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Many people in the usa are complaining about the supreme court's rulings as if the supreme court didn't make rulings that upended centuries of prior conditions. Making rulings that upend fifty years worth of rulings isn't as devastating.
But the key here is state power. The future USA will be based on gangs of states in its fold. Those who try to fight that coming reality are fools.
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To me for a long while the issue is the usa is a collection of states, that are legally free and are intended to be dissimilar. These surpreme court rulings are simply allowing all the states to control their own destinies more. I live in New York States. Women are free to have an abortion in NY State. All the parts of lgbtq+ are free to express themselves and are protected in NY State. Schools in NY State are all free to use race. These rulings aren't stopping any state from acting in any way it wants. But these rulings allow all states to be what their majority populaces want them to be. Majority should rule. I argue for black folk who felt they could stand alone in mississippi , well maybe its time for them to leave mississippi? https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2364&type=status
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September 13, 2022 https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2064&type=status I stated that the Black community was incorrect to itself concerning education. In this very same forum, how often have Black folk complained about a so called lack of education among our own. A demand for this and that in terms of goals in the education system in the USA which black people never controlled or administered in majority. And yes, it matters when someone not black is governing Black people. Said someone is a fellow human but that includes their human dislikes or desires that don't go alongside other humans. Recently I used simple proof that the black community has to stop chiding itself as impotent concerning the issue of voting when white people themselves assessing the whole landscape admit all communities are doing as the black community. Now the legal system of NYC that pushed charter schools into Harlem, supported by most black elected officials or black churches or the black business owning class, because black kids were touted as abysmal failures, which was and is a lie, has tiptoed and found every path possible to not treat a white tribe of orthodox white jews like the black tribe known as Descended of Enslaved. I heard black women, black elected officials criminalize black children as lazy, as disgruntled, as disrespecting their ancestors, while a horde of white children in the same city are being allowed to have an absent educational record. But what is the issue? it isn't the children. It is the parents. The white jewish parents gained power and then used power to raise their kids as they want, even going completely against the rules supposedly for all. While the Black parents are unwilling to admit their impotency and enslaved mindset to their children while demanding their children uphold the false idol of financial positive mobility in the united states of america, which the black parents know full well is a lie. Shame on the black parent. Shame on the black community. We all have supported or lived by at one point or another this idea that our future generations have to reach some goal, make the usa some thing. In NYC, while Black kids were being criminalized for not being 100% as individuals or as a collective in an educational assessment that wasn't the true problem of the black kids, white kids were protected and reared by their parents in the same city to be free of concern for the same system. Black parents shut up and gain power. Black business owners, shut up and take over other firms. The Black community in the usa goes on and on all the time about what the youth need to do. No the adults need to do whatever it takes to gain real power and that includes violence, or shut up and let the youth live as they will cause the whites in this country are using their power to make their children's lives as happy as can be while as free from any condemnation even when they can't read. City determines 18 yeshivas not meeting standards By Jillian Jorgensen New York City PUBLISHED 3:40 PM ET Jun. 30, 2023 The city has determined that four Orthodox yeshivas are failing to provide an education “substantially equivalent” to what’s offered in public schools — and recommends the state reach the same conclusion for another 14 yeshivas the city says are ultimately under state authority. The findings are the results of a long-stalled and politically thorny investigation that has stretched on since 2015. The city found that just seven schools they investigated met standards. That’s in addition to two it found were up to standards in 2019. What You Need To Know The city has determined that four Orthodox yeshivas are failing to provide an education “substantially equivalent” to what’s offered in public schools — and recommends the state reach the same conclusion for another 14 yeshivas the city says are ultimately under state authority The findings are the results of a long-stalled and politically thorny investigation that has stretched on since 2015. The city found that just seven schools they investigated met standards. That’s in addition to two it found were up to standards in 2019 The city says it could not make a final determination in the case of the 14 schools because of an amendment that gives the state education commissioner the power to make final determinations for schools that meet certain requirements The investigation was spurred by a complaint from a group called Young Advocates for a Fair Education, or YAFFED, headed at the time by a yeshiva graduate who argued his education left him ill-prepared for the world outside of religious studies The city says it could not make a final determination in the case of the 14 schools because of an amendment introduced in 2018 by state Sen. Simcha Felder, which gives the state education commissioner the power to make final determinations for schools that meet certain requirements, like having a bilingual program. For that reason, the ruling is not final for those 14 schools, and the recommendations will not be made public. State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa had ordered the city Department of Education to complete the inquiry — which, in 2019, the city Department of Investigation ruled had been delayed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration for political purposes — by today. The investigation was spurred by a complaint from a group called Young Advocates for a Fair Education, or YAFFED, headed at the time by a yeshiva graduate who argued his education left him ill-prepared for the world outside of religious studies. YAFFED and other critics argue many so-called ultra-Orthodox yeshivas provide little to no secular instruction, particularly for boys, and instead focus on religious studies. Representatives of the schools have pushed back strenuously on those claims. The schools are private, but do receive some state funding and, like all private schools in New York, are required to provide children with an education “substantially equivalent” to what is offered in public schools. The investigation kicked off a debate of what exactly substantially equivalent means, prompting the state to develop rules for determining it. The rules, adopted in September, subject non-public schools to review by local school districts — in New York City, the DOE — to determine if they meet criteria like having a competent teacher provide instruction, offering classes in English, math, science and social studies, and that lessons are provided to children with limited English proficiency to help them learn English. The investigation, and the guidelines from the state, kicked off massive outcry from Orthodox groups, who have characterized them as an attack on religious liberty. In an interim report released in 2019, the DOE reported that just two of 28 yeshivas were meeting standards, and that some were not allowing the city access to conduct reviews. Critics have long argued the city dragged its feet in the investigation to avoid angering the Orthodox community, which is politically influential in the city. And in 2019, the Department of Investigation determined that the mayor’s office delayed the release of the preliminary report in exchange for support of the extension of mayoral control of city schools. In a statement provided to NY1 on Friday, the group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty said the “outcomes of yeshiva education are on display every day across New York: in the successful business and professional careers of tens of hundreds of thousands yeshiva graduates and in the law abiding and loving families they are raising here.” "PEARLS rejects the attempt to measure the efficacy of yeshiva education by applying a skewed set of technical requirements,” the group said. “Utilizing a government checklist devised and enforced by lawyers may help explain the state of public education. It is designed to obscure rather than illuminate the beauty and success of yeshiva education.” “Parents choose yeshiva education for their children because of the religious, moral and educational philosophy and approach of those who lead yeshivas,” it added. “They will continue to do so, regardless of how many government lawyers try to insist that yeshiva education is best measured by checklists they devise rather than the lives yeshiva graduates lead." URL https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/06/30/new-york-city-yeshiva-investigation-findings So besides suggesting falsely that Black children are failing, what do you have to say?
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@ProfD fair enough, thank you
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Does Mixed Race Marriage Produce Better Babies?
richardmurray replied to Troy's topic in Black Literature
To the coverage, it is very gentle. I wonder how many whites read Jet? Cause while the article comes to the conclusion that babies from interracial relationships are not any better than babies from monoracial relationships, it speaks to interracial relationships themselves very congenially. Speaking of Booker T washington/Frederick Douglass/The Dumas's or other you will think all or most interracial relationships were positive, not rapes or one sided. It also doesn't state a difference between being born from two who don't have the same phentoypical range of skin or being born from parents of the same phenotypical range while one's skin is between the range labeled black and the other range labeled white. It was unwilling to embrace the complexities of race. -
@Mel Hopkins positive Black policy in the USA, My answer below to your post is the most functional answer, absent going into any detail. If you are still unclear , I will try to restate. And for the record, I stated this idea as not my agenda or personal plan. The idea I mentioned is not something I personally support but feel is the best thing for the black community in NYC to do. please link the post to your post I already have my answer, which I will comment on your post. with the following. Black party of governance overview https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1945&type=status Forum talk https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1890&type=status Black people complaigning forever but somehow it never happens https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2137&type=status The potential definition of Black in the modern usa has added more challenges https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2124&type=status @ProfD fair enough, @Mel Hopkins asked a while back what was a plan, I answered in this community but away from her post. you said the following which relates to the issue of solutions in this threat. the only way an elected official in the two major parties can be held accountable in the usa is by voting them out but the problem is, how long can any people vote people out before they get tired of voting people out. The assumption is, that if voters vote people out quality people will come in, that assumption is a lie which even the white community in the usa shows. So Profd! you are in front of a million black men, what is your solution to the problem? If you don't have one , think of one.
