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:Economic Corner 35 02/23/2026 DTSTAMP:20260223T205058Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:658-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n I remember when the slap happened and I told people. If I was in will smith's shoes I wouldn't had gone to the oscars and will not go to any awards shows after the slap. If I was in chris rock's shoes \, w ho was paid to come\, I wouldn't had made the insult/joke on jada pinkett smith and will not go to any awards shows after the slap. \n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n Michael B Jordan +Delroy Lindo + the black populace witnessing or on record somewhere had to suffer this modern insult from a white person. The white person with Tourette wants to be treated as if they are no differen t than anyone else\, but they are\, because if they didn't have tourette t hey would be considered unquestioningly rude. But because they have touret te's\, their rude actions are deemed allowable. rudeness is allowable with Tourettes ? if that is the standard for award shows then the wisest thing anyone can do going forward is not go or not watch if they don't want to be insulted. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n The reality is if the structure of awards shows continues as is\, their will always be slaps and insults in the fut ure. \n\n\n\n So what is the solution. Let's end the media function of aw ard shows. \n\n\n\n Why do award shows exist? they don't exist to give aw ards\, awards can be given privately from organizations to individuals. Aw ards shows exist to make money by having celebrities dress up for fashion designers and get sponsorship dollars for organizations while receiving aw ards\, which lead to clicks/views/ or similar. \n\n\n\n So\, going forwar d\, stop these award shows and just send people their awards privately. Wi th the internet winners can make videos and anyone can like comment or oth er\, and all manner of communication is allowed online. \n\n\n\n or embra ce the fact that the structure of award shows invites inappropriate behavi or inevitably. The idea that anyone can design a perfect show is foolish. I know some will be angry for some are addicted to media\, they need every thing to be a show. But\, I argue the polities is kept safer by getting ri d of the show\, keeping the awards\, and having people make videos for the ir win.\n\n\n\n Your Colleagues Don't Have To Clap \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n FR OM STEVEN BARNES of LIFEWRITING\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n BAFTAs\n\n\n\n ###\n\n\ n\n I've been asked about what happened at the BAFTAs. A man with Tourette 's yelled a word that cuts to the bone of Black experience in this country .\n\n\n\n Let me start here: I don't know what's in his heart. Neither do you. His condition means his brain grabbed a charged word and couldn't sto p it. That is real. That matters.\n\n\n\n But here's what I know for sure: That word landed in Black bodies. It landed in mine. And it landed in a m oment when Black people are under attack—politically\, legally\, socia lly—in ways that feel increasingly relentless.\n\n\n\n When the immediat e response becomes 'but he has a condition\,' what I hear is another reque st for Black people to set aside their pain so someone else's explanation can be centered. I am not interested in making that trade.\n\n\n\n I can h old two things at once:\n\n\n\n • The clinical reality of Tourette's.\n\ n\n\n • The historical and personal reality of that word's weight.\n\n\n \n I can extend compassion to a man whose body betrayed him\, without aski ng Black people to absorb yet another wound in silence.\n\n\n\n And I can refuse the false choice between 'he's a victim of his condition' and 'Blac k pain matters.' Both are true. Both deserve to be held.\n\n\n\n If you're hurting today\, I see you. I'm hurting too. And I will not ask you to per form forgiveness for anyone's comfort—including mine.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n My Reply\n\n\n\n Maybe it is time for award shows to stop and just give p eople their awards\, in that way\, no incidents at award shows is possible . \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n POST URL\n\n\n\n Award shows make money by promoting fashions or selling advertising/sponsorship space\, the giving of awards is only the teaser to the profit\, giving awards don't make money on their own. Money making can not coincide with everything else. To restate\, if you want an civil thoughtful courteousnes/place of a court\, that can not occur alongside fiscal capitalistic profiteering. Sooner or later\, or ine vitably\, fiscal capitalistic profiteering will lead to a lack of civlity or a lack of thoughtfulness\, from some human actors. \n\n\n\n https://aa lbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/\n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n PRIOR EDITION\n\n\n\n Economic Corner 34 02/20/2026 - RMCommunity Calendar - African American Literature Book Club\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n NEXT EDITION\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/664-economic-corner-36-0228 2026/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n #economiccorner #awardsshows #respect #awards #theslap #thenword #nigger #rmaalbc #aalbc #richardmurray #kobo #k wl #hddeviant #deviantart #richardmurrayhumblr #tumblr #blackartistoftumbl r \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 02232026\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Citation\n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @ProfD\n\n\n\n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said: \n\n\n\n The reason modern TVs are so cheap nowadays is due to the amount of money advertisers expect to make based on viewing habits.\n\n\n\n  \n\ n\n\n ... the modern fabrication capabilities\, which are the industrial b ackbone of the potent governemnts today have been built on\,\,.. i will no t go into it\, but financially\, people forget how important time is on gr owing systems of industry\, even if they are not seen. \n\n\n\n   1 hou r ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n That is why laws &\; police exist...to pr ovide order &\; protect &\; serve the interests of capitalists.\n\n\ n\n  \n\n\n\n I never knew any of that... i argue all of that is countera ble\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n A whole lot of cash money flows through Las Vegas. There is a reason the place has nev er been hijacked &\; taken over by armed guerillas. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ n when you the place? las vegas is a big city \, no big city in modern hum anity has been hijacked:) where do you live? and no big city in modernity has been taken over by armed guerillas\, where are you from?\n\n\n\n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n The same thing applies to the USA in gen eral.  Despite crime statistics &\; other ills in society\, the USA ha s never had reason to fear being 1) overthrown or 2) invaded.  \n\n\n\n \n\n well the war of 1812\, that was an invasion by the english empire and it had a chance to overthrow... where are you from? \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Fiscal capitalism benefits so man y people directly &\; indirectly that folks from all corners will rise up to protect &\; defend it.\n\n\n\n this is a lie based on statistics at any time in history. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @aka Contrarian so:) I guess you like the drama of award shows\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 02272026\n\n\n\n  \ n\n\n\n Citation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for- awards-shows-to-go-away/#findComment-80414\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @ProfD \n\n\n\n   13 hours ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n The craziest pa rt is the BAFTA is pre-recorded prior to broadcast. They edited out anythi ng political or &\; profane.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   13 hours ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Yet\, they did not edit out the supposed Tour ette's Syndrome outburst. The guy yells out n8gger when the show is dead s ilent &\; at the moment 2 Black actors are onstage.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n well\, the bafta's are live in england and with modern technology people w ill share the live edits\, I have only seen snippets\, which i imagine wer e recorded by people watching the live english telecast. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\ n\n The financial question going forward is with modern technology\, which allows anyone to record live performances and share them even before they are officially published elsewhere\, does editing video material matter a nymore? \n\n\n\n Any artist that makes a mistake on stage? any mishap in an award show? any recording session in a studio thought by someone privat e? can all be recorded by an individual and submitted to the internet and then it is out there. \n\n\n\n IS editing worth it? I comprehend lawsuits but... what can one really do to prevent exposure. BAFTA can't block the recordings online. No one can. Governments can't. The internet is too big a media space for that. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   13 hours ago\, ProfD sa id:\n\n\n\n Neither the guy nor BAFTA offered a real apology for the outbu rst. Black folks haven't demanded it.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n when you say blac k folks haven't demanded\, do you mean no black individuals? or a black or ganized body? I know many black individuals who want an apology\, but i do n't consider that a demand. But I also know some black folks who aren't co ncerned by it... so again\, a group can't demand when a group isn't of the same mind\n\n\n\n   13 hours ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Just another r eminder that we still have a long way to go when it comes to racism. Hope it is not being normalized &\; accepted.\n\n\n\n racism is eternal\, un less humans beings stop using first and last names\, racism will be foreve r. And as for bias\, negative or positive\, well they are eternal as well\ , unless some human beings stop favoring their children or stop disliking those who harmed them. \n\n\n\n I argue that the better line of thinking isn't in annihilating\, racism or bias\, but in cognizing how to utilize r acism/categorization/ranking more functionally\, more honestly\,  plus le arning how to handle biases\, negative or positive\, as they will occur in the future. \n\n\n\n Cause racism + bias\, negative or positive\, have a lways been and always will be common or normalized\, as humans are humans and while biases dictate what is accepted or not\, their weights change in time\, invariably. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 02272026\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Citat ion\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows- to-go-away/#findComment-80419\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @ProfD \n\n \n\n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n I believe editing is still wor thwhile despite any type of recording spillage.  The official recordings should be on point.