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Consider this game if you have black chidlren, you can play offline with them, and do various things, not just killing. everybody in the house can make a black looking character
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Fantasy Life, from LevelFive is the game that had the most fun in my home, cause we all could play, even offline, even traveling, together in an immersive world. LevelFive is coming out with Fantasy Life i , but Nintendo has reached out to indie developer Phoenix games, to make a hybrid between : fantasy life/animal crossing/stardew valley/Breath of the wild from the Zelda seriea. And Fae Farm is the result. Farm to Fable: The Peace Seekers Farm to Fable: The Farmers Farm to Fable: The Adventurers Farm to Fable: The Artists Farm to Fable: The Friends I really like the blend of open world, no routine or guided activity, the design parameters of animal crossing with colors or visual perspectives, the connectivity of fantasy life with goals possible but not forced upon the user, side stardew valleys wide array of activities. If you are in Europe consider the following https://b2b.gamescom.global/gamescom/the-gamescom/ Have fun!
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@Troy wait, you have added an adjective. See this is the problem. I am speaking of racism, purely. Now you are saying american racism, which is more specific. You say I am wrong but then you use an adjective like that. Well... in the home I grew up in knowledge isn't enough, erudition and wisdom are more valuable. You say what I say may confuse black folks in the usa... well, then that explains the real problem. The problem isn't word definitions. The problem by your assertion is that the black community in the usa has developed and accepted incorrect, simple terms for convenience. That is a negative. I rather them be confused and then over time gain erudition and not be confused. Why should we speak to our kin as if they can't handle things. I oppose what you suggest. If an idea may confuse, it should be conveyed and the challenge is to comprehend which you can in time. What one human can do another can do. If one human , barring injury or manipulation, can comprehend a thing than so can any other, in similar fashion. Why is it you refute what I cited in the following comment? I know you don't troy. For you + @Pioneer1, as I said in the prior comment , you both link race to bias, and they are not linked... at least let me amend and say , me side others do not link racism with bias, while you Troy + Pioneer side others link racism to bias. Negativity utilizing a racism is negative bias. Bias is also positive. When a parent favors their child. That is a positive bias to their child using a genetically based racism, the racism being bloodline. It isn't based upon, again, your words + Pioneer's show a constant linkage and I oppose that. Racism can exist with unbiased approaches. You and Pioneer suggest that racism can not exist absent bias. I oppose that. When I walk out in the street, i see white people. I don't want to automatically attack them nor do I automatically want to run away from them and the law nor a set of conduct nor fear have anything to do with it. -
@Pioneer1 racism can be based on any factor, not just skin color. racism can be based on religious affiliation,language,geographic descendencyy, family name which is not genetically based. While it can be based on hair, height, gender... skin which all have a genetic basis, cause genomes of the DNA in the complex biomolecular system of humans dictates them. Don't limit racism to phenotype simply because as black people we have dealt with negative bias from whites in a phenotypical racial system in the usa. Racism come in infinite forms , some are genetically based, some are not. But bias is not a key factor of racism, one from a phenotypical range thinking themselves better or worse than another in another phenotypical range isn't racism , it is bias. Bias can be positive or negative. But bias is never genetic . Emotions are not bias. And bias is never neutral, that is unbiased. To restate , and this is the problem with you or @Troy. Both of you make an automatic connection between bias side race that is dysfunctional. Troy suggest bias is race, and you embed bias into race. But neither suggestion is true. just because bias is not based on genetics doesn't mean some forms of race isn't. Just because humans choose to be biased in a racial system doesn't mean the racial system is biased. My proof is humanity. You have a last name but you don't hate or love most others who don't have your last name. You having a last name is racism. You are mostly unbiased to those who don't share your last name. But, you may have biases to some who do not share your last name. In the same way if you have a child they will be born with one of three things: a penis in which they are male, a vagina in which they are female, or they have a hybrid between penis and vagina in which they are a hermaphrodite. But if you are positively biased cause they are male, unbiased as their female, or negatively biased cause they are hermaphrodite, the bias isn't genetic. the race , gender, of your child is. but the bias to your child isn't. All racism are unbiased classifications. When I call someone white, that is unbiased. It isn't a slur or support. When I suggest negativity based on their phenotype that is bias.
