Black Culture Discussion Thread

[DCAllAfrican]

Rusty ruining another thread.

 

[Nouss]

I have Never even seen you post but, bless.

I also wasn’t aware that this thread was “blacks only”.

relax.

No, everyone is welcome when discussing the topic on hand in a constructive manner.

If you haven't seen me post then that means you aren't in here.

Which begs the question wtf are you doing here?

 

[Kinfolk]

No, everyone is welcome when discussing the topic on hand in a constructive manner.

If you haven't seen me post then that means you aren't in here.

Which begs the question wtf are you doing here?

Rusty will still love you even if you don’t stand up for him, I’m sure of it.

You’re more upset about what I said than he is.

Nothing I said was inappropriate.

Considering that it’s Black History month and that people had the Santa Claus hat in their avi’s for Christmas, what’s up with something like that to celebrate this unfortunately short month?

 

[sugafree]

 

[Kinfolk]

Lol... I mean I’m just trying to get back on topic.

What I really want to know is why Umar has his own thread and Tariq doesn’t.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

 

[atlsfinest]

smh when is Candace going to realize that these racist "conservatives" are just using her? Or maybe she knows full well and it's just doing this for a quick buck? I'm not sure which is worse.

 

[AEA18]

she knows full well and it's just doing this for a quick buck

Just like Omarosa or those 2 idiots Diamond and Silk

 

[gry60]

smh when is Candace going to realize that these racist "conservatives" are just using her? Or maybe she knows full well and it's just doing this for a quick buck? I'm not sure which is worse.

Nobody who knows the well-discussed and very public details of Hitler's policy would not publicly say what she said, unless they supported it. She is ignorant, and her ignorance is being validated by the likes of Kanye West.

For those who don't understand why she is wrong, Hitler's goal was to join all lands that had seen a historical German presence. That means his nationalism was expansionist by nature, as he considered that territories like Alsace (in France) or Poland were German land.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

They gon eventually hang Candace out to dry like all the other sellouts. It's only a matter of time.

 

[...So]

I'm REALLY late to this extraordinary story and somewhat ashamed that I am late to this....

via: The New York Times


Henrietta Lacks
1920-1951

Cancer cells were taken from her body without
permission. They led to a medical revolution.

BY ADEEL HASSAN

Henrietta Lacks in a family photo. HeLa, the cell line named for her, has been at the core of treatments for ailments like hemophilia, herpes, influenza and leukemia. Lacks Family/The Henrietta Lacks Foundation, via Associated Press

She never traveled farther than Baltimore from her family home in southern Virginia, but her cells have traveled around the earth and far above it, too. She was buried in an unmarked grave, but the trillions of those cells — generated from a tiny patch taken from her body — are labeled in university labs and biotechnology companies across the world, where they continue to spawn and to play the critical role in a 67-year parade of medical advances.

Henrietta Lacks was the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and was herself a tobacco farmer whose family remained poor, with some members not having health insurance despite her cells leading to a medical revolution. Her endlessly renewable cells were harvested from her cervix just months before she died and without compensation or consent, before being bought, sold and shipped many times over. There are thousands of patents involving her cells. Millions of dollars in profits have been made.

Lacks left behind five young children and an unparalleled medical legacy when she died on Oct. 4, 1951, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from an aggressive cervical cancer at 31. While she was sick, a Hopkins doctor appeared on a TV science program. “Now let me show you a bottle in which we have grown massive quantities of cancer cells,” said the doctor, George Gey, as he held up her cells. “It is quite possible that from such fundamental studies such as these that we will be able to learn a way by which cancer can be completely wiped out.” There was no mention of Lacks on TV and there was not a single obituary for her. After she died, a lab technician was in an autopsy room, taking more of the precious cells from her body. In Lacks’s medical records, a doctor wrote of small white tumors covering some organs: “It looked as if the inside of her body was studded with pearls.”

Though she was forgotten at the time, part of her remained alive, at the forefront of science. While a cure for cancer remains elusive, the cell line named for her, HeLa (pronounced hee-lah), has been at the core of treatments for hemophilia, herpes, influenza, leukemia, and Parkinson’s disease as well as the polio vaccine, the cancer drug tamoxifen, chemotherapy, gene mapping, and in vitro fertilization.

