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:Jesse Jackson Junior's Eulogy to Jesse Jackson DTSTAMP:20260309T051005Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:673-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Introduction to Jesse JAckson Juniors Eulogy\n\n\n\n Yest erday I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who d o not know Jesse Jackson\,... He maintained a tense relationship with the political order\, not because the presidents were White or Black\, but the demands of our message\, the demands of speaking for the least of these — those who are disinherited\, the damned\, the dispossessed\, the disr espected — demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions\, but demande d a consistent\, prophetic voice that at no point in time sold us out as a people.”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n MY THOUGHTS\n\n\n\n Who is Jesse Jackson ?\ n\n\n\n In cheap hindsight\, Jesse Jackson is one of the Black Leaders\, a nother is Shirley Chisholm \,  whose rise was in the last decade of the J im Crow era\, 1865 to 1980[eighteen sixty five to nineteen eighty \, the p eriod after the enslavement era from 1492 fourteen ninety two to 1865 eigh teen sixty five]\, in the 1970s\, nineteen seventies. \n\n\n\n What happe ned in the the 1970s? \n\n\n\n China + Japan \, two white asian countries \, each began a fiscal push\, that in twenty twenty six have become pillar s of modern fiscal activity\, deleting the edge in engineering the usa had from the end of commonly called world war two. \n\n\n\n the USA installe d the lickspittle puppet\, the Shah of Iran in the nineteen fifties becaus e the elected prime minister of iran\, Mohammad Mosaddegh\, wasn't a licks pittle and was stopping the uneven oil business. I restate\, Mosaddegh wan ted to sell Iranian oil to iran's favor at market value\, both things\, an d that is what led to United States of America plus the United Kingdom of England plus Israel overthrowing the government of iran and installing the shah as a monarchy. yes\, the usa plus uk plus israel installed a monarch y to get what they each wanted financially. But that action led to the Mu slim Revolution of Iran overthrowing the shah in the 1970s and publicly st ating two countries who had a hand in overthrowing the elected government of Mosaddegh\, \, USA+Israel are correctly enemies of Iran. \n\n\n\n The inevitable failure of the civil rights laws in the private financial secto r showed their reality. As Black populaces in white cities had a growing c lass of workers for city governments\, aided with publicly funded schools\ , but the white flight was about to allow white cities to undercut staffin g and undercut funding which ultimately derailed many black populaces in c ities. \n\n\n\n What was Jesse Jackson's plan?\n\n\n\n Jesse Jackson real ized the heritage of unpaid unelected advocacy in the Black descended of e nslaved populace\, whose members were continually murdered through the who le jim crow period needed to survive in the future\; said heritage was abo ut advocacy\, working for something\, that returns nothing to oneself. MEd gar evers/Fanni lou hamer/James Baldwin/Malcolm/ MLK jr/ Billie Holiday/ M ary Lou Williams all died through murder or poor condition of life\, finan cially broke. None of them had money. They all had funerals paid for by ot hers\, had their childrens opportunities financed by others. Jesse Jackson 's idea was\, lets place Fannie Lou Hamer + Malcolm in the elected officia l class. Why? I argue Jesse Jackson saw with Jim Crow ending\, the USA is going into a phase where individuals from many communities in the usa will be able to financially achieve great heights\, unbounded\, but they will be communally abvocates. Not advocates\, those who work toward\, but abvoc ates\, those who work