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All About Audiobooks featuring Karen Grey
The Kobo Writing Life team is happy to announce our next Live Q&A on June 29th from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST. KWL Director Tara and author engagement manager Laura will be joined by audiobook narrator, author, and audiobook production consultant Karen Grey! Be sure to have your questions about everything to do with audiobooks ready for this amazing talk.
Hello authors!
For our sixth live Q&A of the year (we’re halfway through, everyone – amazing!), audiobook narrator, author, and all-around audiobook expert and founder of Home Cooked Books, Karen Grey (who narrates under Karen White), will be in conversation with KWL’s director Tara and author engagement manager Laura, discussing all there is to do with audiobooks! We will be discussing everything from Karen’s career as an audiobook narrator to audiobook production processes to marketing your audiobooks and more.
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Questions to your experience:
What must/need to/can't/shouldn't be in the description of an audiobook?
What is the most effective audio book excerpts or samples?
What is the most/least effective audiobook covers?
How should an audiobook be utilized in a newsletter?
What is the most unique utilization of audiobooks you know of?Untimed Index Notes
How she started in the industry
The different labors in the industry: readers/profers/editors- you have to give the different labors time: readers will need to reread. Profers will ask for things to be reread. Editors will massage the audio for the audience.
Picking an reader- wait for the best voice, readers are booked. A reader needs to have read at least twenty books before.
Voice tags and changing your writing to fit audiobooks- read words aloud
If you are an indie author, if the narrator spoke it better than you wrote it, change the ebook.
Give narrarators a pronunciation list
Accept the suspense of disbelief in a story involving characters not your native or multilingual
You can be the producers in terms of paying narrators
People are paid for how long when book is done not how long they work in composition, the rates are wide, be careful if they are for the full production or just narration
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Cheapest marketing offer is her newsletter
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Any do or do nots for audiobook samples or covers?
Cover should be professionally created, a square, be recognizeable as ebook. Include narrators.
Sample- less than 5 minutes, choosing a good meaty section, if multiple narrators, represent all of them., highly recommend posting online, avoid any flag words
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Audiobook publishers associations have done research , people are liking shorter books, audible has a rule, a book can only be in one bundle
One point of recording short thing, if anything is under an hour for Screen actors guild, you have to pay for one hour.
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I asked @ProfD in the following forum post a question. What is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA, without stating something Black people already tried? I repeat, without stating something Black people already tried and failed to do, what is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA? The point of this post is simply to get black people who may come across to admit one of two thing. They have never stated the community needs to do something different than what was already tried and failed. OR they have a new idea that was too resisted by most other black people. The truth everybody, I am tired of the lies, the merry go round strategies.
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@ProfD What is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA, without stating something Black people already tried? I repeat, without stating something Black people already tried and failed to do, what is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA?
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@Troy I am harlem , manhattan, nyc born and raised and live there. ok cool, maybe making the polls open will be cool, if you can allow for members and guest votes to be shown too. And add the number of votes in harlem of people who were formerly incarcerated. The years of unfair law enforcement created in the black community a large voting block of people who will vote for someone formerly incarcerated. But, in terms of quality I argue he is low. The why being, the city council works by committee. I is a legislative body so being elected to it means little if you have no connections. Richardson I think was more honest, but absent connections being a socialist was isolated and attacked by the donkeys plus elephants. Salaam is not as honest or radical but he is in the donkey fold so he can have a common tenure in the city council but his policy ideas are less radical or honest. yeah circa two years ago, PErkins died. My point in this post was to reaffirm the continual suggestion by black people that we are worse in many things is a falsehood. Black people's voting turnout is no worse than any other group but black people plus non blacks make it a point to emphasize what we aren't doing even when non blacks are equally inactive.
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I asked prior in this forum if the Black community is to harsh on itself based on the activities of other communities And tonight it was proven in the voting arena. Media in NYC continuously complained, why is such low turnout in NYC. But everyone knows the answer, it is the same reason why turnout is low across the board, why turnout in south africa went from 99% across the board to between 30% side 10% , why turnout in the USA's Black community went from over 90% of allowed, cause whites always did whatever it took to stop non violent blacks, whose non violence made it easier. Cause the government fails to return an investment on voting. The city council of NYC is impotent when the people need something or dysfunctional to the people's needs with their policy. You want people to vote, it isn't hard. get results. But all communities in NYC, ALL communities are not voting in high numbers. I repeat all communities. That isn't because of magic, or the when , it is simple, all people know that voting for these people isn't going to help their community or the city at large. Ocasio Cortez is a prime example. She won, yes, the white man in that bronx district voting base left the area, age denied their ability to vote, or they died. Communities demographics change in NYC, and always against a communities wishes. But, She hasn't done anything to improve the area. Some themes media has talked about is that people like Inez Dikens or Charles Barron have lost but are forgetting that unlike their rivals these are people who actually spent years advocating for rights on the ground before government. People like Kristin Richardson or Yusef Salaam or Ocasio Cortez have not been on the ground and not worked their way up into government. Based on current results, the new breed will be as impotent as the old breed without having a history of actual advocacy while making a lot more money in various ways. But the biggest takeaway is women. I don't know why or how, but from the female nypd chief to Kristin Richardson to the white woman of south brooklyn to Inez Dikens many women in general and particularly women not white european seem to be having a terrible time in NYC government. The answer must be the environment behind the scenes that the newspapers do not say. I will end with a few notes on Kristin Richardson. 1) Affordable housing in NYC requires a 50,000 earned income which most people in NYC do not afford so saying she opposes affordable housing is false when what is labeled affordable housing isn't affordable. 2) Union jobs aren't enough for the populace in Harlem. HArlem has circa 100.000 people. I repeat, one hundred thousand people, that is larger than most cities in the United States of America. Harlem has no space to build anything new. Harlem has no regional industry. So, union jobs will not employ the many in shelters or similar in Harlem. 3) She is a socialist, not a democrat, sequentially she stood alone in the city council. If you are not a donkey or an elephant, those two parties will restrict your abilities and they will look to criminalize you which was done to her. 4) Inez Dikens is right, women of color have it rough in NYC government. I don't comprehend all the why, but something is going on behind the scenes, cause way too women of color in general seem to lose in elections in NYC, and I don't buy the fair argument. Kristin Richardson Jordan drops re-election bid in crowded Harlem council race Embattled City Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan is dropping her re-election bid in a crowded race for her Central Harlem seat, she announced in an Instagram post Tuesday morning. “Dear supporters and volunteers, thank you for seeing the true possibility for racial love in the loveless land of politics — it is not easy to do,” Richardson Jordan wrote. “Unfortunately, I’m writing this to inform you that I have decided not to seek re-election and not to commit to another two years.” “I look forward to finishing out this term,” she added. Richardson Jordan didn’t immediately respond to a call and message left by a reporter Tuesday morning. The Democratic socialist council member was first elected in 2020 by just 114 votes over former state Senator and Council Member Bill Perkins — who died Monday night. She was vying to keep her seat against a packed field in the June 27 Democratic primary that includes Assembly Members Inez Dickens (D-Manhattan) and Al Taylor (D-Manhattan) and Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five — formerly known as the Central Park Five. All 51 council seats are up for grabs just two years after the last election, as opposed to the regular four-year council election cycle, because the body’s district maps were redrawn last year following the U.S. Census. Richardson Jordan appeared to draw such a large number of eager rivals after she vehemently opposed the One45 rezoning in Central Harlem, that would have brought 458 income-restricted “affordable apartments” — making up 50% of the project’s units, to an underused stretch of 145th Street. Following her opposition, the developer backed off of the project and decided to turn the site into a truck stop instead, though he filed to give the rezoning another go in February. Richardson Jordan’s stance on One45 coupled with several controversial Tweets she authored, including one where she appeared to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and her anti-police stance have drawn ire from more moderate local Democrats and made her appear vulnerable to a primary challenge. United Brotherhood of Carpenters Executive Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Geiger said it was Richardson Jordan killed her re-election chances when she opposed the One45 development. The union endorsed Taylor’s campaign. “For once, Council Member Kristen Richardson Jordan is doing the right thing for her constituents,” Geiger said, in a statement. “While she quit before formally losing her reelection, the message it sends is still the same: you cannot win re-election in New York City if you are against union jobs and affordable housing.” Dickens, who formerly held the seat from 2006 to 2016, before running for the Assembly, voiced her support for all women of color in government and said Richardson Jordan did the “best she could” for the district. “I applaud the political participation of all women of color. I started my own political journey as a local organizer and worked my way up to the state legislature, and if there is one thing I have learned it is this: we need women of color in rooms where decisions about our lives are being made,” Dickens said. “I’d like to thank Kristin for her service as [a] council member. She did the best that she could for her community and that is all that anyone can ask of her.” Salaam, in a statement, also thanked Jordan for her “service and commitment to the Harlem community we call home.” “This race is about the future of Harlem and I am running because we need real change that lifts up our seniors, gives people opportunities, improves our schools, enhances public safety and creates affordable housing,” he said. In his own statement, Taylor acknowledged Richardson Jordan’s decision not to seek re-election must not have been easy. “I give my deep regards to the councilmember for what must have been a difficult and somber decision,” Taylor said. “We run for office because we have a passion and conviction for making things better for our neighbors and communities. I respect her decision and I wish her only the best in the next chapter of her life.” Progressive Democratic Strategist Camille Rivera, a partner at New Deal Strategies, told amNewYork that while she doesn’t know the exact reasons why Richardson Jordan dropped out, her decision changes the dynamics of the contest. Rivera also said it’s “sad” that another woman of color has decided not to run. “I think it becomes a race that is more open,” Rivera said. “I do think it’s sad to me, I mean this is another woman of color who has decided not to run. And despite whatever folks have said and not been supportive, she’s always done her best to be on the right side of things … I mean she is a progressive, she is somebody that people did trust, but sometimes the stuff just becomes too much.” URL https://www.amny.com/politics/kristin-richardson-jordan-drops-re-election-bid-in-crowded-harlem-council-race/
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Writing Grief in SFF
6:24 What is your definition of grief?
Grief is pain but in modernity in the anglophone, grief is connotatively, lamenting a death to someone in your personal circle.
13:54 What is your favorite works about grief?
First to my mind: film-> the leopard 1963 < based on a book> ; music-> strange fruit sung by billie holiday <it was written by a white man for the record> ; dance-> wade in the water by Alvin Ailey troupe< music of the negro spiritual>; animation-> the wind rises 2013 <studio ghibli > ; literature -> The Raven , of edgar allen poe <I admit most of the craft I like or I have made myself doesn't involve grief, but I admit, I enjoyed my youth alot, loving embracing home, and embraced outside of it, I love the adventure so to speak>
I am willing to speak as to these entries, just ask in comments.
22:53 What unique opportunities if any do you think the science fiction fantasy genre provides for writing about grief?
In generating a cause of grief or creating an environment for a character to grieve or generating a way to diminish /end/or be consumed by grief, science fiction allows a greater flexibility in the identity of such things.
29:00 Do you have a process in writing grief or what in your crafting does grief influence?
I write everything from my heart. I tend to like adventure, a going somewhere, usually a positive or not frightening place. So it is rare I have grief naturally, but when I do, it is the same process as when I am not. When I write something that makes me think of a funny memory I laugh, when I write something that makes me think of a sad memory I cry.
A nice film to think about is The Innocents 1961. It leads you up to a place where your own mind will dictate what you sense. We in modernity in the anglophone talk about being triggered, but it is a good example of a film , which is a collective art project, that allows the viewer to trigger themselves.
30:41 how do you write someone who experiences grief differently from you, the writer?
To be honest, I write out world or character definitions so when I ask a question about them, I follow the guidelines I set. If I write a character like Ryunosuke Tsukue , Sword of Doom 1966, who is a character based on a philosophy, then his actions need to reflect that. He may be called crazy, but he isn't being written as crazy, but who he is. Don't betray your characters, even if what they do goes against what you will.
35:28 Do you have a recovery process from writing about grief?
No need but the reason is because my mind has always been a large place. I have places in my mind where my negativities reside or where my positivities reside or where my emotionless reside or where my disorderliness reside and I can go to wherever I want to go. Many people minds tend to be filled with too much of one or the other.
38:22 Do you see an importance of writing grief as a black writer or reading grief as a black reader?
In the anglophone, historically grief has a historical place as a communal while also individual torment at times, sequentially in the arts, it can be a non violent therapy from the artists to the readership/viewership/listernership.
43:19 Where do you see the conversation about black grief going or what authors have done a work that sticks with you in the present?
I recall a film from 2011 called inheritance, Keith David was behind it. I remember it mentioned an elephant in the room in the black community. In it, Keith David and the others in this group take their descendents and offer them up as sacrifice, stating they are not suitable to what the ancestors wanted. I think few films deal with the black community or parts of the black community unsatisfied with the result, ala modernity, to why the community grieved in the past. To rewrite myself, what if the ancestors who lived through enslavement in all forms all their breaths aren't proud or overjoyed at the modern black community? What if the college educated/business owning/integrated blacks in modernity aren't fulfilling the wishes of the ancestor?. I know it has been written before, I have. But, it is rare to see in film, which is one of if not the most expensive art craft.
49:34 Can Dominique speak more on being trans and being associated with death?
After listening to Dominuque....
We all have heard of people saying another person has died equivalent to physical death in their personal circle because of an issue. That is what excommunicado is, a word that means to be out of the community, but functionally a term started by the christian church after the Nicean creed to christian groups that did not abide by the new set of rules, meaning a living death. A taking out of the community of the living, even though one is not dead. Are you alive if someone can not talk to you, look at you, write to you, touch you. Women in india who are banished from the lowest castes are in similar situations and the caste is ancient. In modernity in the anglophone this comes from some to those in their personal circle who have what is called in modernity transgender change.
55:14 When does grief go from science fiction to horror?
Well, science fiction can be a horror, of a fantasy or a romance or other. So, the way in which grief is utilized can or will give specificity to a science fiction work. Dominique said a point and I thought to the following... Sadly, griefully, but truthfully, many people, not all, in some places not most, will rather see those in their private circle whom they feel need to be in a dress , in a dress rather than alive.Authors featured
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Erica of The Broken Spine: / @the_broken_spine
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@ProfDyou mean remaining 99% of the black populace in a state with 32% black populace:)
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You made a statement on Stefan's post about the supreme court legislation that will force the district map in lousiiana to change @ProfD and I want to interject simply... It isn't moral or symbolic, it is legal, it is structural. As the black elected official who helped the black family get their land back... who sold it back to whites , said, I paraphrase, the black family won but the black community didn't. A black individual is about to get a 50 year plus seat, in government with full healthcare coverage, access to various opportunities, and will benefit those in their close circle they care for. So a minority of black people will benefit 100%. But, Will the larger black community in the district in Louisiana or the potential other places about the southern states or other states in the usa get high quality black elected officials , quality based on getting results, results defined as policy that helps black people without question? only time can tell, but based on the history of black elected officials from the 1970s onwards, the odds are very low or as near to zero as you can get. But the tradition of Black Elected officials in the USA since the 1970s, and before to be blunt, is universalism so this is expected. Universalism in black elected officials in the usa is based on an interpretation of christian morality. But it isn't a symbol, Black people, few black people, will thrive with these new opportunities. My Proof < https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2349&type=status ; the exact quote: Community is what got the land back. So, yes, the family won, but the community did not.>
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topics Cento Series - 5th installment Happy Belated Juneteenth Blood of Jesus Movie Review Happy Belated June Solstice If You Made It This Far: a poem from child to parent, a question of art,mermaid coloring page https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/05/06/25/2023-rmnewsletter.html
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@Pioneer1 Well one of the great myths in modernity is the earliest film era. the earliest film era I argue was freer than any film era since. but two things happened. One the back to back European Imperial Wars and the movie codes and machinations by all religious communities in the usa to eradicate early hollywood from memory. Gay men had orgies back in the 1920s. Some styles of fornication back then will make some of the most pornographic people today puke. The problem today is the past has been taught as some form of christian decency instead of a very wild place under greater cover with greater threat from christian condemnations. Going to the reformation period in england. Alot of fornication went on then. Today, modernity, people are used to publicity with things. Things happen when you make them public and people join up. But in the past, publicity wasn't how things worked. You needed to be in communities. But once you were in, you were privy to private things that many in modernity haven't done.
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@Pioneer1 i wish what you said could be proven or disproven. Unfortunately, neither can be done.
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Two things outside and one Inside
richardmurray replied to richardmurray's topic in Culture, Race & Economy
@Pioneer1 I will repeat the question with one addition in underscore. is the severity in which black people communicate our internal troubles fair or unfair based on the activities of others? I showcased two articles that display two non black communities with an internal problem. One that some, will deem far worse than the parallel in the black community. And then I asked a question. -
@Delano cool and thanks for sharing
