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@Pioneer1 The NYPD itself wasn't started by the white populace of NYC it was started by wealthy whites to gain voting blocks. Now if you are asking why haven't wealthy blacks in NYC started a similar organization in NYC, well why don't you go ask them. You think the white, financially wealthy historically , smaller in quantity, jewish populace in nyc is comparable to the black, financially poorer historically, far larger in quantity , black populace in NYC? I assume you do but there lies the wall between our thinking. And comprehend, I am not interested in you changing but I will make sure you know, you are opposed by someone black. who will black people look more intelligent too, I didn't and do not know black people needed and need to look intelligent to anyone non black plus i thought and think black people look intelligent to ourselves. At least I am fully satisfied to the intelligence to my people, excuse me , black people. @ProfD I know it isn't a disclaimer for protection or worries. I do it for the literal record. One of the problems with humans in modernity is the assumption what they write will be comprehended by those who read it plus what they write will be viewed by someone with correct positions who does read it. Based on pioneer's words, he suggest many things about me, I do not want a black person thinking and if a black person comes upon his comment first and thinks that I want to refute that. I am not going to assume someone will take the time to read the whole, that is a dysfunctional assumption thus my verbosity. Verbosity online may be taxing, but for me it serves a value, cause centuries from now if the mangled library called the internet is viewed in pieces, the amount of short and sweet posts do little to make comprehensive points. I don't care what whites or non blacks think about me, but I do care what a black person may think or how a black person may think.

@Troy I made a version for the black excellence forum, shall i delete this one?

https://www.tumblr.com/blackexcellence/745411300034772992/whenweallvote-we-are-saddened-to-hear-about-the PRIOR COMMENTS from @Pioneer1 from @Troy yeah, that would be sexist by today’s standards. It is natural to notice another human’s attractiveness you just get yourself in trouble, expressing it when it has nothing to do with the subject.

Day 2 part 2 Tiya Miles in conversation with Brenda M. Greene < https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Brenda+M.+Greene > Tiya Miles is the author of the book "The Cherokee Rose" about various Black people who find themselves on a reservation with a threat https://aalbc.com/books/home.php?isbn13=9780593596425 https://aalbc.com/books/home.php?isbn13=9781324020875 GQ- Greene Question MA- Miles Answer My thoughts GQ Why inspired plus brief synopsis? MA Family of enslaved black women, a member sewed their story into a sack, based on a real sack. The sack was found by a white woman in nashville in a bin of things for twenty dollars. Signed by middleton. The middleton's are white people from england through barbados, still rich and have a foundation today. The white woman said she was given a vision to give the sack back to the plantation but she could had made more money if it was auctioned. Sack was on in the smithsonian now it is in the middleton foundation. In my own home we have items of bloodline history that is uncommon. I wonder how many similar items have been destroyed or thrown away by black people since the end of the war between the states. GQ What about embroidery? MA It was viewed as a white woman's pastime. A symbol of high femininity by whites, in a phenotypically judged way, not for black women. Miles first saw the sack as an object but progressed two stages to see it as an art. She question the sack is back south. The item that is a symbol of a black bloodline leaving the south, escaping the south is not back in the south, charleston, on a plantation. The black bloodline fled to philadelphia to freedom with the sack originally. The Foundation now has a black middleton side white middleton reunion plus a scholarship for descended of enslaved. Whites deem black women masculinized, as in unnaturally physically strong, ala the black woman , who was a happy enslaved, hitting black men with a broom in birth of a nation. If you recall the scene she is so strong that she can successfully fight against a horde of black men, who never once harm her, fleeing from her broom. In parallel the imagery suggest a continued stupidity or physical weakness, femininized, in the black male populace. The question is what is the true feeling and place of the southern states to DOSers in the black populace in the usae. I know a black man recently suggested the south should be a place of strength, regardless of its past. But I think it is fair to argue the south and the greater usa is a place of historic pain that black DOSers in the black populace in the usa have the right to choose to embrace. GQ Explain the process to write the book? MA The sack was the best or primary source. The book was an unwise undertaking with so few sources. But she got help from an anthropologist. Mark LASTNAME. The Middleton foundation had assessed the material the sack was made of. She looked for a woman named Rose with a girl named Ashley. Rose was a popular name. While, ashley was a name given to white men mostly at that time. She found one ashley had connection to one rose in the region. She can never know what is on the mind of people living today so knowing the mind of people living in the past is farther off. But she used slave narratives to guide to the mindset Ashley or Rose might had. She was very lucky. The whole point of the recording history of enslavement by whites in the usa was to delete links to the past for black people living or in the future. That was the point. That is why I wonder why it is so hard to get black people in the usa or wherever we have been enslaved which is , everywhere on earth in the last three hundred years to keep a better genealogical or bloodline log to themselves. GQ Why are relationships complicated between indigenous people side Blacks MA American slavery. She wants slavery on the land commonly called the usa to be represented for the expansive institution it was and expansive mutating legacy it is. The lands of the usa are not everyone's they are indigenous lands. She focused in the book on south east indigenous nations and the slavery within them. The enslavement of blacks by native americans is complex. For example, a native american named Shoeboots purchased a black woman named Doll. Why is their story important? Cherokee law makers in the 1700s , not wanting to be classed aside blacks by whites, made laws to disassociate black indigenous people wholescale. Shoeboots sisters embraced their nieces plus nephews from Doll but the larger indigenous community did not. She calls these American stories which are part of composite stories. I have said it for a long time. The entire American continent , which includes the USA, is owned by the native american in my eyes. Now, some places like many islands in the caribbean have a completely deleted indigenous populace. But, every country that has an indigenous populace: USA/Canada/Brazil/Mexico/Venezuela/Peru plus most others have a living indigenous populace that in my mind is the proper owner of the countries land. And many Black people have told me offline or online how they oppose this position. But the truth is what they oppose. To accept the indigenous ownership of the land in the American continent is to reject the creation of a majority of the governments in the American continent and by rejecting said governments the logical next step is to ask where do the non indigenous in the american continent belong. And that question's answer ranges from overwhelming in function to terrifying in implementation for a majority of non-indigenous in the american continent. And all the talk about forebears or the laws value in determining the place of their descendants from white europeans, black