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Looks like Rep Karen Bass will be the 1st female Mayor of Los Angeles. Her opponent spent $100 million of his own money in a losing effort. Hopefully, Mayor Bass will be able to make a difference in reducing crime, homelessness and unemployment in the city of angels.

@Delano yes, In my view peele was making a statement about labor. The black DOS community in the usa as a group tends to be ashamed it was enslaved, that it isn't like all others except the native american in coming to the usa on its own. And cotton is a symbol of that. Your memory was correct. Peele is making another allusion to slave times and historical fact. A black woman , name I forget , wrote a book, book title I forget, about passing and talked about a black couple who earned freedom and had a child that they could pass. And so with their land, they found whites and set it up so that they are the house help, even though the truth is, they were the original landowners and they are blood related to one of the owner of the land, their son, whom everyone thinks is white. @ProfD yes:) he is by both. And your correct, casual viewers are raised on less thoughtful work.

@Troy hmmm as a writer I am pondering. By what you said, you dislike US to the point where its story can not be changed to improve it. You would not had made it. So if you are a producer and the film is pitched to you, you say no. May I know why, you in a producer role say no to the film's pitch or premise? As a writer I think it matters to hear this. Hmmmm, you offer a huge question. Is ease of comprehension the biggest factor in ranking an artwork, with the higher ease equaling a more positive rank ? Hmmm, I think an answer exist , but it is slightly complex. Every artist in fiscal capitalism has a creative side plus a commercial side. Each artwork from an artist thus can be ranked as a creative or commercial work. The creative side of an artwork's rank should not move positively or negatively based on ease of comprehension? why? A reader/listener/viewer comprehending a work has nothing to do with its creativity. The artist saw it. The artist is human. But as each human is individual, no individual must comprehend what another comprehends. Creativity rank should move based on techniques used to create,elements displayed,quantity of thoughts generated by viewers/readers/listeners. Sequentially, US making people think more is a more positive rank for the creative rank. The commercial side of an artwork's rank should move negatively based on growing ease of comprehension? why? the idea of selling an artwork is for the viewer/reader/listener to comprehend it in whole or part and thus be willing to buy it. If it is harder to comprehend, it is less potent to buy. Thus why, special effects laden superhero films or the musicals of the film industry gone by or the martial arts craze films in and after BRuce Lee or the slasher film craze all have very comprehensible storytellings and in parallel, alot more sales. Look at the innocents of 1961, a financial failure. At the end of the movie, you don't know if the teacher is a murderess, if a soul has haunted and killed, you don't even know the outcome of the story. It uses shadow/light/contrast lovely. Creatively it uses many techniques, makes you think a lot, but is also hard to comprehend. But what you may comprehend can be devastating, far more horrible. It is a little like the strangers, which was successful financially but, is similarly hard to comprehend. The genius is, you don't know why the people came in. The assumption is , they are merely crazy slashers. But that is an assumption. The end of film shows a group of people who are "civilized". Thus why the couple went through this, a couple who are lower rich, is a puzzle, that the movie doesn't reveal. it makes you think. In parallel psycho made in 1960 reveals all at the end. We know norman is a murderer, we know his mind is deranged. we know he has killed. The horror isn't in the unknown, it is in the idea. It is like silence of the lambs. Lector is frightening not because of anything unknown to the audience, but because he is presented to be known. @Delano ahh I see. I comprehended it. It reminded me of two things in the past. One Peele mentioned. He said he was influenced by twilight zone. and I caught instantly the similarity in the Twilight zone episode, Mirror Image. With the peele twist that in the film we are witnessing the two switched between worlds interact to each other in a complex plot. To the larger plot it made me think of the man who fell from earth. In the man who fell from earth, the "alien" was held up in a government installation but eventually walks out as the installation is forgotten or gets lost in bureaucracy and secrets. The story is simple: an unknown entity of power, maybe the usa government, maybe a financially wealthy organization, figured out how to make copies of people, and were breeding them in a complex underground network. By the look of the monitors, the project was setup in the 1950s 1960s . But by the 1980s, it is running on autopilot. No one is there at the monitoring rooms or installations except these copies. In the 1980s, a copy gets an inspiration or ability to act different, as a simple anomaly, maybe it was the storm, who knows. Her original meets her and the copy switches with the original, tying the original to a bed and taking the place in the world above. Now the original is trapped in the subterranean system to feel the life of the copy who is free in the world above. Time passes and the original has figured out how to manipulate the copies and free herself. But she has the education of the child she was when entered. While the copy living above, is a lower rich housewife with children who attended school and ballet and lived a life free with opportunity. The copies go on a killing spree and make the hands across america successfully, but their leader, the original, and her copy husband and kids are killed by her copy and her original husband and kids. I love the story from a horror perspective in my view cause all to often, people seem to fear little things. For example, a creature exists. But that to me isn't as dreadful as horrifying as a country of over 300 million original people killed by their copies, completing a fanciful notion <itself a copy of the usa reality>, made by their government, save for the original husband and original children of a copy that alone escaped years ago by an act of self empowerment. In the jason films, the answer is simple, don't go to that camp. In the freddy films, don't live in that town. In the halloween films, don't get in a relationship with jamie lee curtis . But in US, most folk are dead. Its a murder spree. That is more horrible to me as a writing concept. @Delano yes, exactly, judge its merits to buy. Commercially I concur to your point.

Any writers in here with zero or near zero drawing capability want a chance to have a complex logical process, commonly called, an Artificial Intelligence, compose a work of art for them? I am considering making a group in deviantart for you writers. Writers who also draw, like me, your not welcome for now. For now, just the writers who can't draw https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Dreamupgif-937250338

False sense of power! Well said! I am not speaking agains the Black elected woman, though, but in general I think what you said, @Pioneer1is very interesting. Yes, I hope that her presence will help AfroAmericans be better represented there! However, I am a little pessimistic. Absolutely. I believe that angle will be used against us, though no matter who is elected, but yes, racism did become worse when Obama was elected. What a paradox. The signs of oppression. But no, I don't believe that AfroAmericans give up easily, however, our unwillingness to force change is due to so much oppression and despair. I could care less was a racist like that man could predict. The fact that AfroAmericans have been so marginalized has been predicted long before him. And furthermore, any analyst could have seen that coming due to how the modern world was able to form with the aid of technology and cannons and gun power. However, change is inevitable. I believe that people of African descent need to take in accountability of our past mistakes and look forward to improvement and opportunity. We should not be entertaining racist ideology about our present predicament so much so, that we cannot see that other non-African people also are human and suffer too. The future is bleak for all humanity if we don't look for positive improvement. Keep hope alive.

When you reach the level that you can "express beyond words", then you have merged with the Universe and your work on earth is done... don't sweat the small stuff. I sometimes wish that I could've - or would've been more of a participant rather than a witness to all the racial strife that has happened during my life time. Contrary to what some may believe, my atypical black experience spared me a lot of the misery that befell others of my race. I am now nothing more than the "great empathizer". Strive to be proud of any injustices you can dispel. I have not earned this homage. I wish you love.

True, and imagine if everyone did this. Love did work. Hate is what causes all the misery.

Wow! Excellent post. However, I do not believe in signing a petition without doing more individual research. So, I will keep my eyes open for more information. Right now, I don't dismiss petitions at all and believe that this could be a great start, but I also believe something else needs to be done. Slavery in prison is definitely evil and it is a hidden agend due to decieving Black people to believe that the 13th Amendement outlaws slavery when it absolutely is written in such a way that it still condones it! And, I completely understand the issue about environmental dumping in poor and Black and other non-Europeans concentrated communities.