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@Pioneer1 The main charge in NY was legally on soft ground. The only reason why stormy daniels occurred was because in NY if you live outside of NY the statute of limitations changed on the law. If Schrumpf lived in NYC no stormy daniels case

@Pioneer1 the only issue I raised is a question, is the severity in which black people communicate our troubles fair or unfair based on the activities of others? I used two cases, one of white europeans, concerning violence of men to women in general, side one of white asians , violence of men to women or children sexually, to display how another community has a publicly stated problem that can be deemed worse than the black community.

hmm @Pioneer1

The 25th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Free Email Newsletter topic Cento Series - fourth installment Juneteenth - art + poetry + community discussions Cornel West and third parties Healthy Masculinity Marlena side Klepetan legendary love https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/05/06/18/2023-rmnewsletter.html

@ProfDmy point is, no musician is respected in their field like donna summer absent great musical ability. the producers helped her be most profitable, which is important but even if donna summer didn't have the same production,ala minnie rippington, another great voice, not the same producers but both are remembered well and have great voices before anyone knew them

https://music.tumblr.com/post/720254312542060544/artist-of-the-moment-jean-deaux

a great voice, donna summer had a great voice, even in the past when black musicians didn't make decent money if they were the best at a given time, everyone in the industry knew, donna summer had a great voice

@ProfD are you going to vote and your thoughts to Michael Jordan ownership action?

TWO THINGS OUTSIDE 1 in 3 German men find violence against women 'acceptable' 06/11/2023June 11, 2023 A survey commissioned by Plan International Germany found that 33% of male respondents thought violence against women was acceptable. Almost half of respondents also felt "disturbed" by public displays of homosexuality. A third of men in Germany find violence against women to be acceptable, gender equality campaigners said on Sunday. According to a new survey, 33% of men aged 18-35 thought it was "acceptable" if "their hand slipped" occasionally during an argument with their female partner, while 34% of respondents admitted that they had been violent towards women in the past. The nationwide survey questioned 1,000 men and 1,000 women aged 18-35 and was commissioned by children's charity Plan International Germany. The findings are "shocking," said Karsten Kassner from Federal Forum Men, a German group that advocates for gender equality. "It's problematic that a third of the surveyed men trivialize physical violence against women. This urgently needs to change," he told the Funke newspaper group, which is set to publish the full findings on Monday. More than 115,000 women in Germany were victims of partner violence in 2021, according to federal police data. That equates to 13 women each hour. In the same year, 301 women were killed by their current or former partner. The survey also examined other perceptions of gender and sexuality among German men and women. It found that 52% of men said they believed their role was to be the main provider in a relationship, and that their partner should mostly run the household. Meanwhile, 48% of respondents also expressed a dislike of public displays of homosexuality, saying they felt "disturbed" by it. "Traditional gender roles are still deeply ingrained in people's minds," Alexandra Tschacher, a spokeswoman for Plan International Germany, told the Funke newspaper group. zc/lo (AFP, KNA) URL https://www.dw.com/en/1-in-3-german-men-find-violence-against-women-acceptable-survey/a-65884531 Japan raises age of consent and redefines rape 6 hours ago6 hours ago Japanese lawmakers raised the age of consent from 13 to 16, marking the first change since 1907 and aligning with global norms. Lawmakers in Japan on Friday changed legislation to raise the age of consent from 13 — the lowest among developed nations — to 16. Under the stricter sex crime laws, lawmakers also broadened the definition of rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse." The expanded definition includes acts committed using drugging and intoxication. It also criminalized the grooming of minors. Other changes include a crackdown on "photo voyeurism," so-called upskirting, filming or photographing under a skirt without consent, and secretly filming sexual acts. Japan's laws regarding sexual consent drew significant attention in 2019, after a string of defendants charged with sexual crimes were acquitted. It led to the Flower Demo movement, with groups of sexual violence victims and their supporters gathering once a month to demand changes to sex crime laws. Japan last revised its criminal code on sexual offenses in 2017, for the first time in more than a century, but campaigners said the reforms were insufficient. The age of consent — below which sexual activity is considered statutory rape — is 16 in Britain, Canada and most states in the US, while it is 15 in France and 14 in Germany and Italy. Another significant criticism of the old law was that it effectively blamed victims for not resisting enough. Japan has now identified eight scenarios under which rape prosecutions can be made. These include victims being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, being frightened and perpetrators taking advantage of social status. In addition, "visitation request offense" — people who use intimidation, seduction or money to coerce children under 16 to meet for sexual purposes — was also criminalized, and perpetrators face a prison sentence of up to a year or a fine of 500,000 yen ($3,500; €3,197). lo/fb (AFP, EFE) URL https://www.dw.com/en/japan-raises-age-of-consent-and-redefines-rape/a-65935226 ONE THING INSIDE Michael Jordan is selling his ajority stake in charlotte hornetso again I repeat from the sister, "the family won but the community didn't" read more here https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2349&type=status

