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Who is We? and the International Parity

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This event began 05/23/2026 and repeats every year forever

The problem with perception is how important it is financially.

If you are black in the usa and you view the black populace in the usa as home, then regardless of the condition of the home, you expect a path to excellence, but here lies the problem, Fiscal activity in an antagonistic environment toward you while supportive to others isn't equal so embracing said place as home is like accepting a prison as a home.

How is living in prison financially wise?

URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12748-made-in-china-why-is-it-considered-usa-adversary/#findComment-81602

MY COMMENT

@Troy

On 5/18/2026 at 7:45 PM, Troy said:

Most telling is that China gives us TicTok, but don't subject their own people to that trash...

this is a lie, i am fortunate enough to communicate to chinese who live in china, tiktok and the greater social emdia is very popular there, you like many others forget, china has near two billion people. yes, a section of those people are all engineers, in the same way a section of northern italy is the most technologically advanced community on earth in the same way, a section of populace in the usa is very educated... but the majority is not the minority in any country, this extends to brasil, india, russia, all countries today from the fiscal poorest like a somalia or hait rto the wealthiest like a sweden china usa monaco have a majority that is poor and not as positive compared to aminority that is advantageous and has alot f positive metrics.

On 5/18/2026 at 7:45 PM, Troy said:

We are becoming increasing dependent upon them not just for labor.

who is WE ? are native americans in the usa a part of WE? are black descended of enslaved people who have been in an unhappy antagonist environment their entire lives, whose parents and parents parents and parents ^3 and parents ^4 and parents ^5 and parents ^6 who lived their entire lives in an unhappy antagonist environment a part of WE in the past or currently?

I comprehend the black people in the usa or english colonies that preceded it for their views, the JAmes Forten disease.

James Foten, Clarence Thomas, Yourself Troy, Frederick Douglass all @ProfD all have this USA is home view points, regardless of the condition of a majority of black people in modernity or historically, for all of you, the usa is home and regardless of how many other black people oppose that view or their reasoning you keep making public Declarations of unity for the black populace in the usa with the only view forward being a hope that one day it will be functionally true.

On 5/18/2026 at 8:57 PM, ProfD said:

It is to point out the obvious gaslighting US leaders do to keep Americans dazed & confused into believing China is an adversary.

Profd your being too short. the gaslighting is global. during the war bettween ussr + usa, people in the ussr saw photos of new york city's downtown manhattan and said that is the usa. they didn't see the whole regions of the south without running water.. People in africa to this day still run to france, but don't realize the banliues of the big cities like paris are run down and decrepit n different than the slums of lagos or joberg. all the countries are crap: usa/russia/china/england/japan and all other countries including israel/haiti/iran/ singapore.. all countires today have a majority of mostly fiscally poor unhappy people in an antagonist environment that are lorded by a fiscally potent , militaristically dominant minority. the only difference between the minrorities is who can be the bigger bully.

COMMENTARY AFTER

@ProfD

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

the ridiculousness of adversarial relationship between USA-China

war is ridiculous? no... peace side war will always exist, neither is good or bad, either take infinite forms, and neither ever end.

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

The fundamental question remains what are they doing to force change.

based on your logic every prisoner in a prison should be trying to escape. Doing something to attempt to force change does not deny the quality of environment warrants a negative critique.

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

Considering that people continue procreating & bringing more lives into a poor existence suggests that being poor isn't too bad.

it is natural for all species, all children of earth to be fruitful and multiply no matter the environment, to restate, being fruitful or multiplying has no relationship to the quality of environment, humans ... all species/children of earth will do that as long as they exist.

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

It's like a sport.

no it isn't , a sport, whether chess or basketball, by default, never has the consequences or prosequences that war or peace has.

5 hours ago, admin said:

What is eating at you man?

Nothing is eating at me. In the forum I have always said the black populace in the usa is a collection of tribes, disimilar from each other , which is a heritage, what is carreid from the very infancy of the usa.

James Forten was a business owner, black, fought alongside whites colonist who aided or abetted in the enslavement of black people , to initialize the usa.

Harry Wahsington was enslaved to george washington, James Forten's general and leader, and fought against the creation of the USA and lef tto Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone.

The ninety percent of black people enslaved to white colonists who remained enslaved after the usa was initialized. who i am 100% certain hated whites and the usa as James BAldwin admitted to his father, who retained said black folsk dislike of whites and dislike of the usa or absent desire to be part of the usa, . I paraphrase, my father never once spoke ill or attacked a white man and hated white people to the bone to the day he died.

And Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten. That is ok. No crime, but I must admit that there is no WE in the black populace in the usa, and never was, and i think it is important, because it is the truth. And i think the truth is always warranted.

05252026 MY ENLARGED THOUGHT

3 hours ago, admin said:

"a Lie" Whoa, hold on there buddy! Those are strong words. The reality is that TikTok does not exist in China. I don't know who are are talking to in China, but if they ask for money -- run.

ByteDance runs a completely different app in China with much stricter regulations designed to educate Chinese under 18. Under 14 you can ony use it for 40 minutes a day. No we get the "trash" with the infinite scroll of stupid videos keeping kids locked in for hours a day.

From what I have seen of Douyin, I don't see it as different, same service, there are creators and interesting people but there are also influencers and conspiracy folk and various other neagtive online agents on there. I don't see any difference. Tiktok is merely a continuation of DOuyin. all websites with a global structure have aregional customizations.

3 hours ago, admin said:

What is eating at you man? Putting me in the same category as Clarence Thomas... that is almost as bad as calling me a liar.

First where do YOU choose to live? That by definition is your home. It is disingenuous to rail against other across centuries not less about what they call home. this country is my home and I will fight to make it better. You can disagree but until you are living somewhere other than the "good ole USA" your admonishment falls flat.

Nothing is eating me, it is simply a truth of the populace of Black people in the usa whose forebears were enslaved. in the usa or the english colonies that preceded it.

You, frederick Douglass, clarence thomas, James Forten, millions of other black people are not mirrors to each other, but you all share a few traits

  1. all of you are in the usa because your person or your forebears were forced to these lands by whites as british colonies or the usa itself.

  2. all of you have chosen to view the usa as your home regardless of the condition of the majority, the most, of black people in the usa or the english colonies that preceded it , in which said condition is hell by white terror.

  3. all of you reject in some form or fashion any black descended of enslaved philosophy that doesn't match your allegiance to the usa : forten rejected by arms the anti white colonist position of black people enslaved to whites or black people who fought against white colonist fighting aside white europeans , each against the idea of the usa , Frederick Douglass or Clarence Thomas or You , Troy, reject by prose the Black people who through their actions or words are stateless while living in the usa. All three of you and the many other blacks like you, suggest any black person in the usa that doesn't claim the usa as home as false in their thinking. You may find it an insult to be philosophically aligned to Clarence thomas in parts, but you are. And both of you are aligned to frederick douglass. Forten literally shed blood the white colonist who enslaved nearly all the black people who fought alongside said white colonist ot make the usa begin. That's you TROY! Frederick Douglass spoke ill of the exodusters because these are black people who would never trust whites, spoke ill in various tones or strengths of black peole who fled to jamaica/haiti/ anywhere they could to get as far away from the usa or the whites of the usa. That is you TROY! Clarence Thomas calls the usa home and regardless of the condition of black people does so. That is you TROY! and many others.

I am not criminalizing you Troy, you may think I am. I mention James Forten to explain that Black people who call the usa home have always existed these two hundred and fifty years or more. My point is that Black people who don't call the usa or the english colonies it came form home have existed just as long. The two heritages are of a people who never wanted to be in these lands of the FIRST peoples, commonly called native americans. But the two heritages the two tribes can never be a WE. and the use of that word WE is the problem.

James Forten wasn't in a WE with Stephen Bluke. Frederick Douglass wasn't in a WE with MArcus Garvey. Garvey was never jamaican. he left jamaica because it wasn't a home. He told black people to leave the usa cause it isn't a home. Home for Garvey is the correct definition. Home isn't a place where you live. If that is the case, a prison is a home. The slave plantation is a prison for Black people. the sharecropped land is a prison. Black urban regions are prisons. Garvey saw home not as a place that needed to be changed, but a place that loves you without you needing to do a thing. This is why so few children have a home, they live in a residence with their parents, but too few children in humanity are home. Home don't need to be improved. Home don't need to be changed. Garvey comprehended this But Forten, Douglass, Clarence Tomans, you, all feel home is a place that needs to be worked on to be bettered. so for all of you , home can be a prison, a hell hole, but by you living there it is home.

Ok, I don't mind. Again, James Forten to me is the patron saint of the black statian, the black person whose forebears were enslaved who calls the USA home. a business man through all the uneven of negatively biased challenges setup by whites, a peaceful integrationist to whites, which is mandatory, embracing the usa at its very infancy even though he knew most black people hated the whites in these lands and hated these lands. But that is allegiance, that is devotion, that is claiming the usa for oneself as a Black DOSer.

OK, but no WE exist in the black populace.

And with the coming of the willing black immigrant of modernity in huge numbers it is to your tribe in the villages advantage even. As a female member of the forum once said, she likes the black immigrants, and it makes perfect sense to me.

Whereas many, historically most, Black DOSers will always be anti white + anti usa, black immigrants in modernity have chosen to come to the usa. they have nothing they can complain about. All DOSers including even James Forten can always say, I didn't want to be here, because our forebears were forced to these lands and time will never change that.

You see my position as insult. I simply see a proper labeling of the collective condition of the black populace in the usa which I argue is needed.

I think too few black children... in all humanity in all earnest, but i will stick to the usa, are not told the truths that black adults know.

The UA has always been anti black. I can't recall how many black adults admit this, even to black children. yes JAmes Forten's have always existed, but the majorty of black peple enslaved has too. Tell black children they will have to embrace the usa to change it, but explain to them what that means, that means embracing whites, which they may not want to do.

Explain to black children that the black populace of the usa is full of so many different typs of black people that it is not simple gathering us together because we don't want the same things.

I have never liked the usa, or embraced it as a home, it has never been a home. My interactions with law enforcement alone is enought o prove that.

But, while I have my own plans and ways, I am not a prosyletizer. I am not looking for people to join me. The black people i know, some personally , others as personal acquaintance, who left the usa to live in various parts of the caribbean, south america, france, africa, prove that many more black DOSers I dont't know make the journey away from the usa. Some find a home. Some simply settle for another place to lay their head that isn't a home.

But, black people are not a WE

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On 5/23/2026 at 5:29 PM, richardmurray said:

this is a lie, i am fortunate enough to communicate to chinese who live in china, tiktok and the greater social emdia is very popular there,

"a Lie" Whoa, hold on there buddy! Those are strong words. The reality is that TikTok does not exist in China. I don't know who are are talking to in China, but if they ask for money -- run.

ByteDance runs a completely different app in China with much stricter regulations designed to educate Chinese under 18. Under 14 you can ony use it for 40 minutes a day. No we get the "trash" with the infinite scroll of stupid videos keeping kids locked in for hours a day.

On 5/23/2026 at 5:29 PM, richardmurray said:

James Foten, Clarence Thomas, Yourself Troy, Frederick Douglass all @ProfD all have this USA is home view points, regardless of the condition of a majority of black people in modernity or historically

What is eating at you man? Putting me in the same category as Clarence Thomas... that is almost as bad as calling me a liar.

First where do YOU choose to live? That by definition is your home. It is disingenuous to rail against other across centuries not less about what they call home. this country is my home and I will fight to make it better. You can disagree but until you are living somewhere other than the "good ole USA" your admonishment falls flat.



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5 hours ago, admin said:

What is eating at you man?

Nothing is eating at me. In the forum I have always said the black populace in the usa is a collection of tribes, disimilar from each other , which is a heritage, what is carreid from the very infancy of the usa.

James Forten was a business owner, black, fought alongside whites colonist who aided or abetted in the enslavement of black people , to initialize the usa.

Harry Wahsington was enslaved to george washington, James Forten's general and leader, and fought against the creation of the USA and lef tto Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone.

The ninety percent of black people enslaved to white colonists who remained enslaved after the usa was initialized. who i am 100% certain hated whites and the usa as James BAldwin admitted to his father, who retained said black folsk dislike of whites and dislike of the usa or absent desire to be part of the usa, . I paraphrase, my father never once spoke ill or attacked a white man and hated white people to the bone to the day he died.

And Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten. That is ok. No crime, but I must admit that there is no WE in the black populace in the usa, and never was, and i think it is important, because it is the truth. And i think the truth is always warranted.

@richardmurray did you do any research on TicTok and China, or are gonna ignore that?

Conflating all of these people (Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten) you are painting with a very broad brush. That shortcut ignores is easy and avoids nuance which leads to false conclusions.

Your rejection of the we ignored the fact that the "we" is responsible for all human progress. If is built into us, sure in can also lead to conflict but ethnicities and civilization would be impossible without it.

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