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richardmurray

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  1. Black people in the U.S.A. don't control the U.S.A. and Black people , whether asian or other, is tiny or impotent in China. I leave collective or communal issues out based on the prior. So, my question is individually, where do you stand on the growth of China in humanity, humanity defined as the entire human collective? If you want to read more from others side myself, use the following link https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2296&type=status
  2. thank you @SpeakHerTruth and @Pioneer1 I retract my prior statement. It is Rihanna. I admit, I don't know Rihanna's look as well as either of you. And I realize, maybe SKettel is miscomprehended. the still image isn't from the film, this is a kickstarter. Some prior work from moon ferguson https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1956&type=status https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/page/6/?tab=comments#comment-658
  3. @Pioneer1 the female personification of any country needs to be sexy:) Succulent is the goal, something everyone wants plus is willing to die for in the land. Haiti will improve, it did it before, it will do it again.
  4. Enjoy the design. I will make a design all mine for the second and for the third I will do a star trek 3d chess. Any suggestions or thoughts, please and all are welcome to join in. I used, Figuro to create and hosted on SKetchfab. Richard Murray Chesstable 01 by richardmurray3d on Sketchfab
  5. @Pioneer1 I recall when obama first ran and white people had symbols of him hanging..i argue while unhealthy, it is inevitable
  6. @Troy if you were in Zi's shoes and bytedance gave you the choice to sell tiktok to an american firm , what will you do?
  7. @Pioneer1 no, but the story involves a woman with caribbean ancestry
  8. @SpeakHerTruth yeah, dungeons and dragons is a game built for escapism. People when they play the board game are imaging themselves other things in other worlds. It is literally for the fun of adventure so if the film focuses on that it will probably do well. The only worry is the lack of logic, dungeons and dragons players like rules, the game has rules. the film, if it doesn't break rules it makes itself, then I think the global fanbase to the board game will be satisfied. I never heard of one night ultimate werewolf, thanks for sharing, please post in the group your expanded thoughts to ONUW in a post:) cool, i like monopoly too
  9. A new work by Moon Ferguson, I enjoyed Juju very much. MOON FERGUSON page https://www.moonferguson.com/
  10. Women of AALBC, true? Men, can you support the claims? Supposedly, cause I don't know if this show is real...a white radio broadcaster is calling on barrack obama to be executed if trump is put in jail
  11. Got a question for the cast of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves? They may have answers! Submit your questions here < https://entertainment.tumblr.com/ask > , and tune in for their Answer Time on March 30th at 11am PT / 2pm ET, before the film opens wide on March 31st. U.R.L. https://entertainment.tumblr.com/post/711937110429532160/got-a-question-for-the-cast-of-dungeons-dragons In Amendment many black people love video games, love board games, love card games, and yet, I have never seen a board game like dungeons and dragons implemented by black people. Yes, Dungeons and dragons has an open world structure meant for any human to play in it, but rivals for games are made all the time. Just wondering. Also, will you ask a question ?I placed mine below Do any of you play the Dungeons and Dragons board game and will you play a character like the one you play in the movie or another? What do you think about a version of the Dungeons and dragons board game based on the movie, upon success and sequels, will it be an uncommon synergy between film and games? Honor among thieves seems a introduction to a world but not an origin story, am i wrong or right, and will that make sequels/derivative works more fun or creative?
  12. @Troy no I never do these things instantaneously
  13. exactly, @SpeakHerTruth anyone who knows a woman who is a competitive martial artists , any style, knows she is muscular. That chun-li has no muscle I can see it the beginning of the story P.B.: "Ohh piglet , I need to get to the honey" Piglet: "Pooh! , that big blue creature is coming for you" P.B. "Don't worry Piglet..I will just sit and be cute " TO BE CONTINUED:)
  14. none of you have mentioned one thing, the issue is dead. Will Smith or Chris Rock have nothing left to do. If Chris Rock calls Jada Pinkett a bitch in the next special, then he is being petty or trying to manufacture a scenario. If Will Smith finances a film where a black comedian has to protect himself from those his jokes insult then his remorse wasn't true. It's over, Jada Pinkett smith was insulted by a black man on a national platform for no reason at all, Jada Pinkett had her honor defended by her husband which cost him some status and cost her some status, they are still maried, and the man who insulted her did it far worse afterword. But, all three are healthy, financially wealthy, and can move on now, outside the inevitable question from poor pundits but it's over
  15. referral https://www.deviantart.com/mystic-skillz/journal/Guilty-Force-939049040
  16. First the backstory, I should go farther back and how little art or graffiti has been treated by the NEw York City government at the behest of many people in NEw York City, i daresay most, as a negative going back to the 1970s. Funny how the sotheby's of the world are selling JEan Michel Basquiat's art , an artists who died penniless, for a hundred million dollars while the city painted over the street art in the 191st street tunnel with no pausal, they took photos of it i think. Well now the city wants to repair the problem. But instead of it being a random thing done through time, changing as well, they want it to be official. So... NYC DOT Announces Search for Artists to Beautify 191st Street Tunnel The New York City Department of Transportation today issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking submissions of bold, colorful designs for beautification of the 191st Street Tunnel (The Tunnel). Proposed designs should reflect the local community and the rich cultural identity of Washington Heights. Located in Washington Heights at 191st Street, the pedestrian tunnel connects Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue to the 1 train station at 191st street. The station is one of the deepest in the New York City Subway system, sitting at approximately 180 feet below street level. The Tunnel is mapped as a street and is thus owned and maintained by DOT. “The 191st Street tunnel is a community landmark, providing critical connection between Broadway and the 1 train for tens of thousands of New Yorkers,” said New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez. “We are excited to find artists to beautify the tunnel with designs that reflect the rich cultural identity of Washington Heights and create a vibrant space for the commuters who use this major hub every day.” The RFP is available for download on DOT’s website. For more information, please visit, https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dotart-191-st-tunnel-rfp.pdf (ENGLISH) or https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dotart-191-st-tunnel-rfp-es.pdf (SPANISH). DOT Art will select up to four (4) artists to develop design treatments to be painted within the Tunnel with community and volunteer support. The selected Artists shall be responsible for completing one (1) final design, working with DOT staff to develop the implementation plan and material list, assisting with stencil production and developing technique to translate the design onto tunnel walls, and assisting with overseeing a team of community volunteers or assistants. Submissions must be submitted via e-mail no later than Friday, April 14th, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST to be considered. Hand delivered proposals will not be accepted. All submissions should be emailed to: 191TunnelArt@dot.nyc.gov. DOT Art Background The New York City Department of Transportation’s (“NYC DOT”) Art Program (“DOT Art”) oversees the installation of public artworks on NYC DOT property throughout New York City in partnership with a diverse body of professional artists, galleries, business improvement districts and arts, community-based and other nonprofit organizations. City sidewalks, fences, triangles, medians, bridges, jersey barriers, step streets, pedestrian plazas and other unique project sites service as canvases and foundations for temporary murals, sculptures, interventions, and cultural programming. In addition, DOT Art coordinates conservation and maintenance of DOT’s permanent art collection and collaborates with the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Percent for Art Program to commission permanent art as part of the Percent for Art law. For more information about DOT Art, visit www.nyc.gov/dotart. I COPIED THE FOLLOWING FROM THE ENGLISH PDF
  17. I have always loved the art of Chevelin Pierre, for years now, so even though it is march,and haitian independence is january 1st, it is being shared:)
  18. my pleasure @KENNETH Black people ourselves created our own myths about a better past. how many black people talk about back in the day we were united? back in the day we cared for ourselves? back in the day this, back in the day that. Back in the day we owned nothing. Back in the day white people abused us to no end, beyond many modern black folks comprehension. Back in the day we hated whites and never emitted that hate in any physical action outside talking in the dark. What is the black individual mantra? I got mine get yours . .. right? But the white community enslaved the black community in the american continent. The white community didn't enslave you or I they enslaved us, no matter our relationship to each other. When was the last time a majority of black people whose forebears were enslaved in the usa were happy? Was in 2022? no was it eh 1980s? no was it 1965? no . Was it in 1865? no was it in 1776? no was it in the 1500s in the boats? no. Was it in africa on the docks to unknown lands? no. it was in africa all about the continent. But Black DOSers going to repair to that? Complicated, I will say nothing is impossible, but complicated.