@Troy One of the reasons I joined this site wasn't to simply be a member of a black owned website but to see it grow . The worst case scenario for the black community in the usa is to have no black owned website as a standalone firm

@ProfD @Pioneer1 so you guys suggest donations , on the resources webpage tools to make revenue exist but not a direct donation. Resources for African American Writers, Authors and Readers (aalbc.com) do you guys think he should set up his own donation service on aalbc, restriccted to the usa or even the northeast of the usa? or use one of the others like kickstarter or indiegogo , gofundme, patreon, or similar? I wonder @Troy are you willing to do domainnames or website hosting for black entities not authors?

Reddit's ceo admitted what most, who know how many modern media or tech firms history are, already know. Reddit has been around for 20 years and never made a profit. Same as Netflix who only made a profit after seven years without, and has financial wobbles since. Same as Tesla motors that was not profitable for years , until it was, and has financial wobbles since. Twitter again, is highly used and has never been profitable. Netflix is trying to end sharing passwords. What is my point? Not the following Websites are costly, people for some reason don't think they are. But if you have a financial loaning network behind you , you can grow while unprofitable. What is my point? A question and I ask all of us regulars on this website , to aid @Troy who has posted about this website a number of times. What do you think can be done to aid AALBC financially ? It is clear that many larger websites are being pushed on the path to true fiscal capital profitability and in that journey the decades of cheap or free or financially dysfunctional actions in a fiscal capitalistic assessment have generated an online populace that has problems accepting an internet that pays for itself. What do you think can be done to aid AALBC financially?

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who is your favorite black law enforcement commissioner of a city in USA history?

@Pioneer1 @ProfD interesting point.

@Pioneer1 + @ProfD good points.

@frankster I am always willing to publicly state myself, offline or online. And it isn't proselytizing , it is me clarifying who I am when asked, which I think too many people don't do or do with enough quality. As it is, I will answer the following questions, as I offer no answer for yours explicitly. The reason being it is to simple. If I was living at the time of the war between the north american british colonies side the united kingdom plus I had a choice from the only options of being enslaved to whites/free fighting side whites against the creation of the usa/free fighting side whites supporting the creation of the usa will i choose free fighting side whites against the creation of the usa? yes I will choose free fighting side whites against the usa's creation 100% plus even if I knew the future, still 100%. Living in modernity, am I a loyalist? no. 100% I am not in support of fighting for the united kingdom against the usa in modernity. Not because the usa is good or positive but other options have existed since the end of the war of 1812 than fighting side white people for any agenda for a black person in the usa, that a person like me would and do find more favorable. Living in modernity, do I support elements of the Loyalist's community: the anti-usa/the use of violence/the anti white american, while I am not conveying the extent to which I support said elements? yes I support all three but the extent or methodologies in which I do I did not and will not state.

Thoughts to her new work and the inspiration behind it, she stated in the video below https://music.tumblr.com/post/719620189872881664/artist-of-the-moment-janelle-mon%C3%A1e