Born Loretta Pleasant in 1920 and later called Henrietta, she was the ninth of 10 children. When she was 4, her mother died and her father sent her to Clover, Va., where his family still worked the tobacco fields. Henrietta was taken in by her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, the son of a white plantation owner and a former slave. The original plantation had been divided between black and white Lackses by a judge after one of Tommy’s brothers sued to take some of the land left to black heirs. Tommy was already taking care of another grandchild. The boy, David, known as Day, would share a bedroom with Henrietta in their grandfather’s cabin, a former slave quarters.

With Day and her other cousins, Henrietta would rise before dawn to tend to animals and a garden before spending much of the day crouched among the tobacco. The constant demands meant that most of the children didn’t finish their educations; she made it as far as the sixth grade. At 14, she and Day had their first child, a son named Lawrence. A daughter, Lucile Elsie, joined them four years later. Henrietta and Day married on April 10, 1941, when she was 20 and he was 25. The newlyweds continued to toil, struggling to survive on their small farm.

By the time Japan bombed Pearl Harbor eight months later, a few of their cousins had already left to work for Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore. Day would soon follow and once he had saved enough for a house and three train tickets, Henrietta came. She arrived in Maryland at the age of 21 in the midst of the Great Migration, when more than six million African-Americans moved from the rural South to cities in the Northeast, Midwest and West beginning in 1915 and lasting into the 1970s.

After nine years, she found herself at Johns Hopkins Hospital in January 1951, where she had given birth to her fifth child only a few months earlier. She told the receptionist at the gynecology clinic: “I got a knot on my womb.” A hard mass was found in her cervix and, as usual, a small piece of the cancerous tissue was cut off and taken to Gey’s pathology lab for a diagnosis. Unlike most cancer cells, which died within a few days, a cluster of Lacks’s cells not only survived, but thrived, doubling within 24 hours and never stopping. Gey later told others that the cells were taken from a woman named “Helen Lane,” relegating Lacks to obscurity. Ten months after coming in, she died.

But the rapid reproduction of HeLa cells continued, inexplicably becoming the only human cells to grow outside the body. Scientists used them to gain insight into viruses. Cosmetics companies, pharmaceutical firms and the military did tests on them. And Scientific American published an article informing readers how to grow HeLa cells at home. HeLa is the most prolific and widely used human cell line in biology. The Lacks family did not know that her cells were alive, and all the while no one knew that her mighty cells were accidentally contaminating other cell lines. HeLa traveled through the air, floating on dust particles, or on hands or pipettes, muscling into secure locations and onto airplanes, ruining years of research around the globe, while causing millions of dollars in damage. After Gey died of pancreatic cancer in 1970, his colleagues published a medical journal article with Lacks’s name in 1971, 20 years after her death. Three weeks later, President Nixon announced a “war on cancer.”

The Lacks family found out about HeLa one night in 1973 when one of Lacks’s daughters-in-law had dinner with a friend, whose husband happened to be a cancer researcher who recognized the Lacks name. He told her that he was working with cells from a woman named Henrietta Lacks and asked if she had died of cervical cancer. As recounted in Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” she rushed home and told Lacks’s son Lawrence, “Part of your mother, it’s alive!” In 2001, 50 years after Lacks died, her daughter Deborah visited Johns Hopkins Hospital and closed her eyes as a cancer researcher opened the door of his floor-to-ceiling freezer. Deborah then opened her eyes slowly, and stared at vials of red liquid. “Oh, God,” she gasped, “I can’t believe all this is my mother.” When he handed her one, she said, “She’s cold,” and blew on the tube to warm it. “You’re famous,” she whispered to the cells.

Clover, Va., and Baltimore are separated by about 250 miles. The distance that mankind and science traveled, because Lacks made that short journey, is immeasurable. No dead woman has done more for humanity.

Says one researcher: “HeLa will live forever, perhaps.”

Adeel Hassan is a writer and editor for Race/Related, a newsletter and reporting project at The Times.

 

[sugafree]

Oh don’t worry she just sealed her own fate...
The Jews gonna end her financial livelihood every way they can

 

[hand2handking]

Sportscaster Warner Wolf Arrested for Taking the Word 'Plantation' Off Sign at His Gated Community

Warner Wolf was arrested Thursday in Florida. (Collier County Sherrif)

https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ny-sports-warner-wolf-arrested-20190208-story.html

That’s a penalty for Warner Wolf.

The longtime sportscaster was arrested Thursday for removing letters that spelled out “Plantation” on both sides of a sign at the private community where he lives in Florida, according to a Collier County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by the Daily News.

