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  2. Nothing is eating at me. In the forum I have always said the black populace in the usa is a collection of tribes, disimilar from each other , which is a heritage, what is carreid from the very infancy of the usa. James Forten was a business owner, black, fought alongside whites colonist who aided or abetted in the enslavement of black people , to initialize the usa. Harry Wahsington was enslaved to george washington, James Forten's general and leader, and fought against the creation of the USA and lef tto Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone. The ninety percent of black people enslaved to white colonists who remained enslaved after the usa was initialized. who i am 100% certain hated whites and the usa as James BAldwin admitted to his father, who retained said black folsk dislike of whites and dislike of the usa or absent desire to be part of the usa, . I paraphrase, my father never once spoke ill or attacked a white man and hated white people to the bone to the day he died. And Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten. That is ok. No crime, but I must admit that there is no WE in the black populace in the usa, and never was, and i think it is important, because it is the truth. And i think the truth is always warranted.
  3. Magic's son EJ appears to just be a gay dude. Don't believe he's an athlete. ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  4. If Congress is investigating UAP/UFO, it's a distraction from everything else the current administration is doing. Yet, none of these countries has released those recordings or material proof of UAPs/UFOs. Unless the US has bought them off...monopoly. My 1st thought upon hearing that a Tomahawk missile bounced off a UAP was that the US military must have beentesting new technology.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž
  5. Brooklyn was a bloodbath in the 90s -I had to hit the deck a couple of times with the twins in my arms because they were shooting in the playground across from my Bed-Stuy home. One night DEA and Narc cops from NYPD jumped my mother's fence chasing drug dealers. Her Clinton-Hill brownstone was on the corner and our drive-in garage sat on the side of the house that bordered our backyard. It was a perfect getaway. Nope you didn't have to be in the drug trade to get runover by it. I was terrified for my girls. You were lucky to be oblivious to the crime - it was ugly. I'll never forget walking to the J Train and stepping over brainmatter. This became a regular occurence for me. That's exactly why we left. I wanted better for my girls. I got it too! The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 1990-1994 Actually it started in the 1980s maybe even before my father's off-duty shooting The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 1980-1985
  6. @ProfD I might have missed it; did you ever express an opinion on the UAP that was hit with a Tomahawk missile only for it to bounce off/ Clearly something was there. Clearly it was displayed technology far superior to what is known based on how it manuvered. The only thing we don't know is where it came from. It could be a number of things, but given What I saw "Alien" is not off the table. What do you think?
  7. I guess I could look it up, but I don't want to shift through the trash. Hi Magic's some gay and/or trans? I seem to remember seeing him dressed like a woman. If he is trans should he be allowed to play in the WNBA with the cisgender women?
  8. "a Lie" Whoa, hold on there buddy! Those are strong words. The reality is that TikTok does not exist in China. I don't know who are are talking to in China, but if they ask for money -- run. ByteDance runs a completely different app in China with much stricter regulations designed to educate Chinese under 18. Under 14 you can ony use it for 40 minutes a day. No we get the "trash" with the infinite scroll of stupid videos keeping kids locked in for hours a day. What is eating at you man? Putting me in the same category as Clarence Thomas... that is almost as bad as calling me a liar. First where do YOU choose to live? That by definition is your home. It is disingenuous to rail against other across centuries not less about what they call home. this country is my home and I will fight to make it better. You can disagree but until you are living somewhere other than the "good ole USA" your admonishment falls flat.
  9. I didn't know about this I lived more than a decade of my adult life in BK. Maybe you had to be in "the life" for it to be a problem? I actually emailed @Pioneer1 to now avail. I hope he is OK.
  10. Are you working toward a PhD @Mel Hopkins?
  11. It is ridiculous for the USA to pretend that China is an adversary. False equivalence. Most prisoners are imprisoned for a reason. Sure. There's always room fo mr critique & complaint. Change usually requires action. Humans have the ability reason, rationalize & control themselves. Not the same consequences but in both sports & war, there are winners & losers.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  12. Exactly.. Neither has ever subsided..... Of course to those who consume officialdom without any or very little questions....it did sudside UAP is no longer a distraction....Congress and NASA investigating and turning resources there. Possible the same... No country has a monopoly on UFOs.....every country has reports...... Many countries Recordings. US has the Best Recordings Hollywood ....Art and Magic Art is often how the Truth is told
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  14. RMNewsletter 5th version 05232026 Anniversary of The Visasiki https://open.substack.com/pub/rmnewsletter/p/rmnewsletter-5th-version-05232026?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #rmnewsletter #richardmurrayhumblr #rmaalbc #hddeviant #richardmurray #rmworkcalendar #rmcommunitycalendar #black337 #visasiki #sunsetchildrenstories #lookingwestandwest #kobo #kwl #audiobook #ebook #akorade #coloringpage https://www.tiktok.com/@richardmurraytiktok/video/7643555143031557390
  15. @ProfD war is ridiculous? no... peace side war will always exist, neither is good or bad, either take infinite forms, and neither ever end. based on your logic every prisoner in a prison should be trying to escape. Doing something to attempt to force change does not deny the quality of environment warrants a negative critique. it is natural for all species, all children of earth to be fruitful and multiply no matter the environment, to restate, being fruitful or multiplying has no relationship to the quality of environment, humans ... all species/children of earth will do that as long as they exist. no it isn't , a sport, whether chess or basketball, by default, never has the consequences or prosequences that war or peace has.
  16. INVITING ALL WRITERS TO VOTE FOR THE WINNER!!! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrUbWulo0AUaWmw9650uZjgjT7XNntJkvQXmWkjqX1mn6XXg/viewform?usp=publish-editor #glory #usa250 #alexanderjohnson #watn #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr
  17. Not officially released but similar images of UAPs/UFOs have been floating around since the early days of tabloids. Like Big Foot, the UAF/UFO thing subsided in the early 2000s. It seems to have resurfaced when the political folks need a good distraction from their other BS. Not really considering the pics look similar to old tabloid magazines.๐Ÿ˜ Again, it's interesting that one country (USA) has a monopoly on UAPs/UFOs. There's a few words for it too but one comes to mind...Hollywood.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  18. The USA is my birthplace & homeland. However, I'm not asking other Black folks to embrace the USA as their homeland. I would encourage Black folks who h8te the USA for whatever reason to either 1) fight to make it better or 2 ) move elsewhere. Thr gaslighting is global. The point of this thread is pointing out the ridiculousness of adversarial relationship between USA-China. Sure. They all have access to enough information & technology to know the truth. The fundamental question remains what are they doing to force change. If being poor means accepting the status quo, then the solution must be to remain in the holding pattern of making the best of life under the given conditions & circumstances. Considering that people continue procreating & bringing more lives into a poor existence suggests that being poor isn't too bad. Humans have been dominating each other in one way or another for a very long time. It's like a sport.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  19. Was the then release official? I do not know about these in particular... Starting From the round about the 40's ....pictures and films have been withheld from the public That is because officialdom is hoarding and curating the info to maintain control of independent thought
  20. Yep. Steph's dad, Dale Curry, played professional basketball too. He's often in the stands cheering for his son.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  21. Last week
  22. The problem with perception is how important it is financially. If you are black in the usa and you view the black populace in the usa as home, then regardless of the condition of the home, you expect a path to excellence, but here lies the problem, Fiscal activity in an antagonistic environment toward you while supportive to others isn't equal so embracing said place as home is like accepting a prison as a home. How is living in prison financially wise? URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12748-made-in-china-why-is-it-considered-usa-adversary/#findComment-81602 MY COMMENT @Troy this is a lie, i am fortunate enough to communicate to chinese who live in china, tiktok and the greater social emdia is very popular there, you like many others forget, china has near two billion people. yes, a section of those people are all engineers, in the same way a section of northern italy is the most technologically advanced community on earth in the same way, a section of populace in the usa is very educated... but the majority is not the minority in any country, this extends to brasil, india, russia, all countries today from the fiscal poorest like a somalia or hait rto the wealthiest like a sweden china usa monaco have a majority that is poor and not as positive compared to aminority that is advantageous and has alot f positive metrics. who is WE ? are native americans in the usa a part of WE? are black descended of enslaved people who have been in an unhappy antagonist environment their entire lives, whose parents and parents parents and parents ^3 and parents ^4 and parents ^5 and parents ^6 who lived their entire lives in an unhappy antagonist environment a part of WE in the past or currently? I comprehend the black people in the usa or english colonies that preceded it for their views, the JAmes Forten disease. James Foten, Clarence Thomas, Yourself Troy, Frederick Douglass all @ProfD all have this USA is home view points, regardless of the condition of a majority of black people in modernity or historically, for all of you, the usa is home and regardless of how many other black people oppose that view or their reasoning you keep making public Declarations of unity for the black populace in the usa with the only view forward being a hope that one day it will be functionally true. Profd your being too short. the gaslighting is global. during the war bettween ussr + usa, people in the ussr saw photos of new york city's downtown manhattan and said that is the usa. they didn't see the whole regions of the south without running water.. People in africa to this day still run to france, but don't realize the banliues of the big cities like paris are run down and decrepit n different than the slums of lagos or joberg. all the countries are crap: usa/russia/china/england/japan and all other countries including israel/haiti/iran/ singapore.. all countires today have a majority of mostly fiscally poor unhappy people in an antagonist environment that are lorded by a fiscally potent , militaristically dominant minority. the only difference between the minrorities is who can be the bigger bully. COMMENTARY AFTER 05242026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12748-made-in-china-why-is-it-considered-usa-adversary/#findComment-81610 @ProfD war is ridiculous? no... peace side war will always exist, neither is good or bad, either take infinite forms, and neither ever end. based on your logic every prisoner in a prison should be trying to escape. Doing something to attempt to force change does not deny the quality of environment warrants a negative critique. it is natural for all species, all children of earth to be fruitful and multiply no matter the environment, to restate, being fruitful or multiplying has no relationship to the quality of environment, humans ... all species/children of earth will do that as long as they exist. no it isn't , a sport, whether chess or basketball, by default, never has the consequences or prosequences that war or peace has. 05262026 https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/738-who-is-we-and-the-international-parity/?tab=comments#findComment-17 Nothing is eating at me. In the forum I have always said the black populace in the usa is a collection of tribes, disimilar from each other , which is a heritage, what is carreid from the very infancy of the usa. James Forten was a business owner, black, fought alongside whites colonist who aided or abetted in the enslavement of black people , to initialize the usa. Harry Wahsington was enslaved to george washington, James Forten's general and leader, and fought against the creation of the USA and lef tto Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone. The ninety percent of black people enslaved to white colonists who remained enslaved after the usa was initialized. who i am 100% certain hated whites and the usa as James BAldwin admitted to his father, who retained said black folsk dislike of whites and dislike of the usa or absent desire to be part of the usa, . I paraphrase, my father never once spoke ill or attacked a white man and hated white people to the bone to the day he died. And Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten. That is ok. No crime, but I must admit that there is no WE in the black populace in the usa, and never was, and i think it is important, because it is the truth. And i think the truth is always warranted. 05252026 MY ENLARGED THOUGHT From what I have seen of Douyin, I don't see it as different, same service, there are creators and interesting people but there are also influencers and conspiracy folk and various other neagtive online agents on there. I don't see any difference. Tiktok is merely a continuation of DOuyin. all websites with a global structure have aregional customizations. Nothing is eating me, it is simply a truth of the populace of Black people in the usa whose forebears were enslaved. in the usa or the english colonies that preceded it. You, frederick Douglass, clarence thomas, James Forten, millions of other black people are not mirrors to each other, but you all share a few traits all of you are in the usa because your person or your forebears were forced to these lands by whites as british colonies or the usa itself. all of you have chosen to view the usa as your home regardless of the condition of the majority, the most, of black people in the usa or the english colonies that preceded it , in which said condition is hell by white terror. all of you reject in some form or fashion any black descended of enslaved philosophy that doesn't match your allegiance to the usa : forten rejected by arms the anti white colonist position of black people enslaved to whites or black people who fought against white colonist fighting aside white europeans , each against the idea of the usa , Frederick Douglass or Clarence Thomas or You , Troy, reject by prose the Black people who through their actions or words are stateless while living in the usa. All three of you and the many other blacks like you, suggest any black person in the usa that doesn't claim the usa as home as false in their thinking. You may find it an insult to be philosophically aligned to Clarence thomas in parts, but you are. And both of you are aligned to frederick douglass. Forten literally shed blood the white colonist who enslaved nearly all the black people who fought alongside said white colonist ot make the usa begin. That's you TROY! Frederick Douglass spoke ill of the exodusters because these are black people who would never trust whites, spoke ill in various tones or strengths of black peole who fled to jamaica/haiti/ anywhere they could to get as far away from the usa or the whites of the usa. That is you TROY! Clarence Thomas calls the usa home and regardless of the condition of black people does so. That is you TROY! and many others. I am not criminalizing you Troy, you may think I am. I mention James Forten to explain that Black people who call the usa home have always existed these two hundred and fifty years or more. My point is that Black people who don't call the usa or the english colonies it came form home have existed just as long. The two heritages are of a people who never wanted to be in these lands of the FIRST peoples, commonly called native americans. But the two heritages the two tribes can never be a WE. and the use of that word WE is the problem. James Forten wasn't in a WE with Stephen Bluke. Frederick Douglass wasn't in a WE with MArcus Garvey. Garvey was never jamaican. he left jamaica because it wasn't a home. He told black people to leave the usa cause it isn't a home. Home for Garvey is the correct definition. Home isn't a place where you live. If that is the case, a prison is a home. The slave plantation is a prison for Black people. the sharecropped land is a prison. Black urban regions are prisons. Garvey saw home not as a place that needed to be changed, but a place that loves you without you needing to do a thing. This is why so few children have a home, they live in a residence with their parents, but too few children in humanity are home. Home don't need to be improved. Home don't need to be changed. Garvey comprehended this But Forten, Douglass, Clarence Tomans, you, all feel home is a place that needs to be worked on to be bettered. so for all of you , home can be a prison, a hell hole, but by you living there it is home. Ok, I don't mind. Again, James Forten to me is the patron saint of the black statian, the black person whose forebears were enslaved who calls the USA home. a business man through all the uneven of negatively biased challenges setup by whites, a peaceful integrationist to whites, which is mandatory, embracing the usa at its very infancy even though he knew most black people hated the whites in these lands and hated these lands. But that is allegiance, that is devotion, that is claiming the usa for oneself as a Black DOSer. OK, but no WE exist in the black populace. And with the coming of the willing black immigrant of modernity in huge numbers it is to your tribe in the villages advantage even. As a female member of the forum once said, she likes the black immigrants, and it makes perfect sense to me. Whereas many, historically most, Black DOSers will always be anti white + anti usa, black immigrants in modernity have chosen to come to the usa. they have nothing they can complain about. All DOSers including even James Forten can always say, I didn't want to be here, because our forebears were forced to these lands and time will never change that. You see my position as insult. I simply see a proper labeling of the collective condition of the black populace in the usa which I argue is needed. I think too few black children... in all humanity in all earnest, but i will stick to the usa, are not told the truths that black adults know. The UA has always been anti black. I can't recall how many black adults admit this, even to black children. yes JAmes Forten's have always existed, but the majorty of black peple enslaved has too. Tell black children they will have to embrace the usa to change it, but explain to them what that means, that means embracing whites, which they may not want to do. Explain to black children that the black populace of the usa is full of so many different typs of black people that it is not simple gathering us together because we don't want the same things. I have never liked the usa, or embraced it as a home, it has never been a home. My interactions with law enforcement alone is enought o prove that. But, while I have my own plans and ways, I am not a prosyletizer. I am not looking for people to join me. The black people i know, some personally , others as personal acquaintance, who left the usa to live in various parts of the caribbean, south america, france, africa, prove that many more black DOSers I dont't know make the journey away from the usa. Some find a home. Some simply settle for another place to lay their head that isn't a home. But, black people are not a WE
  23. College grads today may need to board a flight to Latin America to find their next job. And this time it is not because corporations are looking for cheap, low-skilled labor. U.S.-educated LATAM professionals, including lawyers, finance specialists, and HR directors, are filling back-office roles that used to sit in American cities. This has been quietly accelerating since the early 2000s. This week, a VP of Global Services Finance at a major Dow company, Johnson and Johnson departed to 'pursue external opportunities' โ€” the same week senior procurement postings went live in Bogotรก. This is the pattern. Sad part is, the current administration has halted immigration while U.S. corporations export the jobs immigrants were supposedly taking. If this feels like it should be bigger news, consider who funds the news. History does tell us all of this may backfire because I left Brooklyn when the Colombian Drug Cartel ran roughshod through parts of Brooklyn.
  24. History class was kicking my butt! It was a short semester class jammed packed with a lot of work including up to the very present. I did get an "A" and learned a lot about the United States that even I didn't know! And I read a lot! Some of it was so depressing I felt like I was struggling through PTSD. Thank goodness my professor was a Black woman with a PhD - she held the light towards the finish line. I took the summer off from school. I needed a break. ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ
  25. @Troy this is a lie, i am fortunate enough to communicate to chinese who live in china, tiktok and the greater social emdia is very popular there, you like many others forget, china has near two billion people. yes, a section of those people are all engineers, in the same way a section of northern italy is the most technologically advanced community on earth in the same way, a section of populace in the usa is very educated... but the majority is not the minority in any country, this extends to brasil, india, russia, all countries today from the fiscal poorest like a somalia or hait rto the wealthiest like a sweden china usa monaco have a majority that is poor and not as positive compared to aminority that is advantageous and has alot f positive metrics. who is WE ? are native americans in the usa a part of WE? are black descended of enslaved people who have been in an unhappy antagonist environment their entire lives, whose parents and parents parents and parents ^3 and parents ^4 and parents ^5 and parents ^6 who lived their entire lives in an unhappy antagonist environment a part of WE in the past or currently? I comprehend the black people in the usa or english colonies that preceded it for their views, the JAmes Forten disease. James Foten, Clarence Thomas, Yourself Troy, Frederick Douglass all @ProfD all have this USA is home view points, regardless of the condition of a majority of black people in modernity or historically, for all of you, the usa is home and regardless of how many other black people oppose that view or their reasoning you keep making public Declarations of unity for the black populace in the usa with the only view forward being a hope that one day it will be functionally true. Profd your being too short. the gaslighting is global. during the war bettween ussr + usa, people in the ussr saw photos of new york city's downtown manhattan and said that is the usa. they didn't see the whole regions of the south without running water.. People in africa to this day still run to france, but don't realize the banliues of the big cities like paris are run down and decrepit n different than the slums of lagos or joberg. all the countries are crap: usa/russia/china/england/japan and all other countries including israel/haiti/iran/ singapore.. all countires today have a majority of mostly fiscally poor unhappy people in an antagonist environment that are lorded by a fiscally potent , militaristically dominant minority. the only difference between the minrorities is who can be the bigger bully.
  26. No lies detected - Was Curry's father a high profile baller?
  27. Applications for the #AWP27 HBCU Fellowship Program will be closing on Sunday, May 31st! You can apply here: https://lnkd.in/e_yGqnJb Each year, the ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS offers fellowships to faculty and students who currently work at or attend a historically Black college or university and are involved in creative writing. Those chosen will be invited to attend the 2027 AWP Conference & Bookfair. The #AWP27 HBCU fellowships will be offered to three faculty and six students, and will include a stipend, paid round-trip travel and lodging expenses for the duration of the conference, an opportunity for students and faculty to workshop students' creative pieces, and more. #HBCU #BlackWriters #AssociationofWritersandWritingPrograms #SerendipityLiteraryAgency LinkedIn#awp27 #awp27 #hbcu #blackwriters #associationofwritersan...Applications for the #AWP27 HBCU Fellowship Program will be closing on Sunday, May 31st! You can apply here: https://lnkd.in/e_yGqnJb Each year, the ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS offers f AALBC.com and the Black Book Accelerator โ€” led by Troy Johnson, Carrie J. Bloxson, Linda A. Duggins, Peter Hildick-Smith, Brian Hurley, and me โ€” have launched one of the first major initiatives of the Black Book Accelerator: the BLK Bestseller List. The list showcases the top 20 bestselling fiction, nonfiction, childrenโ€™s, young adult, and poetry titles by Black authors. Iโ€™m excited to announce that AALBC and the Black Book Accelerator have also now partnered with TheGrio, a trusted source for Black news, politics, and culture, which will now share the monthly BLK Bestseller List on its platform. Iโ€™m proud to be part of a team with the passion and commitment to help build a stronger, more connected Black book ecosystem โ€” one that ultimately strengthens the publishing industry as a whole. You can read TheGrio's announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gZ7TPf-W hashtag#BLKBestsellerList hashtag#ReginaBrooks hashtag#PublishingNews hashtag#AfricanAmericanLiteratureBookClub hashtag#BlackAuthors hashtag#BlackWriters hashtag#BlackBookAccelerator LinkedInAALBC Launches BLK Bestseller List with TheGrio Partnersh...AALBC.com and the Black Book Accelerator โ€” led by Troy Johnson, Carrie J. Bloxson, Linda A. Duggins, Peter Hildick-Smith, Brian Hurley, and me โ€” have launched one of the first major initiatives of the
  28. Hi @JWW1980 I just added your upcoming book to our site. If you like you may send us a copy to the following address: AALBC.com, LLC 15310 Amberly Dr, Ste 250, Tampa, FL 33647 I'll see if I can get it reviewed. The odds are slim as we are actually running behind on commissioned reviews. Alternatively, someone here my volunteer to review the book and we will publish it if it meets are requirements. Good luck!

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