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n hmm interesting\, I want to know mo re of your thinking on this issue. What does the editing do\, that I don't see? the unedited shows the truth\, what does the editing provide?\n\n\n\ n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Black folks need the same mechani sms Jews have when they accuse people of being antisemitic.\n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n hmm well\, from what I comprehend of the white jewish populace\, if a similarity organizationally is to be made\, then I argue the weakness is in one of three groups: Black Elephants/Republicans OR Nation of Islam OR the Black One percent. \n\n\n\n Why do I say this? \n\n\n\n The white je wish populace isn't one people really. They have three main tribes Reforme rs/Orthodox/Conservative... the Reformers literally have a statement sayin g\, none of the defining patterns of orthodoxy\, which means those who thi nk they are right\, as in the eastern orthodox christian church\, are nece ssary to be a reformer. Reform jews don't have to wear the cap\, don't hav e to speak yiddish\, don't have to do many things that people associate wi th judaism. But they do have a huge synogaogue downtown manhattan with man y rich white people what is my point. Reform judaism in my view\, is a tri be designed in the USA for the specific purpose of maintaining a jewish tr ibal culture\, absent demanding on individuals in it\, unlike orthodox or conservatives\, the rules of judaism. \n\n\n\n The orthodox\, the ones wh o wear the cap all the time\, women have the nun look and et cetera follow the religious code\, like the other religious extreme folk of christianit y or islam. They are hyper into israel\, whereas the reformers are neutral . The reformers love the usa\, have many female jews in their body\, unmar ried or et cetera\, which doesn't fit in orthodox jew circles\, which is d ominated by male jews. \n\n\n\n Then the conservative jews\, they are the old white european jewish families who who came to the usa throughout the years. They are the most embedded in white european anti jewish financial circles of money and power\, they tend to be the binder between the refor mers and orthodoxy who for obvious reasons don't get along all the time.  \n\n\n\n You say mechanicsms\, but the tribes is the variance. \n\n\n\n A ll three of the white jewish tribes in the usa have financial potency\, no t the same\, the reformers are the weatlhiest \, the conservatives have th e oldest money\, deepest connections\, the orthodox are the poorest but th rough the zionist movement have israel as a focal point and cradle for ort hodoxy to maintain. I argue\, if not for israel i think orthodox judaism w ould be in serious trouble\, population wise. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Whereas the Black DOSers \, first and foremost are not white so unlike white jews didn't spend the last two hundred and fifty years in business as a majori ty\, only since 1980 has a majority of black people been allowed to be par t of the marketplace in the usa. \n\n\n\n Second\, the tribes of DOSers a re many\, more populated and not the same. \n\n\n\n Black Christians- com monly called the Black church but again\, modernity has made it more compl icated. You have jehovahs witness\, where in the past\, the Black christia ns could be called the black church today... it is more complicated. \n\n \n\n Black Muslims- which because of the immigration act plus islams herit age is muddy.The nation of islam will never dominate black muslim life in the usa \, they had one chance and they failed. \n\n\n\n  My point being white jews have: fanatic religion/orthodox - religion in name only/reform - religion in secret- conservative. \n\n\n\n Black DOSers have many reli gious groups now\, so that simplicity is gone\, which hurts organizations.  \n\n\n\n Then of course you have the groups unique to Black DOSers and t heir experiences.\n\n\n\n Black Militants have always existed in the usa\, again\, every slave revolt is an action of black militants\, lived at the same time as James Forten. but militants don't want peace\, that is the p oint\, they want to destory the enemy of the blacks in the usa who without no doubt in history are the whites in the usa\, individuals be damned.\n\ n\n\n Black Individualist- primarily concerned financially\, they don't be lieve\, which is well earned again\, that black collective action will com e of anything. I can't say I concur to them\, but I can't deny they make a truthful point. Black collective action always gets underminded by whites in the usa\, to suggest some magic or learning strength needs to occur is an insult to truth. after five hundred years living side whites\, the pro of is in the history book. BElieve it or not. \n\n\n\n Black Integrationi sts\, whether they know it or not\, want the usa to be a place of interrac ial even peace\, going back to James Forten again. I get it. It is one of the most peaceful human stories. if you know anything about Zen \, the bla ck integrationist make sense. Zen says that all is nature and thus\, even the most negative actions are not unnatural and thus if  a black person w ants to live in a usa of legal equality with the non black \, even with kn owing the history that is fine. \n\n\n\n But the militant/individualist/i ntegrationist have no bridge between them. This isn't like the white jewis h trio\, they have serious differences of opinion. \n\n\n\n The white jew ish trio are not based on experiences in the usa. they differ on how they interpret judaism\, or the kind of lifestyles they lead\, but they don't d iffer in terms of how to relate to others. the Black tribes have more comp licated differences\, which means it is harder to get cohesive organizatio ns. \n\n\n\n I didn't even mention