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richardmurray

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  1. Orkut is being rebooted it seems. 

    what are your thoughts? I admit, if I had money I will try to help aalbc. Money matters in website development. But beyond that... Black e-profiles or e-users... do we use these reboots wisely, what are your thoughts as e citizens? 

    I am not advocating anyone join orkut, but I offer the link as it inspired me to write this post. 

    orkut link

  2. @ProfD is establishing or has established?  As he said in the article, he will continue making pictures until someone :) says he can't .

    Well, I think like most directors who earn a style label in hollywood history he has a set of actors he likes to work with, 

  5. @Troy This includes not only forums but pages for folk right? No guest comments anywhere? 

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    Yeah, how people can not make profiles on some sites is one of the great e-questions. I daresay that the ownership of independent websites, their non corporate nature is part of why people don't. I love aalbc to be honest. I know if I ever become truly popular, that will be the real test with my relationship to this website. But I hope I get a chance to attract many many members one day.

  7. A statistic says that in the usa since 2020 more and more parents are financially supporting children 18 and over, but statistics from labor say jobs are in surplus....

    A statistics from the NYPD says that black hate crimes has gone up 100%, like jeiwsh hate crime, and asian hate crime went down from last year, but nyc media never shows a person not white incarcerated or in police custody after a hate crime to black people...

    The party of andrew jackson tried to gerrymander a map and was found unconstitutional by ny state constitution while state laws in texas or elsewhere allow for gerrymandering, but people keep saying one party or another are decent...

     

    In amendment, most of the ny state judges that voted the redistricting map unconstitutional were appointed by andrew cuomo :)

  11. @ProfD weaponry was lacking but history proves lack of weaponry is best replaced by communal strictness. You use a word bloodlust, but the native american lacked the racial views necessary to survive en large. As the great tecumseh realized, all native americans must unite together and oppose those who are not native american, but native americans didn't or couldn't do that. In the same way Black people in the usa have never been able to unite on strict phenotypical bounds. bloodlust isn't a factor. How solidified a community is a factor. 

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  13. @ProfD It think black power was redefined from collective action to individual achievement when the assassination of the 1960s era black leaders, highlighted in white media by MLK jr,  was followed by the leadership of black leaders afterward. Every community has leaders at all times and those leaders lead by example. The leadership of the late 1970s to modernity Black leadership gives one constant view. Integrate as a black person in white collectives. JEsse jackson trying to massage the party of andrew jackson. Clarence thomas as a supreme court justice for the pary of abraham lincoln. The billionairedom of Oprah winfrey. Absent these people saying anything, their lives give an example of a black person profiting away from the black community, not from within it. Fannie lou hamer rejected either party. but she was 1960s era. Black leaders exist today but they are telling black people to do for themselves, miscegenate into the white community. 

     

    @Stefan if you could stomach reading my post you replied to , or figured how to decipher its language which may be to your extreme distaste, literally, you would had known I said what you said. I didn't offer the question to you, i stated the question as the issue. Your explanations to black individual freedom was not necessary based on how I comprehended my position. ... most don't push back because they need a collective apparatus to push back on. I think many black people want to do, but they know they can't do it alone and to be blunt, black people who have financial wealth or black people in government have to be a part. and  said black people are not interested. 

     

    @Troy thank you, the problem is the difference between individual freedom next to collective freedom.  As I Said

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    if you are Black in the usa and you feel the Black Individual is free to be in the usa, then you may view the power of the White collective is between nonexistent/mute/irrelevant. 

    I said may, not definitively. But that is the problem, that many black people miss. Black leaders do exists, barrack obama, oprah winfrey, clarence thomas, black athletes. but all these people represent a black person as an individual entering a white space or coveting a white space, white space defined as a population class that whites only had before, like the presidency,  or one that is controlled by whites, like sport sponsorships.  And, never with majority black support. When we ask black children do they want to be president, we all know fully well, being president of the usa is not based on the black vote. When we talk about anyone in big money media, we forget 99 percent of the producers are white so they have to be catered.  The Black exceptions to the rule is the goal, the goal that the young WEB DUbois pontificated, that the elder dubois hated. When we talk in black history about talented tenth/HBCU sororities or fraterniites/the black millionaire class or billionaire class, we are talking about a set of black people who as individuals have found personal success, but the black community hasn't. You know this as you said brilliantly and I thank you for your honesty , again. I know this. Stefan , profd, and all others in this post know this. And the problem is, the white power itself didn't come from white individuals. 

