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@Troy you reading anything from tananarive due?

Tananarive Due speech transcript, not perfect

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Thank you so much to the LA times
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the other nominees were incredible
to say this this is an honor is an understatement
back in 2014 I got a phone call from the florida state attorney's office
And learned that my great uncle robert stevens died in 1937 at a notorious - school for boys, a reformatory in florida
and after attending a meeting there with my father freedom rider john - due jr I knew I had to write about robert stevens
but i also knew that my story would need a different ending , and ghost
The novel took me seven years, to write, thank you so much to my husband Steven Barnes, I love you so much, also a great writer, for keeping me on the path, my editor-, my agent donald- , my father for helping me manage the jim crow judge's chamber, my sister joanna- , and my late mother patricia - due, for her courage as a civil rights activist. 
If I didn't know what should happen next in my book I just had to ask what would mom had done. There are countless robert- stevens in the world. And too few of them get a happy ending. so as we face the horrors in our world, in our cities, in gaza and elsewhere. And where there's true life racism , homophobia , islamaphobia, and antisemiticsm, let us honor the courage of young people as the primary creators of change throughout history and the lesson my mother taught me , activism takes many many forms, as the late octavia a butler said, the only lasting truth is change.
thank you very much

well done, thanks:) 

I asked there what I will ask here?

where is the website, who owns this?

I searched online and didn't find a website? how? 

@Chevdove and all others , let us make a list of all the black federal wide competitions in the usa, federal wide, I can't believe many exists 

@Milton   I put what I placed on your blog...

will you follow me on aalbc? 

Many artist found themselves adding a different aspect of their operations during the covid19. I admit I have been slow to embrace escapism but I didn't feel the same sense of loss during 2020-2022 as many others. 

Glad you are going in another path. 

On a literary note, when I think of "American Fiction" the film or the book it is from "Erasure" from percival e. I think a great contrast exist between writing in a new genre to placate to an old negative environment opposed to writing in a new genre to embrace a new positive aspect in one's environment.

good luck:) as always

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haha I was about to put this in:) 

@Troy

I do troy but I don't recall any mention of graphic novels in the video so I fugre the video si just for the video character, thus culture section. 

Why is this in the literature sections? shouldn't it be in the culture section? 

@Troy 

I see. You and I have different definitions to the word mecca.  And that is why I said the following

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10751-these-black-mayors-arent-powerless/?do=findComment&comment=66656

I quote myself

that depends on how you define a mecca

but thank you Troy I comprehend in this group I have made a devastating error. For too long I use words in my own way but don't add adjectives explaining these are my definitions. And so it invites others who definitions are different to then come with their definitions but their definitions don't match mine and this our dialog's positions don't align. 

Based on your definition of mecca you are correct troy. Yes, but not based on my definition. And we both are keeping our won definitions so we each are correct plus incorrect. 

I will state how I define mecca. A mecca to me isn't a place that draws people. Any place draws people. I call that a condition of any place as a gathering spot.  

I define a mecca as a place that has intrinsic value to a race of people regardless to if they are drawn to it physically. 

I base my definition on the role of Mecca to the muslim heritage which is the source of the word. Muslims pray towards mecca, they honor mecca regardless of being able to go to mecca. It is not a gathering spot. it is a revered place to Muslims regardless of whether they go to it or not. Harlem by my definition of Mecca is not a mecca and NYC is not a white mecca. 

Again,

Troy you plus others , not me plus others, define race as phenotype. Based on your definition of race I speak incorrectly or dysfunctionally. based on my definition of race I speak correctly or functionally. 

The following is my definition of the word  race which are from my parents, my first teachers, plus the books I learned about words from. 

The word race does not mean phenotype. Phenotype means appearance.

Race means a characteristic similarity, it can be any characteristic; it  can be gender [male/female/hermaphrodite] , clan[your last name] , language [anglo/laltino/sino] , geographic [african/european/asian], religion [ christian/buddhist/muslim/vodun], nativity [ indigenous/immigrant/migrant], and yes phenotype[black,white, mullato, arab, mestizo,dark, light ] and based on my definition of the word race,  all humans have a set of racial labels based on their characteristics. 

So I am a black male anglo harlemite , four different races : phenotype/gender/language/geography . I have more but I said this for explanatory purposes. 

Now I am not asking anyone else to use words as I use them or define words as I use them but I will continue to use definitions of words in a manner I find most correct. 

@ProfD

can you describe the better  financial opportunities south of NYC? I want to tell black people offline about them 

@Troy 

based on how you define a mecca, 

do non phenotypical racial groups have mecca's in the usa? for example latinos [who can have any phenotype] or asians[ who can have any phenotype]?

@Troy that depends on how you define a mecca

I have never defined a mecca to any people through the lens of those who are most financially fortunate. 

The mecca of islam isn't revered because financially fortunate muslims travel their on caravans or planes of gold from somewhere else. It is revered because even the fiscally poorest muslim sees in mecca the spiritual homeland of their people. NYC in my view is not a mecca for whites or specifically white statians. In the same way Harlem was never a mecca for blacks or specifically black dos. 

well, you say take over but harlem was white before it was black, it was native before it was white.  Everybody black who lived or lives in harlem should know this from their black parents. And modern harlem is probably the finest example of a phenotypically/linguistically/religiously mixed region in nyc. 

I don't know nyc has alot of problems Troy. First, NYC is going to have an explosion in populace in a decade or two that to be blunt has no way to be anything but a horde of fiscally poor people unless some financial event occurs. 

@Troyyou comprehend what i mean

I comprehend @Pioneer1

I think alot can be said about how groups approach problems. A functionality exist in being honest, that is lacking in the usa en large. The most truthful thing to say is , being honest has problems  or at least potential problems,  but the veiled approach also has problems or at least potential problems as well. 

I argue one of the problems with the native american in the context of the usa, from the usa's very infancy is the native americans who fought for their way of life couldn't create an illusion in the usa system that mirrored the life style they had or wanted. 

It is a matter of taste

@ProfD no profd, I have to say, we black people need to stop suggesting grand organization amongst non blacks in the usa. I don't really see evidence to that.  The system the non black founding father's implemented doesn't need non blacks to engage in it to be betterment for non blacks. I look at NYC in all earnest, if the non black populace had the kind of positive organizational qualities black people tend to suggest then nyc would be a white mecca to be blunt. 

https://forums.projectliberty.io/t/dsnp-relationship-to-epub/386/2?u=rmprojectl

Hi Richard,

I’m definitely not an EPUB expert but it’s a really interesting question.

One of the things DSNP is generally useful for is ensuring authenticity and immutability of content through specific file hashes. So one simple way that EPUB could intersect with DSNP is to allow an EPUB document to be an attachment to a DSNP post (broadcast or reply). In this case DSNP serves the role of ensuring the precise version of an EPUB can be reliably referenced (if you don’t care about precise versions, you can also use the link type in DSNP).

Secondly, at Project Liberty one of the core principles that guide our work is that technology should enable people to participate in the economics of platforms and their content, while maintaining agency and control over their identity and creations. One way this could intersect with EPUB is in the area of digital rights management, that is, restricting access to content based on authorization. While most DRM schemes for EPUB operate in a centralized fashion today (Adobe ADEPT, am*zon, etc.), building a DRM scheme that incorporates DSNP identity for authorization could help create decentralized solutions where authors are not reliant on a third party gateway in order to control and benefit from distribution of their intellectual property. (In actuality, you probably need some combination of user identifier and device identifier, to maintain accountability in a scenario where one account is shared. I’m not proposing a specific scheme here, but there are definitely possibilities.)

As far as accessing DSNP content through an EPUB, I’m not sure what this would look like. Since an EPUB is, in effect, a snapshot of a website, you could take any set of DNSP content and turn it into an EPUB (perhaps for a “daily digest” on a certain topic). There would need to be a service that did this data aggregation and transformation, but it would certainly be possible with DSNP much more easily than with “walled garden” social networks that restrict access to content and APIs.

Hope this helps and perhaps gets some further ideas flowing.

Best,

Wes

https://forums.projectliberty.io/t/dsnp-relationship-to-epub/386/3?u=rmprojectl

Thank you Wes for the reply,

For the first suggestion you made

I saw the broadcast and Reply
Broadcast - DSNP Specification
for the broadcast, it seems you can have activity content types
which has audio/video/image/link

So i assume the link will be to an epub. then? It isn’t a physical attachment as much as a linked attachment. am I correct?

For the second+third suggestion you made , you confirmed what I felt in the back of my head. That an entire service will need to be built to make this possible.

You have helped me 100% I will try something and see.

QUESTIONS

what chips or snacks were you eating?
what is the most financially successful black female produced film in the usa? 
You guys made me wonder about black male movie reviewers opinion toward films produced or directed by black women . I wonder do black female produced/directed films get mostly positive reviews from black male film reviewers?
To the needle moving, Biden could had chose stacey abrams who is more functional like shirley chisholm but chose kamala harris who is less industrious while also like obama or adam clayton powell jr is phenotypically not the image of "pure blackness" like chisholms' color suggest. 
Was this film like the aretha franklin supported biopic, in that it didn't get steamy or telenovela-ish?
Are you calling on a PBS vietnam war level documentary for shirley chisholm? i think that would be very revealing. 
 

consider finding a way to keep the image of the black woman, i know that fake online profiles that interact in a pseudo human way have some rights but i am not certain on the law

@ProfD I comprehend with clarity.

https://www.faithringgold.com/

her page on aalbc

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@ProfD  

Well , you offer a solution , love between 99% in humanity. And I state a real reason why your answer isn't happening. I never say it isn't going to happen or impossible.  But you say it is an impossibility for real things. 

I may simply not comprehend the logic in offering a solution that you don't believe can happen but I wonder why you do that. 

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@Pioneer1

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Yes, but we shouldn't CALL it that.
The Republican Party is a defacto "White" party with some Black folks in it, but it's smart enough not to call itself such.

Black people need to be more discreet when naming organizations founded for us.

Why more discreet? So many black people in the usa talk about speaking in code. Why?

Black people talk of freedom but I was raised to know that freedom doesn't occur when your a president or a mayor or wealthy. Freedom doesn't occur when you have a law degree. Freedom occurs not when you have what you want but at all times, on the path to what you want, when you don't get what you want, when you have been kicked in the teeth.

But I thank you Pioneer, you explain more than ever why JesseJackson thought as he did with the Donkeys. Why black people thought with the elephants before. Most   organizations from Whites in the usa, including the usa government in my view,   are one thing in reality while another in name or advertisement. 

I say that is not something black people need to imitate in any way. But that is who black people like me are. 

@Pioneer1

Did you vote in the poll question? 

@ProfD

Are you suggesting the native american should love everyone else in the usa? 

Why? What has the non native americans done to earn the love of the native american?

I ask about the native american because the usa story starts with them. A people didn't want the white european colonies to be created, didn't want the usa created and were killed by the colonies or the usa born from the colonies. 

Why should the native american love the non native american ? I can't say I will concur to whatever answer you have but I hope the answer isn't some egalitarianism

Thank you for the reply to Troy's position. The young man's grandmother admitted he had to relearn all basic skills, he is forever changed and that money will mostly go to medical bills over his lifetime. And sadly, various bloodline members who are financially desperate and will try to use him for their benefit. 

@aka Contrarian First thank you. Second,  I will add to your prose about black people mistrusting whites. For good reason. The reason the irish still have issues with the english it isn't for nothing. The english earned that hate. the non blacks earned the mistrust or hate from blacks in the american continent [modern day canada to argentina]. It isn't spontaneous anger.   Groups earn hate, sometimes to each other, or sometimes from one to another, but the hate/mistrust/dislike is earned. The native american has the right to hate everybody else in the usa. I think they should really.  I don't think humanity is in any danger. the world will be fine. But maybe it is time to embrace the truth about how humans want to relate to other humans and stop letting dysfunctional bureaucracies force negative relationships to get worse. I think of south africa, while many people talk of this and that, the true problem with south africa is the government of mandela and declerk was dishonest. 

blacks nor whites in south africa wanted a merger, no matter how much the wealthy blacks+whites wanted it. 

@Pioneer1 I will not answer. I am not interesting in making an online catalog of my life, those who know me offline know these things, that is enough

@ProfD in the black conference on day 4, linked below,  i think a sister said a similar thing about how people call writing about slavery trauma porn.

Adding her position to yours, I do realize the issue is integration. I will explain. For over one hundred and fifty years, since the end of the war between the states, the majority of black leadership in the usa has sought integration to whites, those who once completely enslaved us. And in that time the black populace who at the end of the war between the states was compelled more to kill whites, nat turner's leadership, leave the usa, garvey leadership , through the efforts of said majority leadership [douglass /web dubois/booker t/ida b well/sojourner truth] the majority of the black populace in the usa embraced in varying styles or qualities or intensities , integration. 

But, some things can be integrated. Some things are segregatory. Legacies are one of those things. This is why the scottish people keep talking about cessation from england. The scottish people never wanted to be in england. The english government used money and the members of the scottish government/parliament [a majority of scottish leaders] to create a peaceful union against the wishes of the scottish people, that is a legacy that will always hold true, even though today most scottish people in varying ways embrace the united kingdom.

The legacy of being enslaved is unique to Black DOSers. It isn't with other black people from nigeria or jamacia. It isn't with non blacks. It isn't with non black native americans. It is a legacy that can not be integrated. It is unique to black dosers. And, it is negative. 

So i concur to the power of time as you suggest but I do think the issue of Black DOSers wanting to integrate at all cost in a populace in the usa that is getting more and more filled with people who have no relationship to Black DOS tradition, unlike white people descended from enslavers or native americans,  and don't care. 

It is a blackwashing, but not from miseducation as much as a desire to be happy in the integrated mix of the usa. 

I will rewrite myself and argue, I think many black DOSers want to be like the black folk who just come to the usa in 2024. IT isn't an antiblack desire as much as a desire not to have a legacy which if honest puts one at odds with the usa or the white people in it while less innocent as the rainbow of immigrants since the immigration act. 

And, black leadership in 150+ years in the usa has rarely embraced the concept of something black people have are unique and can't be integrated. In the same way, native american leadership has done similar. 

... yes the prison industrial complex has grown in palin sight. 

@aka Contrarian yes it is very touchy. 

First, taking out the entertainment industry, no industry in the usa has a greater black presence than black people as legal men of arms [us military/law enforcemeent agencies of state or city] plus the incarcerated. So I am talking about the second most important industry to black people in the usa. Which has led to levels of financial wealth or financial security for black homes throughout the usa on the armed side while led to many broken homes on the incarcerated side. 

Second, even though the black populace owns no gun making firms in the usa , to my knowledge, and there was a time in the usa when white people called knives, nigger guns, cause black people were dissuaded by the white populace to own guns the modern black populace from the nineteen hundred and sixties to now have got access to guns and the financially weak situation of the black populace in the usa has led to street violence. I have to say one thing, white people in chicago committed levels of gun violence that black people never did and have not. PEople forget how chicago/new york/los angeles white populaces had levels of gun violence that would shock modern media if it was to happen. I know in nyc, the irish/italian mob wars. 

Third,  no organization in humanity is evil. Humans who do good  for other humans is in every organization in humanity, regardless the percentage. 

So with the financial relationship to the black populace in the usa, the modern design of the gun totting, the humanity in law enforcement or similar, this is touchy. Many black people have people they live with who are law enforcers/soldiers and can't accept or will not accept them being bad mouthed. And some black law enforcers deserve to be protected from negative judgement based on their own actions. 

It is touchy. 

And Aka Contrarian, people your age in our village aren't supposed to be leading, you are supposed to be watching younger generations lead and guide even younger generations to become the leaders, so that you feel secure leading up to the moment when your spirit flies . You are a member of the black race and it always matters what you think. Your role is to live as happy as you can, and if the village is strong, support you. This is how I was raised in our populace anyway. 

You don't need to come up with the solution, that is the job of black people from younger generations like me. 

I do think the problem is the crossroads black people in the usa find themselves in. What does it mean to be statian , of the usa or american? What is the goal of the black populace in the usa? These questions rarely get answered but in them is identity.