dosers, willing immigrants legal or illegal are all dead in the water if you accept the truth that indigenous people of the american continent had their continent taken. So any government with indigenous has a majority non indigenous populace that is in modernity a functioning encroacher/pillager/defiler regardless of their mindset, until they leave the american continent and go back to a location of their descendants or themselves. And that migration by the non indigenous, in countries with indigenous people, to wherever they or their forebears came from is what is the most honest or truthful act that can occur in the american continent. And the lie against that act exposes the truth about most in the non indigenous in the american continent. The great Tecumseh asked indigenous people of the south east region to join him and they opposed. Tecumseh later died in the canadian forest fighting the usa. One of the many Indigenous side Black DOSer leaders whose goal was against the white populace in the usa or the british colonies that preceded it and the creation/growth/expansion of the USA, who were supported by the british militarily sometimes. The fact that said Indigenous or Black DOS leaders failed doesn't mean they were wrong or that their struggle should be deemed false. Like the Indigenous populace in the usa, the Black DOser populace once bereft of the leaders who fought against the whites with violence, or the usa at every iteration became populaces enslaved not merely physically but culturally to the usa. It is no accident that the modern indigenous or black dos populace in the usa are in majority USAphiles, Statianphiles, that is a result of the death of a majority of either of their populaces earliest leaders who were adamantly or strongly anti white plus anti usa and the following leadership by the appeasing or non violent, the fearful of whites who sheparded either populace successfully to the their modern forms. GQ Why the modern conflicts of who is black or who is indigenous MA Native peoples in the usa have been stripped completely and have many false clones , false indigenous people of all phenotypes, modernly called identity theft, for centuries. The Shoeboots side Doll's descendants plus others are overly questioned by indigenous with that centuries old legacy. . But many enslaved descendants are treated as a subclass on reservations. A place in the oklahoma territory is named Nigger Hill where many people who are descended from formerly enslaved in the native american nations. The situation reached even a greater negativity at the end of the war between the states. In her view the chrorkee have come the farthest in giving rights to descendants of enslaved. No answer satisfies all or insults none. This is the result again of a negative past with indigenous people or black dos that predates the creation of the usa and is really two unsettled blood feuds against whites. Why shouldn't Indigenous or Black DOS populaces mimic whites in the usa when the leadership of either populace that was truly against whites was long dead? Two populaces led by whitephiles for centuries are not going to arrive today absent a mimicry of white behavior. GQ Talk about Cherokee Rose MA She know someone who searched for indigenous roots and they were wrong in their assumption and felt embarrassed. In the USA, native american descendance is romanticized while Black DOS descendance is barbarized. Yes and both of those views are not universal in creation but from whites where the black dos or indigenous leaders aided or abetted in their own populaces. GQ Talk about Wild Girls? MA She made during the height of Covid. She talks of how Harriet Tubman was continually loaned as an enslaved girl, mercilessly. But Harriet TUbman said later in life, she felt her work in timber prepared her for the work to come. She was the only female. She listened to the men, learned of water flow, what is edible. Tubman learned from being outside and changed the world. Love Harriest Tubman. A legend and I argue absent proof that Tubman wanted black people to go all the way to canada more but Frederick Douglass, one of those USAphile black leaders corralled black people to suffer in the usa even though if all the black people who escaped enslavement in the usa would had gone to nova scotia, history would be very different today in a positive way for black people in nova scotia and i argue throughout north america. USAphile black leaders insistence through centuries that black people suffer whites throughout the usa is the self inflicted wound. ANSWERS FROM AUDIENCE MEMBER QUESTIONS TO TIYA Q - from audience Tiya Answer- her reply My thoughts Q What is difference between history and fiction? TA History means you don't need a plot. Many people in her offline life family, never read any of her books till she made a novel. Fiction has more room to find a way in. Invites people to feel. History makes arguments , doesn't have a built in promise to feel. This leads to two different audiences for fiction or history. Also the various populaces in the usa don't like the questions history poses to self. White people will say my family wanted betterment. But your family killed others, aided or abetted in harming others for that betterment. You forebears are heroes to you, while tyrants to others you don't want to acknowledge. Cause that means the opportunity or advantage you have comes from that tyranny, and the ignorance they presented to the descendants is not the act of a hero but a coward to ashamed to admit what they are or are apart of. Black people will say our people built the usa. But our people hated every second of it, wishing only in their hear to have it deleted. And they were made worse by tricking themselves or their children into buying into a lie of ownership when they knew fully well they never owned the usa or had ownership in it. Indigenous people will say they love america. But your forebears and the forebears of the cousins, the many more cousins who never got to be, were murdered by the usa and its predecessor. To love the usa is to forgive its murder of your own people, which either makes you a coward or a traitor. Immigrants will say, they came freely on their own with no desire to abuse. But only a self centered person will go to a new land absent knowing its true nature and then hide behind their individual greed or needs to warrant the move. You fled from your country instead of having the willingness/strength/daring to make it better for convenience to a land made by white europeans who were and are like yourself , and you call that a dream, while the heritage of the country you came to or the situation of the country you left you can't even acknowledge is a nightmare you aid in growing. Q What about hand craft? TA Experiencing what people make by hand is cherished. She took classes in college for sewing and her family loved the craft she made. In the USA a culture of electronic crafting is growing at such a rate, in the usa non electronic hand craft will have a lessening, not deletion but lessening. Q What steps should be taken to come together? TA John Stewart , the english governor of carolina , pre USA, in his writings admitted you can't allow bindings of indigenous people with black dos. Later in the usa, circa seminole wars, blacks fleeing georgia were strengthening the union of black dos side indigenous so laws were made to put at odds by giving allowances in the white system for one while not the other. Examples exist of indigenous abuses toward blacks but it must be comprehended they are not everywhere throughout the indigenous lands in a comparable way to the abused to blacks throughout white european lands. In her personal experience, indigenous people easily accept those they know who are indigenous while black but the people who are unverifiable becomes frustrating as well as problematic for the same indigenous people. After killing of George Floyd native american solidarity to blacks increased , not at the strength of the seminole movement in florida but stronger than recent past. The problem with labels is their misplacement. When