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    Black Party to Governance in the USA

    Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, whomever may be listening, I am richard murray, I am in the african american literary book club, linked in the video description, please join me or share thoughts there, as guest comments are allowed.
    Shirley Chisholm once said that finance, or fiscal enterprise, is the arena where black people need to venture most, engage in most; she was disenfranchised to Black engagement in the government process. I take from her point that governmentally, nothing that was tried before in the black community led or will lead to better for the black community, not a black individual.
    MLK jr , in the video below, stated that fiscal opportunity to black people in the usa was nearest totally absent during slavery, the war between the states occured and black people were negatively biased during segregation as white peasants from europe were allowed to kill each other over land taken from native peoples while black people were denied the same opportunity to fight for land while being terrorized illegally where they lived to accept fiscal conditions unfavorable to themselves. Now, some will say segregation is finished today , some will not. I argue that if you feel segregation still exists today then the fiscal argument MLK jr made holds true, if you feel that segregation is ended and the lack of fiscal opportunity is based on the natural competitive nature in fiscal capitalism, that in either case the point is following point is true. The Black community in modernity is blockaded from fiscal opportunity through a fiscal legacy from the english colonies to the 1960s where they were denied through white power and today are denied through a continuance of that legacy side a continued white power or a fiscal disadvantage from that legacy no other community has to face.
    Now I imagine many will suggest governmentally, Shirley Chisholm is wrong: reconstruction era black elected officials, adam clayton powell jr, herself, david dinkins, corey booker, barack obama, prove that black government operatives are still worthy or needed or of great value today and tomorrow. But they miss Shirley Chisholms point. Her point is not about inspiration, to bring the spirit into, or representation, to be a visual presence to a community or a seat at the table, her point is about function. Do black elephants, black republicans, or black donkeys, black democrats, serve the black community? the answer is no. Barrack Obama is black, he was a black president. his wife is black. she is beautiful. he is a good guy. THey inspired many black people. they acted to what they felt was the best interest to all people in the usa. But, the Shirley chisholms point was not about all people in the usa, it wasn't about inspiration, it wasn't about stating who or who is not black, it was referring to who in government served the black community in the usa. And the answer is none. Does government or government officials in the usa have to serve the black community? no. Does the government or government officials in the usa serve the black community? no.   
    Now I also imagine many will suggest fiscally, MLK jr is wrong: percy julian, madame cj wlaker, motown, philadelphia international, the super soaker, the real mccoy, lebron james, prove that any fiscal blockades to the black community , while present, did not stop all sequentially the modern situation can forgive or forget . But they miss the point, finance is not the soul. Finance is a matter of counting/arithmetic and it involve the factor called time. If someone burns your daughter alive, that hurts your soul, you an forgive or forget that, if you want. but if that same person obtained free labor from you and your remaining children. After you die, your remaining children can not forgive or forget the slavery financially. why? cause the cost of labor through time from your children or you has a value that can not be forgiven or forgotten. It is called a financial ledger, and even if ledgers are burned, fiscal evaluation does not lie. the person who burned your childrens sibling has fiscal advantage that can not be undone any other way than fiscal advantage. The existence to black business people is not going to undo the fiscal heritage from slavery or segregation. Yes, oprah exists, michael jordan exists, both are black, both have far more money than most in any phenotype, but that is not the point. The point is, has the fiscal blockading from whites in the past been undone. The answer is no.  It doesn't mean black people shall not start fiscal enterprises. It mean that black people have an accounting negative communally born in the past that can not be undone anyway outside an accounting positive modernly or in the future.
    Now I also imagine many will suggest governmentally or fiscally, the point from Shirley Chisholm or MLK jr is outdated.
    Some will say if you don't think of elected officials or government officials or the voting populace or general populace as any phenotype then you don't need the black community to have agency in government cause the black community is part to the human community in the usa that include all people in the usa. And I say, if you think that way, you are correct. I add, that is not a wrong way to think. But, does that answer the question? Does the black community have agency in the government in the usa? and the answer is still, even considering no phenotype or other race in government, no. Again, does that mean government in the usa must serve the black community? no. The question is, does it? and the answer from anyone, including barrack obama if honest is no. Serving a community is not about a black president or representation is not about inspiration said president will bring it is about function. What are you doing for that community? If any community is not being served then the government isn't working for them. it is a simple truth that doesn't delete or deny any aracial leanings, but it is still the truth.
