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@Troy no need for sorries. I think miscommunication in a literary book club has a little warrant. You speak truth , I will only piggyback and say, for most Black folk we need to start now. Which is why I say we all should write journals. I have written many for my journeys full of many things, from simple prose thoughts to poetry or more. Yes, many of us don't know our sanguine past, but how many of us can say we have anything for our sanguine future? Lets get all of us to make diaries or journals for the future.

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@Troy I apologize for the confusion. Based on my grammatical comprehension I did not suggest I was the abuser but only the abused aside a witness to others being abused. I assess our community in the usa another way. I do not think black people in the usa need help being informed. When you say much do you mean most of our history or least of our history? For the record, I never said the culture I described is limited to Black people whose forebears were enslaved in the usa , but I was only communicating concerning Black people. I don't know about your american culture assertion. You may be correct. I have many questions to that assertion.

@Pioneer1 For the record I never said I was a victim, I said I saw or experienced alot of law enforcement abuse. So you have no need to be sad. And the reason connects to your second query In my experience a black person's intelligence or composure has nothing to do with law enforcements relation to them. Black people who had a nonviolent plus peaceful composure have been killed by law enforcement in no way other than Black people who had a violent or warful composure. Black people whose intelligence some, not me , will rank grandly or absently, based on pieces of paper have been injured by law enforcement. I will not share cause they don't matter, as Tulsa to Till to Tyre prove. Talking about it doesn't bring back the dead, nor generate peace, nor solve historic problems. Talking about it will not resolve any individuals woes, or collective grievances. I said you have no reason to be sad because the Black community in the USA guided the Black community in the USA to its current situation. I restate, Black people guided ourselves to this situation. I can expound but I rather be focused than verbose. The individual culture in the modern Black community isn't what it was born as by the majority of Black leaders at the end of the war between the states. The Individual culture isn't trying to delete relation between black peoples in the USA as much as define Black individual relationships to all other individuals, singularly. And while it has led to inevitable participation in the USA like a Black president in the USA, and will lead to more Black elected leaders in the USA to non majority white voting populaces, it has led to inevitable frictions in the Black community in the USA, like Tyre side Black law enforcement his murderers. No philosophy is all positive or all negative. I restate, the Black community has guided itself for its own betterment to the culture most in it adhere to, but like all philosophies it has positives or negatives. One of the negatives of the individualistic culture is frictions of a lethal nature between groups.

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I have been unfortunate enough to see + experience alot of law enforcement abuse. I don't want to repeat myself . So I will focus on how Black people in the usa from the end of the war between the states reached modernity culturally. Frederick Douglass side the Black church is the answer. At the end of the day, I realize , that the cultural trajectory of the majority, not all or me, in the Black community in the USA is a culture of individualism that Frederick Douglass side the Black church wanted when they started the Black community on this path with white financial support when the war between the states ended. The goal is for Black cops in mostly white law enforcement organizations to exists, for Black presidents in a mostly white country , Black Mayors in a mostly white city to exists, it isn't to deny, black cops in most black law enforcement organizations, or black mayors in black towns or black sheriffs in black counties. But the idea is for an individual allowance to exist in the Black community in the USA that will curtail Black communal strength, will curtail Black communal resilience, will curtail Black communal fiscal profit, but the goal is to get the majority of the Black community to be part of an aracial identity, an individual identity, that I argue has been reached. No, not all black people in the USA are philosophically aligned, but most are. The murder of Tyre Nichols represents the strength of the individual culture in the black community in the usa. These events will always occur for nothing is completely positive. All ideas have negativity, including nonviolence, including araciality, including miscegenation, including integrationists ideas like slavery... as well as militisms, or segregationists idea like Back to Africa. The question is, what are the negativities with an idea. The murder of Tyre Nichols represents an inevitable negativity from the individualism which is the majority philosophy adhered to by Black people in the USA today. IT will happen again, as it already happened already. It must. But I think most Black people in the USA, which doesn't include me, support the individualism and with sadness or lamentations, accept the murder of Tyre Nichols as part of the price for individual cultural allowance, which I argue no community in the USA has stronger than the Black community in the USA, even if it isn't articulated.

Amen @Troy

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@Delano fair enough @Cynique like delano, you know yourself, and are living your life your way. fair enough

@ProfD dumb but also human, if it happens regularly it is human

hahaha @Troy just take two sets of regular cards together and make the deck:) you have inspired me to champion pinochle more haha!:) @Cynique inspiring story, did you ever keep journals from your university of illinois days, i will love to read some of your thoughts from those times:) see if they are changed from your more experienced now:)

@Delano have you ever blogged on aalbc about your tarot experiences,in depth?

@ProfD and yet history teaches the nouveau rich usually act money drunk over financially wise. i argue history is the excuse

@Rodney campbell good point and telling how varied our tastes are

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@ProfD in defense of the bruce heirs ,if they decide to spend wildly, they will not be the first nouveau riche to lose heavy

@Cynique i play pinochle ,thank you for your bridge history @Troy card games never ebb in popularity,pokemon or yugioh are some modern loves,thank you for spades @Delano you are the first to mention a non card game primarily. yes the spinning wheel is a common tool for physical random generation,although easily manipulate-able, if made honest it has fee rivals,thank you for your comment @ProfD you mentioned board games primarily, chess then monopoly. much heavier on the side of strategy as the other primaries chosen are games where,if fair, the influence of the random is undeniable,whereas chess has all knowns from start to finish.

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@Rodney campbell gives his take what is yours?

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