I say indigenous, that is not a phenotypical label. that is about descendency. When I say Black that is a phenotypical label, it is about appearance. Connecting indigenous to white or non indigenous to black is where the errors come in. Q How to galvanize communities, bridge the gap? Her mother applied for a job as a nurse in the choctaw nation, saying she never embraced her indigenous roots. Her mother's experience was horrifying. She cried daily in tears. She herself identifies as black dos wholesale with no desire to claim her indigenous roots. What kind of conversation do we need to start having? TA She admits to things she will not speak publicly that occurred to her in montana.... she thinks sometimes we think their must be an affinity between indigenous side black. When she did research on indigenous people side black dos, she found the most binding heritage between the two people absent any near challenge is enslavement, the institution of slavery in the usa. The optimism of what should be accepted contradicts what happened in the past. But the fleeting stories can be inspiring or models. The best examples of bonding are when both are under the heel. For example when indigenous plus blacks were both enslaved a communion existed but when indigenous enslavement was outlawed or banned the indigenous community in majority fled. When historical winds are negative people choose to flow away from such winds. But she says small communication is the best at the moment. A black lady behind me said they think they are white anyway. And she is correct, but it goes back to Tecumseh. A people whose leaders that love them while hate their enemies when they are murdered and replaced by those that love them while also love the enemy creates a choice of convenience that truthfully while sadfully has led to the growth of whitephile or usaphile quantities in the indigenous or black dos populaces who are empowered by whites or the usa with advantage over the remainder of their populaces. It is not that indigenous or black dos do not have many who want to be white but the why is inevitable with said leadership in an environment controlled by their historic enemy. Yes, for me, the seminole wars, all four phases, is the most positive union between the indigenous side black dos populaces in the usa. No moment has a more positive union between indigenous or black people in north america and what is the situation. Both indigenous plus black dos are technically not in the USA but in spanish florida being given the right by the spanish to defend the lands as the spanish are impotent. Like the english before, or the french in some ways in louisiana, the white european continental powers gave situations that were far more favorable to indigenous or black people but the numbers of white european settlers and later statians was too great and overrun indigenous or black dos efforts through numbers. But how can modern indigenous or black dos populaces in the usa mirror the seminoles, which is a word signifying a collective of peoples, not just one, in spanish florida in opposition to the usa while in the usa? Look at Tecumseh again. At the end, he died in canada but his goal was in the usa or the usa to be. It is hard being anti usa in the usa. and , at least historically though i think modernly, if you are anti white then you are anti usa in the usa. Q Have you felt blocked in creating? TA She hasn't felt block but many scholars came before her. She has heard some scholars be formally discouraged cause the history may lead to a negative light. She idd not go to the Tsalagi and get their blessing for her book. She knew a writer who found intermarriage evidence between black dos side indigenous and Tsalagi told him to take it out and he did. She received negative communication from descendants of enslavers white or indigenous or others for the history she found wasn't what they knew or accepted or wanted as the main publicized or advertised narrative. But in her engagements she has never had people stay the same after discussing. When she started a native american scholar felt her book would destroy the native american populace but years later said she is thankful she wrote the book. Again, people in the usa, all phenotypes[black/white/mulatto/native], all descendencies [indigenous/european/african/asian/suth american/caribbean] have been bred on lies by those in the past in their own homes. Often with lies at the core of their relationship to the usa, or the whites to own it, and to disprove those lies is a bridge many are fearful of. Q How to transform the youth of today TA She feels a gap between herself and some members of her household. Her best guess is to bring younger people in a dual directional project. To learn the language of the youth and speak the communities needs or elders concerns in said language while elders allow young voices to change themselves. She admits, sadfully, she knows things she wish she will see, she will never see in her lifetime, she wish she will. And, governmental policy matter and the things people make matter. The culture matters and move all of these things into the political realm. I think a faster question and answer, plus more interactive will help. The kids are used to more speed, less sitting while more interaction , less absorbing. It isn't that the kids can't sit or absorb but they prefer either of those actions to be accompanied by said other. IN AMENDMENT Great Talk in my view, like the first day. Learned but a lot of truth. And wasn't a bad crowd to be fair.

Before I go into the segment I will speak on Stageplays + screenplays. One of the things I like about stageplays or screenplays is they are made to be performed. Which means what? They are meant to be the basis of a collective art work. A book of fiction is meant to be read but not performed. That simple variance , in my mind, opens up stageplays or screenplays to a different set of allowable judgements. The best example I can think of showing the power of screenplay fluidity is "THe Jungle" from "The Twilight Zone" . In the original short story from Charles Beaumont it is located in Africa and in the future with a technologically advanced manner. The characters are all the same but the visualization is starker. The goal is to show an encroachment by the wealthy white powers onto a Black space, and the price for some agents of that white power. It is that blunt. But when Beaumont wrote the teleplay for the show. He changed alot of aesthetic. But kept the basic idea, still kept the story. But why? A play is a collaborative artwork as is a film and both are open to interpretation. It isn't about rigiidity , it is about interpretation. Another example is Baum, writer of the wizard of Oz, who loved the 1902 stage production, a musical, whose language and tone was far more adult. But I paraphrase him:"as long as people do well by the work he is fine" . In the same way , he would had loved "The Wiz" stageplay in my opinion for its quality while reflecting another community or the earlier Judy garland movie, whose dorothy is significantly older than in the book. Whether the work is turned into something meant to be laughed at with gawdy humour, or reflecting another communities ways, or just some tweaks of the original works , stageplays or screenplays are interpretations and if they achieve their goals then no critique to a standard storytelling is warranted. Immediately below is an excerpt from an article presented ultimately. I will continue my prose after the excerpt THE EXCERPT In 1979, Paramount needed an answer to Star Wars, so it revived Trek in the form of movies. Then T.J. Hooker came along a few years later. What did you get out of the show? It was a terrific show. It had all kinds of drama. I got to direct several of the episodes. And some of my shots are in the opening. I was totally involved, committed to the writing, committed to the directing. You're running all the time. You've got to make decisions and you don't have enough money. You directed a big-budget feature, Star Trek V, in 1989. It was considered a disappointment, but