    Some will say if you don't think of business, fiscal enterprise or customers as any phenotype and just see statian business or finance, american business or finance then you don't need the black community to have a fiscal condition cause the black community is part to the human community in the usa that include all people in the usa. And I say, if you think that way, you are correct. I add, that is not a wrong way to think. But, does that answer the question? Does the black community have fiscal reparations and opportunity in modernity? and the answer is still, even considering no phenotype or other race in finance, no. Again, does that mean fiscal activity in the usa must exist strongly in the black community? no. The question is, does it? and the answer from anyone, including oprah if honest is no. Fiscal activity in a community is not about having a black billionaire or representation or is not about inspiratin said billionaire will bring it is about function. What fiscal opportunities exist to that community? If any community's fiscal activity is being blockaded from a negatively biased heritage then their fiscal activity is being blockaded and that doesn't delete or deny any aracial leanings, but it is still the truth.
    If you bring the two idea from Shirley Chisholm side MLK jr you get only one question, why doesn't a black party to governance exist in the USA?
    Shirley CHisholm spoke to finance but the black community in the usa from enslaved times to modernity tried every fiscal activity legal or illegal imagineable, while a growing fiscal inequality side whites kept accounting higher or higher. The black community in the usa is fiscally poor on average. that is the simple truth. Again, it does not mean black people do not own business, it does not mean that black communities are not active. But the fiscal legacy is not being undone and cause finance factors in time, it can not be undone outside equalizing. The Black community must have financial advantage. That is a truth that no level of hard work can undo.
    MLK jr spoke to governmental restriction but the black community in the usa from enslaved times to modernity tried every attachment to white governmental structures imagineable, while never getting a governmental reply that led to a modern disenfranchsiement to government at all municipal levels in the usa. The Black community in the usa has never been serviced to its benefit solely. that is the simple truth. It does not mean black people shall not be elephants or donkeys, or that black people shall not vote for elephants or donkeys. But the governmental legacy is not being undone and cause government is a creature to repetition, it can not be undone outside a change in government activity toward the black community. The Black community must be served by agency in government. That is a truth that no level of hard work can undo.
    A black party to governance is the one thing the black community has not tried in the usa.
    All matters of finance have been tried and all connections to white parties to governance have been tried. Such that in modernity, black billionaires or multimillionaires exist while most black people are fiscally penniless. In the same modernity, black presidents as donkeys while black chairmans of the joint cheifs of staff as elephants existed while most black people feel totally disconnected to government.
    Now obvious online questions are, where are you, why aren't you on a ticket, why dont you start a black party to governance, are you black?
    Honest questions. The truth is I am black. I live in the usa. I have the mental or physical ability to start the black party to governance. I do not have the fiscal ability to start a black party to governance. I did not post this to initiate a black party of governance led by me. I admit a selfish reason.
    I love shirley chisholm, she is one of the best black leaders, especially from new york city. I learned that viola davis will play her in a film. I love Viola davis as an thespian as a physical specimen. I want the film to do greatly fiscally or culturally leading to great or positive things for viola davis or the name of shirley chisholm. But shirley chisholm was not about inspiration or representation at her core, for me , her core was about function. And that desire to function does not exist in the government to the black community per its needs. Thus, how to make it happen? more black elephants or black donkeys will not change a thing. A new party one made from the black community to the black community is what will make function possible.
    On Martin Luther King jr day I recall a man who was murdered fighting to get a better labor situation for black sanitation workers from a local municipal government in the usa. But to paraphrase kwame toure, some now as stokely carmicheal, MLK jr knew that being a black elephant or black donkey would only lead to one being an agent to the system, and the system will uphold the governmental or fiscal disadvantages from the past. The problem is, if the system is broken, if the system is dysfunctional, if the system can't be fixed, then it needs to be changed. But the change requires a new entry not a manipulation, a new animal aside the elephant or the donkey.
    The one truth about fiscal capitalism is that you need money to do anything. I will not deny, the way I am feeling, if I had money, I would consider it. But I do not. Sequentially, all I can do is offer a suggestion and whomever want to listen or be inspired or guided from it, can be.
    ... That end this thought , thank you for your time,  I am richard murray, I am in the african american literary book club, linked in the video description, please join me or share thoughts there, as guest comments are allowed.

