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richardmurray

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  1. @ProfD very funny Well, in the usa in 2026, all states in the usa get a welfare check every year from the federal government, without that federal check even California, which is touted , correctly, as the wealthiest state in the union, would have to go into receivership. So a black state would get by law, the same welfare check from the federal government. Every major city or city with the populace of New Orleans or more , biggest employer is the city itself. Detroit's biggest employer is detroit city, nyc biggest employer is nyc, los angeles biggest employer is los angeles city. No major city in the usa today has a bigger employer than itself. And every city gets money from the state, but if New Orleans is a city-state then instead of what new orleans get because of louisiana, which is white, the federal government would give new orleans, and if the legal system is still running then new orleans as a state can go to court if being treated unevenly to other states, and even the constitutionalists would have to vote in favor of new orleans. going back to article 4 of the constitution. Now as for private business in new orleans, well... pipeline, goes through new orleans, but the city gets a tax from that. And the pipeline isn't going anywhere. The pipeline will be against it cause it is another tax but if New Orleans gets through the stated legal situation to be a state the pipeline can't go anywhere. Next is the french quarter... moving a building is not cheap. Let alone finding a place for it. If they leave the buildings they can go but that will leave all the french quarter buildings for the city. The city can make laws in contingency for this. Let alone that many buildings in the french quarter are under historic preservation licenses so the city can use that to manage the buildings new owners of if city owned new use. The new orleans saints can move, though i think the nfl demands the other owners vote to allow these things which is expensive, and if the new state can provide a better scenario than louisiana, the owner of will stay. The whites of cajun country will not want to leave, they are tied to cajun country and if anything, a number of them will probably want to join new orleans the state if new orleans the state can make in its state law something cajuns have always wanted from english speaking louisiana and that is stronger protections for cajuns who are generally fiscally poor on their historic land. So... first the city is the biggest employer, but as for white businesses, all but pipelines can leave as you suggest but each is expensive. You seem to suggest money will just be made, I don't think so. it is 2026. Lastly, yes, small states tend to be ninety percent and above white, but the point of this stream wasn't to suggest new orleans , a black city, or detroit, a black city, will become a state. The point was to state the truth, that is detroit/new orleans/ and even white new york city, financially needs is a separation from the states they are in because each one of them is demographically too other from the rest of the state they are in. Each one of them is stymied, financially, by that truth, that only statehood can free them from. Again, the first projects in the usa were in NYC, NYC's plan, all white government, was to place the projects upstate new york, the diea was to keep the city white but offer places for the poor, the poor being mostly white themselves though people in the usa still don't comprehend most poor people are actually white in the usa, upstate. The proof is that the first projects in nyc to this day have never had anybody black in them and the white people in them are fiscally poor. But the white towns upstate new york have always hated/disliked/distrusted the , and I quote, the rotters of NYC. the law abiding white towns of upstate new york didn't want poor people of any kind and as NYC's population blew up with fiscally poor nonwhites, from here there or everywhere, NYC made more projects in NYC. But NYC was always at upstate ny states mercy because the governor of New York's main voting base isn't NYC, it is all the law abiding white towns above new york city that got or get away with killing/harming/injuring black people in the past to this day. So I end with my point, no financial argument to new orleans not becoming a state for its betterment holds any water.
  2. @ProfD Right, even in DEI's height, most opportunities/advantages still went to white men. So, I ask the following after a preface. MY PREFACE most white men today are complaining that they don't have the 99% level of opportunities/advantages that they had till the 1960s hit. Their argument is that non whites/non males/ non christians or other groups opportunities /advantages are uneven. But that means their not merely arguing about having the majority, whether they admit it or not , they are arguing about not having it all. And DEI to be blunt, does diminish their percentage of advantage or opportunity, it doesn't delete them having the majority, but their problem isn't in having the majority their problem is in others having anything at all. MY QUESTION Doesn't DEI lessen the opportunities to white male hetero christians, even if it doesn't or can't lead to a diminishing of said white male opportunity/advantages into a minority place? IN AMENDMENT You mention DEI being an illusion. I can't concur to that because I saw black people or non white male christian ~ who benefited from it. Was DEI through fiscal management or fiscal strategies? no. If by illusion you mean it wasn't something that was determined through the fiscal marketplace, I concur 100% to you. DEI was engined through media/social pressure/a set of elected officials trying to sate a voting base. DEI wasn't through the market place, so the moment, elected officials changes or social pressure lessened or the media made poisonous, DEI was in trouble of being maintained, and all three of said things happened. But it doesn't mean it is illusory. It isn't through the marketplace. But I must say what should be common knowledge, the problem in the usa with those who are not white male christians ~ is that all of their populaces have a heritage of financial absence based on the militaristic power of said white male chrsitians~ . To restate, I once spoke to a group of women, all business owners, having a conference on womens business. I was invited by a female friend, who yes owns a business, and I was offered the chance to speak. So I told the women the truth as a man. Male wealth doesn't come from education or hard work or any of the things they mentioned they needed to do.. It comes from cheating, it comes from abusing, it comes from legal crimes, enslaving people legally. So women trying to improve the financial condition of women will need that same reality. And I mentioned rockefeller center. The elder rockefeller wasn't a genius, didn't have some grand schooling. Didn't have a rich uncle to help him. But the elder rockefeller knew how to cheat, was in an environment where he could cheat, white male law enforcement has always allowed white males various criminal fiscal activity legal or not. Women don't have that. But if women are willing to cheat or scheme they will find the same financial levels as men. But if women think they can follow the law and have some complex financial plan. I told them , I know of many black business owners, all very nice people, none of the them broke the law, all of them have struggled and worked hard every day and none of them ever got to the great halls of money. The point in that retelling is, black fiscal wealth, female fiscal wealth, muslim fiscal wealth, indigenous fiscal wealth, any group in the usa not white male christian heterosexual ~ in the usa is temporally behind said white male ~ wealth, none of them can recover lost time through the rules or what schemes somebody suggested will work. Now some will always mention the white jew. But as I have said in this very forum, I was unwilling to search for the post for I am pressed for time, the white jewish populace is very small. And financially you can't relate the jewish populace in the usa which is maximum seven million people with white german american/circa forty million, black americans[dos +modern immigrant]/fifty two million, female americans/one hundred and sixty seven million. The global jewish population is fifteen million people:) Why do so many people speak of the jewish population as an example of anything? unless they plan on killing most of their people to be so small in populace? And no, the white jewish model can't work for larger populaces. The poor white trash who are mostly german americans are in a populace that has a six hundred percent larger need of resources. The black american populace so many including other blacks call lazy or in need of better thinking or some negative has a seven hundred percent larger need of resources. And I don't have to explain how much black wealth has been undermined by whites in the usa i hope. People talk about Tulsa but how much generational wealth has literally been destroyed by white terror in the usa. Is their a financial way to calculate that lose? i don't really know. By the following website. https://dqydj.com/income-by-race/ a third of a million black people make sixty thousand or more in the usa today. So that isn't bad. Remember, we are still an abused peoples by whites, even today. yes, their are more opportunities today but when you consider, all the black towns in the former confederate are in financially restrictive places, and said black people in towns have no where to go. Their are issues financially, that must be considered with black people in the usa, that whites, even if jewish don't have in 2026. Based on whitey as well https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/economics-and-well-being-among-u-s-jews/ circa twenty six percent of white jews, who are simply white people of the jewish faith, have fifty to one hundred thousand, dollars Twenty five percent of seven million is, one million, and seven hundred and fifty thousand and this is from a white jewish populace that has never been denied business ownership, not merely in the usa but in the european countries that made the usa, has always been in the halls of money through banking, which offers them alot of connections that white abused minorities like the romani of europe/the gypsies never had. So I argue, in fifty years with hard work and accepting white abuse with a smile, the black wealthy in the usa will be as large in populace as the white jew in total, but that doesn't mean that the entire black populace in the usa can be wealthy absent access to slavery/genocide/or similar negative acts as tools of financial betterment.
  3. @ProfD I don't know what relevancy your prose has. You asked me the following. I gave haiti as an answer, with full temporal comprehension. Then you replied with the above, which has nothing to do with the question you posed. but ok. You did not ask me about the condition of modern haiti, you asked what my tribe accomplished, i gave the truth. I don't know what your highlighted prose above has to do with the question you posed. What else can anyone who embraces the USA be? You said the USA is your country. I have no problem with that. But, the USA from its very beginnings was integrated. I didn't say the integration was positive, it wasn't, but it was integrated. And it still is today and will always be unless one populace becomes an overwhelming majority which is not going to happen any time soon. And the war between the states is the proof that whites internally have never seen themselves as unified as some nonwhites suggest. Even enough. But the usa will always be your home country because , unfortunately, for Black DOSers none of us have a country to return too. Our black forebears, which is what Henry Louis gates rjr shows dismisses so poorly, didn't come from one place in africa, they came from various places. As I have said in this very forum. Most of Black DOSers forebears were buried in the ocean, not any land, as 90% of the people in the boats died on the journey. Those are all Black DOSers initial forebears. And our initial forebears came from all over the continent of africa, not any one particular country, so unless the African Union is handing out citizenship. The double standard I referred to wasn't concerning haiti paying money, but the following. why Haiti being considered owing something is special or warrants note when I gave multiple examples of many countries, whites ones, that are still stated as owing even if they don't pay. so countries have relationships. And the reason isn't greed or corruption, it is simpler than that, it is haiti' uniqueness. I don't know why I have to say it cause you know or should know, that haiti was surrounded by slavers. Haiti's nearest neighbor is modern jamaica which at that time was merely a territory of the british empire and the country garvey wanted to escape which led him to be antiwhite, that is jamaica. so... The reason is when you are surrounded by enemies, it matters. Intelligence and strategy aren't godly things, they have limits, they can't make everything happen. A kid surrounded by thirty bullies will never kick all those other kids ask or smooth talk his way by them if they want to hurt him. Haiiti is special for those in my tribe. But my irritation is not from adoration to haiti but miscomprehension. You and pioneer love to veer in your prose. you have a question, i give a response, but then you respond to my response with something totally unrelated to my response. hell, go farther back, remember, black people of haiti literally left former saint dominique with their white owners to new orleans, so the heritage of haitians to the usa is arguably older than any other black populace anywhere outside the usa. yes that is why I call all the rich around the world the global one percent. every country today has wealthy people, including the somalias/kashmir/east timors of the world. A very small minority of people under any government are the most wealthy in their respective lands. hahah I am not trying to give a sermon, i have no pulpit in my home I was uneven to you and pioneer. Well... onto the future.
  4. Do you know of Hazel Scott? Check out some of her music, tell me which one you like. Full transcript to the program in the link.
  5. Economic Corner 19 While most in media focus on diversity/equity/inclusion or D.E.I. as opportunities for non white heterosexual christian nondisabled males, doesn't D.E.I. threaten an oldest fiscal heritage in the U.S.A. of unwarranted advantages or unbounded allowances for white heterosexual christian nondisabled males in the financial arena?
  6. Economic Corner 18 What is the future of writing as a profitable activity? With the advent of computer programs to simulate writing at a quality acceptable enough for most, who will pay for human imagination driven writing over computer average based simulation writing, and why?
  7. Economic Corner 17 Would you invest in solar power in space? as the NASA mission to go around/circumnavigate the moon is maybe march 2026 , what do you think are the most profitable energy industries in space travel in the future and why?
  8. Is the USA the best country to build wealth in modern humanity? Is it better to be jewish in israel, or chinese in china , to build wealth? What country is the best place for blacks to build wealth in humanity and by what measure do you rank your answer?
  9. Enjoy the poetry, linked to various poetry collections of mine
  10. If any know the lyrics to Zungo, please share. What are your thoughts to her musical evolution? Do you have a favorite song featured in the post? Was she correct about Malcolm X from your point of view?
  11. Does the Black populace in the United States of America today, 2026, need an organization like what Malcolm suggested, the OAAU? What lessons would Malcolm learn from the Organization of African Unity that he didn't witness after his murder? #midnighthour
  12. RMNewsletter 4th Version February 22nd 2026 https://open.substack.com/pub/rmnewsletter/p/hard-truths-of-beautiful-history?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Hard truths of beautiful history, which do you want? by Richard Murray RMNewsletter 4th Version February 22nd 2026 Read on Substack
  13. @ProfD ... the modern fabrication capabilities, which are the industrial backbone of the potent governemnts today have been built on,,.. i will not go into it, but financially, people forget how important time is on growing systems of industry, even if they are not seen. I never knew any of that... i argue all of that is counterable when you the place? las vegas is a big city , no big city in modern humanity has been hijacked:) where do you live? and no big city in modernity has been taken over by armed guerillas, where are you from? well the war of 1812, that was an invasion by the english empire and it had a chance to overthrow... where are you from? this is a lie based on statistics at any time in history. @aka Contrarian so:) I guess you like the drama of award shows
  14. @ProfD But Profd, your not mentioning the sequence in the dialog between me and pioneer. you quote me but don't refer to the issue i am referring. No one questioned the financial influencers, me nor pioneer. the steps were as follows. 1) I said new orleans need to be its own state, I didn't say it will happen, but I said it was needed based on near history , at the least. ... new orleans is the state where white people threw dynamite at fellow whites in the mississippi river and blew them up for being northerners... so whites of louisiana ... anyway 2) pionner then says, it will never happen and then added it isn't big enough or have the resources. 3) i replied that it is big enough as a metropolitan space and has no more or less resources than rhode island, deleting the claim of it being geographically or resource wise invalid. and I repeated I didn't say it would happen but it is needed. No one questioned the financial vultures on the pain of Black New Orleans. But the reality is, gardless of the money, black new orleans need to be its own state. Any action through the government will not work, why ?the constitution gives all powers not mentioned to the federal government to the states, not the counties, not the cities. so state level power is mandatory for certain levels of things. You can't get around that legally, unless you are going to change the federal law to extend state powers to counties and cities which i am 100% will have a lot of opposition and not just from the money but the poor who comprehend the complexity of that. and the usa is never been good at complexity. Now if your arguing, find a way for the financial sector to make new orleans become a state. You need to say that first and foremost, that should not be implied by " follow the money" But, the problems with that is nature of most fiscal concerns in the usa today are publicly traded, which means they are global in citizenship view, which means they are against the adding of governmental layers of bureaucracy. If anything all... most of the business concerns want is an end to louisiana and just a federal government. That will make it more profitable. so, I don't see any financially feasible path for monied concerns to lead the way in new orleans becoming its own state. The fact that new orleans would be a city state also means they don't have the land to offer business concerns. I can see maybe the crypto currency people if new orleans had lots of land to give, but it doesn't, no city state does have lots of land to give, historically. that is why they are called city states. and Most city states, today, Monaco/SIngapore/macau/hong kong/really small islands in the caribbean are city states because of circumstances. hong Kong and Macau was made because china was impotent and the english and protuguese wanted trading cities in strategic locations. China would never have made that deal if strong. Many details. Monaco sits between france and italy and in a way spain, an area at one time of countless wars so monaco wasin a war zone. kind of like the cities in Kashmir. and out of that to modernity came monaco . New Orleans doesn't have a situation to aid it, it can only literally use the legal system in the usa which allows for states to be made. the constitution says https://legalclarity.org/how-does-a-new-state-become-a-state/ https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-4/ New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. so what does this mean? Detroit + New Orleans as parts of states, with the consent of the lousiiana + michigan state legislatures + the congress can become a new state. Now legally, I argue, both cities as black cities can make an argument that the state legislatures of michigan + louisiana based on their makeup , as mostly white, and the history of their legsilation which is mostly anti black, have a bias that would never consent to the creation of the new state, thus demands legal interpretation of article 4, which when it was made didn't consider the needs of black municipalities in the usa in white states. I think it is an even argument. And not all states are physically contiguous so that isn't a problem.
  15. @ProfD haiti. the only country started by Black Americans whose forebears were enslaved to whites. What is more powerful for any people than starting their own country? What is hilarious is a black person in modernity asks this, is ignorant to haiti's value as the greatest symbol of black empowerment and yet, the whole reason zionists, white jews, made israel was to do what black americans whose forebears were enslaved to whites did in haiti. and profd and other blacks need an example of my tribes accomplishments in black empowerment. And I will add on the cake, while the white jews of israel use their white status to scheme and plot , using advantages, haiti did this while being attacked in open warfare by france/england/spain/U.S.A. all recorded as being defeated by haiti. Was it easy? no, many black people died. it was the hardest of things. but it was done and even though haiti has suffered surrounded by the two biggest slave states in modern human history: USA + Brazil or surrounded by anti black or black integrationists countries: mexico/jamaica/venezuela/trinidad/puerto rico/cuba/panama/costa rica Haiti had golden times. Yes, the citadel la ferriere is the biggest fort in the american continent and still stands. Built by Blacks of Haiti. Did the golden age last forever... no countries golden age last forever. And I will not chagrin Haiti's golden age not lasting forever when no one chagrin's Rome's golden age not lasting forever, or England's or China's or the USA's... all government have golden times, and not so golden, and miserable times. I don't know what you mean by sustain. During HAiti's golden time, Haiti was littered with beatiful homes, and the usa circa spanish american war, stole a lot of gold from haiti, which is of course breaking the law, your fellow black integrationist @Pioneer1 of course has little to say when white people or white countries, like the usa, break laws, but.. ok. So They did make it wealthy. I will apologize for Haiti and say, its not easy being the only country in an entire continent [ from canada to argentina ] where black people are free and in charge, but I have always comprehended you and your tribes love of the usa and unforgiveness for any other tribes ways. The USA seized the wealth. The debt to france is not physical. I will explain. One of the governments of haiti, after the golden time decided to accept a reparation debt to france, which is hilarious at some level, and that is what france suggest is owed to it. And for the record, Algeria says France owes them, but... anyway. Governments of countries have these sorts of arrangements. by france's own record the USA owes france so... countries say they owe things...I don't know why you made that statement as if you don't comprehend how these things are. The USA owes France, the USA has tons of money, can print tons, has never once thought to pay France so... It seems to me you love to mention anti black . Maybe I am reading to much into your position, but very anti black for me. you mention a situation that happens. If every coutry/government in the world was based on whether another country said they owed, the entire college of governments would be in financial destitution. Why does Haiti have a double standard? why does haiti's supposed debts warrant mention but other countries don't? outside of the fact that some blacks, who love the usa, who don't care for other tribes, like to make uneven arguments. The Blacks of haiti are freer even today than any other black americans including in the usa. Not as financially wealthier based on white owned banks and white currencies but... ok. As for the eternity of poverty your wrong, first or foremost because some haitians who live in haiti are wealthy that means a brighter day is always possible. I can't tell you when. I have no foresight, but it will happen. Again , Ireland was taken by england in 1541, most of ireland was free from england in 1921 so circa three hundred and eighty years and in some parts of ireland from 1100s england was king, so things take time. I don't know where your from where somehow, things are supposed to be forever, nothing is forever. Just so you know, the usa will fall one day, through rupture in itself for some reason , or maybe decay in itself for some reason , thrugh some opposing government somewhere rising as it falls. It will happen. I think maybe you think it will not. Haiti had a golden age, it will have one again. I rather reword what you said here. the indigenous black peoples of what would become sierra leone and liberia were treated like the palestiniean while the black americans who founded freetown or monrovia were like the set white jews commonly called zionists. I wanted to reword only because the issues you mention are best described in a proper way. In the beginning sierra leone or liberia didn't exist. These were lands of black tribes of africa. I forget their names, but so many exist in Africa. The next step was when black americans financed by whites made monrovia or freetown, freetown was first actually, monrovia was second in time. And third step was the creation of sierra leone about freetown or liberia about monrovia. I did research on this. The problem or issues is between step 2 and 3. The black americans who immigrated back, not all, it was messy ok, but many black americans who immigrated back , like so many immigrants in the USA age, the last white european imperial era, think only of themselves and little of the people they have to interact with. The tragedy for me is the black americans like me who lived with the indigenous blacks weren't strong enough to stop the black americans like you and pioneer who only look to themselves, which is not a crime it is a choice, and were willing to abuse their fellow black, for financial profit, which came true. the descendents of the black americans who were greedy and cruel , as i guess par the course in all humanity, are the wealthiest in sierra leone and liberia today. Your right, most, not all but, most blacks outside the usa aren't welcoming to black amerians as strangers although, we black americans earned that reputation in liberia or sierra leones. For me what is sad is, in freetown or monrovia they could had simply focused on. those cities were enough. they didn't need to take the land about those cities. Yes what I am about to say is cheap hindsight, worth nothing now, but the lesson is, you have the city, make a deal with the remainder peoples to extend the city's [freetown or monrovia] land for immediate growth and then make an ironclad law giving the land about freetown or monrovia to the indigenous black folk with the condition that the laws allow for ownership and sales to allow for black americans to buy land for even rate, but also modify the fiscal habits of the indigenous. Allow women to own land, inheritance to pass to male or female, block land from being owned by the nonblack. The legal code. But in defense, most of those black americans who founded monrovia or freetown, which in my mind are the true inheritances, not the country of liberia or sierra leone. is that they were country folk. country folk, don't have experience with cities and more importantly, how cities work. I imagine most of them couldn't comprehend how different a city is. when you look at monaco/singapore, monrovia or freetown should had been like them, but unlike those two , city states who had a century or more of being a city state province monrovia or freetown were ust made by mostly farmers who were thinking freetown or monrovia need to be like pre civil war atlanta, not pre civil war nyc. But they were wrong, or at least the black americans who won the war between black americans over what to do, were wrong. But, there are still those in sierra leone or liberia who believe in that old purpose, yes not everyone , but still some exist. Your right, you and pioneer and me all want black happiness. I admit that i react negatively sometimes to the wording of you and pioneer, either you don't know things you should know or you are rattling the saber which I don't find funny, or take lightly.
  16. @Pioneer1 It's funny, me and a dear friend of mine, by dear friend I mean a person I know offline who is a friend, talk about this sometimes. And... your assertion to me is incorrect but your assertion to me if applied to the larger populace in the usa is correct. many peoples I have heard say they want to leave the usa, in various scenarios, but don't because they enjoy the amenities/friendly things of the usa. But that is not my reason. I have been fortunate to spend enough time outside the usa to comprehend already what I need and don't need to be happy. What is needed or not needed to survive or live or thrive for myself. And I am lucky enough to know those who have left the usa successfully, in my lifetime, from Harlem, not merely history books. And they add the last bit of information about the process. So your wrong about me, not about most people who say they will leave the usa , but it isn't that way for me. I will not give my logic/thinking, I am not interested in preaching or guiding. But I have said before in this very forum, that I love history and history teaches too... united states of america/liberia/sierra leone/israel/australia are cautionary tales about immigration, for me anyway. It isn't enough to have resources. I need more than that. I honor my forebears sir and for me what that means is I am not an enslaver nor am I butcher/abuser and the usa/libeira/sierra leone/israel/australia are not born from justice or equality or anything positive usa/liberia/sierra leone/israel/australia are all born from two things alone, an immigrant butchering/abusing people already there and an immigrant enslaving people already there. I am not interested in that. And sadly for me, modern humanity which has been molded by the usa is ripe most places for immigrants to butcher/abuse or to enslave the people already there. You and your fellow statians only believe in helping yourselves individually, you love to talk of the law but love to abuse others legally, and then blame those you've abused legally for being themselves. I am a thoughtful person. True honor, civility, purpose, matter to me.
  17. @Pioneer1 I didn't know this about detroit, i love architecture so thank you. Why don't you write for 50 cent, you can definitely write the stories that work in his fiction No I don't. I know some other suburbs in wayne county were black but i was unaware to the sheriff prosecutor or other. That is a good sign. wait a minute, rhode island is small. it is said to have circa 1545 square miles. in land only is circa 1,034 square miles. the metropolitan new orleans area is circa 3,755. Now the city proper is circa 350 square miles. So in terms of land, if the city goes with its metropolitan area, it passes the minimum. But as for resources, even just New Orleans proper doesn't have any more or less resources than rhode island. I said before, it wasn't likely, that wasn't my point. My point was the solution for new orleans and new york city is statehood. And the reason being is simply the disconnect between either city and the states they are apart of. You know, when KAtrina hit, what did whites towns in the remainder of louisiana do? did they help the black residents of new orleans? no, they stood on the road with guns to prevent black people fleeing a natural disaster from coming in their white towns. that is louisiana. I can't believe you don't see the truth in that. the governor of Lousiana was fully in support of ripping black people from new orleans taking them to all sorts of places in the usa, many or most to never return. Why couldn't the white governor of louisiana ask for the more affordable option of housing the blacks of new orleans among the white towns of louisiana? why cause ... he doesn't like blacks. How can't you see that simple truth? and as i know you love the law, the law wasn't broken by white people standing on their property with guns, but it was definitely a message. Again, my point isn't that it will happen, but it is clearly the only solution for new orleans as a black city to thrive. white Louisiana limits black new orleans, this is a proven fact in near history so separation is the only solution for long term large betterment of black new orleans. There is no shame admitting what needs to happen can't happen. But no shame also exist in admitting nothng else but what needs to happen will work.
  18. Award shows make money by promoting fashions or selling advertising/sponsorship space, the giving of awards is only the teaser to the profit, giving awards don't make money on their own. Money making can not coincide with everything else. To restate, if you want an civil thoughtful courteousnes/place of a court, that can not occur alongside fiscal capitalistic profiteering. Sooner or later, or inevitably, fiscal capitalistic profiteering will lead to a lack of civlity or a lack of thoughtfulness, from some human actors. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/658-economic-corner-35-02232026/
  19. I remember when the slap happened and I told people. If I was in will smith's shoes I wouldn't had gone to the oscars and will not go to any awards shows after the slap. If I was in chris rock's shoes , who was paid to come, I wouldn't had made the insult/joke on jada pinkett smith and will not go to any awards shows after the slap. Michael B Jordan +Delroy Lindo + the black populace witnessing or on record somewhere had to suffer this modern insult from a white person. The white person with Tourette wants to be treated as if they are no different than anyone else, but they are, because if they didn't have tourette they would be considered unquestioningly rude. But because they have tourette's, their rude actions are deemed allowable. rudeness is allowable with Tourettes ? if that is the standard for award shows then the wisest thing anyone can do going forward is not go or not watch if they don't want to be insulted. The reality is if the structure of awards shows continues as is, their will always be slaps and insults in the future. So what is the solution. Let's end the media function of award shows. Why do award shows exist? they don't exist to give awards, awards can be given privately from organizations to individuals. Awards shows exist to make money by having celebrities dress up for fashion designers and get sponsorship dollars for organizations while receiving awards, which lead to clicks/views/ or similar. So, going forward, stop these award shows and just send people their awards privately. With the internet winners can make videos and anyone can like comment or other, and all manner of communication is allowed online. or embrace the fact that the structure of award shows invites inappropriate behavior inevitably. The idea that anyone can design a perfect show is foolish. I know some will be angry for some are addicted to media, they need everything to be a show. But, I argue the polities is kept safer by getting rid of the show, keeping the awards, and having people make videos for their win. Your Colleagues Don't Have To Clap FROM STEVEN BARNES of LIFEWRITING BAFTAs ### I've been asked about what happened at the BAFTAs. A man with Tourette's yelled a word that cuts to the bone of Black experience in this country. Let me start here: I don't know what's in his heart. Neither do you. His condition means his brain grabbed a charged word and couldn't stop it. That is real. That matters. But here's what I know for sure: That word landed in Black bodies. It landed in mine. And it landed in a moment when Black people are under attack—politically, legally, socially—in ways that feel increasingly relentless. When the immediate response becomes 'but he has a condition,' what I hear is another request for Black people to set aside their pain so someone else's explanation can be centered. I am not interested in making that trade. I can hold two things at once: • The clinical reality of Tourette's. • The historical and personal reality of that word's weight. I can extend compassion to a man whose body betrayed him, without asking Black people to absorb yet another wound in silence. And I can refuse the false choice between 'he's a victim of his condition' and 'Black pain matters.' Both are true. Both deserve to be held. If you're hurting today, I see you. I'm hurting too. And I will not ask you to perform forgiveness for anyone's comfort—including mine. My Reply Maybe it is time for award shows to stop and just give people their awards, in that way, no incidents at award shows is possible. POST URL Award shows make money by promoting fashions or selling advertising/sponsorship space, the giving of awards is only the teaser to the profit, giving awards don't make money on their own. Money making can not coincide with everything else. To restate, if you want an civil thoughtful courteousnes/place of a court, that can not occur alongside fiscal capitalistic profiteering. Sooner or later, or inevitably, fiscal capitalistic profiteering will lead to a lack of civlity or a lack of thoughtfulness, from some human actors. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/ PRIOR EDITION Economic Corner 34 02/20/2026 - RMCommunityCalendar - African American Literature Book Club NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/664-economic-corner-36-02282026/ #economiccorner #awardsshows #respect #awards #theslap #thenword #nigger #rmaalbc #aalbc #richardmurray #kobo #kwl #hddeviant #deviantart #richardmurrayhumblr #tumblr #blackartistoftumblr 02232026 Citation osted just now @ProfD 1 hour ago, ProfD said: The reason modern TVs are so cheap nowadays is due to the amount of money advertisers expect to make based on viewing habits. ... the modern fabrication capabilities, which are the industrial backbone of the potent governemnts today have been built on,,.. i will not go into it, but financially, people forget how important time is on growing systems of industry, even if they are not seen. 1 hour ago, ProfD said: That is why laws & police exist...to provide order & protect & serve the interests of capitalists. I never knew any of that... i argue all of that is counterable 1 hour ago, ProfD said: A whole lot of cash money flows through Las Vegas. There is a reason the place has never been hijacked & taken over by armed guerillas. when you the place? las vegas is a big city , no big city in modern humanity has been hijacked:) where do you live? and no big city in modernity has been taken over by armed guerillas, where are you from? 1 hour ago, ProfD said: The same thing applies to the USA in general. Despite crime statistics & other ills in society, the USA has never had reason to fear being 1) overthrown or 2) invaded. well the war of 1812, that was an invasion by the english empire and it had a chance to overthrow... where are you from? 1 hour ago, ProfD said: Fiscal capitalism benefits so many people directly & indirectly that folks from all corners will rise up to protect & defend it. this is a lie based on statistics at any time in history. @aka Contrarian so:) I guess you like the drama of award shows 02272026 Citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/#findComment-80414 osted just now @ProfD 13 hours ago, ProfD said: The craziest part is the BAFTA is pre-recorded prior to broadcast. They edited out anything political or & profane. 13 hours ago, ProfD said: Yet, they did not edit out the supposed Tourette's Syndrome outburst. The guy yells out n8gger when the show is dead silent & at the moment 2 Black actors are onstage. well, the bafta's are live in england and with modern technology people will share the live edits, I have only seen snippets, which i imagine were recorded by people watching the live english telecast. The financial question going forward is with modern technology, which allows anyone to record live performances and share them even before they are officially published elsewhere, does editing video material matter anymore? Any artist that makes a mistake on stage? any mishap in an award show? any recording session in a studio thought by someone private? can all be recorded by an individual and submitted to the internet and then it is out there. IS editing worth it? I comprehend lawsuits but... what can one really do to prevent exposure. BAFTA can't block the recordings online. No one can. Governments can't. The internet is too big a media space for that. 13 hours ago, ProfD said: Neither the guy nor BAFTA offered a real apology for the outburst. Black folks haven't demanded it. when you say black folks haven't demanded, do you mean no black individuals? or a black organized body? I know many black individuals who want an apology, but i don't consider that a demand. But I also know some black folks who aren't concerned by it... so again, a group can't demand when a group isn't of the same mind 13 hours ago, ProfD said: Just another reminder that we still have a long way to go when it comes to racism. Hope it is not being normalized & accepted. racism is eternal, unless humans beings stop using first and last names, racism will be forever. And as for bias, negative or positive, well they are eternal as well, unless some human beings stop favoring their children or stop disliking those who harmed them. I argue that the better line of thinking isn't in annihilating, racism or bias, but in cognizing how to utilize racism/categorization/ranking more functionally, more honestly, plus learning how to handle biases, negative or positive, as they will occur in the future. Cause racism + bias, negative or positive, have always been and always will be common or normalized, as humans are humans and while biases dictate what is accepted or not, their weights change in time, invariably. 02272026 Citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/#findComment-80419 osted just now @ProfD 1 hour ago, ProfD said: I believe editing is still worthwhile despite any type of recording spillage. The official recordings should be on point. hmm interesting, I want to know more of your thinking on this issue. What does the editing do, that I don't see? the unedited shows the truth, what does the editing provide? 1 hour ago, ProfD said: Black folks need the same mechanisms Jews have when they accuse people of being antisemitic. hmm well, from what I comprehend of the white jewish populace, if a similarity organizationally is to be made, then I argue the weakness is in one of three groups: Black Elephants/Republicans OR Nation of Islam OR the Black One percent. Why do I say this? The white jewish populace isn't one people really. They have three main tribes Reformers/Orthodox/Conservative... the Reformers literally have a statement saying, none of the defining patterns of orthodoxy, which means those who think they are right, as in the eastern orthodox christian church, are necessary to be a reformer. Reform jews don't have to wear the cap, don't have to speak yiddish, don't have to do many things that people associate with judaism. But they do have a huge synogaogue downtown manhattan with many rich white people what is my point. Reform judaism in my view, is a tribe designed in the USA for the specific purpose of maintaining a jewish tribal culture, absent demanding on individuals in it, unlike orthodox or conservatives, the rules of judaism. The orthodox, the ones who wear the cap all the time, women have the nun look and et cetera follow the religious code, like the other religious extreme folk of christianity or islam. They are hyper into israel, whereas the reformers are neutral. The reformers love the usa, have many female jews in their body, unmarried or et cetera, which doesn't fit in orthodox jew circles, which is dominated by male jews. Then the conservative jews, they are the old white european jewish families who who came to the usa throughout the years. They are the most embedded in white european anti jewish financial circles of money and power, they tend to be the binder between the reformers and orthodoxy who for obvious reasons don't get along all the time. You say mechanicsms, but the tribes is the variance. All three of the white jewish tribes in the usa have financial potency, not the same, the reformers are the weatlhiest , the conservatives have the oldest money, deepest connections, the orthodox are the poorest but through the zionist movement have israel as a focal point and cradle for orthodoxy to maintain. I argue, if not for israel i think orthodox judaism would be in serious trouble, population wise. Whereas the Black DOSers , first and foremost are not white so unlike white jews didn't spend the last two hundred and fifty years in business as a majority, only since 1980 has a majority of black people been allowed to be part of the marketplace in the usa. Second, the tribes of DOSers are many, more populated and not the same. Black Christians- commonly called the Black church but again, modernity has made it more complicated. You have jehovahs witness, where in the past, the Black christians could be called the black church today... it is more complicated. Black Muslims- which because of the immigration act plus islams heritage is muddy.The nation of islam will never dominate black muslim life in the usa , they had one chance and they failed. My point being white jews have: fanatic religion/orthodox - religion in name only/reform - religion in secret- conservative. Black DOSers have many religious groups now, so that simplicity is gone, which hurts organizations. Then of course you have the groups unique to Black DOSers and their experiences. Black Militants have always existed in the usa, again, every slave revolt is an action of black militants, lived at the same time as James Forten. but militants don't want peace, that is the point, they want to destory the enemy of the blacks in the usa who without no doubt in history are the whites in the usa, individuals be damned. Black Individualist- primarily concerned financially, they don't believe, which is well earned again, that black collective action will come of anything. I can't say I concur to them, but I can't deny they make a truthful point. Black collective action always gets underminded by whites in the usa, to suggest some magic or learning strength needs to occur is an insult to truth. after five hundred years living side whites, the proof is in the history book. BElieve it or not. Black Integrationists, whether they know it or not, want the usa to be a place of interracial even peace, going back to James Forten again. I get it. It is one of the most peaceful human stories. if you know anything about Zen , the black integrationist make sense. Zen says that all is nature and thus, even the most negative actions are not unnatural and thus if a black person wants to live in a usa of legal equality with the non black , even with knowing the history that is fine. But the militant/individualist/integrationist have no bridge between them. This isn't like the white jewish trio, they have serious differences of opinion. The white jewish trio are not based on experiences in the usa. they differ on how they interpret judaism, or the kind of lifestyles they lead, but they don't differ in terms of how to relate to others. the Black tribes have more complicated differences, which means it is harder to get cohesive organizations. I didn't even mention the Black Nationalist, my little tribe. Not all black nationalist want to find a homeland, like me. NAtionalism isn't about demographic orders/rankings or militarism or finding a homeland. The NAzis for example were nationalist+militants+socialists three separate things that when together is interesting. I didn't mention the Black Elephants/Republicans or Black Donkeys/Democrats. Two big groups relatively, who again, they can't even organize with each other, so how can they organize with other tribes? But the point being, mechanisms require the tribes to be what they are not. Or for one tribe to put in serious work to make it so. I argue the best suited black tribes in the usa for such mechanisms are nation of islam/Black elephants{or a section fo them}/Black one percent. The conservative white jewish tribe is the oldest money in the white jewish populace. The Black One percent , again James Forten, has always existed. Now, many of them have intentionally whited their bloodlines, ala getting poor whites to literally mate with their children to start a process. Many of them don't care for each other. so they lack the cohesiveness, but Profd, you always talk about money, and knowing so many grand strategies, become rich and change the black one percent in the USA. 1 hour ago, ProfD said: Racism as a system does not have to be eternal. It can be dismantled. well... that all depends on what a system is 1 hour ago, ProfD said: Sure. Human beings will have their biases. It should never be used to oppress, malign or mistreat others. biases by default are positive or negative, both are eternal and by default a negative bias oppress/malign/mistreat/abuse another. Thinking on @Pioneer1 query of critical race theory, in my view, the solution to bell's thesis is what pioneer always talks about, the law. Said law is how negative bias can be letigated. It will always exist and always abuse, by default, the law cant' stop that . but if laws can be worded very carefully and enforced with a true neutrality, which humans can't do, negative bias can be letigated against. As I said, when you look at the usa historically, the biggest problem in the jim crow era is the law, but it isn't black people breaking the law as some blacks erroneously, say it is white people breaking the law. In that smithsonian branch, they have an artwork depecting the number of hangings, but how does anyone know if that is true? If you start from the thefts of our forebears: every single white person in the usa, or wherever black people were sent to in the american continent or asia or europe was aiding or abetting, a crime of rape/torture/enslavement/assault . Now, some can argue, all of that was legal, albeit criminal but once the 13th amendment was implemented. Every single black person hanged/burned alive/raped/attacked on the road by whites, every black person's home that was vandalized by whites/ every black person harassed while voting by whites, every black person attacked in a school by whites/ every black person abused by white law enforcers[miranda rights], every black person abused by white jailors[not given food, not given clothes] were all illegalities. But what percentage of white terror against innocent law abiding black people went to court? I bet less than one percent. So, the law is the only tool in the usa to make those who commit negative bias pay for the act, not stop the acts, cause humans are human, but pay for the acts. But, again, Trayvon martin kills that path. Emmit till killed it, but people can consider that the pass... The usa doesn't have the legal framework to enforce law enough to make negative biasers pay, evenly. Now maybe wealthy black dosers can pay for legal fees but how many crimes against black people still don't go to court today? that is a huge financial expense and Black One PErcent are very addicted to revenue return, the idea of investing in court cases that return no money is not appealing to them, but Profd there is it, get rich and change them . 02282026 Citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/#findComment-80443 sted just now @ProfD you said On 2/27/2026 at 12:58 PM, richardmurray said: Black folks need the same mechanisms Jews have when they accuse people of being antisemitic. I provided in the following comment an answer on how blacks in the usa need to change to can get the type of mechanisms you give as example organizations : B'nai B'rith & Anti-Defamation League & Jewish Defense League. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12488-do-you-vote-for-awards-shows-to-go-away/#findComment-80419 then you state On 2/27/2026 at 2:31 PM, ProfD said: Regardless of how Jews are subdivided You reply to my comment with a discarding of my comments point, solutions/answers... things don't get better or worse by magic, they have processes, the future is made in the past, inevitabilities in the future stem from choices in the past.
  20. @Pioneer1 no because of the following what I meant by invite was a robust invitation by the government. I didn't suggest I couldn't go, to be blunt, I was offered, but I have my reasons for doing all things. and my primary reasons for not choosing haiti is many things that I am not interested in discussing it was, to be blunt, if you search liberia or sierra leone there are still those in both of those countries who open doors for black folk from the american continent to africa for DOSers if they wish. The point I was making to you, which you have missed is that lands already exist in various places for my tribe. It is not a matter of needing a new place. You suggested a land was needed and that is not the truth, their are quite a few places on this earth, for my tribe but, my relation to them is not what I discussed. You do seem to be interested in me and thus your following, very dry joke. As you well know I have never blamed other Black tribes for anything concerning my own black tribe. In my own mind when I think of detroit, the sole black northern [meaning exo southern, west or north of the confederate states] city of a certain size, I wonder what it needs. I know wayne county + michigan are enemies to Detroit, as a black city's growth, this is well documented. But, when I look at cities around the world, the ones that financially thrive have an industry and Detroit doesn't have an industry. The car companies accountants and administrators are there, but not the manufacturing.
  21. @Pioneer1 always has, the garveyites/the quilombos/haiti/the black loyalist, all achieved getting a land, achieved not merely attempted. Even the exodusters did achieve... we know what happened to malcolm x's father so... Now holding a land well, some have achieved. I know who has kept the land they earned, even with white terror/power ever present, and who has not, and why. So the question is not plans to get, plans to be apart of, plans to improve, or other. Haitii exists right now, as their constitution under the emperor states, they are called the blacks technically, not haitians. That is a nod to all black peoples around the world. Haiti is a geographic distinction. But in a constitution that black people of haiti had true involvement with, free from whites or blacks who want to be whites, or blacks who want to align with whites, earned through the blood of war. Haiti is the land for all Black Peoples. https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/472-haitian-constitution/ So when you say get it? it seems you don't comprehend the land is already earned. which... goes back to the problem with your tribe. the way you see the black populace is very usa centric and ... Haiti has existed my entire life. Now if you want to ask why I haven't gone. Well, the cheapest answer is haiti hasn't invited. Which is what haiti did in the time of the emperor or king, but your man , like you, Frederick Douglass, couldn't even stomach being the ambassador to haiti. I mean, your tribe, love hindering all others, and then get angry when all others don't do what you say... anyway, modernity demands I make my way in. And I am working on it. I am human. My bloodlines don't have a history of massive wealth to provide for vibrant inheritances for most of the last five hundred years. It will take more time.
  22. @ProfD ahh the smartest are among the poor are the ones who get results, not organize. Organization has no value without results. Results isn't fighting for a thing, it getting a thing. And this goes back to the many black elected, the many black owned business, many of them will talk about fighting but when black people see their results they see, little or worse no results, and black people realize the scam. No one wants to spend their whole life a sucker, voting and carrying on and getting nothing. as James Baldwin near his death said, I paraphrase, when will it happen? when I am fifty or a hundred? will it happen for me or my children or my grandchildren. Baldwin's point to me is excellent. His point is that government is results based, not faith based, and when results never come through all the methodologies present in government people wisely pull out of activity. It isn't that people vote against their interest, they pull out of the bureaucratic system. To rephrase, if you look at voting patterns in the usa, across all demographic lines, the biggest winner is none of the above. None of the above isn't against the peoples interest, none of the above is an indictment on the entire governmental system or its agents elected or not. Poor people not voting proves the system's functionality is negative or dead. It is up to people in the system to prove otherwise and if they can't... it's over. I answered honesty Exactly, but not just the voters actions speak louder. the elected people or the appointed peoples actions speak louder than their words and in terms of results, the elected /appointed peoples actions are more important in getting results. that is the great flaw in the white enslavers called the founding fathers schema that is the us constitution. The rule of law government isn't just the people and the law, the rule of the law government is the people+ the law+ the government officials. In the usa the government officials who are born from the people have succesfully made the people vote against the government itself , which is what a majority no vote means. Now people like yourself find that unacceptable, but that is where your dysfunctional or where said white enslavers made a great error. In the preamble to the constitution, the incestual rapist, jefferson, correctly admitted that if the government of the usa is dysfunctional the people have the right to destroy it. He admitted, correctly, that a government can be too dysfunctional to warrant any thing but destruction, i argue the usa government is there in the eyes of most people in the usa. The voters are speaking loudly, they are finished with the usa. that is why they are mostly not voting. Government isn't faith it is results. Well...if a black child asked me, which some have, about the black movements in the jim crow era, 1865 to 1980, and what they were effective in doing . I have said they failed. Because the goal of most black people wasn't civil rights legislation. Again, knowing history really knocks the bullshit off of many sayings. Civil rights legislation was an agreement between a minority of black dosers aside a minority of whites. It was the NAACP victory. And I will say it again, the NAACP was always represented a minority within the black dos. the majority movements in black dos populace was not NAACP. The civil rights act was a compromise unwanted by a majority black dosers or a majority of non blacks that after the civil rights act was used by said minority of black dosers to suggest an improvement to the majority of black dosers , when it wasn't. Again, the proof is the jim crow era. alice was enslaved 1963, so 1965 civil rights act doesn't address her situation. And as the Kern Commission , sanctioned by lyndon b johnson, all members of it white except for one or two people. flat out stated, the usa needed a complete overhaul. Lyndon B Johnson was angry at the kerner commission, but , and I must admit it is hilarious that nearly everyone in the kerner commission was white and they didn't come up with "gone with the wind" or "birth of a nation" they came up with the usa needs a complete overhaul. The kerner commission made in the 1960s literally refutes the position you and many other people, black or white, give claim to the civil rights acts. and I think most people, though tthey don't know or have heard of the kerner commisison, concur to the kerner commission completely, and think the position by you and those like you to the civil rights movement or your assessment of the time after is hogwash. Kerner commission https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2685&type=status ;; or https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/197-economic-corner-15-02172025/ No, not over a half century ago, near two hundred and fifty years ago. It was the blacks who fought for the usa at its infancy, who were again, a minority in the black dos populace. which you never say. But I get it. you are one of those minority blacks. Your not thinking of the majority of the black people in the same way, the black people like you and James Forten[ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/592-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-6/ ] have always seen the usa in a way unreal to the majority of black people and then accuse the majority of black people of various negativies rather than admit your view doesn't serve the majority of black people. Your correct, a group of black and whites worked together for this modernity but neither were a majority of blacks or whites and when you see the complete canvas of the usa you can see that both of said minorities did well for themselves and used their associative majorities to do it... which has led to a lack of results from the government of the usa to most, and no amount of faith can change that. I comprehend your position. I do. Your like James Forten who was a black person, a DOSer , who fought alongside a group of whites who to improve white lives while maintaining black peoples lives, in majority as enslaved. I get it. Forten became a wealthy businessman after the secession from the english empire. When I think of you and Pioneer I see James Forten. a black person who doesn't represent the situation of most black in the usa , as most black people in the usa were enslaved. Who doesn't represent most black peoples relationship to whites in the usa or the usa itself. Forten wished to engage to this usa even when it was only a declaration, but most black people wanted to be as far away from whites wherever they are, or kill whites a vendetta whites earned a hundred times over. I get your position. But it was never a majority position in the black dos populace. NEVER. So when James Forten, Frederick Douglass, web dubois when younger, mlk jr , barrack Obama , yourself, all talk, I realize, this is a heritage of your tribe. You know fully well the truth for a majority of black people but you don't care. you have made a choice and can only speak of support for that choice by condemning blacks who didn't choose that. I get it. And it explains why the tribe you are in, a minority of blacks DOSers who have always been engaged in the usa, has such alliance with Immigration aCt of 1965 blacks. Cause said blacks come to the usa with a similar mind. Thank you, I get it. @Pioneer1 I argue black people have never been allowed to by white influence or minority black tribes agendas taken our tribes serious enough and it has cost majority of black peoples. You and Pioneer must see the history clearly. When the usa was founded ninety percent of black DOSers forebears were enslaved . Seven percent fought for against the creation of the usa or white people of usa or any of the usa including black people like James Forten. three percent of black folk fought for the creation of the usa. What does that mean ? Today in modernity, 2026, decades after the jim crow era [ 1865 to 1980] over a century and a half since the end of the enslavement era [ 1492-1865] most black people in the usa, with a huge influx of modern black immigrants post 1965 immigration act. are like the three percent of black folk who fought for the creation of the usa. but what does this mean for the history of the tribes. This means said three percent which you/profd/james horten/frederick douglass/webdubois when younger/mlk jr/barrack obama + michelle obama represent a heritage in the Black populace as old as the USA itself, BUT also a tribe that worked against the majority of black people with the aid of whites till it became the majority. Now my tribe, led by people like Titus Cornelius, who lived at the same time of James Forten, was a minority as well, but the larger minority. My tribe would be the majority minority in the black dos populace till circa 1845. You and profd's tribe became the largest minority starting in the jim crow era. My tribe was and is the most disliked by whites for obvious reasons, variants of my tribe made the successful quilombos/haiti. The best examples of black empowerment have always been made by my tribe. Your tribe has from the beginning only offered an integrated solution which has limits for black growth. But the biggest tribe was the black enslaved, circa ninety percent who had only one desire, ESCAPE. They didn't want to kill whites, like my tribe. But they didn't want to be in any union with whites like yours. My tribe always comprehended the largest tribes truth, your tribe has always denied their truth or at the least, in rhetoric opposed it dysfunctionally, as you and Profd's prose shows. The majority DOS tribe has an interest, a self interest, and that is away from the usa , away from whites. That has always been their truth. They don't want to be president, they dont' want to be governor, they dont' want to a ceo of a fortune 500 company, they don't want to be a law enforcer, they don't want any part of the usa or the whites of the usa. Don't you see Pioneer. How weakly Black people overall have treated this important issue, and to be blunt your tribe helped this problem the most. Because your tribe, has always , instead of comprehending what most blacks wants always has tried to do prosyletize/preach the black majority out of their truth. And this explains the immigration act. You know, the civil rights and voting right act serve the function of making federal law make racial[ any type of race: phenotypical/gender/religious] negative biases illagel, make negatively biased to any groups voting laws illegal. But what is the immigration act really? the immigration didn't serve the majority of whites or blacks in the usa. While it didn't serve the black majority tribe who wanted nothing to do with the usa or my tribe that wants war, or serve the majority of whites who want comfort they don't need to work for, it did serve you and profd's tribe of blacks and the minority white tribes of wealthy whites, For the wealthy whites it allowed for cheap labor for their profit. but for black integrationists , james forten to you and profd, it flooded the black populace with black immigrants who shared a similar philosophy to your tribe. I get it, well done. Your tribe which started at circa three percent has the majority in the Black populace: Black DOS tribes + Black Immigrant tribes in the usa today. The Black DOS majority tribe still doesn't believe in the usa and I argue never will cause they have never too but without the majority populace they will have a different path. I can see positive plus negative elements in their future. As for my tribe, we live on, we have always existed and always will. Vendetta is powerful. Blood feuds are powerful. My tribe is small but patient. My tribe will get our chance again, and I can only hope someone like me is at the helm, cause if someone like me is at the helm, our successes will be thorough. very funny to your first question, yes and most black people have throughout all humanity. to your second question, I answer with a situation that brings its issues to bare. If a white man rapes my wife and that is the only moment of white terror I have, I am not obliged to treat that moment as a one of. I am free to, yes, your correct. A black person is free to treat a life absent or with less white terror than the average in the past as a betterment or at the least as unwarranting an unmendable bridge with whites. that the point in your question. But you miss the important point,which your tribe always has, which is very selfish, is that no black person is forced or has to come to that conclusion. So to answer your second question, in my assessment of white terror, all levels from verbal harassment from white strangers to white people murdering my loving ones, the answer is yes. I think from your tribes assessment the answer is no. yes, you and your tribe in the usa from james horton to now have always viewed the majority of black people in the usa through your tribe's perspective, not any other tribes perspective, which is your tribes forever dishonor in my view. While my tribe is a minority tribe as well, at least my tribe is honest. Your tribe has always been wicked tongued. For all tribes know why the majority DOS tribe has never wanted anything to do with the usa or the white people in it. But your tribe would rather criminalize what white terror honestly created. The good news for your tribe is in 2026, you now have a bunch of black immigrants from outside the usa who have come freely to the usa for the purpose of being citizens, for the purpose of their betterment, and they don't even demand too much empowerment outside of individual rights. So, your tribe for the first time in two hundred and fifty years truly has the numerical advantage in the complete black populace. Your still a minority tribe among DOSers alone, but you now have the advantage with Black peoples altogether in the usa. Use it, focus on it. My advice is to forget about the other two tribes of DOSers you continually complain about. Cause one tribe of DOSers wants revenge on whites which can't work with any plan from your tribe of DOSers, and the other tribe of DOSers will never trust whites enough to be involved in any plan from your tribe. So what are you and Profd going to do to now? forget other DOSers , like myself for example. We will never join you and you know why, even if you cant' accept it. It is the truth. What you are willing to forgive, who you are willing to work with is not what Black DOSers from other tribes want to do or will do. But the good news is that, the black one percent/the black fiscally wealthy in the usa are 99% your tribe, which makes perfect sense as the usa is a white country and black people making money have to be involved with whites, which is what your tribe has always been willing to do, since James Forten. And with the Black immigrants post immigration act 1965, your tribe have all the pieces to make a level of integration your tribe has always wanted in the usa. In the end I imagine the usa will be split into parts, which actually make historical sense as well. The logic/reason/thinking coming from a simple truth. Fiscal wealth can be very beautiful, harmonizing even, but some things a human can want can not be bought with money, or acquired through money, or can not come from a peaceful life, or be satisfied with a peaceful life. Thus the usa your tribe has always worked for of fiscal wealth in a peaceful land under the rule of law, can not satisfy what some humans may want. post script, there is no us. Black DOSers are not an us. The larger Black Americans, canada to argentina, are not an us. You and black people like you need to stop prosyletizing, it doesn't help. Most Black Americans, share a heritage of being enslaved by whites in the american continent from canada to argentina. But we don't all share the same perspectives on who we are or what we want, and you and yours need to accept that finally. Stop your damn preaching/prosyletizing.
  23. @ProfD what if their aren't so many like minded groups? you think its comfort... i know a number of blacks who have said that... I don't think its comfort. I think it is honesty. I always tell the children I tutor, words are the least proving actions. In black history month so many black people we refer to have beautiful speeches, but little in the way of non verbal actions to prove anything. I think black people and I will argue, most people, at some point get tired of being told to try again for trying for agains sake. Some will argue people should act with a faith but I have always thought that is silly. faith isn't enough. results profd, you got to show results to the people. People who want to do things have to show results to themselves.
  24. @Pioneer1 Your wrong , but what is important is that many black people have thought like you from the founding of the usa and many black people have thought like me in opposition to you and yours, since the usa was founded. I don't see how these viewpoints have a bridge and i argue this is the most important issue in the black populace in the usa, because more than anything else, the black experience in the usa is one of being terorrized abused, whether legally or illegally by whites. So, how black people in the usa, view the law is essential to how we see the usa, non blacks, or ourselves.
  25. @ProfD even enough, only one question I have, when you say "The general population of the world has to decide if/when" the financially common section of humanity isn't one peoples, to first make a collective choice a group of peoples must be an organized collective, in some fashion. So first the masses in humanity have to find a way to be a group that can make a collective decision right? Cause as I comprehend your words, it seems like said masses can make this decision today or tomorrow as they are, and I don't see that as true. @Pioneer1 well... two things, 1) humanity progresses itself to whatever end. 2) all governments , no matter what movies say, have positive or negative results. all governments. and that includes the usa, but that also includes the peoples republic of china or russia or south africa or haiti or other. you said " United States is the main reason racism and sexism and even slavery itself is no longer OPENLY tolerated in most societies." I don't think that is the truth. in my travels I find many negative biases or openly expressed. I argue many negative biases are accepted or embraced, you suggest negative biases are tolerated, which suggest people don't want them. that isn't what I have found. I think what the usa has done positively isn't in the common communities in humanity. I argue, modern humanity is rife with various biases based on a persons gender/phenotype or appearance / fiscal class leading to enslavements. I think many of these negative biases are openly practiced. Last year was when the usa finally disallowed underage marriage at the federal level. I did a post about it, but I couldn't find it to link. What the usa has done positively is in governments themselves. In modernity most governments legal codes suggest most negative biases, as you correctly stated, are illegal. Most governments legal codes don't permit the negative biases the peoples under those codes do everyday. But the enforcement to such codes is absent. In this way, the usa breaks even. This goes back to Jim crow usa [ 1846 to 1980] the reality is , with black tulsa or rosewood as the most known highlighted examples, the usa legal code made all the terrible actions by whites to blacks illegal, but the usa leading by example shows that legal codes, don't give the law power. Again, for all the court cases black people did in 1865 to 1980 based on white terror. What percentage of white terrorist actions to blacks went to court? I argue, less than 1%. the rule of law makes the law the king, but the law is the most impotent king. The law can't stop any illegal act. the law can't recover damages from illegal acts. the law can't change the heritages or cultures of any peoples that have illegal aspects. The USA has led a governmental legal code modulation movement where south africa has the most unbiased legal system in humanity, even though white south africans are as abusive as ever. China though people keep calling it a dictatorship, which is totally false, has actually modified and adjusted their constitution more than any other government of a powerful country, power defined as nuclear militaristic capability of a global reach. But this doesn't mean the ugyars are safe. The usa still has black towns throughout the former confederate states, lviing near toxic wastes the states put next to them, denied water the white towns next to them horde so... the law is nothing, the law is weak, the law doesn't make anything better. BUT, the law does allow the abused who have the rare resources/levels of money to utilize legal systems to challenge the criminal actions from abusers which are illegal. And that is positive. Negative biases are still mostly embraced by humans, whether legal or not, and no government has enforced their legal code to delete or diminish or cause to delay actions reflecting a negative bias or abuse or criminal act that said laws deem illegal. BUT, most legal codes today, do have

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