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  1. @Pioneer1

    You don't care for musicals?

    @Troy

    yes, slowly but surely next to the master,  this is the frederick douglass way, right, over one hudnred and fifty years. It isn't meant to be short term. the idea , though i oppose it, i comprehend. Work hard next to your enemy and maintain that lifestyle with the next generation even if you can't leave them anything and black films,  black presidents and black billionaires one day. yeah ok. that is why he opposed violence/ leaving the usa/ segregating actions, all three of those things would make his path even longer for the black populace in the usa. It is shortest if all black people buy in it, but of course, that goes back to the black populace in the usa's internal schisms. 

     

  2. @Troy I have continually made the argument that the black populace in NYC and the larger usa is large enough to have many different places. That has been my point when someone black says they grew up in hell, well someone else black in the same city grew up in heaven and that is not an impossibility and my only issue here is the idea from you plus  pioneer that it is somehow impossible that some black people had a brilliant time in the same city where you lived in hell. I tell you , people in my bloodline older than you Troy, never lived in a hell, and I was honest and said that others in my family had a similar experience to you. 

    It is all NYC, the fact that it is impossible for that to be true for some black people leads to the larger issue. From schools to the condition of the street, i can tell you of various black experiences in NYC but speaking for myself  plus similars it was great, it was flat out great being in this section of the black populace in NYC. 

    You grew up on park avenue. 113th street. to close to whites for me. 

    You know what's is one of the odd things for me. I see more homeless, all colors but more importantly all ways now, than i did as a kid and harlem has so many whites. but it makes sense, the poorest flow nearest the money. 

     

     

    To @Pioneer1

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    Because if just ONE person is a victim of a violent crime, that's one person too many and we should focus on ways to prevent it from happening again.

    The key is to prevent violent crime WITHOUT taking away people's rights and oppressing them.

     

    If YOU were a victim, you'd want someone to address it and not brush it off as just another miniscule statistic of such unimportance that it's not worth the attention.

    ok, again, i want it known, i know black people in nyc who said and say like you as well as black people who said and say like me.  In terms of policy or laws, i think what this situation proves is a key problem in the black populace. This  is unbridgeable, like I think many frictious issues in the black populace historically. 

     

     

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    If you want to prevent that 5% from escalating to 15% and then to 50% of the population...then you better make sure you have effective law enforcement on the streets to keep the crime and violence in check and subdued.

    I have always opposed that positon. You want people to be happy, then you have to help them be happy. Wealth is the key, money is the key. But of course, this goes back to another simple prolbem in the black populace in the usa. All black people know whites run things so black empowerment or improvement will not happen easily and moreover, black people haven't been able to have access to the financial betterment that genocide to natives or enslaving a people who don't look like us brings. 

    The national urban league suggest 200 years to equity and I think of james baldwin, whenone of his last speeches he said, when will it happen, for my children or their grandchildren. That rate is slow but it makes sense to me as black wealth in the usa has never been through financially opportune scenarios, again, let black people in the usa have access to the financial wealth garnered from slavery + genocide and we will jump up quick. That is how white people did it.  They were not working the land or working their own land.

    https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2024/03/08/national-urban-league-president-discusses-new-report-on-black-americans

    so, you get black people who say, since black financial betterment, which is the true solution in fiscal capitalism to make anybody content is barred for most black people, you better simply stick dogs on the poor. Cause most black people have always been in the usa , the financial bottom. Which si what the enslaved are. 

    I comprehend your position, i know you may not like my language but it is your position's reality. and one that has been uttered again in harlem by many blacks, most importantly by  blacks whose financial fortunes are ... better.

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    As you said, most of them routinely list Harlem as about HALF Black.
    However they say about 30% or about 1/3rd "Hispanic".

    But most of those statistics fail to mention that the vast majority of Harlem's Latinos are actually Black themselves!

     

    They seem to be only counting Black Americans as "Black" and counting Black Latinos and quite possibly Black Caribbeans and Africans as "other".

    well, in my experience the phenotypical association of latinos isn't a simple generaliztion witin the latin american popualce in the usa or outside of it. I will simply say i concur that the demographic data has challenges in nyc. 

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    You're focused on stats and I'm focused on real life and the effects certain events have on people and society in general.

    from my view, you want to discount my real life because my real life is different than yours. But again, this isn't something new in the black populace in the usa. It is an old story.

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    People are interested in things BEYOND the events they see every day.

    Earlier in your prose you suggested I don't care about reality or am ignoring reality but you just admitted that commonality is not worth to be shown cause it is common. I accept your position but I am sticking with mine. 

     

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    Realistically you're not likely to completely end violence in this world as we know it, BUT you can do things to reduce it.

    but you said you wanted 0% so the truth is, you know 0% is unachievable but you want to reach it, that is a cycle to nothing. I choose ot live another way.

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    So you want to see school kids hanging out with and smiling with niccaz on the corner slanging dope?

     

    How about when one of those pushers try to push some of that dope on ONE OF those smiling children???
    Would that be ok with you too?
    Maybe get some 5th graders strung out on crack or heroin at an early age so he can have a customer for years???


    How long do you think the smile would last on those kids faces after a RIVAL dope pusher from other block pulls up to challenge the ones on the current corner?

    Real excitement, huh????

    Maybe  where you live or lived most illegal drug dealers want to hang out with children but not where I live. And, will i be ok with an illegal drug dealer trying to get a child? no. But if 99% of drug dealers are not trying to get children I can accept it. Again, 100% is impossible. And As the latino illegal drug dealing covers where children recently died in NYC showed, latinos didn't suggest the same as you to their populace when a child was found dead by their drug dealers negligence or uncaring. why? it isn't a common thing.  Ar epeople unhappy or upset, yes, but it isn't a symbol of their community though i know.. we all know many drug fronts exist in nyc. 

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    I think they criminalized themselves when they came here illegally.

    this issue we have gone back and forth with proves media not actions matter. It doesnt matter who commits a crime it matters how media present it. The real estate industry burned the bronx to the ground, a public secret all in harlem or the bornx knew, the law enforcement knew, the fire department knew, but the media said it was black people, black people who share your views said the wild criminal blacks, and that is that. 

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    It's more quiet because it's less crowded....or gentrified with middle class people of all races.

    and less poor. again, black people in the usa collectively have more welath today, wealth all earned nothing through slavery, genocide, tricks, even the illegal money is earned cause we never controlled the sources of any drug, which is where the real money is, dealers is what 95% of black illegal drug traffickers are. but to the point, it is more money. money in fiscal capitalism breeds more contentment cause who is more content when they can't pay rent, buy food, pay for electricity, buy clothes.  And again, black people, the majority come from enslaved bloodlines that had to literally work every generation to make money, no shortcuts. better happiness helps. but why should most black people be happy in the usa, historically at the least?

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    I don't think ProfD or richardmurray will like what I'm about to say next but.....

    one thing, when any of you on this platform speak your truth i see it as your truth, i can either oppose it, or concur to it, or have a neutral view, but it isn't a matter of like or dislike. My question is not to your position or truth, but to the larger village. You , and I sadly have to repeat this constantly, like Troy or others I have met offline, offline, have said similar. I believe I said that so many times in this one comment stream, I will promise myself not to say it again. But I also said tha tme side others said different and the larger point is, these positions don't have a bridge so this maintians the deep issue in the black populace in the usa , which it has always had, starting with the usa's founding where again, most free blacks fought against the creation of the usa,  the minority of free blacks fought for the creation of free blacks, and the majority of the black populace, the enslaved, hated whites plus the usa and only wanted to kill whites and leave the usa but wee shackled to whites or the usa. Three positions that don't fit each other and that heritage of positons that don't fit each other remains strong.  

  3. topics

    The forty-second of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work.   

    Poetry for Joe Biden's 03/08/2024 state of the union speech

     

    IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: Christina game from Dualmask,  What is an art medium you appreciate but don't practice, and why? , Proof the War on drugs was a lie , Who are some of your favorite women artists? , Relief from Mary Ann Ozurumba , Frederick Douglass view on the constitution's role in slavery in the usa , First Black Female Owned Marijuana Business in Brooklyn

     

    URL
    https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/09/03/10/2024-rmnewsletter.html

     

     

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  4. Someone somewhere online said the following

    "I don't read books, I'm too lazy for that tbh"

    Now audio books exists and video exists which can provide information to a user, so I did not quote this person to suggest ignorance. But the quote made me think, as a writer. 

    Question

    Z)To the growing populace in humanity who do not read books and by extension, don't read much, are video learners, what is the financial opportunity for the writer?

