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  1. Jogo Bonito Celebration 2026 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Jogo-Bonito-Celebration-2026-1351347940 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT Lineart for the Jogo BOnito 2026 Coloring challenge Jogo Bonito 2026 Coloring ChallengeYesterday Jogo Bonito 2026 COLORING CHALLENGE! Brought to @CRLiterature play by play of the scene F Literature Fulgurantess the futebol punditI am the Fulgurantess, in a fine morning from the Jogo Bonito with the Captain!Yesterday PLEASE NOTE TIMES TO SUBMIT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR My OC's in team HDDland Mimada as the metronome https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222615/mimada Prince Menelik as attacking midfielder Princess Candace as a striker https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81075023/princess-candace-prince-menelik Akorade as goalkeeper https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/102259360/akorade Kidowaum as the coach in black with pele and garrincha on the bench https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222352/kidowaum 1960 fashion dragon as a wide back https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222581/1960s-fashion-dragon LAprimatorte + Candy Lady+ wierd fashion lady are fans https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/99591504/laprimatorte https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222339/candy-lady https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222796/wierd-fashion-lady Deviant FA's team has Fella as the metronome https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=fella Hoofs as the center forward https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=hoofs Llama as a striker https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=llama Biting Pear of Salamanca as the goal keeper https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=pear Your own OC goes in the space between Kidowaum and the score board. IF you like my work, I have commissions If you want to support me , I have atip jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #mimada #jogobonito #colormeclub #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #coloringpage #coloring #lineart #princesscandace #princemenelik #llama #1960s #fashiondragon #candylady #laprimatotre #wierdfashionlady #kidowaum #fella #akorade #hoofs #pear #salamanca
  2. July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds! https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/July-2026-Contest-Super-Hounds-1348613517 CONTENT July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds! ๐ŸŒ… Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ…Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! ๐ŸŽฏ THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Whether globally known Hounds like Snoopy or Snowy[of tintin] , or your own characters[ OCs] . Make line art displaying a superhound, a hero hound. Have fun! 2. For the Colorists: Once the line art phase is over, you can color any of the LineArt contest entries to complete these worlds with your prismatic touch! If you want to color before the coloring contest time you must use my example image or your own entry. If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE After the Coloring page challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the coloring page challenge plus my example image to color SuperHounds. FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES Please go for it! But you must note the times for each. ๐Ÿ“… DATES & SUBMISSIONLine Art (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: July 1 , 2026 | Ends: July 25 , 2026 Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: July 25, 2026 | Ends: July 30 , 2026 You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art ๐Ÿ† PRIZES & REWARDSAll prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors ๐Ÿ–‹๏ธ Line Art Category ๐Ÿ… Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype ๐Ÿฅˆ Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype ๐Ÿฅ‰ Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype ๐ŸŽจ Coloring Category ๐Ÿ… Winner: 500 pts + Hype ๐Ÿฅˆ Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz ๐Ÿฅ‰ Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz ๐Ÿ“‹ RULES & GUIDELINES Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry. Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.] Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.] Originality: Must be your own work created after April 31st, 2026. No tracing. All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions Accessibility: Line art must be free to download. Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too ๐Ÿ“š INSPIRATIONNeed help with your imagination? Search your gallery for Dog or Hound or Wolf or Canine and use your Original Character. I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of Super Hounds ! you create or color! @HDdeviant Ask yourself, to color or to be colored! ๐ŸŒ… NEW HORIZONS: January 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ…\nBrought","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":581,\"chars\":3373}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":1,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1284759575]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"jpeg"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> New HorizonsJan 8, 2026 February contest: heart of loveFeb 1, 2026 Wishing WellsMar 1, 2026 EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 ๐ŸŒ… Mother Goose: May 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ…\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":631,\"chars\":3641}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":5,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1327120224,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSEMay 1, 2026 #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #superhounds
  3. DivineDalila https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DivineDalila-1351341816 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT For the Super Hounds challenge of @color-me-club ๐ŸŒ… Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ…\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":611,\"chars\":3541}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":12,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1351341816,1347274411,1302167434,1287891912,1329835732,1339486094,1338171404,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-alignment="center" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: flex; justify-content: center; position: relative;"> July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds!Yesterday ๐ŸŒ… Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ… Brought to you The first Divine Dalila comic. She is helping a dog get a bone of particular significance. In the future she is an old machine that is only used as a home. Questions: how many days ago did the dog lose its bone? What is the bone attached to? Divine Dalila in the past Originals for commissions of my work Lineart Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Color me Page Examples Gallery colormeclub challenge examples by HDdeviant on DeviantArt Dalila OC gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/102259191/dalila The End Of series gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/83009023/the-end-of-series #divinedalila #dalila #superhounds #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #lineart #coloringpage #coloring #superhero #usa250
  4. July Badge Challenge: Creative Freedom https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/July-Badge-Challenge-Creative-Freedom-1348185942 CONTENT July Badge Challenge: Creative Freedom Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature as we celebrate #CreativeFreedom and give you the opportunity to earn a profile badge for your original literature deviation! We figured that in a literature challenge that allows for freedom, nothing is more freeing in literature than the run-on sentence. As a "run-on sentence" doesn't have a universal definition, for the sake of this artistic challenge we will define a run-on sentence as the following: a very long sentence, especially one lacking order or coherence. So take the liberty to create a literature deviation free of punctuation, capitalization, apostrophes, or anything even resembling structure or order. It's anarchy in about 250 words on whatever topic you'd like, just remember to tag your literature deviation with #CreativeFreedom to grab your profile badge. Our faithful @CRLiterature Ambassador @WritingDD2R provided some interesting literature to inspire creating. Have you ever heard of Ducks, Newburyport from Lucy Ellmann? The following video is an excerpt read by the author. The book is over one thousand pages and is mostly one sentence! Ducks, Newburyport, a book that is basically just one long run-on sentence, won or placed in the following awards: Longlist, 2020 Prix Mรฉdicis รฉtranger Winner, 2019 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, 2019 Booker Prize Winner, 2023 Kulturhuset Stadsteatern's International Literature Prize Pretty crazy right maybe you could do something similar for this @CRLiterature contest and win prizes maybe you will create something so outlandishly long as a run-on sentence that newspapers in your country will take notice and send you their most coveted literature awards perhaps a Hollywood producer stumbles across your imaginatively immersive work and contracts you to turn it into the next blockbuster movie you won't know unless you try! RULESHere are the rules and the reward overview for this @CRLiterature activity: โœ… All deviations must abide by DeviantArt Terms of Service and our Fair Use rules for submissions. ๐Ÿ™ All entries submitted for this challenge must be your own creation, a literature deviation. ๐Ÿ™‚ Submit your literature deviation with the tag #CreativeFreedom to participate in this activity and earn the profile badge below; adding the tag after you publish your literature deviation will not award you the tag (you will need to delete and resubmit your literature deviation with the correct tag to receive the profile badge). ๐Ÿ† The reward for this activity is a new profile badge, as pictured below: MY EXAMPLE R Literature Run On sentence for #creativefreedomWhere do, someone whispered in my, the soul Here are the prior badge months, open for you to do at any time , in @CRLiterature Earn a Badge for Your Fresh Start WritingFeb 4, 2026 Love of Art - February Profile Badge 2026Feb 9, 2026 Earn a Badge for Your Words In MotionMar 16, 2026 Whimsy Unlocked -April Profile Badge 2026Apr 1, 2026 Extra, Extra! Earn the MerMay BadgeMay 1, 2026 June Badge Challenge: Sonnets of PrideJun 1, 2026 #creativefreedom #hddeviant #crliterature
  5. Run On sentence for #creativefreedom https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Run-On-sentence-for-creativefreedom-1351338263 CONTENT Run On sentence for #creativefreedom Where do, someone whispered in my, the soul, whispers from dreams, my son got bullied by Frank's , existences's stars speak between twinkles to the events of, to be or not to be where someone the whispers my existences's 3,534,710 worries have neglected, life, into the mind's epiphanies, in the north sea is quiet, belong? from @HDdeviant Richard Murray My Example for the July Badge Challenge in @CRLiterature July Badge Challenge: Creative FreedomYesterday Human writing only please - No AI generated My Literature Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry CRliterature Content Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/97552463/crliterature-content Tip Jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #creativefreedom #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #runon #runonsentence
  6. PROFD said the following [ https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12809-usa-250th-birthday-celebration-great-american-state-fair/ ] MY CALENDRIAL REPLY My reply in the original post citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12809-usa-250th-birthday-celebration-great-american-state-fair/#findComment-82221
  7. How many people would need to come to the july 4th celebration for it to be a success in your view? Is the image you shared indicative of the "great american state fair" from 25 June to now., or has it gotten better? What would be a successful time from the fifth of july to july tenth based on population at the events in the district of columbia, in your view?
  8. RMNewsletter 5th 06282026 Of Identities https://open.substack.com/pub/rmnewsletter/p/rmnewsletter-5th-06282026?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #rmnewsletter #richardmurrayhumblr #rmaalbc #hddeviant #richardmurray #rmworkcalendar #rmcommunitycalendar #black337 #nyc #elections #primary #chevalier #mamdani #dsa #music #billwithers #withers #boomerang #film #aphelion
  9. @aka Contrarian every president since FDR , who started the presidential library culture that is now a heritage, makes a library that suits their fans. I wonder if anyone has actually tried to go to all the presidential libraries. Will you share photos? who did the architecture of the place? @ProfD the presidential libraries modern heritage was started by FDR, the first imperial president, for two reasons, history aside his fans. FDR always had people who disliked him, even in new york. I think each library has been loved and hated wherever placed.
  10. @ProfD welll... your so statian, I comprehend my individual freedom. Yes, being comprehended by others in this forum isn't the be all end all with me. But, I think communication matters, especially among black folk, because when i look at our populace, we tend to have serious issues, in many countries on identity, on what tomorrow should be as individual or in tribes, and to be blunt, history has proven, most black people arguably make to little of complexity and quality in multilog among black people. I do ponder , how many black parents spend time explaining, the true complexity of black peoples views. We are not white, white europeans have variance, but they all come from a similar philosophical stance, based on white european imperialism. All the wars in europe or in the usa, prove whites don't always see themselves as one, but they each have a similar mentality to what white should be tomorrow, the question is who should run things. But black folk, as a people enslaved, as a people who gained different types of freedom at different times in different ways, among different tribes, don't have the same concensus on what black should be tomorrow, sequentially, the complications in our gathering, which begin with multilogs. @Pioneer1 you side me rarely concur on ideas, but you usually don't attribute to me things I never said. My issue with profd, troy, mel hopkins is they continually attribute to me things I never said, but they have infered based on their own readings. Mel hopkins said I stated, or infered Obama didn't have talent, Obama undid Hillary CLinton Obama's time as president should be ridiculed. I even proved in my view, that I never said any of those things, but she stood behind her position , quoting what I said, which never said those things. I said he failed in his career, I didn't spit in his face. And to be blunt, I get what really happened. PAssion + Idoltry. MAny people online, they are very passionate about certain topics, or have idoltry to certain individuals and when someone speaks ill of them , even if the ill is simple truth, they have to infer more cause they have an idoltry to said person.