    When whites in the lands that became the usa killed who indigenous peoples, enslaved many black people unconcerned for the many more dead in the ocean, that was white collective freedom. But it was through negativities. White people in the usa didn't take power from white people in europe through individual freedom. It wasn't meriting through europe's systems. So, history shows the way. 

     

    @Dr Francis Welsin I wasn't at the million man march, i was a kid. but many male relatives were there. they all said one thing was clear. Black men were united at that event for one thing, looking for guidance. looking for a plan. Black unity has existed in these lands since the first black people of africa was forced out the boats. The unity isn't the problem. the problem is the planning. as Stefan says often, as we all know. The problem isn't that most black people on the boat don't have unity, but we don't have a plan. we are all chained, and we are all in the boat hold. Thus, how do we take over the boat? 

    The problem is the planning by black leaders in the black community in the usa , for better or for worse, has not been good/efficient/results driven for the collective. 

  14. @ProfD well, I ask you this, the annihilation of native american peoples by white europeans, you think could had been resolved constructively?

     

    @nels I am not trying to proselytize, or gather members,  and I know many Black people who concur to your view or oppose your view. But I need to make one thing clear, my position is that both parties are to the detriment of Black people. I do not view the party of Abraham Lincoln or the party of Andrew Jackson as beneficial to the Black community in the USA. Do you comprehend Nels?  Both are , to me, no good for the black community in the usa. The only thing that online or offline debates reminds me is how black people , of all types, are unwilling to say both major parties of governance are no good for black people in the usa. I find it interesting that most black people can argue about which of those two parties is bad, but said black people agree, one of those parties has to be the answer. 

  15. @Stefan It all boils down to a simple question. 

    Is the Black Individual free to do as they want in the USA today? For many black people, I don't think most but I can be rong,  in the usa the answer is yes. I say this with offline conversations in mind side other Black folk in the usa. Sequentially, if you are Black in the usa and you feel the Black Individual is free to be in the usa, then you may view the power of the White collective is between nonexistent/mute/irrelevant. 

    White power is not an individual force. It is collective, and thus the only way Black people can defend themselves from it is with Black power. but Black power requires a Black communalism/collectivism that by default is against how many Black people in the USA interpret being an individual in the USA. 

  16. @Stefan @ProfDI  concur that all humans beings can do negative or positive things, the words sin/evil/good/wicked  I don't know about all that. 

    People do negative things for reasons. 

     

    Rwanda or Tigray didn't happen cause of evil or wickendess or badness, they were inevitable because of the situation that two groups of people were set up in. Again, I can take White european examples, to show it isn't about Black people, it is a merely human thing. Ireland was dominated by the english for thousands of years and with all the miscegenation, intermarrying, in the end, the irish still wanted freedom from the english. the tigray/ oromo/eritreans/the falasha have been fighting each other since ancient times. And they never had a set of leaders at the same time who wanted a peaceful union. The tutsi and hutu before the english got to tanganyika were not one people and battled each other. the british got their and they still didn't like each other. The british made rwanda, and absent leaders who wanted to merge, they eventually had it out. The Black community in the USA has over 150 years of a majority of its leaders, dysfunctionally or functionally, stating they peacefully or positively embrace whites. Not all leaders, but most. That is how you get multiracial peace. 

     

    And that is why Black folks argue over this issue Stefan. The question is what do you want the Black community to be tomorrow. The white community is still battling over what they want the white community in the usa to be or the usa itself to be. For any group to improve they need consensus, but consensus can be hard to achieve without violence. Cause with violence, you can kill the people in the group who aren't in consensus and thus consensus is reached. Is it a sin or evil? I don't know, but I know it is very functional. Can every community do it? clearly not, but absent consensus in a group , what canany group positively  change for itself? 

     

     

  20. @ProfD is power for nothing? is the path made from power unnecessary? I argue the history of the USA , at the least the white european people in it, proves using violence/war/getting the death of millions/being barbaric/having greed is for everything, not for nothing. Without said negativities the white european community in the usa has little to nothing of what they have, thus said negativities are the most necessary to those who have the most. If anything, the questions are, what value is peace? is peace for nothing?  Is peace unnecessary? Are native americans living peacefully in the USA necessary to native american betterment , growth? What has living peacefully brought the native american? 