    MLK jr video
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/?page=5&tab=comments#comment-495

    My blog
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/blog/29-richard-murray-hearth/

    My forum post

    https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/5787-black-party-to-governance-after-listening-share-your-thoughts/

     

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    I quote MLK jr
    white america must see that no other ethnic group has been a slave on american soil. That is one thing that other immigrant groups haven't had to face. The other thing is that the color became a stigma. American society made the negroes' color a stigma. America freed the slaves in ... 1863 through the emancipation proclamation of Abraham
    Lincoln but gave the slaves no land or nothing in reality... to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land in the west and the midwest. Which meant there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base. And yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa who came here
    involuntarily, in chains, and had worked free for 244 years any kind of economic base. And so emancipation for the negro was really freedom to hunger. It was freedom to the winds and rains of heaven. It was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate and therefore it was freedom and famine at the same time. And when white Americans tell the negro to lift himself by his own bootstraps they don't look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. Now, I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps but it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And many negroes, by the thousands and millions have been left bootless as a result of all these years of oppression and as a result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading.

     

    Shirley Chisholm said finance must be the frontier for black people in the usa. She felt the government or parties to governance can not uplift black people. The problem is fiscally, historical truth leave the black community in the usa absent the fiscal positive unfairness, like acres of land to whites, that white people had in the past to uplift them through to modernity. Fiscally poor people do not financially grow fast absent gaining property or revenue through fiscally irregular means like land grabs from murdered peoples like native americans or bootlegging profits through prohibition like for the kennedys. Why have black people since the war between the states not made a party to governance to their own explicit community ? It is not illegal in the usa for a party to governance to be purposed to one people. It is not illegal for an elected official in the usa to be elected through a block vote. Why hasn't black leadership in the usa created a black party to governance? If you are black and you oppose a black party to governance in the usa, state your case?

     

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    Richard Murray Newsletter Edition 18 excerpt

     

    • Total lunar eclipse- is when the sun, earth, full moon align on the same plane. The moon will pass through the earth’s shadow. Why you hear people call it a super blood moon. Super meaning large when the word should be perilunar. Meaning the moon will be at the closest position to the earth. Like the perihelion when the earth is closest to the sun. every thing that has an elliptical orbit has a periposition as well as an apposition <farthest>. Blood moon cause the moon will seem red, this is cause of the amount of sunlight reaching it. Remember in the electromagnetic spectrum, the higher energy light give off blue beyond ultraviolet, while the lower energy give off red, and infrared underneath. The moon’s somewhat bluish color come from the intensity of light from the sun on average illuminating it. Wolf moon, comes from a cultural insult but in the native american lunar belief, the first full moon in january is called a wolf moon.  I don’t even know the native american calendar. 9:36 pm on the 20th to 2:48 am 21st is the time. 11:41 pm 20th start total lunar eclipse. 12:12 am 21st reddest moon, centerpoint to total eclipse 12:43 am 21st ending total eclipse

    • quote- "white america must see that no other ethnic group has been a slave on american soil. That is one thing that other immigrant groups haven't had to face. The other thing is that the color became a stigma. American society made the negroes' color a stigma. America freed the slaves in ... 1863 through the emancipation proclamation of Abraham Lincoln but gave the slaves no land or nothing in reality... to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land in the west and the midwest. Which meant there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base. And yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa who came here involuntarily, in chains, and had worked free for 244 years any kind of economic base. And so emancipation for the negro was really freedom to hunger. It was freedom to the winds and rains of heaven. It was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate and therefore it was freedom and famine at the same time. And when white Americans tell the negro to lift himself by his own bootstraps they don't look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. Now, I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps but it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And many negroes, by the thousands and millions have been left bootless as a result of all these years of oppression and as a result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading.

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      p.s.- from Martin Luther King jr

     

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    Richard Murray Email Newsletter Excerpt Edition 16 - message me with your email to join the list

    • Perihelion- tomorrow, january 3rd nineteen minutes after midnight, the earth will be 91,403,554 miles from the sun, the closest the earth will be in than any moment previous, from the last aphelion, and the earth will continually pull farther away from the sun in the elliptical orbit to the aphelion
    • incomplete- A friend,one from you, said something to me that spur an interest. Whether book/film/audio record/theater... what artistic form is incomplete to you?

     

     

     

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    Excerpt Richard Murray Newsletter 15

    1. Happy Solstice- To those in the northern hemisphere, stay warm in the coming winter, telling stories near a hearth or heater. To those in the southern hemisphere, stay cool in the summer, telling stories on the beach cooled by fruit juices. For a moment in december 21st 10:23 pm eastern standard time or UTC -5 the earth will face the sun in complete parallel, as much as an oblate spheroid can

      1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/victorchristmasparty/16082457135/

    2. Santambo- thank you all for helping me see how the sanatambo game looks and operates in android or ios. You all know who you are. My plan by months end is to have another set of games available. When i do, I will link it in the newsletter. IF you have not checked out my sanatambo game, please take a look, i cherish your thoughts. I placed the link to the kobo apps where the game can be accessed. They are all free. If you haven't , please get the app, and check out my sanatambo, and send me an email to the screenshots

      1. Ebook

        1. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sanatambo-example

      2. kobo app on android

        1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kobobooks.android

      3. kobo app on ios

        1. https://itunes.apple.com/app/kobo-books/id301259483?mt=8

      4. kobo app on blackberry

        1. https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/31507993/

     

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    Newsletter Edition 13th excerpt

    1. NANOWRIMO- A new year together folks:) Me and your fellow Newsletter member Ray Sunn, author of the twin spark series worked on NAnoWriMo together. I will explain. Early October I had posted to everyone here that FIyah was doing their now annual VoicesonFiyah Nanowrimo call, where they had writers perform the nanowrimo challenge in a communal fashion. Specifically, each writer choose a genre and then they place their word count week by week. I was finished with writing tasks for this year but I had an advertisement task as well as engineering that is not completed as I wanted by then. But, I realized something very important. NAnoWriMo is a simple thing. It asks writers to write unabated to a goal, breaking through most writers various methods or structures that block the emission of words. Sequentially, my own creative style, i have developed over time has development phases that go against writing unabatedly. But, i was not interested in focusing on a writing project I have on my next list because they are dear to me and i don't want to rush through their creation. Sequentially, I was a little stuck in terms of strategy. Then my friend Ray suggested she was going to do it to. So we developed a strategy after a few talks. The strategy was, we will each set our own word count goal and then using a few plot points each week we will write. Me said Ray did this and we each achieved our words goals. For me, I made my first work absent writing using paper/pencil. I only used electronic media, my computer, to compose the work. I made no notes or developed anything it was raw from November 1st. I asked all of you to join in , hoping we all can have a collection but it was not meant to be this time. As it is, I made over 25,000 words and I won a prize of getting 3,000 words reviewed. I will select entries from harlem or the what was last seen script, if you want to read them and tell me your thoughts, just email me. I of course am open to your thoughts on to what i should use the 3,000 word review for. To our newsletter group. All of us in this newsletter group can write 1,000 <one thousand> words in one month. 2019 is coming upon us. What if a group from us, hopefully all of us, choose to do at least 1,000 words each month. Like me side Ray did above, we will use a few plot points, while the rest is up to each author. If at least ten of us choose to do so. With near one hundred people in this newsletter. all people i know. If ten of us do this we can have 120,000 word book made together by 2019 years end. That is a great project we all can be proud of and through our various platforms share the collective book, as a combined project.

      1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078WVQZ3C/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_5BAOAbYQMY34W

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    EXCERPT From NewsLetter Edition 12- message me if you want to join it

    1. A New Year Together- ...or sooner:) I am thinking we all can start 2019 by each having a 1,000 word monthly goal. I am thinking the two binder in all the stories can be the use of a tattoo side a present that must be described the same way in each story, everything else is your game. And no I am not thinking of the ray bradbury story but this may come out like that, email me back if you are interested. At the end of the month, I will make an epub for each of us and we can each promote it in our various platforms. In the epub i will provide the links or etc to each persons profiles or information online and the content is small enough for me to share to each of you through email. Reply to me if you are game.
    2. Fire & Blood- I am a fan of game of thrones or the work that inspired it, the accursed kings. This is another prequel concerning, the targaryen family, I will be reading
      1. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fire-blood-2
    3. two hearts- the sequel to the last unicorn is online
      1. http://www.peterbeagle.com/works/shorts/two_hearts.htm
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    Newsletter Edition 11 Excerpt, join the newsletter for more, send me your email in a private message

    • Green Scripts- as some of you know, I have two scripts I am working on and I admit, that I will publish them through my kobo if not accepted when i offer them. I realize that reading scripts or plays for many people is not the norm and most importantly, does not go along the reading conventions people have, but I like reading scripts. JK Rowlings as a well known writer is finally bringing light to scripts as valuable, the shame is that it took a popular writer to break through this artistic philosophy. Don't we read plays? why are scripts negatively thought of? I wonder your thoughts. ... to some of you who want my newsletter to be a better multilog, the reality is, artistic debate online is not for every person and is not something I think the email newsletter recipients are ready for. So for now, i have to take your responses individually. ... Remember to take a gander to my earlier newsletters or email me a reply to read UKahk or what was last- If you are interested in two scripts I already wrote, enjoy the following links, the article concerning the topic is immediately after
    • The Minotaur- La Machine has done it again, if you never saw their carousel, shame on you, stop wasting time online talking about trump and start finding the beautiful things online that have value. TO that end, i introduce THE MINOTAUR!!

