richardmurray

@Pioneer1 fair enough:)

@Pioneer1 and thus back to my point, what is the real problem with black history month? I just don't see the logic in the argument from black people who say they have problems with it. I don't see it. russian month/italian month/white jewish month/irish month/polish month/ even french have a week/german week... the whole year is littered with months that overllap for whites and yet, one month for black and it is a crime, it is a grandious negative within the black community itself led by black people like yourself... But, you make a point. Maybe black history month needs to be DOS month though that doesn't sound particularly well.. and to your point, in nyc they have a carribbean month. The carribbean has so many islands, I think even you will realize monthing them all is silly. I disagree, all year in NYC you have black people emitting black culture, all year, no shame or lessening exists by having this month in nyc. maybe where your at , ok. but isn't a lessening or limiting here. Black cultural centers act all year round in nyc, a little month of emphasis isn't limiting them. As for need, or having a special class, again, all communities in nyc have it. The first asian woman to start an asian american studies program died two weeks ago. she was educator in nyc, whose main goal was teaching asian history too... ASIANS... Everyone does it! pioneer. Every group in the usa has a month where they are given an extra media bump communally. every group in the usa deals with their culture all year round. every community in usa has cultural classes in the education system Now maybe where your at black people don't have any activities outside black history month, but not where I am at. so , ask for black history month to be deleted where your at, not the whole country , cause a number of black communities are not limited.

@Delano the late great donny hathaway... legend I can see the power of the piano forte with you:) nice @Pioneer1 i was being a bit , i admitted the songs I chose were not my favorite:) thanks for your entries @Cynique yes, and thanks for your entries

hhaha @Pioneer1fair enough, you made me laugh, good one:)

well @Pioneer1 for me Haiti/Ethiopia/Nippon/China are the four countries to have reached freedom from white european imperial power completely. and of them china has succeeded. Did you know in the chinese constitution, one of their bill of rights so to speak is that all in china must abide by chinese law. that shows china is very aware of white european domination that in their constitution it is against the law, elementally , for any law to supercede their own in china. think on that, most other countries of color, not white european, don't have anything like that. and in defense of china having some white european trappings, that is why you win wars. Gaul has no one who speaks Gaulish, they all speak a form of common latin, the language of the roman empire. Is that cause the roman empire is around? no, that is because the roman empire annihilated the gauls. War gives the victor a part of the future in the culture to the future humans. It is that simple. Hundreds of years of white european imperial rule will not be washed completely away. That is the history of war throughout all humanity.

ahh @Pioneer1 fair enough, is the toronto carnival is the closest to your residence? NYC has a miniature in brooklyn.

@Pioneer1 I know about all the carnivals from canada to argentina. Brasil is the best for me, but I will explain why. In Brasil, when carnaval happens, each community in each city has a carnaval celebration. The carnavals that get on television in Sao Paulo/Rio/Salvador are the ones tourist go to mostly. The average brasilian goes to a smaller, untelevised carnaval celebration in their community in the city. It is like the ball drop in NYC or MArdi Gras in New Orleans, most of the chaos is tourist driven. So, if you want to have a nicer/cleaner/safer experience in new orleans you need to get off bourbon street, in brasilian cities you need to go to the local carnaval celebrations in the cities of brasil. To caribana , I have been there. It's nice. I don't hate it or anything negative. But if I have to chose caribana over mardi gras in new orleans or carnaval in any of the big brasilian cities, caribana losses every time. And, maybe I am just lucky. I am a traveler.

@Pioneer1 the same reason why everyone in china or japan each the second largest economy in modern humanity where european suits. White european imperialism did a job on the rest of humanity. It isn't something that can be undone with the snap of a finger but your correct, all non white european people need to reclaim the love to their own heritages or cultures that they lost when dominated by whites over multiple centuries

@Pioneer1 In NYC, white irish americans get march , white italian americans get october, white jewish americans get may I don't know where you live in the USA, but where I live, which has 10 million people, individual white communities get months, cause notice I didn't say DOSers get a month. February is Black history, for all blacks. Caribbean american month is in june, not to mention the women's month/the lgbtq+ month/ the people with disabilities month... Where you live in the USA white people don't have months BUT where I live, the biggest city in the USA, there is no white history month BECAUSE each white subcommunity got a month. so.... in NYC, you think black history month shouldn't exist but italian american month/iriish american month/jewish american month/women's month/latino month/ mexican month lgbtq+ month can and all the others can happen ? ok

@Mel Hopkins She has a personal relationship with his music and performance on stage:) ahh I see, cool about the man to woman or woman to man @Pioneer1 doing something:) we are all adults here. and your correct, simultaneous joys do that.