@frankster Its funny, i have thought about that phrase that many black people in the usa like to utter a lot in modernity . I realize now this juneteenth that it is not good enough. Many black people like to say we are not monolithic while same black people like to proselytize to black people who are variant from them. I personally have never believed any black people are incorrect. The founding of the usa, i repeat had three black tribes in the black village, which predates the usa, like the white or indigenous : enslaved to whites/free fighting for the creation of the usa aside whites/free fighting against the creation of the usa aside whites. Yes, black people's heritage in the usa is to not be monolithic but the details or what is most important is deeper than that. The original three black tribes in the black village in the usa had unconnectable goals/views/desires while a nonviolent approach to each other, while the white tribes in the white village in the usa historically are very violent to each other but have connectable goals/views/desires. This juneteenth i am making a pledge which I will state here beforehand, to focus on my tribe in the village in the usa, and blacks outside the usa , with the black community outside the usa in various governments really in scenarios different than in the usa. as for tribes not my own, I will do my best to support them to be for themselves, and stop all tribes from proselytizing, which i will end as well. Black nonviolence to each other has bred a preaching way in which black people with opinions or views to variant to connect end up trying to convince each other. and to that end you asked I am not of your tribe. I have already stated my opposition to the path that Cornel West is about. All black people want betterment for black people but in the usa the paths of the tribes are not the same and can not combine. I will answer what is the best reason in my view for a black person in the usa like you to vote for a candidate in the usa ? Simple, you believe in the usa, you have faith in its laws, you dream and desire what its nascent documents have alluded to. So you have to participate even if you have no candidate that provides a platform you can connect to. I will only suggest, black people like you need to put yourselves on the ballot when you don't have a candidate, cause sometimes no candidate exists and if no one going for a post has a platform functional enough to you , then you can't expect that position in government to have anyone functional. I know what my triibe in the usa wants and I have no doubts now that it isn't any elected officials in the usa. The key is for my tribe to succeed in its goals regardless of other tribes.

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@frankster to cornel west, we will all see. I think you should sign up to be part of his campaign. You seem to support him very strongly. As for the black community, we differ on viewing or interpreting the relationship of the black community to the usa or the european colonies that preceded.. The best news about that is, it is a heritage for the black community in the usa to schism over its relationship to the usa. And going into juneteenth, that maybe is the one thing most black people in the usa have a hard time accepting. That while the black community has always had varying camps on the relationship of black people to the usa, none of those camps are in the wrong or incorrect. The only question is which camp do you belong to and how best are you in going forward to where your camp wants to be.

@frankster Re-introduce, again, that part is very flawed for me. It is introduction, not reintroduction. Reintroduction suggest a lie Frankster, don't you see. It is like the so called harlem renaissance, it wasn't a renaissance. A rebirth suggest their was a time before where the black community had a great rise in harlem, but it didn't. And so he suggest something is going to force such a distribution when the usa has never had a distribution of resources to reach equality.. To me the issue isn't a matter of visioning the seemingly impossible, but a disrespectful lack of explaining the process needed for an undertaking as stopping all wars. When someone claims they will stop wars but have no process or path but make it seem like they will simply make a law , in the usa, the most militaristically potent government on earth .. well.. ok I did say , print money at the end. ok, but ... it isn't the most finessed plan. I wonder what the arms dealers will say about that. Bad leadership is still leadership, it is merely bad. But, my problem is Cornell west like many third party candidates speaks little on the solutions and alot on the goals. And he can't even utilize an example of his solution making skill on a smaller scale. I know west isn't running to win the presidency but again, third parties ahhh well, to be blunt, I don't know. I think many black people are but I , unlike you, are not certain that all are. I think in the black community, going to juneteenth our community has created a myth about what is good for all black people in context to the usa, that hasn't been proven to be true, at least not to me.

