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A Father's Day Solstice
I love my father. And while I will not tell a personal story, for those are for me to know and enjoy [ though I admit I have written many things about my father or mother in my work]. When I think of my father and why my mother loves him so much, it is a line from the film, First Knight, when Guinevere was asked why she loved Arthur, her answer simulated what my mother said about my father.
It is the way he wields power so gently.
Thinking of my parents fathers, I can see why my father has his natural temperament, besides the temperament he was raised to have. When I think of my parents fathers I can see where I get my own natural temperament , and I am thankful for my father's specific guidance on the temperament of a male.
Thinking of my parents parents fathers, I only know of half of them. The fiscal poverty of black people from the late eighteen hundred or early nineteen hundreds has a role to play in their exposure to modernity. But from what I can gather, the half of my parents parents fathers I don't know were Black men who worked all their lives , living with the financial legacy of enslavement to Non Blacks , in an environment controlled by non black people infatuated with making black life challenging. To the half of my parents parents fathers I know of, they each had a more financially fortunate stock, oddly based on non Black patronage , what I tend to call the Black one percent.
And for those who may know, those whose spirits fly free are never gone for we have the gift of memory, where we can feel the past , in the present, whenever we want.
I searched my public gallery for father's day and father work. I think an artist with years of work in their public gallery should be able to highlight any artwork for any occasion. I choose the following two works as most representing Father's for father's day. Tell me what you think. I have them below if you don't want to go anywhere.
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Dawanga-1015908954
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Henda-jr-and-the-Highest-Striker-1116366320
the search returns
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The June Solstice is between June 20th and June 22nd , in 2020, is on the 20th, it will be in the moment 5:43 PM on Saturday 
 In the northern hemisphere summer begin, in the  southern hemisphere winter begin. 
 The sun will appear to be at its highest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere, the lowest point in the sky in the southern hemisphere. 
 In parallel, during the December solstice, in the northern hemisphere it begins winter, in the southern hemipshere summer 
 The sun will appear to be at its lowest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere , while the highest in the southern hemisphere  
EQuinox, the path of the sun crosses the equator of earth extended out into space or the celestial equator.  
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STORY 1
 

It is a day all the green blooded know well. It is when the light shine highest above for those who live above earth’s waist. A sunflower look up and wonder what it’ s life will be.
 

Will it get to grow old and watch seedlings make good on their journey or will it be other. It can not be certain. Suddenly, it feel torn from the earth. Someone blindsided it. The sunflower yell out, who.
The rapist turn it and give a smile. The sunflower is not amuse. The rapist place the sunflower in a glass basket. The flower protest to no reply, after being walked around by this abuser, for a seeming eternity. Then the sunflower is present to a human woman.
 

The human woman is not happy at the first encounter, the sunflower is not either. What does this human want with me, it thought? The human woman eventually accept the imprison sunflower, calling it beautiful. The sunflower notice the light off her face and recall stories from the butterflies about the sides of mountain ranges on clear days. The butterflies said to the sunflowers, if you ever see a glint of light brighter than the sun off a mountain, that glint is the sign of a mountain in love. It makes a glint so that the mountain it is in love with can notice.  
One butterfly said she saw another mountain reply under a deep blue clear sky, a brown mountain, glittering with various minerals, made two glints in reply. The butterfly said it crossed a big ocean to see this. When a sunflower asked, how can the mountains meet, what babies can they make? The butterfly said, they meet through the distance. Mountains are so sensitive they can make connections across great distance and as for children. They ask a midwife, usually a volcanic mountain, to take their love in the earth’s blood and make a new mountain for them. The sunflower thinking on the oldest mountain clans stopped as it notice it is alone in a human kitchen. It enjoy facing the sun, highest in the sky. Suddenly, someone turn it to face them.  
 

The sunflower is not amuse. But when the interloper smile the sunflower remind itself to what a mountain lion said. A mountain lion said it was chasing wild sheep one time. A beautiful baby black sheep was separated from the pack and facing the mountain lion went off a cliff. The baby sheep fell in mud. And had so much fun it was smiling and giggling, not noticing the mountain lion, smacking its lips. The mountain lion checked the ground to make sure it evaded the mud, for slippage or a loose area. When the mountain lion made a run for the meal, some mud reached out from the ground and smacked it. The mountain lion realized the mud had become the protector, the skin, of the black sheep. A beautiful powerful skin that can not be defeated easily. And the mountain lion left. The sunflower thought on the location of that sheep and its clan, who put on the mud, distinguishing them from other black sheep. But, a discussion between the two human women broke the sunflower’s train of thinking.  
The human woman it was given to is upset with the interloper, and point to her watch. The interloper make some gesture of hands, sunflowers never comprehend human movement. Suddenly, the interloper grab the sunflower, the sunflower tell her to stop. The sunflower want more sun. But the interloper does not heed her. And, she carries the Sunflower about for a seeming eternity. The sunflower dour mood was interrupted by a sudden feeling. The ebbing sun, it ask the woman to turn it to the sun, but to no avail. The sunflower is turn to a woman, the ebbing sunlight crowning her head.
 