     

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    Richard Murray Email Newsletter Edition 10 Excerpt

    • fiyah- The following is the guidelines for the first submission period in 2019 for fiyah, give it a go- Issue #10: Hair | Window open January 1, 2019 - January 31, 2019 ; If there is any one part of the black body that is targeted for obsession the most; it is our hair. Natural. Weave. Dye. Fade. High top. Dreadlocks. You name a style and a black person somewhere, somehow pulls it off with magical ease. But for every style we rock, there’s someone telling us that it isn’t professional, doesn’t look good, is acquiescing to colonialism or some other no good nonsense. This challenge is prevalent throughout our history and to the modern day. Tignon laws restricting how black women could present their hair were rooted in the jealousy white women had towards black hair because of the perceived lust it caused in white men. In the 70s, we saw the afro flourish as a symbol of revolution and a reclamation of pride still actively trying to be denied us today. How many schoolchildren have been summarily rejected for their hair? How many employees fired for it? Our hair and the majesty of it presents a danger to those who don’t have it. Look to Medusa as the first example of that fear. The gods couldn’t resist her beauty and she was punished for it (her hair obviously being a symbol for dreads). Funny that even the gods fear us. But not all stories about our hair need to be rooted in that. Send us stories where hair is loved, where it’s accepted and where it’s even worshipped. There are entire myths built around the mystery of our hair. Tap into them and create something that is an expression of love. Or let it be an expression of rage. Anger at a global culture that doesn’t allow you to dictate how you present yourself to the world. No emotion is invalid when looking at the blank canvas of the paper.And we hope as you write, you embrace more fully the gift that is your hair.
    • A dead djinn in cairo- Someone introduced me to this from the fiyah group. and I will share it here. I have not yet read it but I will later? if any of you take a gander, tell me your thoughts
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    My excerpt on an episode from the show independent lens , the cleaners

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/6mbhJsukfXiJusCRA

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/6mbhJsukfXiJusCRA

     

    *Independent lens, excerpt from the episode the cleaners*
    People truly underestimate how much negativity exist through the internet and how the answer can not be telling fiscal firms what to do, but creating alternatives that are functional. now in global fiscal capitalism, this is not easy to do, but....
    show webpage
    http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-cleaners/
    trailer
    http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/the-cleaners-trailer/

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    How Ann Gorman Became A Wife
    from the film Follow ME Quietly

    This film starts off with a woman standing in the rain, unknown reason. We discover she is a reporter, ambitious and has a lead on a story concerning a mass murderer.
    She is brushed off and then goes into the law enforcers home, hoping to regale him to give her the case. He accepts and then the next day when she tells him what she wrote he rejects it. She later meets him on the beat and then before she walks out of his like, he admits stronger feelings.
    Then she helps him in the case, and after talking the officer has a general locale. And then she is sitting in the diner side him, the case closed.
    All the while she has not actually done any reporting after confessing she need the money. And in the end, she is off to be married, to the rude cop. Dirty Harry Senior side Lois Lane


    the film stars Dorothy PAtrick/William Lundigan/JEff Corby
    lillie hayward wrote it
    robert de grasse photography
    The public video - I apologize for the bootleg camerawork style:)
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/yqnJu8x6QiRWWF137

     

     

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    My The MAgicians Submission is a monogram. A monogram is when letters are placed together in a shape. In my case, I did not use a strict european style and used a more arabesque style, not well defined like a tughra or as intricate as the Jeli Diwani, but having some aspect from the Jeli Diwani style. Can you interpret what the monogram say?
    Below I linked the submission , on deviantart, as well as a video to me creating a color pencil version, on google photos. I compared a colored pencil, graphite pencil, ink using felt tip pen and in the end, I chose the ink felt tip pen, which was nice, cause I wanted to do something ink based in October, for inktober, though to be fair, I have been primarily inking in submissions for a bit now.
    My scanner failed to create the result I liked, I needed quite a few adjustments to get it decent. But I will improve this process. :) I had fun.
    Submission
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Margot-and-Eliot-Monogram-770738822


    Video to me working on the colored pencil version- I could not video tape anymore while drawing. I will improve.
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/WpMPV2br839dvuTc8

     

     

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    My Email Newsletter Edition 5 came out, tell me your email and I will add you, here are some things from the recent edition , enjoy, create, have fun

     

     

     

    Thoughts?

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      Video of Concealed Carry Models, dominated by women from Vice

      https://photos.app.goo.gl/jbmupmx6H9SPE8rp6

      to see more, view the following link, not free, must have a cable/stream subscription
      https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/states-of-undress-packing-heat-in-heels/5925d4f08bd5c6e92027e5a1

      ...while talking about trump
      14-Year-Old Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Among the Worst in U.S. History

      https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/23/headlines/14_year_old_gulf_of_mexico_oil_spill_among_the_worst_in_us_history

       

       

       

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      Peola Edit - Immitation To Life 1934 video link https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygTE8oLvs651m3V86

       

      From a easy glance Delilah can be deemed the prototypical Black Mamme. But, if you listen clear to Delilah ,while her manners toward white people is never not :congenial; happy; thankful or similar tone, she never suggest her motherhood to Peola is in adoration to her being "so light" or "high skin"; but her adoration is to her daughter whom she incubated. Throughout the Peola edit Delilah constantly opposes suggestions from Beatrice Pullman that Peola need to live in her fantasy or hide from truth; while she also never suggest her motherhood is erroneous in loving but did apologize for exposing her.  
      Throughout the edit, Peola's inability to accept her background or contrast to her mom escalates: from childhood being called black or her passing failing, going to a high tone black folk negro school, to passing as a white female working in a store, to her passing ultimatum that crushed her mother heart; in the timeline, the relationship between blacks side whites is a constant unchanging factor, even though the story show no straight violence. Sequentially, Peola unaccepting stance has no communal or collective aid in a changing environment beyond herself or her mother; Delilah comprehend her only solution will be in herself, as she allude to peola father inability.
      In the end, the quantity from black people in Delilah funeral does not show a black woman who merely rejected owning 20% to a hit firm; but a black woman who clearly helped many more in the black community than suggested in any public way.
      I will say, the phrase from Peola, "I killed my own mother" , while common drama from the time is untrue. The environment killed your mother, through the death from peola father and then peola passing ultimatum. The environment in the u.s.a. made two people delilah love despise their person or feel unsettle constantly, leading to both killing themself in one way <father murdering himself through exhaustion or physical> or another <peopla rejecting her mother in public thus killing the existence to herself>.
      If anything the lesson in the Peola edit is how hopeful can a person be. Delilah hope/faith when alive was not enough to save her husband or her daughter. In death, her daughter had illumination or an epiphany. But how many will give their life to hope and simply not give up on hope like Delilah?
      your thoughts?

       

      Louise Beavers- Delilah <her last name is johnson but in the original credits no last name is given >
      Fredi Washington- Peola <age 19>
      Dorothy Black- Peola <age 9>
      Sebie Hendricks- Peola <age 4; she is not in the original credits>
      Claudette Colbert- Beatrice Pullman
      Rochelle Hudson- Jessie Pullman <age 18>
      Marilyn Knowlden- Jessie Pullman <age 8>
      Baby Jane- Jessie Pulman <age 3>

       

      Video Link
      https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygTE8oLvs651m3V86

      youtube link

      https://youtu.be/5CBsR7GMp-M

       

       

    • richardmurray

      Posted

      Song: Nonqonqo (To Those We Love) link https://photos.app.goo.gl/dKeXz3NEExQRWbgq7
      Singer: Letta Mbulu's side Choir 
      Writer: Miriam Makeba. 
      Film: A Warm December 
      Film Score writer/conductor: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 
      Thespian in scene: Esther Anderson side Sidney Poitier

       

      A Warm December is not a pure or honest Black Film, the writer was white. Like Black PAnther or Shaft, Black thespians or directors is not enough to be a true Black Film. Black people need to be producer/director/writer/thespians to make a true black film, sequentially many films do not fit that bill. But, in terms of interpretations to Black life in film, the loving between the lead couple in

       

      A Warm December is unique. 
      First, it is not fornicatively raw. The film show passion but not lust, and that is rare in imaginations concerning black lovers in film. The reason is not unknown. Only a people can describe their existence best.  The article linked immediately below list film the article author consider Black cinema. If Black Cinema is defined as Cinema where Black people are producers in essential/director(s) in majority/thespians in majority/writer(s) in majority what film in said list are valid? 
      https://blackinmotionpictures.tumblr.com/post/175078478469/the-top-10-highest-grossing-films-in-black-cinema
      The answer is : Girls Trip, Get Out from the top ten in that list. 
      I am not suggesting that Black thespians/writers/directors/producers are blockaded from working side non blacks, especially in modern USA. But, if a film is not dominated by any particular phenotypical group in creation then it is a statian film; no particular phenotypical label is warranted. ...Well, the lyrics to the song is below, enjoy and I hope if you have not seen the film you will. 

       

      Song Lyrics:

      Bahleli bonke etilongweni
      Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqo

      Bahleli bonke etilongweni
      Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqo

      Hee hee hee halala
      Hee hee hee halala

      Nanku nanku nanku sobukwe
      Nanku nanku etilongweni

      Nanku nanku nanku sobukwe
      Nanku nanku etilongweni

      Yini baba Luthuli
      A uzotheni uzotheni

      Nanku nanku nanku Mandela
      Nanku nanku etilongweni

      Nanku nanku nanku Sisulu
      Nanku nanku etilongweni

      Yini we maAfrica
      A uzotheni uzotheni

      Yini we maAfrica
      A uzotheni uzotheni

      Bahleli bonke etilongweni
      Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqo

      Bahleli bonke etilongweni
      Bahleli bonke kwaNongqongqo
       

      VIDEO 

      link

      https://photos.app.goo.gl/dKeXz3NEExQRWbgq7

      youtube link

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VJGq7z6mk&amp;feature=youtu.be

       

    • richardmurray

      Posted

      After reading the article defend integrated peaceful multiversity/multiculturalism as more successful in any government than monoverse or monocultural domination over other cultures? 

      The article make a great point. Many people in the usa speak the idea that peaceful integrated multicultures is positive, advantageous... but provide examples. Let us be honest, Every government in the American continent <usa/mexico/haiti/brazil> all started based on one culture or community. Whites in the usa/blancos in brasil/negroes in haiti/mestizoes in mexico. In history, the romans, british empire, japanese empire all were monocultural in creation or expansion. Countries like China or Kemet <egypt> in composition utilized multiculturalism but it was through war, whether Narmer or the Mad Matyr. The Mongols were started or expanded monoculturally, but after Temujin died, the pieces to the empire reflected the culture each had in it which each mongol leader accepted. 
      https://www.creators.com/read/pat-buchanan/09/18/the-unpardonable-heresy-of-tucker-carlson

       

    • richardmurray

      Posted

      Introducing the, Der Tchrumpfs. I have more stories and some examples. For those in my reading group I invited your opinion and I know some said you wanted crisper detail. But, beside that no words on the plot or jokes thus I unchanged them. #DerTchrumpfs 

      https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/der-tchrumpfs

      Nederlandse versie

      https://www.kobo.com/nl/nl/ebook/der-tchrumpfs-1

       

      Remember, my other short story collections, some more voluminous or polished than the Der Tchrumpfs is in other entries in my short story collection

    • richardmurray

      Posted

      In ode to Aretha Franklin I wanted to focus on her song writing. Listed below is the songs she wrote or her a member from her sanguine wrote on her various albums excluding the mention of the first album. I think it is telling she started having a gospel album and in the end has an album that is entitled a brand new me. 
      Taking a look at the covers to all her albums, like ella fitzgerald or sarah vaughan , or many other black songstresses whom white owned media did not and do not present youthfully. No shame exist in displaying one who has lived long beyond the common, but I find it too common in media to not show black female artists when young. 
      Which song is your favorite from the Written/Sung by Aretha Franklin?

       

      There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood" (William Cowper)
      was the first song on her solo album 
      Songs of Faith

       

      "Without the One You Love" (Aretha Franklin) 2:48
      The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin 1962 

       

      "I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) 3:16
      Laughing on the Outside 1963 

       

      "Without The One You Love" (Aretha Franklin) (3:34)
      Yeah!!! 1965 

       

      "Take It Like You Give It" (Aretha Franklin) – 1:50
      "Land of Dreams" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:12
      Take It Like You Give It 1967 

       

      "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream"    Aretha Franklin, Ted White
      "Baby Baby Baby"    Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin
      "Dr. Feelgood"    Aretha Franklin, Ted White
      "Save Me"    Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin, King Curtis
      I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967 

       

      "I'll Keep On Smiling" (Aretha Franklin)
      "Take a Look" (Aretha Franklin)
      Take a Look 1967

       

      "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) 2:25
      "Good to Me As I Am to You" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) 3:56
      Lady Soul 1968 

       

      "Think"    Aretha Franklin, Ted White
      Aretha Now 1968 

       

      "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" (Franklin, Teddy White)
      "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)" (Franklin, Teddy White)
      "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Franklin, Teddy White)
      Aretha in Paris 1968 Note: first live album 

       

