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  5. Two things outside and one Inside

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @Pioneer1 

    the only issue I raised is a question, is the severity in which  black people communicate our troubles  fair or unfair based on the activities of others? 

    I used two cases, one of white europeans, concerning violence of men to women  in general,  side one of white asians , violence of men to women or children sexually, to display how another community has a publicly stated problem that can be deemed worse than the black community. 

  12. Two things outside and one Inside

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    TWO THINGS OUTSIDE

     

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    1 in 3 German men find violence against women 'acceptable'
    06/11/2023June 11, 2023

    A survey commissioned by Plan International Germany found that 33% of male respondents thought violence against women was acceptable. Almost half of respondents also felt "disturbed" by public displays of homosexuality.

    A third of men in Germany find violence against women to be acceptable, gender equality campaigners said on Sunday.

    According to a new survey, 33% of men aged 18-35 thought it was "acceptable" if "their hand slipped" occasionally during an argument with their female partner, while 34% of respondents admitted that they had been violent towards women in the past.

    The nationwide survey questioned 1,000 men and 1,000 women aged 18-35 and was commissioned by children's charity Plan International Germany.

    The findings are "shocking," said Karsten Kassner from Federal Forum Men, a German group that advocates for gender equality.

    "It's problematic that a third of the surveyed men trivialize physical violence against women. This urgently needs to change," he told the Funke newspaper group, which is set to publish the full findings on Monday.

    More than 115,000 women in Germany were victims of partner violence in 2021, according to federal police data. That equates to 13 women each hour. In the same year, 301 women were killed by their current or former partner.

    The survey also examined other perceptions of gender and sexuality among German men and women.

    It found that 52% of men said they believed their role was to be the main provider in a relationship, and that their partner should mostly run the household.

    Meanwhile, 48% of respondents also expressed a dislike of public displays of homosexuality, saying they felt "disturbed" by it.

    "Traditional gender roles are still deeply ingrained in people's minds," Alexandra Tschacher, a spokeswoman for Plan International Germany, told the Funke newspaper group.

    zc/lo (AFP, KNA)

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    https://www.dw.com/en/1-in-3-german-men-find-violence-against-women-acceptable-survey/a-65884531

     

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    Japan raises age of consent and redefines rape
    6 hours ago6 hours ago
    Japanese lawmakers raised the age of consent from 13 to 16, marking the first change since 1907 and aligning with global norms.

    Lawmakers in Japan on Friday changed legislation to raise the age of consent from 13 — the lowest among developed nations — to 16.

    Under the stricter sex crime laws, lawmakers also broadened the definition of rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse."

    The expanded definition includes acts committed using drugging and intoxication. It also criminalized the grooming of minors.

    Other changes include a crackdown on "photo voyeurism," so-called upskirting, filming or photographing under a skirt without consent, and secretly filming sexual acts.

    Japan's laws regarding sexual consent drew significant attention in 2019, after a string of defendants charged with sexual crimes were acquitted.

    It led to the Flower Demo movement, with groups of sexual violence victims and their supporters gathering once a month to demand changes to sex crime laws.

    Japan last revised its criminal code on sexual offenses in 2017, for the first time in more than a century, but campaigners said the reforms were insufficient.

    The age of consent — below which sexual activity is considered statutory rape — is 16 in Britain, Canada and most states in the US, while it is 15 in France and 14 in Germany and Italy.

    Another significant criticism of the old law was that it effectively blamed victims for not resisting enough.

    Japan has now identified eight scenarios under which rape prosecutions can be made.

    These include victims being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, being frightened and perpetrators taking advantage of social status.

    In addition, "visitation request offense" — people who use intimidation, seduction or money to coerce children under 16 to meet for sexual purposes  —  was also criminalized, and perpetrators face a prison sentence of up to a year or a fine of 500,000 yen ($3,500; €3,197).

    lo/fb (AFP, EFE)

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    https://www.dw.com/en/japan-raises-age-of-consent-and-redefines-rape/a-65935226

     

    ONE THING INSIDE

     

    Michael Jordan is selling his ajority stake in charlotte hornetso again I repeat from the sister, "the family won but the community didn't"

    read more here

    https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2349&type=status

     

  14. Reddit and the future of the internet, with a thought to aalbc

    in Culture, Race & Economy

    Posted

    @ProfD @Pioneer1

    so you guys suggest donations , on the resources webpage tools to make revenue exist but not a direct donation. 

    Resources for African American Writers, Authors and Readers (aalbc.com)

    do you guys think he should set up his own donation service on aalbc, restriccted to the usa or even the northeast of the usa? or use one of the others like kickstarter or indiegogo , gofundme, patreon, or similar? 

     

    I wonder @Troy are you willing to do domainnames or website hosting  for black entities not authors? 

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  15. Reddit and the future of the internet, with a thought to aalbc

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    Reddit's ceo admitted what most, who know how many modern media or tech firms history are, already know. 

    Reddit has been around for 20 years and never made a profit. Same as Netflix who only made a profit after seven years without, and has financial wobbles since. 

    Same as Tesla motors that was not profitable for years , until it was, and has financial wobbles since.

    Twitter again, is highly used and has never been profitable. 

    Netflix is trying to end sharing passwords. 

     

    What is my point? Not the following

    Websites are costly, people for some reason don't think they are. But if you have a financial loaning network behind you , you can grow while unprofitable. 

     

    What is my point? A question and I ask all of us regulars on this website , to aid  @Troy  who has posted about this website a number of times. 

    What do you think can be done to aid AALBC financially ? 

     

    It is clear that many larger websites are being pushed on the path to true fiscal capital profitability and in that journey the decades of cheap or free or financially dysfunctional actions in a fiscal capitalistic assessment have generated an online populace that has problems accepting an internet that pays for itself. 

     

    What do you think can be done to aid AALBC financially? 

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  16. The Ancestral Tree- a Juneteenth poem

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  20. Dr. Cornel West Running for POTUS

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @frankster

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    So you are a Loyalist?...

    I am always willing to publicly state myself, offline or online. And it isn't proselytizing , it is me clarifying who I am when asked, which I think too many people don't do or do with enough quality. As it is, I will answer the following questions, as I offer no answer for yours explicitly. The reason being it is to simple.

     

    If I was living at the time of the war between the north american british colonies side the united kingdom plus I had a choice from the only options of being enslaved to whites/free fighting side whites  against the creation of the usa/free fighting side whites supporting the creation of the usa will i choose free fighting side whites against the creation of the usa? yes I will choose free fighting side whites against the usa's creation 100% plus even if I knew the future, still 100%. 

     

    Living in modernity, am I a loyalist? no. 100% I am not in support of fighting for the united kingdom against the usa in modernity. Not because the usa is good or positive but other options have existed since the end of the war of 1812 than fighting side white people for any agenda for a black person in the usa, that a person like me would and do find more favorable.  

     

    Living in modernity, do I support elements of the Loyalist's community: the anti-usa/the use of violence/the anti white american, while I am not conveying the extent to which I support said elements? yes I support all three but the extent or methodologies in which I do I did not and will not state. 

     

     

  23. Dr. Cornel West Running for POTUS

    in Culture, Race & Economy

    Posted

    @frankster

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    Yes Blacks are not  Monolithic....

    Whether they are wrong or incorrect depends on if they are on track to achieve Worthy Goals or are being led by Selfish Deceptive Losership.

    Its funny, i have thought about that phrase that many black people in the usa like to utter a lot in modernity . I realize now this juneteenth that it is not good enough. 

    Many black people like to say we are not monolithic while same black people like to proselytize to black people who are variant from them. 

    I personally have never believed any black people are incorrect. The founding of the usa, i repeat had three black tribes in the black village, which predates the usa, like the white or indigenous : enslaved to whites/free fighting for the creation of the usa aside whites/free fighting against the creation of the usa aside whites. 

    Yes, black people's heritage in the usa is to not be monolithic but the details or what is most important is deeper than that.

    The original three black tribes in the black village  in the usa had unconnectable goals/views/desires while a nonviolent approach to each other, while the white tribes in the white village in the usa  historically are very violent to each other but have connectable goals/views/desires. 

    This juneteenth i am making a pledge which I will state here beforehand, to focus on my tribe in the village in the usa, and blacks outside the usa , with the black community outside the usa in various governments really in scenarios different than in the usa. as for tribes not my own, I will do my best to support them to be for themselves, and stop all tribes from proselytizing, which i will end as well. 

    Black nonviolence to each other has bred a preaching way in which black people with opinions or views to variant to connect end up trying to convince each other. 

     

    and to that end

    you asked

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    What is the best reason in your opinion to vote for a Candidate?

     

    I am not of your tribe. I have already stated my opposition to the path that Cornel West is about. All black people want betterment for black people but in the usa the paths  of the tribes are not the same and can not combine. 

    I will answer what is the best reason in my view for a black person in the usa like you to vote for a candidate in the usa ?

    Simple, you believe in the usa, you have faith in its laws, you dream and desire what its nascent documents have alluded to. So you have to participate even if you have no candidate that provides a platform you can connect to. I will only suggest, black people like you need to put yourselves on the ballot when you don't have a candidate, cause sometimes no candidate exists and if no one going for a post has a platform functional enough to you , then you can't expect that position in government to have anyone functional. 

    I know what my triibe in the usa wants and I have no doubts now that it isn't any elected officials in the usa. The key is for my tribe to succeed in its goals regardless of other tribes. 

  25. Dr. Cornel West Running for POTUS

    in Culture, Race & Economy

    Posted

    @frankster

    to cornel west, we will all see. I think you should sign up to be part of his campaign. You seem to support him very strongly. 

     

    As for the black community, we differ on viewing or interpreting the relationship of the black community to the usa or the european colonies that preceded.. The best news about that is, it is a heritage for the black community in the usa to schism over its relationship to the usa. And going into juneteenth, that maybe is the one thing most black people in the usa have a hard time accepting. That while the black community has always had varying camps on the relationship of black people to the usa, none of those camps are in the wrong or incorrect. The only question is which camp do you belong to and how best are you in going forward to where your camp wants to be. 

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