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  1. @frankster You are correct about respect, but results isn't about respect or being liked. In the example I gave, if someone provides satisfactory results they will defeat anyone who is liked in an election. I will give two historical examples. Boos tweed was hated in NYC, he was a schemer a trickster and publicly derided alot, but he got results. when businesses wanted something he got it for them and opponents, who spoke more positively or had a better manner couldn't top that. He was of scottish descent and routinely spoke ill of the irish immigrants at that time. but, he got the entire irish communities vote when he gave the irish community the NYPD. The irish still hated him but he gave them what no one else did, he gave them an entire industry which in terms of NYC profited the irish community in the NYC is immeasurable ways. The irish still don't speak good of him , but he always earned their vote by results. Nancy pelosi as a child was a child of the d'alesandro ruling family of baltimore. do you know what she did as a child in the d'alesandro home? she kept up, what I Call, the begging book. People in Baltimore would come to the d'alesandro home and beg for things. D'alesandro would do these things... for a price. Was d'Alesandro loved or liked? hell no. Many people in BAltimore today spit on her father's grave, but they always got the most votes and why... results. History has proven time and again, getting results will earn you more votes than being liked in media , even if you are hated.
  2. @ProfD To be blunt, I find these cases very consistent with the true nature of the usa. I Admit I am not like you or pioneer or daniel or troy or most others in this forum. I don't see the usa in a positive light nor do I think it can go to a positive light. yes, any government can be manipulated and all governments do change, but the essence of the usa has always been the same and I see nothing to warrant that changing. IT's not ridiculous, its statian. its what the usa has always been about. I know people like you hope the usa changes to become something else, but I and many others like me, don't have or want such hopes.
  3. @ProfDtrue and I concur to pioneer about regionality in the usa @Pioneer1 Yes, they are, in the same way the irish were part of the british empire for longer than the usa was in existence and yet, after all of that time, what did the irish want? to separate from england. Look at scotland, whose relationship to england is only a little better than ireland, and they want to leave them. Modern irish or scottish people over thousands of years have intermingled with the english. yet, the irish wanted away from the english and the scottish keep thinking on it. Why? when the premise between two peoples is negative, time, environment, don't lessen the dislike. This is why the palestinean/israeli situation is only bound for more violence eventually. I know you side others in the black community in the usa like you have come to terms with the usa, have come to love it, want it, nurture it, and alongside yourselves. But, what you have to realize is that other black community don't see the usa like that. And unlike the irish, don't have a scenario anymore <south carolina post war between the states> where they can get that space from the remainder of the usa. Which they badly need. In parallel The modern black immigrants came willingly to the usa in the same why whites did. Where as Black descended of enslaved have to come to terms with the usa, to reach that position of passion for the usa, modern black immigrants or all white immigrants came to the usa with that in mind in the first place. The funny thing is, the black populaces the modern black immigrants left in the carribean or africa are becoming disenfranchised to the black immigrants to the usa in increasing and sometimes violent ways. As I say with the irish, who are mostlyor overhwelmingly white, many of their wealthy did as you say black people need to do, embrace that power that is about . but most irish didn't want to embrace the the british idea, they wanted to get the f away from britian and in particular the english. maybe black people descended from enslaved folk who are not interested or not liking to the usa can not articulate well enough for you pioneer, their position, but I think it is fair one. it is not about laziness, it is about what they want. what they want is a black country. I wish I could give them one, to be honest. They have earned it, and If I am blunt, the native american is owed two lands. but I have no power for such things.
  4. @Pioneer1 Well, at the end of the day, the Blacks who fought to help create the USA or the Blacks who fought to stop the USA from being created or the Blacks who enslaved to whites were unable to make a choice, all wanted Black betterment, were all loyal to Black betterment. they merely didn't concur or have a middle ground, as the point of this forum posts, on what Black betterment shall look like tomorrow. The Blacks who fought for britain wanted what they were promised by britain before they joined, legally accepted land ownership, cause those blacks knew slavery was never going away no matter who won. The Blacks who fought for the USA wanted their freedom and they knew slavery was never going away no matter who won. The blacks who were enslaved, could only hope slavery would end no matter who won and that was never going to end, no matter who won. Now, barring intentions. History displays a simple truth. The blacks who fought for the losing whites side got land. It wasn't land in the usa but in what is commonly called canada today. While the blacks who fought for the winning white side didn't retain their freedom. Most of the blacks who fought for the usa, were reenslaved. so based on merely a fair deal, the blacks who fought for the creation of the usa were treated quite negatively. And that explains why in the war of 1812 most free blacks in the usa fought against the usa:) like in the was of secession. As for the terminology no big deal, not trying to preach. I prefer statians cause when I say Black Americans I am referring to all Black people in the American continent without allegiance to any country in the american continent. I think many black people forget the only country in the american continent where the black populace had a majority say in its creation was haiti. All other countries: usa/brasil/mexico/chile black people were present, no doubt, many historical figures, but the black community was enslaved at the genesis of all the countries in the usa continent save haiti, that were not still part of white european empires by the late 1800s and early 1900s. So for me, Black people are free to be attached to the USA but we are also free not to be:) I must specify, stand opposite of each other in terms of the usa, in terms of the usa. Both black groups want black betterment. but one feels the usa is a path to that, the other doesn't. And I think all black people in the entire history of the usa can say we know somebody else black who fits either bill. Now I speak for myself, I don't think anything is wrong with that too. I don't think anything is wrong with a black person becoming president of the usa, as well as a black person looking to blow up the usa. yes , all I want to add is, remember that most of the black people on the oceanic journey died on the way. So, if you consider a population near 300% of the black people who survived that journey would had been opposed too:) So yes, over time environment changes any people but even the white man admits, most of us died on the way. the following may make you feel even better:) coming from someone like myself. As a writer I study various literary things and I came across the term statian being first used by a white man. YOu may know him as the author of huckleberry fin. He didn't say white or black statian, that is me. he just used the term to represent all in the usa, from the ancient native american to the recent naturalized immigrant and all the others in between. And his reasoning made sense, cause I thought that myself before I read it. American is canada to argentina. But I think in the black community in the USA, needs the statian label to say the black people who believe in the usa, have faith in it. Not a label to comdemn, but I think to order efficiently, cause the reality is, many black people don't like , believe, have faith in the usa. and all black people know why, even if we don't like to admit it. Black people in the usa who are not statians are not always anti statian. Some are the nationalists,some are militants, some are garveyites, the back to africa folk <who are still around>. Yes, quantities change throughout time, but its more than meets the eye. I end with a wish. I wish black people in the usa who I deem Black sTatians, spent less time trying to get other black people to join them, stop preaching or proselytizing to blacks who don't share their views on the usa, and spend more time, making themselves a stronger group not merely in the black community in the usa, but in the usa itself. at the end of the day, white jews are white but they are a group within white community in the usa right? I think black statians in the black community in the usa can be as potent or efficient as white jews in the white community in the usa or the larger usa itself.
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    Why Plots Fail

