richardmurray

I have been unfortunate enough to see + experience alot of law enforcement abuse. 

I don't want to repeat myself . So I will focus on how Black people in the usa from the end of the war between the states reached modernity culturally.

Frederick Douglass side the Black church is the answer. 

At the end of the day, I realize , that the cultural trajectory of the majority, not all or me, in the Black community in the USA is a culture of individualism that Frederick Douglass side the Black church wanted when they started the Black community on this path with white financial support when the war between the states ended. 

The goal is for Black cops in mostly white law enforcement organizations to exists, for Black presidents in a mostly white country , Black Mayors in a mostly white city to exists, it isn't to deny, black cops in most black law enforcement organizations, or black mayors in black towns or black sheriffs in black counties. But the idea is for an individual allowance to exist in the Black community in the USA that will curtail Black communal strength, will curtail Black communal resilience, will curtail Black communal fiscal profit, but the goal is to get the majority of the Black community to be part of an aracial identity, an individual identity, that I argue has been reached. No, not all black people in the USA are philosophically aligned, but most are. 

The murder of Tyre Nichols represents the strength of the individual culture in the black community in the usa. These events will always occur for nothing is completely positive. All ideas have negativity, including nonviolence, including araciality, including miscegenation, including integrationists ideas like slavery... as well as militisms, or segregationists idea like Back to Africa. The question is, what are the negativities with an idea. 

The murder of Tyre Nichols represents an inevitable negativity from the individualism  which is the majority philosophy adhered to by Black people in the USA today. IT will happen again, as it already happened already. It must. 

But I think most Black people in the USA, which doesn't include me, support the individualism and with sadness or lamentations, accept the murder of Tyre Nichols as part of the price for individual cultural allowance, which I argue no community in the USA has stronger than the Black community in the USA, even if it isn't articulated. 

On 1/22/2023 at 9:21 PM, Troy said:

Everyone else.

Amen @Troy

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@Delano fair enough

@Cynique like delano, you know yourself, and are living your life your way. fair enough

@ProfD dumb but also human, if it happens regularly it is human 

hahaha @Troy just take two sets of regular cards together and make the deck:) you have inspired me to champion pinochle more haha!:) 

@Cynique inspiring story, did you ever keep journals from your university of illinois days, i will love to read some of your thoughts from those times:) see if they are changed from your more experienced now:) 

 @Delano    have you ever blogged on aalbc about your tarot experiences,in depth?

@ProfD and yet history teaches the nouveau rich usually act money drunk over financially wise. i argue history is the excuse

@Rodney campbell good point and telling how varied our tastes are

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@ProfD in defense of the bruce heirs ,if they decide to spend wildly, they will not be the first nouveau riche to lose heavy 

@Cynique i play pinochle ,thank you for your bridge history

 @Troy card games never ebb in popularity,pokemon or yugioh are some modern loves,thank you for spades

@Delano you are the first to mention a non card game primarily. yes the spinning wheel is a common tool for physical random generation,although easily manipulate-able, if made honest it has fee rivals,thank you for your comment

@ProfD you mentioned board games primarily, chess then monopoly. much heavier on the side of strategy as the other primaries chosen are games where,if fair, the influence of the random is undeniable,whereas chess has all knowns from start to finish.

good multilog

@Rodney campbell gives his take

what is yours?

Fellow Writers - @fiyahlitmag  Carnival issue is open for submissions february 1st, good luck:) 

@ProfD   

All I want known for the record is I oppose completely the following from you

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Ireland was neither enslaved nor oppressed by England. Some Irish folks no longer wanted to live under monarchy rule.

 

... in the case of Ireland and England, it was a dust up between cousins.

@Troy well said, I wish I would had been complete:) USA law it is illegal to manipulate others computers without their consent, but yes i know said tools exists. 

no need , more important things need your attention in the aalbc website than that, but conversating side others elsewhere as well as aalbc, proves people don't click read more:) video people:) 

Tananarive Due has a new short story collection coming out, called The Wishing Pool, in the text prompt section and below in the comments section I will use the graphical results of a computer program to on text input to make a new cover, i offer all of you interested in artistic fun to join me.

Details below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2213&type=status

TEXT PROMPT SECTION

The following is the return for the text prompt 

THE WISHING POOL

the images are below, your thoughts , ideas to change any image, which images you want to get rid of ? 

let's have fun

The first looks awful, like a children's book, funny program

The second has possibilities. It has a landscape the coloring creates a hazy effect suggesting magic ala wishing, we can work from that

the third is a straight pool from a house, I know tananarive wasn't suggesting a nordic european home so that clearly will need work but it is something

@Pioneer1   To your first point, I don't think most black folk in the usa have conflict, most know what they want and stick to it, and I personally can accept it.

To your second, I will just say nothing. It is not that I concur but no point in me commenting

To your third, you or profd inferred more in my position than I suggested, the point wasn't to suggest a roadmap or blueprint or a strategy for Black folk in particular black militants in the usa to follow. The point was to display that a community can be enslaved or oppressed by another for a long time, longer than blacks have been oppressed in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it,  and even though said time will create changes in the enslaved or oppressed community, it will not eradicate many in said community from wanting away from the enslaver or oppressor even if it has been thousands of years. The fact that the irish look like the english simply supports my point. if two people who look alike can have such a feud then clearly two people who don't shouldn't be a surprise. And, the english dominated ireland through various periods, initially england wasn't a global power when they took ireland so... the condition of the oppressor isn't the point. And lastly, in two thousand years the culture of the irish changed a lot, it is not about a culture but the reality of the want of many irish people which survived many cultural changes, financial changes, to still want what they want, which is my point to black militants in the usa. 

Pioneer you made the point that somehow the black community in the usa lacks smarts or wasn't on the ball but what I am trying to get you to comprehend is that isn't the truth. The question is this, when the usa was being founded do you think the overwhelming majority of free blacks, cause the enslaved blacks couldn't act on their wishes, were wrong for opposing the creation of the usa ? 

@ProfD for the record I said the following

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But the IRA prove it can work, nothing is easy but it can work. 

I never said black militants should do exactly as the irish. I said the irish prove it can work, and i also said nothing is easy. 

I never said the irish is a blueprint for anyone else. And I never stated I feel Black people in the usa in overwhelming majority want the usa to be changed by force. I quote myself again

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 I think many Black Americansin the usa, maybe most, are doing what you said now. I do concur with your first point 

Did you say the following as a reply to my comment or in general? 

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Black folks cannot use the IRA as a blueprint to force the US to change.

Cause I didn't say either of those things. 

@ProfD we will see

@Pioneer1 I think many Black Americansin the usa, maybe most, are doing what you said now. I do concur with your first point  

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I think we are in an EXCELLENT position as AfroAmericans to not only live in the nation with the most powerful military....but even have LAWS on our side (whether they are properly enforced or not) that allows us to not only join but LEAD and CONTROL that military if we so desire!

I think we should take advantage of it.

Sure the U.S. won't be top dog forever, but while they are....it's better for us to ride that dog and enjoy as many benefits as we can.

That goal is what Frederick Douglass spearheaded alongside Sojourner Truth or Ida B Wells and followed by Web DUbois/Booker T Washington/The Tuskegee arimen/Rosa Parks/Martin/Fannie Lou Hamer/Shirley Chisholm/Fred Hampton/JEsse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Clarence Thomas/ The Obamas/Stacy Abrams and onward. 

Said people are not clones of each other, but all of them at the core of their purposes is about Black folk thriving or leading as part of the USA. I can even argue that the mythological crispus attics is the true progenitor of that movement that frederick douglass had a huge role in.

Where I oppose is your second point

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 if we were smart enough as a community and on the ball like we SHOULD be

The why is key. It is a historical fact that I went in detail in this very community before, the Black community in the USA historically is anti USA + anti White. IT is a simple truth. Over time from the early 1500s to 2023 the Black populace in the USA or the british colonies that preceded it went from a majority fighting to stop the usa from being born to a populace whose members have existed in every position of highest value in the government with billionaires or millionaires forming a one percent. But whether black folk are in support or opposition to the usa, I don't think either choice makes one smart or on the ball. IT is about desire Pioneer. As I said to a black militant once. The modern black community will never join your cause en majority. The black one percent are fiscally wealthy. The black modern immigrants freely came to be part of the USA. and the descended of enslaved who are fiscally wealthy or in the military or work in government or simply are pro usa , simply are. So the anti USA segment of the modern black community is a minority in the black minority. But the IRA prove it can work, nothing is easy but it can work. The IRA was only a few hundred people but their actions got 3/4 of ireland free from the english after two thousand years of all of ireland being dominated by the english. So Black militants, go for it. Most irish didn't plan or had a part in the bombings. But the bombings of the ira which are counted more than the bombings in vietnam, which is amazing, led to the english saying, we will make a deal. And comprehend the modern irish live as two people's. They lived as two peoples during the troubles. Many irish stooged <my term choice> for the english, it is that simple , against the IRA and their cause. What is northern ireland really? by your words Pioneer, the northern irish are the smart on the ball folk who stayed with the remnant of the english empire. But communities are complex. Sometimes you are on the losing side Pioneer.  But whether losing or winning if you are true to yourself, you are not dumb. Stick with it, and your time will come and if it doesn't the people who carry on your message, will have a chance, and onward. as long as the community is alive, no matter the quantity or location, the goal isn't dead. That is why when my friends offline who are pro USA talk about various things. I tell them why don't they run for offices. Get in the government apparatus. They love the USA so I support their love, in the same way I support the Black militants who want to burn it down. I don't see either are smart or dumb. Black folk for me are free to have any position to the USA, any position. Our forebears earned us the right to that. 

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Why aren't there tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed in Ghana or Tanzania or Angola helping bolster and build up THEIR economy and technology like we have in Germany and Japan and South Korea?

Maybe one day their will be. The reason why the usa is in germany is cause germany , unfortunately for germany at some level, was the faultline for usa and russia when commonly called wolrd war two ended. Russia had east of germany, usa had west of germany. they both split germany, sequentially, both countries dropped military bases in germany.  Empire's love to make other countries their chess board pieces. Same to Japan. China was communist, and the USA was unable to kill Mao , I know they tried, so the USA military had to stay there. But when Japan's people starting showing socialist leanings, the USA then gave japan money. and while china didn't need russian bases, china became a military partner with russia on simple grounds that the usa was a mlitaristic enemy of both. And the USA went on and add Taiwan, chang kia shek's running hole,  and then the two koreas which no korean made. That is why? China and Russia is why. Those two are the only two governments that militaristically are honestly opposed to the usa. Most in the countries in the continent are still being militaristically manipulated by the likes of European countries so the USA has no threat. Ghana is part of the commonwealth of nations. Why have USA troops in ghana when ghana isn't free of an impotent england? Angola has new oil money but Angola like Equatorial Guinea are ruled by the oil families. But the oil families will not get rid of that silly constitution or government system. Angola is a kingdom, that acts like it isn't. Like many oil countries, they hurt themselves accepting the dysfunctional usa or uk elected goverment/parliamentary system. So why have USa troops in Angola when Angola isn't even honest with itself? and same to the others in africa. 

@Pioneer1 yes, don't you ever post on your feed in aalbc?

This is an aside but it is very interesting how many people never click read more:)  I wish I knew a way to scan how many people went to a page and literally didn't click read more

@Troy I know no tool exist to scan every connection to the website and see particular actions like that but maybe for status posts you need to allow the whole status to load ? 

@ProfD I do link all the articles original source in my post, I cite everything. But I focus on my post because sometimes links die. In my experience a number of great articles went away and I wish I would had just posted the whole thing thus, I do that in AALBC. I am not trying to be an archivist but I find the internet audience is lazier than meets the eye and when people refute a point, if you don't have the exact content available then it gets silly. So that is why I focus on my statuses.  And I know most of you in the forums know about these issues or already have an opinion so I place the topic as a starter, and you can simply say what you want to say, you don't need to bother coming to my page if you don't want.