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@Troy great memory, what happened to Hill Harper's bitcoin push. I recall it after your comment , thank you. Where are all the financial masters in here talking about it? @ProfD well remember one thing, even if hill harper gets elected to a legislature, like all legislature's it works by collective action and sequentially, no matter what his quality is, if his peers are disinterested or disengaged then... nothing happens. One person does not swing a legislative body. @Cynique Christy was governor of New Jersey, if he had achieved results as governor of new jersey to great effect, he could rely on that alone and not have to talk so much about others in the first place. @Stefan good point, the former representative of Harlem, the 9th district was a socialist and though everything she said was true about affordable housing not being affordable and the usa pushing the war in ukraine. The truth is, if you are going to be another species other than elephant or donkey, you better be strong and determined or both will unite to crush you. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2380&type=status

@ProfD well said, words matter

@Chevdove well in terms of history, remember one key thing. France or england have one great historical commonality with the usa, all three are not indigenous. All three are born from the invaders side their enslaved who over a long bloody, raping, fucking history, create a community that makes a mythology of itself based on lies. @ProfD Netflix for most of its history was unprofitable financially and has learned how challenging it is to profit when you don't own a lot of well known content or have the industry to expose globally

@ProfD every generation does not think the future will be worse off, i knew wat too many black elders as a kid who thought the future was already better and getting better. Some in every generation but not all and not necessarily most.

@Troy Did black people need to be shown different sides of the black militancy argument or non blacks? My comment is erroneous in terms of suggesting positive promotion of black militancy in the usa was the purpose of the film uptight. In my mind uptight wasn't meant to positively promote black militancy in the usa either, though how people relate to any artwork is open. In my mind the key is definitions or details when it comes to any of the many strategy based tribes in the black village in the usa. in my mind again, the definitions or details or particular populaces in the usa matter when it comes to how the usa relates to one of said populaces. @ProfD for the record my position isn't based on a thesis or idea, it is based on historical fact, not a thesis. It doesn't warrant interpretation @Chevdove most film historians, who spend their entire lives watching films, at best have seen one percent of all films made. And that doesn't include the films that are unavailable through demolition or withering over the many years. Like books, like music, no one can experience it all in a lifetime, too many works have been made. Most people haven't heard of or seen most films. The question is who selects and who presents? And it is no shame for a black person in a white country to not have control over the selection or presentation.

based on what I know of black leaders from 1865 to today, the following is a lie and doesn't state the main cause

Lansing michigan, distrcit before the remap was strong for the party of abraham lincoln. Now is held by a member of the party of andrew jackson. In the end of the day, all vying for any seat based on voting have to get to work and convince the voters.

the third video is a grreat share, good fun @Chevdove well done

@elonawashington @Elona Washington did you finish the book, i don't see it on your aalbc page? https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Elona+Washington

@Troy People say birth of a nation revitalized the KKK, and ever since films have been given this position and grand movers, but I oppose that view. I love the arts and have been inspired or know others who have been inspired but the arts don't move communities. The arts are cover stories for communities desires in the usa. It wasn't the matrix that caused mass shooting. It wasn't birth of a nation that revitalized the KKK. Uptight even if every black person saw it in the 1960s wasn't going to lead to a militancy surge in the black community in the usa, for one simple reason. The majority in the black community in the usa have never advocated or supported black militancy. Did it? That is what I meant about smart. Communal activities like Black Militancy or Back to Africa or making a state in the usa have been in the black community in the usa since the usa was founded. Alongside, citizenry adoption into the usa. But, the majority in the black community in the usa has never, never,, never advocated militancy.

@Pioneer1 fair enough

@Pioneer1 I don't know. It all depends on how strength is defined. And of course, that is complex. well, I argue, most leaders in the black community in the usa are individualistic and thus are excellent from an individualistic point of view. And it makes communalist leaders in the black community farther and father or lesser or lesser.

great share

@Troy You asked why this film isn't cited or as well known but it has many reasons, that in hindsight or cheap or easy to see. First, this is a movie directed by a white man, who was blacklisted as a enemy of the state. I don't know to what extent the fbi manipulated this film's life but that is in itself interesting. Second, Black militancy is not beloved in the black community in the usa. Movies love to make it seem like every black home is a black panther cell waiting to happen but the truth is the nonviolent or christian communities in the black community in the usa have always opposed black militancy very strongly. This film, at the end of the day, treats black militancy as acceptable. Not necessarily good or successful but acceptable. That makes it a nono to the black christian or black nonviolent community. And, white audiences will be blocked from viewing this by white media controllers. The visibility of acceptable black militancy is going to be quelled. In the same way, the white media controllers make sure the internet doesn't make the works of the senegalese Sembene known to more black folk. Third, the black homosexual character will strike a negative for the extreme anti gay folk who existed without reproach at that time. So I like the film, I wish it was smarter, but it has some strong truths in it.

@frankster yes, you are correct to those they hurt how can they be good, but then the usa is a country founded by people who have many a statue or have a saintly position who hurt far more others alot @Pioneer1 questions you ask no one can answer, can only be guessed at, and even with guesses the considerations to the environment of black street folk may differ between people

1:02 Thank you for saying the truth. I wonder what your thoughts are to non documentarian biopics influencing how people view identities in history? 1:53 The movie was written by Stefani Robinson < https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/atlanta-writer-stefani-robinson-talks-female-creator-label-1130971/ > I Quote her "Being a woman is not in the forefront of my mind every second of every day. I am a woman, I live as a woman, and my perspective is most definitely female, but there’s this implication that for me (or women) to create a piece of work ?or put myself into the shoes of others, I have to somehow filter it ?through this resolute female mental block. It’s a contradiction, because I’m proud to be a woman and want females to be celebrated. But on the other hand, the focus on that sometimes feels a little condescending and demeaning." The problem with all artists who suggest araciality is they forget no artist has the ability to create absent bias. Bias isn't always negative. In Chevalier, her desire to show this competitive mulatto artist in France is from her own view, but the film could had went another way that may have achieved greater reception. I quote her again "Representation absolutely matters. The fact that I didn’t have many female TV writers to look up to when I was young is a big reason why I felt compelled to pursue ?my career. But I reject the idea that you can only tell a story if you’ve lived it. How clinical and boring. Artists should have the freedom to explore anything that moves. But this also demands that everyone is allowed a seat at the table.?" The problem with many of my fellow artists is they confuse labels with restrictions. And they confuse the ability to tell a story with the ability to tell a story with a perspective that will reach out to all. I am black, male, hetero, anglo <the language i primarily speak is english>. Does this mean I can't write a story inspired by don quixote? of course not. Am I from spain? no. Do I speak spanish? no. But I can still write a story about don quixote. BUT, if I am free to wrtie what I want will my culture emit through my telling of don quixote? yes. And of course, what will the commercial quality of my work be? well, that is a complicated question but at the end of the day, do those who are interested in my work or variants of don quixote have a large enough quantity and, will my work be able to attract those who are not interested in my work or don quixote? I have been writing my entire life, I have no bounds, but just because I can create whatever I want doesn't mean commercially it is viable? And based on what she has written in the past, has she shown viability in the genre of biopics? And to the movie, after chevalier, would you pay for her to write another? This is the key between all artists creativity side commerciality. Edgar Allen Poe, a white man , died poor, and not financially grand. Mark Twain wasted fortunes made from books with various ventures, but earned a lot of money. But today, many more know more references of Poe over Twain. Does it make either artist bad creatively? no. Does it mean either artists has different qualities commercially ? yes Opportunity to make profit is rare for all artists but when given an opportunity if you fail to make money, you fail. And even if statistics are skewed or augmented to emphasize failures unfairly, it is up to the artists to keep creating. I paraphrase <I am typing one go , no checking> the preface of the play , The Escape by William Wells Brown "This play was written for my own amusement , and not with the remotest thought that it would ever be seen by the public eye. I read it privately, however to a circle of my friends, and through them was invited to read it to a Literary Society . Since then, the drama has been given in various parts of the country. By the earnest solicitation of some in whose judgement I have the greatest confidence, I now present it in a printed form to the public. As I never aspired to be a dramatist, I ask no favor for it, and have little or not solicitude for its fate. If it is not readable, no word of mine can make it so; if it is, to ask favor for it would be needless" And I paraphrase, same as before WEB Dubois, who isn't my favorite writer , but is true sometimes. "The Negro today fears any attempt of the artist to paint Negroes. He is not satisfied unless everything is perfect and proper and beautiful and joyful and hopeful. He is afraid to be painted as he is, lest his human foibles and shortcomings be seized by his enemies for the purposes of the ancient and hateful propoganda" My two points using the two paraphrases above < and I apologize for all this preaching, my own preaching does sicken me> is first, to emphasize an eternal truth, whether in the late 1800s or on MArs circa 2672, Black artists, like all other artists in humanity, are totally free to create whatever we want, but that doesn't mean we warrant or must be given opportunity to profit from it; and , second, that Black DOS artist, like all other artists in humanity, need to feel no shame in admitting thier culture , including all of its unique ways, like being the only people forced to immigrate to the american continent and enslaved in it. 3:33 That is a great artistic question from Nike. In films concerning characters in history, the film industry has common aspects. For example, anytime a white jewish character is in film at the time period commonly called world war II, significant time is always, always given to concentration camp life for jews,always. I have personally witnessed in many writing groups, black writers desire an end to the mentioning of enslavement to whites in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it. And I comprehend the source of this artistic movement. Black DOSers have a problem. We are the only group that was forced to immigrate and exist enslaved in the usa, the only one, so no oher group in the usa has our fiscal /governmental/cultural path in the usa, no other group. In the arts this is played out whenever slavery is displayed. So to be apart of the usa en large, if black people simply dismiss our enslavement in the arts, we are internally moving from it to join the other groups in the usa. Enslavement to whites will always be a historical fact, but the arts have the ability to create perceptions to the past, ala Bastille day in france or the october revolution in russia are prime examples. The french republic didn't start at bastille day , but those in power in france wanted to create a living myth that the french republic was started at the time marie antoinnette lost her head. But it isn't true, monarchism thrived long after the bastille was stormed ala Napolean and his descendents. And same to Russia, the February revolution is where the Czar really lost it, and he chose to step down willingly, the legislative body of russia , like in most governments with a highly multiracial populace was unable to finda center where non exist, which is perfectly human, and thus led to more chaos later that year in october. But, this is the power of modern myths, designed to make more complicated stories simple. It is easier to say, France rid itself of monarchy with the chopping of marie antoinette's head, it is easier to say the russian monarchy was blindsided by the power of the peasants, it is easier to say the usa is the land of the free and the home of the brave merely with the signing of a declaration of independence. Bullshit. 3:47 Joseph Bologne was lucky. The reality is, many Black artist like to use rare black examples and tout that as the story to emphasize in a time. Were all black people ensalved to whites in the european colonies that became the UA? no , but does that mean the story of land owning blacks needs to be emphasized over the over ninety percent of black people completely enslaved to whites? I say no. Robinson chose to do what I heard in black writing circles many black writers suggest, I quote :"why do we have to talk about slavery all the time". The majority in any community dictates most of their narrative, the black community in the usa his an anaomaly in that the minority in the black community in the usa tedns to try to dictate the larger narrative. Ala the talk about human equality , fighting for freedom, being statian <allegiance to the usa> , and many philosophies stem from the black minority in the black community in the usa, in opposition to the black majority in the usa which is historically or modernly, anti white, anti usa, pro segregation, yes seperate while equal. Note: Remember, the plantation is a form of integration. 6:10 yes, mullato is little mule. The Casta is something started by spain and this is where the terms, mestizo/mullatto/alvino/quadroon/octoroon come from. The problem with Casta is that it is a natural insulting system. Think of the Caste system in india. People like the Dalit are deemed less than by others in the more potent castes. It is an automatic insult. Saying Mulatto wasn't like saying Nigger. It is more like when someone is called black in the usa and they say, why do you have to call me black. It goes back to the writer and that philosophy or human equality. Don't call someone by a label, call someone by how they want to be referred to. So not the black dancer who made thriller but michael jackson who made thriller. The problem is not everyone is insulted when called mulatto. In South America, the simon bolivar side others were proud mestizoes, which is word kin to mulatto. For the record: mestizo is white parent side native american <regardless of native american phenotype> , Mulatto is white side black <regardless of geographic lineage, so native american or african or asian>, albino or quadroon is someone with morisco and white european <morisco parents are white and mulatto, mullatos paretns are white european and black> , octoroon is from a quadroon with another white european parent. Someone like rebecca hall, director of the film passing basedon the book by nella larson falls somewhere in that range of octorron and quadroon. ala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castas_07tornatras_max.jpg Is Casta or terms from it like Mulatto based on genetics , no. It is science, or knowledge, but it is based on lineage. And why does lineage matter historically? law plus inheritance. This is why the descendent of Gannibal <a statue of him is in russia today>, Alexander Pushkin <russians know this writer in russian literary circles> own descedents are all white. Gannibal < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Петровское._Бюст_А.П._Ганнибала.jpg > Ossip Abramovich Gannibal Nadezhda Ossipovna Gannibal < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/N.O.Puskina.jpg > Alexander Pushkin < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Kiprensky_Pushkin.jpg > Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Pushkinana.jpg > Sofia Merenburg < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Sophie_of_Merenberg#/media/File:Countess_Sophie_of_Merenberg,_Countess_de_Torby_(LOC_ggbain.00604).jpg > from Sofia Anastasia de Torby < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/De_Torby_Anastasiya_Mikhailovna.jpg > Nadejda de Torby < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Nadejda_Mountbatten%2C_Marchioness_of_Milford_Haven_(LOC_ggbain.16855).jpg > You may scoff at my going through this but do the research on their lives and you will notice their background had influence on their rank or inheritance. It is that simple. What is the problem? In modernity in the USa, the aracial philosophy that many aspire to, suggest that any system that disallows individuals is by default an extremely negative system. The Casta/Lineages determining inheritances all are against individual rights, which is what the writer by her own words above champions and it appears in her screenplay. But it is misplaced in the context of France during Joseph Bologne's time. Said France isn't the USA 2023. White people in France duing said time did not freely intermarry with each other. The caste/rank/lineage mattered to those with money, rightyl or wrongly, so to suggest a modern sentiment is a falsehood historically. But, is artistically acceptable. But notice it is both and how that relates commercially. This movie didn't shake up the world. 7:43 yes, European countries in the 1700s , 1800s , had very small black populaces, so small the term negligible can be applied. And in Europe, the peasant, the descendant of the White statian was the lowest class. And to be blunt, while blacks could never be considered royals in europe at that time, i argue, from Gannibal to Thomas Alexandre, while they were never regals in europe, to suggest they lived liked white peasants in europe is a lie. And I argue, that modern Black people living in white countries: usa or in western europe, falsely attribute to them an equality goal when I think they merely did what all did in the regale system of europe which is social climb. 99% knew they will never be the crowned but the goal of all was to reach for it. And the playground in between the regale and the no name peasant is where the action was. 8:50 yes that was a funny modernity. BUt I will say this, if that conversation did happen, I would had loved to hear that back in the day. Pourquoi n'epouser pas un Africain ? 10:30 exactly or white peasants. 10:46 yes, the white father in marie antoinette's time gave the black father after ronald reagan in the usa time speech, very tropy:) of Robinson, I wish I knew if that was true. 12:46 To be fair, Europe had a long history of art destroying, ala bonfires, through religious movements or wars and the period commonly called the french revolution <remember bastille day is a lie> was chaotic to no end. 14:46 yes at the end of the day I see in chevalier, Robinson as a fellow artist who by her own admission is contained in a multiracial while unfair media environment <hollywood> or country <usa> stating how the strategy of non violent artistically endeavored growth is a tradition for black people in white countries and the friction that provides said black folk with their phenotypical peers <like his mother who questions his intents or desires> or the white people with whom he wants to be embrace <marie antoinette's court>. Now none of his life is easily confirmed. But, from what I comprehend from a distance, the real guimard, whom he spurned, had influence over the court and undermined him in getting the opera position. While, the real Marie Josephine was abandonned by her husband in real life. I wonder why Robinson chose the style of interpreting them. For someone so interested in universalism, why not admit the woman Chevalier snubbed, Guimard, the daughter of an out of wedlock relationship some call love child, was bitter and worked against him. Robinson makes her more of an after thought when I think a great lesson in their relationship of two people born into low classes where he rejects and in her bitterness as any woman may have, used her influence to go against him a little. While the woman he supposedly wanted, married to an Soldier engineer but a man whose financial fortunes went up and down, had a baby whose destiny is unknown. Robinson choses to caricature Marc Rene into a Simon Legree light. I could be totally wrong on the history of Bologne but if what I know from gossip is true, I think how she constructed the relationship between the Chevalier side Guimaud/Marie Josephine/MArie Antoinette is her free artistic choice but doesn't align to her publicized viewpoints. I do think the mugging of him side his friend which is actually on record, though the source is uncertain, would had been a great tool to the power of universalism. Bologne fenced more and had, to be blunt, more complicated affairs than Robinson lets on and denies Bologne's life, even in a fictional nondocumentarian interpretation, the seat at the table or the absence of a filter she says she warrants or can provide as an artist in her modern workplace.

@Troy thank you. @Pioneer1 the problem is a question of association: black emancipation from white enslavement side the potency of the usa. by your words you used the word we representing the populace of the usa in a topic about whether black people will be emancipated. Are these topics connected. You think they are. I quote you again The connection to the USA of or the value to the USA from the Black populace in it, or the condition of the black community in the usa in parallel to other black communities for many black people are not related to the emancipation of black people from whites. To your question Most black leaders are negative. But that happens. The problem is the association, for you positive leadership = leadership but it doesn't. And it connects to my point about individualism. Under individualism, one is only responsible to lead thyself, not lead others, which is a key point. Under individualism, those who are negative leaders from a communal view, are 100% acceptible ro positive, under indivdiualism

@Pioneer1 you say black conservatives used to be liberal but those terms liberal or conservative are based on the white community of the usa. I rather use the terms communal or individual. Many black people in the usa, most black people in the usa, when young are communalist. But the usa : populace/government/fiscal environment , are white not black, and it has always given, and will always give, black people a choice sooner or later. If you want to make money in the usa as a black person, being an individual is the way to go historically. Two types of individualsit in the black community in the usa. One who publicly displays it, like a Clarence Thomas or an Oprah Winfrey. Or one who masquerades as a communalist: most Black elected officials or Black CEOs or black entertainers. yes, a few elected officials/ceo's/entertainers who are black are communalists but they are very few. and I don't see that as a problem as communities under all governments become what they chose. At the end of the day, the black people who fought for the usa when it was being founded fought for individual power, not communal power. Any black person in the colonies who thought that the betterment of the black community was in the secession of such colonies from the british empire was a fool. But, said people functional goal was individual power. The ability of a black individual to do whatever they want to help oneself while not the community . was their goal and that has been achieved. @Troy exactly, the usa isn't about communities and the greatest problem is many people keep thinking the usa is about bettering communities when it truth, it betters none and I even include the white community in the usa. When you look at modern usa, the truth is, white individuals are thriving, not necessarily the white community en large. whereas in the past, in the usa, with the daughters of the american revolution side jim crow, for all the pain to the black community , it bettered the white community. @Delano great point @zeke1234 his opinion flat out says what I have said about individualism in this very website countless times. The question is why do black people in the usa dislike the communalist/individualist dichotomy in debate? We in general seem to not want to admit it. I wonder why?

Well @Troy the question in the usa market is who are the competitors to Metaverse: facebook<community pages+profiles+blog>/instagram<images>/threads<text message>? You mention their dominance, but the first question is who are the competitors. If someone is in the usa who else do they go to ? am*zon is a competitor, but they are mostly a closed ecosystem. If you use am*zon prime and am*zon kindle and am*zon shopping services, you are in your own ecosystem, not really social media based but with social media functionality. apple has long been a closed ecosystem in itself, social media functionality but really a separate space full of technologies. alphabet , like apple, like am*zon make physical goods. yes they have the google search engine and through google youtube, but youtube is such a specific space. thus why tiktok grew. long videos are fine but they are not as catchy as short videos. in the same way tweets was more catchy than blog posts. They have android but that is a tool, not really a social media aspect. microsoft, has the xbox with gaming and the operating system for larger electronic devices. SKype is again like youtube of alphabet, not really prone to social media effectively, it is more an open space than a cultivated space. and linkedin, which was meant for labor just isn't doing much in social media space. So... meta platforms is really the lone esocial space. Esocial elements are in most all big tech firms but meta alone has esocial as their mainline. Three of their domestic rivals really make devices that has esocial elements. And one, alphabet is focused on a strategy where esocial is lessened of value. The only rival i can truly think of for Meta is Tiktok of bytedance. but China stands alone of countries outside the usa that has kept control of its internet existence wholeheartedly and has reached outside of itself. Japan has its own internet, but japanese websites don't get extremely popular outside japan . @Pioneer1 it started with newspapers, and it can be argued before with history books.

@Troy I concur to your position. The question is: Who does more damage to the black community? The problem with such a question is the difficulty in assessing the damage over time from either party to the greater community. Pioneer1 has biases, as do we all, but to properly assess, the biases have to taken out and the process of determination, historically is quite a challenge @frankster comprehend one thing, the white jewish, white italian, white irish community in nyc today owes the white streetfolk for everything, the same white streetfolk who many times killed, acted illegally for profit, acted petty or violent or murdered in their own community. But said streetfolk were the key to those communities, or at least many people in their communities, betterments down the road. And the same to black streetfolk. Some black people today in harlem own buildings, have their busineses or other because of black streetfolk. I repeat, in the usa, fiscal capitalism only provides two ways to make large revenue absent inheritance or knowing someone. Illegal activity side entertainment. Everything else requires inheritance or knowing someone plain or simple.

