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Thoughts on National Black Voters Day
@frankster I apologize, my prose confused you. Your opening statement was That is what I found incorrect plus the ending statement Your ending statement was There is no depend, the question was answered by you, but it isn't on a dependable basis. The qualities in any valid answer depend on perspectives? yes. but the answers themselves either fit or don't. your answer did. I didn't say it didn't. Yes, it is true, but the issue of blacks in government isn't merely the federal level. NEwark, a city across the hudson river from NYC , is a black city, based on my definitions. And it has a relatively long history of Black mayors, especially compared to the white city, NYC. But, the black mayors of Newark prove my point about omniracial policy. Family before me who knew the first and sequent black mayors all concur that no newark black mayor has ever had a black agenda. The question is to what benefit has that been to the majority populace in NEwark? I argue, said Black mayors have stymied that city, whose neighbor has made many financial mistakes in the last fifty years. Notice I said financial mistakes. You are 100% correct, it is a given Blacks are not the majority in the USA, but it is not a given that blacks are not the majority in parts of the usa and to the black vote, those black parts ,are not getting what I think is even remotely fair let along adeqaute for their votes. YEs, from my district, Charles Rangel. Black votes placed him in , as a black man that was black voting power in action, and Charles Rangel gave vote to the affordable care act, which is black voting power giving a return to a multiracial group which includes black people. But, it must be said, charles rangel, did far less than Adam Clayton Powell jr in providing pro black legislation, or even, pushing the black elected representatives of HArlem to do so at the local level. Inez Dickens, robert jackson, Keith wright, all black, all from harlem. none with a black policy agenda. And I Am not saying they must have it, but what returns do the black vote get. and what quality are they really? Your welcome:) The goal for me in this forum isn't to argue, or to proselytize or to change anybody's mind. I speak my peace. In the end, I can oppose or disagree with positions or words, but I can also concur or stand with. We stand opposed to what should be. for me, it is more partisan. I think the black community in the USA historically has a problem with accepting its own internal tribes. I repeat, Black people fought to create the united states of america while Black people fought to stop the united states of america from being born while most Black people when the united states of america was being born were unable to have a say in the creation of the usa but wanted betterment for their lives from either or of the two scenarios mentioned before. And I think black people in the usa, become trapped in making one of those three right, or wrong. I have heard black people who want to kill all the whites say the majority of blacks are lazy. I have heard black people who are proud and dedicated and financially fruitful citizens of the usa say the majority of blacks are lazy. but whether you love or hate the usa, it isn't unfair for most blacks to be descended of those enslaved people who want betterment from those who are more opportune in the black community. I hear a majority of blacks say, to the black millionaires, black members of the POAL or POAJ , we want more. but the black majority have to realize those blacks though a minority in the black community in leadership position, believes in the usa as a place where the individual has the right to rise or fall and fight, albeit even through unfairness, to maintain a level of human equality. I hear a majority of blacks say to the black militants, black garveyites, black nationalists, give us somewhere to go, give us something to do. But the black majority have to realize those blacks, though another minority, in the black community in a leadership position, have a huge hurdle to overcome to offer the potential black nation outside the usa or black region in the usa, and it will take time and even more time than in past years. You say it should be, I say it is for some black people, but not for others, and I think all black peoples in the usa have earned what they truly want. I don't see those black elected representatives as ahead of their time, cause the black people who fought for the usa to be created thought likewise. This country always had and has black people who believe in the , as you say, non racial possibilities in the USA. but, those elected representatives betrayed their voting body. they knew fully well, many black people didn't see our community in the usa that way. and to use their position to force how they see the black community on the whole was a betrayal for me. I can accept a black person being nonracial but i can't accept a black person being nonracial using their influence to reject the idea that another black person has to be nonracial too. That is unfair. All black people know our relationship to whites , during the thirteen colonies or the usa itself, has alot of negativity. Is usually negative. And, to have policy that ignores the other two choices that the black community had when the usa was founded is consistent with black elected representatives in the future, but equally dysfunctional for Black people. At the end of the day, it is cheap hindsight , but I argue that that Black south carolina legislature is the primary cause of the deaths of so many black people in south carolina. People can say whites acted illegally in south carolina, but the black elected representatives had one chance to get this right and history proves