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Thank you to Kisura Flytie for informing me about hawaii's black community her youtube https://www.youtube.com/@plantdyefortextiles I asked questions, here are my answers The schomburg is a museum/library dedicated to a part of the history /heritage of the Black populace in the U.S.A. It was started by Schomburg, who is black, but the schomburg has always rejected the various perspectives of black history or heritage in the usa for a focus on integrated heritage , the segregatory/militant/nationalistic heritages in the black populace in the usa have always been downplayed, not unwanted, but not emphasized, not exposed. https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg the Schomburg started as part of the 135th street branch until it expanded beyond it. So the schomburg was always apart of the new york public library system which i argue is the largest library system of any city in humanity. Where I live, Harlem has a chamber of commerce since 1896 but it was started by whites and has always been a unenthusiastic advocate of black ownership, even in harlem itself. The following is the alliance of black chambers of commerce in the usa. the international section is informative. https://usblackchambers.org/ The closest to my locale is the long island https://liaacc.org/ I signed up to their newsletter, i suggest you all find your local and if you don't have one in the city you live in, let's talk abd maybe we can figure out how to start one. Now to Black Hawaii https://obamahimuseum.org/ A historical figure, enjoy the read https://historichawaii.org/2023/02/17/anthony-d-allen-from-schenectady-new-york-to-hawaii/

thoughts to the kwanzaa crawl https://www.kwanzaacrawl.com/ Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia (Self-determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves. Ujima (Collective work and responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together. Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Well, I am glad @Pioneer1 + @ProfD said what either had to say. Neither brought positivity which is unfortunate, but that was my fault

thoughts to the kwanzaa crawl https://www.kwanzaacrawl.com/ Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia (Self-determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves. Ujima (Collective work and responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together. Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

@ProfD THis is the 100% truth more than an opinion The USA was created by white european male christian hetero enslaving humans:) all other groups have been pushed into a corner/an enslaved space/an isolated space or impotent from the usa's inception. The post a question to you: can the usa be changed into a place where all humans in its legal bounds can be potent/free/owners?

@ProfD well,you cut up my question to Troy... I wasn't trying to make a generalization cause in the context of the usa variances matter. non white european immigrants post 1965 came to the usa willingly but were never enfranchized. native americans were enfranchized and had their franchise taken. The descended of enslaved I will argue still aren't even mostly convinced they are part of the usa in a positive way. white women were the first female group accepted as citizen but never had power. yes I don't know if it was you or another who said they don't like speaking on the past, but the problem with generalizations with these issues is the path to today varies. The usa wasn't started as a government where all peoples were empowered , represented and white male chirstian hetero people took. the usa was started by one group , and one group only and no other group had any power, outside the native american whose land was continuously taken by the usa in its emperial growth from sea to shining sea. You know all this, I am not educating you or anyone else, but going forward about solutions, the details matter and I am 100% convinced that people don't come to the same conclusions about the past, including in this topic, women. I am certain many women don't see a path to equality in the usa. And while some can oppose their position. I can argue in their defense, the usa was never made for women to have power. And if the usa can never be a place where women have power then discussing womens power in the usa is not as important in how women can carve a bit of the usa or the usa entirely into a place that they can.

@Troy i am not intimate to the strike's affairs but from what I comprehend from a distance one goal was to provide protections for unionized thespians from the producers using what is commonly called AI to undermine or diminish or delete payment of human labor in the film industry. Another goal was to restructure the film industry as places outside the usa have the technology to produce most mid to low budget films , plus have lower labor cost or lower cost of production that the hollywood section of the film industry in the usa will never be able to compete with. No industry in the usa has pay equity so... Quesiton, do you think absent government interventions that the industries in the usa can have an ownership as multiracial as the labor pools? I have said to women that the true problem with women in the usa is very simple. men own everything and i don't care how smart women are or merited, or how many women exists but the legacy of ownership can not be beaten through legal fiscal capitalistic means. Either women figure out a way for the government to reboot an industry , i think all industires in the usa need it, or women find illegal fiscal means to gain advantages to leverage and usurp the male dominated ownership groups in all industries. but college education/contracts/deals/merit will never lead to women ownership and the labor respect that comes from ownership.

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@Troy yes it does, 100% guitar hero is a game, and an old tradition. In the same way ches/mancala/checkers was used to teach strategy, guitar hero has a role in teaching the guitar . hahaha:) well, that is the fate of all games, they have their time then don't then do again. The truth is, all games need a community of games players, but in the age of the internet, the local offline communal game playing culture has suffered. People rather the convenience of not having to be outside or deal with people who they have to see to involve themselves with.

@Pioneer1 Having a calm mind is fortunate. I wish it for all black people. Yes, compare or contrast are always arguable and human communities when large enough have communities within themselves, and sometimes communities within communities within communities. and in all that some are more positive or more negative. But, I don't think it is unfair to say that black people in the usa in multilog with ourselves tend to have more who make other communities out to be seamless communities of peace, when it simply isn't true. NYC is the proof. All communities in nyc today are dysfunctional, dysfunctional defined as lacking power or organization or guidance to their betterment, it is that simple. I shared the thing about the white jewish schools in nyc being sued, a white jewish woman started that legal procedure, it wasn't a government thing. And i think she is right. Like the black populace in nyc's elected officials, who do nothing in my opinion for the betterment of the black populace in nyc, the white jewish clergy in nyc are maintaining a brainwashing scheme on their own people, enslaving their own people to the scheme of their leadership. I call that slavery. and east asians are enslaving their own too. In the last few years, one of the asian mafia operations was found out in nyc, but it wasn't because the city government was investigating. it was because the health department had to step in. the asian mafia for some reason thought you can fit 100 human beings in an apartment and not cause a health disaster. The children who have died in meth operations covered as daycare's were all latino. LAtino children were murdered by the unconcern of latinos, committing illegal activities. The black elected officials in NYC are not helping the black populace in nyc well enough in m view BUT they aren't brainwashing black children like white jewish priest are doing white jewish, they are not getting kids killed being uncaring like latino illegal actors are doing to latino children, they are not treating black people like enslaved folk before the war between the states like the asian mob. I just think the black populace in the usa has problems, but I Do think too many black people in the black populace in the usa utter a lie that the black populace is the worst off internally. I oppose that sentiment. Black people in the usa are not doing as many negatives as the non black, it is time for black people in the usa to simply state that truth.

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@ProfD i think black people in the usa should be concerned with everything that happens in the usa, simply cause they live there. From my experience nothing is irrelevant under the government one lives. As for what matters to black people intracommunally, I wonder how many black women from financially successful families in the caribbean/africa/asia/south america come to the usa or europe to have a baby similarly. I recall hearing something a few years back offline but I didn't pay it any mind, but I oppose this for fiscally wealthy black women from outside the usa.

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after reading the article, sharon stone said six months ago after receiving an award in nyc that she wants pay equity. she said that black women need to get ay equal to white women and women need to get aid to men. She said it is the law in the usa but isn't adhered to. So, Taraji Henson isn't lying but, I must say, the issue is the community of workers a well as the willingness of people to produce films. I will give an example. The reality is, every single film taraji p henson has made recently, like hidden figures, if she would had said no, for the wage offered, another black female thespian would had said yes. That is the blunt truth. That is how labor works in the usa, ever since the war between the states ended, employers always find laborers who will work for less. And that is allowed as each laborer is free to do the one thing that people underrate, as I have done more times than not, say no. If you feel someone isn't paying you correct or the fiscal terms of the deal are incorrect, simply say no. And, it is also the production of films that has to change. Taraji isn't a no name thespian but does she roduce films? At the end of the day, you have to risk and invest your own. robert redford, clint eastwood risked what they earned as actors and made great careers producing and directing. But they took gambles, like films downhill racer, the outlaw josey whales. I learned of this from Movies That Move We https://www.facebook.com/groups/162792258578547/permalink/738804597643974/?mibextid=oMANbw Taraji P. Henson Breaks Down In Tears As She Confirms She's Considered Quitting Acting The "Color Purple" star became visibly emotional in a recent interview while sharing the reason behind the potential move. Curtis M. Wong By Curtis M. Wong Dec 20, 2023, 07:09 PM EST As she returns to the big screen in one of this year’s most anticipated films, Taraji P. Henson is getting candid about the pay inequity she faces as a Black woman in Hollywood. The actor became visibly emotional in footage that went viral Wednesday following her recent conversation with Gayle King on SiriusXM, alongside fellow “Color Purple” star Danielle Brooks and the film’s director, Blitz Bazawule. When King asked about a report that claimed Henson was considering quitting acting altogether, the Academy Award nominee began tearing up. “I’m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, being paid a fraction of the cost,” Henson said. “I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get tired.” The actor also pointed out that her profession required her to have a team of people supporting her behind the scenes. “I hear people go, ‘You work a lot.’ I have to. The math ain’t mathing,” she said. “Big bills come with what we do. We don’t do this alone. The fact that we’re up here, there’s a whole entire team behind us. They have to get paid.” Henson endeared herself to a generation of television views as Cookie Lyon on “Empire,” for which she received a Golden Globe. She made her film acting debut in 1998’s “Streetwise,” and nabbed an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Queenie in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt. In 2016, she starred with Janelle Monáe and Octavia Spencer in the smash film “Hidden Figures,” which received three Oscar nominations. In “The Color Purple,” Henson is part of all-star cast that also includes Fantasia Barrino. Early reviews of the film, a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, have called it an “exhilarating, larger-than-life journey” and “a joy to watch.” Yet despite the many accolades she’s received, Henson told King that she’s treated like a novice when it comes to negotiating contracts for film and TV roles. “It seems every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it’s time to renegotiate, I’m at the bottom again, like I never did what I just did,” she said. “And I’m just tired. It wears on you, you know?” Henson has touched on her experiences with pay disparity in a number of previous interviews. In 2019, she told Variety that she’d asked for “half a million” before signing on for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” only to ultimately receive $150,000 for the role. And in an interview published earlier this month, she told The Hollywood Reporter that she’d been “fighting tooth and nail every project” for adequate pay. “Listen, I’ve been doing this for two decades and sometimes I get tired of fighting because I know what I do is bigger than me. I know that the legacy I leave will affect somebody coming up behind me,” she told the outlet, before going on to reference other Black female actors. “My prayer is that I don’t want these Black girls to have the same fights that me and Viola [Davis], Octavia [Spencer], we out here thugging it out.” Among those to express support for Henson this week was her “Think Like a Man” co-star Gabrielle Union. URL https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taraji-p-henson-black-actors-pay-inequality_n_65835ba5e4b03e698a11e8ae This is something S Stone said recently about the pay gap, I tried to find the local news but i failed Sharon Stone Says She Just Turned Down Big-Budget Movie Over Gender Pay Gap, Talks Saudi Arabia’s Emerging Film Market – Red Sea Studio By Diana Lodderhose November 30, 2023 1:00pm The year’s highest-grossing film, Barbie, may have been the first billion-dollar movie directed solely by a woman, but Sharon Stone isn’t confident the gender parity issue has improved vastly in the last few decades. Speaking exclusively at Deadline’s Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the actress said the gender pay gap was still a huge issue in Hollywood today and she recently felt the brunt of it again last year when she was offered the lead role in a big-budget studio film. “Thirty years ago, when I did Basic Instinct, Michael Douglas made $14 million and I made $500,000,” she said. “Last year, there was a $100 million film being made by a studio and the actor, who was new, was going to be paid something like $8 million or $9 million – someone we don’t really know – and the studio offered me again $500,000 to be the female lead. And I thought, thirty years later this is still happening. So, I don’t think it has changed much. So, I turned it down and the studio head said, ‘Well, good luck to you Sharon.’ And I said, ‘Well, good luck to you.’ And two weeks later he was fired.” Stone is a returning guest at this week’s Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia this week, after having visited the festival last year for the first time and she said that the KSA “is so intriguing because it’s an emerging country.” “As our country [USA] is sort of divesting itself from being a first world country – now we’re considered a second world country on the global map – it’s really interesting to see as we, as women, lose our rights, here in Saudi women are gaining their rights and it’s so intriguing to watch how this is happening.” She continued, “When I did Basic Instinct, I wanted to direct a film and I got laughed out of the studio. And now you see that two out of the six women that had their films nominated in Cannes, were women that were funded out of Saudi Arabia. And so, people say, ‘Well how could you go to Saudi Arabia and look at all of those injustices in Saudi Arabia?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know – I think it was pretty unjust that I couldn’t direct in America.” When pressed about stepping back into the acting world again, Stone admitted she would “love to do a television series” and hinted that “it’s quite possible that I will do one in the not-too-distant future.” URL https://deadline.com/video/sharon-stone-gender-pay-gap/

@Troy I thought I was clear, I was speaking on the people who are already in a state of what is modern NYC. But I comprehend. Ever since the white european began making the immigration discussion about the white european immigrant over the native american, statians like yourself, tend to see immigration in a similar way, always from the angle of the immigrants needs, not the people who are already present and have to deal with th instabilities or imbalanced immigrants by default make on arrival. Well, not everywhere in nyc is the same, concerning environment, but crime isn't on the rise. Yes , some fiscally common people see sunrises, some don't. I can tell you this for sure. But, crime isn't on the rise. New York city is very crowded. It is the most dense city in the usa while also the most populated. It always has been that, and that leads to negative environmental situations, negative communal interactions. this is the history of most big cities in humanity.

@ProfD To this topic, jordan worked alongside medgar evers but publicly admitted he left the south for the north. That same type of variance of thinking between evers who stayed side jordan who left is also in parents and thus the various ways they raise children , especially in the black community globally

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