The sunflower is too angry to speak. But the waiting woman is gentle and give the sunflower a kiss. The kiss is so wet or succulent, it remind the sunflower to a story a baby snake told. The baby snake said it grew up around a brown river, brown since ancient times. After the baby snake was born it was told by mama snake to make its way in the world, crossing the brown river. Mama snake told all her babies, trust the river, it is our clans friend. The baby snake trusted naturally and went on its journey. A wicked fox, notice the baby snake, and leap from the green to pounce. Luckily the baby snake was close enough to other green to slip through the fox’s paw. The fox did not give up and leap into the ancient brown river after the baby snake. The baby snake remember the chant mama snake always sang while she was pregnant.  
“G⁠r⁠e⁠a⁠t⁠ ⁠a⁠n⁠c⁠i⁠e⁠n⁠t⁠ ⁠b⁠r⁠o⁠w⁠n⁠ ⁠r⁠i⁠v⁠e⁠r⁠,⁠ ⁠p⁠r⁠o⁠te⁠c⁠t⁠ ⁠me⁠,⁠ ⁠li⁠k⁠e⁠ ⁠m⁠y⁠ ⁠a⁠n⁠c⁠e⁠s⁠t⁠o⁠r⁠,⁠ ⁠First⁠ ⁠s⁠na⁠k⁠e⁠.” And the ancient brown river, swirled the fox who leap out after, and the baby snake go through the river gaining a brown color that it has ever after, a power gain through the ancient river’s kiss.
The two face the sunflower to the sunlight off the moon which waken the sunflower from memory. And the sunflower relax having one high flying day.
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An old sunflower, waken with the high sunlight.
It know that today is the day the prisoner of the light is allowed to exit her prison. The sunflower watch as the prisoner take full form over a pool of water. The prisoner look at her reflection in the pool.
The woman pull down and off her 1960s miniskirt, place the love beads gently on top, and run. The sunflower watch her leave out of sight, and retain the view to the sun. The woman run to the shore, smelling the great sea. Noticing the coast after two mile, she keep going, knowing time is of the essence. She stop on the edge of the land, the sea fronting her.
She dive into the water and swim, going farther and farther south. She inhumanely, go to depths where the sea greens grow large or free from human involvement. She search for something in the green sea.
Searching and searching, knowing time is not on her side. She suddenly swim to a place and take something from the sea. She swims northward and northward to the substrate of sky plus sea. A small boat, a lone fisherman, see the female. She does not move but the man seem pleasant and greet her in a human language she know. She wait and the boat arrive. The fisherman help her out the ocean. He is very old and say, he always prepare to meet a mermaid. He hand her a red dress and she smile at him, but say nothing. She point to the shore and he comprehend. While on the way, he tell her that none of his drink mates will believe he met a real mermaid, and she smile. When they reach the shore, he tell her to be safe, while he go back out to catch a late fish. He promise to come by this coast when he is done to make sure she is safe. The woman take a lock of her hair and give it to the fisherman who smile. After the fisherman is out of sight, she sit and open up what she find in the green sea. It is a book and she read as the sun go to setting.
Before the Sun finish setting she run back to the pool, and grab her other clothes and love bead necklace, with tears rolling down her face and a bright smile.
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@Pioneer1
you asked the following
Are Things Better Today Than 40 or 50 Years Ago? and then you added specificity to your question with the folllowing
How many of you think the OVER ALL financial and social conditions in the United States....especially for AfroAmericans...are better today than they were in the 70s or 80s? Whether you say yes or no, please state your reasons

My reply

I have to beak up your question into parts.
PArt one, is the financial condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today?
Part two, is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today?

PArt 1 is a strict financial assessment. I argue the answer is no. But the why is fully supported.
The first element that has to be answered with part 1 is , what is the financial condition of the black populace in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it?
To answer the question just mentioned you have to ask, what was the first financial condition? The first financial condition matters for financial status isn't based on current scenarioes most of the time. The easiest example is white european wealth in the usa. JP Morgan is a bank in existence today, not because of the 1900s but because of 1492. why? jp morgans biggest accounts were from enslavers. Enslavers largess in profits didn't come from sales but came from the acquisition on land absent market rate or legal conditions, plus not having to pay an even wage and better, below market rate. Unionized labor is most expensive. But, competitive wage labor is second/like european serfs. But, enslaved labor saves money on serfs and non unionized labor. That largess in wealth allowed jp morgan to thrive and invest in other things. It all stemmed from clients whom never had to pay for land or pay any decent amount for workers.
Financially, what is enslavement? Enslavement is a condition of complete financial absence. No revenue, no debt, no anything.
So, from 1492 to 1776 in the european colonies, ninety nine percent of black people had complete financial absence. No inheritance could be given to the future, and they couldn't do any fiscal activity while alive. Now why did I say ninetey nine percent, James Forten, a real black man with a successful business in philadelp[hia before or after the colonies of england ceded from the english empire existed. one percent of black people actually were business owners , even while the law of the land was to not allow black people the status of human.
Now from 1776 to 1865 enslavement of blacks to whites was legal at the federal level, thus enslavement had no financial change from the creation of the usa.
So, from 1492 to 1865 99% of black people in the colonies that became the united states of america or the united states of america itself, had complete financial absence, no bank account, no money, no inheritance, no financial value earned or provided or shared or saved.
No in 1865 the war between the states occured and the federal government says black people are citizens. But, two things occur simultaneously. First, the white populace in each state in the union, [mirrored by the growth of the original klu klux klan, which inspired the creation of the federal bureau of investigation] worked to destroy positive black financial activity. Second, the federal government chose to allow whites to terrorize black people , allowed whites to commit illegalities plus crimes against black people in each of the states. The end of reconstruction when the army left the south [which would be reintroduced in the 1960s ] is the general image of this time, in every state in the union, the white populace couldn't or didn't deny black people were citizens, but were allowed to terrorize black people using any method to stop positive financial activity.
What is Jim Crow financially, Jim Crow is the maintenance of the financial condition of blacks enslaved to whites before the 13th amendment across the united states of america , by each white populace in each state in the union acting against black people, thus not legally enslaving blacks but creating a complete environment across the usa by having each state be the same way, all at the allowance of the federal government.
And so Jim Crow has difference histories for each state in the union.
In Mississippi or Louisiana or South Carolina or Georgia or similar , Whites had to first burn or hang black people through straight terror to force black populaces to be small enough for a white majority to control. Then after that the white populaces in each state used state law or governance to herd black people into prison for open end terms based on any crime they wanted to rebuild the state, maintain white land owners labor base by manipulating law until black laborers are indebted to white land owners forever, and delete financial profitability of black towns like rosewood florida or black regions of cities like greenville in tulsa by white terror , regardless of the black town or black regions financial profitability. Thus today, many and I argue the land to most black towns is owned by whites. Jim Crow ended in the 1970s, because of the civil rights act. Which I argue the federal government did to curtail the financial condition of all the states, who in 1965 were all dominated by white people and in particular white christian males. From 1965 to 1980, enough of the states financially changed to allow financial participation of blacks in them.
Madam CJ Walker for Jim Crow proves like JAmes Forten for Enslavement that a one percent of black people existed as successful, revenue earning, business owners.
New York, California, oddly enough even Texas, or similar allowed for Black financial participation for the ninety nine percent of black people in said states for the first time in 1980.
But, Mississippi, Alabama, Vermont, Alaska, Nevada, and most others states in the usa in the gregorian year nineteen hundred and eighty had no financial allowance for ninety nine percent of black people in said states.
So, from 1492 to 1980 , black people in the usa , circa ninety five percent, were denied financial ability, not merely opportunity but ability. It wasn't like 99% of blacks were financially able, 99% of blacks were financially disabled through white power.
Now, you asked forty to fifty years ago. So, from 1980 to 2026 is the time you ask whether is better or worse financially.
I argue no, because of the financial legacy of the black populace. Ten percent of the black populace in the usa today is financially better off but the problem is the negative financial legacy that Black DOSers carry.
1492 to 1980 isn't zero, it is negative.
[White Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (White Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if White Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1]
in paralell
[Black Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (Black Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if Black Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1*(white value)]
So a majority of Black people circa 90% have a highly negative financial legacy from their bloodlines past. That is not easily overcome.
But to your question, nothing has changed financially, because the overwhelming majority of black people, from the many small impoverished black towns in the former confederate states, to the fiscally poor black segments of white cities in the north or west or midwest, I argue havent changed as they are as financially unable, less than opportune, as their enslaved forebears.
No inheritance given to them from the past, no money earned in their life, no bank account, no inhertiance able to be provided to any in the future. That is financial absence.
Now, to specifics, Black DOSers are the largest black populace in the usa. They reflect the mentioned financially reality.
Black Willing immigrants are split between pre civil rights act 1965 and post civil rights act 1965.
Marcus Garvey was an immigrant from the british territory of Jamaica, but he didn't present himself as a jamaican american, he presented himself as a black american. Why od I say this? Before the immigration act of 1968, Black willing immigrants to the usa, didn't see themselves as from country over black, they saw themselves as Black over from some country.
The black willing immigrants pre immigration act, melded into the Black DOS populace as Black peoples. What is the point? financially, willing black immigrants before 1960s immigration act, didn't act isolated from the Black DOS populace. so in my view it is a financial fusion.
Now, after the immigration act in he 1960s, black willing immigrant populaces are defined by the country they come from.
Black jamaicans, black nigerians, black indians, and more. Why does this matter?
First, willing black immigrants post 1960s immigration act are financially broken up between their countries of origin. So, the financial condition of the black populace in the usa, in modernity, has to be viewed as a set of groups each with their own financial situation.
DOSers+ each of the country based black populaces have their own financial condition.
Now anyone can ask, how to merge the financials of the black populaces in the usa... that will require the black populaces to make a concerted effort to do that. SOme in the 1960s worked on that , but again, white terror tooks it toll. as it did daily to 1492.
My final point is,
while the majority of black people in the usa, have the same financial condition as their enslaved forebears , as their jim crowed forebears did, the black one percent, from james forten through madame cj walker [who had her own brownstone designed and built by a black architect, as well as her home upstate new york state,, ] to the oprah winfrey's/byron allen's or others., the Black one percent has grown their wealth tremendously from 1980 to 2026. The black one percent is very wealthy and financially safe and has i argue the largest wealth gap, larger than fiscally rich whites to fiscally poor whites.