    I think whites know history very well, and they know that those who are in control have the forebears who acted negatively without shame, for they comprehended their descendants will be better off inheriting more, by any means, not less. 

  21. @ProfDI want to amend your statement, not just russian counterparts their russian kin/family/clan. That article's primary point , in my view, is the lack of comprehension or media admittance on the relationship between ukraine side russia. 

     

    I bet most ukranians have russian ancestry. You think so professor? I think so. This russian/ukranian war is a intra-clan war. That is being sold as two separate peoples, by the usa goverment who has an agenda to offer other news than the fiscal downturns or virus and wants to push the european union into something. 

     

    of course, most people from the USA who didn't fight in the vietnam war,living in canada or somewhere outside the usa, who are alive still feel a similar guilt or shame to ukranians who have not fought in the russian ukranian war. Same to whites who didn't fight in the war between the states, based on what was spoken through transcription in my memory.  Humanity loves to make men feel bad when they don't fight in wars, as if wars are ever as straight or simple as advertised. They never are.  

     

    In my view, the russian ukranian was is inevitable or necessary. I will defend my position professor, with the following, i wonder how my defense holds up.

    1st. the russian government was already installed in two regions in ukraine that the current ukranian government never officially accepted. The eastern border provinces of ukraine that border russia, I think called the donks. And Crimea was under russian suzerainty, like guantanemo is to the usa. So, the russian government saw a need to control crimea which is the biggest seaport in the region and support plus liberate the donks, which is the pro russian , east section of ukraine. Based on the western kiev based ukranina reply to current events, russia acted in fair necessity. 

    2nd. The ukranian goverment before the current was pro russian and the usa side other western european countries, manipulated things in ukraine to overtunr said government. Thus, the usa meddled in ukraine to place a pro usa government. But the pro usa government in ukraine didn't seem to realize that all their neighbors had a military alliance but them. bellarus has a military alliance with russia, poland and west of ukraine are all in nato for the most part. so...the ukrainian government foolishly thought it could evade being a proper neutral country while not joining a military alliance. they performed a dangerous dance between two powers and any time a government does that they make war in their land inevitable. 

     

    @Stefan for the record, the black party of governance in the usa isn't my agenda. I want to see it, I advocate for it, but on a simple grounds, it has never been done. 

    Black people starting business, supporting black businesses, going to college, having educational pushes gardless of college in the usa have been done multiple times ias collective pushes in the black community in the usa. But the black community in the usa has never , ever , had a black party of governance. I advocate doing new things when you have tried the same old things multiple times. 

    Black people i know in south africa, tell me about, voting, and I inform them. over 95% of black people voted for mandela and company, and in the first eight years, over 90% of black people participated in voting. The fact that the percentage of black vote is lower now can't be blamed on black voters when in my lifetime black people voted over 90% in south africa. I tell them, do new things, forget about black parties of governance, ala ANC forget them. 

    To the usa, I have never been a member of the donkeys or the elephants and I have no intention of joining a black party of governance in the usa , but I know it is something that hasn't been done and so instead of hearing ten more years of black people complain about the party of andrew jackson or abaraham lincoln, i advocate those complainers making a new party. 

    You know the forums in this community, you read the comments, this forum is full of black folk, at the least people I think are black,  complaining  about the two parties, so leave both of them and start a new one. 

     

    To your point about soliciting information from others , fair enough

     

    @Troy :)  for men of the sun, that may be the hardest achievement for our rocks to make :)

    as you said, the individualism has to go... the day most black individuals have an idea of where they want the black community to go, will be the day , communalism is stronger in the black community

  24. @ProfD the following link will take you to an article where you will note many ukranians dissenting. If anything your prose prove that black people take too much stock in how white owned media presents us. Black people in the usa don't own white owned media but live in a white country.

    https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1883&type=status

    @Troy I will be blunt, many a black person I know older than you or me by distance said the same thing about their time when our age, referencing a book written by a black person. .... What do you want Troy for the Black community in the USA? Do you want Black owned book publishing firms to dominate the market? what goal do you want for the black community in the USA? 

     

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