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@ProfD in the black conference on day 4, linked below, i think a sister said a similar thing about how people call writing about slavery trauma porn. Adding her position to yours, I do realize the issue is integration. I will explain. For over one hundred and fifty years, since the end of the war between the states, the majority of black leadership in the usa has sought integration to whites, those who once completely enslaved us. And in that time the black populace who at the end of the war between the states was compelled more to kill whites, nat turner's leadership, leave the usa, garvey leadership , through the efforts of said majority leadership [douglass /web dubois/booker t/ida b well/sojourner truth] the majority of the black populace in the usa embraced in varying styles or qualities or intensities , integration. But, some things can be integrated. Some things are segregatory. Legacies are one of those things. This is why the scottish people keep talking about cessation from england. The scottish people never wanted to be in england. The english government used money and the members of the scottish government/parliament [a majority of scottish leaders] to create a peaceful union against the wishes of the scottish people, that is a legacy that will always hold true, even though today most scottish people in varying ways embrace the united kingdom. The legacy of being enslaved is unique to Black DOSers. It isn't with other black people from nigeria or jamacia. It isn't with non blacks. It isn't with non black native americans. It is a legacy that can not be integrated. It is unique to black dosers. And, it is negative. So i concur to the power of time as you suggest but I do think the issue of Black DOSers wanting to integrate at all cost in a populace in the usa that is getting more and more filled with people who have no relationship to Black DOS tradition, unlike white people descended from enslavers or native americans, and don't care. It is a blackwashing, but not from miseducation as much as a desire to be happy in the integrated mix of the usa. I will rewrite myself and argue, I think many black DOSers want to be like the black folk who just come to the usa in 2024. IT isn't an antiblack desire as much as a desire not to have a legacy which if honest puts one at odds with the usa or the white people in it while less innocent as the rainbow of immigrants since the immigration act. And, black leadership in 150+ years in the usa has rarely embraced the concept of something black people have are unique and can't be integrated. In the same way, native american leadership has done similar. ... yes the prison industrial complex has grown in palin sight. @aka Contrarian yes it is very touchy. First, taking out the entertainment industry, no industry in the usa has a greater black presence than black people as legal men of arms [us military/law enforcemeent agencies of state or city] plus the incarcerated. So I am talking about the second most important industry to black people in the usa. Which has led to levels of financial wealth or financial security for black homes throughout the usa on the armed side while led to many broken homes on the incarcerated side. Second, even though the black populace owns no gun making firms in the usa , to my knowledge, and there was a time in the usa when white people called knives, nigger guns, cause black people were dissuaded by the white populace to own guns the modern black populace from the nineteen hundred and sixties to now have got access to guns and the financially weak situation of the black populace in the usa has led to street violence. I have to say one thing, white people in chicago committed levels of gun violence that black people never did and have not. PEople forget how chicago/new york/los angeles white populaces had levels of gun violence that would shock modern media if it was to happen. I know in nyc, the irish/italian mob wars. Third, no organization in humanity is evil. Humans who do good for other humans is in every organization in humanity, regardless the percentage. So with the financial relationship to the black populace in the usa, the modern design of the gun totting, the humanity in law enforcement or similar, this is touchy. Many black people have people they live with who are law enforcers/soldiers and can't accept or will not accept them being bad mouthed. And some black law enforcers deserve to be protected from negative judgement based on their own actions. It is touchy. And Aka Contrarian, people your age in our village aren't supposed to be leading, you are supposed to be watching younger generations lead and guide even younger generations to become the leaders, so that you feel secure leading up to the moment when your spirit flies . You are a member of the black race and it always matters what you think. Your role is to live as happy as you can, and if the village is strong, support you. This is how I was raised in our populace anyway. You don't need to come up with the solution, that is the job of black people from younger generations like me. I do think the problem is the crossroads black people in the usa find themselves in. What does it mean to be statian , of the usa or american? What is the goal of the black populace in the usa? These questions rarely get answered but in them is identity.

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this video is from the ny times it evades the visions of laughter from law enforcement. SOmeone attempting to hang themselves is funny. the following is from ny1 where i got the stills, most of the news outlets to their forever dishonor have omitted form their videos the clear evidence of law enforcers laughing at this. I know many see the issue as feliciano but for the issue is black law enforcers who think hanging is a joke. I don't even know what my parents parents who knew what a hanging of a black person was like will say. I wonder. Let alone my parents, parents, parents whom i know were abused by whites in various ways I will not go into. Offline, black people have defended black law enforcers actions with a veil of love. Online, similar black folk have praised or repreived black law enforcers. But now I have irrefutable evidence of the true negative nature of Black law enforcers in the usa, a tribe in the black populace in the usa. For now on I will share this whenever anyone brings up a black law enforcer. Black law enforcers are not honorable, they are hungry. In the same way black people join the military , black people join law enforcement. For food. The black populace of the deep south, places like flint michigan, the fiscally poorest black regions fuel the ranks of the us military cause these are the black people with the least money and they don't have the ability or desire or support to act illegally for financial betterment. so the military or cops it is. the difference is the military's structure or role has a strict function, preserving the empire. Preserving the empire warrants far more negative actions than law enforcement will ever know but said actions require a certain tact which is absent in law enforcement. Law enforcement has always been a legal mob, a legal gang, A legal operator in illegal activity, getting continuous payments while free from any of the negative judgements. Black law enforcers in the usa for me betray more of black peoples forebears in the usa than any other group in the usa. seconded by black soldiers. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/public-safety/2024/04/08/family-speaks-out-about--28-7m-settlement-after-suicide-attempt-on-rikers-island photos

no my statement said all+ none, which provides small guidelines for interpretation

@Pioneer1 I see, i am not interested in any proselytizing. I don't care how you arrived at your conclusions for your own life, you have made many of your positions known. I want to know what your doing outside critique side those who are like minded to you.

What function if any at all will DSNP have with EPUB? I comprehend that DSNP is a protocol, a rule set , and epub is a file format, a structure for data, a duplicatable structure for data. so Epub is a an object above the application layer while DSNP is designed to be a replacement for at least the application layer protocols and , I guess, at most the internet layer of protocols. But I ponder can dsnp be accessed in an epub. I know an epub can utilize application layer protocols to connect to the larger internet and utilize data. Is it possible for DSNP to be utilized through an epub, conceptually at least? I admit in my mind I figure DSNP with its individual markers may not be usable through an epub as an epub has duplicate structure. But I want to pick the brains of any project liberty developers who see this https://forums.projectliberty.io/t/dsnp-relationship-to-epub/386 dsnp meetings https://vimeo.com/showcase/public-dsnp-spec-meeting spec pages https://dsnp.org/

@Pioneer1 I have said in this very forum in the past I don't consider myself allegiant to any government. At the least I have never pledged to the usa flag nor have i ever served in any governmental post. Nor have I been to prison. No government has earned or warranted my allegiance in all humanity. So the quickest answer while the answer that allows for false assumption is, all+ none. Now I have two questions, first why did you ask that? I already answered the question in this forum so re-answering it wasn't a problem. And I never once in this forum ever suggested I was inviting anyone on here to join me personally or my tribe in the village offline. I have only suggested activities or invited others to aid aalbc as a black owned online entity. second, what does that matter to you? Maybe I am too comfortable with other black people. Pioneer1 I don't toward your feelings to the usa, that you share side many other black people, no matter what you truly feel. I don't know you, and you don't know me. So I will never ask you your comparison of countries. But you asked me, why does it matter to you?

@aka Contrarian everyone loves for all we know, this is one of my favorite covers, of it enjoy

Well... all I can say that has value is, in my offline life I have known black people who are proud to be citizens of the usa, who despise the usa, who want to leave the usa, want to have a black city of greatness in the usa, who hate other black people by default in the usa, who can't stand black communities in the usa, who can't stand non blacks by default in the usa or more. I have communicated to representatives of many tribes in the black populace in the usa, maybe that is a uniqueness living in new york city , and I didn't and don't have a problem with any membership. All of them have a heritage stemming from the british colonies that became the usa. But I can't stand when they speak ill to each other. Cause they have no need to. I have said offline to other black people, if you want to kill whites, go and kill whites, but don't call other black people traitor because they don't want to, some black people died to make the usa born. I have said offline, if you want to vote, go and vote, but don't call other black people disrespectful to their ancestors cause they don't want to, some black people died to stop the usa from being born. And yes, I rarely can resist being honest and saying more black people fought against the creation of the usa while most black people wanted to flee as far from the usa as possible. I don't mind any identities in the black populace @Pioneer1 my knowledge of history when it comes to black people is quite global, individually we have many paths, but don't condemn those on another path. They are on their own path and it has its own way or solutions that usually don't fit the black person who is condemning. I rather black people condemn those on their own path. And that is what I rarely see. Black elected officials count in a higher quantity today than any time after Jim crows installation by whites . yet said black officials spend most of their time proselytizing, condemning a larger black populace whose tradition is exodus from the usa, not embracing the usa, not citizenship in the usa. Ala a reason why Shirley chisholm left, and john lewis stayed. She didn't want to spend a career proselytizing, he did. You asked me in this forum about black militants and I didn't answer. I didn't answer cause that isn't my path. I have always disliked the usa, always will, but it is up to the militants to find a way. I know in my life in nyc, i have read of many black people in nyc alone, who attacked whites for being white. I know while the populace of vengeful blacks is a small part of the black populace in the usa, it is far more than one person. If they are fortunate their tribe will find a group or individual who will lead to better action. They clearly haven't but they can. I wish them well. I have another path.

@Pioneer1 excellent point, we don't even concur on the problems, which on a larger level explains the reality in the larger populace.

National Black Writers Conference Daily 2024 Write up Day 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66190 Day 2 part 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66193 Day 2 part 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66212 Day 3 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66414 Day 4 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66507 the 5th

Day 4 1->Regina Brooks [ https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Regina+Brooks ] 2->Karen Hunter [ https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Karen+Hunter ] 3->Christopher Jackson 4->Lisa Lucas 5->Jamia Wilson [ https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Jamia+Wilson] M->Moderator: Yahdon Israel M Question # Answer My thoughts M How to help writers publish ? 3 No normal production cycle, manuscript and editing and nine months o processing. Sales meeting, whose the audience, how to make audience visible 1690 project was six or seven months in production. Intense editorial process 4 information sheet, sales conference people, sitting in a room discussing how to sell the book and they go around The problem with many artist: musician/writers/illustrators is they ask how to help get published when publishing isn't the problem anymore in modernity, if you live under a government of power. A million online forums exist to publish audio/visual content for free. The question people want is how to lead to profit legally in a sure fire way and said way doesn't exist. You can research till eternity, research your industry till eternity, it will not guarantee a work become financially profitable. M How many books published? three million in total. Two million self published. One million by major publisher. People don't see the context of failure from success. To get a number 1 is hard. 2 She came in publishing pollyanna. She went to her first sales meeting, and is hyper competitive. Most of the people at the top of the masthead know nothing about blacks. What most units of any book you sold 3 Three million The USA has circa 325 million people in total. one percent is three million. The black populace in the usa is circa 47 million so one percent is 400,00. The black populace of New York City is circa 1.7 million. So New York City has circa 4% of the black populace in the usa. So , if a black author, I am thinking of myself, can get a quarter of the black populace in NYC. That isn't bad. 400,000 at the least is six figures and if your book is double figures we are talking a million. Not bad i say. M Somebody does a report , publishing is dominated by whites? 4 Nobody listens to me 2 Editors still feel the need to cater to white. you have to get clearance of publisher, so you need green light. But clearance is not on publishers. 4 You need CEO's that are people of color to make it change. Hundreds came in three years but none have left. We haven't changed retail , group cons, the bureaucracy of the industry is still mostly filled by whites. 2 The success is by luck, Harry potter sat in some one's bin. You put money in. You get money back. Austerity, she brought in big names on the cheap. 4 All skin folks ain't all kin folks. Celebrities of color have not been treated as white celebrities have. They put a lot of white ghost writers on them, not same per diem. But the basic mechanism are getting better. That changes the conversation. 2 It is more complicated if the whites know charlemagne an d the black book ecosystem. 1 Many industry elements are not consistent in the industry. How am*zon or Barnes and Nolbe compare to black book sellers. How to change? Some is data. They d a lot of research and development. But But publishers do a lot of gut but doing more data lately. I have always said nothing is stronger than being an owner, in any industry. But the black populace in the usa, who in majority embrace nonviolence, are on a path of non ownership. You can't be an owner when the owner is already your enemy and you choose not to attack them. Working through the system doesn't work. The people who mostly own in the usa, didn't work through a system to become an owner. They murdered another, another being the native american. M With all acknowledged, what sustains you, keeps you going? 5 I love books. We love our people, we want to create opportunities. I envision my audience for my writers. Who might see themselves changed. I love a riddle of a book that presents challenges. For "The black period" the details bring her joy. Calling people who have hardships and being able to tell them they are about to get alot of money. 4 I like a good fight. Winning s possible. She sees many older generations. It is a cycle. We are proof it is a cycle. It isn't overnight work. I say " I am sick of these people" She sees more people buying books. How many people have bought a book in a week? 3 When Lisa was at the national book award she changed it from a national white book award. He mentions Yahdon. 2 I don't have Jamia's joy but feels optimistic. There are gatekeepers but if you have it can be published and have an audience. 1 I am an eat what you kill as an agent. I am not salaried. We can all keep creating and doing new things. It is hard on poets but we will work with people. Audio book over text. More Black press. Loved ones offline keep me going physically, but mentally or spiritually, it is that I like to create . Question and Answer Q Question # or M Answer My thoughts Q What do you do to relax? 1. She fishes, she loves to fish and fly her plane. Playing pinball lately:) Q What is the myth or realities of AI publishing? 2 She want people to know as much about AI as possible. 4 She is doing a book with an AI writer combination Modern computer power allows a unprecedented level of mimicry or imitation. And as time goes on computers will gain a stronger imitative ability to all arts. The question is the path to profitability will require imagination. Q She watches Karen on youtube, what is happening on black owned publishing? 2 Just U Books, she works with M am*zon can sell cheaper but often we are asked to spend more cause they are black owned. I funnel black authors to independent sellers. Publishers is who we as consumers support, if you say support black and you are looking at your budget and you don't buy black you are talking sideways. We did an event , with an independent book seller. They made no record. No record was made to notify. How you run your bookstore as a business matters. In terms of sustainability we can publish books but if we don't know how to navigate it , it is sending a good signal through a bad device. I return to ownership. Black people in the usa are not historically an owning populace... they are an owned populace and the path of integration doesn't have a destination in ownership that blacks in the usa need, desperately. Q You have a sea of black folk interested in literature. Is their a way to send work and not to the slush pile? What about story collectives? 2 If they want to submit to me, if you say you were in the conference you can send it to her. I tried but I didn't get or didn't see the reply Q She just published an ebook, and she is overwhelmed . Her book is about vulnerability. And she hasn't received good feedback, and her history in NYC, and how you pitch? M Publishing was best in 2020 but the two highest titles were back books and biographies. 96% of debut sold less than 500 copies. What people don't comprehend is it is a slow industry. You have to reconceive success. If you look at Toni Morrison's career you may say great but that is a career. Many writers put so much energy in a book that if it doesn't return they are spent. Every engagement or moment is part of the process. An artist told me a while back, if you stay in the game long enough money will come. Look at George r Martin, in all earnest. The wealth took so long, he is to old to finish the winds of winter. Q [The questioner asked a question so long I lost track of it] What was the book that was great for you? 2 You need an editor 5 She broke into tears when a black woman, a stranger, recommended her book " mambo sauce" to her At the end of the conference, it affirms what I have said in the past few years. Art has two sides, a creative side commercial. The creative part is free for all to do today, from your inner mind to being published. This means the quantity of published content is larger than ever in all fields. But the commercial now has an issue today. The quantity of oversaturation is so high , all artists need a way to get through it. to be viewed by a larger audience or attached to a larger audience. This is why publishing firms are still needed cause someone has to spend advertising dollars for your work to be seen by a larger audience if unattached, even if you are famous. The second is a group. Find something a group can be a part of,that fits your art. not simple but...

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@Pioneer1 Of course most black people in the usa or the english colonies that preceded it have a high sense of loyalty or comradery, said people are financiially poor. Conscious + loyalty + comradery I see, you think once a black person is in the government system those individual aspects are all that is required. Shirley chisholm spoke before she died on government in the usa , she disagreed with you. a false assumption of suggestion. I said what i said. I didn't suggest anything to cosby. If I feel cosby should be sent to prison i will say it. I never said that. My point is cosby or others is not getting support outside the legal system from the larger black populace for their own actions. As patti labelle said, speaking on the industry, if you are good to people, people are good to you. this is the usa, ask the native american about living and let living, the usa's first or primal heritage is the opposite of living and let living. You and I 100% have a dissimilar opinion on the usa. Ahh a very functional point from you. I will love for an investigative reporter to make a detailed account of hbcu's , schools plus graduates, functional reply to cosby. I am not talking about peoples words, most black people in the usa always say the same old lines, but I am talking about legal actions. I wonder if even character witnesses were offered. All the people you spoke off, can potentially offer a long list of character witnesses.

@Pioneer1 ahh you assumed I suggested. Your assumption is wrong. I didn't suggest anything, i said exactly what I said, no suggestions needed. I will say , someone is blocking pioneer if I think someone is blocking pioneer. I communicate directly, i don't care for veiled messages. TO me, in a discussion forum positivity equates to function, in a forum section about culture, race, economy there is no functional need for sweetness or kindness. there is a black positivity section in this forum . The functional thing there is sweetness or kindness which serves the function to uplift but not in the culture race economy subforum. the functional element in this subforum is problems and solutions. What are the problems in the culture, what is grown, the race, the phenotypical populace, or economy, the financial activity? and what are the solutions. You suggest many problems while offer little to no solutions. That is your choice. But the quality of the forum warrants discussions as well. and to that judge your prose dysfunctional. Now Troy owns this website, not me, just in case you assume i suggest. I never said anyone should do as I say, or you have to stop or change. I am judging your prose in this forum dysfunctional. That isn't rude, that is an assessment which i think has proof. As to the larger internet spaces. yes, alot of that goes on, I have been privy to very little of that snitching overall , but i have seen it be devastating to some users. I concur some like getting other users banned or similar, but not because they can snitch as much as the platform allows the snitching to have value. I argue the problem isn't snitching but the platforms who realize that the reacting to users complaints on other users grows a negativity which serves the function of wasted commentary. I will love to know how many posts are made per day by people who argue about getting blockaded on websites. which are great posts for websites because the talking point becomes the website itself. Troy doesn't want a forum, which I am thankful for, that empowers snitching. Snitching is silly, for me, most connections online are to strangers, complete strangers. so, the best thing is to ignore on your own, if you really can't stand someone.

you can still get in at the time this topic was posted and she may add down the line

@Pioneer1 I never said anyone was stopping me or putting an obstacle in my path. why did you suggest i said that? Well, to others who post positively plus supportively I don't ask. You are one of the few people I have asked this online. The one thing you have in common to others I have asked is your style of judgements to other black people.

@ProfD thank you for providing your solution. @Pioneer1 Well, the question is, what can force "Black people in positions of power and authority in the Justice Department " to do as you say? From my reading of the law, once in they can act as they want as long as it is legal and in the usa, the umbrella of legality tends to be quite wide "you think he deserved to go to prison while blind and in his old age?" well, first, i never said he deserved to~. second, i have to sadly quote myself , " all of these black men have made other black people unhappy with them for at the least arguable reasons. ...when one needs help or support you don't have it to those you hurt. " so all I said was these black men made enemies in the black populace in the usa based on their own actions to other black people thus in time of need, they will not get the maximum support from the black populace. Phlicia rashaad supported cosby, some in the black populace spoke ill of her for doing it. a black female business owner supported r kelly while other black women criminalized her for doing it. But cosby would had more black supporters if his actions weren't so foul to some other black people over the years.

same area @Pioneer1

@aka Contrarian in defense, p diddy has been philantrhopic in the black populace in nyc . He has financed many things and he doesn't have rockefeller money. From Cosby to R Kelly to Tavis SMiley to P Diddy while all of them have black people who don't care for them, some from personal experiences, most in my offline or online who are black have accepted the inequal adjudication to black male entertainers of money, whether they like them or not. @Pioneer1 What do you suggest black people do ? March for these black men. I know some have marched. But I will defend the larger village [ from Cosby to kelly, to SMiley to diddy is that a song? The Easy Es:) anyway ] and say that all of these black men have made other black people unhappy with them for at the least arguable reasons. Let's be blunt, cosby was wrong to lisa bonet. She did nothing wrong but be a young thespian and he acted like she had killed a kid. Don Cornelius allowed porn star heather hunter to dance on his show until the white people above said no. Heather hunter never disrespected soul train while dancing in it. lisa bonet never disrespected the cosby show while acting in it. soo...when one needs help or support you don't have it to those you hurt. @ProfD thank you as I am a writer, but the question now is what do we black folk do about it:)

@ProfD I will also add philosophical, you mentioned many financial tribes in the black populace but also add the philosophical tribes[ black militants still exist in the usa, even if a small percentage of the black populace and white philes exist in all the financial tribes you mentioned ] , the religious tribes [beta israelites for example], the geographic tribes [eritreans for example] which add a tribal complexity when merged to the financial tribes which you correctly listed. And yes, all black tribes are sitting uncomfortably under white supremacy but as a brother in the conference suggested https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66414 and I suggest with such a multivariant set of tribes, some of whom want to be white, white philes, or want to coexist positively to whites absolutely extreme nonvolence, the black populace has always since the end of the war between the states had a hard time galvanizing under white supremacy. Black empowerment they all can galvanize under, but the problem is the goal or destination hasn't been found that satisfies all. I will adjust your last sentence, from my point of view. The system of white supremacy created by whites in the past operates for all white people's benefit regardless of the growing tribal variance of whites in modernity. It is not that white people are on code, but the system has a code, and the system which was made by their forebears doesn't require white unity to maintain it.

@Pioneer1 I am trying to help grow AALBC. I try to communicate to black businesses in my local community to join on aalbc. And I have plans with my Black Games Elite group to hopefully bring greater user activity to this website. Why? as a nationalist, I like things born from black people and this site is something born from a black person. In the internet environment that is rare. So there you have it. As for offline I choose not to say. But I am very private about my offline life. Now to your question, you don't advertise it for me, you advertise it for the larger populace. Hoping to find a like mind, or maybe get help. Yes, critiques or judgements may come from other tribes in the village, but that doesn't matter. You can criticize/judge my desire to make AALBC a stronger website in any which way you want. I will discuss it but any negative judgement will not influence my goal.