it has its fans today. Were you hoping to expand what a Trek movie could be by filming around the world? I wish that I'd had the backing and the courage to do the things I felt I needed to do. My concept was, "Star Trek goes in search of God," and management said, "Well, who's God? We'll alienate the nonbeliever, so, no, we can't do God." And then somebody said, "What about an alien who thinks they're God?" Then it was a series of my inabilities to deal with the management and the budget. I failed. In my mind, I failed horribly. When I'm asked, "What do you regret the most?," I regret not being equipped emotionally to deal with a large motion picture. So in the absence of my power, the power vacuum filled with people that didn't make the decisions I would've made. You seem to take the blame, but outside observers might say, "Well, the budget wasn't there. You didn't get the backing you needed." But in your mind, it's on you. It is on me. [In the finale,] I wanted granite [rock creatures] to explode out of the mountain. The special effects guy said, "I can build you a suit that's on fire and smoke comes out." I said, "Great, how much will that cost?" They said, "$250,000 a suit." Can you make 10 suits? He said, "Yeah." That's $2.5 million. You've got a $30 million budget. You sure you want to spend [it on that]? Those are the practical decisions. Well, wait a minute, what about one suit? And I'll photograph it everywhere [to look like 10]. (Editor's note: The plan to use one suit famously did not work well onscreen and was ultimately abandoned.) MY CONTINUED PROSE It seems to me, Shatner made two mistakes. When you go from low budget television to large budget film, the financial scale requires greater care. In a low budget television show, your financial scale is predetermined low so you know limits, there is no suggestion of overspending. But when you do a high budget film the allowance for misuse or waste is higher and sequentially ruinous or dangerous to the overall collective experience. I am not sure but shatner alludes to not presenting a screenplay or storyboard list. And while I comprehend film studios love pitching a concept in a sentence. I think an artist is wiser to have a screenplay plus storyboard list in hand , to aid in the pitch when questions may be asked. Leonard Nimoy supposedly had the script for Wrath of Khan before the pitch he made, so there lay the variance. When I look at Star Trek Generations, I can see that being a remake of Star Trek v tweaked to bridge the original series + next generation. The Nexus is what? a science fiction element that is as close to the gateway to heaven as you can get. It literally exist as a natural phenomenon in space, moving about destructive to interface with but if very lucky it can grab you or if unlucky or purposed can spit you out. And the place it goes to is so powerful part of you remains there, ala Guinan's character. This is heaven. Shatner said he wanted the Enterprise to meet god and essentially that concept was tweaked so that two enterprises meet , as close as possible in star trek world, the gateway of heaven. From my little knowledge I imagine the screenplay for Generations was around for a while or at least the writers to it had access to screenplays or other content concerning star trek v, if not the simple pitch itself. But this is why the screenplay/stageplay is such a fluid creature. They are meant to be manipulated for purpose. They are not meant to be treated as rigid works, ala why so many have it wrong when they treat shakespeare's work rigidly. It was meant to be performed, speculated in various ways. I will love a chance to redo The Meteor Man. I think the screenplay isn't bad but can be interpreted in a way various with even the same budget. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE William Shatner on His Biggest ‘Star Trek' Regret – and Why He Cried With Bezos Story by Aaron Couch When writing about a legend who's still working as a nonagenarian, it's almost obligatory to include a line about how they are seemingly busier than ever. William Shatner, 92, may no longer be on set 12 hours a day for the roles that made him the first Comic-Con celebrity (Star Trek), or that transformed him into a late-career regular at the Emmys podium (The Practice, Boston Legal), but it's difficult not to marvel at the pace at which he lives his life. The actor, who looks and speaks much like he did 20 years ago, maintains a healthy travel schedule that includes appearances at a dozen or so fan conventions every year. Always popping up in new projects (he hosted the extraterrestrial base camp-simulating reality contest Stars on Mars that aired on Fox over the summer), in 2021, he became the oldest person to travel to space, pouring that experience into a music-and-poetry performance at Washington D.C's Kennedy Center a few months later with friend and musical collaborator Ben Folds. (That recording, So Fragile, So Blue, will be released as an album April 19). Now, Shatner is the subject of the crowdfunded documentary You Can Call Me Bill (in select theaters March 22, his 93rd birthday), a meditation on his life, career and mortality. The Montreal-born actor began performing at the age of 6 at camp and never stopped, transitioning from Canadian radio dramas to Broadway to 1950s TV Westerns. He's been an omnipresent pop culture fixture since 1966, when he was cast as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek under unusual circumstances never seen again in Hollywood. NBC had a pilot that didn't work, but the network wanted to try again with a mostly new cast. Where the original pilot was a somewhat dry affair, Shatner brought much-needed humor to the Enterprise. Though the show was canceled after just three seasons, it earned a cult following in syndication, and Shatner reprised the role for seven feature films. Along the way, he reinvented himself over and over, as a hard-a** cop who didn't understand the value of Miranda rights for five seasons on ABC/CBS' T.J. Hooker, and again as a comedic sendup of himself as the spokesperson for Priceline.com, with ads beaming into homes from 1998 to 2012. His comedic chops led him to the Saturday Night Live stage - 38 years later, people still ask him about a sketch in which he mocked Star Trek fans with the exasperated line "Get a life!" - as well as multiple Emmy wins playing lawyer Denny Crane on David E. Kelley's ABC procedural The Practice and then Boston Legal, which concluded after four years in 2008. And he has penned books, released albums and directed documentaries. During a Zoom conversation in early March, Shatner discussed why Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, his first and only theatrical feature as a director, was the biggest regret of his career; that history-making Star Trek kiss with Nichelle Nichols; and what could lure him back to the captain's chair. Some say acting is a way to find the love they aren't getting elsewhere. Was that true for you? I'm sure it's true. I spent a very lonely life in my younger years. Being able to join a cast and be a part of a group of people, I'm sure that was an element in my starting to be an actor when I was very young. Though you acted throughout childhood, you got a practical degree, a bachelor of commerce, from McGill University in Montreal. Was the plan to use that degree? I've bumbled my way through my life with a growing realization that all the plans you have for your life are dependent on the guy driving a car behind you or in front of you. The accidents that you have no control over, whether they're physical, like falling down a flight of stairs, or emotional, like the person you love the most doesn't love you - and everything in between - you have no control over. So you may think you're like, "I'm going to control. I'm going to choose that motion picture," or go onstage choosing elements of your career, thinking you're making a career move. It has nothing to do with reality at all. But as an actor, you do have some control, right? You understudied for Christopher Plummer on Henry V in 1956, and he once