist Viola Plummer.

I learned of Plummer's passing (January 15, 2023) through an email sent to me today which included the following article published in Our Time Press. This is an important article. Plummer's passing did not get national coverage, but she deserved it. A Google search shows coverage by Indie Black-owned publications -- which we have to support (subscribe to one). If you are from the New York City area, you will be familiar (or should be) with many of the names mentioned. These are the people on the front lines fighting for us, not just locally, but globally. Mainstream media will completely ignore our true warriors in favor of rants of dysfunction Black celebrities--giving them outsized influence distorting how we, as a people are viewed and even how we view ourselves. Largely unsung they fight on. Like another Brooklyn warrior, Shirley Chisholm, Plummer was "unbought and unbossed." May she rest in peace. by Nayaba Arinde (a friend of Sister Plummer, is editor-at-large for Our Time Press.) On the day after the January 15th death of Viola Plummer, friends and family gathered at her Sista’s Place jazz and community venue in Bed-Stuy, to commune, reminisce, and share food prepared by Attorney Esmeralda Simmons and others. Tears were held, but barely. Toasts were made to bless her journey, as her favorite song The Commodores ‘Heroes’ played in the background. “Viola Plummer was the last of the five original core founders of the December 12th Movement: Sonny Abubadika Carson, Coltrane Chimurenga, Elombe Brath, and Father Lucas, they are all gone now,” activist Omowale Clay told Our Time Press. A snowstorm swept through New York City on Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 15th, 2024, as news broke of the passing of activist Viola Plummer, 86, co-founder of the Bed Stuy, Brooklyn-based civil and human rights organization, The December 12th Movement…. Read the rest at Our Time Press

Black Lives Matter leaders did not get "billions" but I'm sure they did quite well for themselves financially. But we don't know the details of their financials so should refrain from being too critical on the account. In general, one way effective leaders are neutralized is with money. A fine or lavish lifestyle is a strong deterrent from doing the work. Dr. King was on the front lines and was murdered as a result. I prefer our leaders to be enriched rather than lynched. Maybe some of them will take the money they have made and use it constructively for the betterment of our people. There are others doing the work, without the celebrity, but our system does not elevate these folks and we don't own enough conscious media to spread the word. @harry brown you and I know all preachers don't extract wealth from the community solely to enrich themselves or sleep with anything moving in the pews. I suspect your impression of Black preachers is personal. Maybe one day you will share.

I met Dexter King once. He was honored by Syracuse University, some years ago. Interestingly, I also saw, but did not meet, his mom Corretta Scott King and his grand-father Daddy King speak at Syracuse University. Not too shabby for an HWCU--despite the craziness going on there today.

That point actually dismantles your entire argument, if you managed to run it through.

Amazing! They should be studying you in a lab Cynique … I mean @aka Contrarian! What a mind! “Groveling minion” however is a complement. Man is a fascinating animal capable of great things and at the same time capable of unbelievable stupidity, violence, and greed. 45 being elected president again is the least of our worries.

I think people mean “missing” from the Bible’s commonly used bibles like the KJV. Since these books are not included in that Bible many Christian’s, unless they are biblical scholars, would not know about them.

Funny, I did not take note of ask the X’s in the names of the coauthors until I finished the article. Had I taken note of that before reading the article I would not have been caught off guard.

@Jeromex you never did reveal you minister’s name did you? what do you have against dreadlocks?

Bingo.

This guy has a church around the corner form where I lived in my old neighborhood. He is most known for the outrageous messages his posted on his church's marquee. My guess is that this guy is a latent homosexual.

A customer was interested in purchasing the article, "VOODOO OR IQ: AN INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY" by Cedric X (Clark), D. Phillip McGee, Wade Nobles, and Luther X (Weems) which they discovered on the Karen Hunter and Greg Carr show I found the article for free online and am sharing it here ▶. I decided to read it myself. It starts; "African Psychology is the recognition and practice of a body of knowledge which is fundamentally different in origin, content, and direction than that recognized and practiced by Euro-American psychologists. The differences between African Psychology and Euro-American Psychology reflect the differences between Black people and white people or, in terms of basic culture, between Africans and Europeans." It starts off with a reasonable thesis, by then loses me with one statement midway though. I finish it but...

more than half a million views on this YouTube channel in 6 months, pretty good. @Pioneer1, how did you find this?

