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:Black History Month 2026 end DTSTAMP:20260301T023059Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:663-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n WHO ARE THE BLACK TRIBES?\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Pioneer has a post\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12557-my-tribe-vs-yo-tribe/\n\n\ n\n  \n\n\n\n MY COMMENT\n\n\n\n Posted just now\n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n @P ioneer1\n\n\n\n  Ending black history month with thoughtfulness:) hope #b lack327 is very eventful \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n I have confused you. \n\n\n \n Black Americans is the root\, these are all black peoples in the usa\, gardless of ancestry\, language\, religion\, this is all about the skin.  \n\n\n\n Black Americans in the USA today is composed of two main groups\, populaces not tribes. \n\n\n\n Black DOSers- descended of enslaved black folk which also includes those who willingly immigrated into the usa befo re the 1960s\,  like MArcus Garvey for example\n\n\n\n + \n\n\n\n Black modern immigrants - black people who willingly immigrated to the usa when Blacks achieved in the USA complete legal federal recognition which was wi th the Civil Rights Act of  immigration act of 1964 and who came after th e immigration act of 1965.  Yes\, black people did freely immigrate into the USA before 1964 or 1965 but before then the federal legal rights of Bl ack people in the usa were simply not in any way even to whites. Now state s laws would take time to change but by the end of the jim crow era\, 1980 \, they did. \n\n\n\n Black Modern immigrants tribes are based on the cou ntries they come from: jamaican/panamanian/south african/nigerian/indian/b rasilian either their country is majority black and so they come from a tr ibe in their country of their country has a name for the black minority.  \n\n\n\n Black DOSers have three tribes from the creation of the USA  and none are based on geography \, all are based on a philosophy toward the u sa or the whites in it. \n\n\n\n Black Statians are black people who embr ace the USA as their home\, gardless of whites activity\, gardless of the historic reality\, gardless of most black peoples views towards the usa or the whites in it. . James Forten for example. WAs a businessman\, fought for the USA\, was a prisoner of war\, and all of this is while over 90% of black people in the colonies were completely enslaved\, and most who got freedom fought against the USA\, yet he held firm. Black Statians are not about being in the majority\, it is about the usa as their home \, gardles s of anything else. \n\n\n\n Black Militants - I want to say a caveat\, m ilitancy is really about wanting to go to war. But Black Militants are rea lly about trust. Black Militants don't trust/will never trust the usa or w hites of the usa and want the earned revenge. Now the earliest black milit ants fought for the english\, whites\, not because they trust whites\, but because they distrust white statians the most\, and want revenge. \n\n\n \n Black Freefolk- I use this term because\, what many people don't seem t o comprehend is when the USA was founded\, over ninety percent of black pe ople were enslaved to whites. What does that mean? That means when the USA was founded over ninety percent of blacks\, had no allegiance or caring f or the USA or for whites\, so they weren't statians\, even though many of them them or most their lineage would only know the usa as a home\, it had no connection to them. But they weren't militants. Yes\, they hated white s but they didn't want revenge\, they only wanted away from whites. All th ey wanted was to be as far away from the colonies or the later USA or whit e people as possible. In them you find the back to africa movement\, which at is heart to trying to get black people as far away from whites or the usa. Their influence is what made in combination side black statians the e xoduster movement\, which at its heart is an agreement between black stati ans + black freefolk. Essentially\, one group says they embrace the usa\, the other group says\, they want as far away from the usa or the whites in it. So the middle ground is places as far away from whites in the usa. Th e problem is\, white people historically\, don't like black people to be u ndisturbed by whites wherever we live. whether an urban black region or a black town\, whites have a heritage of negative meddling with blacks. Anot her subtribe for the the black freefolk are those Leaving the USA [which for the record always goes on among black DOSers every year\, yes it has n ever bee n a majority act but people forget whites historically hated blac k people who spoke of leaving the usa. From most whites perspectives\, his toorically\, they wanted black people to embrace being enslaved as a posit ive\, for white financial betterment... ]. Another subtribe are black indi vidualism. It makes sense to me. how Black people descended from enslaved people who had nothing to do with the creation of the usa and were descend ed from people who wanted nothing to do with the usa or the white people i n it would see themselves as individuals. Embracing a hard truth that\, th e usa is nothing to them \, but since fate has placed them here\, they jus t live\, not because they are comfortable or love whites\, but simply beca use like the ninety percent of our forebears enslaved in the usa when it w as founded \, they have no where to go or nothing to be apart communally. The slave quarter isn't a communal zone\, it is pig pen for humans\, so if the usa is merely  a huge pig pen in a black person's mind\, they why sh ould they think communally. \n\n\n\n \n\n For me\, I don't know either of you well enough to be sure of anything . But based on communications in t his forum\, I think\, cynique like yourself are Black Statians\, the tribe in the populace of Black DOSers.   