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The 33rd edition of the 2023 RMNewsletter
richardmurray replied to richardmurray's topic in Black Literature
@Delano you may enjoy the astrology- 1 reply
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@Troy I once asked in this very group what literature in the black community reflects various groups, and people only spoke to their own group if at all. One of the hurdles of the future for the black community in the usa, with its specific situations, is Black people in the usa are going to have to embrace how various the tribes are in our community in the usa. I know I jumped away from the debate over the word race , but I did cause that debate is done. PEople can have different definitions for words. And I don't see any illogic in my usage, nor based on your elementals do I see illogic in yours. But the deeper issue is communication between tribes. Language reflects the subtle grouping one is in and I know Black people, some large tribes, in the usa have been, to be blunt, criminal in their acceptance of the multiintralingual presence in the black community in the past, and I see that hasn't ebbed. And that is a problem. To be blunt, it is black people who killed all the many Black lingual dialects all about the usa from enslaved times. Regardless of why, the heritage of that act is a hurdle for the future, I argue the present.
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The following is my neutral reply to a reply to my words appended after.
science just means knowledge.
Using my own linguistic style, I will say, Researchers , who are able to be concurred to or refuted by others, suggest based on their studies that bias, communal positions based on interpreting race, has no genetic source.
I concur that biases , like linking intelligence or emotional quality to a racial factor like phenotype or gender, are not genetically based most of the time.
Yes, one can argue that downs syndrome, which is a known, publicly known, genetically derived condition with symptoms of mental inaptitude or uncommon difficulty does at the least prove genetics has instances where it influences intelligence, but the genomes which tend to be variant in those with downs syndrome do not occur bounded to the presence of other genetic markers for gender or phenotype or other, at least to my knowledge.
Yes, one can argue that women during pregnancy, which is a genetically based condition < men if healthy can not get pregnant whereas a woman who is healthy can> , have a long history of recorded emotional swings but like downs syndrome, it isn't bounded to the presence of other genomes.
I will speak for myself.
I am not being dishonest, I have said no lie, or betrayed my thinking. Nor have I spoken illogically, absent a structured reason, or ignorantly, meaning absent knowledge.
And as this is the African American Literature Book Club, I think a greater point is being missed. The most important point of the trilog and that is use of words, especially in the black community of the usa.
In literature, the use of words is logically the most important aspect of literature, not culturally or heritagewise but logically. That is why the word gay doesn't mean happy anymore for most people in the anglophone.
To me, as I said before, I didn't explain myself to get anyone else to change. I explained myself cause I felt it was warranted as functional reasoning that needs to be emitted, and not silent. I don't think any conflict exist between the three in the trilog. All explained themselves, and I said what Troy said makes sense, is logical, based on the elemental parts. But my elemental parts are other. It doesn't make me right or the other two wrong., or them right and me wrong. We have two different definitions of race that have no middle point and in my eyes, none of us have a reason to utilize the other, unless we as individuals want to.
But, Troy, a member of this group, asserted at the end, that I , or anyone else, shouldn't have a different use of words than websters or majority users. And I oppose that 100%. Just because websters has decided on a definition doesn't make it irrefutable , regardless of how many people are taught it or are indoctrinated to it.
And this goes into the black community. If one hundred black people live in a room and 99 say things one way and have a different mind to the room, why should the one be uncomfortable because they are alone. Some speak of individualism quite often in the black community in the usa, yet they often suggest in parallel that individualism should give into communalism when one is not comfortable, defined as opposed to a majority.
And yes, I reject more than one word in websters. As a poet I study words and I have found heavy levels of misuse in words. So much so I do it often myself, cause the USA environment has made common a lot of incorrect word usages. I will love to have a chance to work on a dictionary for a less known or used language. I wish Black people in the USA had not thrown away our many dialects for .... websters.
I nearly hate the blanc french but I have always been a fan of the following.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_Française
Why? I think the french are correct in the maintenance of language. In the same way the architects of timbuktu are correct in making buildings where aspects to their maintenance or repair is part of their final structure. Every language should have some organization to manage it to be within itself. American English is a terrible language in that way. It is unorganized, muddled, and ugly in the allowance of atemporal disjunction.
The USA thought about it
http://www.languagepolicy.net/archives/Adams.htm
The continental congress logic wasn't flawed. From the beginning they realized, that having language be fluid opened up allowances in expression, which allows for the composite nation speech point.
Composite nation from frederick douglass
But Adams was correct. Language dictates the populace. When you look at the usa today and the individual liberty of it, it can be argued that the freedom of language plus the lack of management of language is a key to its populace's makeup. American English is looking to be mixed , so to speak.
But it is interesting that so many Black people in my creative circle, writers especially, are willing to suggest my use of words is false based not on anything official, but merely majority use, absent any management. I suggest a managed and researched language is best in any community, or you end up talking muddle.
John Adams penned this proposal while on a diplomatic mission to Europe during the Revolutionary War. Formally entitled "A Letter to the President of Congress," it was dispatched from Amsterdam on September 5, 1780.
As eloquence is cultivated with more care in free republics than in other governments, it has been found by constant experience that such republics have produced the greatest purity, copiousness, and perfection of language. It is not to be disputed that the form of government has an influence upon language, and language in its turn influences not only the form of government, but the temper, the sentiments, and manners of the people. The admirable models which have been transmitted through the world, and continued down to these days, so as to form an essential part of the education of mankind from generation to generation, by those two ancient towns, Athens and Rome, would be sufficient, without any other argument, to show the United States the importance to their liberty, prosperity, and glory, of an early attention to the subject of eloquence and language.
Most of the nations of Europe have thought it necessary to establish by public authority institutions for fixing and improving their proper languages. I need not mention the academies in France, Spain, and Italy, their learned labors, nor their great success. But it is very remarkable, that although many learned and ingenious men in England have from age to age projected similar institutions for correcting and improving the English tongue, yet the government have never found time to interpose in any manner; so that to this day there is no grammar nor dictionary extant of the English language which has the least public authority; and it is only very lately, that a tolerable dictionary has been published, even by a private person, and there is not yet a passable grammar enterprised by any individual.
The honor of forming the first public institution for refining, correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English language, I hope is reserved for congress; they have every motive than can possibly influence a public assembly to undertake it. It will have a happy effect upon the union of the States to have a public standard for all persons in every part of the continent to appeal to, both for the signification and pronunciation of the language. The constitutions of all the States in the Union are so democratical that eloquence will become the instrument for recommending men to their fellow-citizens, and the principal means of advancement through the various ranks and offices of society.
In the last century, Latin was the universal language of Europe. Correspondence among the learned, and indeed among merchants and men of business, and the conversation of strangers and travellers, was generally carried on in that dead language. In the present century, Latin has been generally laid aside, and French has been substituted in its place, but has not yet become universally established, and, according to present appearances, it is not probable that it will. English is destined to be the next and succeeding centuries more generally the language of the world than Latin was in the last or French is in the present age. The reason of this is obvious, because the increasing population in America, and their universal connection and correspondence with all nations will, aided by the influence of England in the world, whether great or small, force their language into general use, in spite of all the obstacles that may be thrown in their way, if any such there should be.
It is not necessary to enlarge further, to show the motives which the people of America have to turn their thoughts early to this subject; they will naturally occur to congress in a much greater detail than I have time to hint at. I would therefore submit to the consideration of congress the expediency and policy of erecting by their authority a society under the name of "the American Academy for refining, improving, and ascertaining the English Language." The authority of congress is necessary to give such a society reputation, influence, and authority through all the States and with other nations. The number of members of which it shall consist, the manner of appointing those members, whether each State shall have a certain number of members and the power of appointing them, or whether congress shall have a certain number of members and the power of appointing them, or whether congress shall appoint them, whether after the first appointment the society itself shall fill up vacancies, these and other questions will easily be determined by congress.
It will be necessary that the society should have a library consisting of a complete collection of all writings concerning languages of every sort, ancient and modern. They must have some officers and some other expenses which will make some small funds indispensably necessary. Upon a recommendations from congress, there is no doubt but the legislature of every State in the confederation would readily pass a law making such a society a body politic, enable it to sue and be sued, and to hold an estate, real or personal, of a limited value in that State.
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@Pioneer1 funny about that school, it is still the same, for all the movie's hype, the reality is a fiscal poor community is just that and education will not cause a leap while on the other hand while the lean on me school had these kind of speeches, white jewish children in nyc private schools were not being taught how to read or write to the simple city's standard and were given no speeches like this externally or internally, whatsoever. An those kids abrely able to write english were given trips to cancun and swimming and shops and all sorts of amenities. I will no longer tolerate black people in the usa acting like education is our problem when some communities are getting away with not educating their children at all, and being chastised by few to no one externally or internally. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2064&type=status Clark passed away but to him and all the other blacks, many who chime in this community talking about what black children need to do educationally, I say shut the fuck up and do what the white jewish adults are doing for their ignorant children, giving them a golden road. SHut up clark, shut up any of those like you and give black children the world, cause that is what white children , who can't read or write are being given by their adults. No Excuse Black Adults.
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How Many of These Accounts Did I Approve?
richardmurray replied to Troy's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
@Troy i have another solution, this is your website, you should have the programmability to place users in racial camps and have powers based on that. meaning what. users who have paid for an aalbc author page + users who are on the forum but have achieved certain badges + users who have achieved a certain level of interaction are allowed to have two types of posts. Public + Quality. In a quality forum posts only those who have earned the quality ranking can create or comment. While all users can see or share. In a public posts it is open to all for total functionality. But only quality users have utilize either form of post, thus all the fake accounts by default start with public only and based on a set of factors will never reach quality as they barely post. Thus it allows all quality users the ability to post to a quality space or public space, where quality users can communicate to each other while non quality users can only watch. Instead of filtering bad users, allow users based on performance on the website to have an alternative posting abillity that is accessible only to the qualified. -
@Delano you didn't you said what I was thinking but didn't articulate honestly was all people are meant to survive, all people, and the proof is all people do.
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I can not tell you how many writing groups I have been part of where the following came up side my fellow crafters of words. Even as a child.
But here we go again. Websters is wrong. PEople are misusing the word, it is that simple. And I go one further. Webster's and many dictionaries in all earnest puts too much weight on figurative evaluations in words. I don't care if 99 percent of people use a word a certain way. 99% are simply using it wrongly.
Racism/Bias/Prejudice are not as defined in websters.
And I will use the definition you gave to support my point.
You said
1 : a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
From Merriam Webster:
also : behavior or attitudes that reflect and foster this belief : racial discrimination or prejudiceFirst, a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits.
well how does your websters define race
any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry
That isn't race:) Troy, that isn't race. Race isn't a divider of humanity. Race isn't bounded to physical traits. Race is any classification scheme that can be applied on humanity by humans.
Me , you, Schtrumpf, Nahomie Osaka are human beings, children of earth. That is the shared ancestry. The fact that three of us are male and one is female. Three of us are black and one is white. One has recent asian lineage and three don't. One speaks japanese , three don't. All speak english. These are not dividers, it is merely a classification scheme.
So websters definition of race is false. Which makes sense cause their definition of racism is false.
What divides human beings are rules or policies, not racism. The train track didn't divide towns because black people side non blacks don't share the same shades of skin. Non blacks power+ policies made the train track divide, and it was the bias in their use of power or creation of policies, not racism.
No point in going further because the primary explanation to the word is false by webster.
A classification scheme isn't even a belief. it is a tool. But when webster placed race as webster defines it their definition is totally flawed.
Race is a classification scheme applied on any grouping.
When humans say, lions and tigers are cats that is racism.
Racism is actions to define race.
When humans make a book describing cats that is racism.
Bias is making an opinion on a race
When humans say black cats are evil, that is bias.
When humans say the pig can not be eaten, that is bias
When humans say the cow can not be eaten, that is bias
humans calling another human black is racism.
humans calling another human stupid cause their black is bias
humans calling another human woman is racism
humans calling another human foolish cause their woman is bias
humans calling another human old is racism
humans calling another human weak cause their old is bias
humans calling another human christian is racism
humans calling another human fanatics cause their christian is bias
Now, having preached , I apologize again, I already know most folk don't use the words the way I do. I know. And I know you troy or others will continue to use words as you have. I comprehend 100%. But your wrong. that is what I will conclude on. it is that simple. Use words better, trust me, it matters.
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@Troy I can not tell you how many writing groups I have been part of where the following came up side my fellow crafters of words. Even as a child. But here we go again. Websters is wrong. PEople are misusing the word, it is that simple. And I go one further. Webster's and many dictionaries in all earnest puts too much weight on figurative evaluations in words. I don't care if 99 percent of people use a word a certain way. 99% are simply using it wrongly. Racism/Bias/Prejudice are not as defined in websters. And I will use the definition you gave to support my point. You said First, a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits. well how does your websters define race That isn't race:) Troy, that isn't race. Race isn't a divider of humanity. Race isn't bounded to physical traits. Race is any classification scheme that can be applied on humanity by humans. Me , you, Schtrumpf, Nahomie Osaka are human beings, children of earth. That is the shared ancestry. The fact that three of us are male and one is female. Three of us are black and one is white. One has recent asian lineage and three don't. One speaks japanese , three don't. All speak english. These are not dividers, it is merely a classification scheme. So websters definition of race is false. Which makes sense cause their definition of racism is false. What divides human beings are rules or policies, not racism. The train track didn't divide towns because black people side non blacks don't share the same shades of skin. Non blacks power+ policies made the train track divide, and it was the bias in their use of power or creation of policies, not racism. No point in going further because the primary explanation to the word is false by webster. A classification scheme isn't even a belief. it is a tool. But when webster placed race as webster defines it their definition is totally flawed. Race is a classification scheme applied on any grouping. When humans say, lions and tigers are cats that is racism. Racism is actions to define race. When humans make a book describing cats that is racism. Bias is making an opinion on a race When humans say black cats are evil, that is bias. When humans say the pig can not be eaten, that is bias When humans say the cow can not be eaten, that is bias humans calling another human black is racism. humans calling another human stupid cause their black is bias humans calling another human woman is racism humans calling another human foolish cause their woman is bias humans calling another human old is racism humans calling another human weak cause their old is bias humans calling another human christian is racism humans calling another human fanatics cause their christian is bias Now, having preached , I apologize again, I already know most folk don't use the words the way I do. I know. And I know you troy or others will continue to use words as you have. I comprehend 100%. But your wrong. that is what I will conclude on. it is that simple. Use words better, trust me, it matters. @Delano I don't know the south american country you are referring to but white argentines who controlled the argentine government, didn't kick out black argentineans, they murdered them wholesale.
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What Black Unity Looks Like.....
richardmurray replied to Pioneer1's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
@Troy thank you, black people everywhere have always fought back against the non black, the problem is when non blacks anywhere escalate, usually <not everywhere all the time>many and sadly most black people tend to relent or melt away. in this very comment stream you have the theme of nonviolence, which comes from more than a sense of peace, it also comes from fear. Luckily in modernity, non blacks in the usa don't have the same sense of unity as the near past. Immigration since 1965 has changed all communities in the usa in multiple ways. I know I beat the dead horse but the IRA comprehended most irish who might be in for a march or blowing up a store wasn't ready for escalation. But the IRA was and thus achieved their result. I do not advocate nonviolence or violence, but either way has negative or positive sequences and too many in my view, focus too much on the positiive sequences of nonviolence or the negative sequences of violence absent comprehending both holistically -
@Pioneer1 First, Cynique's assertion is false as you never know until the critical moment. I can look back on history and tell you what white people have done, but assuming if the phenotypes are reversed will lead to a mirror history is just that, assumption and unwarranted. I concur that various groups in various races are different. Women are not men in the gender race. Blacks are not whites in the phenotypical race. Asians are not Europeans in the geographic race. But I don't say this based on genetics. I say this based on heritage, an underrated word or concept. People love to talk of culture, what is grown from today. The unknown of the future allows people to be positive. But people don't like to speak of the complexities, the communal complexities of heritage, what we carry from yesterday. Especially as in modern humanity, most yesterdays are near complete to negativity for most. In my view, the variance between whites or blacks in the usa, notice my geographic focus, comes from the variant relationships to the place. Why are white people in the usa? They are here for their betterment regardless of others. The white people of europe that freely came on those boats to the native american lands were not thinking of multiculturalism or multiracial or peace on earth or rule of the people or rule of the king, they were thinking, how can I make life better for me , no matter what I have to do. Why are black people in the usa? They haven't figured out how to leave. The Black people of africa that was forced to come in those boats to the native american lands were no thinking of multiulturalism or multiracial or peace on earth or rule of the people or rule of the obas, they were thinking, how can I go home, no matter what I have to do. These two heritages in my eyes is the true source of the variance between blacks side whites in their relationship to the usa. HEritage isn't weak, it isn't as solid as a genetic sequence but I argue heritage can survive for a long time. Because heritage at its core is related from parent to child. So, in my view, I don't think you or Cynique or correct, cause either of you assuming is just that, an assumption. You don't know and while assuming about an individual is at least challenging at most impossible, assuming about a community, a collection of human beings, is at least impossible, at most folly. I use James Baldwin for my point. He said his father hated whites, and yet, his father never attacked whites. His father prayed in church for white people's damnation in a heaven where only black people exist. DO you see? James Baldwin's father like most black people in the british colonies or the usa from it want one thing, to leave. Death is a form of leaving .White people's heritage is to thrive in the usa regardless of how. Black DOSers heritage is to desire to leave the usa, even if we can't. But, with modern immigration the usa has added many others who have muddled the racial situation even more. And that is why I asked, The point is to admit what you want, whatever it is. The problem is less about who will do what in power in the usa, but the damage so many of the powerless in lying about what they desire if in power, no matter what it is. This goes back to Frederick Douglass. He publicly said he opposed leaving the usa, having black states in the union, warring with whites. Frederick douglass at least publicly stated what he wanted. That is why the black masses booed his speech as most black people didn't want what he wanted. But, Black people today in the usa, tend to curl around what they want, whatever it is, and emit lies. @ProfD I don't know what black people in the usa will do if in power. I don't like to assume that. No one knows. I think the black populace in the usa today in itself has many various desires on how to relate to the usa and tend to undercut each other cause many of these paths don't mix. Most black people in the usa want betterment for black people, but most black people in the usa seem unable to handle how to be a community of people going different paths. Most Black individuals in the usa can accept the entire village doing what said person thinks the whole village should do or individualism en mass. But Few Black individuals in the usa can accept the truth, we are a community of tribes who want various things. Is it fair? no. Is it lucky? no. But it is the truth. And the heritage of christian preaching has made it difficult for many black people to accept that truth. @Troy good one, yes, historically, not currently:) Yes, the CBCU's need to be repurposed. I concur. I think the black community en masse has become disconnected to them for them to be considered so vital to the black community en masse. But of course, the problem is the black one percent who use the CBCU's for their communal efforts. Like black churches, the CBCU's in modernity are about a specific tribe in the village, not the whole village. I oppose one thing you say. That is a lie troy, what you call racism is bias, not racism. Racism at its heart has no