Wolf, 81, removed the word from the sign at the Classics Plantation Estates community in Naples on Nov. 30, according to the report, with an official saying they obtained footage showing a man who fits Warner’s physical profile in the act.

Wolf had been a “vocal critic of the name ‘Plantation’ at board meetings,” the report states, and had advocated for the word to be taken off the sign.

About two weeks after the letters were removed, a man returned them to a security guard at the community’s vehicle gate.

Wolf turned himself in to authorities on Thursday. The damage he allegedly caused was valued at $1,139.50.

His charge is listed as criminal mischief over $1,000.

He left custody on Thursday on a $5,000 bond, jail records show.

Wolf’s lengthy sportscasting career has included working on “Monday Night Baseball” and the Olympics for ABC Sports, and serving as a voice on the radio program “Imus in the Morning.”

 

[hand2handking]

Marvin Gaye’s Lost 1972 Album You’re the Man Set for Release
The scrapped What’s Going On follow-up arrives in celebration of Gaye’s 80th birthday


Marvin Gaye, photo by Jim Britt/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images

Marvin Gaye’s Lost 1972 Album You’re the Man Set for Release | Pitchfork

Motown has announced the release of Marvin Gaye’s scrapped follow-up to 1971 classic What’s Going On.You’re the Man features all of Gaye’s solo and non-soundtrack recordings from 1972. It’s out March 29, four days before what would have been Gaye’s 80th birthday on April 2. Listen to album track “My Last Chance,” mixed by Salaam Remi, below.

Of the LP’s 17 songs, only the title track was released at the time. Most of the songs have never been released on vinyl until now. David Ritz wrote liner notes for the physical issue. As well as the double-vinyl and digital release of You’re the Man, Motown/UMe is reissuing Gaye’s 1965 album, A Tribute To The Great Nat King Cole.

 

[tomdiginson]

It wasn’t me Tommy boy.

Anybody can hit the report button.

Glad to see that you’re still pressed as ever and still trying to tag me as a deplorable despite every single one of my post stating the contrary.

Not interested in any of what you’re smoking but I know it must be good.

Tuck in your tail. It's showing.

 

[Kinfolk]

Tuck in your tail. It's showing.

Give up.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

And the Internet Is Not Only Outraged, But Confused AF.



https://www.bet.com/style/beauty/20...+BET__FBPAGE__Link_2120386974&linkId=63264848

After a mini hiatus, Rachel Dolezal is back with YouTube hair-braiding tutorials, and the internet isn’t having it.

The former NAACP president and self-identifying Black woman is making YouTube tutorials about braiding extensions into your hair using a plethora of products including Bronner Brother's Pump It Up Styling Spritz.

The brand must’ve loved it because they reposted her.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with other communities celebrating Black culture or braiding extensions into their hair. We see it all the time while on resorts on islands such as Jamaica, Bahamas, and Barbados. Not to mention, tourists are known for getting their hair braided by native women, but being that it’s Black History Month, supporters on Instagram are wondering why Bronner Bros. would promote Dolezal after all of the fraudulence and foolishness we’ve witnessed this woman commit over the years.

Bronner Bros. defended their actions after receiving backlash for supporting Rachel’s video when the brand certainly has a ton of content surrounding Black women using the Pump It Up spray. Their reply read, “we do and we share those also," followed by a bunch of heart emojis.

Not only were fans disappointed with Bronner Bros., but after watching the tutorial, viewers realized that she’s actually using products that are harmful to hair. Dolezal, who changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, is using Eos and Burts Bees lip balm so her braids can hold.

When posting the mini tutorial on her Instagram page, commenters were left asking why she’s using these products instead of using edge control or hair wax.



Rachel’s caption read, “The Burt’s Bees or lip-balm method for thin/fine ends to keep ends in the braid.. mini tutorial2 #hair#braids #braidingbeganinafrica I’ve been braiding for 26 years, and yes I use a variety of products on different hair types. I only use lip balms with wax + moisturizing agents when I’m braiding my own hair or other slippery/fine/thin hair types. Only doing this tutorial because y’all asked for it. Keep the vibes positive, please. I didn’t invent hair braiding: it originated in Africa and I learned from looking at pictures and from Black women in Mississippi as well as years of just practice.”

We appreciate "Nkechi" for acknowledging the origin of hair braiding, but we still can’t understand why she thinks it’s OK to give tutorials on braiding ethnic hair, even if she claims her fans asked for it.

At this point, we’re all just confused and hoping that she picks up another hobby.