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fair enough @Chevdove

Someone somewhere suggested Clarence Thomas , a current < 2023> supreme court judge in the usa, is elitist. While I dislike Clarence Thomas I think that label is a mischarecterization. Elitism at its core is a matter of selection, in the same zone as eugenics or a caste system or the phenotypical order in the usa. But I don't see Thomas as someone that champions others based on selection. This is about merit, since he is a lawyer or judge of years he knows merit derives from a sense of gaining no matter the ways or means not the idea in modernity which is earn through acceptible or so called good ways or means. Thomas to me is clearly of the I got mine get yours mentality. He has no communal attachments. And to be blunt, though I dislike him, his philosophy has historical truth. When you look at most of the black community leaders in the usa most well thought of or known, they have one thing in common, fiscal impoverishment. When you look at most of the black fiscal aristocracy in the usa from the war between the states till now, they have one thing in common, individualism or they don't risk a penny for or give time to the black community. And this connects to one of the fundamental problems when black people talk about the usa or even its founding, ala July 4th. The problem is most people in the usa, any phenotype, tend to suggest the founding of the usa was the start of some grand communal experiment. But I argue that is a crude lie. Again, you can take any community in the usa, barring the native american since they are the only indigenous group, and it is easy to see that the populace of said community in the usa doesn't make their larger global community better. Do irish in the usa make ireland better? Do italians in the usa make italy better? Do jews in the usa make israel safer? Clearly blacks in the usa have a detrimental effect on black people outside the usa, ala mandela in south africa. Even beyond phenotype, do women in the usa make female groups better outside? I argue no. The USA is best for one thing or breeds one thing, individualism. Now if you want to grow as an individual the usa is positive,most positive, but if you want your community to grow, the usa is negative, most negative. Clarence Thomas is a prime example. The truth is, black people in leadership positions who say they are communal , ala a barack obama, have done no more or less than thomas in terms of the black community. The difference is Thomas doesn't lie about the truth, while an obama does. Tell the truth folks. No shame in the truth being a lot of negatives. Wishing or hoping the truth to not be what it is for a given place or populace or time is foolish. A shadowy club in California recently associated with Clarence Thomas is being sued for multiple labor violations. Here's what the secret retreat is known for. Former workers, known as valets, are suing an elite men's club for alleged labor violations. The lawsuit claims they were forced to work over 15 hours daily without breaks. The Bohemian Club has been associated with right-wing political figures, including Clarence Thomas. The Bohemian Club, an all-men's private society in California that counts former presidents among its members, faces a class action lawsuit from servers for alleged labor violations. The exclusive club occasionally pops up in the news, primarily for its association with elite and wealthy men. Most recently, a ProPublica report detailing Justice Clarence Thomas' relationship with Harlan Crow mentioned the club. Thomas, who went on luxurious vacations with the billionaire real estate magnate and GOP megadonor, accompanied him to Bohemian Grove — a hidden woodland retreat often associated with the club that hosts events like a 14-day summer camp. Former valets who used to work at Monastery Camp in Monte Rio, California, which they described as one of the "most prestigious and well-known camps at Bohemian Grove," filed the complaint on June 5. The valets, who attended to wealthy guests during summer camp, claim in the complaint that workers were required to work over 15 hours a day with no breaks or meal periods while only receiving pay for 8 hours a day. The suit alleges that club management "continually worked together to come up with methods to avoid paying payroll taxes and overtime." The suit names Bohemian Club treasurer William Dawson as someone who directly asked employees to "falsify payroll records." It also claims that valets were asked to hide when the owner of the payroll company Pomella LLC, also named as a defendant in the suit, came to inspect the Grove. The suit alleges that the payroll company was also aware of the falsified timesheets. The lawsuit also alleges that valets working at around 100 other camps plaintiffs say are associated with the club are run by captains that have engaged in similar labor violations. The lawsuit says that Bohemian Club may seek to distance itself from these camps during litigation, but asserts that these affiliate camps are a joint venture of the main club and that members pay the club to access these sites. The members are suing for up to $1.5 million in damages. In a statement to the Press Democrat, Sam Singer, a communications representative for the club, said that the club "has always valued and respected its employees, and that includes our commitment to full compliance with all applicable wage and hour laws and regulations." "We believe these three individuals know full well they did not work for the Club and that this lawsuit is a transparent attempt to drag the Club into their individual circumstances," Singer told the Press Democrat. "The Club will vigorously defend itself in this action, as it would in any other meritless lawsuit." The Bohemian Club, which has thousands of members and has been associated with Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George HW Bush, has been hosting the summer camp for over 150 years and describes itself as a club of "gentlemen who are connected professionally with Literature, Art, Music, or the Drama." The club, full of elite men often tight-lipped about its members and events, has garnered the interest of conspiracy theorists, left-leaning protestors, and interested onlookers. Although there is still much to learn about the club, one ritual was uncovered by InfoWars host Alex Jones, who snuck into the Bohemian Grove summer camp to film a strange ritual that consisted of robed members burning a coffin effigy — named "Care" — in front of a 40-foot owl statue. According to previous investigative reports, the Grove also hosts various social activities, like plays and comedy shows featuring men portraying female characters. The club is also known for hosting "Lakeside Talks," where members, often those of the political elite, speak about policy ideas. The Bohemian Club and a lawyer for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. URL https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-shadowy-club-in-california-recently-associated-with-clarence-thomas-is-being-sued-for-multiple-labor-violations-here-s-what-the-secret-retreat-is-known-for/ar-AA1dlmGn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W069&cvid=b39fee1dccf24cb2a2de19bc899dd1cf&ei=30