against. So\, while financially a Black one percent will grow and those not of white european descent in a rainbow coalition\, which came from Fred Hampton in chicago\, will achieve financial wealth\, the black fiscal poor as part of the greater fiscal poor of the united st ates of america will need an elected class who are not just filled with vi ctors who own spoils abvocating to the districts that elected them\, but c ommunal advocates who have the same energy plus vibe that Jesse Jackson sa w in the jim crow era before it was murdered by non blacks aside their bla ck agents. \n\n\n\n Did Jesse Jackson succeed? \n\n\n\n No\, To the vict or goes the spoils is the oldest heritage for elected officials in the uni ted states of america. It is a strong heritage because in a land where gov ernment post tend to not be inherited\, the only fiscal profit in governme nt is in extracting what you can in the short term. Supporting the short t erm fiscal value of elected positions in government is the rarity of advoc ates of highest quality that surrounded Jesse Jackson in the nineteen sixt ies. Being an abvocate \, working against\, to the people is easy \, natur al in the united states of america. Being an advocate to the people \, and better yet one who is making no fiscal revenue\, is a rare way of life in the usa. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Jesse Jackson tried to create a culture of advocacy for all people within the elected class of government officials i n the united states of america\, who could make money and take money while being effective legislators or executives who forced profit to be made on mountains of unprofitable caring to prevent crimes in the future or the p otency of crimes in any past. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n TRANSCRIPT\n\n \n\n 0:00\nYesterday\n0:07\nI listened\n0:10\nfor several hours of three\n 0:14\n[clears throat]\n0:15\nUnited States presidents\n0:18\nwho do not kn ow Jesse Jackson.\n0:26\nHe maintained a tense relationship\n0:30\nwith th e political order. Not because\n0:34\nthe presidents were white or black\, \n0:38\nbut the demands of our message.\n0:40\nYes.\n0:41\nThe demands of speaking for the least of\n0:43\nthese\, those who were disinherited\, the \n0:45\ndamned\, the dispossessed\, the\n0:48\ndisrespected.\n0:50\nYes\, sir.\n0:51\ndemanded not Democratic or Republican\n0:54\nsolutions\, but d emanded\n0:57\na consistent\n1:00\nprophetic\n1:02\nvoice\n1:03\nthat at n o point in time ever sold us\n1:06\nout as a people.\n1:10\nAnd it speaks volumes about who the\n1:13\nReverend Jesse Jackson\n1:16\nwas. Our messag e has already been\n1:20\ndelivered today. I can see it all over\n1:23\nmy mother's face.\n1:26\nRise\, Jesse\, rise. Give Jonathan Jackson\n1:30\na nother great round of applause for\n1:33\ndelivering our family message to the\n1:37\nworld.\n1:42\nLet's hear it for the congressman.\n1:50\n[appla use]\n1:52\nThere'll be no different message that\n1:55\nleaves this servi ce than the one that\n1:56\nJonathan Jackson has blessed us with.\n2:02\nI want to thank my sister Ashley and on\n2:05\nbehalf of all of our sibling s\,\n2:08\nthere is something about the blood of\n2:11\nservice that Jesse Jackson has given to\n2:15\nall of us.\n2:17\nAshley is an extraordinary individual\, a\n2:21\nvery\, very talented young lady\, and I am\n2:24\nso grateful. We're all so grateful to\n2:27\ncall her our sister. Thank you\ , Ashley.\n2:32\n[applause]\n2:37\n[applause]\n2:41\na gift to us from our father.\n2:48\nAmen.\n2:50\nto my sister Santita\n2:53\nwhose talents are so extraordinary that\n2:57\nI've always wondered why they're so\n2:59\nc ontained.\n3:02\nWe're so grateful for her scholarship\,\n3:06\nher input\ , her thinking\,\n3:09\nher being our oldest\n3:11\nsibling.\n3:14\nShe do esn't like oldest. She likes\n3:16\neldest sibling.\n3:20\nWe want to than k Cintita in a very\n3:21\nspecial way for her leadership. Give\n3:24\nCen ta a great round of applause.\n3:25\n[applause]\n3:27\nLet's hear it for C enta.\n3:33\n[applause]\n3:38\nAnd if we can listen once again to four\n3: 40\npresidents yesterday\, three of whom\n3:43\nhappened to be US presiden ts\n3:46\nwho did not know my father\, we can\n3:48\ncertainly listen to J qualine Jackson.\n3:52\nWe can listen to Jqualine Jackson who\n3:54\ncared for my father. Give her the round\n3:57\nof applause that she deserves.\n 4:03\n[applause]\n4:13\nAnd last but not least\,\n4:18\nfor 64 years befor e we heard of\n4:22\nprogressive nuclear pausy or Parkinson's\n4:25\ndisea se\,\n4:28\nmy father at North Carolina ENTT said\n4:30\nthat he was stand ing\n4:32\nat the cafeteria when he saw a young\n4:34\nfresh woman\n4:37\n walking across\n4:39\nthe campus.\n4:41\nThat's right.\n4:44\nAnd mommy\, at least as the story was\n4:46\nconveyed to me\, he said something to the \n4:48\neffect that you're going to be my wife\n4:51\none day.\n4:54\nAnd mama said to him\, \"You going to have\n4:56\nto work hard to make that th e case\, my\n4:58\nbrother.\n5:04\nfor 64 years with a particular emphasis \n5:07\nsince Reverend's diagnosis\n5:10\nof initially Parkinson's disease but a\n5:13\nfurther diagnosis that revealed\n5:16\npseudonuclear Pauly\n 5:19\nwhether the weather was rain or whether\n5:21\nthe weather was cold\ n5:23\nwhether things were going well or things\n5:25\nwere not going well .\n5:28\nthe mountain tops that marriages reach\n5:30\nas well as the vall ey that they reach.\n5:32\nJqualine Jackson has been the enduring\n5:35\nf orce in the ministry of the Reverend\n5:38\nJesse Jackson and she lent him to the\n5:43\nworld. Give Mrs. Jackson the honor that\n5:47\nshe deserves .\n5:51\n[applause]\n5:55\n[applause]\n6:00\nI want to remind everybody\n6 :03\nYes.\n6:07\nthat we are burying our father today.\n6:17\nI was so gra teful that he gave me his\n6:18\nname.\n6:22\nWhen he first gave it to me\ , it was a\n6:23\ngood name\,\n6:26\nJesse Jackson.\n6:28\nBorn March 11th \, just a few short days\n6:31\nfrom now.\n6:34\nHe had traveled from Chic ago Theological\n6:36\nSeminary to Selma\, Alabama.\n6:41\nHe sent my moth er to Greenville\, South\n6:43\nCarolina.\n6:49\nbecause he wanted his fir stborn son to\n6:51\nbe born where he was born.\n6:56\nWhen I was born\, t he Selma to Montgomery\n6:58\nMarch was entering a new phase. And mama\n7: 02\ncalled Selma to find out what\n7:06\nor to share with my father that h is\n7:07\nfirstborn son had been born. And\n7:11\nhe was so overwhelmed by the moment that\n7:13\nhe almost named me Selma.\n7:21\nBut thank God for mama's better\n7:23\njudgment.\n7:29\nAnd my father had a lot of jokes.\n 7:32\nYes\, sir.\n7:33\nMy father was a funny man.\n7:36\nThose of you who knew my father knew\n7:38\nthat he was an enjoyable man. Whatever\n7:42\n the media has to say about him\, it has\n7:45\nnothing to do with what eac h and every\n7:48\none of us knows about who Jesse Jackson\n7:52\nwas and is in our thinking.\n8:06\nbeing Jesse is not easy.\n8:09\nAnd so\, Dad an d I had worked out some\n8:12\nunderstanding of why he would do this\n8:14 \nand why I would do that. And a symbiosis\n8:17\noccurred in our personal ity because what\n8:20\nhe did affected me one way and what I\n8:23\ndid a ffected him the other way. But such\n8:26\nwas the name Jesse Jackson.\n8: 30\nAnd I remember when I was in prison.\n8:40\n[applause]\n8:43\nAnd I wo uld think about the man\n8:46\nwho brought Robert Goodman home.\n8:48\nYes \, sir.\n8:50\nYes\, sir.\n8:51\nWho called the Ayatollah in Iran and\n8:5 5\nasked him to release the Americans. And\n8:58\nwhen he wouldn't\, he sa id\, \"At least\n9:00\nrelease the black ones because America\,\n9:03\ndon 't use them as a human shield.\n9:05\nAmerica don't care.\"\n9:09\nAnd Aya tollah heard Reverend Jackson's\n9:12\nvoice and released the black prison ers.\n9:20\n[applause]\n9:21\nJonathan and I were in Cuba when dad\n9:23\n brought\, I believe\, the Mario prisoners\n9:26\nhome.\n9:28\nI think Yous ef and Jonathan were in Iraq\n9:32\nwhen they met with Saddam Hussein\n9:3 5\n[snorts] and brought a 747\n9:38\nof filled with human shields home.\n9 :44\n[applause]\n9:49\nAnd I remember mama when daddy would\n9:51\ncome vi sit me in prison\n9:53\nand I would think about\n9:56\nall of the people m y daddy could save.\n10:07\nHe came to visit me one day and I said\,\n10:0 8\n\"Daddy\,\n10:11\ndo you think you can get me out of\n10:12\nhere?\"\n1 0:18\n[applause]\n10:23\n[applause]\n10:25\nHe said\, \"I'm trying\, son\, \n10:28\nbut don't give up.\" Yes\, sir.\n10:31\nHold your head high.\n10: 33\nStick your chest out.\n10:35\nYou can make it.\n10:38\nAnd so\, yester day\, I began a little\n10:41\nstatement\, and this ain't going to last\n1 0:43\nbut about four more minutes cuz I\n10:46\nhaven't had a chance to de velop it.\n10:48\n[snorts]\n10:50\nHoward Thurman\n10:54\nbecause the mess age has already been\n10:57\ndelivered. Rise\, Jesse\, rise. I'm\n11:00\ns pecifically hanging around Howard\n11:03\nThurman yesterday because I don' t want\n11:06\nthe media to step on rise\, Jesse\, rise\n11:10\nin tomorro w's story.\n11:14\nIt's a calculation.\n11:16\nYes\, sir. We Jackson have to think about\n11:19\nwhat we say so we don't have too many\n11:22\nmessa ges emanating from the same\n11:25\nhousehold. We think about it.\n11:32\n Howard Thurman his family grew up as a\n11:34\nsharecropping family and he had\n11:36\nexperienced some of the horrific\n11:38\ntreatment of African -Americans in the\n11:40\nSouth\, not unlike my father. and his\n11:43\nfa mily decided they didn't want young\n11:45\nHoward to be a sharecropper. S o\, they\n11:47\nput together all of their pennies and\n11:50\nquarters an d nickels\, and they came up\n11:53\nwith just enough money to make sure\n 11:55\nHoward Thurman could afford a ticket to\n11:58\ngo to college.\n12: 03\nAnd in the book\, which Bill Clinton\n12:05\nreferenced yesterday with Head and\n12:07\nHeart\, he dedicates the book\n12:11\nto this story.\n12 :14\nWhen he went to get his ticket\, the\n12:17\nbroken pieces of his lif e were in a\n12:20\ntrunk that his family had given to him\n12:23\nwith no handles. And he had tied the\n12:25\ntrunk up with ropes.\n12:28\nYes\, s ir.\n12:29\nYes\, sir. And the conductor said\, \"You\n12:32\ncan get on t he train\, but your baggage\n12:33\ncan't.\"\n12:35\nHe said\, \"In that t runk was all of the\n12:37\nbroken pieces of his life\, his pictures\,\n12 :40\nhis his clothes\, all of his memories\,\n12:43\nand\n12:46\nhe wasn't leaving his broken pieces\n12:49\nbehind.\"\n12:52\nSo he went over in th e corner of the\n12:54\ntrain station and he began crying\n12:58\nbecause his dreams and his hopes had\n13:01\nbeen thwarted about whether or not he \n13:04\ncould go to college.\n13:07\nAnd crying and tears and mucus all l ay\n13:11\nin a pile when he wiped his eyes and he\n13:12\nlooked up mama and he saw a pair of old\n13:16\nrustic boots.\n13:20\nHe continued to loo k up and he saw a man\n13:23\nin some overalls and he saw an old black\n13 :26\nman wearing a straw hat and he said\,\n13:28\n\"Boy\,\n13:30\nwhat yo u crying for?\" And Howard said\,\n13:33\n\"Because I can't take my luggag e with me\n13:38\non the train. I've decided not to go to\n13:41\ncollege. \" And the old man reached in his\n13:44\npocket and he grabbed a little l eather\n13:45\nsack and pulled out a few coins and\n13:48\nbought a ticket for Howard Thurman's\n13:51\nluggage.\n13:54\nAnd Howard Thurman says he never got the\n13:57\nman's name.