the Black Nationalist\, my little trib e. Not all black nationalist want to find a homeland\, like me. NAtionalis m isn't about demographic orders/rankings or militarism or finding a homel and. The NAzis for example were nationalist+militants+socialists three sep arate things that when together is interesting. \n\n\n\n I didn't mention the Black Elephants/Republicans or Black Donkeys/Democrats. Two big group s relatively\, who again\, they can't even organize with each other\, so h ow can they organize with other tribes? \n\n\n\n But the point being\, me chanisms require the tribes to be what they are not. Or for one tribe to p ut in serious work to make it so. \n\n\n\n I argue the best suited black tribes in the usa for such mechanisms are nation of islam/Black elephants{ or a section fo them}/Black one percent. \n\n\n\n The conservative white jewish tribe is the oldest money in the white jewish populace. The Black O ne percent \, again James Forten\, has always existed. Now\, many of them have intentionally whited their bloodlines\, ala getting poor whites to li terally mate with their children to start a process. Many of them don't ca re for each other. so they lack the cohesiveness\, but Profd\, you always talk about money\, and knowing so many grand strategies\, become rich and change the black one percent in the USA. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   1 hour a go\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Racism as a system does not have to be eternal .  It can be dismantled.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n well... that all depends on w hat a system is\n\n\n\n   1 hour ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Sure.  Hum an beings will have their biases.  It should never be used to oppress\, m align or mistreat others.\n\n\n\n biases by default are positive or negati ve\, both are eternal and by default a negative bias oppress/malign/mistre at/abuse another. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Thinking on @Pioneer1 query of cr itical race theory\, in my view\, the solution to bell's thesis is what pi oneer always talks about\, the law. Said law is how negative bias can be l etigated. It will always exist and always abuse\, by default\, the law can t' stop that .  but if laws can be worded very carefully and enforced wit h a true neutrality\, which humans can't do\, negative bias can be letigat ed against. \n\n\n\n As I said\, when you look at the usa historically\, the biggest problem in the jim crow era is the law\, but it isn't black pe ople breaking the law as some blacks erroneously\, say it is white people breaking the law. \n\n\n\n In that smithsonian branch\, they have an artw ork depecting the number of hangings\, but how does anyone know if that is true? \n\n\n\n If you start from the thefts of our forebears: every sing le white person in the usa\, or wherever black people were sent to in the american continent or asia or europe was aiding or abetting\, a crime of r ape/torture/enslavement/assault . Now\, some can argue\, all of that was l egal\, albeit criminal but once the 13th amendment was implemented. Every single black person hanged/burned alive/raped/attacked on the road by whit es\, every black person's home that was vandalized by whites/ every black person harassed while voting by whites\, every black person attacked in a school by whites/ every black person abused by white law enforcers[miranda rights]\, every black person abused by white jailors[not given food\, not given clothes] were all illegalities. But what percentage of white terror against innocent law abiding black people went to court? I bet less than one percent. So\, the law is the only tool in the usa to make those who co mmit  negative bias pay for the act\, not stop the acts\, cause humans ar e human\, but pay for the acts. But\, again\, Trayvon martin  kills that path. Emmit till killed it\, but people can consider that the pass... \n\ n\n\n The usa doesn't have the legal framework to enforce law enough to ma ke negative biasers pay\, evenly. \n\n\n\n Now maybe wealthy black dosers can pay for legal fees but how many crimes against black people still don 't go to court today? that is a huge financial expense and Black One PErce nt are very addicted to revenue return\, the idea of investing in court ca ses that return no money is not appealing to them\, but Profd there is it\ , get rich and change them .  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 02282026\n\n\n\n  \n\ n\n\n Citation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-aw ards-shows-to-go-away/#findComment-80443\n\n\n\n sted just now\n\n\n\n @P rofD \n\n\n\n you said\n\n\n\n   On 2/27/2026 at 12:58 PM\, richardmu rray said:\n\n\n\n Black folks need the same mechanisms Jews have when th ey accuse people of being antisemitic.\n\n\n\n I provided in the following comment an answer on how blacks in the usa need to change to can get the type of mechanisms you give as example organizations : B'nai B'rith &\ ; Anti-Defamation League &\; Jewish Defense League. \n\n\n\n https://a albc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/#findComme nt-80419\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n then you state\n\n\n\n   On 2/27/2026 at 2:3 1 PM\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Regardless of how Jews are subdivided\n\n\n\n You reply to my comment with a discarding of my comments point\, solution s/answers... things don't get better or worse by magic\, they have process es\, the future is made in the past\, inevitabilities in the future stem f rom choices in the past. \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260223 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR