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@aka Contrarian ...I did drop the ball on those noteworthy events. 😁 Tony Brown was smooth as silk on his Journal show. Mother Khadijah Farrakhan was married to Minister Louis Farrakhan for 72 years. The word is that she was a strong matriarchal figure. Stay busy having fun with AI & being able to travel by simply closing your eyes. That's exactly why you're still here with us.🤗😎

@richardmurray I think you would be who could best fufill my request to print Frederick Douglass' famous 4th of July speech. I never tire of reading it. Its message is as timely today, as it was when he first delivered it.

Poor ol jive ass country nigga Pioneer Sho wish I could become a pimp so I could beat up womem and sell crack on da street. I ain't makin nothin from slappin my ol lady around. But at least I still got my secret peep hole in the ladies room where I can jack off while watchin dem Afrikan women pee.

An abridged digest of this famous speech. ### What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass Delivered at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion. The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a Fourth-of-July oration. This certainly sounds large, and out of the common way, for it is true that I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall, and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect Gage of the Hall, can free me from embarrassment. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here today is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the Fourth of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. It carries your minds back to the day, and to the act of your great deliverance; and to the signs, and to the wonders, associated with that act, and that day. This celebration also marks the beginning of another year of your national life; and reminds you that the Republic of America is now seventy-six years old. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-six years, though a good old age for a man, is but a mere speck in the life of a nation. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. According to this fact, you are, even now, only in the beginning of your national career, still lingering in the period of childhood. I repeat, I am glad this is so. There is hope in the thought, and hope is much needed, under the dark clouds which lower above the horizon. ... Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very moment... Can hardly wait for the fireworks tonight.

Refugees from South Africa should get asylum in the United States. If the Trump Administration wants to limit immigration to ONLY refugees who are fleeing persecution in South Africa, instead of the White Afrikaners.....they should first accept the BLACK AFRICAN immigrants who are currently being harassed and persecuted in there. Give them priority refugee status. I don't recall hearing or seeing anyone else on the internet suggesting this. So remember the idea came from ME.....lol.

Looks like @aka Contrarian took a page from your book, er, movie idea & used AI to flip the script.🤣 Again, you two going back & forth is worth the price of admission from where I sit.😁😎

Ddddamn

@ProfD I have no problems at all because I'm posting from my phone. I never log out. And I have an app that connects me any time I decide to post.

Appropriately, the 250th 4th of July celebration in DC was rain delayed.🤣 POTUS OJ the 🤡 in chief decided to give a speech which had already pushed the national fireworks 🎆 back a couple hours. Thankfully, I had a wonderful holiday in food & fellowship with family & friends.😎

If YOU were looking at what he was and where his night was headed, YOU would guzzle down two drinks too! And that would be just a start....lol.

Too bad Black folks didn't buy those clinics. Yep. The former baseball player made a fortune with that Pizza! Pizza! sh8t.🤣 That's what happens when people spend money on garbage instead of investing in the future. 😎

Thanks for the info. I have some tentative plans for another book, but it will be a while. The article on my novel was in the printed paper and epaper, but if I send you a link you have to sign in with an account. I downloaded it, but it's a pdf and the forum page won't accept a pdf. Can I send it with your email or some other way? I hope you enjoy a good 250th anniversary Saturday. It's supposed to be over 100 degrees here in NC.

@aka Contrarian It is here:) What to the slave is the 4th of July? from Frederick Douglass - RMCommunityCalendar - African American Literature Book Club yes, it is eternally timely for the United States of America because its very founders or earliest supporters, like black business owner who fought alngside james forten, biggest support for the USA isn't its condition but its ability to change. The USA was never and is not the land of freedom or peace or equality or profit, but it is the land that has embraced a way to change officially, that was a rarity and now is front and center to an important question. What defines a person's connection to a country? The federation of international football associations has a world cup being played in the usa at the time of this writing and many of the teams show the identity of many countries through immigration has become something in dire need of consensus. South Africa is kicking out black people from other parts of africa. Japan has a black goalkeeper. MExico's biggest star is a black man, a negra, who was touted in mexican media as someone taking away from mexicans. Many countries are dealing with the challenge of immigration. The first people or indigenous folk never invited or wanted white european people to colonize their lands but it happened and that was the first round of immigration to the lands that are the usa. that immigration led to the annihilation of many first peoples but started the ball into modernity. Who are you? can be answered by any individual. But, in many countries today a majority has a description that doesn't suit may minorities. Frederick Douglass asked what connection does the enslaved have to the usa. what connection does anyone have to the usa? or anywhere? IS it a place you like to live in? IS it a place you honor based on forebears? IS it a place you simply make the best of cause you are there? Is it a place where people around you make the decision for you? Are native americans connected to the usa cause their forebears were here first or were annihilated by others to make the usa? Are white americans connected to the usa cause they wrote its laws and birthed it or do they see themselves as individuals who masquerade as a group only for convenience? Are black americans connected to the usa cause they had ancestors who fought to birth the usa and integrated their lives no matter what non blacks did or cause they have no where else to go and would rather live happy as can be in a place not their own? Are modern immigrants connected to the usa cause they wanted the fiscal opportunity they couldn't get in the country whose flag they wave while sitting nicely in the usa or because they simply see the world as one home no matter if all their neighbors post that? All countries have minorities but not all majorities have the power to decide all on thier own. In the usa , the old white majority of the past isn't enough. so a new majority is needed. @ProfD thank you for the numbers.

What does "Atleast" spell? And your grammar leaves a lot to be desired.

@aka Contrarian I have little trust in people with power. AI even less so. I had a different bore in mind. bore 1 of 6 verb (1) ˈbȯr How to pronounce bore (audio) bored; boring Synonyms of borenext transitive verb 1 : to pierce with a turning or twisting movement of a tool bore a wooden post 2 : to make by boring or digging away material bored a tunnel use a drill to bore a hole through the board intransitive verb 1 a : to make a hole by or as if by boring insects that bore into trees b : to sink a mine shaft or well boring for oil 2 : to make one's way steadily especially against resistancee @Troy that's true. I am attracted to a feeling. I'm definitely a dinosore @aka Contrarian I feel closer my your eyes gives vision beyond boundaries. AI is tool take an idea or vision and bring it into"reality" If it feels good keep on keeping on

I think gifted gymnasts are born. I wasn’t a gifted gymnast. I could compete at the college level, but I would never be on the Olympic team. I’ve had a couple of knee surgeries that might be related to the sport, but I don’t know. I consider myself out of shape now, but that’s probably due to my age and being more sedentary than I’ve been in my entire life. Like I said in another post, I’ve spent most of my free time messing around with my website and AI over the past six months. I take walks, But I drink eat too much too. That said I can still do a few handstand push-ups ;-)

ROTFLMMFBAO! I don’t know why I found that so funny I guess just because it’s so extreme lol coming from a little old lady who just shared so many pictures with her new boo, but still finds the time to lay into @Pioneer1 You didn’t ask me, but I think the former is far more healthier than a latter. I’ve been obsessed with using AI to improve my website for the past six months. I know I need to pull back… but it’s hard right now because I’m accomplishing so much. it’s not all that complicated man most people are pretty superficial, a cute face big titties big ass. You’ll have no problem with attracting a dude. You could be semi retarded and don’t even speak English doesn’t matter. Or you can have a lot of money that pretty much trump‘s everything including looks. Short of that everyone else just settles, People who are really interested in getting to connect with someone on a deeper level independent of wealth or appearance are relatively rare they exist, but they are more anomalous rather than the norm. If people get bored with each other it is because they’re not listening — people are fascinating with interesting stories.

So wait, did you provide a prompt that had you put his hand on his thigh like that @aka Contrarian or did the AI do that on itself? I was at a cookout over the weekend and someone was playing a song that I really liked, and I asked who it was and a guy sitting across from me said it was him that he created the song using an AI! I was like that could be a hit man. Then the Sista next to me was like oh you should hear this song (below) and Sista on the other side also knew the saw and was like yo that Song really touched her. Another AI song! Now I’ve heard many people say that AI music isn’t any good and that they can tell the difference. Well, one thing I know for sure is that I can’t tell the difference and that for a lot of people they could care less. I mean the cheering in the background sounds fake, but this has been fake for the past 50 years or longer. Sure, the music is derivative… Sounds like Beyoncé, but what music isn’t derivative? When AI starts doing something that’s completely novel the money will flow right out of musicians hands into the hands of be already super wealthy. Musicians will be covering AI generated music.

@ ProfD I see where long time black journalist and political pundit Tony Brown died at 93. Also Minister Farrakhan's wife, Kadeja, passed and she was 90. I depend on you to report such noteworthy events because I'm too old and busy with my ego trip to track down the details of other old people who croak. 😜

Glad the cops caught that perverted peepin tom. I heard that ProfD had to go bail Pioneer out of jail. 🙄

None of the 4 in that photo above is actually in Trump's Administration. Like you said, Scott Turner....the head of HUD is the only Black person currently in his Administration. Funny how they pick a Black man to oversee how the housing projects and Section 8 programs are ran, lol.

Koon & the Gang is hilarious.🤣 Along with the disdain, I always get hearty chuckle out those guys & their inanity when it comes to boot-licking & selling the soap for white supremacy. Whenever I see hear those clowns, the 1st thought that comes to mind paraphrases scripture, Mark 8:36-38..."what profit a man to gain the world & lose his soul".😁 Before anyone's head explodes, yes, the resident agnostic knows the Bible too😉😎

Thanks for the info. I did try to reply twice, but apparently it didn't work. I got lost in some of those forum conversations, and I guess replied to the wrong message. I did get an article on the front page of our local newspaper (see below). Do you think my novel is a good fit on AALBC? How challenging is it to list a book on your site? I'm not very experienced at creative.

I don't know if it's animal magnetism but I don't put up with rude behavior regardless of gender.😁 Patent & trademark it.😁 Homies call to conduct business & the wifey or kids roll up & start a whole conversation in the background. N8gglet doesn't have enough sense to shut them down. So, I help him out by hanging up. Call me back. My folks..anybody around me knows not to start bumping their gums if they see I'm on a call. Wait your turn to talk to me.😁 I almost dropped outta school in the 2nd grade. Teacher tried to make me participate in recess along with the other kids. I told her azz I don't play.🤣 I've been a grown azz man ever since I was a little boy.😁😎

This is already happening. I see couples out having drinks or a meal. They are both on their phones. I go to a fast food Mexican restaurant. Most customers order on line. When they show up they don't ask for their order they just hold out their phone.