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Dark Academia
The following is a question and answer I gave concerning the Dark Academia artistic theme.
Do you have any favorite pieces of media that fit the dark academia theme?
I can't say the following film is most beloved or most favorited by me, but I like the films: "the covenant" ... I recall an old legend, I do not know where it is cited online, I read it offline. The old legend, told my way, says that in spain, under a mound somewhere, is a gateway to a classroom. In this classroom, a negative spirit teaches all the students spells pertaining to shadows. The students live there and at the end of the course, the student with the worst grades must stay , their soul locked their forever.
How do you feel about dark academia as an aesthetic? Would you incorporate elements of it into your art or everyday life?
In my mind dark academia and the modern goth artistic movements are similar. I am an open minded artist so I don't have any biases to any aesthetic. I am not one to dress in it, but it is fine if someone else does. I know people offline who are goth or have a similar taste. In terms of my own work, I can't recall anything that is dark academia. But I have written quite a bit. I have written work that deals with people learning magic and doing negative things but I don't see that as dark academia. Just learning negative magic or powers doesn't equate to dark academia for me. IF so, then every sith student in star wards is an example of dark academia and I don't see it that way. I think the larger environment has to bound to the darkness. Having house slytherin doesn't make harry potter dark academia. Now, a story about Durmstrang, the rival school to hogwarts, that teaches the full spectrum of dark magic <if you want me to write something, message me>
Share dark academia art in your comment, whether you made it yourself or a favorite artist did!
I realized I have little to nothing in my deviantart galleries that fits dark academia... here is what I think fits, I am open to read your thoughts on whether you think it does or does not:)
the following is some art of mine I think is Dark Academia, what say you?
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Promptpot2022Day10-932661347
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Glasses-22-Witchtember-2022-930487371
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@darastarrtucker #sesamestreet #joanganzcooney #jonstone #lloydmorrisett #racialsegregation #childrenstelevision #childrenstelevisionworkshop #muppets #publictelevision #publictv #pbs #ctw #earlychildhoodeducation #educationaltv @darastarrtucker ♬ original sound - Dara Starr Tucker i love how she never said white, she said middle class as compared to black and brown kids. I didn't realize financial middle class is comparable to black or brown which are phenotype. She mentions the colleges of these people. yes, people know each other based on their circles. yes. IT doesn't mean being in that circle is a positive. ... The point that the producers and creators all realized they didn't need to say what they were clearly doing is an interesting point. today, everything must be announced. Maybe sesamae street had a better media position than in modernity. and sesame street is still controversial. PEople today don't seem to realize that all art is always somewhere controversial. the question is, does that controversial status make it banned or blocked or financially influenced in a deadly way.
https://www.tiktok.com/@darastarrtucker/video/7095684407448653099
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The point I concur to her most that she made in the post is about how the original creators of sesame street didn't constantly proclaim they accepted phenotypical integration. They simply enacted it. I think a lesson to many pro-miscegenist or integrationists can be learned from the sesame originators. You don't have to wave a flag for a cause you are supporting. Just simply act it. It can be argued, all groups in the usa need to learn that but I comgress.... the point I concur least is that sesame street isn't controversial today. It is. All art is always controversial somewhere, to some people. The question is, do those people's controversions to said art have the ability to restrict/end/financially lead to death the art, ala the Nat King Cole show. The Nat King Cole show, even white media admits, was getting more viewers, but the condemnations of whites in the south was too large/valuable to treat the nat king cole show with the respect a show getting the highest ratings in a fiscal capitalistic country , on financial merit warrant.
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did you know ? The lesson we writers can take from the creators of sesame street is , whatever our philosophies, let the art do the talking when asked what culture our art signifies.
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@richardmurraytiktok Joys of one North or somewhere preview https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/joys-of-one-north-or-somewhere #rmaalbc #wabisabi #haiku #audiobook ♬ original sound - richardmurraytiktok Title: Joys of one North or somewhere
ArtisT: Richard Murray
A set of Haiku's built from the aesthetic of Wabi Sabi from Nippon.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/joys-of-one-north-or-somewhere
Title: Joys of one North or somewhere
ArtisT: Richard Murray
A set of Haiku's built from the aesthetic of Wabi Sabi from Nippon.
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Joys-Of-One-North-Or-Somewhere-951602662
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Artist: Mary Ann Ozurumba - marianas_art - < https://www.instagram.com/marianas_art >
Location: @the_matrix_gallery in Abuja, Nigeria < https://www.instagram.com/the_matrix_gallery/ >
Art Team/organizers: @experience_orange < https://www.instagram.com/experience_orange/ >her time at the gallery showing
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Artist: Backyard Party Kings @ Oakland Carnaval
PHotographer: Ronald Reed ronwired
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Exclusive to the 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival, TCM host Dave Karger interviews award-winning actress, producer, and director
Debbie Allen. In this intimate conversation presented by Citi, Allen discusses her life and career, beginning as a dancer and choreographer through her many successes in film and television. She also shares past challenges being a woman of color in the entertainment business, as well as advice for future generations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FUjClYMASg
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Well... it is another Friday, another day to love, to Oxum, Oshun, Freya, or Venus, another day to Kizomba!
The routine from Steven and Rashida suffers from an awful camera person but they have some uncommon repititions or carries that are worth a look
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Well... it is another Friday, another day to love, to Oxum, Oshun, Freya, or Venus, another day to Kizomba!
Nana and Ebo, dancing freely, vibrantly lively is the perfect kizomba, all black as the night or bubbly or happy, to this particular day of love.
The 44th second is special, enjoy fellas, it proves flexibility is not hindered from size:) Lovely routine. not their best, he is really letting her show off more.
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Well... it is another Friday, another day to love, to Oxum, Oshun, Freya, or Venus, another day to Kizomba!