  11. @Pioneer1 not at all, i used the search term in quotations "democratic social" in the search box for culture forum and the post came up. It was so few I placed them all in the post to highlight. This is the near anniversary of when i posted about mamdani last year https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/ and added with the current events i figure, let me share my thoughts but I place you guys positions over the years as well. haha:) no, mel desn't know me nor I know her, but she doesn't like being tagged with a position that isn't supported or given some comprehensive defense. I tagged her to cite her , which I would do again if not for her desires, but she is a reader like most of us in this forum and in reading my post was triggered by my unsupported position. Unfortunately, she doesn't read me well which is something many dont, troy nor profd read me well either. and that angers me, but ... .no problem.
  12. @Troy I don't know where i conflated. I mentioned democratic socialism or democratic socialist , please quote me where I mentioned socialims alone or stated any elected fficial was advocating socialims. and for the record, I didn't say the following that was @Stefan whom i quoted as saying the prior. I have nothing I wish to say on that. and I am happy the affordable care act has worked out well for you. It hasn't for all, or most, and was never going to, based on its construction. @ProfD I argue money has run the elected officials for the entire history of the usa, the founding fathers were the wealthiest or well connected white male slaveowners from each state. Money has always been the biggst influencer in the usa government. In my view, it will always be in the future. The key from a monetary perspective is when various financial actors are battling each other, which happens more often than people realize. Yes, the fiscally wealthy in human nhistory rarely like to add new members or desire new members added BUT, the fiscally wealthy in human history have always battled each other. Nice point, wasn't what I referred to as the thing not done, for the record, but good point, i only oppose your temporal limit on the power of the fiscally wealthy in the government of the usa. @Mel Hopkins When did I say Obama lacked ability? I said, and i quote what you quoted from me I said he won, how is that stating he is lacking ability. I said he failed and how he failed, which you admitted is true with the following. So why are you asking me for evidence to something that you know is true. HE failed and the reason why is obvious. but he succeeded afterward, which is what I said. Now, I will ask you a question. Do you want me to imitate sucking obama penis with my prose? considering your response to this post, the only answer you can have is yes. And I Will reply, I Am not going to imitate sucking obama's dick with my prose. Again, you call it a reduction which suggests it is making him a lesser than. I am speaking truth, you can call it a reduction, but I didn't say he didn't succeed and in my original point, I said he formed coalitions splitting the votes of two groups. so I don't know why you suggest the following as if i don't know that when if others besides you read my words, maybe they will realize i stated he won by forming a coalition by spltiting votes. And in the history of the usa, the types of coalitions are not the same, that candidates build and sometimes, a successful candidate doesn't need to build a coalition. i didn't say him, I quote what I said Notice for anyone who can read, what I wrote was, support from very wealthy donors undid hillary clinton, not obama. I must ask Mel , why you misread me so much? And not just you @Troy can't read my prose, you can't read , none of you people seem to be able to read my prose. Now clearly, I don't write well or at least convey well enough, and I accept that, but in the future, I need to embrace that the second my prose is misread, not to reply to a misread of my prose. Cause it is silly on my end. You have said the following I said Obama lacks talent. I said Obama undid Hillary Clinton I said , straightly or unstraightly, Obama's campaign was to be ridiculed or diminished. Before the quote from you. For me, all of that is lies. I didn't any of those things, but you clearly read them. Now to the laws. You are correct, it would be more robust or comprehensive to go through a list of laws + executive orders as president , Obama , from illinois state senate to president, initiated or supported or signed. And, it is important to distinguish laws that he didn't initiate but supported, like the affordable care act, which is Nancy PElosi's not hit. But, I admittedly, wasn't interested in spending the time to do that. And as such, anyone can dismiss my position for the absence of comprehensive. But I stand by it. Ledbetter is BArbara Mikulsky's not Obama's. Yes, he signed it, but that wasn't hit. And I already mentioned the affordable care act was nancy pelosi, not obama, which i have said in this forum many times. And I repeat myself, my uncomprehensive claim can be dismissed on its lacking comprehension. Many people love the evidence or proof of the statistical charts or the paper trail, and I didn't provide that nor was I going to. But I stand by my position. As for the affordable care act, a college friend of mine, a black woman with a child who was never going to get insurance until the affordable care act. was beyond exuberant, which I have said in this very forum, but the affordable care act is dysfunctional legislation. Dysfunctional legislation like functional legislation will always have those who benefit from it. All laws have beneficiaries, no matter what they are. From white jewish germans going to concentration camps which gave money to gas makers and concrete makers, to the affordable care act, which gave many financial institutions news veins of profit alongside expanding the insurance industry to those blockaded from it. and a fourth false claim from you, I quote you I am erasing the people who benefited from the affordable care act because I call it a dysfunctional law. IT is interesting, when you or troy or others make your posts. I never claim such grandiose. I may oppose what you say, but I never expand my opposition to such things. why do you all do that to me? answer that explicative... please I don't want to convey a gentleness, I hope I succeeded. Well. Obama is what led to Schrumptf so... based on Obama , I think NYC will be the largest most potent city in the usa, as it was before or after mamdani, gardless of mandani/adams/di blasio, the same way the usa is the most powerful militaristic force in humanity before or after obama, gardless of obama/biden/schrumfpt , but the quality of leadership post mamdani if obama is any historical indicator of value will be, a chaos agent. And I don't see how that will be positive for nyc. Luckily for NYC , the demographics of NYC is in some ways, wider than the usa while in other ways narrower than the usa. Ahhh, I wish you would had said this from the beginning. I didn't tag you to repeat a political impression. I tagged you and all others , though you may not have seen that, cause those are your words and i didn't want your words on the issue to be considered mine, which has happened in the past in this forum, and which i failed at because @Troy confused one of the peoples i tagged's words as mine anyway. Now the good news is that I usually don't quote others in my initial posts, but i did this time, simply because it was warranted. But I have learned next time I quote you i will mention your name without tagging you. I have to admit, I wanted to say something more negative or abrasive at the end, but forget it.
  13. Mamdani and the democratic socialist AFTER READING THE COMMENTS BELOW AND SEEING IN HINDSIGHT Most in this group saw the rise of Mamdani, especially as a democratic socialist. Though only I connected his style to that of Schrumpf + Obama. For I don't see any difference between either of them. All three are very good at media campaigning, the key to getting elected, but none are actually good at legislation. The problem Obama+AOC+SChrumpft+MAndani+Chevalier and all their peers have is ... I will not say. But, the elected official who doesn't do the one thing they all do, will open a true can of worms, completely inevitable or foresightful at this point. COMMENTS TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM 2016 this was said by @Pioneer1 Bernie Sanders says some good things but too many of his supporters are pushing Socialism...or what many of his supports call "Democratic Socialism"....which will not work for Black America because too much socialism will make our people lazy. I've seen too many talented Black men and women who grew up thinking they could "slick" their way through life by hustling and pimping the system until they could somehow get a social security or disablity check for a few hundred dolllars....then they're satisified. But in a properly managed economy, if they were pushed to use just HALF of the good sense God gave them many of them would be millionaires by now. On the other hand we don't need unbridled Capitalism either because it will lead to the type of exploitation and despotism you see brewing in the United State today that locks so many poor AfroAmericans out of the economy and creates a "permanent underclass". SOME things that people depend on for their very livelihood like healthcare and education should be socialized. Other things should not. I'm not hating on Bernie. I think he'd probably be a better President from a domestic policy point of view than Hillary and I KNOW he'd be better than Trump. But we have to learn that what works for OTHERS will not necessarily work for us. What we need as AfroAmericans is a system uniquely designed BY us...FOR us; and if not implimented by a Black politician in an executive position such as President or Governor....atleast whoever does get in office while respect our agenda and integrate it into his/her Administration. citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/3678-this-or-that/#comment-16411 2022 thsi was said by @Stefan The Democrats are about to get their backsides waxed in this year's midterm elections. Several mistakes are to blame and most are unforced errors. 1) Too many Black people remain ignorant of what Critical Race Theory actually is. It's not Black History, although many well-meaning Black folks claim that it is. And sadly, they cling to this errant view on social media. But Critical Race Theory is NOT Black History, which is a collection of truths and facts. Theories are simply suppositions. I will maintain that CRT is taught only at the university level not in grade, intermediate or any high schools. The problem lies in that few have come up with a ONE SENTENCE description of exactly what Critical Race Theory is. Most who try to explain it employ 50-cent word verbiage which average readers in the U.S. have a hard time understanding since most read at a 7th and 8th grade level. Others dance around it claiming: "Oh, it's been around for 40 years and such and such.โ€ Long-winded explanations do little to clear the air. So, I fashioned a one-sentence retort that can be shoved in the face of CRT detractors. Because the GOP and its supporters have been killing us on messaging while we've gleefully surrendered the intellectual landscape by choosing to scream dumb chit such as "Defund the Police!" Oh, yeah, what a winning slogan that was. Here is my one sentence description of CRT: Critical Race Theory is a premise that posits skin color and race determine the outcomes of most decisions, laws and behavior in the U.S. That's it! That is the one sentence description. And this one line should have been tossed back at those White racists who have been skewering us with attacks on the social term "woke." This is why we have lost the Messaging War. And CRT is going to be used by millions upon millions of racist and angry Whites, Latinos and some Blacks to clobber the Democrats at the polls in November. 2) Refusal to acknowledge Bernie Sanders' push for so-called Democratic Socialism has failed miserably. Far too many folks are still drunk on Bernie's Kool-Aid. I keep running into folks who swear the solution to everything is Socialism. As if this canard of economic belief has been successful in any modern society or nation. However, by listening to this aged clown Bernie, AOC and her merry band of knuckleheads threw in all their social wants and desires into the Build Back Better bill, completely guaranteeing that no one, except maybe Kim Jong-Un, would go for it. The bill had to be reworked a few times before the House took a vote. That's why it failed. BBB contained too too much, would cost too much and proved far too ambitious for most legislators and pundits. But you can't tell Bernie Bots anything. They truly believe they were sent from on high to rule. Yeah, okay. In addition to having a new Voting Rights Bill fail, Black people are now going to have to contend with even more Red states preparing their own voter suppression laws. Gotta hand it to all those dumb-azz 2016 third party voters. By denying Hillary Clinton their votes, they enabled Trump to squeak by in enough states to win him the White House. I doubted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have survived the first term of whomever won in 2016. She didn't. And this gave Trump a chance to appoint three toadies to the Supreme Court. I believe more than 10% of Bernie Bots voted for Trump in 2016. Some news outlets peg it higher. Even if most return to the Dems this year, we're still going to lose in November. citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/8362-the-gop-blowout-is-coming/#comment-49238 from 2022 from @anonymous50 Is it possible for an individual, not politician (because most of them are well off anyway), to believe in Democratic Socialism when they are financially successful. Sure, when a person is financially struggling, Socialist programs are very appealing. For example. politicians like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC promise free college tuition and socialized healthcare that won't bankrupt an individual when they get sick. In some instances very progressive candidates promise to abolish student loan debt, which can be very devastating to someone who owes such debt. They also promise higher taxes on the rich to pay for these social programs. But, to the dusty* who remains in poverty this does not matter. They look upon the rich as having too much anyway. Part of it is class envy and the other part is realism. The so-call 99 percent who look at the extremely wealthy 1 percent class with their palatial manors, Rolls Royces, private jets, yachts, and access to some of the most beautiful women in the world know that all of these luxuries are beyond their reach in this lifetime. I know some would call this a poverty mindset. Most people don't have the drive, ambition, skills and patience to become rich. The paths to riches are limited anyway. Most start up businesses fail after a short period of time. You stand a greater chance of being struck by lighting twice than winning the lottery. Many get-rich-quick schemes advertised in the mail, online, or TV(infomercials) don't work. Only a small number of Pookies and Ray Rays from the hood who aspire to become rappers or baller are successful. People who go to Hollywood to find themselves seldom become the next big movie stars. So, the poor dusty who struggles from paycheck to paycheck to barely put food on the table looks at the astronomical wealth and toys the 1 percent has and thinks "why should they not be willing to have their wealth redistributed to help those who are less fortunate." But, when a person is able to lift themselves out of poverty and become wealthy, is he or she still willing to give up a certain percentage of income through taxation to fund the programs that person once relied upon when he or she was destitute? Some politicians would like to impose a 40 percent tax rate on the well-to-do. *To use online urban vernacular, a dusty is a man(usually a black man) who is low quality, poor, broke, and has no ambition citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/9335-an-affluent-democratic/ from 2025 from @ProfD This young man, Zohran Mamdani, is the breath of fresh air the Democratic party needs. Mamdani's positions on social and justice reform, city services, Israel and Jews, etc., may be considered radical. He makes it no secret that he's a diehard Democratic socialist. I believe his connections to a wide cross-section of people (FBA/ADOs, Muslim, Arab, African, Hispanic, Asian, etc.) and affiliation with the Hip-Hop community among others will propel him to becoming the most popular candidate on the ballot. Regardless of whether or not Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of NYC, he actually has a plan for how he wants to run the city. Mamdani's plan could be a blueprint for the Democratic party to overtake the GOP. ๐Ÿ˜Ž citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#comment-74720 from 2025 from @Mel Hopkins If the NYC mayoral race were a novel, I'd deconstruct its architecture. From one election to the next, the narrative appears to shift away from focused policy debates, instead centering on the influence of religious groups. The major religious factionsโ€”Christian nationalists, Muslims, and Jewsโ€”each appear to compete for cultural and political dominance within the city. Amid this religious competition, the African diaspora in the U.S.โ€”a powerful and often underestimated voting blocโ€”continues to be overlooked and taken for granted by both the candidates and the dominant religious groups. It sometimes seems as though these competing religious groups neglect the African diasporaโ€™s influence. Ironically, the roots of these religions trace back to African science-based spirituality, yet this connection receives little attention in political or religious discourse. This dynamic played out in Election 2024: Christian nationalistsโ€”including evangelists, southern Baptists, and likely Catholicsโ€”rallied strongly behind DJT. Media and external influencers shifted the conversation away from local policy and toward polarizing international issues, like the U.S. stance on Israel and Palestine, further affecting how voters chose among domestic candidates. When reviewing 2025 election results, I noticed Mamdani was not the only Muslim elected, which raises the question of whether heightened coverage of Gaza led to greater sympathy and increased Muslim representationโ€”a trend potentially extending into the midterms. Donโ€™t misunderstandโ€”I bear a grudge against all religions. Religious study should bring wisdom, spirituality, and growth, yet it often has the opposite effect. Religions lead to violence instead of joy and peace. Add patriarchy, and itโ€™s chaos. Returning to the story's structure: Is this a narrative of democratic socialism rising in the heart of Wall Street? Consider Manhattanโ€”the FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLDโ€”and its boroughs. Is the city that never sleeps really ready to move from capitalism to social ownership? Notably, NYC is the largest property owner according to Curbed.com, and the mayor administers these assets. Perhaps social ownership is the underlying story arc behind recent shifts. So, in this storyโ€”call it Project 2025 (S)โ€”the central figure is a young millennial poised to challenge the reigning power and reclaim Manhattan for the people. Behind the scenes, religious struggle, human trafficking disguised as immigration reform, and pervasive surveillance set the chaotic stage for change in the city. Meet the Muslim and Arab Americans who won in US local elections Jews vote for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race | The Jerusalem Post "In addition to the Jewish vote, Mamdani lost the Catholic vote by a significant margin: 53% supported Cuomo and 14% backed Sliwa, against 33% for Mamdani. A decisive 75% of voters with no religious affiliation supported Mamdani." Here's a past look at Manhattan when DJT began buying up NY property in the early 70s(?) a look back at Palestinians, Israel, Libya, etc. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-thoughts-a-conclusion/#comment-77398
  14. In part 1 I assessed Mayor Mamdani's laws in the legislative bodies of New york city. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/ As mayor he supported three members of the democratic socialist against members of the party of andrew jackson who are not. Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Adriano Espaillat Brad Lander defeated Dan Goldman Claire Valdez defeated Antonio Reynoso When I look at Mamdani I see a continuation from Obama through Schrumpf. Obama who couldn't win an illinois seat focusing on the black vote, won by splitting the black and white vote and that led to support from very wealthy donors which undid Hillary Clinton's run. As president Obama was brilliant at speaking, commercials, advertising, appearance but was woeful as a legislator, a maker of laws. the laws he made were not only poor but dysfunctional. Obama inspired a bunch of people who are what I will call, aracial americans: OCasio Cortez + Orlhan and others do commercials for certain cultures but in truth are Statians, of the usa. They are more comfortable in the multiracial malaise of racially mixed zones of cities in modern USA than the racially aligned zones that afix most of the usa. Ocasio Cortez and others, prompted laws in congress but none of them were able to get the support of the majority in congress, Then Schrumpf did what Obama did in the party of andrew jackson and broke through the methodology in theparty of abraham lincoln. Where Obama , focused on splitting all the phenotypical votes and focusing on the aracial voters, usually younger. Schrumpft , ignored the hawks, calling for isolation, ignored the christian, admittedly calling for pussied to be grabbed, and focused on the poor end of the fiscals, by touting america first. Schrumpf like AOC before him and Obama before her, is a poor legislator. Now, more will join AOC in the congress, and from my standing the speeches will get more sharp, the polish of appearance will be great, but the legislation is more deadlocked than ever. So, I don't see any new laws coming from the congress of the usa unless, a coalition is made between the anti schrumpt + democratic socialists in the congress. But with lobbying I don't see how. the jewish lobby is the biggest loser and the democratic socialist + many schrumpt + ant schrumpf folk, seem very disinterested in supporting israel. As I said with Obama, and AOC, and Schrumpft , I said with MAmdani and his local crew. What are your laws and if your laws are impotent , which means don't get results, that will lead to a negative reaction among the common folk. And, then they participate less and less. The most important thing to note about the elections in the dinkey primaries was these were low turnout. It wasn't that a majority of people voted. It is that, a minority voted, but that minority vote was split. Which means, the voters are looking at these candidates carefully and any failure will be problematic. INFO https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5868676/mamdani-nyc-primaries-progressive-dsa FORUM POST https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/ CONTENT Mamdani and the democratic socialist IN AMENDMENT Did you know in 2024, the populace of the 13th congressional district was deemed 747,542 while the complete vote for the election, donkeys plus elephants was 217,622. That means 29.11 % of the people voted. In the donkey primary election that just passed, Chevalier had 32,790 votes while Adriano Espaillat had 30,464 which means as central harlem, a third of the 13th congressional district has 300,000 people, twenty percent of a third of the 13th congressional district voted. Does that mean, Chevalier represents the people of the 13th congressional district? Or does that mean the Democratic Socialist movement is all media hype and no true reaction from the masses? AFTER READING THE COMMENTS BELOW AND SEEING IN HINDSIGHT Most in this group saw the rise of Mamdani, especially as a democratic socialist. Though only I connected his style to that of Schrumpf + Obama. For I don't see any difference between either of them. All three are very good at media campaigning, the key to getting elected, but none are actually good at legislation. The problem Obama+AOC+SChrumpft+MAndani+Chevalier and all their peers have is ... I will not say. But, the elected official who doesn't do the one thing they all do, will open a true can of worms, completely inevitable or foresightful at this point. IN AMENDMENT 2 @LupeToddMedina your well spoke in @InsideCityHall i think the democratic socialist of america seem to have a similar agenda as the tea party or maga movement , to get rid of the long standing folk in government for new faces, regardless of the bureaucratic outcome. https://x.com/Thetenner10/status/2071745583769850294 COMMENTS TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM 2016 this was said by @Pioneer1 Bernie Sanders says some good things but too many of his supporters are pushing Socialism...or what many of his supports call "Democratic Socialism"....which will not work for Black America because too much socialism will make our people lazy. I've seen too many talented Black men and women who grew up thinking they could "slick" their way through life by hustling and pimping the system until they could somehow get a social security or disablity check for a few hundred dolllars....then they're satisified. But in a properly managed economy, if they were pushed to use just HALF of the good sense God gave them many of them would be millionaires by now. On the other hand we don't need unbridled Capitalism either because it will lead to the type of exploitation and despotism you see brewing in the United State today that locks so many poor AfroAmericans out of the economy and creates a "permanent underclass". SOME things that people depend on for their very livelihood like healthcare and education should be socialized. Other things should not. I'm not hating on Bernie. I think he'd probably be a better President from a domestic policy point of view than Hillary and I KNOW he'd be better than Trump. But we have to learn that what works for OTHERS will not necessarily work for us. What we need as AfroAmericans is a system uniquely designed BY us...FOR us; and if not implimented by a Black politician in an executive position such as President or Governor....atleast whoever does get in office while respect our agenda and integrate it into his/her Administration. citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/3678-this-or-that/#comment-16411 2022 thsi was said by @Stefan The Democrats are about to get their backsides waxed in this year's midterm elections. Several mistakes are to blame and most are unforced errors. 1) Too many Black people remain ignorant of what Critical Race Theory actually is. It's not Black History, although many well-meaning Black folks claim that it is. And sadly, they cling to this errant view on social media. But Critical Race Theory is NOT Black History, which is a collection of truths and facts. Theories are simply suppositions. I will maintain that CRT is taught only at the university level not in grade, intermediate or any high schools. The problem lies in that few have come up with a ONE SENTENCE description of exactly what Critical Race Theory is. Most who try to explain it employ 50-cent word verbiage which average readers in the U.S. have a hard time understanding since most read at a 7th and 8th grade level. Others dance around it claiming: "Oh, it's been around for 40 years and such and such.โ€ Long-winded explanations do little to clear the air. So, I fashioned a one-sentence retort that can be shoved in the face of CRT detractors. Because the GOP and its supporters have been killing us on messaging while we've gleefully surrendered the intellectual landscape by choosing to scream dumb chit such as "Defund the Police!" Oh, yeah, what a winning slogan that was. Here is my one sentence description of CRT: Critical Race Theory is a premise that posits skin color and race determine the outcomes of most decisions, laws and behavior in the U.S. That's it! That is the one sentence description. And this one line should have been tossed back at those White racists who have been skewering us with attacks on the social term "woke." This is why we have lost the Messaging War. And CRT is going to be used by millions upon millions of racist and angry Whites, Latinos and some Blacks to clobber the Democrats at the polls in November. 2) Refusal to acknowledge Bernie Sanders' push for so-called Democratic Socialism has failed miserably. Far too many folks are still drunk on Bernie's Kool-Aid. I keep running into folks who swear the solution to everything is Socialism. As if this canard of economic belief has been successful in any modern society or nation. However, by listening to this aged clown Bernie, AOC and her merry band of knuckleheads threw in all their social wants and desires into the Build Back Better bill, completely guaranteeing that no one, except maybe Kim Jong-Un, would go for it. The bill had to be reworked a few times before the House took a vote. That's why it failed. BBB contained too too much, would cost too much and proved far too ambitious for most legislators and pundits. But you can't tell Bernie Bots anything. They truly believe they were sent from on high to rule. Yeah, okay. In addition to having a new Voting Rights Bill fail, Black people are now going to have to contend with even more Red states preparing their own voter suppression laws. Gotta hand it to all those dumb-azz 2016 third party voters. By denying Hillary Clinton their votes, they enabled Trump to squeak by in enough states to win him the White House. I doubted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have survived the first term of whomever won in 2016. She didn't. And this gave Trump a chance to appoint three toadies to the Supreme Court. I believe more than 10% of Bernie Bots voted for Trump in 2016. Some news outlets peg it higher. Even if most return to the Dems this year, we're still going to lose in November. citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/8362-the-gop-blowout-is-coming/#comment-49238 from 2022 from @anonymous50 Is it possible for an individual, not politician (because most of them are well off anyway), to believe in Democratic Socialism when they are financially successful. Sure, when a person is financially struggling, Socialist programs are very appealing. For example. politicians like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC promise free college tuition and socialized healthcare that won't bankrupt an individual when they get sick. In some instances very progressive candidates promise to abolish student loan debt, which can be very devastating to someone who owes such debt. They also promise higher taxes on the rich to pay for these social programs. But, to the dusty* who remains in poverty this does not matter. They look upon the rich as having too much anyway. Part of it is class envy and the other part is realism. The so-call 99 percent who look at the extremely wealthy 1 percent class with their palatial manors, Rolls Royces, private jets, yachts, and access to some of the most beautiful women in the world know that all of these luxuries are beyond their reach in this lifetime. I know some would call this a poverty mindset. Most people don't have the drive, ambition, skills and patience to become rich. The paths to riches are limited anyway. Most start up businesses fail after a short period of time. You stand a greater chance of being struck by lighting twice than winning the lottery. Many get-rich-quick schemes advertised in the mail, online, or TV(infomercials) don't work. Only a small number of Pookies and Ray Rays from the hood who aspire to become rappers or baller are successful. People who go to Hollywood to find themselves seldom become the next big movie stars. So, the poor dusty who struggles from paycheck to paycheck to barely put food on the table looks at the astronomical wealth and toys the 1 percent has and thinks "why should they not be willing to have their wealth redistributed to help those who are less fortunate." But, when a person is able to lift themselves out of poverty and become wealthy, is he or she still willing to give up a certain percentage of income through taxation to fund the programs that person once relied upon when he or she was destitute? Some politicians would like to impose a 40 percent tax rate on the well-to-do. *To use online urban vernacular, a dusty is a man(usually a black man) who is low quality, poor, broke, and has no ambition citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/9335-an-affluent-democratic/ from 2025 from @ProfD This young man, Zohran Mamdani, is the breath of fresh air the Democratic party needs. Mamdani's positions on social and justice reform, city services, Israel and Jews, etc., may be considered radical. He makes it no secret that he's a diehard Democratic socialist. I believe his connections to a wide cross-section of people (FBA/ADOs, Muslim, Arab, African, Hispanic, Asian, etc.) and affiliation with the Hip-Hop community among others will propel him to becoming the most popular candidate on the ballot. Regardless of whether or not Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of NYC, he actually has a plan for how he wants to run the city. Mamdani's plan could be a blueprint for the Democratic party to overtake the GOP. ๐Ÿ˜Ž citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#comment-74720 from 2025 from @Mel Hopkins If the NYC mayoral race were a novel, I'd deconstruct its architecture. From one election to the next, the narrative appears to shift away from focused policy debates, instead centering on the influence of religious groups. The major religious factionsโ€”Christian nationalists, Muslims, and Jewsโ€”each appear to compete for cultural and political dominance within the city. Amid this religious competition, the African diaspora in the U.S.โ€”a powerful and often underestimated voting blocโ€”continues to be overlooked and taken for granted by both the candidates and the dominant religious groups. It sometimes seems as though these competing religious groups neglect the African diasporaโ€™s influence. Ironically, the roots of these religions trace back to African science-based spirituality, yet this connection receives little attention in political or religious discourse. This dynamic played out in Election 2024: Christian nationalistsโ€”including evangelists, southern Baptists, and likely Catholicsโ€”rallied strongly behind DJT. Media and external influencers shifted the conversation away from local policy and toward polarizing international issues, like the U.S. stance on Israel and Palestine, further affecting how voters chose among domestic candidates. When reviewing 2025 election results, I noticed Mamdani was not the only Muslim elected, which raises the question of whether heightened coverage of Gaza led to greater sympathy and increased Muslim representationโ€”a trend potentially extending into the midterms. Donโ€™t misunderstandโ€”I bear a grudge against all religions. Religious study should bring wisdom, spirituality, and growth, yet it often has the opposite effect. Religions lead to violence instead of joy and peace. Add patriarchy, and itโ€™s chaos. Returning to the story's structure: Is this a narrative of democratic socialism rising in the heart of Wall Street? Consider Manhattanโ€”the FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLDโ€”and its boroughs. Is the city that never sleeps really ready to move from capitalism to social ownership? Notably, NYC is the largest property owner according to Curbed.com, and the mayor administers these assets. Perhaps social ownership is the underlying story arc behind recent shifts. So, in this storyโ€”call it Project 2025 (S)โ€”the central figure is a young millennial poised to challenge the reigning power and reclaim Manhattan for the people. Behind the scenes, religious struggle, human trafficking disguised as immigration reform, and pervasive surveillance set the chaotic stage for change in the city. Meet the Muslim and Arab Americans who won in US local elections Jews vote for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race | The Jerusalem Post "In addition to the Jewish vote, Mamdani lost the Catholic vote by a significant margin: 53% supported Cuomo and 14% backed Sliwa, against 33% for Mamdani. A decisive 75% of voters with no religious affiliation supported Mamdani." Here's a past look at Manhattan when DJT began buying up NY property in the early 70s(?) a look back at Palestinians, Israel, Libya, etc. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-thoughts-a-conclusion/#comment-77398 COMMENTARY https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82131 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82131 @undefined I don't know where i conflated. I mentioned democratic socialism or democratic socialist , please quote me where I mentioned socialims alone or stated any elected fficial was advocating socialims. and for the record, I didn't say the following Critical Race Theory is a premise that posits skin color and race determine the outcomes of most decisions, laws and behavior in the U.S. that was @undefined whom i quoted as saying the prior. I have nothing I wish to say on that. and I am happy the affordable care act has worked out well for you. It hasn't for all, or most, and was never going to, based on its construction. @undefined Such a politician has not existed for a very long time since money has run national politics for several decades. I argue money has run the elected officials for the entire history of the usa, the founding fathers were the wealthiest or well connected white male slaveowners from each state. Money has always been the biggst influencer in the usa government. In my view, it will always be in the future. The key from a monetary perspective is when various financial actors are battling each other, which happens more often than people realize. Yes, the fiscally wealthy in human nhistory rarely like to add new members or desire new members added BUT, the fiscally wealthy in human history have always battled each other. Nice point, wasn't what I referred to as the thing not done, for the record, but good point, i only oppose your temporal limit on the power of the fiscally wealthy in the government of the usa. But, the elected official who doesn't do the one thing they all do, will open a true can of worms, completely inevitable or foresightful at this point. @undefined First, Barack Obama did not โ€œfail to win an Illinois seat by focusing on the Black vote.โ€ He was already an elected Illinois state senator when, in 2000, he unsuccessfully challenged longtime incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary for Illinoisโ€™s First Congressional District. Losing one primary to an entrenched incumbent is not proof that Obama lacked political or legislative ability. When did I say Obama lacked ability? I said, and i quote what you quoted from me won by splitting the black and white vote I said he won, how is that stating he is lacking ability. I said he failed and how he failed, which you admitted is true with the following. he unsuccessfully challenged longtime incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary for Illinoisโ€™s First Congressional District. So why are you asking me for evidence to something that you know is true. HE failed and the reason why is obvious. but he succeeded afterward, which is what I said. Now, I will ask you a question. Do you want me to imitate sucking obama penis with my prose? considering your response to this post, the only answer you can have is yes. And I Will reply, I Am not going to imitate sucking obama's dick with my prose. Reducing Obamaโ€™s campaign to speeches, commercials, wealthy donors, and appearances misses the central innovation: it built a decentralized civic movement in which millions of ordinary people became organizers, fundraisers, community leaders, and co-authors of the campaignโ€™s meaning. (Obama's Lost Army) Again, you call it a reduction which suggests it is making him a lesser than. I am speaking truth, you can call it a reduction, but I didn't say he didn't succeed and in my original point, I said he formed coalitions splitting the votes of two groups. so I don't know why you suggest the following Successful candidates build coalitions. as if i don't know that when if others besides you read my words, maybe they will realize i stated he won by forming a coalition by spltiting votes. And in the history of the usa, the types of coalitions are not the same, that candidates build and sometimes, a successful candidate doesn't need to build a coalition. That is called campaigning. It is not evidence that he somehow โ€œundidโ€ Hillary Clintonโ€™s rightful possession of the nomination. i didn't say him, I quote what I said and that led to support from very wealthy donors which undid Hillary Clinton's run. Notice for anyone who can read, what I wrote was, support from very wealthy donors undid hillary clinton, not obama. I must ask Mel , why you misread me so much? And not just you @undefined can't read my prose, you can't read , none of you people seem to be able to read my prose. Now clearly, I don't write well or at least convey well enough, and I accept that, but in the future, I need to embrace that the second my prose is misread, not to reply to a misread of my prose. Cause it is silly on my end. You have said the following I said Obama lacks talent. I said Obama undid Hillary Clinton I said , straightly or unstraightly, Obama's campaign was to be ridiculed or diminished. Before the quote from you. Now to the allegation that Obama was โ€œwoeful as a legislatorโ€ For me, all of that is lies. I didn't any of those things, but you clearly read them. Now to the laws. You are correct, it would be more robust or comprehensive to go through a list of laws + executive orders as president , Obama , from illinois state senate to president, initiated or supported or signed. And, it is important to distinguish laws that he didn't initiate but supported, like the affordable care act, which is Nancy PElosi's not hit. But, I admittedly, wasn't interested in spending the time to do that. And as such, anyone can dismiss my position for the absence of comprehensive. But I stand by it. Ledbetter is BArbara Mikulsky's not Obama's. Yes, he signed it, but that wasn't hit. And I already mentioned the affordable care act was nancy pelosi, not obama, which i have said in this forum many times. And I repeat myself, my uncomprehensive claim can be dismissed on its lacking comprehension. Many people love the evidence or proof of the statistical charts or the paper trail, and I didn't provide that nor was I going to. But I stand by my position. As for the affordable care act, a college friend of mine, a black woman with a child who was never going to get insurance until the affordable care act. was beyond exuberant, which I have said in this very forum, but the affordable care act is dysfunctional legislation. Dysfunctional legislation like functional legislation will always have those who benefit from it. All laws have beneficiaries, no matter what they are. From white jewish germans going to concentration camps which gave money to gas makers and concrete makers, to the affordable care act, which gave many financial institutions news veins of profit alongside expanding the insurance industry to those blockaded from it. and a fourth false claim from you, I quote you I also personally obtained healthcare benefits through the Affordable Care Act, as did millions of other Americans. You cannot erase the people who benefited from a law merely by declaring the entire law a failure. I am erasing the people who benefited from the affordable care act because I call it a dysfunctional law. IT is interesting, when you or troy or others make your posts. I never claim such grandiose. I may oppose what you say, but I never expand my opposition to such things. why do you all do that to me? answer that explicative... please I don't want to convey a gentleness, I hope I succeeded. And if Mayor Zohran Mamdani can be as consequential for New York City as President Obama was for the United States, then New York may be well positioned to preserve its standing as one of the worldโ€™s leading cities. Well. Obama is what led to Schrumptf so... based on Obama , I think NYC will be the largest most potent city in the usa, as it was before or after mamdani, gardless of mandani/adams/di blasio, the same way the usa is the most powerful militaristic force in humanity before or after obama, gardless of obama/biden/schrumfpt , but the quality of leadership post mamdani if obama is any historical indicator of value will be, a chaos agent. And I don't see how that will be positive for nyc. Luckily for NYC , the demographics of NYC is in some ways, wider than the usa while in other ways narrower than the usa. If you cannot identify the law, explain the defect and provide factual evidence of the result, please do not tag me merely to repeat a political impression. Ahhh, I wish you would had said this from the beginning. I didn't tag you to repeat a political impression. I tagged you and all others , though you may not have seen that, cause those are your words and i didn't want your words on the issue to be considered mine, which has happened in the past in this forum, and which i failed at because @undefined confused one of the peoples i tagged's words as mine anyway. Now the good news is that I usually don't quote others in my initial posts, but i did this time, simply because it was warranted. But I have learned next time I quote you i will mention your name without tagging you. I have to admit, I wanted to say something more negative or abrasive at the end, but forget it. COMMENT LINK https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82357 COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82419 COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82426 COMMENT 07102026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82443 info my extended COMMENT 07112026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82452 content EXTENDED COMMENT COMMENT 071420267 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82528 PROFD maybe i miscomprehend what you mean by inheritance, but if the usa is an inheritance for Black DOSers then Brasil is also an inheritance for Black DOSers who were enslaved to that place? India is an inheritance for Black DOSers who were enslaved to that place? Aren't all the countries Black DOSers were shipped to an inheritance to Black DOSers, if the USA is an inheritance? and if not, why not? I admit I don't see the usa as an inheritance because I know many black forebears were opposed to it. I rather think Black DOSers have to choose our ancestors we honor. THe ancestrs like James Forten or the ancestors like Colonel Tye? I think James Forten wanted black folk in the usa to see/feel/think the usa that way while in parallel, but no less valuable, colonel tye, didn't want black folk in the former european colonies to see /feel/think that way, and to my own views vice versa. James Forten definitely would oppose my position while Colonel Tye would support. All I can say to open is, I accept with no difficulty or challenge a black person saying the usa is the home of Black DOSers , I also don't have any difficulty or challenge with a black person who says the usa isn't. Black DOSers have a unique relationship to the usa, that to be blunt, isn't as simple or convenient as everyone else who immigrated to these lands on their own volition whether illegal or not plus the native american who is a first peoples. I have said the followign before, but I view my lineage in africa as continental.. Many Black DOSers talk about an individual tracing to a specific land, which is applicable for individuals in the black dos populace. BUT< if you consider the Black DOS populace in the usa as a group, not individuals, then yu realize the whole continent of Africa is the lineage. do you comprehend? DOSers trace their lineage to all over the continent. In the show "finding your roots" alone, black DOSers guest have shown tracing from senegal to madagascar so... it is the whole continent, at least to me. Trade places interesting choice of words. I don't see how a person leaving for financial betterment, which is not the only factor in life, can trade with a person leaving for a true home. These are two things that ae not equal. Again, I don't see how a trade can occur when it is two different goals, it isn't the same. the financial poor Black people in various lands of africa have the home but are missing the money. the majority of Black DOSers don't have the home or the money. It is interesting how you view the actions of a group of people through an individual scenario. a child in a dysfunctional home within one lifetime is how you view tens of millions of people in a country that has been dysfunctional for centuries . Very statian you are, very statian Well , let's be blunt, no country on earth has a pro immigration stance. BRexit occured because whites in england didn't want whties from eastern europe. Brexit wasn't about london. So your correct that Black DOSers aren't being welcomes but no country welcomes immigrants. Saudi Arabia doesn't welcome Indians or Pakistanis. The only difference between the usa and every other government in humanity, isn't teh stance on immigration, all are anti immigrant. But the usa has a legal framework and a financial industry based on immigration that gives it a different tone. How do you define a thriving individual? how do you define a thriving people? as I have said in this very forum, if i gain a billion dollars tomorrow, some may argue, i have thrived in the usa. But, that doesn't mean the black populace in new york city has thrived. So how do you determine a peoples thriving? Is it defined through collective action or merely the presence of individuals in the group individually thriving? COMMENT 07162026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82570 presented EXTENDED IN TRUTH
  15. it was not published till 2002. I wonder how many unpublished works from black people in the 1800s exist. referal https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002811 content <iframe src="https://collections.library.yale.edu/uv.html#manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.library.yale.edu%2Fmanifests%2F2002811&c=0&m=0&cv=0&config=&locales=en-GB%3AEnglish+%28GB%29%2Ccy-GB%3ACymraeg%2Cfr-FR%3AFran%C3%A7ais+%28FR%29%2Cpl-PL%3APolski%2Csv-SE%3ASvenska%2Cxx-XX%3AEnglish+%28GB%29+%28xx-XX%29&xywh=-1239%2C-487%2C7005%2C6360&r=0" width="560" height="420" allowfullscreen frameborder="0"></iframe>
  16. CONTENT INFO The Heroic Slave Frederick Douglass wrote only one work of fiction: this novella, loosely based on a true incident, about a slave who leads a rebellion on board a slave ship. Although it doesn't mention Stowe, it can be read as Douglass' attempt to contest Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novella's description of Madison Washington's appearance closely follows Stowe's first description of Tom. The story Douglass tells, though, allows him to reject her "simple" slave hero (Tom is probably the source for the pious "old slave" Madison encounters in Part II, and whose eloquent praying is a temptation he must resist), and to put in his place a well-spoken black man who fights and kills for his freedom. Douglass does not, however, dismiss Stowe's audience. He published the story twice in 1853 -- serially in his newspaper, and as his contribution to an Anti-Slavery anthology Stowe's publisher brought out (and that began with a poem by Stowe and the accompanying frontispiece at left). But he clearly designed the tale to reach the larger white reading public: one of the most interesting aspects of the novella is the strategic way it tries to lead genteel readers not only to active engagement in the abolitionist cause, but also to grant black slaves the same right to rebel against tyranny that America enshrines in its founders. The novella, however, does not seem to have had many contemporary readers, although it was reissued at least once, in pamphlet form in 1863. "The Heroic Slave," by Frederick Douglass (published in Autographs for Freedom, edited Julia Griffiths [Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1853]) CONTENT PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 REFERRAL https://utc.iath.virginia.edu/africam/heroslavhp.html CITATION https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/507-the-heroic-slave-from-frederick-douglass/
  17. INFO The Heroic Slave Frederick Douglass wrote only one work of fiction: this novella, loosely based on a true incident, about a slave who leads a rebellion on board a slave ship. Although it doesn't mention Stowe, it can be read as Douglass' attempt to contest Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novella's description of Madison Washington's appearance closely follows Stowe's first description of Tom. The story Douglass tells, though, allows him to reject her "simple" slave hero (Tom is probably the source for the pious "old slave" Madison encounters in Part II, and whose eloquent praying is a temptation he must resist), and to put in his place a well-spoken black man who fights and kills for his freedom. Douglass does not, however, dismiss Stowe's audience. He published the story twice in 1853 -- serially in his newspaper, and as his contribution to an Anti-Slavery anthology Stowe's publisher brought out (and that began with a poem by Stowe and the accompanying frontispiece at left). But he clearly designed the tale to reach the larger white reading public: one of the most interesting aspects of the novella is the strategic way it tries to lead genteel readers not only to active engagement in the abolitionist cause, but also to grant black slaves the same right to rebel against tyranny that America enshrines in its founders. The novella, however, does not seem to have had many contemporary readers, although it was reissued at least once, in pamphlet form in 1863. "The Heroic Slave," by Frederick Douglass (published in Autographs for Freedom, edited Julia Griffiths [Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1853]) CONTENT PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 REFERRAL https://utc.iath.virginia.edu/africam/heroslavhp.html
  18. CONTENT The following prime commentary was posted in the following URL Uniform Resource Locator https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12771-are-things-better-today-than-40-or-50-years-ago/ Prime Commentary @Pioneer1 you asked the following Are Things Better Today Than 40 or 50 Years Ago? and then you added specificity to your question with the folllowing How many of you think the OVER ALL financial and social conditions in the United States....especially for AfroAmericans...are better today than they were in the 70s or 80s? Whether you say yes or no, please state your reasons My reply I have to beak up your question into parts. PArt one, is the financial condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? Part two, is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? PArt 1 is a strict financial assessment. I argue the answer is no. But the why is fully supported. The first element that has to be answered with part 1 is , what is the financial condition of the black populace in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it? To answer the question just mentioned you have to ask, what was the first financial condition? The first financial condition matters for financial status isn't based on current scenarioes most of the time. The easiest example is white european wealth in the usa. JP Morgan is a bank in existence today, not because of the 1900s but because of 1492. why? jp morgans biggest accounts were from enslavers. Enslavers largess in profits didn't come from sales but came from the acquisition on land absent market rate or legal conditions, plus not having to pay an even wage and better, below market rate. Unionized labor is most expensive. But, competitive wage labor is second/like european serfs. But, enslaved labor saves money on serfs and non unionized labor. That largess in wealth allowed jp morgan to thrive and invest in other things. It all stemmed from clients whom never had to pay for land or pay any decent amount for workers. Financially, what is enslavement? Enslavement is a condition of complete financial absence. No revenue, no debt, no anything. So, from 1492 to 1776 in the european colonies, ninety nine percent of black people had complete financial absence. No inheritance could be given to the future, and they couldn't do any fiscal activity while alive. Now why did I say ninetey nine percent, James Forten, a real black man with a successful business in philadelp[hia before or after the colonies of england ceded from the english empire existed. one percent of black people actually were business owners , even while the law of the land was to not allow black people the status of human. Now from 1776 to 1865 enslavement of blacks to whites was legal at the federal level, thus enslavement had no financial change from the creation of the usa. So, from 1492 to 1865 99% of black people in the colonies that became the united states of america or the united states of america itself, had complete financial absence, no bank account, no money, no inheritance, no financial value earned or provided or shared or saved. No in 1865 the war between the states occured and the federal government says black people are citizens. But, two things occur simultaneously. First, the white populace in each state in the union, [mirrored by the growth of the original klu klux klan, which inspired the creation of the federal bureau of investigation] worked to destroy positive black financial activity. Second, the federal government chose to allow whites to terrorize black people , allowed whites to commit illegalities plus crimes against black people in each of the states. The end of reconstruction when the army left the south [which would be reintroduced in the 1960s ] is the general image of this time, in every state in the union, the white populace couldn't or didn't deny black people were citizens, but were allowed to terrorize black people using any method to stop positive financial activity. What is Jim Crow financially, Jim Crow is the maintenance of the financial condition of blacks enslaved to whites before the 13th amendment across the united states of america , by each white populace in each state in the union acting against black people, thus not legally enslaving blacks but creating a complete environment across the usa by having each state be the same way, all at the allowance of the federal government. And so Jim Crow has difference histories for each state in the union. In Mississippi or Louisiana or South Carolina or Georgia or similar , Whites had to first burn or hang black people through straight terror to force black populaces to be small enough for a white majority to control. Then after that the white populaces in each state used state law or governance to herd black people into prison for open end terms based on any crime they wanted to rebuild the state, maintain white land owners labor base by manipulating law until black laborers are indebted to white land owners forever, and delete financial profitability of black towns like rosewood florida or black regions of cities like greenville in tulsa by white terror , regardless of the black town or black regions financial profitability. Thus today, many and I argue the land to most black towns is owned by whites. Jim Crow ended in the 1970s, because of the civil rights act. Which I argue the federal government did to curtail the financial condition of all the states, who in 1965 were all dominated by white people and in particular white christian males. From 1965 to 1980, enough of the states financially changed to allow financial participation of blacks in them. Madam CJ Walker for Jim Crow proves like JAmes Forten for Enslavement that a one percent of black people existed as successful, revenue earning, business owners. New York, California, oddly enough even Texas, or similar allowed for Black financial participation for the ninety nine percent of black people in said states for the first time in 1980. But, Mississippi, Alabama, Vermont, Alaska, Nevada, and most others states in the usa in the gregorian year nineteen hundred and eighty had no financial allowance for ninety nine percent of black people in said states. So, from 1492 to 1980 , black people in the usa , circa ninety five percent, were denied financial ability, not merely opportunity but ability. It wasn't like 99% of blacks were financially able, 99% of blacks were financially disabled through white power. Now, you asked forty to fifty years ago. So, from 1980 to 2026 is the time you ask whether is better or worse financially. I argue no, because of the financial legacy of the black populace. Ten percent of the black populace in the usa today is financially better off but the problem is the negative financial legacy that Black DOSers carry. 1492 to 1980 isn't zero, it is negative. [White Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (White Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if White Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1] in paralell [Black Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (Black Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if Black Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1*(white value)] So a majority of Black people circa 90% have a highly negative financial legacy from their bloodlines past. That is not easily overcome. But to your question, nothing has changed financially, because the overwhelming majority of black people, from the many small impoverished black towns in the former confederate states, to the fiscally poor black segments of white cities in the north or west or midwest, I argue havent changed as they are as financially unable, less than opportune, as their enslaved forebears. No inheritance given to them from the past, no money earned in their life, no bank account, no inhertiance able to be provided to any in the future. That is financial absence. Now, to specifics, Black DOSers are the largest black populace in the usa. They reflect the mentioned financially reality. Black Willing immigrants are split between pre civil rights act 1965 and post civil rights act 1965. Marcus Garvey was an immigrant from the british territory of Jamaica, but he didn't present himself as a jamaican american, he presented himself as a black american. Why od I say this? Before the immigration act of 1968, Black willing immigrants to the usa, didn't see themselves as from country over black, they saw themselves as Black over from some country. The black willing immigrants pre immigration act, melded into the Black DOS populace as Black peoples. What is the point? financially, willing black immigrants before 1960s immigration act, didn't act isolated from the Black DOS populace. so in my view it is a financial fusion. Now, after the immigration act in he 1960s, black willing immigrant populaces are defined by the country they come from. Black jamaicans, black nigerians, black indians, and more. Why does this matter? First, willing black immigrants post 1960s immigration act are financially broken up between their countries of origin. So, the financial condition of the black populace in the usa, in modernity, has to be viewed as a set of groups each with their own financial situation. DOSers+ each of the country based black populaces have their own financial condition. Now anyone can ask, how to merge the financials of the black populaces in the usa... that will require the black populaces to make a concerted effort to do that. SOme in the 1960s worked on that , but again, white terror tooks it toll. as it did daily to 1492. My final point is, while the majority of black people in the usa, have the same financial condition as their enslaved forebears , as their jim crowed forebears did, the black one percent, from james forten through madame cj walker [who had her own brownstone designed and built by a black architect, as well as her home upstate new york state,, ] to the oprah winfrey's/byron allen's or others., the Black one percent has grown their wealth tremendously from 1980 to 2026. The black one percent is very wealthy and financially safe and has i argue the largest wealth gap, larger than fiscally rich whites to fiscally poor whites. So the ninety nine percent of the black completely enslaved populace from 1492 to 1865 became the black jim crowed ninetry five percent from 1865 to 1980 and turned into the historically fiscally impoverished ninety percent from 1980 to today. But the black one percent in the totally enslaved days from 1492 to 1865 became the wealthy five percent during jim crow from 1865 to 1980 which is not the ten percent black fiscal elite from 1980 to 2026. Your second question is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? First, socio means a common brotherhood , but is used to refer to an overall human condition. And my answer is , Yes. While financially the history of Black people in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it has three parts: Enslavement 1492 to 1865, Jim Crow 1865 to 1980, Multiracial USA 1980 to today. the birth of the usa mean nothing, the civil rights act means nothing, the world wars means nothing. many of the events that people of all phenotypes, deem relevant had no financial value to the majority of black people in the usa because of white terror. Socially, the human condition of Blacks in the usa has gotten better in regions . For example, in massachusetts, the black populace has an exponential curve over time with positive relations to whites. the confederate states is exponential but aat far less growth or intensity. Social improvmenet isn't about money but treatment. How is a black person treated in the united states of america, a white country? It has een exponential. IN CONCLUSION, financially, the overwhelming majority of blacks havent changed in the united states over all . Financially, an extreme minority of blacks over the past forty years have grown in wealth tremendously, and have created the biggest gap between the fiscal poor of their own populace. Said extreme minority hasn't grown in populace exponentially, but ther wealth has. Socially, gardless of financial condition, it has been a slow growth. In opposition to the financial terror white people placed on black people, the social patchwork of whites have made zones of decency for black people to live variably in the usa in parallel, not changing the financial condition but the social condition. Where from 1492 to 1980 the patchwork predominated. Mississippi isn't california, Louisiana isn't New York. from 1980 to today, as the usa has become a multiracial country financially with enough non white european christian male wealth in it, to have a fiscally wealthy populace that has representation across the human spectrum, the social condition has grown dramatically. And it is clear for all to see, the usa has competing populaces over the future identity of the usa. IT hasn't gotten violent or in aclear tribal multivide , yet but it is headed that way, unless something can preoccupy all groups to each groups benefit. But I don't see that or comprehend that on the near horizon. Post SCript When many people talk about the united states of america today, they forget that the usa was always multiracial in the population, but never multiracial in who ruled. white rules, christian rules, male rules,heterosexual rules, immigrant rules. And no matter what non whites like black folk, non christians like muslims , non males like woman, non heterosexuals like homosexuals , non immigrants like first peoples did, whether success of failure , they acted under white, christian, male, heteroseuxal, immigrant power. But, in the near fifty years since nineteen hundred and eighty, the multiracial growht among the fiscally wealthy has pushed the question of identity. A majoriy of fiscally poor whites who have a five hundred year heritage of winning over others, absent merit , using terror, want to do it one more time. to non christians, women, blacks, recent immigrants, the native american. The problem is, the culture the usa used to defeat the soviet union in the media front was more costly than many whites realized. The cold war has been done for circa thrity years but women aren't going back to the kitchen, blacks to the fields, immigrants to their countries, homosexuals to the shadows all for the white power community to have its place of domiannce as in the past. POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12771-are-things-better-today-than-40-or-50-years-ago/page/2/#findComment-82093 PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/735-economic-corner-40-05162026/ NEXT EDITION COMMENTARY
  19. @Pioneer1 you asked the following Are Things Better Today Than 40 or 50 Years Ago? and then you added specificity to your question with the folllowing How many of you think the OVER ALL financial and social conditions in the United States....especially for AfroAmericans...are better today than they were in the 70s or 80s? Whether you say yes or no, please state your reasons My reply I have to beak up your question into parts. PArt one, is the financial condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? Part two, is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? PArt 1 is a strict financial assessment. I argue the answer is no. But the why is fully supported. The first element that has to be answered with part 1 is , what is the financial condition of the black populace in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it? To answer the question just mentioned you have to ask, what was the first financial condition? The first financial condition matters for financial status isn't based on current scenarioes most of the time. The easiest example is white european wealth in the usa. JP Morgan is a bank in existence today, not because of the 1900s but because of 1492. why? jp morgans biggest accounts were from enslavers. Enslavers largess in profits didn't come from sales but came from the acquisition on land absent market rate or legal conditions, plus not having to pay an even wage and better, below market rate. Unionized labor is most expensive. But, competitive wage labor is second/like european serfs. But, enslaved labor saves money on serfs and non unionized labor. That largess in wealth allowed jp morgan to thrive and invest in other things. It all stemmed from clients whom never had to pay for land or pay any decent amount for workers. Financially, what is enslavement? Enslavement is a condition of complete financial absence. No revenue, no debt, no anything. So, from 1492 to 1776 in the european colonies, ninety nine percent of black people had complete financial absence. No inheritance could be given to the future, and they couldn't do any fiscal activity while alive. Now why did I say ninetey nine percent, James Forten, a real black man with a successful business in philadelp[hia before or after the colonies of england ceded from the english empire existed. one percent of black people actually were business owners , even while the law of the land was to not allow black people the status of human. Now from 1776 to 1865 enslavement of blacks to whites was legal at the federal level, thus enslavement had no financial change from the creation of the usa. So, from 1492 to 1865 99% of black people in the colonies that became the united states of america or the united states of america itself, had complete financial absence, no bank account, no money, no inheritance, no financial value earned or provided or shared or saved. No in 1865 the war between the states occured and the federal government says black people are citizens. But, two things occur simultaneously. First, the white populace in each state in the union, [mirrored by the growth of the original klu klux klan, which inspired the creation of the federal bureau of investigation] worked to destroy positive black financial activity. Second, the federal government chose to allow whites to terrorize black people , allowed whites to commit illegalities plus crimes against black people in each of the states. The end of reconstruction when the army left the south [which would be reintroduced in the 1960s ] is the general image of this time, in every state in the union, the white populace couldn't or didn't deny black people were citizens, but were allowed to terrorize black people using any method to stop positive financial activity. What is Jim Crow financially, Jim Crow is the maintenance of the financial condition of blacks enslaved to whites before the 13th amendment across the united states of america , by each white populace in each state in the union acting against black people, thus not legally enslaving blacks but creating a complete environment across the usa by having each state be the same way, all at the allowance of the federal government. And so Jim Crow has difference histories for each state in the union. In Mississippi or Louisiana or South Carolina or Georgia or similar , Whites had to first burn or hang black people through straight terror to force black populaces to be small enough for a white majority to control. Then after that the white populaces in each state used state law or governance to herd black people into prison for open end terms based on any crime they wanted to rebuild the state, maintain white land owners labor base by manipulating law until black laborers are indebted to white land owners forever, and delete financial profitability of black towns like rosewood florida or black regions of cities like greenville in tulsa by white terror , regardless of the black town or black regions financial profitability. Thus today, many and I argue the land to most black towns is owned by whites. Jim Crow ended in the 1970s, because of the civil rights act. Which I argue the federal government did to curtail the financial condition of all the states, who in 1965 were all dominated by white people and in particular white christian males. From 1965 to 1980, enough of the states financially changed to allow financial participation of blacks in them. Madam CJ Walker for Jim Crow proves like JAmes Forten for Enslavement that a one percent of black people existed as successful, revenue earning, business owners. New York, California, oddly enough even Texas, or similar allowed for Black financial participation for the ninety nine percent of black people in said states for the first time in 1980. But, Mississippi, Alabama, Vermont, Alaska, Nevada, and most others states in the usa in the gregorian year nineteen hundred and eighty had no financial allowance for ninety nine percent of black people in said states. So, from 1492 to 1980 , black people in the usa , circa ninety five percent, were denied financial ability, not merely opportunity but ability. It wasn't like 99% of blacks were financially able, 99% of blacks were financially disabled through white power. Now, you asked forty to fifty years ago. So, from 1980 to 2026 is the time you ask whether is better or worse financially. I argue no, because of the financial legacy of the black populace. Ten percent of the black populace in the usa today is financially better off but the problem is the negative financial legacy that Black DOSers carry. 1492 to 1980 isn't zero, it is negative. [White Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (White Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if White Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1] in paralell [Black Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (Black Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if Black Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1*(white value)] So a majority of Black people circa 90% have a highly negative financial legacy from their bloodlines past. That is not easily overcome. But to your question, nothing has changed financially, because the overwhelming majority of black people, from the many small impoverished black towns in the former confederate states, to the fiscally poor black segments of white cities in the north or west or midwest, I argue havent changed as they are as financially unable, less than opportune, as their enslaved forebears. No inheritance given to them from the past, no money earned in their life, no bank account, no inhertiance able to be provided to any in the future. That is financial absence. Now, to specifics, Black DOSers are the largest black populace in the usa. They reflect the mentioned financially reality. Black Willing immigrants are split between pre civil rights act 1965 and post civil rights act 1965. Marcus Garvey was an immigrant from the british territory of Jamaica, but he didn't present himself as a jamaican american, he presented himself as a black american. Why od I say this? Before the immigration act of 1968, Black willing immigrants to the usa, didn't see themselves as from country over black, they saw themselves as Black over from some country. The black willing immigrants pre immigration act, melded into the Black DOS populace as Black peoples. What is the point? financially, willing black immigrants before 1960s immigration act, didn't act isolated from the Black DOS populace. so in my view it is a financial fusion. Now, after the immigration act in he 1960s, black willing immigrant populaces are defined by the country they come from. Black jamaicans, black nigerians, black indians, and more. Why does this matter? First, willing black immigrants post 1960s immigration act are financially broken up between their countries of origin. So, the financial condition of the black populace in the usa, in modernity, has to be viewed as a set of groups each with their own financial situation. DOSers+ each of the country based black populaces have their own financial condition. Now anyone can ask, how to merge the financials of the black populaces in the usa... that will require the black populaces to make a concerted effort to do that. SOme in the 1960s worked on that , but again, white terror tooks it toll. as it did daily to 1492. My final point is, while the majority of black people in the usa, have the same financial condition as their enslaved forebears , as their jim crowed forebears did, the black one percent, from james forten through madame cj walker [who had her own brownstone designed and built by a black architect, as well as her home upstate new york state,, ] to the oprah winfrey's/byron allen's or others., the Black one percent has grown their wealth tremendously from 1980 to 2026. The black one percent is very wealthy and financially safe and has i argue the largest wealth gap, larger than fiscally rich whites to fiscally poor whites. So the ninety nine percent of the black completely enslaved populace from 1492 to 1865 became the black jim crowed ninetry five percent from 1865 to 1980 and turned into the historically fiscally impoverished ninety percent from 1980 to today. But the black one percent in the totally enslaved days from 1492 to 1865 became the wealthy five percent during jim crow from 1865 to 1980 which is not the ten percent black fiscal elite from 1980 to 2026. Your second question is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? First, socio means a common brotherhood , but is used to refer to an overall human condition. And my answer is , Yes. While financially the history of Black people in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it has three parts: Enslavement 1492 to 1865, Jim Crow 1865 to 1980, Multiracial USA 1980 to today. the birth of the usa mean nothing, the civil rights act means nothing, the world wars means nothing. many of the events that people of all phenotypes, deem relevant had no financial value to the majority of black people in the usa because of white terror. Socially, the human condition of Blacks in the usa has gotten better in regions . For example, in massachusetts, the black populace has an exponential curve over time with positive relations to whites. the confederate states is exponential but aat far less growth or intensity. Social improvmenet isn't about money but treatment. How is a black person treated in the united states of america, a white country? It has een exponential. IN CONCLUSION, financially, the overwhelming majority of blacks havent changed in the united states over all . Financially, an extreme minority of blacks over the past forty years have grown in wealth tremendously, and have created the biggest gap between the fiscal poor of their own populace. Said extreme minority hasn't grown in populace exponentially, but ther wealth has. Socially, gardless of financial condition, it has been a slow growth. In opposition to the financial terror white people placed on black people, the social patchwork of whites have made zones of decency for black people to live variably in the usa in parallel, not changing the financial condition but the social condition. Where from 1492 to 1980 the patchwork predominated. Mississippi isn't california, Louisiana isn't New York. from 1980 to today, as the usa has become a multiracial country financially with enough non white european christian male wealth in it, to have a fiscally wealthy populace that has representation across the human spectrum, the social condition has grown dramatically. And it is clear for all to see, the usa has competing populaces over the future identity of the usa. IT hasn't gotten violent or in aclear tribal multivide , yet but it is headed that way, unless something can preoccupy all groups to each groups benefit. But I don't see that or comprehend that on the near horizon. Post SCript When many people talk about the united states of america today, they forget that the usa was always multiracial in the population, but never multiracial in who ruled. white rules, christian rules, male rules,heterosexual rules, immigrant rules. And no matter what non whites like black folk, non christians like muslims , non males like woman, non heterosexuals like homosexuals , non immigrants like first peoples did, whether success of failure , they acted under white, christian, male, heteroseuxal, immigrant power. But, in the near fifty years since nineteen hundred and eighty, the multiracial growht among the fiscally wealthy has pushed the question of identity. A majoriy of fiscally poor whites who have a five hundred year heritage of winning over others, absent merit , using terror, want to do it one more time. to non christians, women, blacks, recent immigrants, the native american. The problem is, the culture the usa used to defeat the soviet union in the media front was more costly than many whites realized. The cold war has been done for circa thrity years but women aren't going back to the kitchen, blacks to the fields, immigrants to their countries, homosexuals to the shadows all for the white power community to have its place of domiannce as in the past.
  20. RMNewsletter 5th 06212026 A Father's Day Solstice https://open.substack.com/pub/rmnewsletter/p/rmnewsletter-5th-06212026?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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    I said the following initially 06212026 A Father's Day Solstice I love my father. And while I will not tell a personal story, for those are for me to know and enjoy [ though I admit I have written many things about my father or mother in my work]. When I think of my father and why my mother loves him so much, it is a line from the film, First Knight, when Guinevere was asked why she loved Arthur, her answer simulated what my mother said about my father. It is the way he wields power so gently. Thinking of my parents fathers, I can see why my father has his natural temperament, besides the temperament he was raised to have. When I think of my parents fathers I can see where I get my own natural temperament , and I am thankful for my father's specific guidance on the temperament of a male. Thinking of my parents parents fathers, I only know of half of them. The fiscal poverty of black people from the late eighteen hundred or early nineteen hundreds has a role to play in their exposure to modernity. But from what I can gather, the half of my parents parents fathers I don't know were Black men who worked all their lives , living with the financial legacy of enslavement to Non Blacks , in an environment controlled by non black people infatuated with making black life challenging. To the half of my parents parents fathers I know of, they each had a more financially fortunate stock, oddly based on non Black patronage , what I tend to call the Black one percent. And for those who may know, those whose spirits fly free are never gone for we have the gift of memory, where we can feel the past , in the present, whenever we want. I searched my public gallery for father's day and father work. I think an artist with years of work in their public gallery should be able to highlight any artwork for any occasion. I choose the following two works as most representing Father's for father's day. Tell me what you think. I have them below if you don't want to go anywhere. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Dawanga-1015908954 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Henda-jr-and-the-Highest-Striker-1116366320 the search returns https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=father%27s+day https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=father DAWANGA DAWANGA CONTENT HENDA JR AND THE HIGHEST STRIKER HENDA JR AND THE HIGHEST STRIKER CONTENT
  22. NYC has always had millions of people from the 1900s to today. What does that mean, one percent of a million is ten thousand. One percent of seven million is seventy thousand. One percent of ten million is a hundred thousand. NYC has never had one percent of its population murdered. If the FBI reports are true, someone has been lying about NYC.. For me the point is, it seems , that in the year two thousand and twenty six, the blacks and non blacks who needed to create a myth about violence, are no longer relevant and the truth of nyc can come to the foreground in media. I wish in years past, when Harlem was black this could had happened, but I comprehend the agenda of the black + non black people who supported this view for thier agendas. the non black supporters were multivided into :those who simply dislike black people and like to speak ill of black people which is a long heritage among many non black peoples., immigrants who didnt want the crime or illegality of their immigration from being news and supported any ill speak to black dosers as they knew it would highlight in white owned media, the nypd or other law enforcement agencies who used the media perception to gain alot of government funding that strengthened the nypd to have a quantity of members beyond the city's need but within the nypd's need to be a fiscal + bureaucratic organization so powerful that now in two thousand and twenty six they are above the law or above being regulated efficiently, real estate industrialist who used the media perception to augment the evaluation of the real estate market which is solely based on speculation , which means what people see, not what people calculate. The black supporters are multivided into the following: a set of black people as a minority paired group to a non black group above [blacks who have a heritage of black hate as much as non blacks who have a similar heritage of hating blacks, black immigrants who wanted the same cover over their own illegality or criminality in their immigrant status like non black immigrants, black law enforcers who joined non black law enforcers in using the media perception to grow the position or stature of the law enforcement populace they are apart of, black real estate owners who have wanted to use the media position for the same real estate games their non black counterparts do ] , the black church who has never forgiven the larger black populace for leaving the black church after the black church failed to get results in the mid nineteen hundreds [the black church made a great error, they positioned the black populace using their role/status to have a peaceful relationship with the nonblack but the black church miscomprehended that the majority of black people in the usa never accepted or desired the incremental non violent plan that the church put forward and tied with white violence over time, as jamesbaldwin alluded to, black people started to ask, when is this going to be over in the usa, when will freedom occur and the black church has only been able to answer with faith which isn't an answer ], the black one percent, the top of black business [ many of black business leaders /leadership populace from early 1900s believed that black business could figure out how to do anyhing, but they miscalculated that the majority of black people in the late eighteen hundreds never believed in the usa or its fiscal capitalism mythos, they were simply too fiscally poor to leave or had no where to go to, Black immigrants come to the usa to make money, Black DOSers want to leave the usa for freedom, these are not the same ] statistic from nyc, and i know these numbers are not including the people uncounted for in NYC https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/historical-population/nyc_total_pop_1900-2010.pdf this is from the FBI and covers all of New york state [they say in 1989 only 2000 people were murdered in all of new york state] https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm FROM URL BELOW NYC Hits Record Lows in Murders and Shootings Through May 2026 Last updated 19 minutes ago Official NYPD data from January to May shows 102 murders, down 20.9% from last year and the lowest since tracking began decades ago. Shooting incidents fell 5.7% to 247, with victims down 7.1% to 289; major crimes dropped 6.2% citywide. Mamdani, the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor sworn in January, credits community programs and public safety investments, while NYPD highlights gun seizures and focused patrols. Supporters praise the leadership, but skeptics question underreporting, even as experts confirm NYC's homicide rate is now the lowest in over 100 years. URL https://x.com/i/trending/2068522487248310662
  23. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earn-the-color-me-club-June-2026-Profile-Badge-1344333250 CONTENT No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @color-me-club and the other Community Affiliated groups as part of Deviantart celebrating PRIDE!!! It is June and we feel it is time to be proud and show pride. To get the badge make a deviation with the hashtag #CreateWithPride and place a coloring of the image below [ it is free to download] with whatever symbols that make you feel proud. You need not explain the symbols to anyone nor be afriad to use the symbols you feel proud of. Don't worry if you see this challenge after June 2026, the badge is open to be earned by any member of Deviantart after June 2026. MY EXAMPLE OF PRIDE Remember to have fun A Small Gallery for more Inspiration #createwithpride #colormeclub #pride More by HDdeviant Earth Day Tree MeasurerApr 7, 2026 Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! The oldest person you know, Mama Earth is having a celebration April 22nd, shhh don't tell her. Let us celebrate who will protect our loved ones when we are long dead. Who nurtured our bloodlines for each and everyone of us to exist. Who has the resources for all to live in peace but allows all of us the freedom to be what we choose to be. Here's to MAMA EARTH! To celebrate Mama Earth let's help her measure her greenest children on land, that being trees. To do this we each must craft a simple clinometer PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRAFTING [a multimage] [DEVIATION] CRAFT MATERIALS Cardboard [stiff] Protractor[ half circle shape with one hundred and eighty degrees, needs the origin hole, it is midway of the baseline ] straight ruler pen colored pencils string coin tape sewing measuring tape CRAFT INSTRUCTIONS Color the cardboard, the background color Place EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 NO MORE LINEART ENTRIES OR COLORING ENTRIES ๐ŸŒ… Easter Eggs: April 2026 Contest ๐ŸŒ… Brought to you by: [EMOTE][EMOTE] [EMOTE] Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! [EMOTE]๐ŸŽฏ THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Nativity, Nationalism, what do those words bring to your mind? Many things as they should, for both words are rooted in the word to be born. Like every idea born in your mind, no matter it's quality, it had to come from you. As April is the month of Easter, named after the spirit of Spring, nothing encapsulates something being born more than the egg. Create a line art of a EASTER EGGSโ€” more than one but the exact number Whimsy Unlocked -April Profile Badge 2026Apr 1, 2026 Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! [DEVIATION] Join @CRLiterature and the other Community Affiliated Groups as part of the community in Deviantart celebrating Whimsy & Play for April. Here are the prior months in @CRLiterature [DEVIATION] How does one be whimsy and play in literature? I honestly wouldn't know. But, I do know that everyone who is alive today plus old enough to read knows of the work titled "How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?" from Nada S. Q. Earl The two hundred and twenty three thousand one hundred and thirty seven [ 223,137 ] magnum opus published 1964 by Planning Parrot , available in every language. We all know the publication of the book has two uncommon factors. 1) The author made every printing a new edition. 2) The author didn't make a prologue to any edition. Your task to unlock whimsy is to take your edition of How~ and make the #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #2Apr 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. In this edition we focus on the earliest films written/produced/directed/acted by Black people simultaneously. This leads to only one, Oscar Micheaux. Can you find evidence of earlier films written/produced/starring black people concerning the following themes? "Scary Film" ; A Son of Satan (1924)- a man sleeps in a haunted house, some of the cast from the stageplay Shuffle Along are in it. "Film Noir" ; The Exile (1931) + Underworld (1937) both the exile + underworld have proper femme fatale's like Double Indemnity. What do I mean? In Double Indemnity, 1944, the femme fatale played by barbara stanwyck is assaulting or murderous on her own. Fred McMurray isn't required for her to be a murderous or assaulting. To often in film noir's women are Featured in Groups color-me-club ยฉ 2026 HDdeviant
  24. Thank you @AmmaK @Amma King from hawaii https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2026/06/12/hawaiis-largest-juneteenth-celebration-is-back-its-5th-year/
  25. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Juneteenth-2026-CRLiterature-BlackHistory337-1346548011 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. Juneteenth represents the first major event for Black people in the USA. The reason it isn't independence day or the colonies or states is because during all those times Black people were enslaved to Whites. Whites enslaved Blacks in the lands that became the USA and during the USA itself, as a law of the land, from 1492 to 1865. So for Black people in the U.S.A. the birth of the USA didn't change the condition of Black people. Most of the Black people who fought for the independence of the colonies from the english empire were enslaved to whites in the usa after said independence. But, the end of the War Between The States, commonly called The Civil War , did represent a true change for Black people as legal enslavement, which was legal in the english colonies or the usa itself, became illegal for the first time. Lift Every Voice And Sing's lyrics was written by James Weldon Johnson while the musical accompaniment was made by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905. Lift every voice and sing, 'Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on 'til victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come, over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, 'Til now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land GALLERY L Literature Lift Every Voice and Sing T-Shirt: Celebrating BlaCelebrate Black history, heritage, and pride with L Literature Lift Every Voice and Sing T-Shirt: Celebrating BlaCelebrate Black history and culture with J Literature James Weldon Johnson Negro National Anthem Lift every voice and T Literature The Freeman's Complaint ~The Freeman's Complaint , a late response to the Slave's complaint Forever! was wrote by my forebear long ago a dreamy exaltation, to know to reach where our ancestors sew before unwanted immigrant woe However! I ponder unsure from where I lo no shackles , white heritage tow to embrace the easy Aquilow forlease my black blood 's coveto However! time give far more than the past can kno Black moderns have freedom to grow to other plus our old blood's mow Forever! is not for most one ro However! I can see a wisdom's cando my forebears want stars unsow to accept failed plans but trow and be past vowfree to any pro Nowever! I wish all skinkin good fortuno even if path's differ in glow or I doubt success while a said tow Now to happiness , Forever! so from Richard Murray NOTES: first line from the last line of The Hope Of Liberty, page 10 , THE SLAVE'S COMPLAINT.[ Forever! ] "forever" meaning for eternally "exaltation" meaning a rising "to know" meaning toward knowing "immigrant" J Literature Juneteenth 2023The Ancestral Tree + Brah Soul Sun images plus poetry below is for Juneteenth 2013. The date is June 19th based on the date of when general order number 3 was proclaimed, stating all enslaved in the state of Texas was free. < wiki information , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._3 ; image of original form , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._3#/media/File:General_Order_No._3.png > . HeadQuarters District of Texas Galveston Texas June 19th 1865. General Orders No. 3 The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, โ€œall slaves are free.โ€ This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at MORE INFORMATION https://juneteenth.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/09/us/lift-every-voice-and-sing-trnd/ https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/638324920/american-anthem-lift-every-voice-and-sing-black-national-anthem https://web.archive.org/web/20150216231459/http://www.nationalconvocation.org/Portals/NC/SELAH%202013%20WINTER%20WEB%202-7-13.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:What_is_Juneteenth_video_about_the_House_Democrats.ogv https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R44865 https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/discrimination/celebrating-freedom-juneteenth-and-emancipation-day-commemorations-richmond-va/ THE MONTH OF JUNE Black337 post #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #4Jun 2, 2026 #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-2026-2027-4-1339274920 #juneteenth #blackhistory337 #black337 #jamesweldonjohnson #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr

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