\n14:00\nYes\, sir. Yes\, sir. And all he remembers\n14:04\nwas his train was going in one direction\n14:07\nand he saw the old man walking down the\n14:10\ntrain tracks until he faded away .\n14:14\nHe dedicates his autobiography\n14:18\nto the stranger\n14:23\nw ho restored his hope.\n14:26\nYes\, sir.\n14:27\nAnd sent him to college. Thank you\,\n14:30\nJesus.\n14:31\nI just want two more minutes to tell yo u\n14:34\nabout who my daddy was.\n14:38\n[applause]\n14:39\nYou see\, whe n I was in prison\,\n14:41\nYes\, sir.\n14:42\nI had to ask my daddy if he was\n14:44\ndisappointed in me.\n14:45\nYes\, sir. Come on. Come on.\n14: 48\n[snorts]\n14:49\nI announced this little old campaign for\n14:51\nCong ress on his birthday\, October 8th\,\n14:56\n2025\, because I wanted to re member his\n14:59\nbirthday as long as I live.\n15:02\nYes\, sir.\n15:05\n Help.\n15:06\nYou see\, when I was in the hole\n15:10\nand I looked up and saw the ceiling\,\n15:14\nI thought about the stranger.\n15:19\nAnd I sai d to myself\, \"My dad is the\n15:23\nstranger.\"\n15:26\nYou see\, he's t he man who can save\n15:28\npeople from prison and save people and\n15:31\ nbring them from foreign leadership. He's\n15:33\nthe man who can go aroun d the world and\n15:36\nchange it for everybody.\n15:39\nHe's the man who spoke in the high\n15:41\nschools and told young people to stop\n15:44\nco mplaining about what they don't have\,\n15:46\nto use what they got.\n15:4 8\nYes\, sir. Yes\, sir.\n15:51\nHe's the one who told them down with\n15: 53\ndope and and up with hope.\n15:56\nHe's the one who preached your fune rals\n15:59\nfor your families and married your loved\n16:02\nones and hel ped bring them forward in\n16:05\nhappily married matrimony.\n16:08\nHe's the one we turn to at our lowest\n16:12\nhours.\n16:13\nAnd so\, [gasps] n ot only in the life of\n16:17\nhis family was he hope\,\n16:20\nbut he was a stranger Yes\, sir. for\n16:24\nmillions of people who knew not his\n16 :27\nname.\n16:28\nYou see\, [cheering]\n16:31\nimminent Howard Thurman th eologian said\n16:34\nthat to Howard Thurman\, the stranger was\n16:38\nth e embodiment of God.\n16:42\nSo when the stranger shows up in our\n16:45\n space\,\n16:46\nI don't care if it's your daddy. I don't\n16:49\ncare if i t's your mama. I don't care if\n16:51\nit's someone that you don't get alo ng\n16:53\nwith. God is trying to tell you\n16:55\nsomething\, judge.\n16: 57\nYes\, sir. [applause]\n17:00\nYes\, sir.\n17:01\nI'm done.\n17:03\n[ap plause]\n17:04\nGod help you.\n17:05\nWhen Jonathan delivered that message \n17:06\ntoday\,\n17:08\nyou\n17:09\non behalf of this family and on behal f\n17:11\nof a people\,\n17:12\nYes\, sir.\n17:14\nHe covered every aspect that I know of\n17:19\nmy father's life.\n17:20\nYes\, sir.\n17:21\nI am so grateful to each of the\n17:23\niterations of Jesse Jackson that are\n1 7:26\nrepresented here today\n17:28\nbecause we've seen and you you you an d\n17:31\nyou have lifted this family and allowed\n17:34\nus the great pri vilege\n17:37\nYes\, sir.\n17:39\n[cheering]\n17:39\nof representing you\n 17:42\nin some mighty amazing places. And so\,\n17:46\nSantita\, to God be the glory. [cheering]\n17:50\nFor all of the wonderful things that he\n17 :54\nhas done.\n17:56\nI am grateful to all of you on behalf of\n17:59\nou r family. Rise\, Jesse. Rise.