bias. Comprehend, the use of genus/species is a form of racism. You really have to learn, and I am not preaching but I do think people in general need to learn to the use word bias properly. Racism is not bias. LAst names, family names, is racist. The whole point of clan names is to have a symbol of orientation to a group. it is meant to classify, to rank, to make one of a race. It isn't bias though. I am black/male/hetero/anglo/descended of enslaved/human... these terms have no bias. I am black based on my appearance. male based on being born with a penus hetero based on the desire to fornicate side the female gender. anglo based on the language i communicate in most descended of enslaved based on my ancestors condition in the american continent at a time. Human based on my genetic sequence. None of this is bias. No generalization exist in any of these definitions. These are simple facts, but not limiters. Just because I am black doesn't mean someone can't call me mulatto. Just because I am male doesn't mean I can't neuter myself to delete the ability to use my penis to its fullest. Just because I am hetero doesn't mean I can't be raped by a man Just because I am anglo doesn't mean I can't learn mandarin Just because I am descended of enslaved doesn't mean I can't associate to the land my forebears were enslaved to. Just because I am human doesn't mean I can't want to marry a tree. I am preaching sadfully, but the word is bias not racism. I really hope more people in humanity stop using the word race inappropriately. @Delano A black asian of indian descent who was in the courtroom when mandela was imprisoned said it best. He came in a warrior in traditional garb and left prison in a european suit. Mandela left prison peaceful, but he was also broken. The man he was before prison, like many who have been in prison, was broken into something else. Now that something else was satisfactory to whites in power, satisfactory to black leaders who preached nonviolence in south africa or usa, but that something else was unsatisfactory to the majority of black people in south africa, who represent most of the populous. Winnie Mandela was excommunicado from the leadership. It is that simple. Mandela/Tutu/Declerk/ the white + black one percents in south africa were united. They each had an element that when put together made a key point in south african history. The truth is, like in all countries ala the usa at the end of the war between the states, it will take time for south africa's truth to mold the choices made at the crucual moment into the future. Your wrong, no people's really die. Jews always lived in Germany even through all the nazi's killing. The druids , native people of what is called england, didn't die off even though the history books keep saying they did. The Black populace in the usa will always exist. Maybe one day a large exodus out the usa happens, that would actually be historical balance. Maybe one day a war happens involving the usa and black folk are on the losing side again. That happened in the past multiple times concerning the usa. But the black populace in the usa will survive in some numbers. Hell, the native american wasn't completely annihilated and white people of europe tried their best so... no people's die. Get small, perhaps. Get large, perhaps too. But never die out.
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By powerless or impotent I mean across all racial lines Phenotypical race: black Gender race: female Religious race: muslim Geographic descendency race: Native American Black people heavily viewed in media complain about the USA being the USA but I never hear them answer if they had power, what will they do? https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2397&type=status
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She makes a number of points that are not contiguous.
1) colleges admission process- Some of you may know history but the tragedy of the history of colleges is no college in the usa started as a public institution. I rephrase, most colleges start as race based organizations on whatever racial parameters the creators and financiers of the college set. So my first point is separating colleges started with racial entry rules, against colleges started as a truly public educational institution.
If I start and finance a college for black people, as I define them, exclusively and a white person, as I define them, wants to join, shouldn't my school be allowed to block this person no matter what?
Forcing a college to find someone to join their school who fits the scholastic racial requirements but not the financial or phenotypical racial requirements is what affirmative action is in the usa. The idea is to force only scholastic entry requirements but schools are financed.
If a christian finances a school for christians only shouldn't a muslim be banned from joining no matter what?
If a woman finances a school for women only, shouldn't a male be banned from joining no matter what?
2) coming from being raised in majority black towns/communities in the usa and being into majority white educational institutions explains how some want to use integration. A smart person from a black town should be able to go to a historical black college since many of them were started in the 1800s. But, what is the point? The point of the black going to the ivy league isn't about education, it is about communal integration. The idea is, in an environment where the phenotypical + financial race is not their own, the black fiscally poor student will intermingle side the rich white and potentially integrate into rich white society in some way or form. The problem is the pretense of educational betterment is deleted with this point. The idea that harvard is this elite place educationally isn't why the affirmative action is needed, cause harvard isn't. The truth that harvard is a communal zone for the financially wealthy or powerful who are usually white is why affirmative action is needed, cause through harvard maybe the halls of power or channels of business ownership may change through the communal connection.
