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There will be three (3) hour-long book conversations on Octavia Butler’s prophetic novel Parable of the Talents. The conversations will be held, in person, at the Langston Hughes branch of the Queens Library and virtually via WebEx. The conversation will be moderated by the African American Literature Book Club’s Troy Johnson. The Sankofa Series is free and open to the public. Click this Link to Join the WebEx Conversations Parable of the Talents Conversation Schedule (all time Eastern): ▪ Chapters 1 through 7: Tuesday, April 25 at 4 pm ▪ Chapters 8 through 14: Tuesday, May 9 at 4 pm ▪ Chapter 15 to Completion: Tuesday. May 30 at 4 pm You can check out Parable of the Talents at the Queens Library or your local library. Copies may be purchased from the African American Literature Book Club, or wherever books are sold. We will also discuss the book, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Robinson on Tuesday, May 16 at 4 pm.

Yeah nice guys can get victimized and taken advantage of by predatory women. These are the women that like the bad boys. @Steinsman I have never matched with anyone on a dating ap, but I don’t have a problem meeting women the old-fashioned way. I don’t know if it is easier or harder to meet people nowadays, but I’d assume it is easier. There are just more people, traveling is easier and race mixing is acceptable 🥰 so your pool of prospects is bigger. I’d rather be dating today than any other time in history.

Weed and fairly takes go together.

Don’t be like me @Delano @Pioneer1 is just taking your chain. 😉

“Unaliving” was a word the young lady used in the video Chevdove shared. I never heard the word before and thing it is silly way to say kill. Is the word “kill” too triggering?

Yeah the other day I saw Glenn Truman on some show and i was like how did he age so fast? He played a high school character in a film shot in the 70s. I was in high school in the 70s too. Then i did a little math an figured Preach was 30 years old playing s high school student, yeah i like the film and watched it within the past year turning a youngin’ on to it.

Well whether this was staged or not it does indeed seem to be the playbook. It does however feed into the worse narratives out there, which made me suspicious of the video, as it is the perfect thing to feed for social media for views. Again without access to the source, it is hard to tell. In the age of AI it may be impossible for a layperson to tell...

@Goldsteinberger No where on the link you shared does it say what you wrote. What is does say however is "Bias crimes rose in 2021 with 238 incidents reported. Of these, 40.3 percent were motivated by anti-Black or African American bias,..." Still even if what you wrote was true there were 201 murders in Minnesota in 2021. According to you 157 of these murders were committed by Black people. What does that mean to you? Do you really want to go down the path of comparing the relative murder rates between so called white and Black people? A cursory knowledge of history will tell you white people are the deadliest group of humans to ever roam the planet. The death toll is unimagainable in just the last few hundred years between your worlds wars, genocide, colonialism, imperialism, slavery... please! No group of people are immune to engaging in barbarous acts. To suggest that Black people are more violent than anyone else is ignorance at best and racist at worse.

This text is worth reading for people uninformed or misled about Eygpt, Western Civilization, and their respective contributions Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder

My last post was riddled with typos. Including the post you quoted @richardmurray, but i think you got the gist. Cleopatra never called herself black or white. No one really knows exactly how she presented phenotypically. Has Hawass, (who I heard lecture once, at Goldman, where everyone was given a massive coffee take book he created), ever sued the producers of movies who depicted Jesus the Christ as blond-haired and blue-eyed, where we do know a man of his time and place could not have been.

You can expose their hypocrisy. Which may not change them, but will help those with an open minds see them for what they are. Again Fransters comments were valuable .

yeah that is what i thought too 🙂 I agree they do conservatism a disservice, but they are feed racists, xenophobes, etc, so it is good to hear what they are saying from time to time.

I think Arabs know that Egypt was Black for thousands of years. By the time Cleopatra came around Egypt was a very old civilization, long past it’s prime. The people who rule American today look nothing like the people who ran this land mass just a few centuries ago. Filling a lawsuit does smell racist.

WTF?! You use this guy talking to? If anyone diggs up the entire video please share it.

That does not seem like a good look for a Black Black church. Surely there are other businesses they can get into… not sure why that would bring more Black men into the church… unless they plan on dispensing free weed. I’m a baby boomer, and times, they are-a-changing, so wadda I know. The youngins are taking the reins blind to the past and irrationally hopefully for the future.

Side bar: someone i know describes me as light skinned. I actually take offense to the comment and argued the point the first time they mentioned it. Over time they’ve continued to describe me as such, i no longer concert then a “friend.” Am I light skinned? Have i been in denial all my life? @Pioneer1 in the video Rock make the point that you wanna know how people really feel. Which amplifies my point about listening to racists. Don’t you ever listen to Fox News? 🙂

@Pioneer1, ok put aside everything that we said. Here is something else to consider: It is good to understand how people you disagree with think, wouldn’t you agree? For example we can just reject trump supporters as being dumb, racist, or both, but if we fail to understand their motivation we never understand how to address it. i think empathy is important. That is not to say that i have the skills to use my understand to change someone’s mind — i can even get you to accept the fact there is only one human race— but understanding and empathy is important if we are ever to survive and avoid an apocalypse.

No positive posts, which would help create some balance, don’t g set much traction on social. i guess everyone gets something different out of this post. It seemed like it was staged. It brought to mind sadomasochism. It concerns me that it would bring out the worst in the racists in our community, Nothing in the video felt like atoning to me. I don’t need or want that. The government is needss to start writing checks.

This is what is on Twitter huh? i wonder if Twitter’s algorithm shows this clip more to white racists, racist leaning, and those who could be easily converted to be racist to increase engagement by inciting people? Otherwise what I’d the purpose of this video; Is this supposed be be entertaining or informative. obviously this is not representative of typical behavior. but dumb people will look at this and think a trace war is eminent and start preparing for one.

Yeah @ProfD’s “brotha goes into the paint" made me smile too. You all add something to the conversation. Also intellect should be shared it is like love; the more you give away the more you end up having 🙂

Some racist were raised that way. They get older, educated and change their racist ways. I was racist, homophonic, and sexist when i was younger but i learned over the years and think differently now. but again people like me learn from the way Frank responds to the racist. I was not inclined to respond either but am glad frankster did.

You are looking at it the wrong way man. Sure @frankster brilliant replies are almost certainly a waste of time for @Goldsteinberger and their ilk, but Fransters replies benefit many others -- including myself. This particular conversation is viewed more than 100K times -- 1,000 times a day over the past 7 days! It is the most popular conversation on the site right now and the second most popular over the past 12 months. That does not mean everyone is reading every comment, but it is likely 10s of thousands of people are benefiting from Frank's words. This is actually a really good thing.

Times have definitely changed it did not take much for you to be considered gay back in the day. Shoot if someone caught you crying, for any reason, you must be a fag! If you wanted to try double dutch you must be gay -- crazy LOL! Well, I'm not into sports, other than betting and participating (I still do century bike rides). I cook and like to dance too. I also try to stay fit, so I'm not sure the cloth is that different, maybe it is just the environment.

Thank you once again @frankster!

I don't think it really means anything either, but it is interesting. The extent to which white folks had to hide their African ancestry. Most white people who have been on this land mass for more than a few centuries have Black ancestry, as do Black people with the same tenure have white ancestry. There are at least six American presidents with Black ancestry, Barack Obama, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Of course, most of these men would have done everything in their power to hide any evidence of Black ancestry. J.A. Rodgers published a 22-page book The Five Negro Presidents, in which he provides evidence. Rodgers, for obvious reasons, has been marginalized.