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@ProfD i think black people in the usa should be concerned with everything that happens in the usa, simply cause they live there. From my experience nothing is irrelevant under the government one lives. As for what matters to black people intracommunally, I wonder how many black women from financially successful families in the caribbean/africa/asia/south america come to the usa or europe to have a baby similarly. I recall hearing something a few years back offline but I didn't pay it any mind, but I oppose this for fiscally wealthy black women from outside the usa.

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after reading the article, sharon stone said six months ago after receiving an award in nyc that she wants pay equity. she said that black women need to get ay equal to white women and women need to get aid to men. She said it is the law in the usa but isn't adhered to. So, Taraji Henson isn't lying but, I must say, the issue is the community of workers a well as the willingness of people to produce films. I will give an example. The reality is, every single film taraji p henson has made recently, like hidden figures, if she would had said no, for the wage offered, another black female thespian would had said yes. That is the blunt truth. That is how labor works in the usa, ever since the war between the states ended, employers always find laborers who will work for less. And that is allowed as each laborer is free to do the one thing that people underrate, as I have done more times than not, say no. If you feel someone isn't paying you correct or the fiscal terms of the deal are incorrect, simply say no. And, it is also the production of films that has to change. Taraji isn't a no name thespian but does she roduce films? At the end of the day, you have to risk and invest your own. robert redford, clint eastwood risked what they earned as actors and made great careers producing and directing. But they took gambles, like films downhill racer, the outlaw josey whales. I learned of this from Movies That Move We https://www.facebook.com/groups/162792258578547/permalink/738804597643974/?mibextid=oMANbw Taraji P. Henson Breaks Down In Tears As She Confirms She's Considered Quitting Acting The "Color Purple" star became visibly emotional in a recent interview while sharing the reason behind the potential move. Curtis M. Wong By Curtis M. Wong Dec 20, 2023, 07:09 PM EST As she returns to the big screen in one of this year’s most anticipated films, Taraji P. Henson is getting candid about the pay inequity she faces as a Black woman in Hollywood. The actor became visibly emotional in footage that went viral Wednesday following her recent conversation with Gayle King on SiriusXM, alongside fellow “Color Purple” star Danielle Brooks and the film’s director, Blitz Bazawule. When King asked about a report that claimed Henson was considering quitting acting altogether, the Academy Award nominee began tearing up. “I’m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, being paid a fraction of the cost,” Henson said. “I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get tired.” The actor also pointed out that her profession required her to have a team of people supporting her behind the scenes. “I hear people go, ‘You work a lot.’ I have to. The math ain’t mathing,” she said. “Big bills come with what we do. We don’t do this alone. The fact that we’re up here, there’s a whole entire team behind us. They have to get paid.” Henson endeared herself to a generation of television views as Cookie Lyon on “Empire,” for which she received a Golden Globe. She made her film acting debut in 1998’s “Streetwise,” and nabbed an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Queenie in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt. In 2016, she starred with Janelle Monáe and Octavia Spencer in the smash film “Hidden Figures,” which received three Oscar nominations. In “The Color Purple,” Henson is part of all-star cast that also includes Fantasia Barrino. Early reviews of the film, a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, have called it an “exhilarating, larger-than-life journey” and “a joy to watch.” Yet despite the many accolades she’s received, Henson told King that she’s treated like a novice when it comes to negotiating contracts for film and TV roles. “It seems every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it’s time to renegotiate, I’m at the bottom again, like I never did what I just did,” she said. “And I’m just tired. It wears on you, you know?” Henson has touched on her experiences with pay disparity in a number of previous interviews. In 2019, she told Variety that she’d asked for “half a million” before signing on for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” only to ultimately receive $150,000 for the role. And in an interview published earlier this month, she told The Hollywood Reporter that she’d been “fighting tooth and nail every project” for adequate pay. “Listen, I’ve been doing this for two decades and sometimes I get tired of fighting because I know what I do is bigger than me. I know that the legacy I leave will affect somebody coming up behind me,” she told the outlet, before going on to reference other Black female actors. “My prayer is that I don’t want these Black girls to have the same fights that me and Viola [Davis], Octavia [Spencer], we out here thugging it out.” Among those to express support for Henson this week was her “Think Like a Man” co-star Gabrielle Union. URL https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taraji-p-henson-black-actors-pay-inequality_n_65835ba5e4b03e698a11e8ae This is something S Stone said recently about the pay gap, I tried to find the local news but i failed Sharon Stone Says She Just Turned Down Big-Budget Movie Over Gender Pay Gap, Talks Saudi Arabia’s Emerging Film Market – Red Sea Studio By Diana Lodderhose November 30, 2023 1:00pm The year’s highest-grossing film, Barbie, may have been the first billion-dollar movie directed solely by a woman, but Sharon Stone isn’t confident the gender parity issue has improved vastly in the last few decades. Speaking exclusively at Deadline’s Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the actress said the gender pay gap was still a huge issue in Hollywood today and she recently felt the brunt of it again last year when she was offered the lead role in a big-budget studio film. “Thirty years ago, when I did Basic Instinct, Michael Douglas made $14 million and I made $500,000,” she said. “Last year, there was a $100 million film being made by a studio and the actor, who was new, was going to be paid something like $8 million or $9 million – someone we don’t really know – and the studio offered me again $500,000 to be the female lead. And I thought, thirty years later this is still happening. So, I don’t think it has changed much. So, I turned it down and the studio head said, ‘Well, good luck to you Sharon.’ And I said, ‘Well, good luck to you.’ And two weeks later he was fired.” Stone is a returning guest at this week’s Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia this week, after having visited the festival last year for the first time and she said that the KSA “is so intriguing because it’s an emerging country.” “As our country [USA] is sort of divesting itself from being a first world country – now we’re considered a second world country on the global map – it’s really interesting to see as we, as women, lose our rights, here in Saudi women are gaining their rights and it’s so intriguing to watch how this is happening.” She continued, “When I did Basic Instinct, I wanted to direct a film and I got laughed out of the studio. And now you see that two out of the six women that had their films nominated in Cannes, were women that were funded out of Saudi Arabia. And so, people say, ‘Well how could you go to Saudi Arabia and look at all of those injustices in Saudi Arabia?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know – I think it was pretty unjust that I couldn’t direct in America.” When pressed about stepping back into the acting world again, Stone admitted she would “love to do a television series” and hinted that “it’s quite possible that I will do one in the not-too-distant future.” URL https://deadline.com/video/sharon-stone-gender-pay-gap/

@Troy I thought I was clear, I was speaking on the people who are already in a state of what is modern NYC. But I comprehend. Ever since the white european began making the immigration discussion about the white european immigrant over the native american, statians like yourself, tend to see immigration in a similar way, always from the angle of the immigrants needs, not the people who are already present and have to deal with th instabilities or imbalanced immigrants by default make on arrival. Well, not everywhere in nyc is the same, concerning environment, but crime isn't on the rise. Yes , some fiscally common people see sunrises, some don't. I can tell you this for sure. But, crime isn't on the rise. New York city is very crowded. It is the most dense city in the usa while also the most populated. It always has been that, and that leads to negative environmental situations, negative communal interactions. this is the history of most big cities in humanity.

@ProfD To this topic, jordan worked alongside medgar evers but publicly admitted he left the south for the north. That same type of variance of thinking between evers who stayed side jordan who left is also in parents and thus the various ways they raise children , especially in the black community globally

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@ProfD you said the ethiopians parents wanted him raised to be something else, no, they didn't. they didn't see the value in emphasizing the culture of their forebears. Which ... the funny thing is, the black dos community publicly spoke against black dialects of english, publicly spoke against black spirituality or cultures that black dosers had before the war between the states. Yes, medgar evers name is on buildings throughout the usa while the black community he fought for in mississippi/alabama/lousiana is still suffering, terribly. that is not true, he has been given many accolades by many groups. I have seen him, he has many strangers looking to him. My point is, which you miss for some reason is that the ethiopian wouldn't suffer a sundown town, he would leave. Medgar evers comprehended that a people who learn to immigrate between states, flee from one state in the union to another, move from one state in the union to another, is dysfunctional. A large part of the black populace, fled the south from fear but by doing so, created two minority situations. a minorty populace in the south under a white community used to abusing /killing/enslaving it + a minority populace outside the south under a white community who didn't want them as neighbors [which black people forget, most whites in the north tried their best to stop black people from moving out the south] and who criminalized them as much as possible to deter any betterment.

I am fortunate, I know my parents parents story. I know the partial story of my parents/parents/parents. Charles Blow talks about black people moving back to the south, the article is linked below. But for me he dysfunctionally misses the motivation for most blacks. Yes, black people were and are financially poorer than whites in the usa, but black people fled the south because of whites. I will never forget the fortune of speaking to a family friend who said all the women in his black town was raped by white men, all, and yes, he was high yella. Black people in modernity love to talk about hanging or death or electrocution when it comes to the past. But, while the african american museum has an artwork for the number of hangings, is their enough space for an artwork representing the number of sexual violations by whites to blacks, all gender? IS their enough space for an artwork representing all the limbs whites took off black bodies? If you are a black DOSer and you want to live in the southern states, that is your business, but please refrain from suggesting black people in the past were simply in idyllic towns with the only harm of fiscal poverty about them. You don't need to lie about the past to make a future in spite of the past. And to that end, I said in this community black people in the usa need a party of governance. I emailed Blow my thoughts, his email is in the bottom link below. But, I don't comprehend how black people like him can call on black people to move back into the south and yet have no support for a black party of governance. After all the history in the usa, including obama, black people actually think if they had the majority populace in a state in the union that either donkeys or elephants should be the party that black elected representatives utilize? Seems silly to me. @ProfD plus @Pioneer1 discuss jonathan majors and how black people in government didn't help him.but again, i know of members of the donkeys or elephants in nyc who are non black while also people of color, they don't help their own. AOC isn't lifting the puerto rican community in the bronx. Asian elected officials didn't protect asian business from federal attacks during the covid. The one thing that troubles me is how black people actually think non blacks help their own , in nyc, they do not. And that explains why all the populaces seem , as media states, unconcerned. blacks + non blacks don't engage with the government cause all, ALL, the elected officials, from all the races do nothing. Black people's only flaw is many of us seem to think that non blacks are performing miracles for their communities, when they are not. article https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2549&type=status

@Troy both parties, both parties

@Troy Your 100% correct, i didn't state the number to suggest it was always that way in the history of nyc, from the time of manahatte plus the surrounding land, through new amsterdam to today. And outside the time of the lenape, most people living in manahatta or the surrounding lands that make up modern nyc are immigrants , or not born in the city. I am of the minority:) never was,i guess your not including the time of manahatta or new amsterdam in nyc? cause immigrants caused the destruction of the system the lenape had or the system the dutch had. I can't imagine anyone can say the native american scapegoats white europeans by saying their immigration was never a problem, until now. Was nyc bettered by the first wave irish coming in? Was the white community in nyc bettered by the first wave irish coming in? Was nyc bettered by blacks from the south coming in? Was the black community in nyc bettered by blacks from the south coming in? Was nyc bettered by the italian/irish/german jews coming in? was the white community in nyc bettered by the italian/irish/german jews coming in? Was NYC bettered by the asian community coming in after the immigration act? was the asian community in nyc bettered by the asian community coming in after the immigration act? Regardless of whether anyone says yes or no to any of the eight questions above, positive or negative stories occur always in any situation. But, overall i think the answer is no to each, overall.

@ProfD whomever raised him wanted what most parents want for their children, a happy life. Well, medgar evers had a colleague, some call a friend, who left the deep south to come to nyc. Medgar evers was assassinated/killed by whites, said colleague is still alive, old, a grandfather, has a very nice house, has money, friends and connections with many white europeans or those who are mostly descended from white europeans