Below is a comment I made on ProfD's post @ProfD yeah I heard. Again, why is it 99% of the third parties in the usa, since the two party system, never choose to actually grow from the bottom to the top? the People's party first campaign is this one for Cornell West. Their first campaign. How can you expect to win a majority of 50 states when you have no presence in any state? Cornell west and many others before him, like Ross PErot, have differences in many ways, but all of them , regardless of their knowledge, clearly lack erudition in terms of government. The people's party has a website that is willing to accept money, has a bunch of goals, but has no process. Has no examples to show what they can do in smaller ways? https://www.peoplesparty.org/ I should not had but I went to Cornell WEst's website. https://www.cornelwest24.com/ I quote him What is Cornell West, a member of GI Joe the cartoon. And moreover, based on his introductory statement he is forgetting the USA can't be reintroduced to something it wasn't. When did the USA guarantee housing/guarantee healthcare/guarantee education/guarantee living wages/ guarantee ecological maintenance/... this made me laugh the usa is ending wars, the usa has started or propelled most of the wars since the year 1900/ the USA for over 150 years, which all black people know, has been the king of incarceration/ and the usa has always had extreme poverty, what do you think a slave is financially but poor. Ahh what is the process. But I will entertain this as this involves black leadership and cornell west is a black leader. First he is running for truth and justice, those are concepts, not people. What is the definition of truth or justice? He offers none. Why does it matter? You need to define how you determine a concept. Humans beings have never concurred on what is truth or justice. So you need to define it strictly so people can be clear on how you view it in terms of policy. Second, reintroduce the USA to the best of itself. Well, he explains what the best of the usa is, but the one big problem is most of what he states has no historical basis. So this is an error to me. The truthful thing to say is, introduce the usa to the best of what it can be. The USA hasn't been any of the things he defines as the best of in the usa's history. Third, how to make the things he wants to happen A. end poverty- well, simple equation. revenue earned per person+ financial assistance per person > cost of utilities+cost of food+ cost of clothing+ cost of healthcare. The problem is, the labor market in the usa has never supported the majority, again, slavery as a system is great for fiscal captalism. It allows for humans to be kept in a negative financial state legally which allows for the process of fiscal capitalism to play out and influence most free folk positively, cause the enslaved are taking a constant financial hit. So what is the solution to end poverty? Government assistance, or more bluntly, printing money and giving it to people or when people need, ala healthcare. But, this will not lower cost of items so this is a constant growth of printing money B. end mass incarceration- well, legalize prostitution + legalize loitering in public places like parks/sidewalks<not assault but loitering and not in residencies or private property but public places>+legalize all sales or possessions of drugs: from the heavy like cocaine, to the middle like nicotine or alcohol or to the light, like marijuana+ legalize all gambling, no restrictions anywhere meaning playing dice in the streets it allowed+ legalize all gun sales. The Black community knows this more than most. Black people used illegal means cause we were not allowed legal means by whites. It is simple. Most humans aren't killers but most are not going to fool themselves into low servitudes for the sake of legality. But in a very christian country with many self righteous people, legalization like I just suggested will have many opponents. C. Ending wars this makes me laugh. This is probably the hardest of all. I don't know how a country with seven fleets/three airforce commands/a satellite flleet/three submarine fleets/ a drone army/the CIA/the FBI/the NSA/and of course privateers like Blackwater is going to end wars when they are the genesis of most wars. The fiscally wealthy in the USA + the military community is not going to go back to isolationism as before the first phase of the european imperial wars, commonly called world war one. So this one is hard and I will not spend more than a minute on each of these. D. Ecological collapse well, the USA is going to need an army to tell other countries how to use their resources. At the end of the second phase of the european imperial wars it was possible to get most governments in humanity to guide their economies but today, it is too late outside of using force, but of course, if you want to end wars, you can't start wars so... the good news is, the earth can survive humanity's destruction. E. The guarantees: housing+healthcare+education+living wages. all these things in fiscal capitalism require money. To guarantee them means at the moment, the usa is going to print money like never before, to guarantee them. Now, a problem exists. How can the usa tell china or russia to not print money for their people ? how can the usa not give some members of the european union or the european union itself the ability to print money? if every major government is printing money where does the financial markets reside in all this? I quote a banker, fiscal capitalsim absent penalty isn't fiscal capitalsim. The ability to be broke/penniless/kicked out/totally indebted is part of the natural cycle of fiscal capitalism, to guarantee means that someone's financial ledger has to be totally made up somewhere and why should only one be made up. I conclude with function. Points A+ E policy wise, law wise , mean print money and pay for things. And woe be the day the usa empire isn't the global policeman and someone calls in that debt and has to get it. Points C+D policy wise, law wise, are impossible together. The only way to get all governments in humanity to operate on one page is a larger war machine. but a larger war machine will by default lead to more wars, sooner or later. Second money never blocked an army so the usa has to have a military to defend itself, like all countries. but the usa serves a function as a law enforcer for global trade. the usa has a military machine that breeds wars. No empire can have peace absent its military , while a military is mandatory to allow any government to function against another government, cause eventually another government will want to simply take. And while money can be potentially used to deter wars or get governments to allow certain activity, that is an ever increasing bill. B policy wise, law wise, is the only one that is purely domestic or in the usa in terms of scope. It is the only one that can have a different solution but it is the hardest sell. the usa is full of self righteous people. In AALBC,how many people have chided at the level fo religious zealot black people selling drugs, selling themselves, dealing in guns. To empty the prisons you need to first change the legal code. But, all the towns that are supported by prisons will vote against this, rally against this. So you will sate them with money. What about all the law enforcement communities? they will be unhappy. LEgalization deletes the need for law enforcement as it is. If the only thing illegal is murder and assault, you don't need so many law enforcers. man is drunk on the corner, what's the problem is he isn't assaulting someone. Woman is selling drugs in the park, what's the problem if she isn't assaulting someone. But, I doubt the majority of the populace in the usa , again, very religious, very self righteous, very much into lying will accept such policies. In the end, Cornell West's policies add up to print money. Print money to: end poverty, stop wars, stop mass incarcerations, get governments to allow certain actions concerning the environment, plus pay for guarantees to all living humans. That is a lot of money. In a modern humanity where china makes 92% of the cathodes in all electric car batteries, where Russia + the Arab monarchies own most of the oil. And the most important point, West has nothing but his speeches to show for functionaizing these ideas. Cornell West has a place or lived in Harlem in Manhattan in NYC in NYS. Run for city council. why not?

@ProfD yeah I heard. Again, why is it 99% of the third parties in the usa, since the two party system, never choose to actually grow from the bottom to the top? the People's party first campaign is this one for Cornell West. Their first campaign. How can you expect to win a majority of 50 states when you have no presence in any state? Cornell west and many others before him, like Ross PErot, have differences in many ways, but all of them , regardless of their knowledge, clearly lack erudition in terms of government. The people's party has a website that is willing to accept money, has a bunch of goals, but has no process. Has no examples to show what they can do in smaller ways? https://www.peoplesparty.org/ I should not had but I went to Cornell WEst's website. I quote him What is Cornell West, a member of GI Joe the cartoon. And moreover, based on his introductory statement he is forgetting the USA can't be reintroduced to something it wasn't. When did the USA guarantee housing/guarantee healthcare/guarantee education/guarantee living wages/ guarantee ecological maintenance/... this made me laugh the usa is ending wars, the usa has started or propelled most of the wars since the year 1900/ the USA for over 150 years, which all black people know, has been the king of incarceration/ and the usa has always had extreme poverty, what do you think a slave is financially but poor. Ahh what is the process. But I will entertain this as this involves black leadership and cornell west is a black leader. First he is running for truth and justice, those are concepts, not people. What is the definition of truth or justice? He offers none. Why does it matter? You need to define how you determine a concept. Humans beings have never concurred on what is truth or justice. So you need to define it strictly so people can be clear on how you view it in terms of policy. Second, reintroduce the USA to the best of itself. Well, he explains what the best of the usa is, but the one big problem is most of what he states has no historical basis. So this is an error to me. The truthful thing to say is, introduce the usa to the best of what it can be. The USA hasn't been any of the things he defines as the best of in the usa's history. Third, how to make the things he wants to happen A. end poverty- well, simple equation. revenue earned per person+ financial assistance per person > cost of utilities+cost of food+ cost of clothing+ cost of healthcare. The problem is, the labor market in the usa has never supported the majority, again, slavery as a system is great for fiscal captalism. It allows for humans to be kept in a negative financial state legally which allows for the process of fiscal capitalism to play out and influence most free folk positively, cause the enslaved are taking a constant financial hit. So what is the solution to end poverty? Government assistance, or more bluntly, printing money and giving it to people or when people need, ala healthcare. But, this will not lower cost of items so this is a constant growth of printing money B. end mass incarceration- well, legalize prostitution + legalize loitering in public places like parks/sidewalks<not assault but loitering and not in residencies or private property but public places>+legalize all sales or possessions of drugs: from the heavy like cocaine, to the middle like nicotine or alcohol or to the light, like marijuana+ legalize all gambling, no restrictions anywhere meaning playing dice in the streets it allowed+ legalize all gun sales. The Black community knows this more than most. Black people used illegal means cause we were not allowed legal means by whites. It is simple. Most humans aren't killers but most are not going to fool themselves into low servitudes for the sake of legality. But in a very christian country with many self righteous people, legalization like I just suggested will have many opponents. C. Ending wars this makes me laugh. This is probably the hardest of all. I don't know how a country with seven fleets/three airforce commands/a satellite flleet/three submarine fleets/ a drone army/the CIA/the FBI/the NSA/and of course privateers like Blackwater is going to end wars when they are the genesis of most wars. The fiscally wealthy in the USA + the military community is not going to go back to isolationism as before the first phase of the european imperial wars, commonly called world war one. So this one is hard and I will not spend more than a minute on each of these. D. Ecological collapse well, the USA is going to need an army to tell other countries how to use their resources. At the end of the second phase of the european imperial