Why have so many Black people put so much effort in non black schools but then complain about non black schools being communally resistant to them?
Do black people who go to Ivy LEague schools hate Historical Black Colleges?
3) The universality of affirmative action creates incongruent scenarios. In Mississippi an all white elementary school had affirmative action placed upon it so seats for black children were made. BUT, is any all white elementary school the equivalent to harvard? Harvard is a place for adults , truly of the greatest financial wealth. But is the all white elementary school the place of financial wealth or adults? The answer is no. Jefferson Davis elementary school in Mississippi isn't Harvard and too many all white educational institutions are more like jefferson davis elementary in mississippi, all white but not a hall of power or financial influence, and far from harvard or exeter.
4) Coming from being raised in majority black towns/communities in the usa and being into majority non black educational institutions puts black individuals in communities of disbelief. Of course among black people, a black child that has a talent or skill is merely praised. but around non blacks, it is questioned. All communities do this. White men can jump? It happens. Humans like to be in their own subgroups, their own kinds, ala Anita in west side story. The problem is why do people not raise their children to know this? I don't like when any person doesn't realize being the only other in a room will yield to being treated as unwanted, that makes perfect sense.
5) Black women in particular's rant about white inheritance. Yes, black women, white people are rarely like Mrs. PArkington. < https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2371&type=status > who cut their descendants from the money if they don't earn or unwarrant it. but that is part of why you get money. And I argue in the black community many black people have developed an inverted sense of wealth through bloodline. Whites usually get money and believe it to be for their next generations no matter what, to make their life easier/lazier no matter what. But many black people seem to have this meritocracy idea in inheritance which is at best ideal for the usa that never was or will be, but at worst is a detriment to black growth. Yes, rich whites built harvard/yale/stanford/massachusetts instittue of technology/colombia , they built the museusm in new york city, shouldn't their children have a free ride in the institution that wouldn't exist if not for their forebears.
Again, if I started and financed a school, and after I am dead, shouldn't my descendants have free admittance in the school? I built the damn school, if one spot is open shouldn't my descendant have the seat over any other, black or white or with better grades?
6) and Yes, the whole point of the white community in the usa or the british colonies before it is, money talks. Yes, the descendants of the genocidal murderers to Native Americans + Enslavers to Blacks reap the rewards. That is fiscal capitalism. That is the usa. The USA isn't about equality, isn't about fairness, isn't about helping the weak or unopportune. It is about benefiting for self over others through their pain for your own benefit. And maintaining the benefits you earned for your descendants over the descendents of those you murdered or abused. Yes, that is the USA.
Why is it so many black people don't know this?
Why do so many black people in the usa sound ignorant/stupid/dumb/foolish to what I said in point 6)?
@africanheritagecity HBCUs MATTER! @attorneycrump • Exactly. The misconception that affirmative action meant unqualified people have been admitted into college solely because of their race was never true and is quite frankly an ignorant interpretation. Thank you @joyannreid for setting the record straight and sharing your truth! #andthisiswhyweshouldgotohbcus #hbcusmatter #blackexcellence ♬ original sound - African Heritage City The USA wasn't started to be a place of fairness or equality or any similar positives and it can't change to be those.
Black people have wasted a lot of time trying to make the USA what it will never be
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Movies That Move We : Little Mermaid review
richardmurray replied to richardmurray's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
Well:) @Pioneer1 first, hans christian anderson's little mermaid story can be described basically about this white mermaid who chases around a white boy and seeks his love and approval? So any story based on the little mermaid will probably have a female mermaid chasing after a male human seeking his love and approval. Sequentially, the greater question is, do you like the original story? If the original story base points are to your disliking than any version will be.
