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New York City has paid 121,000,000 dollars for police misconduct this past year which is is the highest cost to the city in five years but the magnolia center needs 350,000 and has to have a fund raiser. Landmark preservation phase 1 http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0959.pdf Landmark preservation phase 2 http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0957.pdf Go Fund Me if interested, please share https://www.gofundme.com/f/magnolia-tree-earth-center-of-brooklyn Source https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/02/02/group-that-helped-make-bed-stuy-green-seeks-funding-for-next-50-years

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congrats on getting published @Dee Miller

Here are some question for Black History Month 2023, I answered them at the following link. What Black artists have inspired you, and what about their work do you find inspiring? What are some of your favorite artworks that depict African American culture? In what ways do you think art can be used to foster understanding and appreciation across cultures? https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2226&type=status

I only have two points to make, outside that enjoy as you well 1) the haircut from guile:) I want to see somebody wear that:) 2) Chun-li's arms!!! ahh why? why is it so hard for people to realize that a woman fighter's body is not going to look like barbie. Look at female olympian runners or weight lifters or acrobats, all of them have developed arms, veins/muscles. Look at chun li, come on!!! Who does this chun-li fight in the street against? pooh bear?:) P.S. I don't have an issue with Balrog. He is meant to be an older fighter.

My answers to the following Valentine's Day 2023 questions are in the link, but the questions are the following What medium or style of art are you most obsessed with? What love-themed artwork(s) do you believe are the most powerful, and why? Has love or obsession inspired you to create a work of art? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it! https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2225&type=status

Here is my following content for promoting positivity Section 1: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-1-941477089 Section 1: Prompt 2 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-2-941478176 Section 2: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-1-947227324 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P1-invitation-947216750 Section 2: Prompt 2 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-2-947230376 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P2-invitation-947228628 Section 2: Prompt 3 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-3-947235678 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P3-invitation-947235001 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P3-coloring-page-947234789 Section 2: Prompt 4 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt4-947552463 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Final-Distance-Of-The-Twenty-Third-I-R-C-L-To-947551245 Late, did not count but would had been for Section 4: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/politics/2691569/ Late, did not count but would had been for Section 5: Prompt 1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/My-Final-Thoughts-on-Positivity-Challenge-2022-947598367 The following is the forum post as it relates to Black History Month February in the United States is Black history Month. Black in the United States is a phenotypical race, whose members are mostly while not exclusively descended of enslaved peoples. Frederick Douglass once spoke of a composite nation. Frederick Douglass opposed White people owning or enslaving Blacks. He also opposed Blacks making Black only towns. In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, I ask all humans to state or proclaim one art form that from your experience comes from the Black community in the USA but has not been adopted by those outside the Black community in the USA. For example, rap or hip hop cannot be used cause rap or hiphop are heavily adopted out the black community in the USA. Ballet can not be used, if you are thinking of Misty Copeland or similar cause Ballet comes from the white community in Europe. LINK to read a Compositve Nation version, he rewrote it many times. https://nyhs-prod.cdn.prismic.io/nyhs-prod/071a94b5-388a-4546-b798-7439b35e2061_Composite+Nation_Composite+Nation+Speech.docx.pdf

Well from the article I read, the representatives of california didn't say they did it for slavery. I paraphrase, they did it for reconstruction and post reconstruction. And since the usa is a federation states are individual. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2216&type=status

@ProfDyou asked an ultimate/final question in your original post? This is the most important question and everyone knows the answer. Some individuals have it up to here with their environment and have no more hope or patience in it getting better. it is a simple thing. Whether it is priest burning themselves alive or people jumping off of rooftops or people going out in a gun blaze, they have quit on life. The question is, is a person mentally unhealthy when they quit on life? In the usa at least, it is advertised a person is mentally unhealthy when they quit on life, whether they harm others or not. Is the usa media true? The last two questions are key in my view.

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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?