for the black people in south carolina, who voted for them above ninety percent, they got it wrong. It is that simple. And maybe, maybe, the legacy of the black south carolina senate is black elected representatives have gotten it wrong for black people ever since. Defending their philosophy and applying it on the whole when the black community needed another type of governance. your 100% correct, any racial elements in any legal code lead to positive or negative biases that harm or hurt but go against the operation of any applied collective as a whole. That is true. The problem though is, in governing absent respect to race, the inequalities inherent in human communities based on race mutate or fester , and don't go away. IF anything, the USA in modernity is the proof. HEre is a collection of humans where many racial groups abused by another had leadership that led abused peoples absent racial consideration and it has helped some of the abused but clearly not the majority. And if a governor isn't aiding a majority then they can't be called effective can they? Ohhhhh more martin less malcolm... Your talking to a member of House MAlcolm. but... that is the philosophical debate, it goes back to the blacks who fought against the usa being created versus the blacks who fought for the usa to be created. ... It is . a long battle:) I personally don't think there is a right or wrong. I don't know how you feel to the philosophical history of blacks in the usa, but I find the malcolm /martin philosophical battle less potent than the booker t washington/web dubois/garvey philosophical battle. And I find those battles less potent, than the crispus attucks versus colonel tiye when the usa was born. For me, MAlcolm side MArtin were two religious clerics who both died not in the position they warranted. the other black pastors wouldn't let martin lead the southern black christian leadership conference <I think I got that title slightly wrong:)> cause they feared he would clean up their act. Which he would had and needed to happen. MLK walked the walk. not just talk the talk. In the same token, the other ministers in the nation of islam wouldn't allow Malcolm his rightful place as leader while elijah muhammed was alive cause he was going to clean up their act. Which he would had and was needed and to his credit trying to do so while not the leader was a legendary act of leadership for me. Both Malcolm side MLKjr walked the walk, that is why they were both murdered. And the preachers or ministers around them, were not. I find the only true variance is tone. But I am fair to both men. I had a fortunate upbringing. I got to know my male forebears, or clan in general, in peace like MArtin Luther King jr. My family wasn't under assassination like Malcolm's. I comprehend why it took the trip to mecca for malcolm to change his tone. For me, MAlcolm's message never changed, cause it didn't need to change, but his tone did. Malcolm told black people to defend themselves, not be naive to what you see commonly, be willing to struggle through hurdles, as did Martin. Martin told black people to educate themselves, know the law, be kind to fellow blacks, live positively while wisely in the usa or elsewhere, as did Malcolm. I think the HBCU, Talented tenth Black employed, Back to Africa are more interesting philosophical frictions in the black community and have more relevance in the black community today. For me, the only true variance in Martin side Malcolm is Martin was always willing to embrace the USA while Malcolm was always willing to let the USA fall. And while that is a major point, I think it yields as potent a discussion. YEs, I should had emphasized. My reply in that sector was to the purpose of aiding blacks. I am flying through the internet. @ProfD fair enough, we agree to the goals of the law, our disagreement on intent is for scholarly study or philosophical review only.
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Thoughts on National Black Voters Day
@frankster only two issue I call incorrect with your reply , the first is the opening statement, the second is the closing statement. I will speak to the first and end my prose reply speaking to the second. You are wrong to say it depends on what you are looking for. My question asked for physical evidence of a return to something of value to the vote of the black community, throughout usa history. The black elected officials are members of the black community. They are physical evidence on a return to black votes, as the elected officials themselves are black, and are present because of Black voters. From a pure historical perspective, none or extremely few Black elected officials ever won a seat without a Black voting populace supporting them. In Black government districts in the USA , < I define Black as a person regardless of ancestry/immigration status/gender/religion/language whose phenotype is in the range of appearance I define as Black > I define as a: city district/city/town/county/state/federal district in the USA that has a Black populace over seventy percent, the Black vote has control over who gets elected. In all other districts in the USA or the USA itself, Black elected officials, like former president Barack Obama, still can use or need the Black vote to win a seat; but only the white vote as a block can guarantee a win in non Black districts or the USA itself. What you said wasn't incorrect but the way you said it gives a false allusion. A Black Elected official like Barrack Obama or David Dinkins or Eric Adams , a former or the current mayor of NEw York City, required black votes to win, but the seat they obtained can only be won by the white vote as a black. The black vote as a block alone can not win the mayoral seat of New York City or the presidency of the United States of America. Sequentially, relating their success as equal to the same to a Ray Nagin, former mayor of New Orleans or Kwame Brown, former mayor of DEtroit, at the time, two cities that are Black districts, is untrue. Similar but not equal scenarios and in voting, the variance between a Black voting block guaranteeing a seat and the Black voting block only empowering the path to a seat is huge. And your prose suggest a much smaller variance than the truth displays. The Affordable Care act is mostly from Nancy Pelosi. Barack Obama is on the public record as giving up on the bill, it was Pelosi who convinced him she will get the house and senate to get it done. Yes, Obama signed it, but in truth, the Affordable Care act came through the federal legislative branch in the United States, commonly called the Congress. So much so, Pelosi lost the House and cost her Senate peers the senate getting the Affordable care act. As the president of the USA is still needed to sign anything from the Congress, all president's have a role in each law, but the way you side other's call it Obama care is a lie. He merely signed it. It is Pelosi-care, Pelosi is the real generator of that law. my query side your reply is key to the problem when it comes to black people in the usa and the usa government, historically. You make two perfectly good answers to the question of what physical returns of the Black vote to empower the Black community : Black elected officials, laws that come from Black elected official policy, whether to the Black communities sole need or to a general need which includes black people but also non blacks, like the crown act of California or the affordable care act. The problem is, a Black elected official isn't bound by either of the White parties of governance of the legal code in the USA to produce policy or make effect law that serves their phenotypical race exclusively. The USA legal code doesn't make racial exclusive policy or law illegal, if it doesn't inhibit or harm other races, may they be phenotypical or gender or age or religious or other. Sequentially, all Black elected officials to my knowledge have never created a Black policy agenda solely, even if they were elected in a Black district. Ala like the South Carolina Senate post War between the States who had in majority Black elected officials , where each Black elected official was elected by a Black district. But the policy from the majority Black South Carolina Senate post war between the states was unquestioningly omniracial in purpose: public schools/taxes/financial initiatives. But, omniracial policy didn't serve the Black community in South Carolina well at all. It can be argued, with the aid of the Federal Army, the era of Majority Black Senators in the South Carolina senate wasted an opportunity, one that no State had since, to provide for the Black community in a state, without harming whites, but for the purpose of empowering Blacks in said state first or foremost, not merely in the short term but the long term. And this goes to Black voters day. The heritage of Black descended of enslaved elected officials in the USA is omniracial policy. I don't say that is wrong or right, but it has positives or negatives. The positives is that it has created a framework of policy creation from various types in races, from women in gender, to latino or sino in language, to asian or arab or african in descendency, to young or old in age, that even if they are elected by a particular group in majority, their policy even if it doesn't aid most that led to them being elected is sufficient to retain their seats, and be deemed by majority of their voting base adequate, even if they lose voters for lack of effective law to their majority. The negatives is that over time, the voters who represent the subraces <phenotype/age/language/or similar> of the official, yes all humans are human, become correctly disenfranchised to their policy and sequentially to the system itself. Trump to be historically blunt, utilized this truth in the party of Abraham Lincoln to great effect. Correctly, because omniracial policy by default is centrist and centrist policy by default requires groups , regardless of their voting power in a district to accept lesser opportunity or potency from policy , as the policy is meant to serve all. Monoracial policy by default aids the one race it is purposed for at a higher rate than the same race can be aided by any omniracial policy. And this is the environment the Black voting populace, aside others, finds itself in modern USA. All groups want more from policy, but when policy can't provide, they disconnect. Some elected officials and those who have still benefited suggest people need to have patience side resilience, but other elected officials correctly use the impotency of omniracial policy to gain seats and criticize to their voting base the ineffectiveness of the omniracial policy. The second incorrect < and @ProfD I offer you read this as well > is your allusion that the crown act is solely to the benefit of the Black community. The crown act came from Holly Mitchell, a black elected representive, who served California's 30th state senate district. Said district is not majority Black, it is majority Yella. Yella folk I define as a phenotypical range between Black and White. They include people who are of African/Indigenous/Asian descent as well as anglo/latino/sino speakers or mestizos/mullatoes of mixed geographic descendency. And the Crown Act serves all humans whose hair styles are not common into the White european mold which includes not only Blacks but Yella folk as well. So, the Crown Act is insufficient as a Black only law for it correctly, doesn't apply to Black people alone as the hair of many who are not Black does not suit the white european heritage of labor etiquette.
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Breath of the wild playhouse
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Breath of the wild playhouse
Name Donovan Ewing Where are you located? Broken Arrow, OK What is your day job? YouTuber/Video Editor, Content producer for Sketchup Do you attend a makerspace/fablab/hackerspace? Yes How did you get started making stuff? I am an artist and I’ve always wanted to make things with and for my kids. I used to have a blog where I documented projects I made for my kids, such as sewing superhero capes or redesigning a toy chest to look like it’s from the movie Frozen. In 2017 I decided to combine my love of making things for my kids with storytelling, filmmaking, video games, movies, and all things geeky, and start a YouTube channel. What is something that you’ve made that you’re really proud of? The projects I end up being most proud of are the ones that get used far past their time in the videos we make Link’s Playhouse, the Mjolnir mallet, the treasure chest for lost teeth, the Spiderman headphone stand, the Legend of Zelda shop aprons, have all been used almost daily. I love it when projects get used, and not just sitting on a shelf looking good. READ MORE IN THE ARTICLE LINKED BELOW Building the ULTIMATE Zelda Breath of the Wild Playhouse, enjoy Maker Spotlight: Donovan Ewing of Once Upon A Workbench By Caleb Kraft August 17th, 2022 ARticle https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/maker-spotlight-donovan-ewing-of-once-upon-a-workbench/ IN AMENDMENT How To Build Dream’s Helmet From Sandman For Cosplay Video Article https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/how-to-buld-dreams-helmet-from-sandman-for-cosplay/
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Thoughts on National Black Voters Day
It is not something Black people in the past created , it is something from pure modernity. By the national urban league, which has produced no results for the black urban league. I asked in the post below what I will ask here. Can any one black show me anything that came from black voting? Show me something? The 13th amendment to end enslavement was the result of war. Show me something that Black votes earned the Black community in the USA. I Can't think of anything. Can you? And some of you will say, that is not the point of voting and I oppose that view. In NYC, the vote of various white groups led to things in their community for them. More information or my thoughts https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2079&type=status
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Ariel Appreciation art
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Weapons Fairy Series
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Ask an editor
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Witchtember 2022
Day 20 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Necklace-20-Witchtember-2022-930260353
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Two challenges
Two challenges, first, I challenge anybody black to come up with a financial plan that is better than Aimee Bock side her crew. second, I challenge anybody black to provide a black person deemed a criminal or illegal actor whose activities is even remotely higher than Aimee Bock and her crew. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2072&type=status
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Witchtember 2022
Day 19 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Skirt-19-Witchtember-2022-930139763
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Sonia sanchez and NYC's public loan forgiveness program
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In honor of Nat Turner
@ProfD Yeah:) probably was 10, 000 nat turners, it is no accident that history highlights the successful slave revolts, they are not uncommon from an unslaved people but their success it:)
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Witchtember 2022
Day 18 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tarot-Deck-18-Witchtember-2022-930029736
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Witchtember 2022
Day 17 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Bag-17-Witchtember-2022-929894016
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If you are interested in works written by black people who speak french
A talk with Estelle Sarah-Bulle and other writers in the Francophonie https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2069&type=status
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In honor of Nat Turner
Being real or mature is something many people talk about until being real or mature leads to the inevitable assessment https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2067&type=status
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Witchtember 2022
Day 16 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Broom-16-Witchtember-2022-929780867
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Witchtember 2022
Day 15 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Stars-15-Witchtember-2022-929646868
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Witchtember 2022
Day 14 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tea-Cup-14-Witchtember-2022-929553197
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Minority Women owned business pitch competition
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A good discussion
Center for Black Literature at the National Black Writers Conference, a video with transcript https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2065&type=status
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Black Adults fail Black Children, but it isn't in the way you may think
@Chevdove yes, by america you mean whites in the usa , became enamored. And this is a hard topic:) Black people in the usa, or the english colonies that preceded it have a complicated history with white people before or during the usa and to the usa itself. It is not a straight line. And Black people have always been into varying unbridgeable tribes about who we are or how we relate to whites or the usa itself. The essence of this topic is vital. I concur to you side @ProfD about education having value, being necessary, in or out of schools or any scholastic environment. But, We black adults have to come admit to ourselves what we don't provide for black children. We have to say to ourselves and to black children, as black adults, we are failing you. White adults aren't failing white children when a tribe of white children can fail a standard test over 99% and they are being protected successfully by nearly all around them from critique from admonishment from ridicule. To be blunt, no black set of children DOS/from caribbean/from the continent can say they reached 99% failure on a standardized test and yet, all black children's can attest to being constantly admonished by non blacks as well as many blacks. The last question is simple, are black adults asking black children to overcome black adults failings as well as live in and change a white country as well as simply grow as human beings? Post script if that is what we black adults are asking black children, then shame on us. We black adults have to give, provide, make more for black children