     

    Someone somewhere online said the following

    "I always considered the holodeck to be the worst idea they came up with--an egregious mode of self-indulgence totally at odds with the advanced, enlightened civilization the Star Trek world was supposed to be.  The holodeck is something our spoiled, gratification-obsessed culture would come up with, not the forward-thinking citizens of the Federation."

    It made me think about a set of questions. You are free to answer them yourself.

    Questions each sub question is headed by a ->

    5) -> From a technological perspective, the technology of the holodeck, which is a volumetric display, fits within the ability from the original series having laser beams with controlled energy+frequency qualities plus the transporter technology that disassembles plus reassembles matter or the food replicators that make food based on a prompt.

    So are you saying, the holodeck was technologically possible in the original series while the culture of the federation in the original series opposed the purpose of the holodeck, thus no holodeck [barring special effects of the 1960s]?
    -> Did you like on star trek discovery the lack of holodeck use or presence ?
    -> On Deep Space Nine, the holosuite's were a part of the ferengi's bar. The ferengi are not the federation, so were the holosuites more comfortable for you as a technology of the ferengi, who profess on star trek to be unbounded fiscal capitalist who will sell gratification? Add that deep space nine is mostly non humans, albeit humanoids, so their own cultures will allow for holosuite use. Am I wrong?
    -> As Star TRek has many different groups: federation/klingons/ and more, is the holodeck/holosuite acceptable on a space ship or space station that isn't of the federation while unacceptable on a federation space ship or space station? [deep space nine is a bajoran station that is formerly cardassian while used by the federation for bajor's process to join the federation officially]
    -> If you can replace all the scenes of using the holodeck in next generation , what will you have the characters doing or will you merely delete the scenes? I may be wrong but most of the time the holodeck was used in next generation as a place for leisure fun.
    -> last question, I recall in next generation, an episode where the holodeck is used to simulate a murder or some event. I think that is useful. The ability to recreate environments can be very useful to training, to reviewing a physical situation. In cases where I think the holodeck serves as a powerful tool, what will you replace it with as a writer in their writing room?
     
    I was communicating side @Troy at the following post [   https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10871-consider-for-google-docs/   ]and I said the following

    The tragedy of the online populace in the usa is how the usa had control over how the internet grew and modified , heavily influencing others but in that influence was a false narrative of security or control in terms of user activity. But the usa federal government or billion dollar firms of the usa didn't want the potential complexity of the internet to happen while using the internet's complexity to maintain controls while they wanted to push for the web as a common  secure ground for all although the web by default goes against security with its much more user friendly design.

    I recall reading an article saying the populace in the usa that are not online has grown. It isn't something the statistics people will make a big deal of but I do think it is interesting that enough are not online to be a community.

    And I thought about the various protocols of communication used in the internet that are not http. And the following question came to my mind.

    #) Does literature need its own protocol? I am not asking how it can be done but the function of it. 

  5. @Troy I concur to you, i have said it for years. The tragedy of the online populace in the usa is how the usa had control over how the internet grew and modified , heavily influencing others but in that influence was a false narrative of security or control in terms of user activity. But the usa federal government or billion dollar firms of the usa didn't want the potential complexity of the internet to happen while using the internet's complexity to maintain controls while they wanted to push for the web as a common  secure ground for all although the web by default goes against security with its much more user friendly design.

     

    I recall reading an article saying the populace in the usa that are not online has grown. It isn't something the statistics people will make a big deal of but I do think it is interesting that enough are not online to be a community.

  6. wait @Troy why did you say it will be a better poem? The algorithms are all based on approximations, heuristics, statistics. These are all simulations, not intelligence. This is why the computer chose the poetic form, cause that is the most convenient. 

    Try the same prompt you originally did but tell the computer to make the poetic form a haiku?

    I imagine the computer will produce a negative result. Poetic forms come in so many ways, the couplet style the computer chooses is the most convenient. 

  7. @ProfD  

    and, in the year 2024 , at least in nyc, it is clear that the media's ways have trickled :) into all populaces. Again , you will be surprised how often I heard latinos- any phenotype, speak ill of illegal immigrants or fiscally poor latinos. 

    And at the end of the day, what is the core idea? 

    You are fortunate, so speak ill about those who are unfortunate in your race. whether phenotypical/geographic/gender or other. 

    It serves the NYPD in their statistic claim. It serves media who likes to announce negativity even if most scenarios are positive. It serves the fortunate in various populaces who don't want to admit how they undercut their own populace supporting dysfunctional ideas. 

  8. @Pioneer1

     

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    With all of that killing and robbing going on in the various Black communities in New York that has been going on for DECADES....what do you mean they don't need the NYPD?

    Maybe not the NYPD itself, but it certainly needs A police force to keep the city under control and keep the people safe.

    Perhaps the Nation of Islam or the Panthers, but ALL Black communities in the United States need some form of law enforcement and public safety.

    The question to you is simple, what percentage will satisfy you?

    I will explain. Lets go to the numbers. 

    NYC is over ten million people. Ten percent is one million. One percent is one hundred thousand. Now lets say one hundred thousand people were murdered last year, which didn't happen.

    This unverifiable website said circa 80,000 people died in NYC from all causes last year.

    https://deadorkicking.com/death-statistics/us/new-york/2023/

    This site also said NYC is circa twenty million people. It also gives the majority of deaths in NYC coming from health things that many suffer from and is not connected in my mind to the nypd or legal issues. Many people in the usa live unhealthy but their deaths are not nypd related. 

    So what is the point between that point and the article I shared to you before, the percentage of deaths in nyc from violence is a fraction of a percent. Based on the unverified website plus my eyes and ears living in NYC. 

    And that has always been true. More people in NYC die from being poor than violence. But again, the issue here isn't poverty but crime, injury from one citizen to another. 

    So , if those that are harmed in NYC is a fraction of one percent, the question to you is...

    what percentage is acceptable for you to not feel crime is an issue that needs the nypd? 100%? 

    You can say 100% and I totally accept it and oppose your position. But, For me, NYC can go to 95% Five percent of people in NYC being harmed is a negative but with so many people I don't comprehend how that speaks emergency, or need of grand law enforcement. And from people who lived in NYC far longer than me, nyc was never the cesspool of violence suggested in media. 

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    Just half?

    I heard that Harlem was gentrified but are you telling me that HALF of that neighborhood is non-Black???

    That's hard to believe.

    well strangified, the people coming in aren't betters just different. 

    You have to comprehend, cost of living in nyc is too high. Many people laughed at the black POAJ guy but he was right, the rent is too high. But the real estate industry is very powerful. To break their influence isn't simple. NYC has such a multracial populace, which is not congruent on any racial quality outside human that no matter who you get, they can always finance another communities elected officials to protect them

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    Who got sense enough to KNOW we need police to keep the people safe so the children can walk the streets in peace.

    From elementary to college i walked home from school every day. 99% of the time, no problems whatsoever. through parks, various avenues, in some regions may be not majority black. always some guys out in the street all over. I remember a commercial when i was a kid, a kid is black and running, through his region. and I laughed cause I never ran home. And when i became an adult I realized, and maybe this is you. Maybe someone in your clan got hurt , maybe a child of yours or relative you loved. but you guys are the one percent, not the 99%. I am in the 99% , nothing happened. I had all black friends, we played in the street, went to our various homes. Nothing happened. I realize some people have incidents, negative ones, but i think 99% of black people never have these prolbems but people like you, who admittedly may have been hurt, now want 100% , fear because of life experiences maybe. But those fears are falsely applied on the black populace and moreover are used to maintain negative governmental actions in the usa to black people. I am a black child of NYC, I have been everywhere, every burough. I have relatives in every burough as a child. Your wrong. I realize I have to stop saying no child, but 99% of black children had no problems. They didn't. 

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    And you feel they DON'T???

    You believe that if someone is killed or robbed that that shouldn't draw attention?

    Nothing to see...keep walking???

     

    Well, let's reverse it. NYC, doesn't list how many children happily go to school every day and come back home smiling.  I have never seen local NYC media list the number of kids who don't get killed, haven't been bullied, haven't been raped [raping as in stealing a body, not forced fornication]. Why can't the people who aren't killed, who aren't robbed draw attention in NYC? It seems to me, people like you  clearly control media in NYC cause media in NYC don't see anything of value with those who are not robbed, not killed, not harmed, having fun, enjoying their lives in their populace. It seems to me, people like you in NYC are willing to keep walking or don't want any attention drawn , when a black child is happy to and from school , playing outside , with black men shirtless selling drugs hanging on a corner. 

