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richardmurray

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  1. @ProfD I am not proselytizing. But I do comprehend in greater ways how powerful the media narrative developed by white media and the black church is when it comes to MLK jr. It has grown since his murder and been used to give him a holier than status.
  2. @Pioneer1 globally recognized? not everyone views Mensa like that? humanity is quite large you know. disability does not make one dumb and to education... i argue education is rarely designed functionally, anywhere in humanity. so you believe in smarter and neutral, not smarter or dumber... ok simple things but powerful things two big oceans border the country, neighbors who have always been impotent or at least not able to strike hard, and only two by land. a financial history, including the white european colonial, where inequal or uneven financial system allowed for the production of weapons at larger quantities than most, not quality , but quantity. For me, nazi germany or soviet russia built better weapons by a mile than the usa, but no one produces more than our friendly neighborhood white slaver. a media machine, originally designed to unite whites who had competing heritages historically, that many outcast of groups/communities/collectivies celebrate as a way to be their individual self in spite of a said group. this yielded and yields traitors throughout all humanity including white populaces, and sometimes only for information, not murder or similar. but useful. No weapon the usa has is exclusive to the usa, but usa has more of them. But none of the usa military rivals had enslavement like the usa. russia was an empire and cossacks and checyens were abused but they weren't enslaved like blacks to whites in the usa. The soviet union has a pro european bias in its populace, a heritage from the czars, but russia has been battling all of its life it has never been far from a rival. China has never been far from a rival, and its neighbors have at times been far more powerful. so the usa has fortune on its side, most empires do. IT isn't smarts or intelligence. hmmm, the heritage of the usa is private care, ala fiscal capitalism, if you can pay for a doctor you have one. public hospitals heritage in the usa is from pro bono work, not for profit. but I still don't see why bankruptcy denies the good or service being present. bankruptcy forces the ownership or provider of good or service to change, which is appropriate since the prior owner went bankrupt. ...What your saying is some goods or services can't risk even 24 hours of not existing. no, nyc has been underserved by hospitals for its entire history all ideas work, from monarchy to anarchy, it is only a matter of implementation. And yes, those in the future have the right as imaginative beings to see a way of implementing not seen before. universal income will not delete currency, if I said I feel it will , I apologize, that wasn't my intent.
  3. @Pioneer1 nice try, you changed the course organizations and contest liek this do, the people you referred to are media people, none of them run pageants or anything similar race is any factor, phenotypical is just one even enough but fredi washington didn't, and more importantly, to the idea of beauty , we black dosers have to embrace our reality. We are a people who were once completely enslaved, that comes with a history of sexual abuse that leads to mixed babies, and the heritage of DOSers in the usa is for the mixed to be part of the black group. That is the heritage. rightly or wrongly. Now to the future, it seems the latin american pardo/casta heritage is settling in the usa, and will finally be the factor to undo what the one drop rule set in. but until then, the yella woman is black. what determines a black american isn't universallly defined by blacks. the issue pioneer is you keep missing the lack of consensus, means every black in the usa doesn't see anything in one way. natives? you mean choctaw or seminole? since chinese food in the usa is not actually chinese cusiine from asia, and has more in common with tacos why not? yeah but that happens in the usa, because this country is the king f lawsuits which kill events. and that is because the usa protects individualism and individualism by default means no one's definition is ever correct. a trasngender woman can sue to be in a contest for humans born with a vagina. You say short sighted, but I argue, an inevitable reality of the usa. you see this in the white populace, it is a pan statian reality I disagree 100% , again miss black america or miss black usa prove you wrong. In media things that black people/dosers actually own or control in the usa I find the advertised image of black women is usually not upheld through the lens of the yella women but through the cocoa women. but both are still black. And as for all the black or non blacks in white owned media who emphasize the yella women over the cocoa women in the black populace, well, that is white owned media. even enough, though I rather posit I am being too demanding to the tone or function of discourse. @aka Contrarian miss america is run by whites... miss black america + miss black usa are run by blacks and i don't think any of their winners or contestants are offensive. I know I am not alone in said thinking. unfortunately the media of the usa has become such a marketplace + battleground+ tool that it has grown in influence. And some little girls are orphans, some little girls are abused by their blood kin, some little girls don't find enough of themselves in those at home. the reason a little girl can find inspiration worth emulating are many. Ideally a little girl should be raised by her parents or the greater village to be herself, and figure out her role, not model off of anyone. Interesting, I never wanted to impress anybody as a child.I only had one poster of a human figure on my wall.