So the ninety nine percent of the black completely enslaved populace from 1492 to 1865 became the black jim crowed ninetry five percent from 1865 to 1980 and turned into the historically fiscally impoverished ninety percent from 1980 to today.
But the black one percent in the totally enslaved days from 1492 to 1865 became the wealthy five percent during jim crow from 1865 to 1980 which is not the ten percent black fiscal elite from 1980 to 2026.

Your second question is
the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today?

First, socio means a common brotherhood , but is used to refer to an overall human condition. And my answer is , Yes.
While financially the history of Black people in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it has three parts: Enslavement 1492 to 1865, Jim Crow 1865 to 1980, Multiracial USA 1980 to today. the birth of the usa mean nothing, the civil rights act means nothing, the world wars means nothing. many of the events that people of all phenotypes, deem relevant had no financial value to the majority of black people in the usa because of white terror.
Socially, the human condition of Blacks in the usa has gotten better in regions . For example, in massachusetts, the black populace has an exponential curve over time with positive relations to whites. the confederate states is exponential but aat far less growth or intensity.
Social improvmenet isn't about money but treatment. How is a black person treated in the united states of america, a white country? It has een exponential.

IN CONCLUSION, financially, the overwhelming majority of blacks havent changed in the united states over all . Financially, an extreme minority of blacks over the past forty years have grown in wealth tremendously, and have created the biggest gap between the fiscal poor of their own populace. Said extreme minority hasn't grown in populace exponentially, but ther wealth has.
Socially, gardless of financial condition, it has been a slow growth. In opposition to the financial terror white people placed on black people, the social patchwork of whites have made zones of decency for black people to live variably in the usa in parallel, not changing the financial condition but the social condition.
Where from 1492 to 1980 the patchwork predominated. Mississippi isn't california, Louisiana isn't New York. from 1980 to today, as the usa has become a multiracial country financially with enough non white european christian male wealth in it, to have a fiscally wealthy populace that has representation across the human spectrum, the social condition has grown dramatically. And it is clear for all to see, the usa has competing populaces over the future identity of the usa. IT hasn't gotten violent or in aclear tribal multivide , yet but it is headed that way, unless something can preoccupy all groups to each groups benefit. But I don't see that or comprehend that on the near horizon.

Post SCript
When many people talk about the united states of america today, they forget that the usa was always multiracial in the population, but never multiracial in who ruled. white rules, christian rules, male rules,heterosexual rules, immigrant rules. And no matter what non whites like black folk, non christians like muslims , non males like woman, non heterosexuals like homosexuals , non immigrants like first peoples did, whether success of failure , they acted under white, christian, male, heteroseuxal, immigrant power.
But, in the near fifty years since nineteen hundred and eighty, the multiracial growht among the fiscally wealthy has pushed the question of identity. A majoriy of fiscally poor whites who have a five hundred year heritage of winning over others, absent merit , using terror, want to do it one more time. to non christians, women, blacks, recent immigrants, the native american. The problem is, the culture the usa used to defeat the soviet union in the media front was more costly than many whites realized. The cold war has been done for circa thrity years but women aren't going back to the kitchen, blacks to the fields, immigrants to their countries, homosexuals to the shadows all for the white power community to have its place of domiannce as in the past.


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