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    Section 1: Prompt 1
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-1-941477089
    Section 1: Prompt 2
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-2-941478176
    Section 2: Prompt 1
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-1-947227324
       https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P1-invitation-947216750
    Section 2: Prompt 2
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-2-947230376
       https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P2-invitation-947228628
    Section 2: Prompt 3
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-3-947235678
       https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P3-invitation-947235001
       https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PPS2P3-coloring-page-947234789
    Section 2: Prompt 4
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt4-947552463
       https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Final-Distance-Of-The-Twenty-Third-I-R-C-L-To-947551245

     

    Late, did not count but would had been for Section 4: Prompt 1
    https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/politics/2691569/
    Late, did not count but would had been for Section 5: Prompt 1
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/My-Final-Thoughts-on-Positivity-Challenge-2022-947598367
     

    The following is the forum post as it relates to Black History Month

    February in the United States is Black history Month. Black in the United States is a phenotypical race, whose members are mostly while not exclusively descended of enslaved peoples.
    Frederick Douglass once spoke of a composite nation. Frederick Douglass opposed White people owning or enslaving Blacks. He also opposed Blacks making Black only towns.
    In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, I ask all humans to state or proclaim one art form that from your experience comes from the Black community in the USA but has not been adopted by those outside the Black community in the USA.
    For example, rap or hip hop cannot be used cause rap or hiphop are heavily adopted out the black community in the USA.
    Ballet can not be used, if you are thinking of Misty Copeland or similar cause Ballet comes from the white community in Europe.

    LINK to read a Compositve Nation version, he rewrote it many times.
    https://nyhs-prod.cdn.prismic.io/nyhs-prod/071a94b5-388a-4546-b798-7439b35e2061_Composite+Nation_Composite+Nation+Speech.docx.pdf

     

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    Well from the article I read, the representatives of california didn't say they did it for slavery. I paraphrase, they did it for reconstruction and post reconstruction. And since the usa is a federation states are individual. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2216&type=status
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    @ProfDyou asked an ultimate/final question in your original post? This is the most important question and everyone knows the answer. Some individuals have it up to here with their environment and have no more hope or patience in it getting better. it is a simple thing. Whether it is priest burning themselves alive or people jumping off of rooftops or people going out in a gun blaze, they have quit on life. The question is, is a person mentally unhealthy when they quit on life? In the usa at least, it is advertised a person is mentally unhealthy when they quit on life, whether they harm others or not. Is the usa media true? The last two questions are key in my view.
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    https://centerforblackliterature.org/wild-seeds-writers-retreat/
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    Ringing in the New YEar Book Tag 2023 from Thistle and Verse
    mentioned

    • Ties that bind from Tia Miles
    • Darknesses from Lachelle Seville
    • Early Departures from Justin A Reynolds
    • Delicious Monsters from Liselle Sambury
    • Wakanda Forever from Ryan Coogler , Joe Robert Cole
    • Heaven Official's Blessing from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
    • Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self from Pauline Hopkins 
    • The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan from Zig Zag Claybourne
    • Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga from D.O. Fagunwa , Wole Soyinka (Translation)
    • The Things That Fly in the Night from Giselle Liza Anatol
    • A History of Nigeria from Toyin Falola
    • The Gatekeeper's Staff: An Old Gods Story from Antoine Bandele
    • Flowers for the Sea from Zin E. Rocklyn
    • The Infinite from Patience Agbabi
    • For the Culture Readathon from TyBooks01
    • Drunken Dream of the Past from Sun Yujing performed by Lin Zhixuan

     

    my comment

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKreFvghrKk&lc=UgxXtsU2FVBC5yJcoOd4AaABAg

     

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      @Rodney campbell

      did you see thistle and verses book list prior?

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      Rodney campbell

      No. Never been to that website. I'll surf its wave ...

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      richardmurray

      it is a video, @Rodney campbell just click read more and the video will unveil for thistle and verse

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    @Troy no need for sorries. I think miscommunication in a literary book club has a little warrant. You speak truth , I will only piggyback and say, for most Black folk we need to start now. Which is why I say we all should write journals. I have written many for my journeys full of many things, from simple prose thoughts to poetry or more. Yes, many of us don't know our sanguine past, but how many of us can say we have anything for our sanguine future? Lets get all of us to make diaries or journals for the future.
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    https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2221&type=status
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    MOVIES THAT MOVE WE : CROOKLYN

     

    Have you seen the coming of age tale Crooklyn? Do you know its position in the timetable of spike lee joints or its developmental background?  All this and more on the Crooklyn episode of Movies That Move We with Nike Ma 
     

     

     

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    @Troy I apologize for the confusion. Based on my grammatical comprehension I did not suggest I was the abuser but only the abused aside a witness to others being abused. I assess our community in the usa another way. I do not think black people in the usa need help being informed. When you say much do you mean most of our history or least of our history? For the record, I never said the culture I described is limited to Black people whose forebears were enslaved in the usa , but I was only communicating concerning Black people. I don't know about your american culture assertion. You may be correct. I have many questions to that assertion.
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    @Pioneer1 For the record I never said I was a victim, I said I saw or experienced alot of law enforcement abuse. So you have no need to be sad. And the reason connects to your second query In my experience a black person's intelligence or composure has nothing to do with law enforcements relation to them. Black people who had a nonviolent plus peaceful composure have been killed by law enforcement in no way other than Black people who had a violent or warful composure. Black people whose intelligence some, not me , will rank grandly or absently, based on pieces of paper have been injured by law enforcement. I will not share cause they don't matter, as Tulsa to Till to Tyre prove. Talking about it doesn't bring back the dead, nor generate peace, nor solve historic problems. Talking about it will not resolve any individuals woes, or collective grievances. I said you have no reason to be sad because the Black community in the USA guided the Black community in the USA to its current situation. I restate, Black people guided ourselves to this situation. I can expound but I rather be focused than verbose. The individual culture in the modern Black community isn't what it was born as by the majority of Black leaders at the end of the war between the states. The Individual culture isn't trying to delete relation between black peoples in the USA as much as define Black individual relationships to all other individuals, singularly. And while it has led to inevitable participation in the USA like a Black president in the USA, and will lead to more Black elected leaders in the USA to non majority white voting populaces, it has led to inevitable frictions in the Black community in the USA, like Tyre side Black law enforcement his murderers. No philosophy is all positive or all negative. I restate, the Black community has guided itself for its own betterment to the culture most in it adhere to, but like all philosophies it has positives or negatives. One of the negatives of the individualistic culture is frictions of a lethal nature between groups.
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    Happy Lunar New Year, San Francisco post reconstruction reparations, Deviantart+dreamup and the computer made art, Thistle and Verse 2023 , My 2022 art summary https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/01/01/29/2023-rmnewsletter.html
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    Thank you
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    Enjoy various works made throughout 2022 , if you want updates to future work, you can join the newsletter for free https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/01/2022-art-summary.html
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    I have been unfortunate enough to see + experience alot of law enforcement abuse. 

    I don't want to repeat myself . So I will focus on how Black people in the usa from the end of the war between the states reached modernity culturally.

    Frederick Douglass side the Black church is the answer. 

    At the end of the day, I realize , that the cultural trajectory of the majority, not all or me, in the Black community in the USA is a culture of individualism that Frederick Douglass side the Black church wanted when they started the Black community on this path with white financial support when the war between the states ended. 

    The goal is for Black cops in mostly white law enforcement organizations to exists, for Black presidents in a mostly white country , Black Mayors in a mostly white city to exists, it isn't to deny, black cops in most black law enforcement organizations, or black mayors in black towns or black sheriffs in black counties. But the idea is for an individual allowance to exist in the Black community in the USA that will curtail Black communal strength, will curtail Black communal resilience, will curtail Black communal fiscal profit, but the goal is to get the majority of the Black community to be part of an aracial identity, an individual identity, that I argue has been reached. No, not all black people in the USA are philosophically aligned, but most are. 

    The murder of Tyre Nichols represents the strength of the individual culture in the black community in the usa. These events will always occur for nothing is completely positive. All ideas have negativity, including nonviolence, including araciality, including miscegenation, including integrationists ideas like slavery... as well as militisms, or segregationists idea like Back to Africa. The question is, what are the negativities with an idea. 

    The murder of Tyre Nichols represents an inevitable negativity from the individualism  which is the majority philosophy adhered to by Black people in the USA today. IT will happen again, as it already happened already. It must. 

    But I think most Black people in the USA, which doesn't include me, support the individualism and with sadness or lamentations, accept the murder of Tyre Nichols as part of the price for individual cultural allowance, which I argue no community in the USA has stronger than the Black community in the USA, even if it isn't articulated. 

     

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      richardmurray

      Any Black person who has ever encountered Black cops could have told you that the representation angle was nonsense to begin with
      https://twitter.com/_Zeets/status/1619138767918620672

      First time I was thrown to the ground, for walking to the gas station during lunch in high school, was by a black cop. Same as the first time I got pepper sprayed.
      https://twitter.com/_Zeets/status/1619139016502444032

      Same but for Latino cops with me. It was like they saw having to deal with people of their own race a personal failing of their culture.
      https://twitter.com/AnthonyIrwinLA/status/1619139495022166016

      but who taught them that? you in my view hit the nail on the head. Who teaches a person of color that someone else of color is personally failing because they have to be dealt with by law enforcement? I argue, parents  or communities have to be blamed for this.
      https://twitter.com/Thetenner10/status/1619472429650444288

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      That's sad to hear that YOU have been a victim of a lot of law enforcement abuse!
      You seem like such an intelligent and well composed brutha, online atleast!

      May I ask what were the circumstances?
      If you'd rather not share it...I'll understand.


      For the record I never said I was a victim, I said I saw or experienced alot of law enforcement abuse.

       

      So you have no need to be sad. And the reason connects to your second query

      In my experience a black person's intelligence or composure has nothing to do with law enforcements relation to them. Black people who had a nonviolent plus peaceful composure have been killed by law enforcement in no way other than Black people who had a violent or warful composure. Black people whose intelligence some, not me , will rank grandly or absently, based on pieces of paper have been injured by law enforcement.

      I will not share cause they don't matter, as Tulsa to Till to Tyre prove. Talking about it doesn't bring back the dead, nor generate peace, nor solve historic problems. Talking about it will not resolve any individuals woes, or collective grievances.

       

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      Seems like I kinda understand what you're saying here, but can you expound upon it a little more?


      Are you saying that the plan is to individualize Black Americans to the extent that the can no longer relate to what happened to our brother in Memphis?


      I said you have no reason to be sad because the Black community in the USA guided the Black community in the USA to its current situation. I restate, Black people guided ourselves to this situation.  I can expound but I rather be focused than verbose. The individual culture in the modern Black community isn't what it was born as by the majority of Black leaders at the end of the war between the states. The Individual culture isn't trying to delete relation between black peoples in the USA as much as define Black individual relationships to all other individuals, singularly. And while it has led to inevitable participation in the USA like a Black president in the USA, and will lead to more Black elected leaders in the USA to non majority white voting populaces, it has led to inevitable frictions in the Black community in the USA, like Tyre side Black law enforcement his murderers. No philosophy is all positive or all negative. I restate, the Black community has guided itself for its own betterment to the culture most in it adhere to, but like all philosophies it has positives or negatives. One of the negatives of the individualistic culture is frictions of a lethal nature between groups.  

       

       

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    I have been unfortunate enough to see + experience alot of law enforcement abuse. I don't want to repeat myself . So I will focus on how Black people in the usa from the end of the war between the states reached modernity culturally. Frederick Douglass side the Black church is the answer. At the end of the day, I realize , that the cultural trajectory of the majority, not all or me, in the Black community in the USA is a culture of individualism that Frederick Douglass side the Black church wanted when they started the Black community on this path with white financial support when the war between the states ended. The goal is for Black cops in mostly white law enforcement organizations to exists, for Black presidents in a mostly white country , Black Mayors in a mostly white city to exists, it isn't to deny, black cops in most black law enforcement organizations, or black mayors in black towns or black sheriffs in black counties. But the idea is for an individual allowance to exist in the Black community in the USA that will curtail Black communal strength, will curtail Black communal resilience, will curtail Black communal fiscal profit, but the goal is to get the majority of the Black community to be part of an aracial identity, an individual identity, that I argue has been reached. No, not all black people in the USA are philosophically aligned, but most are. The murder of Tyre Nichols represents the strength of the individual culture in the black community in the usa. These events will always occur for nothing is completely positive. All ideas have negativity, including nonviolence, including araciality, including miscegenation, including integrationists ideas like slavery... as well as militisms, or segregationists idea like Back to Africa. The question is, what are the negativities with an idea. The murder of Tyre Nichols represents an inevitable negativity from the individualism which is the majority philosophy adhered to by Black people in the USA today. IT will happen again, as it already happened already. It must. But I think most Black people in the USA, which doesn't include me, support the individualism and with sadness or lamentations, accept the murder of Tyre Nichols as part of the price for individual cultural allowance, which I argue no community in the USA has stronger than the Black community in the USA, even if it isn't articulated.
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    Amen @Troy
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    Thistle and Verse 2022 review and more- a video set https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2218&type=status
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    Most THistle and Verse interview

     

    with Kel Coleman

     

    2022 end of year review- her award that she earned and books she has bought for 2023

     

    Classic reviews

     

    Hide and Seeker

     

    Ring SHout

     

    A Song of Wraith and Ruin

     

    The Space Between Worlds

     

    The Famished Road

     

    Queen of the Conquered

     

     

    Thistle and Verse post in my AALBC 

    https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?q=thistle and verse&quick=1&type=core_statuses_status

     

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    It's called war sweetie:) well said. People forget the USA was made from war. The native american was slaughtered by the colonial settlers who then made the usa's first thirteen states. But while the history books don't suggest war, that was war. I think the woman king handled slavery well. But I will explain, they showed that the institution of slavery was bigger than the Agoji warriors. Glory doesn't deal with the civil war any better than The Woman King dealt with the Slave Trade. 
    hahaha chicken, can't crawl for your country:) 
    Exactly, well, the question isn't will all humans regardless of phenotype go to see movies with all black people. Most films , including all white ones, lose money. Do the white producers, who produce most films connected to the usa, want to lost money on the all black films that do not become Black PAnther or The Woman King. 
    Great mentioning the credits content.

     

    The Woman King Search
    https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=the woman king&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy
     

     

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    @Delano fair enough @Cynique like delano, you know yourself, and are living your life your way. fair enough
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    @ProfD dumb but also human, if it happens regularly it is human
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    hahaha @Troy just take two sets of regular cards together and make the deck:) you have inspired me to champion pinochle more haha!:) @Cynique inspiring story, did you ever keep journals from your university of illinois days, i will love to read some of your thoughts from those times:) see if they are changed from your more experienced now:)
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    @Delano have you ever blogged on aalbc about your tarot experiences,in depth?
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    @ProfD and yet history teaches the nouveau rich usually act money drunk over financially wise. i argue history is the excuse
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