wars it was possible to get most governments in humanity to guide their economies but today, it is too late outside of using force, but of course, if you want to end wars, you can't start wars so... the good news is, the earth can survive humanity's destruction. E. The guarantees: housing+healthcare+education+living wages. all these things in fiscal capitalism require money. To guarantee them means at the moment, the usa is going to print money like never before, to guarantee them. Now, a problem exists. How can the usa tell china or russia to not print money for their people ? how can the usa not give some members of the european union or the european union itself the ability to print money? if every major government is printing money where does the financial markets reside in all this? I quote a banker, fiscal capitalsim absent penalty isn't fiscal capitalsim. The ability to be broke/penniless/kicked out/totally indebted is part of the natural cycle of fiscal capitalism, to guarantee means that someone's financial ledger has to be totally made up somewhere and why should only one be made up. I conclude with function. Points A+ E policy wise, law wise , mean print money and pay for things. And woe be the day the usa empire isn't the global policeman and someone calls in that debt and has to get it. Points C+D policy wise, law wise, are impossible together. The only way to get all governments in humanity to operate on one page is a larger war machine. but a larger war machine will by default lead to more wars, sooner or later. Second money never blocked an army so the usa has to have a military to defend itself, like all countries. but the usa serves a function as a law enforcer for global trade. the usa has a military machine that breeds wars. No empire can have peace absent its military , while a military is mandatory to allow any government to function against another government, cause eventually another government will want to simply take. And while money can be potentially used to deter wars or get governments to allow certain activity, that is an ever increasing bill. B policy wise, law wise, is the only one that is purely domestic or in the usa in terms of scope. It is the only one that can have a different solution but it is the hardest sell. the usa is full of self righteous people. In AALBC,how many people have chided at the level fo religious zealot black people selling drugs, selling themselves, dealing in guns. To empty the prisons you need to first change the legal code. But, all the towns that are supported by prisons will vote against this, rally against this. So you will sate them with money. What about all the law enforcement communities? they will be unhappy. LEgalization deletes the need for law enforcement as it is. If the only thing illegal is murder and assault, you don't need so many law enforcers. man is drunk on the corner, what's the problem is he isn't assaulting someone. Woman is selling drugs in the park, what's the problem if she isn't assaulting someone. But, I doubt the majority of the populace in the usa , again, very religious, very self righteous, very much into lying will accept such policies. In the end, Cornell West's policies add up to print money. Print money to: end poverty, stop wars, stop mass incarcerations, get governments to allow certain actions concerning the environment, plus pay for guarantees to all living humans. That is a lot of money. In a modern humanity where china makes 92% of the cathodes in all electric car batteries, where Russia + the Arab monarchies own most of the oil. And the most important point, West has nothing but his speeches to show for functionaizing these ideas. Cornell West has a place or lived in Harlem in Manhattan in NYC in NYS. Run for city council. why not? @frankster piggy backing off our other dialog. Cornel West is a black leader , before or during or after this camaign in the people's party. But, what were my questions: what is a leader trying to do, how effective are they, how does it relate to the Black community? What is Cornel West trying to do? He is trying to manipulate the campaign of Joe Biden for a second term. How effective will he be? time will tell How does it relate to the black community? Not to well. Some black people will gain as per the Frederick Douglass Tradition, the majority in the black community in the usa have never been helped or happy, but a few blacks , less than a minority in the black community but not only a handful one, will gain. You see this with the marijuana dispensary law in NYC/NYS. Biden may add some policies that will help a few blacks. And, that is a good thing in general.