I was speaking to a customer yesterday and you purchased the book, Enoch the Ethiopian: Greater Than Abraham Holier Than Moses. I asked her how she discovered the site and she found it through Google looking for the missing books of the Bible. She told me she read that there were 16 missing books and asked if I were aware of the others. While I was aware that missing books from the bible have been published, I could not recall the details, then I thought about ya'll. What are some books I should recommend?

I just read the article which quoted Majors as saying; “She’s an angel. She’s held me down like a Coretta. I’m so blessed to have her.” Please, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Major's statement. @ProfD do you really believe that remark deserves the ire of Black people? NBC's headline, "...Jonathan Majors compares Meagan Good to Coretta Scott King" is a click bait. NBC then bolstered their sad story with unattributed quotes from people on Twitter -- pathetic! “Reducing Coretta Scott King to a ‘ride or die chick’ is pathetic,” one person wrote in a post on X. Another added: “Coretta Scott King was not a sidekick. She was an activist before and after MLK’s death, mobilized Black voters & was a political force for decades. She was not a silent trophy wife. Don’t say you ‘want a Coretta’ if you don’t want a Black woman who will hold you accountable.” This is not news just gossip. Majors' will be fine. Speaking of Meagan it was just a few years ago she pubbed a book about the virtues of waiting to have sex until after marriage. Maybe that is why Majors is going around beating up people LOL!

I think BLM was largely a figment, or a creation of social media without any real substance. But I really don’t know. my only experience with them has been to promote a book written by one of the founders, only took a ghosted by everyone involved on that BLM side. The video production company I was working at the time managed to pull together a decent video, despite no participation by the author it was very frustrating and embarrassing for people supported me promoting the fact that Black Lives Matter. Here is the kicker, they chose not to work with me, because they took offense with a book review I published. it was the reviewers opinion and I gave him 100% of my support. Take a look at the book review and let me know what you think the video created below. So I left, I’m a little biased by my personal experience with the Black Lives Matter crew…

LOL!

you know, I was just thinking at myself. But I am no longer on social media, so I may just be out of the loop still, I do watch the news from time to time and read a newspaper. No one here has mentioned black, lives matter recently and by recently, I mean a couple years. Were they just merely social media phenomenon that the public has grown weary of? Maybe they are still doing grassroots work affecting change in local communities? I agree with @harry brown Kwanzaa won’t be practice widely. The principles of Kwanzaa are actually antithetical to American principles. Just think about the idea Ujama, or cooperative economics, that is laughable in an American context. america’s dog eat dog, every man for himself, rugged, individualism, and get as much wealth as you can at all cost. No amount of money is too much to acquire. Indeed, that is the goal of every company’s financial manager. It is perfectly acceptable to strive be a multi billionaire, while your neighbor, your brother or sister is homeless. The principles of Kwanzaa are honorable and worthy to strive for, however one would be completely delusional to believe that those principles would be adopted by people indoctrinated in America.

Interesting conversation. @frankster did you profess to be a Christian? You don’t sound like one, God created the heavens and the earth, as pioneer wrote. But the religious dogma that was handed to us by our slave masters, has been perverted, perhaps beyond recognition. Maybe you are practicing one of the religions that Christianity was derived from. pantheism is incompatible with Christianity. @Pioneer1 theories are always being tested. the theory of relativity, for example, has withstood many tests and proven many different ways, but that does not mean it can’t be modified, or completely abandoned as we learn more.

I agree 100% @ProfD, but would add one thing. Grass roots Black leadership is very easily marginalized for a variety of reasons. Sadly, I can't think of anything we can do about it. Of course, those of us working at a grassroots level will do what we do, but we must appreciate unless something changes in how we collectively behave, there will be no true Black leaders, except those people whose primary function is to provide white folks with their entertainment #cantgetmorecynicalthanthat