BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First USA 250 year dialog 01/06/2026 DTSTAMP:20260106T180029Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:625-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n The following is the first dialog to the USA's 250 year a nniversary and it goes back to my elemental issues with alot of the discou rse. The USA is over three hundred and fifty million people. who are not f riends or allies\, not from accident\, based on the erratic or dysfunction al way the peoples of the USA were molded together in the first place. \n \n\n\n The ancestors to the modern indigenous never wanted the USA to be. This is why those of them who were able to fight in majority fought agains t the creation of the USA as well as supported a reclaiming of the USA by the english empire during the war of 1812.\, \n\n\n\n The ancestors to th e modern Descended of enslaved never wanted the USA to be. This is why tho se of them who were able to fight in majority fought against the creation of the USA as well as supported a reclaiming of the USA by the english emp ire in the war of 1812.\n\n\n\n The ancestors to the modern descendend of White european colonist were split. Half wanted to stay in the english emp ire. Most fiscally wealthy members never fought at all. The Signers of the declaration were all fiscally wealthy but most of their peers never fough t at all. \n\n\n\n The continuous waves of immigrants\, legally or illega lly\, enslaved or freely\, from anywhere on earth\, each had to deal with being rejected/abused/enslaved/harmed by those already in the usa until th e violence was quelled by whatever means and they had to be accepted as pa rt of the usa fabric by those in the usa enslaving/abusing/harming them.  \n\n\n\n So the peoples in the USA are a chaotic gumbo\, where the parts n ever melt into each other but stick out all over the place making a foul s melling stew. \n\n\n\n But people in the usa\, starting with those of whi te european descent keep speaking of their wants\, their particular subpop ulaces wants as if all the other subpopulaces in the usa are supposed to b e guided by white european desires. \n\n\n\n And so looking back at two h undred and fifty years of USA history becomes very negative by default bec ause all communities have to deal with realities that they spit on in mode rnity. \n\n\n\n The only thing potentially positive about the USA for all in it is tomorrow\, not the past\, not the present\, never the past\, nev er the present. \n\n\n\n But in honoring 250 years\, the whole point is h onoring the past or the present\, which is not positive for all. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n COMMENT TO ME\n\n\n\n @richardmurrayaalbcassist7279 the menti on of how the Indians weren't consulted during the negotiations for the Tr eaty of Paris is the most telling of all. He did a very good job telling o f the Revolutionary War as the first Civil War... and actually does a grea t job setting the stage for WHY there would be a second (not slavery) but the constant deference to all things black and Indian was laughably biased and tiresome. There is a reason 99.9% of WWII material does not talk abou t North Africa or the Italy campaign\, even if it factually did happen and did end in countless lives lost.\n\n\n\n MY REPLY\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @ral phalf5897  ok it is 2026\, the usa will be 250 years old\, in under a yea rs time. Many peoples will speak of the USA governments history. Many narr atives will be presented. None will be universally liked or accepted. I re peat\, NONE will be UNIVERSALLY liked or accepted. The question is what wo uld had satisfied you? I like Ken Burns 2025 what I call American Rebellio n series. Others like his commonly called 2026 American Revolution series. So\, those who liked the series are content. But for those that didn't ca re for it\, like yourself\, the question is\, what needed to happen to shu t up your complaints? Now\, was the program my ideal? no. I think the time simply isn't enough. You have to cut out from anything you want to talk a bout with only twelve hours. I wanted more about the indigenous peoples\, more about the french and germans\, more about the loyalists. I even wante d more about the signers of the declaration. But\, the time meant cuts had to be made. Even if Burns had decided to do as your comment suggest and t alk only about the white men who owned black people\, the fifty six signed of the declaration. With six days \, two hours each day\, that is twelve hours. Now fifty six delegates signed the declaration of independence so t hat leaves twelve minutes per delegate for the time in the show. This does n't consider handling the time line of events\, like before the rebelion\, during the rebellion\, after the rebellion. Again\, to your pleasure\, if only the signers are discussed \, the show will not include any non white europeans or those not of white european descent or females. So if Burns had given twelve minutes to each signers of the declaration would that had made you content? yes or no? For the record\, I would despise that format \, but I would accept it positively. History telling always has biases\, p ositive or negative. ANyone who doesn't know that is immature. The history books most like have the positive biases we want\, the history books most don't like have the negative biases we don't want. The reason why most hi story is written poorly is merely from the negative biases of the people w ho wrote it\, it is that simple.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n The AMERICAN REVOLUTIO N SERIES\, TRANSCRIPTED IF YOU CANT VIEW\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/even ts/event/587-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-1/\n\n\n\n ht tps://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/588-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentar y-episode-2/\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/589-the-american-re volution-pbs-documentary-episode-3/\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/ev ent/590-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-4/\n\n\n\n https:/ /aalbc.com/tc/events/event/591-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-epi sode-5/\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/592-the-american-revolut ion-pbs-documentary-episode-6/\n\n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260106 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR