richardmurray

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URL

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/89writers/the-newlyweds-blood-at-the-altar?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

Filled With MAgic posts

https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=filled with magic&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy

I finished my bayonetta

From Tananarive Due
Our new #Lifewriting Podcast is up and it's about my favorite topic -- WRITING HORROR!!! (Episode 85) 
What do I mean when I tell writing students to find what scares you and "turn it up to 11"? Watch this video for a great example from GET OUT. Steven Barnes and I chop it up! 
Check out the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts - if it's not up yet where you listen, here's the direct link: 
https://dcs.megaphone.fm/SBP9688647486.mp3?key=1b1857581b05fea2550a1b6f91f45526&request_event_id=f8345c7d-d1e9-4dc2-bb29-819ba1155484

Lifewriting Site

https://www.realm.fm/shows/lifewriting-write-for-your-life

If you can not hear I wrote notes. Sorry no transcript

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2434&type=status

Well,  

I define Black Greatness, absent any desire to influence another's definition, as contentment. 

I think when Black folk are happy, nothing like it exists anywhere else in humanity. 

@Troy yeah, i know too well, but if we all in aalbc can make this corner of the internet a place of some uplifting online, that is worth something

@Troy I did answer. You suggest I did not. ok. 

I have never considered myself wiley. 

@Pioneer1  

Fair enough, I think you are foolish wasting your energies drilling it into others, as you say. I oppose that way of supporting your views. 

I am 100% certain the christian wars against muslims , commonly called the crusades, were in the past largely and are in modernity partially based on religious race.  Moreover, the history of religious conversions throughout all humanity but especially in the time period in europe before what i call the european global imperial age, is a clear sign of extreme negative bias used through racial , religious race, standings. In the merchant of venice, the play from shakespeare, Shiloh is barred from his community for that conversion. If anything ,clarence thomas's treatment by the black community in the usa in modernity  shows a much more lenient racial environment to one deemed a traitor than in the past.

But the point is, it doesn't matter if another thinks race had nothing to do with the crusades at all. 

You are willing to drill but I don't need everyone to stand with my positions or views. 

Well, you call the modern catholic approach, the catholic church used to be a very strong proselytizer, ineffective, but I counter that correct label with another, while positive, honest. Let people come to you on their own. Even though I preached in this very post I will try my best to stop preaching/prosyletizin/selling  I don't want or need to preach/prosyletize/sell anymore. and though not easy in the usa, a country of preaching, i will try

And to my multitribal approach to the tribes in our village, since you love it, have fun preaching pioneer:) 

@Troy I didn't miss your question and I thought I answered it. I prefer neither. I have my own path/position/views. I am glad you both have yours. You use the word plausible, many able to be praised or applauded. I applaud or praise neither, but I don't like prosyletizing nor do I try to aid prosyletizing. you and pioneer can have all that. And yes, I will in the future fall into prosyletizing, but I try to exit out as fast as possible. 

good idea positivity helps

@Troy 

yeah, fair enough. Only one element of your reply lead to my confusion, not the whole thing. But I comprehend your position more completely now. 

Same thing, pioneer's position I comprehend like your's. Neither of you are the same frequency or wave structure as mine, but that is fine. I comprehend you both, that is more important than agreement or similar thinking.

@Pioneer1 focus your energies on building side those who share your position on race. The question I have to you is  what do you want? do you want to preach to black people who do not or may not share the position that you side many other black people have concerning race? Or,  do you want to build upon that view? If nothing can be built then people will come upon the position or they will not, but no need to proselytize

cool @Greg Thomas  will you keep us updated on your creative journey to that contest in this forum?

@ProfD fair enough, I comprehend your position. Many black people in the usa want a certain respect for the black journey in the usa.

@Troy and in each time i used the word white it was signifying a phenotypical group in humanity. 

To be fair none. I wasn't knocking your source. It came to the conclusions you have said or alluded to before in this community. 

I jump to conclusions based on the consistency of your own replies from what I have read in this forum in topics concerning race.  It has nothing to do with chatgpt. All I can say to chatgpt is the machine's answer sounds similar to your own, which is fine, no problem. as least I have no problem with it. 

@ProfD

The black community in the usa will be better when all in it comprehend, that black people have the right to desire away from the usa. Your words remind me of WEB Dubois who spoke ill against Marcus Garvey in court. PRofD, I know black people , Black ados, who left the usa and are happy. You may not realize it, but your words are very limiting, but in a key way. What you have to comprehend is that history doesn't have to have one interpretation. We all know events in history but assessing those events, that doesn't have to be uniform and even though the usa populace is the king of training mass opinion, you have to realize , the history of black people in the usa allows for both a pro + anti usa position. Not one but both. Remember, when the usa was founded black people fought for and against it, simultaneously. So... do what you want of course, but keep trying to push the usa as a homeland to all black DOSers will always fail. Anyone can search history and find evidence that many, sometimes most,  black dos forebears never wanted that. 

@Troy In my comment to you I said 

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If anyone ask me about racism

But by your own words you asked a computer program built by humans full of biases, which demand imbalance 

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When did white racism begin?

You didn't even ask the same question I did. I didn't speak on white racism. I spoke on racism. 

But your correct. I comprehend your opinion on race.  I am no longer confused to your view on race. I am opposed to it of course. 

But I do realize going forward in this community, whenever you comment on race , where your arguments come from. 

@Pioneer1

barbados christ church st ann's. you have to buy tickets 

@Pioneer1

That is a hard egg to crack in the usa. 

Comprehend, outside the nearly terminated native american, the indigenous people, all the other communities in the usa are for the most part, full of liars, who raised their children on lies who raised their children on the lies they were fed by their parents.

White europeans killed most of the  native american  peoples , took their land,but they talk like they did the native american a favor for killing them. Their forebears entire wealth comes from abusing others under the law they constructed but they tell it like the usa made humanity free.Thsi comes from white homes.

Black DOSers enslavement to whites predates the usa and has never completely ended by even whte accounts, yet black people talk like we came on the nina and pinta and santamaria and merely was so stupid our modern condition comes from a simple ignorance like we weren't enslaved or abused by whites.  Black people act like centuries of enslavement should be reversed in less than a hundred years. That is from our homes. 

The non white european immigrant community, asians or latin americans or africans or caribbeans of all phenotypes left countries the usa mangled or abuse nad is usually still abusing, but talk about being a citizen of the usa while having pride for the country they left, that most never go back to. These people don't even tell their children the circumstances to why they are leaving, whether they committed crimes or backstabbed or cheated or made enemies. But present themselves as simple good workers looking to join a rainbow country not telling their children the rainbow is founded on blood.

So, the majority of homes in the usa are full of liars. Who want to pass negatively.  It links all the peoples in the usa, barring the native american. 

Whites didn't want their children to admit their wealth came from others suffering and embrace the usa as a racial country.

Blacks DOSers didn't want their children to assault their enslavers and not allow a connection to the usa to be made.

Immigrants didn't want their children to fight against the country that they sacrificed to bring them to and fight against the usa for the country their forebears fled.

misinformation is a pillar of most usa homes or discourse or positions or views. 

The USA will never have a majority of honest people, that requires most people in the usa to end many of their positions.

@Troy

You have me confused. I admit it. If anyone ask me about racism, in my opinion, through my own definitions, racism is as old as humanity. But, your saying it is only a few hundred years old. Instead of opposing your position. The question is, in your opinion, not mine, when did racism begin? In your opinion, not mine or anything to do with me,  what started racism a few hundred years ago? You can't give a blank answer to either of those questions and remain functional to your position. 

@Troy no particular or specific accessibility concern.

@Jeromex Well taking out the term uncle tom or its usage... is your point black people who do not commit illegal acts, this doesn't mean said black people don't commit criminal acts, are needed more in the black community in the usa?

You mistitled this post. You do not provide the real meaning of the term "Uncle Tom"

You dysfunctionally reinterpret the meaning of the term based on its false use towards you and then claim your interpretation of the term represents some positive or badge of honor to the larger community. 

Shawn Alleyne art work 

https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?q=shawn&quick=1&type=core_statuses_status&updated_after=any&sortby=newest

From Shawn Alleyne

As Kon 2023 approaches, so does AnimeKon After Dark, the ultimate adults-only pop-culture pyjama party!

Join us this Friday, September 1st from 7pm to 1am at the fantastic @aeonbarandgrill to kick off the weekend's shenanigans! Entry is only $20 BBD, and if you have the All Stars Pass, it's absolutely FREE!

ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

@thexionnetwork Pop-Culture Trivia hosted by yours truly with prizes the whole night!

Dominoes tournament! 

Massage tables

Creative corner thanks to @deannadashs! where you can also unleash your inner artist at the easel station! (Feel free to bring your sketch pads, pencils and art tools as well)

Trust me, you've never been to a pyjama party like this. It's gonna be a jam like no other.

See you on Friday, night owls!

@Pioneer1 is it strange, meaning foreign or uncommonly,  that the usa has policies/laws/implementations of laws or policies that have varying levels of bias based on race? 

I argue from history , the usa or all of its constituent states from their very infancy upholds and breeds laws that indoctrinate varying biases based on race. 

All the native american treaties are clearly inequally biased in their form or implementation. Am I wrong? 

The abortion issue in the usa has inequal bias based on religious race.

The issue of immigration problem is it goes into the complicated race of origins which is elemental in the usa, ala the first three, descended of indigenous/enslaved/unwanted 

You use the word strange. 

I explain why I think that word is false to use based on usa legal history. Will you support your use of the word strange? 

@Pioneer1

You suggest how the majority in the black community in the usa think during a certain time frame.

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Back in the 90s, most Black folks NEVER would have thought that White men would be carrying out such blatant and frequent racist attacks like these.
 

Only three reasons exist as to why most black humans in the usa would make such a positive, though flawed assumption, to white humans in the usa.

1) Black humans in the usa don't know any history, firstly from their own elders in their bloodline and secondly from history books

2) Black humans in the usa were lied to concerning their history firstly from the older members of their bloodline or secondarily history books. 

3) Black humans in the usa are simply fools that believe the best in strangers. 

My question Pioneer is to you.

Am I wrong ? Am I missing a reason? If I am missing a reason please say so. If I am not missing a reason then the issue in my mind is what has to change in black elders communication to new generations to delete as much as possible the thinking you state from happening.

@Troy 

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Yeah, the concept of race and everything that flows from it has been a serious problem for centuries.

I have questions for you. 

Why centuries? Based on what you have said about race, shouldn't you have said throughout millennia or all human history? 

Are you suggesting thousands of years ago, based on your views, race in any of its infinite forms wasn't a problem? 

I admit I don't see these events as showing a problem with race as much as how race is implemented. 

But humans always implement race using a bias that by default has to lead and leads to abuses or frictions. 

@Jeromex

I want to know how you define various racial types and issues. Cause you don't give your definition but your prose makes a lot of suggestions or assumptions. 

How do you define someone as Black? I rephrase, if you see a stranger in the street, how do you know they are black? Is it phenotype or appearance, perhaps of their skin? Is it when they tell you their geographic ancestry or a geographic ancestry you correctly discern? Is it their style of speech?   Is it how they dress? Is it the food they eat? 

How do you define someone as Indian ? I rephrase, if you see a stanger in the street, how do you know they are indian? Is it phenotype or appearance, perhaps of their skin? Is it when they tell you their geographic ancestry or a geographic ancestry you correctly discern? Is it their style of speech?   Is it how they dress? Is it the food they eat? 

If you define being black or indian on different aspects how do you compare them? You speak of masquerading as black from an indian but shouldn't it be masquerading as african from an indian? India is a place right? 

How do you define all indian? Some humans in india have chinese ancestry. Are they all indian too? What about europeans born and raised in india, are they all indian? please define all indian? 

The one point I derived concerning  race from your prose is the weakness of non gender based interracial relationships using Kamala Harris or Barrack Obama's genetic parentage as examples. At the end of the day, both Barrack Obama's genetic parents didn't raise him. So I think in his case at least, it is less a condemnation of Black or non Black  but a condemnation of interracial relationships. And I argue the problem with interracial relationships in the usa, at the least, is the various races in the human community in the usa are simply antagonistic but said antagonism doesn't have an avenue in public discourse or government while always present

topics

Cento poems
Around The Moon In 80 risings, fanfiction + photomanipulation
Paying Attention, bettsfic writing workshop on tumblr, Poem + Stageplay
How August Wilson Inspired me
Books made by computer program
Steven Barnes + Tananarive Due, only live stream in 2023 for scriptwriting
Dates + the weather
If you made it this far: stretching, harlem of yore, if the slave becomes the master,  build your own website, 

https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/06/08/27/2023-rmnewsletter.html

I am not connected to to many queer authors but if any of you are in circles with many queer authors please share this opportunity 

https://itgetsbetter.org/blog/queerbook-2024/

I do wonder what AALBC's interface is for the blind or deaf or how it can be traveled for those absent fingers for easy mouse movement or typing.

Thoughts @Troy ? In my mind I assume you have considered all in the website but for the sake of multilog I will ask about accessibility in ALLBC?

An interview to Kobo Writing Life that concerns accessibility in all forms

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2416&type=status

fair enough @ProfD I have no problem to your communication style, I hope I remember it going forward but if I don't once or twice in the future you will comprehend:)