  4. @ProfD your correct, but he wasn't the leader, but a leader, and the spokesman role was given to him by others. exactly, but you presented a level of idolization to MLK jr that warrants anyone to state a less idolized opinion, which I did. I quote you, I I also mentioned other leaders, it is interesting that you focus on the mentioning of mlk jr when i mentioned leaders before or after him with the same failures, and said leaders before mlk jr were needed for the black collegiate movement/naacp /garveyites and et cetera which was mandatory in the early anti jim crow era for the later laws to come into being. again, that is media, not truth. The movement by Black people made the impact, white owned media + the black church created the myth of mlkjr as THE leader when he wasn't, he was a leader, among many, but he was the only leader that fit everything white media or the black church needed. And as in all the schools named after george washington who was a leader not THE leader of the colonies freeing from the english empire. so mlk jr is beyond questioning ? i question all peoples. I don't have an idolization of anyone in that way, though i wonder how many black people similarly idolize bond. And, I never minimize the impact of the movement of Black people. It is interesting you focus so much on mlkjr. hiding behind the theme of this post your own idoltry. which I oppose. @Pioneer1 no human being is, because we are human being. But the problem is that, some people unfortunately, think negative judgement lessens the value of another, or questioning another lessers said anothers role. It is very jesus /pope/schrumpft like, that thinking. well, remember, black people when the usa was started still were able to get along, not all black people were enslaved. I am not suggesting, that anyone black should assume a peaceful life aside whites in the usa, but I Can see a black person coming to the conclusion that a peaceful coexistence can be a goal. Nothing is easy, but I can comprehend it. Would I have chosen it? no, but neither did nat turner, or assata shakur... so, I don't mind some black leaders having that path. right but this is why the congress is the only branch of government that can make law. the congress is born from the states. it isn't executive. even though schrumpft is part of a change started since abraham lincoln hmmm I get your demographic position. but since the black populace was minoirty to the white, even before the 1900s immigrant waves, wasn't the heritage or culture of DOSers always in need of attention. Maybe not danger, but I don't think the black church built up what needed to be carried/heritage, or tended what needed to be grown/culture. It is interesting that sinners comes out one year before the usa's 250 year anniversary, one of the messages in the movie is the black churches hindrance. The blues players father, is a hater. a knocker. he doesn't want to help, he wants to knock. We all know how many black churches criminalized black people who didn't sing gods music, before 1940, as well as after. Your right, their wasn't competition among minoirty quantities in the populace BUT why did the black church not try to bridge booker t and wed dubois/garvey and dubois/ garvey and booker t? why did the black church treat blues and jazz musicians so negatively? why did the black church treat hustlers so negatively? the my way highway vibe of black churches before the immigrant waves came, i argue was very detrimental to the larger populace later. yes, cheap hindsight but it is clear. And i argue with their role, no excuse existed, no excuse. your wrong about china. China has an engaged bureaucracy. People vote, I argue china has more involvement of its people in its government than the usa does or a western european country does, not just in raws numbers but in percentage. Remember the current chinese government is a creature of the 19000s, and one born from being enslaved to the usa/japan/western union. Thsoe three groups taught china to dislike the media dysfunction of government. countries that have big songs and big flags that hide the ugliest realities. the usa calls itself the land of freedom, while in truth has only destroyed many peoples. the usa is a white european country trying to sell itself as it isn't. China is proud to be a chinese country, who at least is more honest to the immigrant than the usa by a mile. I know your a statian, Pioneer, you have a pride about the usa from the black history that supported it. And china as a white asian country, is an enemy of the usa, although why wouldn't china be when the usa at one time owned a piece of china. North korea is a monarchy. It isn't like china. And, because I don't find any government system sinful I will say, North Korea's has two problem. 1st is the usa, who has put north korea, like iran , like cuba, under a severe strain on all fronts. The historically funny thing is iran + cuba+ north korea have one thing in common, they each insulted the usa, neither actually ever committed a crime to the usa while the usa committed crimes to them. the usa invaded cuba using cuban traitors and failed, the usa's murdering europhile puppet in iran failed, and the usa invaded korea when north korea had the whole peninsula but north korea survived. After 9/11 the usa talked about being invaded and axis of evil, and lied about afghanistan or iraq, but, based on the reaction the usa had to 9/11, cuba+iran+north korea have the right to bomb the usa. 2nd, the kim jong clan have to embrace a simple truth, the usa took their fate, absent usa involvement all of korea is led by the kim jong clan, but the usa as a country of power meddled. tehe kim jong clan have to find a way to end the demilitarize zone. I know no koreans made the zone but that is the challenge. we all know the truth, the panthers/naacp/baptist preachers/drug dealers, the fbi and cia had agents everywhere. in all organizations including white ones. I have always asked that the old files be made public. I think all of humanity could use every single agent of the 1900s whether dead or alive exposed. cause I think that would explain a lot but.... @aka Contrarian I said my forebears saw black people laughing at Malcolm, not that my forebears laughed. But yes, many people in harlem laughed at malcolm in the street. And your surprise shows the strength of media. media has created a myth of malcolm + mlk jr that is false. Two great leaders, more alike than different. each wanting integration or peace. Both eloquent speakers. their only true difference as leaders was mlk jr , from the christian baptist heritage, speaks through hope, while malcolm learned from his father, not elijah muhammed but his father, to speak through truth. white people in the usa historically hate any black person who speaks through truth far more than any other black person. the native american is irrelevant, the white american is a true sinner, black dosers are cowards, immigrant americans are foolish traitors. IT doesn't mean each has to be that way forever, or is that way in every single individual, but it is the majority truth. how do you define militancy? cause I have never seen malcolm as militant? I think he was a garveyite like his father, I think he did believe in self defense which his father+ mother needed, but so did mlk jr? is exhibiting self defense a sign of militancy? or is not saying things to make others comfortable , militancy? when I think black militancy, I think of nat turner/jean jacques dessalines/the black loyalists/the quilombos in south america/ann zhinga against the portuguese. I don't think of malcolm or the panthers.
  5. @ProfD Well, first MLK jr alone didn't do anything. The idoltry to him I am 100% certain he would oppose cause MLK jr wasn't the leader of the anti jim crow movement, he was a leader. HE was part of a group of Black people doing many things, often in concert to help the larger village. So no matter what one black person is doing, if they are not part of a group of people doing similar it will come to nothing. where are the groups of Black people doing something together? Cause no one was a superman during the 1960s for black people. I don't think MLK jr would praise his activities or status so greatly. And not from modesty but honesty. How many black children have been killed by whites since MLK jr died? I count many. How many black peple have been assaulted by whites from no provocation of their own, being nonviolent, since MLK jr died? You speak of what MLK jr did and yet what he did wasn't enough to stop the millions of assaults on black people from his death to now in the usa by whites. Mae Louise Walls Miller was freed side her blood relatives from enslavement pre jim crow style in 1963. Malcolm was murdered 1965. MLK jr was murdered 1968. So Both men and many other black leaders died less than five years from a known case of black enslavement to a white in the usa... MLK jr was a great leader but the environment for the greater black people proved failures on the parts of those before him like boooker t washington or web dubois and the environment after mlk jr proved the failures on the part of MLK jr and his peers like malcolm. well so could MAlcolm, so could medgar evers... the list is long. Your speaking of one man when a large group of black people in the time MLK jr lived warranted as much or more than hime, and had as much or greater opportunity for personal financial betterment.
  6. Second third of the care network zine from @ayeolaomolara https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805916678965919744?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #ayeolaomolara
  7. Here is the first third of the Care Network Zine! from @ayeolaomolara https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805916676008853504?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #ayeolaomolara
  8. Introducing the Care Newtwork Zine! from @ayeolaomolara https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805916660884291584?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #ayeolaomolara
  9. Nicholas (Ìbànújẹ́) Apẹja from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805916420765614080?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  10. This was for a moot on tiktok a while ago idk why I put it in drafts. But this his her Oc Luna from @jollofmunchrr https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805831234733457408?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #jollofmunchrr
  11. Head of Oba (king) from @bruthablack https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805817694956994560/head-of-oba-king-made-in-nigeria-this-is-known #blackartistoftumblr #bruthablack
  12. Wish there were more x readers w him from @jollofmunchrr https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805762630709084160?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #jollofmunchrr
  13. Shen 10 using his gauntlet to summon his monsters from @qtcomicsblog https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805741166439088128/shen-10-using-his-gauntlet-to-summon-his #blackartistoftumblr #qtcomicsblog
  14. Abdul Jemage reference sheet from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805714957102694400?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  15. Ayọ̀mideji Apẹja reference sheet from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805692611077799936?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  16. (Free) fufu or fufu alternatives characters comes with your choice of hat and either wrapped or unwrapped from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805641818897301504?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  17. The vessel from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805639226061406208?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  18. Just a quick (shortened) video I did for Wisteria Willow Wednesdays. from @wisteriawillowacademy https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805569503544098816/just-a-quick-shortened-video-i-did-for-wisteria?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #wisteriawillowacademy
  19. the man who wants the world to burn from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805559052670255104?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  20. Abbati Jemage reference sheet from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805543446594093056?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  21. yusuf Jemage reference sheet from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805465790099898368?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  22. abdul in the spirits world from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805384097926119424?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  23. an animation I did in my native language. Bruh and the captions gave up halfway lol from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805339667613548544?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi
  24. the cursed man from @banzaboiieatskilishi https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/805281522907283456?source=share #blackartistoftumblr #banzaboiieatskilishi

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