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Moon Ferguson 
 
Sunshine & Sandy: A Short Documentary
Two women, uprooted from the lives they built in America, share an unbreakable bond of love, loss, and life.
 
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Sunshine and Sandy are both portly, God-fearing, silver-haired grandmothers—two surprising faces of criminal deportation. Born in Jamaica, they spent most of their lives in the United States before reuniting years later in Ocho Rios. 
In America, Sunshine and Sandy were detained by ICE and the DEA, facing criminal charges for marijuana and insurance fraud, respectively. They served multiple sentences in federal prison before being deported, despite holding naturalized American citizenship. However, Sandy's story is a bit more complicated and sheds light on the injustice most legal immigrants face.
 
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I will answer how I feel about some Black intellectuals already mentioned in the comments.

James Baldwin- I love his cutting honesty, from himself or to others. He admitted that he was unhappy in the usa in a complete way. and he admitted he returned to the usa when he saw the usa was extended everywhere outside. He didn't call usa home de facto cause he was born here, which so many Black DOSers say stupidly. Our forebears were enslaved , adult to children, don't tell me the usa is home to black children living in utter hell who were forced here. They need to choose the usa as home, it isn't de facto. Baldwin admitted something I rarely hear any black person admit to. That all/most of the black elders around him hated white people. Even today so many black DOSers seem to be apologist for black dislike of whites as if whites didn't earn this. I love the fact that he was off camera vibrantly homosexual. So many black DOSers hide their true selves their whole lives. Many Black militants who want to kill whites hide their whole lives in the usa, it is silly. Many Black whitephiles who dislike other black people for being black hide their whole lives in the usa, , acting like they like being around other black people, it is silly. Baldwin was very honest.

Angela Davis- I like that she is a survivor. and embraces that the battle has to be continued by the next generation. It isn't up for one person to be the leader and be at the frong forever and if the next generations aren't willing , then the results will be what they will be. I will never

Farrakhan- is a good reader of the environment, he recognized black men across the usa was looking for guidance, but sadly he wasted the opportunity to guide and instead convinced the black men of what they don't like about the usa.
url https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12742-favourite-black-intellectuals/#findComment-81681

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hmmm My favorite black intellectual?

Well, how do I define a black intellectual?
how do I define someone as black?
how do I define an intellectual?
Black is a word which can designate a phenotypical race. A phenotypical race is a collection of people who exist within a range of physical features.
An intellectual is any human who uses their intellect and displays to another. this includes all humanity.
A black intellectual is any black person.

Who are my favorite black intellectuals?
Black intellectuals i favor, i prefer for some reason. What are the reasons I will favor an intellectual?
most potent in my rearing, a black intellectual who has a huge role the way in my mental development, the intellectuals about children are important.
aligns to my thinking, intellectuals that i have the most congruence with from my own intellect.
Who are the Black Intellectuals I favor based on the reasons stated?
My parents. Two mahogany skinned black people. One male, One female, communicated about all sorts of issues, had opposing positions but never went to blows, could accept unresolved differences of opinion absent the need to proseltyize/preach, both liked to learn and listen to all black or non black. They showed me how varied being black is. They knew all about black history from around the earth, it wasn't just about the usa, and they lived thrugh the 1900s in such a way, they knew the truth about alot of black history in the usa in the 1900s, that many black people have been lied to about, even by other black people. And they also made sure i had something that too too few black people have,a truly positive black environment. As a child I not only had a loving home, but 99% of my neighbors were black people who were positive themselves, the most local businesses were all black owned, my public schools were all black administered, 99% being all. So i grew up surrounded by black positivity. Which sadly, is something too few black people are raised around anywhere on earth. When I look at my youth the biggest opponent to happiness was the nypd and the larger harlem and the larger manhattan and the larger NYC. So I enjoyed not only their intellect but the intellectual environment they provided for me. Said environment being a rarity among black folk, not just the apartment or house, but the larger immediate community was positive. In this very forum i have read so many black people talk about their local community as dangerous and various forms or levels of negativity, it is sad but I am thankful to my parents as black intellectuals for comprehending how important it is for black children to be around black positivity, not merely in the home but outside it in the near locale.
Many black intellectuals are well known, like dubois or douglass or nkrumah or others. But the ones that are closest aligned to my thinking are...Marcus Garvey , Jean JAcques Dessalines, Brother Malcolm. Garvey through his comprehension of what home is for black descended of enslaved or other black people when it comes to the non black . Dessalines because he comprehended the truth about black descended of enslaved people in the american continent,we are unique peoples and don't have to mirror or match others in the american continent, none of whom are similar. Malcolm because he literally engineered the nation of islam and didn't use the nation of islam for profit, he showed alegendary quality of leadership to a peoples who have no money, true advocacy.

05302026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12742-favourite-black-intellectuals/#findComment-81703
@Troy
i have said before in this very forum many many times, i am stateless, from my view. I know the legal standing i have by the white country I live in, but I have my own position to myself.

@aka Contrarian
Interesting point , if we are all honest, most black people have only ever complained about the usa or the english colonies preceding it, cause most black people were unhappy in the usa or the english colonies that preceded at as an environment.
But well said, most white people say they love the usa , not just that it is their home, and that love is based on opportunities and betterment not just for themselves but their community, which was born by any means necessary. The black people who call the usa home have never been able to call the sua a land of opportunity or betterment for the black masses, maybe for themsleves, but never for a majority of black people like whites, this the complaint heritage you speak of and allude to through troy and others prose.
Well said.
and yes, black unity in the usa has always been elusive and i think complicated because black people don't have a unfiied relationship to the usa. all whites, can say their forebears came here willingly, for better or worse. but all blacks can't say that and time can't change that.

What a question on WEB DUbois. I don't know. It is a great thought experiment.
The problem is DUbois died unlike his heyday. He was arguably a garveyite in his final years who was used as a tool by whites to get garvey out the usa when younger so... Dubois is tough.
I think to the point you mentioned, Dubois would dislike the modern complaint culture in the black populace in usa , simply because black people have been doing it for 250 years, alongside, trying everything from elected officials to starting businessess and never able to really get the majority of black people in a positive place.
Good enigmatic quesiton. I don't know what tribe dubois would be in modernity.

It is funny, the creation of the constitution holds the problem to categorization in the usa.
The constitution seems to only suggest the human race, but the reality of the usa by the very person who wrote it is against that notion. And even though I know people of all racial types [phenotype/age/religion/or others ]who are done with categorizing , like yourself, i also know people who are proud categorizers of all said racial types as well...
Maybe the answer is for a country to start one day that doesn't merely have the words of the constitution but is peopled by people who actually believe in unbiased humanity, a kind of universal individualism.

I saw a thing called asian 30 or something like that, and an actor, indian /of india descent. he said, i quote, he knows there are many in the usa who will never consider him american. Andh here is someone whose parents willingly came to the usa, has earned millions in hollywood, and admits that no matter what he does, there are those who will never consider the usa his home. I think it sums up the challenges of the future at least.
In my head maybe the states identity has to return,... before the war between the states people in the usa considered themselves of the states they lived in , not american. So, maybe that will return.

@ProfD
I fortunately plus unfortunately have traveled quite a bit and i know modern haiti isn't for me, I know too many haitians, even if modern haiti were to turn around financially,, turn around greatly, it isn't for me. But I would be very happy for the legacy of the Haiti of yore.



05/30/2026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12742-favourite-black-intellectuals/#findComment-81723
@Troy

I am not going to answer your question outside of the following.
I am stateless and think what you will

@aka Contrarian

like the romani in europe, the okinawans in japan,the nuba in egypt/kemet, many peoples spend so long abused by a larger populace, more potent group that their being dominated becomes a heritage. What Pioneer said led me to realize the key to when this happened, was 1865.
From 1492 to 1865 no black person could say the usa was better than canada or mexico , either they were equal to the usa, Or after england banned enslavement or mexico banned enslavement ala jonas caballo, both canada or mexico made slavery illegal while slavery was still legal in the usa. Then from 1865 to 1980 the black wife was still shackled by the white mate, but he spent time explaining why she was enslaved/ alal the prison system + sharecropping+ absent government funding for anything. But in the 1865 time, before and after was key.
As henry louis gates jr admited, the black church pondered whether to use violence or nonviolence. I am still trying to find out this meeting and vote, but from what he says, by one vote, nonviolence won and , i argue the rest is history. Pioneer says what country is better, but while modernity, 2026 can argue the usa is better, in the 1800s, the usa wasn't better for black people than any other country. So black leaders embracing the usa as a home was not based on laws or finance, but hope or faith. And sadly, black people, the black wife, paid for that gamble with modernity, consequences.
@Pioneer1
thankyou for your prose, You expose a key point in black history in the usa, and how black people are to blame for the current condition en large in the usa.
I think aka is correct. as Nina Simone said, black people are willing to march but not willing to die, she blamed malcolm/martin and others death on black people in the usa, saying they are willing to march but not die but you expose the source of that choice and it isn't whites but black people in the past.

05302026 MY ENLARGED
@Troy
I said I am stateless, whatever you are thinking, please think it. but the only answer i give to your query is i am stateless, as I comprehend being stateless.
@aka Contrarian
In the usa, from 1492 to 1865 it was because the white mate had the black wife chained/enslaved. A wife by force of male arms , chained to the bed, she can't go anywhere.
From 1865 to 1980 was a critical time. That time dictated the wife today. From 1865 to 1965 the white mate kept the chain on by force of arms but made up rules justifying it to the mate. From 1965 to 1980, the white mate had kept the black wife chained so long, he started to let her off the chain but the years on the chain did their work. Many abused women after enough time accept the abuse without being policed or forced in the house.
From 1980 to 2026/modernity your description is a good summary for blacks in the usa , simply because, from 1492 to 2026 the usa has been a terror for 95% of black people by no fault of their own while a fault of the environment of the usa or the european colonies that precede it that are white controlled.
If you look at okinawans / the romani or gypsies, many peoples on earth who have been enslaved to a more dominant populace for centuries , no longer need to be cghained to remain in the house so to speak. Look at NAtive Americans in the usa . No people are more stateless or abused than native americans in the usa. Most people in the usa literally go to school hearing how native americans were in these lands beofre anyone else and were opposed to the european colonies or the usa in majority and yet, most people act like the native american was praying for the constitution and amultiracial society of peoples from around the world. so... it happens.
James Forten , again, he fought alongside george washignton, ablack business owner, who could not be ignorant that 99% of black people in the usa were enslaved, and would still be enslaved if the usa was created. And yet, he fought for the creation of the usa. so.. IF anything part of the wife's problem is a part of her body, a small part but very influential to her body, yearns to be controlled by her mate.