said, "Where I stood up to make a speech, he sat down. He did the opposite of everything I did." I had no rehearsal. I didn't know the people. And it was five days into the opening of the show [when Plummer got sick]. The choreography was one of the other things that I didn't know. I was in a macabre state of mind. So that had nothing to do with "I stood where he sat." [It was, rather], "I've got to move around the stage somewhere. I think I'll sit down here, I'm exhausted!" You worked with director Richard Donner on the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," which was in fact a nightmare for him, as it was technically complicated and the shooting days were halved. Did you sense the pressure he was under? It's complicated. When you get those science fiction choices: The guy is dressed in a furry little suit and you say, "Well, why isn't the suit aerodynamic? Why is it a suit that'll catch every breeze that blows?" What kind of logic do you use in any science fiction case? When I looked at the acrobat [Nick Cravat, who played a gremlin terrorizing Shatner's character from the wing of a plane], I said to myself, "That isn't something you'd wear on the wing of a 747," but then again, what do you wear on the wing of a 747? So yeah, it was complicated in that way. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had strict rules about what was appropriate for his show. Were you privy to what informed that thinking? He was in the military, and he was a policeman. So there was this militaristic vision of "You don't make out with a fellow soldier." There are strict rules and you abide by the rules. Around that, [the writers] had to write the drama. But within that was the discipline of "This is the way a ship works." Well, as Star Trek progressed, that ethos has been forgotten [in more recent shows]. I sometimes laugh and talk about the fact that I think Gene is twirling in his grave. "No, no, you can't make out with the lady soldier!" The writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation butted heads with Gene when he was alive. The fights that went on, to my understanding, were big, because the writers had their difficulties. "We need some more material." "We need to get out of here. It's claustrophobic." When you joke that Gene is twirling in his grave, you mean he wouldn't approve of onscreen romances between crewmates on the later shows? Yes, exactly. I haven't watched the other Star Treks very much, but what I've seen with glimpses of the Next Generation is yes, the difficulty in the beginning, between management, was all about Gene's rules and obeying or not obeying those rules. You and Nichelle Nichols are credited with the first interracial kiss on TV. Is it true that you pushed to make every take real, despite the network asking for faked takes so they would have the option? I do remember saying, "Maybe they'll try and edit it. What can I do to try and discourage the editing of the kiss itself?" I don't remember quite what I did because it's difficult to cut away [from the kiss in an edit]. But yeah, I remember thinking that. After three seasons, NBC cancels Star Trek in 1969, and you find yourself broke, doing summer stock theater on the East Coast. Did you think acting might be over at that point? I'm broke, living in a truck, sleeping in the back and trying to save that money so I could support my three kids and my [ex-]wife, who were living in Beverly Hills. The only thing that ever occurred to me was, "I can always go back to Toronto and make something of a living as an actor there." I never thought, "Oh, I've got to become a salesman." It never occurred to me from the age of 6 to do anything else. Which is weird because [today] I hear it all around me: "God, I can't make a living anymore [as an actor]." And that's true. People with names can't make a living under the circumstances that the business has fallen into. In 1979, Paramount needed an answer to Star Wars, so it revived Trek in the form of movies. Then T.J. Hooker came along a few years later. What did you get out of the show? It was a terrific show. It had all kinds of drama. I got to direct several of the episodes. And some of my shots are in the opening. I was totally involved, committed to the writing, committed to the directing. You're running all the time. You've got to make decisions and you don't have enough money. You directed a big-budget feature, Star Trek V, in 1989. It was considered a disappointment, but it has its fans today. Were you hoping to expand what a Trek movie could be by filming around the world? I wish that I'd had the backing and the courage to do the things I felt I needed to do. My concept was, "Star Trek goes in search of God," and management said, "Well, who's God? We'll alienate the nonbeliever, so, no, we can't do God." And then somebody said, "What about an alien who thinks they're God?" Then it was a series of my inabilities to deal with the management and the budget. I failed. In my mind, I failed horribly. When I'm asked, "What do you regret the most?," I regret not being equipped emotionally to deal with a large motion picture. So in the absence of my power, the power vacuum filled with people that didn't make the decisions I would've made. You seem to take the blame, but outside observers might say, "Well, the budget wasn't there. You didn't get the backing you needed." But in your mind, it's on you. It is on me. [In the finale,] I wanted granite [rock creatures] to explode out of the mountain. The special effects guy said, "I can build you a suit that's on fire and smoke comes out." I said, "Great, how much will that cost?" They said, "$250,000 a suit." Can you make 10 suits? He said, "Yeah." That's $2.5 million. You've got a $30 million budget. You sure you want to spend [it on that]? Those are the practical decisions. Well, wait a minute, what about one suit? And I'll photograph it everywhere [to look like 10]. (Editor's note: The plan to use one suit famously did not work well onscreen and was ultimately abandoned.) Paramount+ is rumored to have tossed around ideas for you to reprise your role, à la Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: Picard. Is that something you would entertain? Leonard [Nimoy] made his own decision on doing a cameo [in J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek]. He's there for a moment, and it's more a stunt that Spock appears in a future. If they wrote something that wasn't a stunt that involved Kirk, who's 50 years older now, and it was something that was genuinely added to the lore of Star Trek, I would definitely consider it. Did hosting SNL feel like a breakthrough, in terms of showing what you could do with comedy? That was a new show then, it was a big sensation, and hosting it was good. They really wrote comedy for me. I played comedy since I was 7. There is a timing. There is a way of characterizing a line. It's a kind of spiritual thing playing comedy, letting the audience know they're open to laugh. After decades in the industry, you achieved your greatest critical success in your 70s playing Denny Crane on Boston Legal. What was the genesis of Denny? David E. Kelly invites me to breakfast. He says, "I've written this character. He's a little bit senile." I said, "Well, I can play that." He'd write, "The character would say his name, Denny Crane, four or five times." How do you act that? What rationale pulls that together? David didn't offer any explanation. I learned somewhere that snakes stick their tongues out. It's assessing what's out there. So I thought that's what the character is doing. Denny Crane is reading what your reaction is to the words "Denny Crane." In 2021, at age 90, you became the oldest person to go to space. Upon landing, you had a tearful exchange with Jeff Bezos. How have you processed that? I was weeping uncontrollably for reasons I didn't know. It was my fear of what's happening to Earth. I could see how small it was. It's a rock with paper-thin air. You've got rock and 2 miles of air, and that's all that we have, and we're f****** it up. And, that dramatically, I saw it in that moment. What are your thoughts on legacy? At Mar-a-Lago, I was asked to help raise funds with the Red Cross. I had to be at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night, and Leonard's funeral was Sunday morning. I couldn't make both. I chose the charity. It just occurred to me: Leonard died. They got a statue up. It's not going to last. Say it lasts 50 years, 100. [Someone will say], "Who is that Leonard Nimoy? Tear the statue down, put somebody else up." But what you can't erase is helping somebody or something. That has its own energy and reverberation. That person got help - and then is able to help somebody else. You've continued an action that has no boundaries. That's what a good deed does This story first appeared in the March 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 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Day 2 part 1 Virtual Scholarly Presentations on Conference Theme scholars : dionne bennett, levi catoe , russell nurick, hosted by thabdi lewis, jason hendrikson, lea byrd levi catoe the literature accessed or utilized to children in school settings in the usa maintains a phenotypical order with blacks under whites. He uses as an example phyllis wheatley. Oral history he suggest can be used to aid in strengthening the black vision of the history or times of the usa and offering a opposing parallel to the literature in scholastic settings in school mentioned before. He suggests black people are deemed against civilization but I argue, that it is better to say, the black populace in the usa born from the enslaved have usually to their own detriment pushed the combined populace in the usa to civilization in spite of white terror, maintaining black hate. I wish he would had stated the destruction of the native american. The usa first pillar is the destruction of the native american to literally obtain their land,and delete their claim or at least the ability of them to claim with violence. But all to often black people in their desire to be part of the usa or their belief in the usa myhtological destination don't mention the native american because that sin of the usa is unrepairable. russell nurick focuses on bernice mcfadden work sugar. Good point on sugar, its browner color and the processed white. and uses the bok to emphasize the strategy of getting others to think a way. And how it is pervasaive between phenotypical groups but also in each phenotypical group. He goes through how mcfadden uses pearl to speak on black women's view to themselves,their suffering in the usa locally plus the condition of the black populace on earth aside the white populace. I think many black viewers are not interested in viewing such graphic physical abuses, as in the book sugar. Same to octavia butler's kindred. Black people and white folk seem to be able to accept the physical violence of the past in the usa easier in book form than video form.The thing that is absent in many fictions by black people to fisctional persons is how they act like a punching bag to white violence, but never come to a violent rebuttal or an exodus plan. In the end these Dionne Bennett The black populace literary exploration to black movements document the central role of Black people to making the usa what it is today. Frederick Douglass, pernile joseph, angela davis she use as examples. The literary intellectual tradition is the foundation of usa's modern form. She wants to recenter black american literature as central to the path to the modern form of the usa. She echoes joseph's a goal of shared multiracial narrative to the genesis or identity of the usa's essence is needed to bring the usa to a place of functional unity among the demographs in the usa. Black literature has defined plus redefined the government of the usa and the liberational democracy is embedded in the literature of black writers and the destination of what the usa can be or needed to be for all benefit. She says anti inclusion anti multiversity anti equity is anti democracy or anti american. She uses Sojourney Truth's speech and the hardship of women in getting their voice heard in the battle for gender rights in the context of phenotypical battles and beyond. Being a female warrior doesn't make her battle less than or her value less than black men or any one. Frederick Douglass believed in the usa as the cornerstone of a united humanity through positive interworking or peace. Joseph says the laws to blacks from whites proves black humanity. Didn't know Angela Davis plus Condaleeza Rice both knew one of the four little girls annihilated by bombing in a church. She thinks Angela Davis is not credited enough. I concur. The intersectional of phenotype side gender is underrated as a factor in the legal structure of the usa. She also refers to Davis explanation of how the prison is the method to get rid of what people don't want to see. The majority of whites or majority of blacks never wanted the usa that the minority of black or white leaders have been able to guide the usa to be. Garveyism had more adherent, working adherents than frederick douglass or booker t washington or web dubois or others, because most black people in the usa never liked the usa or whites and always wanted to kill the whites or the usa. the KKK is the largest organization post war between the states because most whites always wanted the usa to be a trick to the non white christian populace in humanity where non white christians are used for white christian empowerment in the usa eternally. She is wrong, the rule of the people in the usa is centered on anti inclusion anti multiversity anti equity. The problem is the usa's form of the rule of the people is designed on one group dominating other groups. But a minority of blacks/whites/native americans want the democracy of the usa to be centered on inclusion/equity/multiversity and speak on the democracy of the usa as if it already was, when it wasn't. Prisons since the war between the states is the way within the white populace originally and then black populace or modern immigrants populace get to not see the problems they don't want to see. Original Questions thought as listening Question : Levi Catoe, can the empowerment of the black populace in the usa in some way repair the earlier sin from the whites in the colonies or the usa later toward the native american? Question: Russell Nurick, What are your thoughts to most high end prostitutes in new orleans in its past stating a lie that they had partial black ancestry? Question: Dionne Bennett, has the failure of black men in leadership positions to embrace black women as equals made the movement by blacks in modulating the usa's democractic form too slow? https://www.clascholars.org/ presented questions Levi Catoe, will the native american populace be healed in the usa at the goal of the black populace ? [he answered the question, he speaks for both naturally] Russell Nurick, what are your thoughts to whites lying about black ancestry in history, like prostitutes in old new orleans? ->I'd be curious to know what particular historical lies you are referring. If you care to elaborate. Russell, yes, in storyville in old new orleans, most high prostitutes were white absent any black ancestry, but many of them said they did because white customers had the myth of black sexuality embedded in them. ->Oh wow, I was not aware of that, but am disturbed, though not, surprised byit. Russell , ah ok, take a look , that theme of advertised black sexuality side how white people commercialize it. Dionne Bennett, I view black music as poetry, I think you do as well, what needs to happen to get more to do so? Dionne Bennett, Do most black leaders in modern usa embrace black women in their struggles equally, with equity? Dionne Bennett, no group votes in high numbers all the time. how can a black populace that can't dictate who is elected on its vote alone protect the DEI agenda if a white populace can vote for an elected official on its own that is opposed?

my pleasure @Troy they had to let people sit in the side isles eventually. and the center isle is bigger than the two side isles combined.

Day 1 Eric Dyson was fun, as in media. I argue he is funier. I think he pulls back as he knows the federal audience is mostly not black. He described his youthful self as a "ten year old atheist nerd in the ghetto" As I love libraries as well, my parents home is a library, I stand with him on the value of libraries. His points about the selflessness of great black leaders in the past or how the government of the usa tried to subvert them with displaying personal information to various others while not assisting said black folks in alerting to white threats to them , should be well known but is simply true. The shift as Dyson admitted from black advocacy to black government representatives has been messy. It's funny I saw a version of the robin hood story which took a lot from ivanhoe in my opinion. I do think that added with the immigrant populace post immigration act, the usa is having a mountain to climb to get these populaces all as one. To be honest, multitudes , no matter how many , eventually become one under any government if that government live long enough. Simply because the people eventually merge their own cultures together one by one. His point about older black leaders , like al sharpton who has a hair scenario close to washington the first president [though dyson admitted it is to honor james brown] being spoken to ill by younger black people who lack selflessness , sometimes in a major way [ he referred to some leaders of black lives matter using funds to get homes in parallel to younger black leaders not liking kings desire for silk underwear, though mk jr gave all his money to causes] is also well known or should be, but is a truth. I have to admit I am lucky, but many of the black children I knew well offline growing up had similar parentage that didn't allow disrespect to black leaders or black elders in that way. Opposing strategy is an acceptable thing. Varying aesthetic is an acceptable thing. But rejecting based on aesthetic plus speaking ill while one does worse was not the way I Was raised. He reminded me of sharpton's quote, about how black people who support non violence have to speak till to black violent actors because you can't say white people can't be violent but black people can if the goal is integration under an unbiased law for all, when Dyson said black people not voting cause things didn't go there way is the same as the january 6th from mostly whites. As I have said many times. The Black populace in the usa, which is always under white pressure, has always had a problem handling its many paths. To restate , where do black nonviolent people condone black violence? The obvious answer is no where but when you have black people who have suffered at the hands of white power, telling said black people not to be violent issimply not going to lead to acceptance most of the time. He spoke honest to Trump's ills but explained his one meeting with trump and how congenial it was, regardless of trump's intentions or motives. But admitted he would vote for trump over haley cause people like haley actually believe what trump spews for advantage. I think four years from now will be a time for change as four years from now, the Ocasio Cortez side the Haley's will be in the drivers seat and share an anticentrist stance that has a high chance of leading to violent friction He spoke of how some black people relatively well known didn't think hillary clinton was any different than trump. Though he admitted the failure of hillary clinton wasn't in the popular vote but in the electoral college. The electoral college system which is in the constitution is not accepted enough by people in the usa, even those who active in government advocacy. When Schrumpf won that was the electoral college working the way it is meant to. The point of the electoral college isn't to subvert the majority vote. It is designed to not allow simple majority calculations to dominate the presidency, who at heart is a position at the head of the usa military above all. If popular vote was to dominate, then all you need is new york/california/texas and maybe one other state and all other states can be and will be ignored. It is a myth that strict popular voting with the unevne distribution of populace in the usa will not lead to simple strategic realities. He mentioned not enough local governmental interest by black people. In my own experience I think the past or present has soured many black people on local or state government. I never forget hearing a black woman say, she thinks the states need to go and just have federal law the whole way. Which when I think about it, while an extreme thing, a thing that will definitely lead to friction, has value. Isn't the experience of black people in the usa one where all positives come from the federal level, none from the state or city level? I think at the least you can say the federal government of the usa from a black perspective has yielded positive fruit while states or cities yield much of nothing. If federal power is absent restrictions from smaller municipalities in the usa, then the long game strategies are gone but it does fit the reality of positive returns from government in the usa I had a few questions to him but I didn't deliver in time, I wanted to wait till he was done to give them. But they had collected and presented already when he was finished and I was ready to give. 1) was MLK jr's anti fiscal capitalism that made him misread Black elected officials? 2) is the trump base's inability to be swayed by someone like haley a good sign for the usa? 3) Is the black populace in the usa in modernity hyper federalist? IN AMENDMENT A side note. A black woman with lovely legs, she likes to show off, had on coffee stockings on and, although she had on creamy crack hair in a sea of mostly black women with natural hair, was enjoying the event side her friend. The black man behind me for some reason couldn't hear Dyson or was bothered by their voices, which didn't bother me for a second. I heard Dyson side his host perfectly. As did most people. The man sitting behind them wasn't upset at their voice. So, my point is, if you are a black man, and if you like the way a certain black woman look or like to bother black women for the sake of it, stop or don't. If you want to get laid say you want to get laid, don't make up a false scenario of rudeness, just to get closer or hope to irritate to get black women to act negatively. The host side Dyson shouted out a black writer named Daryl Robinson but I failed to find his content on MSNBC. It was a reply to someone but I forgot it and didn't it write it down on my notes.

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@Pioneer1 I don't concur. In my travels outside the usa, humans attacking other humans similar to what you call "urban american'. well, you said the goal is 100%, and unless you are going to have citizens shackled in nyc, then no law enforcement organization is ever going to stop 100% of all similar situations in a city with a populace the size of New York City's. What I want for New York City, I will not answer. But Haiti is poor. I find it telling that you think the situation in haiti warrant a mention in similarity to nyc. at least I see your mind For me, none of your four questions has any role to his murder by law enforcement who supposedly are trained to handle situations to reach non violent conclusions. If two of said supposedly trained, while armed with guns, law enforcements have no other recourse than to shoot to kill, that is an indictment on the entire development of law enforcers in the nypd. For the record, simply cause Pioneer said it, I never once said I was an expert in law enforcement. I never also made any connections between the usa side haiti. I also never suggested anyone else think like me. I also never suggested I am prosyletizing to anyone. I also never said to someone who has been aided or saved by law enforcement to share my opinion towards them. Please any who read my words remember these last statements.

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@ProfD I think 99% of black people in humanity know tribes exist in the black village and have a local white populace as a historic enemy. I think 99% of black people know the solutions for black people in one geographic location rarely match another location. The issue of contention is the idea that black tribes must have common ground to cooperate with each other and as I said, I don't think that is true. Some tribes can cooperate, like black donkeys side black elephants in the usa. But how can black militants in the usa cooperate with black nonviolent vowing christians? no way exist and that isn't negative or a failing among black people, merely the truth that fate has brought. This is why I tend to ask in AALBC, who is your tribe? In the same way that I am connected with you, Profd, pioneer, troy and the others in this online community into an online tribe, aalbc, offline you, Profd, or pioneer or troy aren't in my offline tribe. And that isn't bad, that is merely a truth of fate. But often when i ask on here, what are you doing with like mindeds offline i get no response. all black people in the usa have to embrace their tribes more.

@ProfD I must add, not all black leaders in the past defined have our own the same way. the young web dubois was preaching hyper integration, so was frederick douglass his whole life. Again why Douglass was booed in his composite america speech facing a crowd of black people. I argued and I argue that black leaders in the past, while all wanted black betterment did not preach the same definition of what black betterment is. and that multivision, yes not division, multivision, has maintained in the black populace in the usa ever since. Frederick Douglass's definition of black betterment didn't include black financially independent towns or black people leaving the usa to other places regardless of the situation. Booker t washington's definition of black betterment didn't include phenotypically integrated work spaces WEB DUbois the younger's definition of black betterment didn't include financial aid for the black poor. Marcus Garvey's definition of black betterment didn't include staying in the usa or any country mostly populated by whites or dominated by a white minority, ala the jamaica he came from. Nat Turner again , in the same time frame, yes killed for obvious reasons but his definition of black betterment didn't include blacks living peacefully side whites Remember all five of these leaders had cultural adherents in the black populace as they did live at the same time. And the same goes for later generations of black leaders in the black populace in the usa, the 60s especially, Malcolm X/MLK jr/Fred Hampton all wanted black betterment but didn't have the same definition and the variances in definition matter. Now why say this ? When black people in the usa talk about our forebears we tend to name the ones that suit our philosophy but not name the others who don't but mention the whole as a unified mind. When they were not. I just gave two examples. So, all of us, including me, have to realize when we talk about the village, it has different tribes within and these tribes sometimes don't have a way to mix, but all tribes have presence today. When you look at the black elected official class, they are the best embodiment of frederick douglass's definition. They don't do for black people, they are trying to make the ideal of the usa be true, which they feel is best for all. And have a larger populace than ever before. When you look at Historical Black colleges, as in the time of Booker T Washington they still get financed by whites for the most part, while are still overwhelmingly black educational spaces, and as all are southern are equivalent to black towns in the south but are financially better off and foster greater education.And have a more stronger internal community than ever before. When you look at the black wealthy in the usa, they are the embodiment of Dubois when younger talented tenth, even more evolved, and like Dubois when younger many of them have a positive taste for white european culture or peoples but are wealtheir than ever before. When you look at Black people who leave the usa for black countries that is the first step in garveyism and every year after he was forced out of the usa, blacks in the usa, have always left or returned to somewhere black outside the usa with a positive footing. Saturating the black countries outside the usa not just in africa but in the caribbean, with a mind to complete freedom for black people. When you look at Black people who commit violent responses to white power that is the embodiment of Turner. And every year since he has died some black people have reached a tipping point with the white populace and even if alone, have exacted their revenge. And, these are not the only tribes. The black christian tribe. The black muslim tribe. The black nationalist tribe. The black republican tribe. And with immigration the Black latino tribe. The black asian tribe, have grown and have their own positions which are unique to them. In my mind the problem is too many black people criminalize blacks who are in other tribes. The one thing that I think all black people in the usa can accept is that the black village in the usa has many tribes and all of them have the right to grow. yes, all of them. yes, the black militant. Just because I am not one to join the blacks who want to kill all the whites doesn't mean I think them crazy or stupid or foolish. The Black past in the usa is open to all interpretations. And, I don't see anything wrong by a black person saying they are in a blood feud with whites. It doesn't mean I Will join them but I don't see any incorrectness in their path. It has merit. In the same way black people wanting to be presidents or governors has merit. And I will not join them either. So, when we black folks in the usa talk of our forebears , lets be specific, don't try to make them a unified set cause they were not and our leaders today are not. They had varying positions , all valid. Wish all black people well. Hope the best for them. and to those blacks who are similar minded, focus on your tribe in the village

@Pioneer1 In today's media anything is possible, unfortunately the kind of investigative reporting for such an inquiry is not being financed. And clearly emotions were high cause law enforcers were outside the train car when some of the people crushing each other were crying for law enforcers presence But experiences are different amongst nyc's vast populace. I realize you may not think it or know it based on your personal experience or offline connections but in my experience each populace in nyc has varying experiences within themselves concerning nyc. I can use myself as an example concerning the trian, i have never had one problem. I didn't even get caught on the train for 9/11. I admit something far more violent could had happened to me, but:) again, I was part of the most who got lucky . yes, it was an altercation. Where in humanity do adults not get into altercations? @ProfD and this was an altercation, this wasn't psycho killer person or something, this wasn't a bomber. it was an altercation. It happens. To stop the common occurence of two humans fighting you will need law enforcers on every blcok of nyc every day. Human beings actually have disagreements with each other and come to blows, all throughout humanity you know. The problem PRofd is that nYC has two populaces concerning law enforcement. Their are people whose personal experiences , like me, whose greatest threats have been law enforcement, not other citizens while, while, there are people like pioneer or troy or those in the video whose personal experience greatest threat has been fellow citizens and law enforcement has been a "savior" . these two groups want two different things that can't work simultaneously. If I go out in the street with a knife and start waving it wildly yelling babble , even though cameras are everywhere in nyc, and I am not harming anyone. People like pioneer in my local offline populace will say, "that boy crazy , where are the cops" and will call the cops , the media will say an endangerment to the community. Mayor adams will say, another example of mental health decay. A single black man angry , waving a knife , yelling is the great symbol of crime. And when i think about it, i remember how a black teenager was killed by law enforcement for doing just that. Two law enforcers , both carrying guns i might add, had no recourse but to shoot a teenage boy with a kitchen knife, said boy was not holding a hostage, wasn't attacking anyone directly, he was in his anger on the street, and yes, someone like pioneer had called the cops to the scene in the first place. Got a black boy murdered by two gun wielders who had no legal problems whatsoever. And for me the tragedy is the black person who called was never publicly acknowledged. I always find it telling how people who say they believe in law enforcement need to police the crazy niggers are willing to call on strangers in their neighborhood, but never have the courage to step into the light and announce to their neighborhood they did it. Why the shame? When commissioner sewell tried to reprimand, not fire, but reprimand a nypd official the mayor who hired her didn't support her. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10417-why-kechant-sewell-left-the-nypd/ and she left. The NYPD completely ran or aided or abetted every single illegal or criminal activity in NYC that has affected masses. Every single one since the founding of the NYPD by boss tweed in the 1800s from irish people who were trying to make money off of the irish populace illegally. Tweed gave them a badge and the nypd has been involved in all criminal or illegal actions in nyc ever since, ever since. So to truly diminish the criminal element in nyc you need to attack the nypd but the people who think the common folk should have a zero instance of negative behavior in public carry the day. And it makes sense, News media knows attacking the nypd is not only expensive but generates enemies, powerful ones. Government officials are unwilling to do it cause the nypd have always been powerful and through said 70s when they were arguably the most blatantly unashamedly corrupt, they seemed to gain more power or influence in the future, even though they were completely behind the city's age of blight in the 60s 70s 80s. so the problem is NYC has two populaces whose desires don't match. the NYPD can't be cleaned up while also grown Profd.

@Troy do you think a president should go back to the older tradition of sending the state of the union speech to congress and not speaking it?

@Troy I considered searching but i noticed, you can't search comments exclusively, or at least i was unable to in the advanced search settings, you can do status updates, topics, blog entries, events, but not specific comments within and I recall not exactly, a comment where I think you said something similar, but it is vague. I know it is a way and with all the comments. I dropped it but something search wise to consider for the site remodeling. and based on your prose i stand in error or I was wrong yeah but to your point about individuals, as in the subway video, not everybody was acting like that, and to maybe the common point we have addressed in the culture section here, there is no we:) how some act isn't how others act , how some live isn't how others live and the media ... and enjoy your weekend:)