\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n COMMENTARIE S \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12576-president-obamas-eulogy-of-re v-jesse-jackson/#findComment-80620\n\n\n\n sted just now\n\n\n\n @aka Con trarian well\,I think what jesse jackson jr said was truth\, clinton/obam a/biden were each considered good guys\, the southern white sax player\, t he mulatto with a black wife\, the kindly old white guy\, but each weren't the kind of elected advocate that Jesse Jackson  senior hoped to brew as a common occurrence in the usa. I still feel \,with no proof\, that what Jesse Jackson wanted\, his purpose\, was to get people with the quality of leadership of advocates\, unpaid or unelected while totally committed\, l ike fannie lou hamer or malcolm x to be elected officials\, to improve the quality of elected officials\, in the usa. Instead\, the overall industry of government led to a bunch of pantomime black or non black elected offi cials who are all salespeople\, who do nothing for blacks or non blacks wh ile claiming their are acting in all humanities betterment.  This is why Shirley Chisholm left government. She was an advocate who became an electe d official\, but she was surrounded by black plus non black salespeople. A nd three of said salespeople spoke during jesse jackson's funeral with the same quality inherent in insult that brooke shileds plus magic johnson sp oke at michael jackson's funeral.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 03142026\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12576-president-obamas-eulogy-of-rev-jesse-jack son/#findComment-80668\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @aka Contrarian \n \n\n\n   On 3/11/2026 at 6:04 PM\, aka Contrarian said:\n\n\n\n Well\, if you dont want the 3 Presidents to talk politics at the funeral of a po litical figure\, then don't invite them\, just to show how important the d eceased was. And Al Sharpton certainly didn't mince any words about what's happening in the country in his remarks. \n\n\n\n If you want a dignifie d funeral\, don't invite a bunch of dignitaries to speak\, and hold the se rvices at a huge hall to accommodate  all the public mourners you opened the doors to.\n\n\n\n You're just asking for confusion and resentment and that's what the Jackson family got.\n\n\n\n You can't have it both ways.\n \n\n\n I am with you 100% Do I think jesse jackson spoke false ? no BUT I concur to your point that if you want no commercialization then make the f uneral private and if you want a more public aspect\, for jesse jackson wa s famous\, known\, then you need to have greater control over what happens plus over how what happens in the schedule. I concur to you. If you open the possibility for behavior you don't want at an event you control\, then when the behavior you don't want happens you are partially and arguably m ostly to blame. If Jesse jackson junior would had began mentioning where t he jackson clan\, or whomever was in control went wrong\, that would had m ade his speech not only truthful but even.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @Pioneer1 \ n\n\n\n   1 hour ago\, Pioneer1 said:\n\n\n\n This shit has got to sto p.\n\n \n\n Perhaps there should be a Black Law: If you're already light skinned\, you shouldn't be allowed to dye your hair blonde.\n\n \n\n Maybe we should have a limit to how many \"white\" features a Black person is a llowed to have before they are no longer considered Black....lol.\n\n\n\n  i have to ask a simple question. who will enforce the black laws? you?:) you talk of law enforcement with white laws so i assume someone will enfo rce the black laws:)\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 03142026\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com /tc/topic/12576-president-obamas-eulogy-of-rev-jesse-jackson/#findComment- 80674\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @Pioneer1\n\n\n\n   2 hours ago\,  Pioneer1 said:\n\n\n\n I guess if we could figure out who or what is in fluencing so many Black women to dye their hair blonde\, we can figure out who or what can get them to stop.\n\n\n\n what if the influencer is the f reedom of a woman to do whatever she wants with out having to worry about any penalty ? who is going to deny them their freedom to do what they want ? what can deny them the freedom to do what they want?\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 03152026\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12576-president-obamas-eulogy- of-rev-jesse-jackson/#findComment-80709\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @P ioneer1 \n\n\n\n   7 hours ago\, Pioneer1 said:\n\n\n\n If the \"free dom of a woman to do whatever she wants\" was the influencer....where are the AfroAmerican women with naturally light hair dying it black or dark br own?\n\n \n\n When was the last time you saw a Black entertainer with natu rally lighter hair dying it black?\n\n \n\n It's not about freedom\, it's about them being conditioned to believe that blonde hair\, light skin\, an d light eyes somehow makes them look better.\n\n \n\n I don't think they s hould be physically or even legally prevented from doing so\, but I do thi nk that we as AfroAmericans who ARE proud to be Black...should have a cons istent campaign of self-love and promotion of African features like dark s kin and dark hair and promote this especially to our children to COUNTER t he effects from centuries of racist anti-Black brainwashing that our commu nity has endured.\n\n \n\n Use the movies\, television shows\, and adverti sements to promote dark skin and dark hair....especially to our children.\ n\n Make them desire THOSE features\, instead of the opposite.\n\n\n\n Exp and  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n In my experience most Black women don't have nat urally light hair. so they would never need to dye it a dark color. In con trast i find many white women tend to have natural light hair and they dye it dark colors. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n I can't recall a Black Entertainer w ith naturally lighter hair. Black to dark Brown is the usual colors for Bl ack entertainers. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n You are not wrong that conditioning exist\, this is undeniably true.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n BUT\, you hint at a g reater challenge. I live in NYC \, has more black women than any other cit y in the united states of america. If someone asks me what hairstyle do mo st black women have. I argue\, a majority of black women in NYC today of y ounger generations have natural styles. And black women in nYC of older ge nerations have a fifty /fifty natural to unnatural. Now\, You mention a co nsistent campaign but when does this end? are you speaking of an eternal c ampaign? why do I ask? don't forget you live in the usa. There isn't a pop ulace/peoples/group in the usa today that doesn't have many individuals in it who don't adhere to some code of appearance or conduct. Many people wh ose parents: don't speak english \, don't speak spanish\; dance the rumba\ ; don't dance forms from latin america\; are of asian descent\, have been adopted by white europeans and barely know any asians. ... my point. \n\n \n\n  \n\n\n\n If you are looking for 100% like another member of aalbc\, or maybe yourself when it comes to black crime\, then you can forget it i n the united states of america. In my experience most black people desire being of some black tribe\, in appearance\, heritage\, culture. But\, not 100% and in my view\, what your complaining about is the lack of 100% whic h I oppose. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Pioneer you will always see black people who are white-philes in the usa\, ALWAYS. But Black people have always bee n majority in love with being Black. I think black people like you love to cry emergency with the mere existence of black people who act as you feel they should not\, even though said black folk have always been a minority in the black populace. \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260308 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR