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@frankster I concur to your quote above. .... I don't think a leader has to be looked to for direction. Again, the IRA freed 3/4 of IReland being feared or despised by many and potentially most irish people. But the IRA had an objective and succeeded and many in ireland are better for it. In my assessment 99% of Black leaders in the government in the usa historically owe at least part of their position to whites. Sometimes they are. I can even use a modern scenario that is localized. The marijuana issue in NYC, from the legalization of marijuana to the nyc/nys government program that has provided opportunities to start marijuana dispensaries to those imprisoned by marijuana possession, which for the record has been utilized. But, to be blunt, if the black population in nyc alone put in prison for marijuana possession was let out in total en masse, if they all were given a ten year license for opening up a marijuana business and were given money for the years they were put in jail or detention for trying to feed themselves or their families that would be great for the black community but will be a financial collapse of many white towns in upstate New York sate who live off of the prison populace fed by small fiscal crime inmates who are black. New York City is already at the brink, financially and a battle between the mayor and city council over financing is going on as I type. The expenses of giving licenses and a pension for a dysfunctional legal system , which is warranted, will be to the detriment of NYC. It is that simple. No two things in humanity are always better together, some times, most times, few times, but never none of the time while never all the time. why troubling? Human beings are human. It is human to murder a parent cruelly as it is to celebrate the birthday to a stranger vigorously. Human leadership is meant to have a full spectrum. I will be troubled when humanity losses variance in any aspect, cause that is inhuman.

@frankster well, the difference between my definition of leader and yours, based on what you said, is in my definition, a leader can be bad:) In my view, a leader isn't someone who succeeds at leading. In my view, a leader is someone in a leadership position, regardless of what they do in it. So for example, Barrack Obama is a black leader. Mayor Eric Adams is a black leader. In my mind the question isn't are they leaders, but what are their objectives and are they good at being a leader? In terms of the black community I argue they are poor. In terms of the USA I argue they are at least good. But their objectives isn't an improved black community first and foremost. Their goal is an improved usa first or foremost. But that is ok. All leaders have their own objectives. All communities have bad leaders. And sometimes a bad leader does one great thing while a good leader does a terrible thing. And sometimes a leader gets to complete all their objectives even if many consider it bad.

All of the image below were what the party of abraham lincoln wanted to cut from federal budgets. All of this money is going to new york state, not across anywhere, all new york state. It's funny. I look at each of these and the debt of the USA is clear. 1) Rental assistance. First, NYC has high rents. So most people who live in New York City can't even afford to be in the apartments who have legally lowered rent. What is my point? The NYC real estate market is buoyed by welfare. The people making millions for selling a loft are buoyed by a city whose populace is subsidized so that the real estate industry can make profits. It is a financially dysfunctional situation, that was brewed long before I or most who live in nyc was born. But what is the question, New York City plus NEw York State made this mess long ago, this is again, a long term problem that has festered, but why does the federal government have to pay for New Yorks dysfunctions over many decades? And secondly, don't let anyone fool you. Many a new yorker has championed a neighbor being kicked out with total glee. 2) Again, many people join the military for personal benefits, roof over the head, food , stipend, free college, yes healthcare, people don't join the military because the military offers nothing and it is dignified. PEople join the military for benefits!!! But, again, columbia presbyterian isn't a hospis. It isn't some free medical facility. Healthcare cost. 3) Again, the Metropolitan Transit Authority started as a few lines, it was an exclusive service. Yes it was expanded through the world war II monetary increase but this is again a high cost. Infrastructure is financially never cheap. Somehow people think infrastructure is. Old human facilities deteriorate because the power to maintain them, by any means, is gone. This is no different than the MTA. yeah, it runs all day in NYC. yes, NYC couldn't function absent it, as most who live in NYC don't own a car. But, it is expensive and the gilded age was over a long time ago. 4) The fire department + law enforcement agencies of NYC are huge, especially law enforcement. But again, law enforcement has the best paid union in NYC, is deemed by many, erroneously though purposefully, a communally positive job. And today is a large behemoth that has grown out of control to be blunt. But, it is also expensive. The article below admits much of this but misses a key word. Slavery. Slavery fits Fiscal Capitalism like peanut butter and jelly. Fiscal capitalism allows for individual or groups freedom, an open marketplace for all, but it demands most be the loser. Slavery has the great solution, if the losers are enslaved those who are not can live in an augmented scenario to their favor. No, get rich quick doesn't work. No, no plan or strategy can lead all or most to fiscal positivity. No, most will eventually not accept being peaceful while poor. No, all militaries eventually fade, and with them , whatever they are protecting. No, the individual will not always rise above or is to blame for failing to rise about a fiscally poor environment. Now what does this have to do with black people, specifically? To black people outside the USA a cautionary tale. Any community in humanity chooses to do negative things for their betterment. No one has to, but if you do, don't lie about it. Don't turn the lies you make of yourself into laws. To black people in the usa, I don't know the future, but dysfunctional systems exist in the USA, in its big cities like NYC. Said dysfunctions are not any one person's fault, more the fault of many over time. But the USA has dysfunctions that when they finally stall will influence the life of all. Tell the truth about the usa, not what you want. Please Don’t Call My Job a Calling June 5, 2023 By Simone Stolzoff Mr. Stolzoff is the author of the book “The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life From Work.” Last month, in an interview about Warner Bros. Discovery’s $50 million streaming profit in the first quarter of 2023, the company’s chief executive, David Zaslav, told CNBC that he believed the Writers Guild of America strike would ultimately end because of “a love for the business and a love for working.” As the sixth week of the strike begins, the writers’ persistence reveals a sharper truth: Love, unfortunately, doesn’t pay the bills. The implication that love is a suitable stand-in for job security, workplace protections or fair pay is a commonly held belief, especially in so-called dream jobs like writing, cooking and working in the arts, where the privilege to do the work is seen as a form of compensation itself. But the rhetoric that a job is a passion or a “labor of love” obfuscates the reality that a job is an economic contract. The assumption that it isn’t sets up the conditions for exploitation. Indeed, creative, mission-driven and prestigious jobs often take advantage of employees’ love for what they do. According to one 2020 study, employers see poor treatment of workers — such as expecting overtime work without pay or asking people to do demeaning tasks that aren’t part of their job descriptions — as more acceptable if the workers are thought to be passionate about what they do. This stems from bosses’ tacit assumptions that their employees would do the work even if they weren’t paid. That seems to be the message some W.G.A. members have gotten. “Writing is a noble vocation,” says Charles Rogers, a writer and showrunner who is on strike in Los Angeles. “But the industry is set up to make writers feel like they should be grateful just to be here.” Employers then rely on employees’ indebtedness and the proverbial line of people out the door who would happily take their places to justify paying them less than they deserve. The idea that employees work for something other than money is also pervasive in industries that are geared toward helping people, such as education. “Teaching is a calling,” tweeted Mayor Eric Adams of New York City a few weeks ago. “You don’t do it for the money, you do it because you believe in the kids that come into your classrooms.” That may sound like reverence, but the New York City teachers’ union contract expired last September, and Mr. Adams has resisted pay increases that keep up with inflation. Teachers need better compensation, not platitudes celebrating teacher appreciation week. In a 2018 paper, Fobazi Ettarh, who at the time was a librarian, coined a term for how the perceived righteousness of her industry obscured the issues that existed within it. Ms. Ettarh called the phenomenon vocational awe, which she defined as the belief that as a workplace, libraries were inherently good, and therefore supposedly beyond critique. When a workplace is seen as virtuous, she claimed, it’s easier for workers to be exploited. “In the face of grand missions of literacy and freedom, advocating for your full lunch break feels petty,” she wrote. Ms. Ettarh had known she wanted to become a librarian since she was a teenager. When she was studying for her library science degree, her professors loved to wax poetic about how becoming a librarian is a calling and libraries serve as the last truly democratic institution. But from the other side of the reference desk, she saw how the industry’s ideals concealed its low pay. In her first position out of grad school, Ms. Ettarh was told by her supervisor, “No one becomes a librarian to make a living wage.” (She was making $48,000 at the time.) She eventually left the industry. During the pandemic, vocational awe was on full display from educators who were told that they were doing God’s work but also to make do with what they had to health care professionals who were deemed essential yet often not given compensation or protection commensurate with the severity of their work. The perceived righteousness of honorable industries covered up poor conditions like frosting on a burned cake. While vocational awe is common in do-gooder professions, it can exist in any field that relies on the strength of its brand to distract from the reality of workers’ experiences. Take zookeeping, a profession where the average pay is $16.51 per hour, according to Indeed. Zookeeping is romanticized — you get to spend time with animals! — but also characterized by long hours, hard labor and cleaning up feces. In a study, the organizational behavior researchers Jeffery A. Thompson and J. Stuart Bunderson found that following the calling to be a zookeeper led to trade-offs. “Fostering a sense of occupational identification, transcendent meaning and occupational importance on the one hand,” they wrote, offset “unbending duty, personal sacrifice and heightened vigilance on the other.” The researchers concluded that low pay, unfavorable benefits and poor working conditions are often the sacrifices workers make for the privilege of doing what they love. This sense of duty and personal sacrifice can conflate workers’ output and their self-worth, as I chronicle in my new book, but it can also have a chilling effect on their willingness to surface wrongdoing. When you’re in a great job — one that you feel lucky to have — the fear of losing it can make it harder to speak up. But thankfully, workers are recognizing their collective strength. Employees at workplaces across the country have organized and are fighting for better conditions. In Hollywood, it’s the screenwriters demanding more job security and a better cut of residuals. In Ann Arbor, Mich., graduate students at the University of Michigan are also on strike, demanding a raise in minimum annual salaries from about $24,000 to $38,500. In Oregon, nurses are calling for staffing increases to better serve patients. And they have a lot of support. Seventy-one percent of Americans approve of labor unions, according to a Gallup poll from last year, which is their highest recorded approval rate in the United States since 1965. As Ms. Ettarh told me, “Workers are seeing that unless they work together to fight back, institutions will grind them to dust.” For starters, employers can recognize that we work for more than love. URL https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/opinion/employment-exploitation-unions.html

@ProfDfair enough, my read of history suggest most black people in the usa have thought of reparations but most black leaders in the usa haven't prioritized or functionalized the issue. For me, reparations isn't due from the usa, it is due from the white community. @Troy I apologize for miscommunicating. My point wasn't to say that most black people in the usa haven't thought about or desired reparations. my point is most black leaders in the usa haven't approached/functionalized/prioritized the issue. But i did say most, not all. @frankster fair enough, but my point is not to condemn the past. I think most black leaders in the usa didn't or don't see reparations as a positive goal for black people in the usa. I am not suggesting most black people in the usa never or do not want reparations. I am speaking on black leadership in the usa, specifically.

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You know, maybe because of Juneteenth, I have thought about freedom in the black community in the usa and when black people talk about reparations we mention how most black people wanted it, but we don't mention how black leadership in the usa since the war between the states in majority never advocated for reparations. No black leadership group has ever truly advocated reparations. The Black church hasn't, the NAACP hasn't, Black colleges hasn't , black elected officials to any party of governance hasnt. So, yes, most black people in the USA have thought of reparations, wanted reparations, but a majority of black leadership in the usa hasn't advocated it, even if they spoke well of it or desired it in private. If our leadership isn't advocating something, no matter how loud we are, it will not be done. With the modern black community in the usa internally more multiracial than ever before, mostly allegiant to the usa more than ever before, more willing to live aside non blacks more than ever before, more financially wealthier in the usa than ever before, the issue of reparations is least desired today than ever before in the black community in the usa. It doesn't mean reparations isn't warranted, nor is the ower the usa. The ower is the White community. But, Black leadership in the usa in majority chose to guide the black community to where it is now, and one of the negatives of that choice is black people have to live with reparations being warranted but no longer majority supported in the black community itself. REFERRAL THE PRICE OF TRYING TO BE EQUAL TO AN ENEMY Single Status Update from 06/04/2023 by richardmurray - African American Literature Book Club (aalbc.com) JUNETEENTH IDEAS

@Chevdove yeah I am a fan of st louis jazz yeah, it is a favorite among our folk, but others as well. That is the east side one. They have two in manhattan. Tried for three but had to let the third go for the city's fiscal environment during the sars-cov-2 response.

Some ideas for Juneteenth given by a Black person elsewhere. Maybe an intellectual debate. Subject matter, I don't know. A skype maybe. The following are Juneteenth events, share your local ones.

An Impossible Proof Of Pythagoras Presenting Authors Ne’Kiya D Jackson St. Mary's Academy Calcea Rujean Johnson St. Mary's Academy Saturday, March 18, 2023 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM 423 (Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons) Abstract In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered it's always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular. In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states that “There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem.” But that isn’t quite true: in our lecture we present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1. URL https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23621 URL- timeing 9 am https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6131 Referral- thanks to a friend https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2023/03/28/new-orleans-teens-solve-impossible-mathematical-equation/ While in India India drops the periodic table, Pythagorean theorem and evolution from school textbooks Story by Sushmitha Ramakrishnan, Deutsche Welle • ... On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy, among others. ... A small section explaining Michael Faraday's contributions to scientific understanding of electricity and magnetism has also been removed. ... India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) -- the public body that designs curriculum and textbooks --...expanding its list of omitted topics. ... tenth grade is the last year mandatory science classes are offered in Indian schools. Proof https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/Rationalisation-of-textbook/NCERT_Response-Periodic_Table_and_Evolution.pdf Referral https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/india-drops-the-periodic-table-pythagorean-theorem-and-evolution-from-school-textbooks/ar-AA1c2vDV PROOF - URL is above NCERT’s response to news related to rationalised content on Evolution and Periodic Table in Science Textbooks During the COVID -19 pandemic, students and teachers across the school stages were at home and managing teaching-learning using alternative modes. NCERT attempted to rationalise the contents of the textbooks in 2021 considering following criteria: a. Overlapping with similar content included in the other subject area in the same class. b. Similar content included in the lower or higher class in the same subject. c. High difficulty level d. Content, which is easily accessible to children and does not require much intervention from the teachers and can be learnt through self-learning or peer-learning. e. Content, which is not relevant in the present context or is outdated. f. Learning outcomes already developed across the classes are taken care of in this rationalization exercise. With respect to the removal of the concepts of periodic table and evolution are concerned, the same has not been removed from the school education curriculum but in fact are available in appropriate detail in classes 11 and 12. Regarding rationalization of the concept of evolution: As far as the rationalisation of the content of evolution is concerned, the same has been dealt in appropriate details in classes 12 as stated above. A considered opinion emerged based on the feedback received from various stakeholders, including practising teachers, that children may not have to study same concepts at different stages and it needs to be done at appropriate stage. Therefore the same has been rationalized at this stage, more so considering the Covid pandemic situation. Regarding rationalization of the periodic table: Discussion about basic concepts such as elements, symbols, formation of compounds, atoms and molecules have been dealt with in class 9. In class 10, chemical reaction; acids, bases & salts; metals & non-metals; carbon & its compounds have been covered. Students pursuing science in classes 11 and 12 will study the details of Periodic Classification of elements (Periodic table). The content placed in the periodic table again have been made more age appropriate, more so considering the Covid pandemic situation.

@Chevdove skettel is being made, the screenplay is made, the first image is the thespian who will be the female lead. Criblore was made already but it is on a site. excerpts are on Moon Ferguson's video sharing , Filled with magic is the name of the company wait @Chevdove you never heard of the american black film festival before. I thought I shared it last year at the least in a post. welll, glad you know now. It tends to be in the south, if you live around, give it a go, it will be cool to have someone from aalbc there

topics Cento poetry series , part 2 Select my Faux Volumetric for a 3d contest, free poll Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College book club Skettel + Criblore news , works from Moon Ferguson What is or can be a unique Juneteenth celebration? Black people at the end of the war between the states Per un Pugno di Dollari theme Black sitcom art 3D fabrication in the future https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/05/06/04/2023-rmnewsletter.html

We have some exciting news! We have officially cast our lead role! Marley will be played by the talented upcoming actress, Alicia Pilgrim! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonferguson/skettel/posts/3824274?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users Criblore is an official selection for this year's American Black Film Festival! We will be screening our episode, Florida Water, starring Terayle Hill and Brittany S. Hall. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonferguson/criblore-a-horror-anthology/posts/3824304?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users

@Pioneer1 Only one thing , it isn't mysterious entities. Nippon/China/Russia/many other governments bought the debt. They bought it cause the usa is the safest currency. The problem is, said countries also trade in this debt, the biggest being nippon. which means if the usa was to default, Nippon would now sell all that debt in a storm as the evaluation of the debt bought will go negative and that will begin a cascade of intergovernmental problems. The USA will be safe but the global system the usa set up will collapse and that will mean many governments or wealthy in every part of humanity will be damaged.

@Pioneer1 well, yes, it doesn't seem wise to invest in a secret:) but the name comes from cryptography, literally the study of secrets, but functionally the study of private information in electronic devices. The hashtag and more importantly its utilization is what made crypto from a technical point of view and thus the name Cryptocoins. The reason why crypts are attached to graves is that in early christianity, when it was illegal or an impotent community, christian places had to be kept safe from authorities or others, thus crypts.

@Pioneer1 cool ,any ideas on a unique way to celebrate juneteenth?

@Pioneer1 Statistics are not known but I can say this having been fortunate to speak to black people who actually lived back then. These things did happen but it wasn't common or a plague. Remember the USA in itself in the 1950s is miscomprehended. There is an idea that people didn't know about debauchery or sexual activities. This isn't true. It wasn't some wild rampant as some suggest but it was also present. It connect to the next point. Well drugs have been common throughout the entirety of human history. But when he speaks of getting high he is refereing to high as in jubilation. Remember the black community in the usa was a much more christian community and still had remnants of our enslaved days where black people treated being high as being free from this world of enslavement. Be careful reading in modern sentiments into the past. And to that, Black people were mostly moonshine drinkers, tobacco smokers. These are drugs but they are common. Like Marijuana today, most black people have never been hard drug takers. But the reason is simple, most hard drugs require money. Cocaine isn't cheap, ala why black people were able to afford crack, its derivative. Most hard drugs are too expensive for black folk. Now comprehend, moonshine is potentially a hard drug in that moonshine can be over 90 proof which is strong alcohol content, near 50 but moonshine can be 110 or 120 proof, that is damn near pure alcohol. So when you say common drugs, well, Alcohol is ever present in the usa in general, all communities. I hope your not suggesting black people should be beyond taking any drugs. The kings of the nile sold wine. Well, I can tell you for sure that the NYPD has to get a cut of all crimes, as we speak right now at hunts point where the women walk naked around at 1am , the pimps are paying law enforcement in one way or the other. So why? why is to make sure the underworld comprehends who has to get their cut. Remember the NYPD was started by Bos Tweed as a place for Irish street gangs. And excuses were not given. What people consider legal oversight for law enforcement is a relatively new creation. In NYC something called the Nap commission <a msispelling> was started in the 1970s by mayor lindsey to begin managing law enforcement in nyc. we all do:)

@Pioneer1 When you ask what do I mean, you didn't grow up with stories about High John? Well, High John is what I will label a Black DOS myth. He was a black character in the same vein as Anansi or Brer Rabbit. But Brer Rabbit/Anansi/High John are not the same. High John's nemesis was literally Massah. Growing up as a kid my parents read some of his tales and I would read them. The book is on the shelf. Most of the High John stories have one common theme, he always succeeds in outwitting massah. His plans always work out. I am a huge High John fan from my youth.

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@ProfD thank you for saying that the bill can't be called in. If you give your life savings to the local mob boss and get a deal to get interest, the mob boss will not be afraid of you even if he stop paying interest. The USA military is the answer , positively or negatively. @Pioneer1 In NYC many people still have years of unpaid rent. The problem Pioneer is the usa has an unlimited budget and can't have its debts called in, but it also wants to keep the illusion of financial honesty or sincerity.

great answer @ProfD I am near many actually. TO be specific, Black Eateries are the primary small black business in the area and most make money and get non black clients, even before the last twenty years. BEcause I saw this friday, friday fishday , I will choose , Lighthouse One is east side one is west side in manhattan, the oldest is the west side https://www.lighthousefishmarket.com/8th-ave-menu And I have to play the song I always think about whenever fish is on the meny, any day, whether home cooked or out there

@Troy thanks for sharing your personal journey with crypto. I could had did similar. I just didn't. But I want to say the people I know offline who invested in crypto did just like yourself. They didn't put in rent money so to speak.

yes it is @Troy thank you for your ownership + work in this website

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@Stefan Can you provide a link of when i ever said crypto was a viable investment for black people ? I will help you. The following is a link to all post from me with the word crypto in it, in aalbc. https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=crypto&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=or&sortby=newest The only truly credible proof is a private financial investment ledger which I am not privy too. Cause I repeat , I have never personally supported investing in crypto. And if I was privy to such information I doubt i would display it without the permission of the people it relates to. Now, I have never suggested I can provide irrefutable proof on anything. And regardless of my offline information, which I wouldn't convey online anyway, that isn't proof. I wanted you to help me write something. I don't recall I ever wrote anything like that. Here is one half of my proof , these are all the posts with frank james concerning me. Never once did I ask or desire you to help me write anything. You like proof, check yourself. https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=frank james&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=newest The following is the other half. I don't usually submit a private multilog, but your lies force this. If you notice, you started this private message, not me. I never asked you for... anything. I never wanted anything from you. And I refuted your view toward me. You kept suggesting your assisting me by communicating to me. Now, for your next positions Again, I never said ideal. I have never said offline or online that at any moment in the history of the usa or the european colonies that proceeded it that anything was ideal concerning black people, no plans no situation no ideas have ever been ideal for black people in the usa. What I said, and here is your proof https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=black political party&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=newest is the following I want you to quote when I said anything was ideal some of my earliest quotes, say nothing about ideal situations. And you can use the link above if you want more proof. I messaged in a public post that it is a Black party of Governance. And I never said one existed , I said one was needed, and hasn't been tried. And for the historical record, so many black men were lynched , black women raped, black towns burned completely, I don't comprehend why a Black party of governance would had made more of a negative difference, when even whites will admit that violence against black people after slavery in those early years was worse than during slavery. https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/page/5/?tab=comments#comment-495 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/page/5/?tab=comments#comment-496 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/page/5/?tab=comments#comment-498 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/5787-black-party-to-governance-after-listening-share-your-thoughts/ https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/page/8/?tab=comments#comment-898 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/9211-the-black-community-in-the-usa-need-an-alternative-to-black-officials-from-the-party-of-andrew-jackson-or-abraham-lincoln/ And lastly, your position of black ignorance of the past. The articles are all cited. And clearly show the idea that black people were ignorant to their condition in the past is a lie, or that they were disengaged. I repeat, black leadership made a choice and that choice led to the changes black leadership wanted in the black community but they had other options that I think were better and still today, the black community in the usa has elements it lacks which its leadership isn't supporting. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2346&type=status My only problem was I went against what I said and I replied to you. That was my mistake. I will not make it again.