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Inc. used to be a reputable source of information for business news. Today they like many other platforms they have sold out and are now one of the "clickbaitiest" platforms on the web. I got a newsletter from Inc. this week. I do not know how I was added to their mailing list (I unsubscribed). Over the years when I've clicked links like the ones below the article NEVER delivered on the promise suggested by the article. Usually, you are just directed to an article spanning multiple pages with a ton of ads. Far too many sites on the web are like this now. They are SEO optimized to maximize advertisement delivery and crowd out better websites that are designed to provide information. As a result, the quality of the most easily discoverable content on the web today "sucks." I never read any of the articles listed below. I just share them as examples of click bait and how a publication has fouled up their brand and reputation, IMHO. An American Airlines Pilot Was Absolutely Fed Up With Passengers. His Solution Was a Stroke of Genius If You Can Pass Any of These 8 Tests, Science Says You're Likely to Live Significantly Longer (and Feel Happier and Less Stressed) Nearly 30 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said There's 1 Simple Habit That Separates the Doers From the Dreamers This simple act taught him one of the greatest lessons of his brilliant career. Google Sent an Email Warning Customers It Plans to Start Deleting Their Inactive Accounts You have four months to decide what to do with your old account. Neuroscience Shows That Nightly Scents Could Boost Memory and Help Your Productivity This nightly ritual could revitalize your brain. Researchers Asked 146 'Failed Entrepreneurs' About Their Past Experiences. It's a Remarkable Lesson in Resilience Mindset about failure matters most for whether a founder gets back in the game.

Your argument is inconsistent. First, all the crimes stats you keep repeatedly trumpeting reflect people you will be punished for their crimes. the government has never compensated the victims of their monstrous behavior. you and others go on and on about black crime, but you never talk about the countless rapes and lynching against Blacks by whites that was never punished. You talk about the need for more fathers but fail to mention the history of fathers having their wives raped and their children sold. I believe Black people should be compensated for the crimes protested against us and I will support those engaged in the fight. your questions about when does it end and who gets paid are things that can be worked out. unfortunately we live in a country that refuses to reckon with their most egregious sin. people like to perpetrate the racist propaganda that blames the black victims. And have gone as far as to ban books and to stop teaching slavery in schools. I don’t think the country will ever reach a point were a serious attempt will be made to correct historic wrongs against Black people. So you can stop worrying @Jeromex. @Pioneer1 I don’t think Jerome is black either, but what difference would it make? We know there are black people who lap up this propaganda.

that is nonsense. Nobody is sitting around waiting for reparations. Where are you getting this information? the truth is that Black people have done astonishingly well given hundreds of years of violently imposed oppression. Question for you @Jeromex independent of your exaggerated description of Black people or America’s willingness to pay, do you believe that America owes Black people compensation for slavery and Jim Crow?

Pleasure to meet you too @Greg Thomas Football fans will really appreciate your book. Southern football is something else and that win after 20 years was epic!

@Jeromex everyone in the country pays taxes. Far more white purple have benefited from government handouts than Black people ever have. It is hard to believe people are still spreading these played out narratives. It is no wonder folks like this was to ban books.

Yes to do look great @Cynique and to be technically savvy enough to be online is amazing. it is also possible for you to have personally known someone who was enslaved. When you were a kid, do you have any memory of someone who was 90?

you failed to understand what I wrote, try rereading it. When I was a kid my neighborhood could be scary, but go into the wrong white neighborhood you could definitely catch a beat down. White threw the rocks when we accidentally went into their neighborhood. They still had sun down towns (look it up) when I was a kids. @Wide awake stop repeatedly posting the same stuff. I’ll give you a until Monday to edit them down, otherwise I’ll delete them entirely. One less person going around fouling up Black discussion forums. Still there is no way you could get him to change his world view.

Yeah, this is really f'ed up man. We live in a world where a candidate for President can be impeached twice and be facing four concurrent indictments on charges as serious as inciting an insurrection and it helps him in the polling! I think the misinformation is used to create and expand a racist base. As a country we really need to be dealing with more pressing issues.