@Pioneer1

You know what is sad, and I wonder @aka Contrarian thoughts to the following...
Before the war between the states, started, Frederick Douglass and HArriet Tubman had a schism/problem. HArriet Tubman wanted Black people to go as far away from the usa as possible, to the then, frozen north of canada. But Douglass wanted black people to stay in the usa.
Now, comprehend this is before the war between the states. so Frederick Douglass literally wants black people to stay in a country where they are legally enslaved and not go to a country where they would not be legally enslaved.
Why am I saying this? First thank you for getting me to think on this. But, beyond that, you always talk about better options, but the Black people like frederick Douglass who publicly admitted, he didn't want black people freed from slavery in the usa to leave to canada or haiti or mexico or anywhere, even though he knew in haiti or canada or mexico for whatever poverty black freed people would face, , they would be legally free.
I think in cheap retrospect, it answers Aka Contrarians point about the abused wife. At the end of the day, in the 1800s white people in the usa, didn't want black people to leave. and all the leaders who supported staying in the usa in an integrated, and sequentially abusable way to whites: douglass/dubois the younger/booker t /ida b wells were supported by whites, and those who advocated leaving: garvey or segregation exodusters were hindered by whites to destroy their movements.
But, it leads to the truth, black leaders who supported black people remaining in the usa in the critical time circa 1865 , aided by whites, were able to get the largrer black populace to stay put even though in the 1800s no black person could argue betterment in the usa over canada or mexico or haiti or really anywhere else.
Yes, in modernity , 2026 , an argument can be made, but the black populace of today, reached today because in the past we didn't do what harriet tubman suggested and leave as much as possible outside the usa. And yes, she died in the usa, but she was an old woman whose family had chosen to settle in the usa, so she did.
But, yeah, you and many black people always speak of bette roptions but even when better options were available, in the late 1800s, black people advocated for staying in the usa.
The wife had an idea in her head absent merit but supported by the husband, that the house of the abusive white husband was no better than the neighbors even when the neighbors actually didn't have chains for her.
And, again, no one today can go back in the past, no one can. The past can not be changed. bUT again, the assessment of the past is wrong by many black people.
Black leadership simply failed Pioneer at a critical stage, late 1800s. I can use other peoples as my example.
The taiwanese real problem is chang kai check, fled to formosa, and instead of making a path to truly unite with head bowed to mao's china, he set up the idea that taiwan was the true continuity of china, even though he himself knew, that not to be true. Negative leadership has massive consequences for any people. When I look at the jucnture of africa/asia/europe, the middle east, i sea a horde of bad leaderhsip from external + internal agents. People long dead but the influence of what they did lingers.
Black people in the usa are living with the consequences of the choices of black leaderhsip in the mid to late 1800s.
So yes, arguably, Black DOSers have no better option financially , than the usa. in 2026, but better options existed in the past and black leaders, with white support, successfully made blacks en large choose wrong.
Thank you and Aka contrarian.
Going forward, I think as someone said in this forum, i forget who and paraphrase , that the modern black immigrant is the future of the black populace in the usa. In cheap retrospect i concur, because, Black DOSers are in a trap of their own making. Black DOS leaders, not all, but most, gambled our populace on the USA being something it will never be, being something black DOSers are willing to wait happily for, or work through all walls to reach. They chose poorly. But the modern black immigrants approach the usa as the whites and most others, a people who have never been enslaved, and willingly come to the usa. As the black populace mixes in itself, DOSers side modern immigrants and other blacks, it will create the change.
So all will be well, it will take time. and Blacl DOS heritage in the usa will combine with black modern immigrant to make a new black culture in the usa that will suit the usa better.


05312026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12742-favourite-black-intellectuals/#findComment-81728
@ProfD
Since you don't know all I can say is, keep that truth and the rest of your views. All I will say is I know and I differ.

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@ProfD
Black people in the 1800s knew of canada through simple communication as human beings, people gossip, even the enslaved, who were denied the right to write or read could still talk and overheard and gossiped and whispered. Again the one constant between black people who call the usa home is how most keep all their viewpoints of everythingt o justify their position in any way possible, like they are trying to convince it through.

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