Black Culture Discussion Thread

[d nice]

Yo I'm not averse to reading but seeing as I'm not stateside and won't be for the foreseeable future, I need something digital.

Ive never heard of anyone you mentioned. Full names would be appreciate, as I can Google them meanwhile.

I don't know how much time you have on your hands, but I do have some ebooks and resources. My belief is that we need a racial and political education that fosters an understanding of the past as well as the present to fully grasp our situation.

Here are some sites to give you a good foundation to start with.

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-pan-africanism.html

http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/pan-african-congresses-1900-1945

https://www.panafricanalliance.com/understanding-pan-africanism/

https://revolutionarystrategicstudi...ah-the-people-of-africa-are-crying-for-unity/

Books:
http://b-ok.xyz/book/2470009/2dfe48

http://b-ok.xyz/book/884303/1165a0

http://b-ok.xyz/book/1193857/ad64ff

http://b-ok.xyz/book/971947/b9c5af

Here is a whole google folder of books
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync

That should keep you busy for awhile. Happy reading.

 

[Nouss]

Yo good look man. Those are some dope links.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[tay1]

 

[tay1]

1804: The hidden history of Haiti by Tariq was a really good documentary. This wasnt filled with a lot of the pseudo science and claims that are in the hidden colors documentaries.

 

[...So]

 

[SneakerProSr.]

 

[nawghtyhare]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[tay1]

If only we had a fraction of the unity needed for this to work.

 

[maq25060]

If only we had a fraction of the unity needed for this to work.

I honestly think a lot of folks still see segregation as a bad thing. They don't realize we have to build our own, IMO. Don't have to worry about equal if we don't rely on someone else to make it equal.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Slave that was based out of Riverdale, MD

Anacostia Community Museum: The Adam Francis Plummer Diary
http://anacostia.si.edu/exhibits/Plummer/Plummer_Diary.htm

A diary is a written record of experiences and observations that are usually personal in nature. Diaries, like the one written by Adam Francis Plummer and continued by Nellie Arnold Plummer, are important documents that help us understand the past. Because they are written in the first person voice, diaries are able to tell us about the everyday lives of their authors and they things that they believed were important. Diaries teach us about the struggles, accomplishments, values, beliefs, and dreams of their authors. They allow us to look at moments in time through the eyes of the people whose experiences helped shape the past, our present, and the future.

Most of the entries in the Diary of Adam Francis Plummer are of dates of events, such as births and deaths, or inventories, like Adam's possessions. The inventories often include the prices he paid for the items listed. These entries help us understand the conditions in which the author lived and tell us about the people and things he valued. Also included in the Diary are numerous attachments; the Diary includes many clippings from newspapers of obituaries and community events. The attachments in the Diary are similar to those one would find in a family scrapbook.

 

[gry60]

I honestly think a lot of folks still see segregation as a bad thing. They don't realize we have to build our own, IMO. Don't have to worry about equal if we don't rely on someone else to make it equal.

We don't have to seclude ourselves to build our own.

In addition, can we not willingly walk into the trap of segregation that destroyed black wealth during the Jim Crow era and black opportunity in the North?

The stories of Black Wall Street and other well-to-do black communities that were were destroyed out of hatred or to make way for the interstate system would have been different if we had representation and influence at the legal level.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...ed-small-businesses-are-at-risk/#b30d37854845

Money doesn't mean **** if you are unable to influence the laws of the land or keep them from hurting your quality of life.

 

[tay1]

 

[atlsfinest]

 

[d nice]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/health/black-men-doctors.html

The Secret to Keeping Black Men Healthy? Maybe Black Doctors

Black men have the lowest life expectancy of any ethnic group in the United States. Much of the gap is explained by greater rates of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, which afflict poor and poorly educated black men in particular.

But why is that? Lack of insurance? Lack of access to health care?

Now, a group of researchers in California has demonstrated that another powerful force may be at work: a lack of black physicians.

In the study, black men seeing black male doctors were much more likely to agree to certain preventive measures than were black men seeing doctors who were white or Asian.

Although 13 percent of the population is black in the United States, just 4 percent of doctors are black.

The study, published in June by the National Bureau for Economic Research, involved 702 black men in Oakland, Calif., who came to a clinic for a free health screening. They were randomly assigned to a black male doctor or one who was white or Asian.

Neither the men nor the doctors knew that the purpose of the study was to ask if a doctor’s race mattered when he or she advised these patients. As it turned out, the racial effects were not subtle.

Diabetes screening was part of the health check, and 63 percent of the black men assigned to a black doctor agreed to the screening. But just 43 percent of those assigned to a doctor who was white or Asian consented to be screened.

Some 62 percent of black men with a black doctor agreed to cholesterol tests, compared to 36 percent assigned to a doctor who was not black.

“If their first reaction is, ‘No, I’m not interested in that,’ you must explore why they said no and address those concerns.”
Dr. ChaRandle Jordan

Previous studies have been observational — mostly searching earlier data for trends, a substantially weaker form of evidence — and their results mixed.

“It changed the way I think,” said Jonathan Skinner, a health care economist at Dartmouth College, about the new results. “This study convinced me that the effects are real.”

The researchers employed minority premedical students to recruit participants by visiting 20 barbershops and two flea markets in Oakland, offering black men vouchers for a free health screening.

The screening was at a clinic set up by the investigators and staffed by 14 black and nonblack doctors. The men were offered preventive measures like flu shots and screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes.

The men who came to the clinic offered equal praise for their black, white and Asian doctors. But the patients were far more likely to consent to preventive care — screenings and vaccinations — when their doctor was also
If black patients were to agree to this preventive care at these rates in the real world, the gap in cardiovascular mortality between black men and the rest of the population could be reduced by 20 percent, the researchers estimated.

“I don’t think I have ever had such a strong result, so unambiguous,” said Dr. Marcella Alsan, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University and an author of the study.

Why would black doctors have such an effect? Perhaps they used more nonverbal cues to communicate empathy, said Dr. Amber E. Barnato, a professor of medicine and health care delivery at Dartmouth College.

In another small study, she used black and white actors to study white doctors’ interactions with patients at the end of life. Although the doctors said similar things to both black and white actors posing as patients, they stood closer to the white patients, made more eye contact, and touched them more often.

In the new study, Dr. Alsan and her colleagues did not record patient visits. But some hints of the differences could be seen in comments the patients and doctors wrote in evaluations of their experiences.

 

[sugafree]

Well the problem is in the post....."CHRISTIAN HERITAGE ACADEMY"

When the **** did black folks have anything peaceful soulful or positive in christian heritage???

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[nawghtyhare]

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[Captain Slappy]

115 200 000 sounds like a lot of money.
Till you divide it by the average house price in LA which is almost 700,000.
That means that out of 160,000 people you managed to buy 165 people a house.

Some of these add up games are fun but im not sure the people posting them have calculators on their phones

 

[hand2handking]

 

[nawghtyhare]

i wish she married a black man
not tripping or hating
just wish a black man had stepped up to the plate
she beautiful

 

[sugafree]

 

[hand2handking]