This has always true, but the web has made it far worse. A new poster to this forum with the counterintuitive moniker @Wide awake shared an inflammatory video (below). Wide awake has been bombarding the site with a deluge of racist and antisemitic memes and content. "Wide" shared so much content it was impossible to consume it all, let alone address it. One such obviously untrue meme stated a Black man was the first to own a slave in America, suggesting that this Black man single handedly started slavery in America. When I pointed out how the meme could not possibly be true Wide Wake accused me of cherry picking and ignoring the great number of other memes he (I'll go with "he") posted. Wide Awake has exhibited "troll-like" behavior including the posting of great volumes of bogus information, "spamming." Normally I would just ban his account and keep it moving. For some reason, and I'm probably wrong, I don't see Wide Awake as your garden variety troll, he seems somewhat willing to defend his posts, so I have not removed his posts. Wide Awake feels the media is not reporting the "news" as reflected in the video. The agenda he is promoting is that Black people are running amok beating white people and that the Jewish run media is failing to report this. He already preempted any comparison the Montgomery Alabama ferry incident as looking like it was "staged." This video is particularly pernicious in the sense that is can be particularly compelling if you don't think about the motivation of the people who created it and are sharing it. The video was edited to speed up the action to make it look more frenzied. The voice overs of people taking about white racism created a sense of hypocrisy. Seeing little old ladies and babies assaulted was designed to ramp up the emotional impact. The faces of some victims were obscured if their race was unclear. None of these are novel techniques. Actual journalists do not use these techniques. People looking to promote an agenda, in this case one biased against Black people do. It is commonly known as propaganda, not reporting. Of course, none of the videos provide context. Is it possible some of the folks being beat initiated the violence? We will never know because that was not the intent of the video. Videos like this help me understand why white folks shoot Black people for asking for directions or walking through a neighborhood. It may also be why white Americans are the most armed people on planet Earth. Racist propaganda like that shared in the video, kills the incentive for teaching the history of slavery and makes it more difficult for people to entertain reparations. Too bad they did not have video cameras in the 19th century. Clearly a video like this could be easily created showing the opposite. But what would be the point? The record of racism in this country speaks clearly for itself. The propaganda being shared on the web lead to schools become increasingly reluctant to teach the history of racism. Instead, social media feeds student a steady diet of the nonsense shown in the video ... one can understand how progress toward ending racism is being undone. @Pioneer1 do you really think you can change the mind of someone like Wide Awake? I believe AI has the potential to make people like Wide Awake far more effective. Deep fakes and other AI enhanced technique will make propaganda videos more compelling and easier to make. Algorithms will make it possible to more efficiently get these videos to the ones most likely to be incited -- all in the name of increasingly already fantastic profits. 😞

If you are in the Dallas area this weekend (Saturday, August 19, 2023), I'll be on a panel with my author Kalisha Buchanon at the Tulisoma South Dallas Book Festival The following day (Sunday, August 20, 2023), I'll be at The Dock Bookshop in Ft. Worth from 1 to 3 p.m.. Come Join Us!

I know, the Illuminati right?

again describe one situation. after more more than a decade on this forum you can’t point to one situation where you changed your position after learning something new?

One will suffice. I’m sure if you had it you would have shared it by now. I’ll wait….

True. Initially they admitted learning from Africans, but later "stole" it by insisting to take credit for it. I read what Malcolm supposedly said. If true I seriously doubt he continued to believe this stuff after leaving the Nation, do you @Pioneer1?

@Pioneer1, don't even think it... 🤨

Looks like me "fix" did not work. I just saw the problem. I have another idea....

What?! Rarely is this the case with most people. Exhibit #1: You! In all the years of engaging with people here have you ever changed your mind about anything (let alone an entire perspective)? If so, please relate the experience.

Unlike yourself, I can assimilate new information and adapt accordingly 😉

Actually I’m trying to do just that @richardmurray. Ideally the same login for customers, forums, and a login to the site. The login would already be vetted before they could use it here. i could grant access to exclusive content. It is one of the things I was thinking about in an effort to move away from a ad based model. I’m at least a year away from that.

I missed the days where men and women danced with each other. Young men and women don't seem to do this anymore they dance in packs or not at all... Think line dancing is cool too. It seems to be the only thing to get women out on the floor, but I guess ALL women can now get on the dance floor without have to wait for someone to ask them. Line dancing is less popular with the Brothers -- who has time to memorize all those steps when you could make up your own moved as @ProfD wrote, or fall back on the ole 2-step. The 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop reminded me of the "Freak," a dance style that was out in the 70's. As a kid, I loved it, but would be horrified if I saw kids dancing that that today 🫣

Great observation! I had noticed this too, but never drew the connection with the little x. I would end up refreshing the screen to bring up to be able use the "HTML Codes." I then scrolled the content I was trying to edit above the x and it worked! I believe I fixed the problem! The fix is too wonky to describe in detail, but I was related to the adserver. @Chevdove thanks for pointing out the problem as it would have probably persisted a lot longer -- I thought it was just me experiencing the problem. Still you were clear enough that I should have immediately recognized that you were experiencing what I was experiencing. Also I wish the search engine for these forums was better. I type "Little X" and it did not find anything?! I had to bounced out to Google typed: site://aalbc.com/tc "Little X" and this post can right up. The search results were reminiscent of the good 'ole days before Google completely exploited their search engine for advertising revenue.

Yeah, ads are a pain in the ass. They are a necessary evil to keep the site alive and food on the table. There are other models and less obstructive ways to present sponsorship I'll work on these after the sites has been upgraded.

Again these physical characteristics are on a continuum and also based upon environment. There simply are no Black and white race genes. OK show a single paper, just one, so that I may read it. Again, while you may be right, I don't want to confuse American racism again people who look like you and I with the idea that there is a genetic basis for race. I don't understand the distinction, you are making. Negativity based upon phenotype is racism, this leads to bias. prejudice, bigotry. Rejecting the label of racism in favor is bias makes no sense to me in the American context.

That last paragraph was a doozy Brother.

I just finished watching the film. It was “okay.” Nobody will win an academy award. the premise was interesting, but not a lot was done with it. It played with a lot of racial stereotypes which originated in a novel way. i could see where people would really like it. Probably best viewed in a group with a buzz.