@Mel Hopkins I would not had bet an eric benet would have been presented. I shared this to an offline friend, they went into a negative rant on him:) Nice duet:) lovely sharing the lyrics:) beautiful, have you ever written lyrics? what about man to woman? or woman to man? @Cynique that is a rare sighting, a wilson pickett share Nice man to woman , woman to man:) , and duet which is the most underrated Franklin or Terrell+Gaye song or interpretation? For gaye + Terrell their interpretation collection is deemed a standard so this is a potentially hard question but I wonder your thoughts? For franklin who has a large number of songs, i expect you have one that is not well known you adore alot?

@Dee Miller I am being insensitive to our communities uniqueness in the usa. Consider how often Black folk say we celebrate Black History all year I need to figure out how I can view it as a statement of praise not dysfunction. @ProfD I don't disagree that all Black people need to celebrate or know Black history as often as they can. Again, I know I was fortunate, but my youth taught me that black people are the biggest culprit when it comes to our culture not being known by us. My two black DOS parents didn't have magic, they were regular black humans, and not homeless or impoverished but not financially wealthy and they made sure I knew black history, without no need of the school system to help. That whitewash stuff falls flat for me. Why aren't we talking to each other profd? I argue Black parents failed, the white man didn't help, but many black parents simply failed and they failed to tell their children about themselves. Did you Profd? If you had children, did they know about you, the things you were ashamed of that you did or were apart of before you they were 19?

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@anonymous50 In all earnest if I have any issues with black history month it is the lack of creativity, the lack of fun, the lack of a lively nature. I find most activities during black history month are history lessons, things black people shouldn't need. I rather black creativity more. but it doesn't really happen. I can't recall how often I see some health stuff during a black festival. why do black people need healthcare things during a black festival. Black history month maybe needs to be Black cultural month so we can focus on culture, what is grown not history in the usa. @ProfD in New York City, their is jewish heritage month/latino month, asian month/women's month/many various communities month, celebrated loudly. Question, why do black people keep saying they celebrate black history all year round? can I know why? During women's month women don't say , I support being a woman all year round, they simply focus on women. During latino month , you don't hear latino's saying, I am a latino all year round, they focus on being latino for the month . Why is it so necessary for Black people to say they celebrate Black history all year round when so many communities have similar months and during those months get highlights they don't get any other time yet NONE of them feel it necessary to say what you and so many other black people like saying? why?

I got the short story collection, the wishing pool,from Tananarive Due. My proof is the penultimate paragraph in the introduction ends with a word, it starts with an o. Any others who have it, private message me if you know the word My two favorite black female writer story collections are: Every Tongue Got To Confess from Zora Neale Hurston, seven best stories from Alice Dunbar Nelson. They each are different. Hurston's are very old. They represent Black life before the war between the states and the period during and after that war ended until the end of reconstruction. Nelson's are more focused. Representing a minority in the minority as a black woman from new orleans. Oddly enough, both writers are not only black women but have a love for the black communities they were raised in which went against, the strong idea from many of their male contemporaries like Richard Wright or Langston Hughes that saw a need to erase or eradicate the cultures of Black people in the USA that predated the war between the states. Sequentially, I expect Tananarive Due's book to be other from Hurton's or Nelson's in subtleties. But it is telling how magic is prevalent in each of their short story collections. Yes, I have only read Due's introduction but I am aware of her enough to know a little of her prefered style. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2213&type=status

ah cool @Dee Miller and I am happy to bring positivity

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@Pioneer1 in my view, you hit the nail on the hardest thing for most countries in humanities history to handle. The nail is a question. How bad is the country I live in? The average person in media in the usa will say the usa is the best, no problems, it is a tired narrative, but it is what is said. And that is the point. Perception is the point. how many people in the usa like it? like where it is headed, inevitably? I wonder. Media suggest everyone is overjoyed but is everyone overjoyed?

@Pioneer1 fair enough

yes @Pioneer1 I don't know who owns it but it is still around and has black people on it, though littered with bots

nice entries @Pioneer1 thanks for advertising:) @Dee Miller that is your song, woman to man, but what about man to woman and what about duet?