And it looks like Bronner Bros. listened to their viewers, because after about 1,500 comments, they have since taken the Instagram post down.

 

[hand2handking]

Pupils Demonstrate in Support of Teacher After Slapping Video Goes Viral

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...t-of-teacher-after-slapping-video-goes-viral/

The Western Cape education department has launched an investigation after a video showed a teacher slapping a pupil in a classroom at one of Cape Town’s leading schools.

In the video, shot this week, the Sans Souci Girls’ High School teacher can be seen and heard embroiled in an argument with a grade 9 girl over a book.

What seems to have angered the teacher was something the girl said in a “different language”. The female teacher exclaimed: “Are you swearing at me?”

The school was in the news in 2016 when pupils accused it of victimising them for speaking languages such as Xhosa.

In this week’s viral video, the female teacher can be heard shouting at the pupil: "You must have a book like this, please take this as evidence. This is a disciplinary hearing now. Your phone shouldn’t have been in your hand. You shouldn’t have a phone. You wanna challenge me?"

The teacher goes on to say: "My dear, you gonna get last. I have been where you are. I have two degrees, working on the third one. You don’t even have a book in grade 9."

The teacher then takes a piece of paper and says: "You know what it says about phones. You should obey that. Why don’t you have a book?"

The pupil then claims that the teacher swore at her. The teacher responds: "What did I swear? What did I say to you?"

The pupil says: "Everybody heard you."

The teacher then says: "Come, out my class."

The learner says something inaudible and the teacher replies: "Are you swearing at me? You are speaking a different language in my class?"

The teacher then switches to Afrikaans, pushes the desk towards the pupil and gets close to the pupil’s face. The pupil pushes the desk back towards the teacher and gets up.

The teacher shouts: "Are you hitting me?" She then slaps the pupil and says: "You push me, you swear at me."



Debbie Schäfer, the Western Cape education MEC, said ill-discipline at schools would not be tolerated but "corporal punishment is unacceptable". She said officials from her department had visited the school on Wednesday morning.

She said the teacher in the video had been appointed by the school governing body, which would meet to discuss disciplinary steps.

"I am aware that some commentators on social media platforms are immediately assuming that the incident is race-related," she said. "While I understand their anger at the images displayed on the edited version of the video, we cannot assume that this was racially motivated. We ask that the public allow the SGB to investigate the incident before such conclusions are made."



Schäfer said pupils at Sans Souci, in Newlands, had held "a peaceful protest in assembly in support of the educator" on Wednesday.


Pupils at Sans Souci Girls' High in Cape Town demonstrated in support of a teacher during assembly on February 6 2019.
Image: Western Cape Education Department

"We are very aware of the many disciplinary challenges our educators face daily in our schools. However, the use of violence to deal with learners shows signs of behavioural issues or ill-discipline that cannot be tolerated."



The Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF), an association of professionals in the Western Cape, said it would report the teacher to the police for assault and would write to the SA Council of Educators to ask for an investigation into the teacher's conduct.

In a statement, the association said: "PPF is disturbed and appalled by the disgusting manner the teacher carried herself in the incident in the video.

"The teacher clearly lacks understanding of school rules and enforcement procedures, in that she first indicates that she's running a disciplinary hearing in class, which marks the beginning of the consternation."



"It is sad, because the learner remains calm and composed, meanwhile the teacher is shouting to an extent of throwing things around. The teacher further complains about language use, but by the same token she uses Afrikaans interchangeably with English," the PPF said.

"PPF would like to make it clear, learners are free to speak any language of their choosing in South African schools, so long as it doesn’t interfere with the teaching and learning process.

"Therefore the condemnation of the learner for speaking a different language in class is condemned in the strongest terms. It smacks of racism and intolerance."

 

[hand2handking]

 

[theregothatman]

How about not buying that over priced crap at all!
Always notice how the “woke” celebrities stay silent when it’s their favorite designers or stores who do dome racist ish.
I don’t heard a word from anybody in that Forbes top 5.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

I really wish more black owned clothing lines just made "regular" ****. Like nice polos, sweaters, jeans, etc. I don't need anymore loud *** t-shirts, dad hats, or socks. At some point I gotta go to work

 

[hand2handking]

 

[tay1]

I really wish more black owned clothing lines just made "regular" ****. Like nice polos, sweaters, jeans, etc. I don't need anymore loud *** t-shirts, dad hats, or socks. At some point I gotta go to work

They do. Plenty of owned clothing sites

 

[...So]