Both of you embrace the USA. \n\n\n \n You pioneer seem to have an exoduster mentality. You embrace the usa\, part of you loves it. But what you want for its future is black solidarity + safety in the usa\, not as indiivduals in a hyper mixed brew but in spe cific locals. It isn't impossible\, to reach what you want. Nothing is eas y. \n\n\n\n Cynique it seems\, has a James Forten philosophy. She embrace s not only the usa but the idea its white enslaving founders suggested \, a country of humans\, individuals who embrace the idea that each individua l should be treated equally. Frederick Douglass/MLK jr/Barrack Obama all l ive their lives with this idea\, started from James Forten's or similars e xample. Arguably\, Black Statians like Cynique are closest to achieving th eir goal. because Black Statians like her were by default most willing to work with whites\, they benefited them in the usa\, where whites only star ted allowing the majority of the black populace equal status\, 1980. to be blunt\, if you aren't willing to work with whites pre 1980\, while you li ve in the usa\, you essentially have nothing. As black DOSers forebears we re enslaved so they could provide no fiscal inheritance and as all know\, over ninety percent of wealth in the usa is inheritance.  Very few whites are willing to work with blacks who want away. Yes\, Back to Africa movem ents occurred in the usa \, but their white financiers were never represen ting a majority of whites. \n\n\n\n So\, For me\, both of you are Black S tatians. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n The key for you to comprehend is Black DOSer s relationship to the usa is historically not financial\, it is pure philo sophy\, or vendetta based. This is why Black Modern Immigrants fit in so w ell with the USA\, because their relationship is like all non blacks who a ren't indigenous. It is\, a financial desire to make money\, to be better off. But\, Black DOSers didn't originally have that desire\, and even in 1 865\, when the enslavement era ends and jim crow begins. Black DOSers didn 't come into the Jim Crow era thinking I want to be apart of the USA. Blac k Freefolk historically had to be convinced of the merit of the USA which many Black Statians have always had problems with .\, ala the similarity o f Frederick Douglass/MLK jr/ Barrack Obama who arguably all spent the latt er years of their most potent time disliked by most Black DOSErs. Which ma kes sense\, because Black Statians by default\, embrace the usa no matter what. So faced with Black people with the same experiences who don't accep t it at all\, or who need convincing when whites make that nearly impossib le\, outside of faith based\, it becomes a natural divide no bridge can cr oss. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Citation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1255 7-my-tribe-vs-yo-tribe/#findComment-80451\n\n\n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n\n\n  \ n\n\n\n 03022026\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Citation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/ topic/12557-my-tribe-vs-yo-tribe/#findComment-80496\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n ost ed just now\n\n\n\n @frankster \n\n\n\n what you speak is what James For ten/ Frederick Douglass/ MLK jr/Barrck Obama said in more words or more el oquently or in how they lived their life. \n\n\n\n But their lives prove that other humans are not always in concurrence to that standing. and that is my point. I don't speak of tribes because it is the most positive plus effective end\, the most effective end for humans is to treat all life on earth with the same love or consideration each human will want to themsel ves\, but that isn't how humanity operates. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @aka Cont rarian\n\n\n\n yes\, i think that in the population of the usa is already brewing a people who will functionalize your way [or at least try to] \, t he way many other black people in the usa today adhere to\, what the rapin g slaver thomas jefferson wrote\, what black people like james forten/fred erick douglass/mlk jr lived their entire lives fighting for even when most black people opposed them. what barrack obama tried to uphold even though the needs of the usa in the immediate term warranted another way. \n\n\n \n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260228 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR