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@Stefan, the fact that I feel AfroAmericans' should be able to vote by birthright is considered a complaint. I'm not buying it.😁 There are several reasons AfroAmericans aren't fighting for anything: 1) devoid of leadership. As a group of people, we are rudder-less. 2) The smartest AfroAmericans have bought into the lure of the American Dream. No fight in them. 3) afraid of the consequences Fear is powerful. AfroAmericans will remain in a holding pattern until its Black men stand up and let them hang.😎

This country is hilarious in how it treats prostitution. It's against the law for a woman to sell herself on the street. But, most dates are essentially men buying s8x from women. Same goes for a man paying a woman's bills. Yet, it's not considered prostitution. Otherwise, the police could show up in any restaurant or movie theater and start arresting folks because there's plenty prostitution happening there.🤣 Brothels and escort services are legalized prostitution. Men with money can have extramarital affairs without the baggage associated with infidelity. Married tricks and hoes get fancy titles...husbands and wives. They're under contract to have s8x with each other. Yet, let some men lose a job or money come up short and he might be sleeping in the doghouse. No s8x. Conversely, there are women in marriages and relationships who look at s8x as a chore or job. They dread paydays and birthdays and holidays and any other occasion that requires f8ckin. 🤣 Then, there are men and women who sneak around having s8x with someone else because they're tethered to a situation for one reason or another (finances, family, material possessions, etc.) and cannot leave. Prostitutes. Prostitution is truly the oldest profession. The world is filled with pimps, hoes and tricks. I had the whole game figured out by the time I was about 9 years old. 😁😎

Here is my following content for promoting positivity Section 1: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-1-941477089 Section 1: Prompt 2 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-2-941478176 Section 2: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-1-947227324 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P1-invitation-947216750 Section 2: Prompt 2 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-2-947230376 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P2-invitation-947228628 Section 2: Prompt 3 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-3-947235678 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P3-invitation-947235001 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P3-coloring-page-947234789 Section 2: Prompt 4 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt4-947552463 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Final-Distance-Of-The-Twenty-Third-I-R-C-L-To-947551245 Late, did not count but would had been for Section 4: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/politics/2691569/ Late, did not count but would had been for Section 5: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/My-Final-Thoughts-on-Positivity-Challenge-2022-947598367 The following is the forum post as it relates to Black History Month February in the United States is Black history Month. Black in the United States is a phenotypical race, whose members are mostly while not exclusively descended of enslaved peoples. Frederick Douglass once spoke of a composite nation. Frederick Douglass opposed White people owning or enslaving Blacks. He also opposed Blacks making Black only towns. In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, I ask all humans to state or proclaim one art form that from your experience comes from the Black community in the USA but has not been adopted by those outside the Black community in the USA. For example, rap or hip hop cannot be used cause rap or hiphop are heavily adopted out the black community in the USA. Ballet can not be used, if you are thinking of Misty Copeland or similar cause Ballet comes from the white community in Europe. LINK to read a Compositve Nation version, he rewrote it many times. https://nyhs-prod.cdn.prismic.io/nyhs-prod/071a94b5-388a-4546-b798-7439b35e2061_Composite+Nation_Composite+Nation+Speech.docx.pdf

Wow @Rodney campbell! This is some great reading! The artwork is incredible and works very nicely with your poetry. The two mixed together makes for powerful positive messageing. I'm an artist and have a huge appreciation for how one expresses themselves through art and spoken word. Thanks for sharing! I'd like to share a poem from my 3rd self-published book that promotes positivity about the, alleged, Angry Black Woman - dispelling the myth/excuse/stereotype that Black Women are ALWAYS so Angry. Article XII – Black night, Black sky, Black room & The Angry Black Woman My skin - dark as the night – until the lights reveal my flawless hue. My face - beautiful as the night sky, present in every episode of life. My heart - mysterious as a dark room until you open your heart and let me in. Like the black night, the black sky and the black room, if you don’t open your mind and acknowledge that I’m not always so angry, and if you don’t open your hearts and accept me for the beautiful mess that I am, you will continue to miss out on the essence of me and what we can be, together. Dark as the night, beautiful as the night sky, and mysterious as a dark room - not always an Angry Black Woman. Book III Are Black Women ALWAYS so Angry...Truth Excuse or Something else (An inspirational and educational book of articles that speaks to how Black Women Love) The purpose of this book of narrative, non-fictional articles promise to bitch slap you into owning your truth, then apologizing, forgiving, and hugging it out. It will enlighten, educate, answer that burning question that keeps so many up at night (smirk), and will help you help me help others who need help understanding the Truth, Excuse and the Something else as to why ‘Black Women are NOT always so angry’. Hmmmm. Are Black Women ALWAYS so Angry...Truth, Excuse or Something Else the link: https://www.am*zon.com/dp/1520984774 ISBN: 9781520984773 My apologies @richardmurray. The above response should have been sent to you.

This is a website for writers .... Your proposal requires writers ... You are a writer ... We are writers ... Everyone here is a talented contributing writer. Most are capable speakers. Few know how to work a crowd. One or Two have the workings for media contained communication. Everything about politics is bullshit. However, what you have proposed, intentionally, or not, is a takeover. I'm in. ... So. It's your plan. Let's do it then. Write up who the knuckle heads are, and how it is best to take them down. Who the turncoats are, and how to silence them. Without their interference the multi ethnic coalition you want will almost fall into the waiting lap of the instigator who originates and carries out this plan. Smashing is fun. Lets do this. For those unaccustomed to a fight be warned. There will be targeted reprisals and serious fallout. With blow-back that will require a safety belt being worn to stop you from being catapulted. All cards are on the table. Who's in?

High technology is relative to the time period in which it was created. IOW, the tools we take for granted were once high technology. A skim through reading of the history of China, one would know how they were powerful from their dynasties through present. China was responsible for the four great inventions (compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing). They also came up with the abacus, sundial and lantern. Chinese mathematicians were the 1st to use integers (negative numbers). Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War. It is easy to dismiss how China became powerful and threatening but choose to cherry-pick what makes them a Boogeyman. The role the US has played in making China a more powerful nation has been acknowledged. I would not be surprised if a tour of Chinese military weaponry doesn't bare a few stamps Made in the USA. There is a huge pitcher of media propaganda Kool-Aid that paints China as an adversary. During the Cold War it was Russia. A few years ago it was North Korea and Iran. Same playbook. As I mentioned before, the US creates adversaries in order to justify proliferation of its military strength. 😎

@ProfD I love you, man! But you were complaining. This is why I have been saying we NEED a new Voting Rights Bill. The reason why as you claim Afro Americans ( I like this term) aren't fighting for a new bill right now is due to the financial turmoil and the uncertainty they face. If we can silence the knuckleheads and the turncoats and build a multi-ethnic political coalition as Obama did, we can get this accomplished. But it's going to take time and many well versed spokespeople who know how to smash Woke and CRT accusations to bits.

@ProfD There was no high technology hundreds of years ago. So China could not have been stealing any. One can discover just how China became a world power ... but you're going to have do some reading. You will not find the full answer from one source. And that is what I do. I read. But I mostly read analyses. Personally, I don't care to revisit how China became so powerful and threatening. But I know a lot of their expertise and industrial knowledge came through outsourcing and illegal technology transfers. How China steals U.S. high tech I wrote numerous news stories on transporting raw materials and finished product to and from Mexico and China. I also attended myriad conferences where these topics were discussed. The U.S. practically gave away its industrial advantage through greedy corporations that did not want to pay U.S. workers the salaries their talent called for. So they opted to transfer many operations to other countries where the costs were much lower. This was outsourcing. Their first choice was Mexico. Under NAFTA, many companies closed plants in the U.S. and went south of the border. I am sure many remember Ross Perot's warning of "that great sucking sound" as Mexico vacuumed up U.S. company after U.S. company. I'm simplifying this. There was great trauma in the corporate manufacturing world and great fear among workers that "my company might be next." But it turned out many Mexicans refused to work cheap, demanding higher pay, health benefits, even childcare centers. Especially in the car making Maquiladora corridor. In Mexico's Federal District, (Mexico City and other regions in central Mexico) wages were high enough that at some companies pay was a dollar or two below U.S. hourly wages. So U.S. companies then began eyeing Taiwan, China and other Asian nations. This did not happen overnight. But as wages in Asia rose and some companies blanched at Pacific ocean shipping costs, some production was transferred back to Mexico. The bottom line is that China is a huge country with more than a billion people. It's second in population behind India. Under its current leadership, China stands ready to knock off the U.S. and assume world domination. This is a much abbreviated version. But I repeat, there are plenty of other sources.

Sometimes we have to peel a layer in order to enjoy the fruit. Some of the most brilliant, gifted and/or talented people have had their flaws while making positive contributions to humanity. From past to present, across groups of people and continents, smoking plants seems to have been a cultural thing.😎

First, I fear nothing therefore I'm free to type and/or say whatever pops into my brain. No caution required. Secondly, while you're entitled to read my post as a "sweeping statement", it is presumptuous to assume that I lack understanding of the underlying background and history just because my position doesn't fit through your lens. The brotha makes a great point here because literal and figurative interpretations of information can be influenced by an individual's emotion and/or bias. Even more challenging to have a virtual discussion over text because it is devoid of physical expression. Maybe we should recalibrate the discussion on how China became a powerful nation in the modern era. I'm certain that in addition to other countries they got a lot of help from...US (United States). 😎

@ProfD China has not been doing the same chit for hundreds of years. There was no high-tech hundreds of years ago. And as recently as the early 20th Century, foreign influence still bedeviled China. For example, Hong Kong had been taken over and ruled by the British. Many parts of the country was still beset by internecine warfare. China could not threaten another country. It was too busy fending off incursions. I'd be careful before making sweeping statements without understanding the underlying background and history.

Then there are the issues of having a job someplace else and needing a car, otherwise, there probably would be a mad rush. People fortunate enough to have an apartment in the projects are somewhat trapped. When I was a kid it was realistic to save some money and buy a house in "Blacklandia." For those of you familiar with NY City Blacklandia is what I call the "two-fare zone" bounded by the Van Wyck, Grand Central, Belt Parkway, and the Cross Island. It includes St. Albans, Jamaica, Cambria Heights, Springfield Gardens, etc). It was whitelanida originally but as soon as negros started moving in it quickly became Blacklandia. Today, housing is so expensive in NYC that it is much harder for people to leave the projects in Harlem and move even to Blacklandia, let alone Atlanta, Charlotte, or Florida. There are opportunities to move to places like Tulsa (where I lived for 18 months), Bentonville AK, The Shoals in Ll, and other cities where they will pay you to move there. Still, many people can't imagine NYC -- despite the crime, noise, dirt, hyper-policing of Black people, and high cost of living -- they love NYC. NYC does still have some appeal, but I'd rather visit than live there -- and I was born raised, and lived most of my adult life there. This is perfectly reasonable as prior to the hyper-partisanship of today most people held views that were supported by different parties.

ProfD Neely Fuller Jr. said sex is the 2nd most powerful force in nature. He said people are spending time either ENGAGING in it, PLANNING it, or REMENISCING about a time when they used to have it.....LMBAO!!!!! "Nigga you betta stop...... You know your heart ain't strong enough for that no more"

ProfD I'm adamant about Black people taking back our sexual freedom as well as our morals in general from Caucasians and their religious systems. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism.....highly regulates sex while many of it's so-called adherents were out conquering land and raping women. They're telling YOU how to have sex, when to have it, and who to have it with but THEY aren't following their own rules! Many of the men who called themselves "prophets" were killing people, taking land, taking women, etc...like a lot of gangsters do today. I'm not going to get into the psychology of why some men OR WOMEN (yes...lol) pay for sex. Whether they're too ugly, too stupid, dick too small, pussy to wide, into freaky shit, etc......it's their business. As long as they aren't forcing themselves on their partners and their partners are 18 and over...it's cool with me. We have more pressing things as a society to worry about than whether or not some woman wants to sell her coochie to make some money or voluntarily give a man a portion of her money in order for him to protect her and promote her trade.

You pay for food. You pay for a place to stay. You pay for service on your vehicle. You pay for health care. You pay for a good time at the movies. You pay for drugs and alcohol so you can feel good. But all of a sudden, when it comes to paying for sex.....people feel some sort of way. It comes from being brainwashed by Caucasians and their anti-sexual religious dogma. Europeans, Aryans, Arabs, etc....have called sex nasty, evil, a "necessary evil", and have heavily regulated it through their religious indoctrinations and the people of color who grew up under their influence also have these same dysfunctional beliefs. Before the coming of the Caucasians, most Black societies not only had legalized prostitution but had big COMMUNITY ORGIES where all the adults in the community would come out and have sex with eachother, often times in public and in the holy temples. WE didn't think of sex as "sinful" until White folks came along and TOLD you it was. It's been said that Kufu (Cheops) one of the Kings of Kemet actually prostituted his daughter out to raise money to help fund the building of one of the Great Pyramids. This thing most men have against prostitution doesn't come from a HIGH MORAL perspective, but actually comes from PRIDE. Most men don't want to think of themselves as being so "lame" or "wack" that they have to pay for sex. They like to think of themselves as so "boss" or "playa" that women THROW themselves at them and offer them sex at no price. In my observations, that's less than 5% of the men out there. Most men....who ARE having sex, because some aren't...lol.... are PAYING the women they're having sex with either directly or undirectly.

It is the matter because I am asking you the question. Would you see it as just a job if your mother, sister and your partner were being pimped by your father. Pioneer: What time are we going out tonight. Partner: I can't go out tonight. I have to work for Daddy. But Daddy is going to take me shopping after I give him all my money and have sex. Pioneer: Cool, have a banging night. Partner: If I bring in $500 Daddy is going to by me a dress. It's cool how you are open minded about sharing me with your father. Pioneer: I like to keep it All in the Family.

It's not a matter of ME being cool with it. It's a matter of my Mother or sister having a CHOICE as to doing what they want to do with THEIR body. .......as adults, long as THEY are cool with it and aren't being forced to against their will or PREVENTED from it against their will regardless of my approval of it. I put prostitution in the same category with abortion, it should be a PERSONAL decision without the state forcing archaic and religious dogma on others.