    I will accept in NYC drawing attention to those robbed or killed in the local media  if the quantity of those who are not gets an equal rate of NYC media's time. Which if course has never happened in NYC. So if less than one percent of the kids in NYC are getting killed then less than one percent of NYC media's time should be to them. 

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    You tell someone who's been raped, robbed, or brutally assaulted that the city doesn't need law enforcement.
    I bet they'll have a different point of view.

    And your later prose proves my earlier guess correct. It is unfortunate when someone gets hurt, but the black populace in NYC has existed for too long with those, including in the black populace, who turn the unfortunate scenario for a minority in the black populace of nyc into the status of the whole black populace in nyc and that to me has done far more damage and to be blunt, for the betterment of the black populace in nyc  need to stop

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    Man, I'm almost 100% positive that you've NEVER told a man who just lost his mother or son to violence that it's not worthy of attention or that it's simply just part of human "allowance".

    I'm almost certain you haven't done that...lol.

     

    well, not just lost, but I have an offline friend , went to school together. we are still friends I might add, he lost a family member of his. I am not going to give personal details. But, I told him that it was unfortunate, i am saddened for his lose as a friend, but it didn't warrant what his quite vocal support for the NYPD or various law scenarios. Your certainty is flawed. but I am lucky. I have true friends offline. I am used to talking to my offline friends regularly. and we talk about all sorts of issues to be fair, so this isn't a common situation. 

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    I have quite a few friends from New York and MOST of them have stories about witnessing and being victims of crime.

    However the same can be said about my friends from Detroit, Chicago, and St.Louis.

    I'm not sure what friends you have there in New York who almost none of them have no experience of criminal activity from other Black folks....lol.

    Remember, the black populace in nyc is large. IT is the largest of any city in the usa. and with that comes the reality that, you and me and our different circles isn't some impossibility. It isn't a longshot. It is arithmetically very possible. And this goes to the larger issue in the black populace in NYC. I have said for a while, too many black people put on other black people in nyc their experience and again that is where it all goes wrong. Just because everybody died in your family from street violence side other black people, which has happened to some black people in nyc,  doesn't mean the existence of a black person in the same city where everybody in their family simply died of old age is impossible, ala me, and what that means is, what is then stop and frisk, the war on drugs, the war on crime when you have such a range. And to my earlier point, the issue is emphasis. And in NYC, the emphasis by media is flawed for me concerning the black populace. Media in NYC which is mostly white owned or controlled, always emphasis the negative minority, the one percent in the black populace, in nyc.

    in the amsterdam news, i just got this morning @Troy Armstrong williams, whom you know I oppose :) , is still continuing his viewpoint similar to Pioneer:) about the black populace near the brink. But he is wrong. but again the question is, do you want 100% cause if that is what you want, that is an inhumane desire. 

     

    And, to go away, Eric Adams, recently has suggested it is time to "Crack down" on immigrant violence. And why? as the city's immigrant populace grows and the media changes its tune on the black populace slowly but surely the NYPD need a new target, they i think want the asian but they aren't large enough, but the illegal immigrant populace is. The media is slowly criminalizing the illegal immigrant more and more. The problem is, many populaces, non black or white,  in NYC are used to the media narrative or government legislation to the detriment of or bad speak to the black populace that some in the non black are trying to slow this down. But, the nypd need statistics. That is how it works. In this very community i shared how the nypd literally use black people they pick up and the supposed crime they were picked up for as statistics for those crimes. The nypd don't calculate their wrongful or false actions, they count their successful or their assumed. This will happen with illegal immigrants i bet. It is an easy black book and in media i already saw, people [latinos any phenotype/asians any phenotype] already sound like pioneer, like their community is on the brink, which it isn't.

     

    Poverty is just poverty. Yeah is it on the corner. Outside the store. Yeah it drinks, does some crack, meth. yeah it's loud. Sometimes harasses. But usually it doesn't harm. 

  9.  greater power also exposes more of what you are not. Better hope you have friends.
     

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    My two questions are the following

    • IF discovery channel takes your name out of a container of random writers names, and gives you the chance to do a superman movie. Describe your film in one sentence?
    • LEt's say Discovery channel chose you and not tae nihis coates to do a black superhero movie, what will the superhero be and describe it in one sentence?

     

    My answers, for it isn't fair to ask and not answer:)

     

    a human looking alien with super speed/strength/leaping ability/super tough skin raised on a farm in the usa midwest by two loving adopted human  parents but born on an alien world whose people's negative bias to leaving led to their destruction while saved from said alien world by his two loving biological parents fights crime on earth as a superhero while working as a private investigator having complex interactions with a human female reporter and young male photographer. 


    My favorite usa based superhero comic is blood syndicate of milestone. sO I will ask discovery for them though I know i have to also ask milestone as well.... and the sentence is -> A group of survivors from a gang battle involving all of the cities urban non white gangs organized by law enforcement plus multiglobal corporations for an illegal or unethical experiment band together to exist as an illegal overseer to a region in the city.  BUT , comprehending the inequal answer as it involves milestone not just discovery channel, I will provide an equal answer and  say, Black lightning, the sentence is-> a black male schoolteacher happily married to a black woman lives in a financially destitute section of a city with wealth in other regions like metroplis and on a happy vacation in the countryside outside the city with his wife a meteor falls near their camp and the only remnant technology of a completely dead extraterrestrial community in any other way  survives the crash and after learning about this technology side his wife plans to aid common folk in his section of the city with the powers he has been able to gain from it. 

     

    OK... now you go for it!:) 

  10. After listening to the speech, I made the following poem. Centos or sharing your own poetry is welcome.

     

    TITLE: Biden's Pulpit

     

    Some will say Biden shouted

    Some will praise his vitality

    Some will think it for an opponent

    Some will hear stroking naysays

    While me, plus others, heard a plea

    ...

     

    A plea embedded in, a declaring free

    That one day, the land of genocide, slavery, plus greed

    Will be a civil being, matching a dream

    but...

     

    The plea has a problem

    Multimade in said land's past

    The murder of those who led

    Without need of a plea

    By their neighbors, who saw the usa

    Eternally, as a land of said three things

    Not sinful, evil, or any inhumane

    Where love to son is not to the stranger

    So the white haired president, pleaded to those he don't need

    He need those who will act without his plea, who are all in graves

     

    ...Now

    Dear reader, do not think me a peer

    I merely scribed the truth to what I live in. 

    I know stars and stripes, is said eternally

    While! I don't hate, fear or work against those

    Who hope the usa become said being.

    When descended from enslaved, you can be me

    ...

     

    I will leave to do my own things

    But, all are warned, to the following

    beware old slavery or bright dreams

    And hope you live as the lucky

    In tomorrows ... the free

     

    Author: Richard Murray

     

    If you enjoy my poetry consider my poetry collection

    Poetry or More , it is very affordable

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poetry-or-more-1

    Or my book of centos- centos are poems made from other poems

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/richard-murray-centos-2023

  11. @Dee Miller

    I will say Zora Neale Hurston is who I am thinking of but like me, her little section of the black populace when she was growing up was a place of positivity for her in a way most black people didn't and don't have in the usa.

     

    Poem 

    Title: Zora

    Take me down to Eatonville
    Take me right down to Eatonville where the vineyards
    ripe with currants dressed in plum, cherry, and of course a blushy peach
    all swing with me
    brush their bruised skin—
    drop against the sediment that covers their sweet

    Take me down to Eatonville
    Take me right down to Eatonville where the laughter crackles, shrieks
    roars rude as belches, fine as gratitude
    thick as contrite
    where notes grab me by the waist side
    squeeze my handles and brush my skin against
    grins set with peppered sweat

    Take me down to Eatonville
    Take me right down to Eatonville where the eyes are set apart
    but roam like unbridled streams, coil like kitchen hair
    all over because of Song of Solomon 1:5
    not because of the fruit

    Take me down to Eatonville
    Take me right down to Eatonville where
    glazed hardwood floors are for lindy hop scuffs—
    not blackened knees

    Take me down to Eatonville
    Take me right down to Eatonville
    Where I’ll be—
    But you won’t, Zora

    Because you’re too busy sharpening your oyster knife

     

    In amendment, for me, alot of Black music is poetry with instrumentation

    so I have to add the following

     

