Post a book that ALL Black folks need to read

[Chez Lopez]

Wtf are u talking about? Since u are OBVIOUSLY not black

what makes you think im not black? my picture on the internet? I would assume that you are not spawn, so...

 

[Chez Lopez]

id like to be judged by my ideas, not the color of my skin. I am speaking on the Hebrew origins of muslim culture. as in why do black ppl associate more with muslims than Hebrews.

 

[newworldafro]

I have to post this book

 

[havoc]

Jackie Robinson " I Never Had It Made"

 

[CASHAPP]

... If you read this and still worship our govt. Kill yourself.

Took that out from the library a month ago and it was 2 weeks overdue. I only got like to page 150 or something and I am usually a fast reader but the information was just too heavy and I needed more time. I was using someone else's library card so I could not make the overcharged fees get too high but man this book was just heavy

Gonna find the time to purchase it so I can finish....

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Any English to (fill in the any language) dictionary. I think it's good for black people to learn different language and be mulitlingual.

 

[tmonster]

... If you read this and still worship our govt. Kill yourself.

Why are you against religious freedom? the founding fathers made this country so a man could worship what he wants, why do you hate the founding fathers?

 

[McSpacey]

This is an incredible thread

 

[Gains]

 

[DPresidential]

I can't recite the exact arguments from the book since I read it about 8 years ago. As I vaguely recall, he thought that Garvey was highly naive in his calls for an exodus back to Africa.

Cruse quotes a speech Garvey made before a black audience in 1922:

"When I came down here [from New York City to Raleigh, North Carolina] I had to get on a white man’s train, on a white man’s railroad. I landed in a white man’s town, came out here on a white man’s car, and am now speaking from a white man’s platform. Where do you Negroes come in? If I had depended on getting here on anything that you have furnished I would have been walking for six months."

He felt statements like this were pompous. He didn't believe Garvey had a strong enough grasp of the black American condition and believed that his prescriptions were highly flawed.

I really can't do much justice to his argument after all this time. I didn't agree with all of Cruse's arguments but it's still a fascinating read. I need to pick it back up and read it again.

Interesting...

I was on the fence because I am extremely skeptical of "criticism for profit" by our Black intellectuals. Sometimes the criticism seems so un strategic that it seems we are truly crabs in a barrel as opposed to "a village w/ elders checking the efficiency of each other."

My biggest thing is we have to truly brainstorm & come to a consensus about how we operate when offering criticism & praise to each other through media, books, interviews, etc.

From reading your argument, it seems he does have a desire to help our situation as opposed to "LEt me criticize in order to sell a book."

I've also purchased Why should all the white guys have all the fun digitally... Thank you guys for this thread... My contribution...

Almost like the Prequel to Michelle Alexander's, "The New Jim Crow." It's a very fascinating book that offers juicy research & analysis on the different policies & attitudes that shaped the development(Or lack there of) of the Black people in this Country. If you are always up for debate with respect to Race in America...please read this...It has great ammunition to use.

I mean...this... Wow. I analogous it to being a "Key to the Pandora's Box of the Black Intellectual." I truly "woke up", as School Daze's Vaughn Dunlap so eloquently asked us all to do, after reading this again as an adult, working in the Justice System as an Attorney in New York. This is definitely a must read.

I wasn't going to put htis up since someone already did. But seriously....PLEASE READ THIS BOOK. I honestly believe so much can change in this country if every attorney in the U.S...and every law student took a course on it.

Happy reading brehs & brehettes. Be Enlightened.

 

[Poitier]

Is this books that all black folks need to read

or

books written by or about black folks?

 

[thaKEAF]

This thread thank you brehs and brehettes

 

[user1]

Gonna dl this to my kindle tonight. Its about a young black lawyer who is invited into a secret society of elite blacks who have re-enacted slavery...against whites.

wow. I wanna read this now. I'm currently on the Medical Apartheid.Props for this tho

Thank you for this thread. I would recommend anything by Richard Wright.

 

[notPsychosiz]

Most of the stuff black people need to read can't be found at Barnes & Noble.
Censoring information has long been a tool of devils.

 

[BlackMajik]

Can't wait to get these books

Anthro-photo-journalist Anu M'Bantu has traveled the world armed with a camera! He has taken aim at evidence of Black history in North Africa and Asia. The result is this magnificent book which contains 140 colour pictures that are rarely seen in textbooks. It proves that the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Elamites, Syrians, Anatolians, Minoans and Moors were Unmistakably Black! Tell the Black community! Tell the children

This book amazingly shows how the pioneer Assyriologists said Mesopotamia had 'Cushyte' origins! Did you know that there are still Black populations in southern Asia? This book brings proof in pictures! They are the descendants of the ancient civilisation builders of Asia! A wonderful follow-up to Hermstein's first volume showing the ancestors of the Sumerians to be of African origin. This volume concentrates on the skeletal reports produced by physical anthropologists which showed that the Sumerians, Akkadians and Babylonians were a predominantly Black people. It utilises techniques used by the FBI to show the racial affinity of skeletal remains. This is CSI level of proof! This is the must have book for those interested in Black history. Egypt was African. Now Mesopotamian civilisation is shown to have had a Black origin! For those wishing to avoid a Black origin of civilisation they are fast running out of refuges!

This book shall explore the evidence for African and Afro-Canaanite formative influences on Crete and mainland Greece. This book differs from Martin Bernal's Black Athena in five fundamental ways: 1) Our Egyptians are, as Anu M’Bantu would say, Unmistakably Black! Bernal’s are somewhat Black. 2) The main Egyptian players in this study are NOT the Hyksos. 3) This study openly acknowledges and emphasizes the Afro-Canaanite origin of the Phoenicians. 4) It posits SEVEN different Black origins and influences on Greek civilization. 5) It shows, with commentary, 42 colour pictures of obviously influential people of African appearance depicted in the art of ALL the various phases of Greek culture. This book is a must read for all those interested in Black history!