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Title: The Case Of Our Escape
Creator/Artist/Narrator: Richard Murray
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https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-case-of-our-escape
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Coming Soon- for now enjoy AduiShirika -> the Head of HAtshepsut Video Game http://houyhnhnm.github.io/BlackGamesElite/GameRoom/MSinChe/MSinChe6v3.html
My Dreadful Tales
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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, to whomever is listening, I am Richard Murray , a creator who utilizes Kobo Writing Life, Kobo is K-O-B-O or is a member of the African American Literary Book Club, A-A-L-B-C or I am a member of Deviantart, hddeviant is my tag. In either Kobo or AALBC search my name Richard Murray or Sunset Children Stories.
International Womens day is upon us all and two questions was asked.
What do you believe can be done to address gender stereotypes?
Who are your favorite women, and why do they inspire you?What do you believe can be done to address gender stereotypes?
Are works of fiction stereotypes? Stereotypes means a solid form, I rephrase as a solid representation. But, is any representation in fiction solid?
I am a writer,as well as painter or programmer, and I will place myself in the siege perilous. For example, if I write a female character in a story, where said character falls over constantly or is abused by males gleefully or is disrespected in conversations absent cognition, is that character a stereotype? Is that character traits I just described a solid form of woman?
I say no. In my personal life, it is rare for females, women or girls, to have such traits. So, the character in my faux example is not a sterotype to the females I know. But, can any females, including the ones I know, be insulted by the presence of said character?
The answer is yes. And that is what the issue is. It isn't about the unsolid being solid. It is about the idea that if you see no evil, you think no evil. If no female ever sees a character as I just described then no insult to females, thus a betterment to their mind.
I am not a woman. But I am of the phenotypical race commonly called black. When I see some fictional interpretations of Black people, from the formerly enslaved Black woman beating the free while wild Black elected officials in Birth of a Nation or the bucktooth black female centaur in fantasia to the black-faced thespians still present in modern media, I don't feel positive. But, does that mean those interpretations are solid forms or stereotypes? Moreover, do said interpretations define me or my phenotypical race because they exist?
I say those interpretations are not solid forms nor do they define me or my phenotypical race.
But, I am not every single Black person. Some Black Individuals can't see or experience those negative interpretations.
And that is where the issue lays.
The strategy is, if you don't present negative interpretations, then negative interpretations can't hurt someone, regardless of the artistic consequence.
The biggest flaw in that strategy is art, by default, is beyond limitations. I quote the gmork from an interpretation of Die unendliche Geschichte, fantasia has no boundaries. I add, if fantasia has no boundaries then in fantasia are all the negative interpretations as well as the positive. Sequentially, blockading art is never being true to art.Who are your favorite women, and why do they inspire you?
My mother is my favorite female. She is parent while also my friend, as my father is my favorite male while also my parent or friend. My mother doesn't like when I mention her but not him:)
My mother inspires me because she is so positive, no matter how much my focus on or belief in functionality or efficiency or truth exists, she proves that having fun, being positive has a way of making life pleasant, regardless of dysfunction or inefficiency or lies.ART
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Short form answers
What do you believe can be done to address gender stereotypes?
A fictional interpretation is never a solid form, but can negative interpretations of women hurt women? The answer is yes.
The strategy is to stop negative interpretations of women, not cause every woman is hurt by them, so that no women can be hurt by them.
The problem is, art includes all interpretations of all things, it has no bounds. To rephrase, art includes interpretations of women that insult some women. if said art is blockaded is art then freely expressed? The strict answer is no. The question is, will you rather freely expressed art that can harm women or restricted artists that can not present art that can harm women?
Who are your favorite women, and why do they inspire you? If they’re deviants, tag them in the comments!
Women from my offline life, from history, from fiction I think of often or inspire me.
Some women of deviantart I like the most or inspire me. I will share the earliest women I know of on Deviantart that inspired me.
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A DTIYS- if you enjoy the excerpt consider the full poem or artwork. I do commissions.
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Title: Artivism project
Artist: shawn alleyne < Pyroglyphics Studio > OR < https://www.deviantart.com/pyroglyphics1 >Prior post
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PROSE from Shawn Alleyne
What's up peeps.
I've mentioned a few times before that i partnered with an amazing organization by the name of Mothers In Charge @mothersinchargeinc to produce The Artivism Project. @the_artivism_project
MIC is a violence prevention, education and intervention-based organization, who advocate and support youth, young adults, families and communities affected by violence. By combining my Character Design Workshop with trama healing exercises with a co-instructor, Artivism was born.
At the end of the 6-week workshop I take the kids' sketches and stories and do my professional rendition of their characters. Here's the newest batch of characters from an Artivism cohort that recently wrapped up.
1) Krocadile
2) Fuju
3) DayDream
4) Nir
5) Nanobot
6) Hyper Phoenix
As a reminder, I'll be teaching a new Character Design and Comic Book workshop with the @mtairylearningtree starting Wednesday May 1st and then every Wednesday till May 15th This will be for all ages workshop. Sign up now. Link in bio!
https://aceweb.mtairylearningtree.org/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24SAC47
Cost: $69 plus supplies
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Location: Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG) 7054 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119. Parking available in rear off of W Mt. Pleasant Ave.
Dates: Wed May 1st, May 8th and May 15th
Contact: info@mtairylearningtree.org / 215-843-6333
http://www.mtairylearningtree.org/
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Thistle and Verse hosting a panel featuring
@Lisa_teabag , @atullerwrites , and @jellybeanrae to discuss subgenres in sff and sff-ish genres that predate the label. Read through the thread for more info on the panelists!
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller). She is the co-founder of the
@voodoonauts
Summer Workshop for Black SFF writers. Her debut short story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells is currently available for purchase.
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813196978/drinking-from-graveyard-wells/A Jersey native, Celestine Martin writes whimsical and flirty paranormal romance that celebrates the beauty of everyday magic. She’s inspired to write happily ever afters and happy for now endings starring the people and places close to her heart.
https://linktr.ee/celestinemartinAbriana Tuller (she/her) is a Vegas native who has just acquired her dream job of becoming a Micro Fiction editor and Fiction co-editor for Solarpunk magazine. Along with having an education background, Abriana is a former journalist.
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Estelle Sarah-Bulle
September 27 - October 3 | Miami, New YorkWriter Estelle-Sarah Bulle will be on tour from September 27 to October 3 for the promotion of the American edition of her first novel, Where Dogs Bark With Their Tails (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, tr. by Julia Grawemeyer), which met with great success in France, garnering several literary prizes including the Stanislas Prize for a first novel, the Eugène-Dabit Prize for a popular novel, and the Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde Prize. Bulle is also the author of a children's novel, Les Fantômes d'Issa (L'École des Loisirs, 2020). She will be in Miami on September 27 and in New York on September 29, where she will participate in the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Check out her work
Là où les chiens aboient par la queue
Estelle-Sarah Bulle
https://www.lianalevi.fr/catalogue/la-ou-les-chiens-aboient-par-la-queue/Where Dogs Bark With Their Tails: Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Naomi Jackson
October 1, 4pm (ET) | Albertine Books (in-person)
Estelle-Sarah Bulle, a French novelist, and Naomi Jackson, author of the widely acclaimed novel The Star Side of Bird Hill will discuss Bulle’s bestselling debut novel, Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, tr. by Julia Grawemeyer). In this novel, Bulle examines the legacies of capitalism and colonialism, the experience of being caught between worlds, the grief of losing our most beloved, and the stories that might help us reconcile the past, present, and future.
The conversation be in English. It is free with RSVP. Click here for ticket(s).
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2022 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
DATE & TIMESaturday, October 1, 20224PMLOCATIONAlbertine Books
972 5th Avenue
New York, NY, United States
Brooklyn Book Festival
September 25 - October 3 | Downtown Brooklyn (hybrid)
The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national, and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week. It takes place in several locations surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall. Estelle-Sarah Bulle, Didier Fassin, Titaua Peu and Scholastique Mukasonga will participate in the festival on October 2.
Click the following link to discover the full program.
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/
Scholastique Mukasonga at Brookline Booksmith
September 29, 7pm (ET) | Brookline Booksmith (in-person)
Scholastique Mukasonga will discuss her new novel Kibogo (Archipelago Books, 2022) with her translator Mark Polizzotti at Brooklyn Booksmith for an in-store event part of the Transnational Literature Series.
In this novel, Mukasonga, the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity.
Scholastique Mukasonga and Mark Polizzotti
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 7:00PM ET
Event address:
279 Harvard Street
Coolidge Corner
Brookline, MA 02446-2908
Titaua Peu
October 5 and 6 | White Whale Bookstore and Community Bookstore (online)
Award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu will participate in two virtual talks organized by White Whale Bookstore on October 5 and Community Bookstore on October 6, and present her first translated novel, Pina (Restless Books, 2022, tr. by Jeffrey Zuckerman). In Pina, Titaua Peu traces the story of a family, torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism, held together by nine-year-old Pina.
Support David Diop
Shoot the Book ! LA 2022: Book-to-Screen Adaptation Event with Marketplace
The Shoot the Book ! LA team is delighted to bring back both in-person and online markets where US film and TV professionals can meet with the French publishers representing the selected titles (as well as the thousands of other works in their catalogs).
Shoot the Book ! Los Angeles, a program brought to you by the Société civile des éditeurs de langue française, the Bureau international de l’édition française, the Institut français and Villa Albertine, is back for its 8th edition in 2022. Fifteen French-language books have been selected to showcase their promise for screen adaptation. This year, the titles reflect the theme of New Francophone Voices, highlighting authors from various French-language backgrounds who are making impressive débuts in French publishing. The event is now hybrid, allowing attendees from all time zones to participate either in Los Angeles or from the comfort of their own screen.After two years online, the Shoot the Book ! LA team is delighted to bring back an in-person market where US film and TV professionals can meet with the French publishers representing the selected titles (as well as the thousands of other works in their catalogs). These one-on-one meetings will take place on Wednesday, September 28, in Beverly Hills, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm PDT. The publishers attending are VIPs of the French literary scene, with representatives from large groups Editis, Madrigal, Mediatoon, and JC Lattès.
For those not able to meet in Los Angeles, the program also includes an online B2B marketplace on Thursday, September 29, 2022, from 5:00am PDT (8:00am EDT) to 12:00pm PDT (3:00pm EDT). Attendees from across the US are welcome to participate and meet even more French publishers from Actes Sud, Archipel, Auzou, Editions Thierry Magnier, and Matriochkas.
The fifteen selected titles include:
The Art of Murder, Chrystel Duchamp (L’Archipel)
Love Me Tender, Constance Debré (Flammarion)
The Man for the Job, Lou Lubie (Dupuis)
Leawald, Dov Lynch (Editions du sous-sol)
The Door of No Return, David Diop (La Martinière)
Rosa Dolorosa, Caroline Dorka-Fenech (La Martinière)
Tanz!, Maurane Mazars (Le Lombard)
The Goddess of Small Victories, Yannick Grannec (Anne Carrière)
Timothée Brahms and the Book of Possibilities, Aurélie Magnin, Illustrated by Vincent Pianina (Editions Thierry Magnier)
Speak of the Devil, Joseph Denize (Julliard)
The Aquatics, Osvalde Lewat (Les Escales)
Into Violence, Blandine Rinkel (Fayard)
My Part of Her, Javad Djavahery (Gallimard)
Aya of Yop City, Marguerite Abouet, Illustrated by Clément Oubrerie (Gallimard Jeunesse)
Hana Thierry, Swallows and Other Birds Names, Touria Arab-Leblondel (Milan)
For all US film and TV professionals interested in meeting with the French publishers—either in Los Angeles or virtually—please write to stbla@frenchculture.org to receive further details.
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Character: Odie1049
Artist: Sensuax
Voice: Flirtyfawn696https://www.deviantart.com/odie1049/art/Eating-Out-er-with-Normina-917756809
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Well... it is another Friday, another day to love, to Oxum, Oshun, Freya, or Venus, another day to Kizomba!
SOmetimes, you just dance to have fun and we see that in Irina dancing side José N'dongala, I love how the camera moved when he tried a trick. PErhaps it is the heat, but complicated motions and trained moves is just not what the weather is due. -
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Artist: GDBee < https://gdbee.store/ >Enjoy coloring pages , free to print out from GDBee and lastly from me:) please cite either of us if you share
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MY THOUGHTS
At least, one problem in modern humanity isn't complicated. It is very simple. It is a question.
How do you get a humanity that has a tiered system of white christian male europeans on top by militaristic power to be a humanity that is tierless?
The problem with said question is any answer or process requires a majority in humanity to want the goal. And there lay the true problem. Any action can be deemed to the goal or against. Elements of the Nigerian government have made an action that can be deemed by some long overdue to Black empowerment, to African empowerment, to Nigerian empowerment. Others can deem this a part of the process to be tierless, a nonviolent action that is trying to bring empowerment to a region in humanity controlled by those outside itself to its detriment longer than anyone has been alive.
What is the truth of the Nigerian governments actions? The truth is , it is both. No one is wrong in however they assess it. But arguing between the assessors gives greater hope to maintaining tiers than being tierless. And, if tiers maintain the only question you need to know is which tier you will be in. If tierless, then all the minorities in every community in humanity wanting it lucked out.
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Nigeria!
It would be great if other countries in Africa supported each other on such movements!
If they did, then Nigeria would not be vulnerable for negative responsed from other non-black or non African models already under contract with them.
I also hear that some leader in Africa are requesting that outside countries pay a better price for the raw materials that they want to get from Africa.
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#NY1 great interview with @bcuza #ny1politics @insidecityhall Albert fox
MTS safety has not increased, it is perceptions of negativity that have increased. New Yorkers, wake upAlbert Fox Cahn talks about MTA’s new plans
By Deanna Garcia New York City
PUBLISHED 9:20 PM ET Sep. 29, 2022
MTA will install two surveillance cameras inside every subway car over the next three years and begin phasing out MetroCards early next year.Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a civil rights and privacy group, joined Bobby Cuza on “Inside City Hall” Thursday to talk more about MTA’s new plans.
“The problem is, people don’t feel safer even when they are safer. But the camera’s aren’t going to solve that,” he said. Cameras are not helpful for investigations and are “terrible” at deterring crime, he said.
“So what you’re going to see is subways where people feel even more at risk because you have even more images of crimes that take place, even as crime rates continue to go down,” Cahn said.
Article with Video
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2022/09/30/albert-fox-cahn-talks-about-mta-s-new-plansThe view to incarceration is similar to those who few public transit a hazard.
Illinois To END Cash Bail, Critics Say 'SAFE-T Act' Will Cause More Crime: Olayemi & Robby Debate
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A new Yorker who is honest and exposes the truth. Like many issues, when the goal for some is 100% and every negative instance becomes the standard, you get a false narrative.
NYC has over ten million people. The public transit system is safe for over 95% of these people every day for 365 days. 5% or less deal with incidents and the media to sensationalize plus people who want zero negative incidents cause they have been hurt and feel fear or feel their safety demands no incidents proclaim terror throughout the city.
https://twitter.com/errollouis/status/1579626913496461313Going home on the violent NYC subways. Riders paralyzed with fright. pic.twitter.com/icOvJ4MDV9
— Errol Louis (@errollouis) October 11, 2022
the problem is a large percentage of people in NYC itself, not the majority, for various reasons will accept nothing but 0% incidents to admit they are safe or comfortable and that is impossible in a city of over nine million people, so inevitable cries of fearPeople in the USA talk about justice or the rule of law alot, talk about financial honesty a lot and yet the fiscal truth or legal truth of the usa is always the consistency of the powerful to maintain control and benefit with no penalty side a media presentation of acceptance
How $600 billion was stolen from the American people
By James Bovard
“COVID fraud” is at this point a redundant phrase. Congress appropriated more than $5 trillion for COVID relief but almost $600 billion may have been lost to fraud — an astounding 12%. Washington’s pandemic pratfalls are the greatest federal boondoggle of this century.Prosecutors are having a turkey shoot nailing COVID crooks: More than 1,500 have been indicted and almost 500 have been convicted. On September 14, the Justice Department announced the creation of three COVID-19 fraud strike force teams.
When President Biden recently signed a law to extend the time to prosecute COVID fraud, he declared, “My message to those cheats out there is this: You can’t hide. We’re going to find you.” But the sheer amount of fraud makes it unlikely that the vast majority of thieves will be charged.
Policymakers acted as if waiving standard federal fraud protections would somehow thwart the COVID virus. On September 22, the Labor Department inspector general estimated that COVID-19 unemployment fraud amounted to $45 billion and could exceed $163 billion. “Overseas organized crime groups flooded state unemployment systems with bogus online claims, overwhelming antiquated computer software benefits in blunt-force attacks that siphoned out millions of dollars,” NBC News reported.
Prison inmates, drug gangs and Nigerian racketeers easily plundered the program. One swindler collected unemployment benefits from 29 different states. In the first year of the pandemic, Maryland detected more than 1.3 million fraudulent unemployment claims — equal to 20% of the state’s population.
Beginning in June 2020, the feds distributed $813 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans to businesses. President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin boasted that PPP is “supporting an estimated 50 million jobs.” But many of those jobs existed solely in the imagination of political appointees.
The Small Business Administration (SBA), which administered the program, effectively told people, “Apply and sign and tell us that you’re really entitled to the money,” according to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The SBA camouflaged its “don’t ask, don’t tell” loan standard by claiming to perform economic miracles. The SBA ludicrously boasted that PPP loans saved more jobs than the total number of employees in at least 15 industries.
Yet CBS News found that PPP loans had gone to more than a thousand “ghost businesses” in Markham, Illinois — indicative of a nationwide problem of deluging non-existent companies with federal cash. The feds gave “loans to 342 people who said their name was ‘N/A,’” the New York Times reported.
Fraud permeated relief programs of practically every federal agency that gushered money. On September 20, the feds charged 47 people in Minnesota with looting $250 million from the federal child nutrition programs’ COVID aid. Prosecutors denounced the “brazen scheme of staggering proportions” but federal and state bureaucrats should have stopped the pilfering from the start. “Feeding Our Future,” a nonprofit organization, pocketed $300,000 in subsidies in 2018 and a windfall of almost $200 million in 2021. Fraud snowballed because the US Department of Agriculture issued waivers to “suspend all on-site monitoring of providers” of children’s meals.
Instead of feeding hungry kids, tax dollars were pilfered using a list of phony recipients generated by the website listofrandomnames.com. (No wonder Feeding Our Future wasn’t invited to attend Biden’s White House Summit on Hunger last week.) When the state of Minnesota sought to cut off funding, Feeding Our Future sued, claiming the action “discriminated against a nonprofit that worked with racial minorities,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Leftist firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) received thousands of dollars in donations from individuals indicted in the scandal.
Fighting fraud is tricky for federal investigators when some politicians openly used COVID stimulus money to bribe voters. In the January 2021 Georgia runoff race for US Senate, the campaign of Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock distributed fliers declaring, “Want a $2,000 Check? Vote Warnock.” That promise helped Warnock win, sealing Democratic control of the Senate and opening the floodgates for trillions of dollars of additional Biden administration spending.
.@KLoeffler isn't in D.C. fighting for a $2,000 relief check. She's on the campaign trail, trying desperately to save her own job.
She’s fighting for herself. I’ll fight for you. pic.twitter.com/uS5lx4on9B
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) January 1, 2021
The single biggest COVID fraud will never show up in triumphal press releases issued by federal prosecutors. On August 24, Biden invoked the COVID-19 emergency to justify canceling $400 billion in student loans. A few weeks ago, Biden told “60 Minutes” that the pandemic was over — thus invalidating his justification for loan forgiveness.But Team Biden signaled that it was entitled to spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars to purchase Democratic votes in the midterm congressional elections regardless of the president’s admission.
Plenty of scoundrels will be convicted in the coming months for stealing COVID money. But it was the politicians of both parties who unleashed the reckless spending that left us with a soaring national debt, roaring inflation, and a fading mirage of prosperity.
Americans should never permit politicians to absolve themselves by uncorking geysers of tax dollars.
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Their Loved Ones Died. Preserved Tattoos Offer a Way to Keep Them Close.
Laws in most states allow mourners to remove and preserve tattoos as memorial works of art. An Ohio company, Save My Ink Forever, is the pioneer.
Kyle Sherwood, left, and his father, Mike Sherwood, started Save My Ink Forever, which helps families preserve the tattoos of loved ones who have died.Credit...Daniel Lozada for The New York TimesBy McKenna Oxenden
Published Oct. 8, 2022
Updated Oct. 12, 2022, 3:15 p.m. ET
Jonathan Gil knew he would never forget the details of the day his 24-year-old twin brother died in a boating accident on Lake Hopatcong in northern New Jersey — the frantic phone call from a friend, the dire search by rescuers and the dread of breaking the grim news to his mother.But Mr. Gil worried that as the months and years wore on, the memories he held of Jason beyond that tragic day would begin to fade. His family’s solution: Preserve a part of his brother.
Now, anytime he seeks a quick reminder of his twin, Mr. Gil glances past a collage of photos to a shelf next to his desk that acts as an altar, where the tattoo of a black and white skull and three roses, lifted and preserved on skin from Jason’s left shoulder, sits protected in a frame.
“We have his ashes, but with that you don’t see a physical part of him,” said Mr. Gil, 27. “But with the tattoo, you can. It’s nice to have a little piece of him, like you’re holding him close in one way or another and keeping him around.”
The preserved tattoo is the work of the company Save My Ink Forever, started in 2016 in Northfield, Ohio, by Kyle Sherwood, a third-generation mortician, and his father, Mike.
While limited attempts to preserve tattoos stretch back for decades, few other companies globally are doing the same work as Mr. Sherwood, who started his business at the nexus of two growing trends: More Americans are getting inked, and the idea of turning loved ones’ remains into keepsakes is surging in popularity. Some mourners are having cremated remains made into jewelry or infused into glass-blown sculptures — all in the name of keeping a loved one close.
More mourners are also asking funeral homes about this service, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Walker Posey, a funeral home director and spokesman for the association, said more than half of his roughly 400 clients inquire each year about the keepsakes. That is a sharp increase from five years ago, when clients seldom made such requests. Funeral laws in 49 states — the exception is Washington — allow the tattoo preservation practice.
And a record three in 10 Americans have at least one tattoo, according to a 2019 Ipsos poll, with the popularity of permanent ink continuing to grow among young people.
The idea of keeping a beloved relative’s tattooed skin and hanging it on a wall may be hard for some to imagine. But families who have worked with the Sherwoods say it brings comfort and emphasized that a person’s tattoos often carry great meaning.
Margie Gatehouse, of Salt Lake City, said that as her husband was dying of cirrhosis this past spring, her daughters approached her with the idea of preserving his tattoo. She was stunned at the suggestion.
“I thought it was morbid and thought that it wasn’t even possible,” Ms. Gatehouse, 52, said. “How could you cut something off someone?”
Her daughters, Courtney and Nichole, explained to their mother that their father was on board and that they had found Save My Ink Forever. They asked her to imagine how special it would be to have the black-and-white skull tattoo that has a ribbon with their names on it framed and preserved for years to come. She reluctantly agreed.
Now, Ms. Gatehouse says she couldn’t be more grateful that she listened to her daughters as the frame, which hangs in her living room, continues to connect her to her husband.
“I’m glad that I didn’t miss the opportunity,” she said.
Historians trace the rise of tattoo preservation to the mid-to-late 19th century. Fukushi Masaichi, a Japanese physician, is credited as one of the pioneers in the field, said Karly Etz, a postdoctoral associate at the Rochester Institute of Technology who studies tattoo art history.
While the concept of saving loved ones’ tattoos had been around in fits and starts, Mr. Sherwood sought a way to perfect the preservation process while treating the tattoo as a work of art, ironing out the details for two years.
When Save My Ink Forever receives a request to preserve a tattoo, the company sends a package of materials to the funeral home for the tattoo to be excised. Morticians are directed through an instructional video to remove only the necessary amount of skin needed to preserve the tattoo. The process is “really hard to screw up,” Mr. Sherwood said. If something does go awry, he said, his team can usually fix it.
The mortician places the tattoo into a preservative. It then is shipped to Ohio for the team of about five people to clean, trim excess skin and fix any blemishes.
Sometimes, the skin is damaged. Or in the case of the waterlogged skin of Mr. Gil’s twin, extra care is required to bring the tattoo back to its original glory.
“It’s sort of like cleaning a dirty window,” Mr. Sherwood said, emphasizing that his team does not alter the tattoo in any way. He declined to divulge further details of the process, which takes about three to four months per tattoo.
Finally, the tattoo gets a frame. Families pick the type of frame and matting and then a professional framer gets started. Each tattoo is sewn to the canvas and the frame is pumped with nitrogen to help keep it pristinely preserved as museum-grade UV blocking glass is inserted into place.
In order to have the materials to perfect the science, Mr. Sherwood came up with the idea to pay for people’s tummy tuck procedures, which remove excess skin and fat, in exchange for being able to practice on that discarded skin.
The cost can range from about $1,700 for a small, 5 inch by 5 inch tattoo, to more than $120,000 to preserve an entire body suit.
Mr. Sherwood said while some people may find his business outlandish, he takes pride in being able to give people a long-lasting physical memory of their loved one.
The mortician recalled the case of one man who had a tattoo with both of his daughters’ names in a heart. The family contemplated whether to save the tattoo, but Mr. Sherwood suggested cutting it in half in the style of a friendship necklace, so each daughter would have a piece of their father with them.
In another instance, he helped a grieving mother keep her son’s memory alive after he was murdered. The tattoo had “Papa Eddie” written in a scroll with a fishing rod, in honor of his grandfather, and had been inked by the man’s uncle, who had also died. By preserving the tattoo, Mr. Sherwood said it represented not only her son, but also “three generations of families.”
“The gratification people have and that connection I’m able to make, you can’t explain it,” Mr. Sherwood said. “It’s very humbling and powering to have that impact on someone.”
Tattoo preservation isn’t just for people who have died.
Save My Ink Forever has preserved a handful of tattoos for amputees and recently received a new request from Asher J. Heart, who wants to preserve a tattoo after undergoing gender confirmation surgery next year. Mr. Heart, 30, from Muskegon, Mich., said the ink on his chest no longer felt right, but would serve as a tangible piece of the person he used to be.
“For me, it will not be erasing my past but erasing the pain of it,” Mr. Heart said.
For Mr. Gil, in addition to keeping his twin brother’s tattoo in a prominent viewing spot, he decided to honor him by getting two more tattoos — a portrait of Jason’s face and a replica of a glowing lantern tattoo that Jason had.
Mr. Gil said he hoped those tattoos, too, survived longer than he did.
“I hope someone else does it for me,” Mr. Gil said. “I don’t need this while I’m gone. Once you die, you die. You don’t take anything with you.”
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Alvin Bragg, now Manhattan District Attorney, speaks with supporters on election night, in New York, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
Bragg to toss 188 convictions due to NYPD misconduct
Dean Meminger reported
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday said he will toss nearly 200 convictions that were secured by eight NYPD officers found guilty of work-related criminal conduct.Bragg on Thursday morning began the process of vacating 188 misdemeanor convictions stemming from arrests that took place between 2001 and 2016, his office said in a press release.
Eight officers tied to the 188 convictions were convicted themselves, of crimes ranging from bribe-receiving and official misconduct to falsifying business records and perjury, the release said. More than 94 of the convictions led to prison sentences or fines.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday said he will toss nearly 200 convictions that were secured by eight NYPD officers found guilty of work-related criminal conductBragg on Thursday morning began the process of vacating 188 misdemeanor convictions stemming from arrests that took place between 2001 and 2016
Eight officers tied to the 188 convictions were convicted themselves, of crimes ranging from bribe-receiving and official misconduct to falsifying business records and perjury
“While most law enforcement officials and police officers are dedicated public servants, these eight officers, who played a material role in hundreds of arrests, criminally abused their positions of power,” Bragg said in a statement.“These illegal actions irrevocably taint these convictions and represent a significant violation of due process rights — the foundational principle of our legal system,” he added.
In a statement NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said there was "zero tolerance in the NYPD for corruption or criminal activity of any kind by any member of the service."
“Those who betray their sworn oath to serve and protect the public have no place in the NYPD — and it is important to note that the involved officers are no longer employed by New York City Police Department," Sewell said.
One of the eight former NYPD officers tied to the convictions, Jason Arbeeny, was found guilty of charges that included official misconduct for planting drugs on two people, the DA’s office said.
A second officer, William Eiseman, was convicted of first-degree perjury and official misconduct for carrying out illegal searches and falsely testifying, while a third officer, Michael Foder, was found guilty of lying under oath during a federal hearing, the release said.
A fourth officer, Richard Hall, received five years’ probation after he and another NYPD detective had sex with a woman they took into custody in exchange for her release, according to the DA’s office.
The four other officers were Michael Arenella, who was found guilty of petty larceny, official misconduct and falsifying business records; Michael Carsey, who was convicted of first-degree perjury and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing; Johnny Diaz, who was convicted on charges including second-degree bribe receiving; and Nicholas Mina, who was found guilty of charges including criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal sale of a firearm.
In a statement, Elizabeth Felber, the director of the Wrongful Conviction Unit at The Legal Aid Society, praised Bragg’s push to vacate the convictions.
“While this moment delivers some justice and closure to these New Yorkers, they were forced to endure hardships that should have never been allowed to happen,” Felber said. “This includes incarceration, hefty legal fees, loss of employment, housing instability, severed access to critical benefits and other collateral consequences.”
“Going forward, we urge DA Bragg and all of the other New York City District Attorneys to conduct these reviews on an ongoing basis and with full transparency,” Felber said.
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https://twitter.com/DeanMeminger/status/1593427403434594306MY POST THOUGHTS
Every single law enforcer in the history of the NEw York Police Department has committed the crime or aiding or abetting another NYPD member. This is a simple fact.
The reality is the quantity of NYPD members plus their saturation in every community in New YOrk City means many will put up a wall of denial to the stated fact for a relative or friend who is in the nypd ranks.
This combo image shows Democratic candidate for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District Adam Frisch, left, and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., right. Associated Press, FileLauren Boebert's Democratic challenger conceded after she declared victory, even as the unexpectedly tight race has not been called and likely heads to an automatic recount
Story by hgetahun@insider.comDemocratic candidate Adam Frisch conceded to his opponent, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, in an extremely close race to represent Colorado's Third Congressional District.
Boebert was leading by about 554 votes with more than 99% of votes counted as of Friday evening, according to Insider's election partner Decision Desk HQ. No major media network has yet called the race, which was not expected to be competitive until the surprisingly close results began rolling in on election night.
Under Colorado state law, a recount will automatically ensue if a candidate wins by a margin that is 0.5% or less of their total vote count. Boebert's current lead of 554 out of her total 163,832 votes falls within that threshold, at about 0.34%.
Despite the results not being called yet, Frisch said on Facebook live Friday that he called Boebert to concede the race to her, adding that the chances of him winning were "very small."
"The likelihood of this recount changing more than a handful of votes is very small. Very, very small. It'd be disingenuous and unethical for us or any other group to continue to raise false hope and encourage fundraising for a recount," Frisch said during his concession speech. "Colorado elections are safe, accurate, and secure. Please save your money for your groceries, your rent, your children, and for other important causes and organizations."
Frisch did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Boebert also acknowledged the call in a Tweet on Friday, saying: "I look forward to getting past election season and focusing on conservative governance in the House majority."
—Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) November 18, 2022 [ https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1593675506712338432 ]
The conservative firebrand had already declared victory in the race. On Thursday evening, Boebert announced on social media: "We won!"In the accompanying video, she said there were "less than 200 votes outstanding" and that she was "certain" that she would win the race, even with the recount. Insider could not confirm the amount of outstanding votes.
"Past recounts in Colorado have resulted in far fewer votes being adjusted than anything that could affect the current outcome we're seeing tonight in this race," she added.
Meanwhile, a Thursday FEC filing showed that Frisch had already submitted a statement of candidacy for 2024, potentially setting the stage for another Boebert-Frisch showdown.
MY THOUGHTS
I requote Frisch: The likelihood of this recount changing more than a handful of votes is very small. Very, very small. It'd be disingenuous and unethical for us or any other group to continue to raise false hope and encourage fundraising for a recount," Frisch said during his concession speech. "Colorado elections are safe, accurate, and secure. Please save your money for your groceries, your rent, your children, and for other important causes and organizations.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Nov. 10. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)
Rising tide of immigration to Europe pushing continent's politics to the right, experts say
Story by Melissa Rossi • Yesterday 7:44 PMAfter 16 days of the ship’s ignored distress calls to the Italian government asking to dock, France allowed the Ocean Viking safe harbor in Toulon on Nov. 11. According to the French interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, the vessel was Italy’s responsibility since it had been in Italian search and rescue waters, and ignoring the pleas “lacked humanity,” was “a nasty gesture” and was “incomprehensible.”
In a statement, Meloni’s interior minister, Matteo Piantedosi, fired back that “Italy has taken in 90,000 [migrants] just this year” and that it was the actions of France, which according to French broadcaster France 24 had never before received a migrant-filled rescue ship, that were “totally incomprehensible.” France, which in August took in 38 of the migrants that arrived in Italy this year, according to the European Commission, had pledged to accept 3,500 more later in 2022. But, said Darmanin, Italy’s behavior had forced France to retract that offer.
Such skirmishes between countries are becoming more common across Europe, where an increase in “irregular” migrants — as those who’ve entered illegally are called here — is pushing European politics in a rightward direction.
“There’s a relationship between the demographic change through immigration and the rise of the populist right in Western Europe,” Eric Kaufmann, author of “Whiteshift” and professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, told Yahoo News. “The number of Europeans saying immigration is a top issue really rises along with rising migration numbers, and then the populist right rises along with that.”
Of late, the numbers of migrants, both legal and illegal, crossing into Europe are soaring.
This week Frontex, as the European border control and coast guard agency is called, released a new report showing that the number of illegal entries into Europe has risen by 77% since last year and is the highest since 2016.
Migrants have been illegally entering not only from across the Mediterranean but via land from non-EU Balkan countries, and tens of thousands have entered the United Kingdom by crossing the English Channel. And from Britain to Germany, Spain to Greece, countries are trying to figure out how to secure the continent, which has over 42,000 miles of coastline and 30 borders with non-EU countries, making external border security challenging.
According to Frontex, over 132,000 “detections” of entries to Mediterranean countries via sea were made from January to September of this year. However, an increasingly popular route for those trying to enter Europe illegally — whether to seek asylum or better economic opportunities — is to enter from non-EU countries such as Serbia and Albania, toward Hungary and from there to Austria and Germany. Over the past year, Frontex has made over 128,000 detections of illegal border entries of migrants, largely from Burundi, Afghanistan and Iraq, from that corner of southeastern Europe. According to the Associated Press, by September of this year state police had registered over 57,000 unauthorized entries into Germany, where the government in October met with EU officials to discuss how to seal borders, crack down on smuggling and speed up deportations.
“Annually, 2 to 3 million nationals from non-EU countries come to the EU legally, in contrast to 125,000 to 200,000 irregular arrivals,” EU Commission spokesperson for home affairs Anitta Hipper told Yahoo News. But, she added, “irregular migration is still a challenge.”
What’s more, the number of irregular migrants popping up in England is suddenly spiking even higher. This week the British department of defense announced that more than 40,000 people had crossed the English Channel from France and illegally entered England so far in 2022, while four years ago the number was a mere 299. On Wednesday the U.K. government also announced it is paying $75 million to France to bolster border security along the channel. Spain, meanwhile, is paying millions to Morocco to increase its security and prevent would-be migrants from crossing the Mediterranean to Spain. The EU has also spent billions on programs from economic development to job training to try to address the root causes behind illegal migration.
“There’s a concern that EU development funding is increasingly being used to finance projects aiming to curb migration towards Europe, rather than fulfilling their stated purpose, namely development in these countries — reducing poverty and inequality and improving livelihoods,” Stephanie Pope, EU migration policy adviser of human rights organization Oxfam International, told Yahoo News. “And we consider this to be a very dangerous development.”
To Rainer Münz, a senior research associate at the Martens Centre who specializes in migration, Europe’s media and policymakers are looking at the wrong issues — the recent attention given to the Ocean Viking saga being a case in point. “When 0.2% of migrants to Europe are dominating the headlines for weeks, it clearly shows that people are not looking at what’s going on.”
The biggest issue for him is that Europe’s population is declining, with the death rate exceeding the birth rate since 2015 — and the EU needs to bring in more skilled migrants “to stabilize the workforce.” But that’s not happening, he said. Legal immigrants “are not selected according to the talent and skills,” he said. “Politically, that’s not feasible, when 60 or 70% of your immigration is humanitarian, being either marriage or family reunion or asylum.”
And this year, with Europe taking in 5 million Ukrainians, who can legally live and work in the EU, the figure of humanitarian-motivated immigration in Europe is far higher, he added. “When 90% of your immigration is humanitarian, it’s not easy to convince the general public that we need to recruit another million people,” Münz said. “But if the aim is to bring more talented people here, you would have to reduce the inflow of people who do not fit European labor market needs. You would have to reduce the humanitarian flow in order to open up capacity for skilled worker admissions.”
Such talk is anathema to Pope. “Europe is a very, very wealthy region. If we look at it globally, and particularly the EU, by the end of 2021, for example, less than 10% of the world’s refugees were living in the EU. So if we look at it globally, [taking in more refugees] is very much something that the EU could manage effectively and humanely.”
However, Anna Knoll, head of migration and mobility at the European Centre for Development Policy Management, is concerned that humanitarian efforts are giving life to right-wing movements across the continent.
“You see countries like Sweden or Italy flipping more to the right side of the political spectrum,” Knoll told Yahoo News. “I think states are realizing they cannot afford having more refugees situated there or more irregular migrants coming in, because it does potentially push the voters more to the right. Obviously we try to balance this — we have principles, we have values and we are also a sanctuary for refugees. But we cannot allow everyone in.”
Knoll is especially worried about this winter, when more Ukrainian refugees are expected to come to Europe since Russia keeps attacking electrical and heating infrastructure. “If everything comes together — more migrants, super-high energy prices, inflation hitting the roof — at some point I wonder how much the system can take before people say, ‘No, we don’t want this.’”
In the meantime, France has already rejected the applications of 123 of the asylum seekers aboard the Ocean Viking, and on Friday, the Le Figaro newspaper reported that 26 of the minors on board had gone missing.
MY THOUGHTS
Most in humanity don't like strangers in their town. Maybe they are violent, maybe they are not, but few are happy. The newcomers want and the only way they get is if someone else doesn't have. The USA is a prime example.
People will say, Immigrants do jobs people in the usa don't want but that is untrue. the Native American, the Black DOS, the WASP <white anglo saxon protestants> are willing to do jobs with a better wage. The reality is, the fiscally wealthy in the usa setup the environment for immigration to get as near to slave labor as they could get and it worked. The price was laborers who already existed in the usa.
Europe doesn't want its workers to suffer the fate of workers in the usa, who between firms sending jobs overseas for lower wage or setting up domestic jobs under the salary standard, the immigrant or their kin overseas are the labor winners.
Europe enjoyed the USA being the haven but now upon being challenged to do it themselves, they are displaying the truth that they Europe, especially western Europe, chastized Russia/China or many other countries outside the USA or WEstern Europe for doing.
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right but while the truth, after all of that abuse, and the many changes that came with it, who do the Black folks descended from that want to be? I comprehend the post but the question going forward is what do the people descended from that pain, as well as earlier happy days or some happy days in between want to be?
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One of the problems with many abused groups is their abuse is usually collective, but unlike ancient times or earlier times, in modernity their escape from abuse doesn't have to be and usually isn't. That is the trick of the usa, one of the gifts of the british empire that created it, which itself brewed from its own creation from the roman empire that made western europe. You may subjugate an entire people brutally, but if you allow a trickle betterment, that can have the effect of keeping the subjugated group unmotivated for radical violent change. To be blunt, whether in the asian or african or american continent, the idea of individual growth is massive in black people's communities. Black people will talk communal growth heavily in advertising ways, but when you get down to function or results, most talk about individual growth.
Yes, the question is, can a group of people grow through individual growth?
The obvious answer is yes. nothing is impossible.
What is the prosequence of such actions? Nonviolence. The biggest problem with any abused people is the fear of violence to those who abused. Again, the ira was a very small percentage of irish people, most irish people were too afraid to attack the english. If an abused community proclaims internally that their best way forward is individual growth then mass violence is deterred and that satisfies the fear in the abused group.
What is the consequence of such actions? Lost people. The reality is, and the proof is everywhere black people live in humanity at this point: africa/asia/europe/america , the consequence of individual growth as a collective action in the black community was and will be the annihilation of many black peoples. Is Tulsa white people's fault? Yes , the violence is white people's fault. But who told black people non blacks can be trusted? who told black people non blacks will not attack black happiness? And the answer to both questions is black people themselves. The same people who tout individual growth also tout communal foolishness. why? for individual growth. If the community acts open, this allows for individuals in the community to grow.
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