    Weed Smoker's Dream
    by Joe McCoy and Herb Morand 

    Sitting on a million, sitting on it everyday
    Can't make no money giving your stuff away
    Why don't you do like, like the millionaires do
    Put your stuff on the market and make a million too
    Face of a betting women, she bets on every hand
    She's a tricking modafunkyou everywhere she lands
    Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do
    Put your stuff on the market and make a million too
    May's a good looking frail, she lives down by the jail
    On the back though she got hot stuff for sale
    Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do
    Put your stuff on the market and make a million too


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyjW8FTGxbI

     

    Why Don't You Do Right?
    Joe McCoy 

    You had plenty money in 1922
    You let other women make a fool of you
    Why don't you do right like some other men do?
    Get outta here and get me some money too
    You're sittin' down, wonderin' what it's all about
    If you ain't got no money they gon to put you out
    Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
    Get outta here and, get me some money too
    if you had prepared, twenty years ago
    You wouldn't be drippin from door to door
    Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
    Get outta here and, get me some money too
    ...
    I fell for your jargon and I, took you in
    Now all you got to offer me is a, drink of gin
    Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
    Get outta here and get me some money too

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavQY5V0xpg
     

     

     

  12. @Troy

     

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    The reason is investors demand increasing returns.  Period.

     

    yes, i comprehend but my point is about the publicly traded firm model being the problem. Public traded firms allows for firms absent revenue or savings or even in debt to gain investment or balance their value. But the problem is, staying in the publicly traded form too long forces a firm to act financially foolish.

    I Wonder Troy, do you know how many firms in the usa went from publicly traded to private in 2023? I don't know but i imagine you know where to look

     

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    Is the Amsterdam News still in print?  I used to subscribe to the print edition.  The covered AALBC back in 2008.  We need Black-owned media.  Who else will tell our stories.

    yes, still black owned, still in print. .. still in harlem:) 

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    Thanks for you detailed analysis

    yeah, i don't always get the time, i am working on my craft, but I try to aid the discourse in this website:)

     

     

    @ProfD

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    A UBI (Universal Basic Income) will provide a softer landing for future generations.😎

     

    well, the two problems are not easy challenges. everything works conceptually. but the reality is the usa's fiscal capitalistic environment is a slaver, it looks to use , to  abuse, to enslave, to prey. Look at Crypto's fallout, all the cheats and scams all over the place. Look at the scams being aided by modern computing power [usually called AI]  giving people money to use as they wish with these financial practices... is devastating. Now some have suggested as a federal program in the usa to limit the uses but many lobbyist serving varied financial actors will be outside the door of elected officials with the money to make sure their clients prodcuts are not banned so, the problem isn't little. People elected in the usa  are not happy to do for the people, they are all looking, correctly in my view, for financial reward. They will accept the money to gain their loving ones generational wealth. And this doesn't include the international complexity of universal basic income. And it is the international aspect that can lead to a path of war. 

  13. The Color Purple 2023

     

    0:43 interesting start point

    4:47 well did it make money , it has been around for 13 years

    8:50 the old spide brother brother:) that is like the mayhem guy in john wick

    11:32 Danny glover is still mr mister:)

    12:04 palatable is the right word zenobia

    14:04 good point, lou gossett wasn't allowed to be meaner than danny glover

    17:48 didi it being a musical lead to some miscastings or some time taken away from some characters?

    19:56 her, meaning taraji p henson, issue was the money, the producers

    20:48 steven speilberg was part of the production, has the color purple joined immitation of life as one of those films whose remakes are schism amongs fans

    23:19 you are a producer/money, director, thespian, someone says, Color Purple as a superhero film, what do you say?

    25:40 couldn't find the young lady, wish her the best though

  14. comments to American Fiction

     

    3:32 white people in modernity don't run to read ulysses from joyce or war and peace from tolstoy. The books monk was writing were boring. The modern audience rightly or wrongly, like an overabundence of drama

    8:10 good point

    10:36 sterling k brown, from pastor to plastic

    16:35 this film wasn't the kind of film that can get a wide release, black panther is the kind.

     

    At the following place

    https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/american-fiction-movie-ending-explained

    they ask the following

    Was he trying to imply that as creatives, no matter our best intentions or moral code, we are all slaves to capitalism, and that our work will inevitably bend the knee to the almighty dollar? Did he mean to stress that within a white supremacist media context, Blackness will always be commodified for the masses? Was Jefferson pointing out the hypocrisy of bourgeois Black elite spaces and the futility of intraracial classism? Is the entire film a metaphor for the insidious nature of anti-Blackness and how we as Black people often perpetuate it without even knowing?

     

    It isn't artist's work that bends the knee but artist themselves for the work comes from the imagination of the artists and it is the imagination of the artist that becomes flooded with the desires from the financiers from the needs in another section of the artist mind.

    And, artists are free to not let those financial concerns manipulate their imagination, and some artists do that. We hear their tales of fiscally impoverished geniuses like a Zora Neale Hurston or Phillip K Dick or Poe or Van Gogh.

    Well, in a fiscal capitalist media context, all cultural aspects will be commodified . Birth of a Nation is not what the fiscally poor white southerner's journey at the end of the war between the states was. Outside the fact the film lies about the black populace, it isn't a truth teller to the white. The truth is, the leadership in the confederacy was split on the goals and destinations and the side that got to implement miscalculated terribly, so much so that, the south which was the financial breadbasket of the usa is the fiscally poorest region in the usa today and whose black or white populaces at the time of the end of the war between the states have both been harmed long term with the results of that war.

    I don't know if any group is above judgement, but the urban black financial elite have always existed in the usa, ala solomon northrup and always led their lives with a faith in the system in the usa that is historically misplaced. Financial racism commonly called classism in the usa has always been prophesied by some blacks as the aphenotypical racism that will lead to a betterment. I can't say it is futile as much as, what is the goal? the assumption by many in the usa , not most I think, is that aphenotypical financial racism will lead to aphenotypical activity , but that mentality misses that the purely fiscal nature of fiscal capitalism is not concerned with changing behavior from aphenotypical to phenotypical or from phenotypical to aphenotypical .

    Does the film transfer the heritage of anti blackness in the usa into a film? Do Black people perpetuate anti blackness ignorantly? The heritage aspect is the only part of any of the questions that I feel doesn't warrant questioning. I will question the second part. Black people have never been ignorant to anti blackness in the usa, never. The problem is, in the embrace of nonviolence which most black people in the mid 1900s to now in the usa exhibit, the power in situations is always with whites, because when someone is violent towards you but you chose to be nonviolent towards them, you have no way to get them to change so sooner or later the violent actor wins, and that is the source of the perpetuation of sameness concerning anti blackness that continues in the usa. Violence isn't evil. but it is a tool, that can be useful. Now to the first part of the last question. Anti blackness in the usa has always been holistic, pervasive, synonomous with slavery. The film displays that slavery as an institution, one human being forcing another human being to act, is quite strong and though it is not as crude as the whip of the past, is definitely active and arguably less dodgeable

    Now the answer to all the questions is honestly maybe, but I provide my thoughts to the questions themselves.

  15. comments to Rustin

     

    3:17 what? somebody got their tooth removed for a role... oh the method

    4:36 would you have used the two characters that were made up? as a writer Nike
    6:11 who is your favorite mlk jr impersonator?:)
    9:03 and communal banishment, in most communities if people knew it publicly, people will excommunicado you
    12:58 going back to the black church's power in those days. No present day group has that influence.
    14:29 exactly, it is the publicity of it, not the knowledge
    16:26 yes, black women were always the basis for every movement in the black populace in the usa
    17:28 still kind of an oppression, zenobia, it is an oppression. Remember, if it wasn't for malcolm, Fannie Lou HAmer would not been able to speak during a gathering in harlem
    19:21 they were made by black people so afraid of whites that they couldn't
    20:03 i recall in new jersey a quaker community had a black town in new jersey, but quakers aren't not evangelical if i am correct and evangelism tends to get more followers
    22:50 the thing about Higher Ground that is cool is it is a private company
    24:26 amen Nike, teach it at home and to be honest, that is all populaces, even the white populace. No education system in humanity covers history or culture truly holistically.
     
     
  16. @Delano well remember the heritage of the usa, financially, is Genocie+ slavery. Many people in the usa think of genocide or slavery from the perspective of physical pain or violence but not the financial systems which are about a minority getting access to great fiscal wealth at the detriment to the lifetime of other peoples + control or abuse with the harshest penalty to those who fight against it or the most overwhelming power against those trying to do other. That financial heritage often gets lost when people talk of genocide or slavery in the usa. The financial heritage of the genocide to the native american and the enslavement to the blacks has never abetted or lessened.  

     

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