  19. fair enough @SpeakHerTruth We all like what we like. And liking i never universal in consensus. Maybe as a literalist in prose i prefer root meanings. Race/prejudice/bias/bigot all have roots. Race means a classification. Prejudice means to judge before knowing. Bias is to favor, which always goes in twos. Bigot is a modern artifice, it is only figurative in meaning, its literal has been lost. In the past it was used for religious folk who swear , which comes from the very unmodern idea that taking oaths should not be done, especially to a divinity, ala by god. the antiquated idea is false oathing, especially to a divinity harms the soul. Sequentially, you have answered your original question. Why did the meaning change? it changed cause somebody always doesn't like the prior meaning, and it will change in the future for the same reason. But the functional question, collectively, is how do those in a group function together positively absent consensus on a meaning of the words they use? Some will say actions speak louder than words but in groups communication is the blood of the body. Absent communication the only way individuals in a group can work together is if they act in a strict set of rules absent the ability to liken otherwise, ala they are machines.
  20. well, in brown vs board of education wasn't that the premise of thurgood marshall, the black children chose the white doll de facto, knowing full well they are not white while most have negative experiences side whites... I think it is a conscious negative bias many black people in the usa or elsewhere have to self, built in a complex media framework, from books to televisions in modernity while also, and in my view most importantly, to a clan culture stemming from the slave quarter in the past or other similar negative communal extremes. I learned this about project implicit https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/aboutus.html
  21. I want to add one point to the commentor's above. The USA has the strongest culture of individualism in all humanity. And part of individualism is a dislike for collective things by default. Individidualism by default says the one has the right above the group. Racism by default is a group based philosophy. IT always takes at least two to be a race. The challenge for the usa is how to be a race of individuals. but comprehend, all are racist if they use any collective label to themselves, including human. I repeat, if you call your self, human, your a racist.
  22. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronwired/52755757407/in/feed-849661-1679194154-1-72157721662201124
  23. In round 2, I explained something that caused confusion. I quote in Round 2 @KENNETH I do not oppose reparations or renaissance. But I oppose a key element that black people don't seem to realize when they talk about repair. ANother was also confused and I replied to them with the following in bold. I merely go into detail after. good afternoon @Soulsonsix yes, i want to only add we have a happiness foundation elsewhere. More elemental than culture, it is a question of where the majority of black people whose forebears were enslaved in the usa were last happy and the majority of black people whose forebears were enslaved were never happy in the usa. So, why will a majority of black people whose forebears were enslaved want a renaissance or repair to anything in the usa? I will amend, when you buy a brand new car. It is shiny, the engine works, current technology. But, thirty years after, it gets a constant leak, its technology is unsupported. You want the car repaired, a reparation. But that is because the car was once great all around. The black community in the USA whose forebears were enslaved, which is not all black people in the usa, have no prior positive state to repair back to. They have no naissance to have a renaissance. The black community whose forebears were enslaved started the usa journey with over 95% enslaved. Then after the war between the states, sharecropping or jails, which is slavery with a contract or the still legal way. Then it was in urban collections in cities black people didn't create or control. The prior state of the majority in the black community whose forebears were enslaved, I will use the term DOSers afterword, in the usa is extremely negative, so what is their to repair in the usa? the answer is nothing. But, is reparations dysfunctional? not historically. The problem isn't that reparations is a false goal, the problem is where reparations takes DOSers , if we are honest about where most of us were last happy? The answer is africa, but not one country. DOSers from canada to argentina are a mix of african peoples. The problem with reparations in San FRancisco is the majority of the DOSer community in the usa has no condition or state of being in the usa in the past worth repairing. The native american has a state or condition worth repairing in the USA, which is before the european colonies came into existence, but DOSers don't. So when anybody, black or white or other, talks about the goals of reparations, they are forgetting the unfortunate, ahh luck:) , reality of the DOSer community is while reparations are warranted beyond measure, the reparations take DOSers unto a journey out or away from the usa. And the problem there is, Africa as a continent or any country in it has no way to handle the need of reparations for DOSers anywhere in the american continent as a large group. YEs, black people individually go back to africa, but this issue is about mass groups. Yes, not all black people in the usa today are descended from enslaved, some are immigrants from kenya. but this doesn't invalidate reparations because an ever growing number of black people came to this land like whites. And yes, I was verbose in this amendment to the bold quote, but you have to use more words to display the specificity in this issue. Citation for my bold quote ROUND 2

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