Everything posted by richardmurray
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I finished the Holiday Rex DTIYS in my calligraphic style
Holiday Rex DTIYS - the poem is also present. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Holiday-Rex-Gif-Color-905747474 audio- if you want to hear it:) https://www.kobo.com/audiobook/the-construction-of-holiday-rex the following is the reference image for the dtiys
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Does anyone know the specific schools , HBCU, that were given bomb threats recently?
thank you @Stefan @Mzuri @ProfD
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THe January Erotic Series from Shawn Alleyne - linkchain
The entry Sexbot USe the following link as the first in a linkchain to the whole series https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1802&type=status
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Singer Rihanna Pregnant Out of Wedlock
The issue is about the definition or usage of marriage as a communal construct. A subsidiary issue is the variance in said definition or usage in financial tiers in the black community. What is the definition of marriage? Some say it is when a man <defined as someone born with a penus> side a woman <defined as someone born with a vagina> decide to join eternally. Some say it is when a pastor as a christian church performs a ritual. Some say it is when a registration form from a government is issued. Some say it is natural law. Outside humanity, other children of earth have from ancient times lovingly or legitimately married in all forms: the entirety of life <eagles>, brave premortem <spiders> legendary multispousal <lions> proud single parenthood <tigers>, or more. I say marriage is as those involve want it to be. The imposition of the outsider to those in a marriage is the great flaw. to restate, if you wish to marry one way, why are others forced to use your method or be judged by your method. The usage of marriage in non humans is ancient and like humans inconsistency exists. Non humans have many examples of mating outside species so that can be deemed no other than the variable forms in humans. Over time things can change. In the same way, many lions will not have a pride their entire life or lose a pride for the remaining years of their life. A human can be married in a christian fashion, and then end their life in common law. SEquentially, the definition or usage of marriage doesn't have a standard, should not be viewed as something to gain concensus on or have a respectable form. It is for the marred to define or use, all others outside a marriage , if they want to do something positive, wish well, if they want to do something negative, judge or make determinants Now, the last issue pertains well to Rihanna and that is marriage in financial tiers of the black community. History matters. For most of the post war between the states years in the usa, the financial aristocracy in the black community was over ninety percent male + christian. But today, in the year 2022, the financial aristocracy of the black community in the usa is not ninety percent male + christian. Said fiscal aristocracy has women, muslims, areligious, and yes... black people in the collage of independent or disconnected races called LGBTQ+. What does this mean for the fiscal wealthy? their attachments to the common marriage culture of black fiscal aristos dominant in the past is dead. And, in the usa, one other factor exists. The financial legality of divorce. In the usa divorce is a mess when one has money. It is a way for lawyers to make tons of money and a way for media to gain tons of clicks and should be avoided by anyone with money. But what is the only way to avoid that, while still having children, a marriage , comfortable home, is to not get married through the government or religion. And, to be blunt, absent a piece of paper from a government or clergy, if you live with someone, with the intimacy plus fights and possibly the children, that is called marriage. The good news is that using forms of marriage defined outside the christian community or government means breaking up is easier. And anyone who has been in relationships knows, breakups can happen. So, I wish Rihanna side the baby, side her partner, all the best in the world.
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Does anyone know the specific schools , HBCU, that were given bomb threats recently?
just seeing if anyone has any information
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What films need to be blockaded from view today?
@Cynique well said
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What have you created with other black people most recently?
@daniellegfny hmm well said, I am not placing value or enough value on the cooperative activity of black people in production. Well said. @Troy danielle's work counts:) It was not my intention but my intention's scope was too small. @Stefan thank you for informing me of your positive work or information on the life of the photographers guild:) ... I wanted to know if the word images is adequate to use for your portraits or the photos that I take leisurely?
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What films need to be blockaded from view today?
@Cynique ahhh your first point alludes to the purpose behind my question. My question wasn't about who is dominant between black or white, or the legitimacy plus truth in the rule, or challenging individual viewpoint , or dictating majority viewpoint in the black community. I find most to all of us blacks, myself included, tend to not mention that the black community, globally as well, in the usa do not utilize any collective conferencing when it comes to what will be decided to be black. IT seems to me, the black community, as with the terms new negro or renaissance for the black community in the usa or harlem in particular, utilize an individualism in labels. The exhibit A is the labels: black american/african american/negro/black these terms you probably can't get the average black person to define separately, whereas getting at least two black people to concur to the definitions of said phrases/words is near impossible. That is the point of my question. You said passing had a black director. And... I ask myself, where is the black communal council to dictate which labels go where or how they are defined? Now, do I know about the resources or lack of resources in the black community? yes. I ask myself cause it is clear, the black community, globally, is hindered by allowing individual labeling to be appropriate. I utilize new negro or renaissance. If you are I are making a speech , for the same thing, and I use one term and you use the other. Neither of us are wrong or right. But is it good for a community to allow for the individual philosophy to be utilized. Many black people argue about communication issues, but how can they be better when we don't have a collectively accepted , and yes I know 100% will never concur to anything, set of terms about black people? Either each black individual has an epiphany where all individual black mindsets become similar OR the black community creates some sort of organization that most, over 90%, black people <whomever that exactly is:)> accept as the rule maker to labels.
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New Art from Shawn Alleyne
use the link to see more Single Status Update from 01/29/2022 by richardmurray - AALBC.com’s Discussion Forums
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NEw Art from GDBEE
use the link to see and older entries Single Status Update from 01/29/2022 by richardmurray - AALBC.com’s Discussion Forums
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What have you created with other black people most recently?
@Troy thank you , but it doesn't have to be everybody , at least two people have to be black that are involved, and danielle's books don't seem to be collaborative. I see one person doing everything
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What films need to be blockaded from view today?
@Cynique I realize now when I said the black community in harlem was unique that suggested to some I said it was the only, i apologize, I wasn't suggesting harlem had the only black community at that time of such a character. My point in rephrase is most black communities at that time were not reflected fashion wise in the the black communities similar to harlem's. alain locke and side many other black leaders supported the term so... you dismiss the term today as hughes in the past, i support the term today as locke in the past. I still call on that term being used instead of renaissance... to what you state hughes referred to... this is now into the realm of philosophy... my stance is the following, asking none to concur to me, but suggesting any do... The concept of the new negro wasn't about the negro literati alone, it is about the negro community. In harlem a place exsts that was once properly called striver's row,<half the people there are white now so it is inappropriate but still named> because the black people there strived for better and helped each other. The word renaissance meaning rebirth was falsely applied to harlem and the historical context to the italian renaissance is strategically different. the roman empire no longer existed and the italy at its founding grew in arts/banking/militaristic power, thus a rebirth or renaissance, but harlem was a white community of wealth before the harlem of hughes and was before that a white farming community and before that a native american community. So, harlem at the time of hughes was in no way similar to a time prior, thus it couldn't be a renaissance. While the new negro term reflecting an empowerment of the black community in all ways was the larger goal of the black community of harlem. It sadly took longer than many wanted, but the time of adam clayton powell jr brought black elected representation for harlem/black labor even in white owned businesses in harlem <as most businesses in harlem were white and didn't employ blacks during hughes time > alongside another edition of the black artists movement with the bebop era upon us. So, use the term you want cynique. All I asked was for new negro to be used, I didn't say anyone had to. please quote your answer to the following question, cause I want to make sure : what if a person or group of people don't accept the one drop rule, or invert the one drop rule?
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What films need to be blockaded from view today?
@Cynique the director of passing is black... what if a person or group of people don't accept the one drop rule, or invert the one drop rule? I know of nella larson's work. I think we black people need to use the term new negro movement. white people pushed the harlem renaissance label. The film in question , in terms of fashion, reflected the dresscode of a certain community in the black community of the usa. The black community in harlem at that time was very unique among black communities in the usa. the small black towns in the south where most black people lived did not have jewish apollo theaters. @ProfD the book itself is straight forward. LArson was clearly intentional in the book, with her purposes and the film, whose director went through a personal background epiphany, was equally intentional. From a story telling perspective, the film and the book that inspired it had main creators who were totally committed to the messaging in the story, that helps
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What have you created with other black people most recently?
@Troy The only person I see listed as having a role in the book you shared is clarence coggins/ I will give an example from aalbc Daddy Speaks Love by Leah Henderson (aalbc.com) the book was written by leah anderson while illustrated by e.b. lewis, I don't know if both are black , but if black that is an example to what I mean. I asked what have you <meaning any> created with other black people. I know most artists create work alone, I know personally. but what work has people created together.
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What have you created with other black people most recently?
@Stefan thank you for the clarification, is the word images adequate for both?
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Consider trying the AALBC Author series concept?
IF this community has so many black creators of things commonly called books, then we need to develop series for this community in various platforms, i give detail in the following link
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If Russia invades Ukraine, how will this affect Blacks around the world?
I don't know, each black individual or community has a different financial or cultural connection to any war. Black people who live in ukraine , if war starts, will have some serious choices to make. In all earnest, black people ... or nonblacks who live in ukraine if they can take a small holiday away, need to for a little while. Black people throughout humanity vary in financial potency/cultural definition/labor... all of these things are factors.
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What are the three most important factors to turn a book into a film?
What are the three most important factors to turn a book into a film? And name three books written by black people that you will choose based on those factors? My thoughts on the topic of important factors to books https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1794&type=status
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What films need to be blockaded from view today?
@daniellegfny I have ignorance as all do, but it isn't a lack of social conditions. You know very well black people, like michaeux, made films before gone with the wind. In the same way I will take 100 of the sweetbacks or superfly's over gone with the wind, I will take 100 within our gates, or blood of jesus over gone with the wind. Whatever perceived insults any may have to any of the movies mentioned is not my point. My point was, I will take opportunities for more black artists over fewer. And the examples I gave were before or after gone with the wind.
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Can you name at least one majority black owned video gaming firm?
thank you @Delano cosidering how many black people love video games, we need to have more
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the purpose of educational institutions in the english colonies to 2022 in the usa.
Inspired into the forum by @ProfD the purpose of educational institutions in the english colonies to 2022 in the usa. You have three avenues. White european Indigenous Black White european mass education < meaning schools> was originally for religious teaching. Apprenticeship , was the primary tool for education in the crafts or philosophical arts. The first colleges in the usa had one function, that they all still maintain today, a place where rich white male children can come together and make alliances for the future. ... now going through time, white women gained colleges but they were designed to prepare for wifedom, not working or owning anything. Classes on homelife dominated those schools originally. ... later on whites like woodrow wilson gave the college of new jersey their first academic requirements, which was viewed as radical at that time. That time being the late 1800s early 1900s so.then after world war two, the statian empire through the leadership of FD Roosevelt, made the gi bill so all the male soldiers just finished killing for the empire, were preoccupied with school and financial stipends, not poverty and thoughts of money making through arms. That led to the modern idea of the education system being about self improvement and a way to create a peaceful or positive multiracial society. Indigenous mass education was originally, absent any native american or indigenous input , meant to eliminate the culture of the native american in the remaining survivors of the native american community. As one navajo poet said, most native american poets don't write in their native tongue, which their traditional culture will allow but , they don't know their traditional culture, and the reason is the schools whites owned , controlled, used to do said purpose. Now in the 1950s, note the time between the first white invading immigrants and the 1950s, native american communities rallied against these institutions, with varying levels of success. I think the last of those schools existed in the 1990s. But, Native americans today, absent money, absent power, absent knowledge are trying to relearn their own culture. A very hard thing to do when everything is against your community. Cause the damage in the past wasn't little. Black mass or individual education was banned legally or culturally within the usa or the european colonies that preceded it holistically, until the end of the war between the states. Now the Historical Black Colleges and Universities, most of whom were financed by white religious organizations , had two purposes. Religious indoctrination plus craft teaching. The three key leaders to HBCU's in my view is frederick douglass/booker t washington/web dubois. Each black male had four things in common : each was black, male, had positive relations on a personal level with financially wealthy whites, had a strong belief in the ability of education to empower. To the issue here that last point is massive. The HBCU's eventually taught more than physical crafts and started teaching law or chemistry. But, the black leadership of the day, those three men I spoke of, had an idea that black people absent ownership could educate our way into some positive situation. Over time,the white religious groups stopped funding the schools and many fell. But those who survived have within each of them a similar community of black students, like the white students that originally inhabited in majority and still inhabt in minority, the ivy league schools. A black one percent. Now what does this have to do with HBCU's getting more membership, or the role of affirmative action in the educational system? The problem is the initial role of educational systems, and how they haven't functionally changed from their original premise. I am from NYC, Harlem in particular, I know COlombia University very well. I can tell you with certainty that most whites know colombia is a place to connect to the money. Yeah, they want to learn or study. But, the role of colleges is to connect to the money. Native americans exist in NY state, the cloest tribe is on the tip of long island, a place called montauk. But it isn't like their language or culture is taught in schools. And I will not speak for any of you... but, I persoanlly know a ton of black matriculated people older than me, my generation, younger than me. Civil engineers/chemical engineers/electrical engineers/physicists/mathemeticians yes... and not just recent immegres from jamaica or nigeria, yes, DOSers, that is right , people descended from black people enslaved in the usa. As a teenager, I knew of black kids in bronx science/brooklyn tech/styvesant, as well as in brandeis... educationally, I don't see anything wrong with the black community. But, the issue isn't education. It isn't even entry. Like myself most black people in NYC didn't get affirmative action to go to school. The issue is the role of the educational system to opportunity. The historical black colleges were not for collections of fiscally wealthy blacks cause too few , I realize when I use absolute words in this forum somebody has to comment I am wrong for being absolute in my words, fiscally wealthy blacks existed. Now today a fiscal black elite exists but they haven't done their part. Before I go into their part, my closing point on education education systems in the usa is, they are not for education. They either serve as gated communities for fiscally wealthy children to keep the money tight/are cultural weapons to annihilate or diminish non white or non white european culture/ or they are for religious cultural teachings that don't respect the fiscal capitalistic reality of the usa. And that is ownership is key, not labor. IF you own, you are the slavemaster. Everybody else is either a slave/overseer/crafts person but everybody else works for you, and at your behest, not cause any from everybody else merits it. It is cause you the owner want them. Now, to the black fiscal elite. I don't know how many black people were paid to go to school by a relative who was a financially successful singers/thespians/athlete... but I am 99% certain that said relatives didn't send 90% of their kin to HBCUs. So, before the fiscally poor black children are asked to go to HBCU's 99% of the fiscally wealthy or attached to fiscally wealthy black children need to go to HBCU's first. And that also provides that investment that is badly needed.
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What have you created with other black people most recently?
ahh great @ProfD ok , i comprehend:) good
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Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story
@Troy I Will share... in defense, many entertainers, all phenotypes or demographcs suffer from various forms of addictions. White basketball players plus white singers have suffered and do suffer from addictions. Inspirational story for those who need it but... it isn't a black problem.
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Will the "end of affirmative action in college admissions" soon become a reality? Maybe it's time to bone up on those books, folks.
@nelsmaybe, I don't think affirmative action's role in black enrollment in colleges is as grand as some think. I know most black people in nyc, and I think most black people,male/female/DOSer/immgrant/teenage/20s/30s/40s/50s, outside NYC go to college absent affirmative action having an influence, and they matriculate and leave and live . For some institutions, especially the ivy leagues it may shift black enrollment, but so what, the usa is full of colleges. If learning is what you want to do , you don't need an ivy league school. Ray BRadbury is a white man, he couldn't afford to go to school, many people today still can't afford it, he went to the library. You know some of his work. LAngston hughes was a college graduate when bradbury was a baby. So... I don't know what more to say. Black kids like all children study. Some have great grades, some don't. this is all children. I don't know what your point about study quality is. I know children in NYC who are white asian or white european or white latino and are terrible students. Some didn't go to college. Some did. @ProfD great comment, I reply to you at the following url https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1793&type=status
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What have you created with other black people most recently?
One thing is clear, Black people need to create more with other black people, I doubt anyone can speak against that point. @ProfD any links? do you have a band or you only do solo work? solo work isn't collaborative. @Stefan I know many artists disagree, but I am certain a photo is a collaborative work between photographer side model. thank you. At the moment, you are the only one who has presented collaborative work. one question @daniellegfny i looked at your webtoon, you don't cite others. You made these works all by yourself? you don't cite anyone else but you? Intro Part 1 Auntie I Don't Want You To Get Married - 1 | Danielle The Girl From New York: Childhood (webtoons.com) I went to this page, i see you have an author pseudonym, but I don't see anyone else's name for coverartists or writer so, you did this all yourself? 6 Magic Cans of Happiness 2: Danielle the Girl From NY (Danielle The Girl From New York Book 3) - Kindle edition by COGGINS, CLARENCE. Children Kindle eBooks @ am*zon.com. If you did these works yourself, I am happy for you, I wish the works well, but I asked for collaborative work side other black people.