A study recently said that 40% of people who live in nyc were born outside of nyc, that explains the problem, half of the people living in nyc don't know anything about new york city. And this connects to a larger problem, cause that percentage doesn't include people who immigrated from within the usa. To be blunt, my bloodline has lived in nyc for a long time and to those that like NYC in a general sense, this explains the problem with nyc of the past in parallel to nyc of today. People who live outside of NYC come from towns or smaller cities, in the usa or outside of it, or come from big cities that are culturally very different from nyc outside of it, and don't have the comprehension of what NYC was. It is a lesson in the dangers of immigration. When I hear people speak of NYC and talk about fears I realize now, half of those people come from small villages so they are always afraid. Cause coming from small villages or town or cities, like chicago even, you don't comprehend nyc. Los Angeles is the second biggest city in the usa and is a quarter of nyc's populace with significantly more land. I realize that the Black populace in NYC became a populace, not a community with immigration over the past fifty years. I will explain. It isn't that immigrants don't want to be part of communities or automatically hinder or harm communities. That isn't how immigration and sequentially immigrants harm community, in general. I see the issue. when i think about black people from st croix , black people from jamaica, black people from congo, can they really relate off the plane to a black doser? yes, both are black humans, but culturally the subtleties are not the same. Someone in this online forum once said they were most happy about black people from outside the usa entering into the black mold to lessen the influence of descended of enslaved blacks and i comprehended then why, but i wish i could had refuted them with the following recent thought. The time it takes for black immigrant populaces to find a balance to the descended of enslaved has stymied both or definitely hurt any black person trying to strengthen the black populace in the usa.

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In my following comment I will use the following terms defined as such people of color - humans who are not of the dual racial category, white european. one of the things i rarely, very rarely, seem to read in posts of this subject is mention of parents. How one is reared matters. and it seems few people of color today seem to realize how most of the fscally better off people of color for centuries raised their children to be white european philes. and that kind of rearing can be maintained through a life when the people your parents raise you to love ar ein control.

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You can see the film for free at the folllowing link, doesn't allow embeds. https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/howtohaveanamericanbaby/ MY THOUGHTS AS I WATCHED please tell me someone else watched this, maternity hotel industry in the usa, the 14th amendment is the key legally, but this is a messy thing. Some of these women from china are rich, they simply want their child to be a usa citizen potentially for the college thing. 4.6 billlion dollars from the chinese to the usa economy A chinese said the usa is god's country. A woman said where she is from in Yunnan, China, people starve to death. The funny thing is starvation isn't foreign to the usa, but people outside the usa don't seem to know that. I love how a man from china was shocked when his wife said she wanted a child born in the usa. and i concur to him , china is not somalia, china is not haiti, china is wealtheir than germany. To be blunt, black people in the usa always talk about how you have to figure it out. And the woman who suggested it to her husband, the baby died. The maternity hotel put her in isolation. I want to say Dr. Mo is making a killing. He has a public hustle. 3500 a baby. And he gets 20 broads a month at least. And the traffikers in china 40,000 usa dollars. from someone in china to make this happen. I will love to know how many rich countries populaces are doing this? If you have 40,000 usa in china, and you can afford to give that you are not poor. You crazy though. A chinese woman wanted a checkup for her baby and it is like a penthouse in vegas, but the woman said it right, suddenly you have a ton of chinese women having babies so the price goes up. the hospital wanted 170,000 but lowered it to 10,996.50 for total .They claim the guy selling meth right now is a bad guy. A woman that was a "boss lady" had a husband who divorced her so she had to sell the house she did maternity hotels in the usa. He is leaving her and the child they have together. The woman that lost the baby, she is a mistress. She came from a poor villlage. The guy is older. MY THOUGHTS AFTER WATCHING Most people in the usa or outside of it are financially poor. But for the wealthy who live outside the wealthy white european fold[USA= Western Europe], an imbalanced relationship with the countries they are from exists with the usa. The problem isn't wealth outside the usa, for the wealthy outside the usa, it is the safety net of descendants. I think of Mrs . Parkington. [free to view] https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2371&type=status And I realize through this film, a culture is growing or a heritage has been made, that the wealthy outside the usa have of wanting protection for their next generations. A billionaire in china today, can't guarantee a financial safety net to their forebears of the same quality as in the usa. To rephrase, paris hiltons and the like are less possible in china. Members of the black dos community in the usa who always talk about bootstraps to other black people shall love china then? right?

Why is she angry?

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@ProfD yes, non black owned media in the usa pushes a negative + false storyline. But black media tends to push a false storyline, not negative in intention but a lie.