    September 26, 2022 by Tiffany Yates Martin

    Many authors embark on a new manuscript with one of two common inspirations: a great idea for a plot, or a fascinating character and situation.

    Both can be good springboards for story, yet without more development, each may result in stories that peter out, dead end, or get lost in rabbit holes (especially during the breakneck pace of NaNo).

    Plots most commonly fail when:

    • they’re approached as an isolated element of story, a series of interesting events for authors to plug their characters into, or
    • when interesting characters are randomly loosed into an intriguing situation with no specific destination or purpose.

    Characters must take action, but action is not plot, and plot is not story.

    The role of plot in story

    The basic definition of story is a character pursues something he desperately wants, and he is changed by that pursuit and his success or failure in achieving his goal. Plot is simply the road the character travels on that journey.

    I often reduce it to a simple formula:

    Point A + Plot = Point B

    In other words, story equals character arc plus plot.

    Creating an elaborately structured plot and calling it story is like mapping a trip and calling it a vacation. What makes it complete is the character’s experience of it. Character drives plot, not the other way around.

    Don’t panic, plotters. That doesn’t mean you can’t map out your plot ahead of time. And fear not, pantsers—it doesn’t mean you have to painstakingly develop or outline the whole story before you begin.

    But creating compelling, cohesive stories does mean considering how these two crucial story elements work together.

    Know what your character wants

    Before you can put a character in motion, you have to know where she is headed and why. What drives your characters is the engine and the fuel for the actions they take and fail to take in the course of the story, the reason they—and we—take this journey.

    Your character’s goal(s) and motivations determine those actions, as well as her reactions, inaction, and interaction; they dictate every choice she makes that pushes her along the plot. It’s essential to understand at least these basics about your characters before trying to put them in motion.

    In director Baz Luhrmann’s recent movie Elvis, the titular character’s main motivation is evident from almost the first scene: Elvis loves music, especially blues and gospel. It literally moves him—in an early scene he wanders into a tent revival and his body starts shaking and swaying seemingly without his volition.

    That dictates his main goal—to make his own music—which is the propulsive force for every subsequent action he takes (or doesn’t take) in the course of the story, starting with recording his own version of the one of the songs by a local blues musician that fascinated him, accepting Colonel Tom Parker’s offer to tour him on the carnival circuit, and every subsequent choice he makes.

    But characters may have other goals and motivations as well, and will also continue to evolve as the story develops and as the author’s understanding of them deepens and grows—which will also affect the choices they make and the paths they take.

    Elvis’s desire to pursue his music begins to morph early in the story as he is seduced into a new goal—fame and fortune—which evolves from his deeper motivation: a desperate need for love.

    These are powerful and universal desires, the kind many readers can relate to. But they’re vague—another reason plots can falter or lose focus.

    Create tangible as well as intangible goals

    Pinning your character’s intangible longings to a concrete goal gives readers something to root for—or against—and tells us when the character has “won” (or lost).

    Without that, momentum may stall, like a footrace with no definitive finish line for runners to orient themselves toward or to tell them when they’ve reached it.

    Or the story may lose cohesion and feel episodic: “This happens…and then this happens…and then this happens…” but because the plot has become disconnected from the character arc, the actions lack meaning or impact.

    Tie your character’s more generalized motivations to some specific, tangible “brass ring” that represents them.

    For Luhrmann’s movie version of Elvis, each element of what drives him is pinned to a definitive representation of that longing:

    • His love of music—his kind of music—is tangibly represented by a Christmas special where Colonel Parker demands he sing sanitized traditional carols and not swivel those hips, as well as the broader concrete representation of Parker’s pushing him to shift his career to inoffensive, bland music, against a new manager who wants to encourage Elvis to play his own kind of music and swivel at will. This sets up a clear story conflict that serves as a powerful propulsive force.
    • His desire for fame and fortune is represented by specific, tangible goals that Elvis associates with money—wanting to buy his mother a pink Cadillac, Graceland, his own plane, etc.—and popularity and acclaim, like bigger venues, Hollywood movies, and eventually a European tour.
    • His longing for love is represented by his profound devotion to his mother, Gladys (and to a smaller degree his father); the Colonel; Priscilla and Lisa Marie; and, as the Colonel himself reminds viewers throughout, the fans. Elvis thrives on attention and confuses it with love—and that motivates every decision he makes in the story.

    Defining what your character wants and why allows you to grow a cohesive, integrated plot as you throw obstacles in the path between your characters and what they want, and let their “why”—what drives them toward that goal—dictate the choices they make. Each choice sends them on the next step of the path as your plot develops organically, always driven by the characters.

    Know how your character changes

    One final reason plots may fail is that the character’s point B—how they change by the end of the story, externally, internally, or both—is not directly related to or a result of what happened to them in the course of it.

    But if you let their goal and motivation dictate their actions and behavior at every decision point, then readers will see on the page, step by step, how your character moves along her arc: how each challenge she faces, every choice she makes, affects her, shifts her perspective, and causes her growth or change.

    This direct, intrinsic relationship between plot and character—the character’s struggles, choices, longings, and goals that drive the actions they take in the course of the plot—is what makes for dynamic stories that feel organic, cohesive, and satisfying to readers.

     

    Article
    https://www.janefriedman.com/why-plots-fail/

     

    My Thoughts

    the following is a little aside. but, what do you think about short stories that contain key tenets or rules in a world that can prepare an author in making a longer story in the same world ?  I use as an example. ursula leguin's earthsea. she wrote three short stories that like any good short story stand on their own but also displayed key principles of the world in the later books. I have a larger work I am working on, the plot is not finished, but that is based on what I want a few major characters to do at or near the end and it is an important choice.  But a smaller story, in the same world , is near complete, The characters , The plot, the story is done. The ending resolution even relates to where I want the larger story to go.  And some key rules are displayed. Maybe some plots fail because authors are unwilling to give glimpses, ala short stories, into the world first?  I will be blunt, I never wrote a short story at the same time working on a larger one in the same world.  Maybe if plotters:) or pantsters step back from the big book and make an intentional short story in the same world, it can help them with the cohesiveness between the plot side characters lives in the longer story. 

     

    Writers of the future talk

     

  6. Anyone who may read this comment. You know, so many Black leaders were and are financially penniless. If black leaders in the usa are to be judged on how they improved the condition of the black masses, then most black leaders or black people i consider black leaders were and are failures. But I do wonder how many Black people in the usa honestly believe every black person should be a millionaire today. for the record most whites in the usa have always been poor too. Well... I end with a simple truth. I will love to help black towns in the usa, they deserve more help than they have ever received. and I admit with no shame that I have no money to help them. But I will continue speaking to their betterment.
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  8. @Pioneer1 maybe because harlem had a black elected official, a legendary one, long before I was born I grew up seeing black elected officials regularly so I don't value their presence. I value their effectiveness to the community. Thus I don't see obama as you are others. but I do comprehend that other black people needed to see a black president. I apologize, by black loyalist, I meant the name given to black people in white history books who fought for themselves aside the whites of britain and against the creation of the usa or the whites of the usa or blacks of the usa, I call black statians. I wasn't suggesting anyone in this forum is disloyal or traitorous to the black community in the usa or elsewhere. Said black loyalist, the historic group, would oppose you or the others as they did crispus attucks. I oppose your position on those who want to leave being unchanged by the process of leaving. The different environment will change them. You use later in your reply the term Black loyalist referring to Black Statians who seek to empower themselves in the context of the usa. But just to reassert, when I mean black loyalist I am referring to that historic community and later the black people in the USA who enacted and enact their historical position of opposing the usa, opposing whites in the usa, opposing blacks statians, who by default support the usa. And thus my point in this forum post. You say that most enslaved black folks will want black participation/citizenship/striving or thriving in the usa as part of it. I oppose that position. But the point is Black people have key disagreements. When one black person says our enslaved forebears in majority wanted to be of the statian dream, while another says opposite, that is not something a bridge or center position can be made out of. And thus, when either black person makes a point, their is a natural friction. I will not say any black person is wrong in the usa for where they feel the black populace in it needs to go to, cause history gives creedance to all positions , but the entire black community in the usa has to realize its variance internally are unlike whites. Whites in the usa, have variance but it isn't the same. The white protestants who can't stand the whites jews is not the same as the black people who despise the usa aside the black people who do. Are all humans human? yes. But, in the usa, the black community doesn't respect its internal variance and that goes back to my point about the urban league and this voting agenda. Well I apologize if I said all black people enslaved didn't want to be enslaved but I am 100% certain most enslaved black people, meaning over 90% wanted to be free. And simply because 90% of all enslaved humans throughout human history want to be free from their human enslavers. @daniellegfny You say I don't see. And then you specify, the black vote dictates black lifestyles. You don't know me so I took out your allusion to me. ... Part of me would love to go to a small black town in mississippi and tell the impoverished black people there, who never had any opportunity of value whatsoever, the black vote dictates your lifestlye. I wonder what they will do. will they laugh at me? What do you think? @franksteryou said It depends on what you are looking for... that is what you said wrong. The question can't be answered like that. The answers are many, the qualities of the answers is where their rank resides. It doesn't depend. You said No. This post started with an action by the national urban league that I felt and feel ignored the truth of the black community in the usa. Said truth, to sum up my point in crude language... Some Black folks in the usa dont give an F about the USA or the white people in it or the black people who want to be part of it, but the Black people who love the USA can't seem to accept that. Consensus in the black community in the USA is impossible, but the reason isn't negative or false, it goes back to the beginning. Again, we are not a peoples who wanted to be here, that truth can not be ebbed by time or laws or black individual achievements. From the USA's beginnings to today, a large set of black people have always wanted to have nothing to do with the usa plus the whites in it. And I Think all black people's /groups/ organizations in the usa have to accept that and emit that truth in their actions. And the Urban League like so many black organizations in the usa isn't. They , like many black people in this forum, have a way and don't accept the honesty in other black people fitting another way and having no need to change. Even if said other black folk can't articulate it or explain it. And the point is, the black community has always been a set of WE's, not one we:) the only thing all black people in the usa should know is that the black populace in the usa is a set of We's. Initially three, even more today. And each we wasn't and isn't going to the same place. And I think all black people should be able to accept that as right. and the urban league in their agenda doesn't. Not unfortunately:) LEadership can't be a popularity contest... but governing results is a popularity contest. One can be disliked as a governing agent, in any system of government, but your quality as a government agent isn't in how many people like you but in how many people you actually help, and that means results and that is the issue with voting and the various black groups. If we are each elected officials to two black communal districts in a city in the USA. And You are disliked while I am liked. but you get more results while I don't. You know who the people will respect? it will not be me, even though I am liked. I think the original three black communities in the usa, side the others in the future, demand results, not liking. but the black elected officials historically in the usa, going back to south carolina, failed in getting results to the majority phenotypical voting populace in south carolina at the time, which was black. they failed badly. The actions of the people can be controlled they can be manipulated by media, but the actions of the people when given government that is effective is far stronger than anything that media can manipulate. It says more about any country when the governing officials are unwilling to use results to influence the actions of the people and will rather media tricks. yes, and it was ineffectual and is still being upheld by many black elected governing agents today, though it clearly didn't help the larger black populace. Not generally, always. but south carolina's majority was black. That is the point. The black elected officials decisions were poor, and cost the black majority in south carolina, to be blunt. Now, you can argue that the black elected officials in South Carolina wanted the black populace to be the minority in south carolina. Maybe they didn't care. I have read a few of their speeches in the south carolina legislature. They are not the speeches of elected officials who are trying to empower a majority in a state in the usa. but that goes back to my points and , goes into many a prose concerning black elected officials in the usa, that I am not giving. The thing about a rising tide in the sea is it never raises all boats similarly, even if the boats are shaped the same, so each boat's qualities or situations has to be considered individually.
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  10. One recurring theme in modernity is that the fifty states of the USA are not the same, in racial composition, legal structure, heritage, culture, or current path. They are merely in a union. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2087&type=status
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    No Proof Of Racism By School Bus Driver Who Assaulted Black Children On Video, Cops Say
    The adultification of Black children was demonstrably what happened on that school bus.
    Written By Zack Linly
    Posted September 21, 2022

    Source: SOPA Images / Getty

    Here’s the thing: There’s a difference between blind speculation and experience-based speculation. But our legal system isn’t equipped to differentiate between the two. In any incident involving white people causing harm to Black people, there will be speculation that the incident was racially motivated. In many cases, there won’t be any racial slurs or verbal indications that race played a part in an attack. But Black people will see the racism based on our experience with racism. In other words: We know it was racist because we’ve seen this before. 

    But that will never match up with the burden of proof our legal system requires before it will call something racist, regardless of how obvious the racism is. And that’s why the Morgan County school bus driver who was caught on camera pushing a 6-year-old Black child and his 10-year-old Black sister will not be called a racist when he stands trial—at least not by the court.

    According to the Morgan Citizen, James O’Neil, the now-former bus driver in question (he was fired after the video went viral), has been arrested and charged with two counts of simple battery after the recorded incident that took place earlier this month. He was booked in the Morgan County Detention Center, where he spent a day before being bonded out.

    “The investigation resulted in the arrest of James O’Neil on two counts of simple battery,” Morgan County Chief Deputy Keith Howard said in a statement. “While this was not a complex investigation, it was complicated by the allegation that the incident was perceived as being racially motivated.”

    “Investigators took additional time to investigate all the facts to include consulting with prosecutors in the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit,” he went on to say. “Investigators could not establish a nexus that the incident was racially motivated.”

    So, how do we know it was racist? Well we don’t—not for sure—but we’ve seen the adultification of Black children at the hands of white authority figures before. We see it in the statistical evidence that Black students are disproportionately and more harshly disciplined than their white counterparts. We saw it when a 9-year-old Black girl was forced into the back of a police car and pepper sprayed while she was severely distraught and begging for help. We saw it when Aurora, Colorado, police pulled over a Black family in an SUV (despite the vehicle description they were given being a motorcycle) and had young Black girls—the youngest of whom was also 6 years old—lying face-down on the ground while handcuffed and frantically crying. 


    The adultification of Black children was demonstrably what happened on that school bus.

    From the Citizen:

    According to Nene Carter, the mother of the children who were pushed, O’Neil allegedly told her six-year-old son to sit in the back of the bus, despite the fact that primary school students usually sit in the front of the bus away from the older high school students riding the bus in the back.

    The 12-second video that went viral on social media shows the bus driver standing over the small child while pushing the boy back into his seat near the front of the bus. The 10-year-old sister is standing next to the bus driver trying to reach out for her brother. The girl shouts, “Stop pushing my brother,” as the bus driver is seen repeatedly pushing the crying boy back into the seat.

    “Shut your mouth,” the bus driver says to the girl as he continues pushing the little boy.

    The girl asks again for him to stop pushing her brother when the bus driver appears to put his hands on the girl. The girl tells the bus driver to “get your hands off” when the bus driver suddenly pushes her, causing the girl to stumble backwards. The bus driver then says to her, “What a pain in the neck you guys are. Get back there.”

    A 6-year-old child isn’t a “pain in the neck” because he’s fearful and anxious about being moved to the back of a bus to sit with older teenagers. He’s just a small child being a small child. A 10-year-old child isn’t a “pain in the neck” because she’s trying to protect her younger sibling from the grown man who is aggressively putting his hands on him. She’s just a child doing what she knows she’s supposed to do as a big sister.

    But white America often views Black children through a lens that doesn’t detect innocence and underdevelopment as readily and naturally as it does when viewing white children. It’s just really hard to imagine a white 6-year-old child being sent to the back of a bus among much older kids and then being pushed because he didn’t want to go. (I’m going to go ahead and skip over the part where I talk about the racist implications of a white bus driver sending a Black child to the back of the bus in the first place, BTW.)


    It’s also worth mentioning that Carter believes O’Neill was only fired because he was caught on viral video manhandling her children.

    “We feel like he was terminated because the story got more coverage than the Morgan County Charter School System would have liked,” said Carter. “It was rumored that they were just going to send him to be retrained.”

    And if that’s true, it would have been racist AF. But we could never prove it.

    ARTICLE
    https://newsone.com/4413554/morgan-county-bus-driver-video-update/
    Referral
    https://twitter.com/msolurin/status/1573716117956304896

     

     

    My thoughts
    The problem is Black people seem not to realize the usa is a collection of states. Each state is free to have its own culture as long as it is republican, meaning no kings or generals or oligarchs running a state. But that doesn't mean a community can not be empowered in a state and abuse other communities in it. 
    Yes, the legal system in the usa allows for cases to be taken to the federal level, but that is a task.
    The state in question is georgia. A confederate state. A state where jim crow was at its most firm when other compatriots like new york city were allowing more, albeit trickles, for black folk. Has Georgia ever been anything but the enemy to blacks in its history?
    Do you think this case needs to go to the federal level?

     

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  13. @ProfD truth, but my point was about europe originally. so outside the usa things are not parallel to the usa. and I think that is important to say or comprehend. The usa isn't the world. @Pioneer1 the question you pose is simple. What will it take to convince the Black populace in the USA, whose heritage is majority anti usa to buy in, believe, be part of the usa system? If history holds true, a majority of black people in the usa will always be anti-usa and I think it makes perfect sense. The one factor that has a chance in my view of changing the black populace into majority statian is the modern black immigrants from carribbean/latin america/africa/asia. Many of them come not as black but attached to countries and usually, with the important point of wanting to be in the usa, which is against the heritage of the majority of black people in the usa.
  14. @Pioneer1 I concur that no voting day is needed but my reasoning is not yours. It isn't for a lack of agenda but for the composition of the black community in the USA. As you are the third person to mention black elected officials as a resultant to the betterment of the black community it is clear, that black elected officials , regardless of their quality are deemed a worthy result for the black vote by many black people. but, what is also clear, is the black people who value positively the result of the black vote being black elected officials don't seem to recognize that the other two parts of the Black statian heritage are not comforted by said results to the black vote. What are the three parts of Black Statian Heritage? Blacks who fought against the creation of the usa at the usa's founding, Black who found for the creation of the usa at the usa's founding, Blacks who were unable to choose their path through white domination at the usa's founding. Crispus Attucks will concur 100% to you Pioneer or Frankster or Danielle. But will the Black loyalists? no. Will the Black enslaved? no. And that is the problem I have with the urban league's strategem. The Black American in the USA has three heritages, and two of those are to be blunt, anti-statian. One is clearly anti white of the USA. The Black loyalists said the usa, its declarations, its legal code, the white people in it, the not enslaved black people who fight or live side the white people in the usa are enemies. I think many black people have a similar thinking in the usa today. maybe they can not articulate it, but I think they exists in greater number than 2 And the Black enslaved had one common factor, they all didn't want to be enslaved. No, not all wanted to kill whites, some though extremely few loved whites, but none would choose slavery over freedom if a path to freedom was guaranteed. Not a hope or a wish or a dream, but guaranteed. And I think many black people are very willing to do for something certain that is free of the usa or the white people in it, but not willing to gamble. Your correct, the Black loyalists nor the Black enslaved wanted a job did they? Those groups together represented over ninety percent of the black populace when the usa was founded and neither wanted to be president of the usa, vote in the usa, be in the usa, and definitely not a laborer living aside the white populace in the usa. My point being is black people who are statian, represent the spirit of crispus attucks could do the entire village a favor by realizing that a large percentage of the black community in the usa wasn't when the usa was founded and still isn't of a similar mind and trying to speak ill of the other two heritages or delegitimize them is dysfunctional and to be blunt, simply hasn't worked. From crispus attucks through frederick douglass, to barack obama, it hasn't worked.
  15. Have any of you read Fire and Blood? I have.
  16. @daniellegfny you are the second to reply with black elected officials...you add jobs they give to black people... As the prior commentor who said similar, your answer is correct. The problem is only one sector of the black community has ever found this satisfactory or to their purpose, and the other sectors have not and do not and the other sectors combined represent a majority of the black populace in the usa. And their unsatisfactory position to the return investment on voting of black elected officials explains the voting response , from blacks who do not vote to blacks who do vote but expect nothing of value. Sequentially, the NAtional Urban LEagues, Black Voters Day is missing the point altogether. The Black people who are satisfied are not right or wrong, the black people who are not, are not right or wrong. The black people disconnected are not right or wrong. People talk about heritage in the USA alot but miss the truth. Some Black people, most free blacks, fought against the creation of the usa when the usa was being created. Some black people, a minority of free blacks, fought for the creation of the usa when the usa was being created. Most black people , the enslaved to whites,were disallowed by white power to make a choice when the usa was being created. The heritage of black people in the usa has three prongs, the urban league, as those in its prong have always done, disrespects the other two prongs with their position.
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    Why couldn't Disney make a movie titled the Little Mermaid using Halley Bailey as Gabriella? 

    Gabriella is the name of the deaf black latino mermaid that enjoys adventures with ariel in the little mermaid t.v series.  why couldn't Disney make the little mermaid movie with Halley Bailey as Gabriella? 
    The two questions are simple, can a thespian act beyond their physical definition, and are roles for thespians absent? Halley Bailey can play Ariel,as any thespian can attempt to play any role,  but Halley Bailey didn't need to. 

    Gabriella was in the following episodes of the little mermaid show
    "Wish Upon a Starfish"
    "Ariel's Treasures"

    Gabriella Angelina Bommino - a child whose spirit flew at a very young age, was an inspiration to the character.
    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-22-ca-48649-story.html

     

    P.S. I will be blunt, honoring the Bommino by making the character inspired by her titular role in the new Little Mermaid film I think would had been a far greater gesture on many levels, than changing the appearance of Ariel, for no reason... and Black women need to watch more television who said they never saw a black mermaid before, cause disney made a black mermaid already. Why didn't black women know about Gabriella already?
     

     

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  19. @ProfD The way I define an agenda being created or a special interest, I think black elected officials have them to be accountable for. But I want to know how you ProfD define creating an agenda or making a list of special interest?
  20. @ProfD based on brexit your assertion is historically false, the white towns of england didn't want immigrants from eastern europe who they felt were a problem. London voted to remain in the European Union but the remainder of england, voted to exit, and it was the reaction to white immigrants in those white towns. Well many rich whites in various countries in Europe publicly spoke against the Ukrainians. So.. Remember, Europe isn't the USA or the American continent. White Unity doesn't exist in Europe as it does in the American continent. Well, the white woman who has a huge chance of being the next president of italy said the European Union era will end. so... I will say the United States had a huge role in modern Europe and like in vietnam, korea, iraq, afghanistan, latin america, the southern states, wherever the USA federal government touches, things go negative. The USA is historically a terrible shepard of communities internally or externally.
  21. Europe is sharply pulling away from the USA culture that biden is trying to keep alive, https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2085&type=status
  22. Question and Answer with Philotée Mukiza, representing Rwanda ’s Ngororero Coffee Washing Station is the first woman to win the Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award (EIICA) Best of the BEst plus Coffee Lover's Choice awards https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2082&type=status
  23. State of America complete discussion View video at the link https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2081&type=status
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    Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d'Italia, at a meeting in Palermo for the 2022 Italian elections. (Francesco Militello Mirto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

     

    MY THOUGHTS BEFORE YOU READ THE ARTICLE

    I apologize, recently, I have been courteous and not manipulated or coerced a reader's mind with my thoughts, before. But I am compelled this time from my own energies.... you see , as a Black person from the USA whose bloodline has been in the USA too long. I am used to hearing from blacks or whites of the multiracial acceptance of Europe. The old black lindyhop teacher who teaches all age groups in finland. that kind of thing. I have sad it a billion times, most humans despise immigration when it next door. Many countries in Europe never dealt with immigration. This goes back to European empires, where people from Indochine rarely traveled to france. People from the gold coast rarely traveled to england. People from Nova spain rarely traveled to Spain. But, quietly, the European Union, and the poverty in humanity has pushed into europe enough immigrants for the european local farmer or small town resident to notice and as usual, all hell broke lose. 

    Europeans love coming to New York City, they spend money, see the rainbow, but they go home to a white village usually, and they can make a diary of their journey. But, dealing with immigration next door is another cultural being and it is clear most Europeans in Europe are not ready. 

    I do think of angela merkel who once said, germans must teach people how to be german. I said she was right then and she is clearly right in hindsight. 

    But what does this have to relate to Black people in the USA. well... the Black community in the USA has historically had a tribe in itself that is related to other black tribes in the usa , financially rich. Said black rich have always pushed or supported immigratory activities in the usa. 

    They were the ones always pushing the black kids de segregate the schools, not get more money for black schools. Desegregate the white communities, not get more money for black communities. 

    Meaning, a large percentage of black people support the immigration of non blacks into the black community and the act of blacks immigrating into non black communities. 

    I find it funny how europe, often touted by financially wealthy black people as accepting to immigration, is showing the truth we all know to immigration. No one wants the immigrants near them. Russia/China are closing up shop. Texas is sending immigrants to New York. European countries are proving putin is not a european outlier. If Putin holds out, Russia will have destabilized the european union and exposed the countries that stood quietly against russia while changing many countries in Europe into their honest selves. 

    I wonder can the black community in the usa be honest?

     

    Immigration, crime propel Europe's move to right, analysts say

    Melissa Rossi

    ·Contributor

    Thu, September 22, 2022 at 4:27 PM·10 min read

    In Europe, political analysts are pointing to Sweden and Italy as possible harbingers of a political mood shift across the continent driven by a growing wariness of immigrants as well as anger over rising crime rates.

    The startlingly strong performance of the far-right Sweden Democrats in this month’s Swedish parliamentary elections and polls showing that the nationalist Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) party is poised for victory in this weekend’s contests in that country have both been spurred by those two issues, analysts told Yahoo News.

    “Gang violence in Sweden was the issue in the election,” said Gunilla Herolf, a researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs who specializes in European integration. It’s a problem, she added, that is weighing on every Swede. “Some are furious. Some are just terribly upset.”

    In Italy, “security issues are being exploited by right-wing forces,” sociologist Giovanna Campani told Yahoo News.

    At a glance, the two countries share relatively few commonalities. Sweden is a wealthy, cohesive welfare state, which over the past 90 years has typically been led by leftist coalition governments. By comparison, Italy’s economy, which is burdened by massive debt, is reeling. Costs of living are soaring, and over the past decade, its government has changed nearly every 18 months. But in both places, rising crime and misgivings about immigrants are prompting a political realignment.

    The Sweden Democrats, originally formed as a neo-Nazi party in 1988, were one of four right-leaning parties that won a combined 176 of 349 seats in Sweden’s Parliament in last week’s election, besting the center-left coalition by six seats. Now, details of which parties will partake in the new coalition government, and how much influence the Sweden Democrats will actually have, are being hammered out. Despite being ostracized by mainstream Swedes, the party won 20.5% of the vote, elevating it from the fringes to Sweden’s second-most popular party. Its campaign in Sweden — where 20% of the population is now foreign-born, and the country has become known as “the gun violence capital of Europe” — was built on promises to control crime perpetrated by young migrants and to deport some foreign-born Swedes.

    Jimmie Akesson, the new leader of the Sweden Democrats, insists his party has shed its fascist leanings, though the party remains staunchly anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim and keeps pounding home its messaging linking foreign-born Swedes and crime. The party points to recent crime trends showing that drug-peddling armed gangs have emerged in some migrant communities during the past five years. In 2021, Sweden experienced some 360 gang-related shootings and 47 deaths; by September of this year, 47 had already died in shootings.

    “Sweden used to be a completely peaceful country — and safe,” Brussels-based Roland Freudenstein, vice president of the independent think tank GLOBSEC, told Yahoo News. “Now it’s become one of the most unsafe places in Europe” — not only because of its gang shootings but also because of high number of incidents of rape. “So that’s brought an end to the political correctness,” he said. “Even the [liberal] Social Democrats are talking about immigration, law and order, and getting tough on crime.”

    The rate of armed violence is growing faster than anywhere else on the continent, according to a 2021 report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. “The increase in gun homicide in Sweden is closely linked to criminal milieux in socially disadvantaged areas,” according to the report.

    Until recently, it was all but taboo in Sweden for mainstream politicians to acknowledge the problem.

    “That's why the Sweden Democrats are gaining in popularity,” said Eric Adamson, a Stockholm-based project manager at the Atlantic Council’s Northern Europe office. “They were the only ones talking about this” in recent years. Both socially and politically, he said, the topic had previously been off limits for Swedes to discuss.

    In Italy, a Sept. 25 snap election necessitated by the July collapse of the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi seems likely to result in the most conservative leadership there since Benito Mussolini seized power in 1922. The likely new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has also run on an anti-immigrant platform, vowing to mobilize the Italian navy to prevent African refugees from reaching her country.

    Like Sweden, Italy has also been dealing with rising violent crime, though much of it doesn’t involve the immigrants who have sought safe haven there in recent years. Youth gangs of Italians, which some 6% of Italian teens are believed to belong to, are becoming a nightmare for the country, especially around Naples and the south, though some African migrants appear to be starting to form them as well.

    This June, however, an estimated 1,500 African youths went on a rampage in the northern town of Peschiera, breaking windows, roughing up tourists and allegedly sexually assaulting young women on a train. Matteo Salvini of the League, a right-wing political alliance he formed with Brothers of Italy and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia for the upcoming election, lambasted the attack. Meloni, the Brothers of Italy leader, who has promised to protect Italy from “Islamization,” seized on the uproar, posting a video on her Twitter account of an African man allegedly raping a woman in broad daylight.

    The bigger issue for Meloni, however, may be the changing face and complexion of Italian citizens. The woman who promotes “God, homeland and family” frequently laments Italy’s low birth rate and fears the extinction of Italians and their replacement by immigrants from Africa, a conspiracy she has accused the government of the European Union of orchestrating. “The EU is complicit in uncontrolled immigration, the invasion of Europe and the project of ethnic replacement of European citizens,” she wrote on her website in February.

    Campani thinks there are a number of factors at work in Italy that end up working in the right’s favor — including anger over the bureaucracy of the European Union, which imposes rules on many aspects of Italy’s government, such as the treatment of migrants, how to utilize COVID funds, what sorts of energy to invest in and how to handle its debt crisis.

    Meloni has promised to challenge Brussels’ authority, vowing that if she’s elected to lead Italy’s government, “the fun is over.”

    If she does become prime minister, Freudenstein said, European policymakers will find “a more pugnacious and feistier Italy.”

    “She’s a fresh face — and I think Italians want to try out something new,” he added.

    According to a December 2021 YouGov poll of residents in 10 European nations, both Italy and Sweden were among the top three European countries saying that the number of foreigners allowed to immigrate to European countries has been excessive — a statement with which 77% percent of Italians and 73% of Swedes agreed.

    In April, young migrant men, protesting the planned burning of the Quran by a Swedish provocateur in towns across the country, kicked off riots in three cities that injured more than 100 Swedish police — just one disturbing event that forced then-Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, a Social Democrat, into admitting a problem with violence among some migrant communities, and the existence of “parallel societies” of many foreign-born in Sweden. “Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden,” she told reporters. “We live in the same country but in completely different realities. We will have to reassess our previous truths and make tough decisions.”

    The issue in Sweden, said Herolf of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, isn’t immigration itself. It’s the mafia-like Eastern European clans and gangs that made it into the country along with legitimate asylum seekers and refugees.

    “There are people coming into Sweden who bring criminality with them,” she said, including some from the former Yugoslavia. “But there were also loads of decent hardworking people from there too. So [previously] we didn’t want to talk about that and risk hurting the good people.”

    What’s more, she said, it’s now widely recognized that Sweden has taken in far too many refugees since 2015, when the civil war in Syria broke out creating a refugee crisis, and that the government in Stockholm has been reticent to force them to integrate into Swedish society. “We have a responsibility to make demands on them to learn Swedish, to join in Swedish society," and not just live in foreign bubbles.

    “Sweden has been an extremely tolerant and antiracist country,” Johan Martinsson, a political science professor and research director of the Laboratory of Opinion Research and the Citizen Panel at the University of Gothenburg, told Yahoo News. He pointed to an incident in 2002 when a politician suggested that foreigners should be given a basic language test before being given citizenship. “It was considered an outrage,” Martinsson said. “He was called a racist for even suggesting it.”

    The increasing popularity of nationalist, anti-immigrant parties in Europe, such as Marine LePen’s rise in France, underscores the need for mainstream politicians to openly admit to issues as they emerge, and to stop worrying that acknowledging them simply reinforces the radical right, said Freudenstein. “Integration policies for migrants have to become much tougher,” he added, and governments need “to be tougher about language, about [banning the wearing of] burqas, and about prohibiting afternoon [Islamist] schools where children unlearn what they learned in the morning about women’s rights and the separation of church and state.”

    Freudenstein, for one, is concerned about what the rise of far-right parties will mean for the cohesion of the European Union — all the more with soaring energy prices and potential shortages, even the possibility of natural gas rationing — as the continent heads into the colder months. “We know a crisis winter is coming,” he said. “And it’s going to reinforce this feeling of ‘Let’s try something new,’ and the feeling that the structures and powers in place have failed.” He points to the growing possibility of “a severe recession that will dramatically increase social tensions.” The next six months will be crucial, he believes, and will “decide the future of politics in Europe.”

     

    ARTICLE

    https://news.yahoo.com/immigration-crime-propel-europes-move-to-right-analysts-say-202748280.html

     

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