      "Dr. Feelgood" (Franklin, Ted White) - 3:18
      "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Franklin, White) - 2:18
      "Think" (Franklin, White) - 2:15
      "Ain't No Way" (Carolyn Franklin, White) - 4:12 I added her sisters song
      Aretha's Gold 1969 greatest hits album 

       

      "Call Me" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:57
      This Girl's In Love With You 1970 

       

      "Pullin'"    Carolyn Franklin, Jimmy Radcliffe <her sister>
      "You and Me"    Aretha Franklin
      "Spirit in the Dark"    Aretha Franklin
      "One Way Ticket"    Aretha Franklin    2:52
      "Try Matty's"    Aretha Franklin    2:32
      Spirit in the Dark 1970 

       

      "Dr. Feelgood"    Aretha Franklin    7:06
      "Spirit in the Dark"    Aretha Franklin    5:33
      "Spirit in the Dark" (Reprise with Ray Charles)    Aretha Franklin    8:53
      Aretha Live at Fillmore West 1971 

       

      "Dr. Feelgood" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) - 3:18
      "Call Me" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:18
      Aretha's Greatest Hits 1971 

       

      "Day Dreaming"    Aretha Franklin    4:00
      "Rock Steady"    Franklin    3:15
      "All the King's Horses"    Franklin    3:56
      "First Snow in Kokomo"    Franklin    4:04
      Young, Gifted and Black 1972 

       

      "Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)" (Aretha Franklin)
      "So Swell When You're Well" (James Booker, Aretha Franklin)
      "Angel" (Carolyn Franklin, Sonny Sanders) her sister
      "Sister from Texas" (Aretha Franklin)
      "Just Right Tonight" (Aretha Franklin, Avery Parrish, Buddy Feyne, Quincy Jones, Robert Bruce)
      "Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)" (Aretha Franklin, Bernice Hart)
      Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) 1973 

       

      "Rock Steady" - 4:19 contains an alternate introduction exclusive to this compilation
      "Dr. Feelgood" - 3:18
      "Day Dreaming" - 3:49
      "Call Me" - 3:24
      The Best of Aretha Franklin 1973 quadraphonic sound 

       

      "Oh Baby" (Aretha Franklin)
      "If You Don't Think" (Aretha Franklin)
      Let Me in Your Life 1974 

       

      "Without Love" (Carolyn Franklin, Ivy Jo Hunter) her sister
      "With Everything I Feel in Me" (Aretha Franklin)
      "Sing It Again - Say It Again" (Carolyn Franklin) her sister 
      With Everything I Feel in Me 1974 

       

      "Mr. D.J. (5 for the D.J.)" (Aretha Franklin)
      "As Long As You Are There" (Carolyn Franklin) her sister 
      You 1975 

       

      "When I Think About You" (Aretha Franklin) 4:46
      "A Tender Touch" (Aretha Franklin) 3:58
      "Meadows of Springtime" (Aretha Franklin) 5:26
      "Mumbles / I've Got the Music in Me" (Clark Terry, Aretha Franklin, Bias Boshell) 3:40
      "Sweet Passion" (Aretha Franklin) 7:12
      Sweet Passion 1977 

       

      "I'm Your Speed" (Aretha Franklin, Glynn Turman) 3:40
      Almighty Fire 1978  second collaboration with curits mayfield, he wrote all other songs 

       

      "Ladies Only" (Aretha Franklin) – 5:15
      "Honey I Need Your Love" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:45
      "I Was Made for You" (Clarence Franklin) – 4:03 her son or brother 
      "Only Star" (Aretha Franklin) – 5:04
      La Diva 1979 

       

      "Together Again"    Franklin, Phil Perry, Chuck Jackson    3:34
      "Love Me Forever"    Franklin, Rev. Patrick Henderson, Kenny Moore    4:47
      "School Days"    Aretha Franklin    4:54
      Aretha 1980 

       

      "Without the One You Love" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:36
      "I Wonder Where Are You Tonight" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) - 3:15
      Aretha Sings the Blues 1980 

       

      "Whole Lot of Me*"    Aretha Franklin    3:23
      "Kind of Man*"    Aretha Franklin    4:19
      Love All the Hurt Away 1981 

       

      "I Wanna Make It Up to You" (Franklin)
      Jump to It 1982 

       

      "Giving In" (Clarence Franklin) – 4:38 her son or brother
      Get It Right 1983 

       

      "Who's Zoomin' Who"    Aretha Franklin, Preston Glass, Walden    4:44
      "Integrity"    Franklin    5:38
      Who's Zoomin' Who? 1985 

       

      "He'll Come Along"    Aretha Franklin
      Aretha 1986 

       

      "He's the Boy"    Aretha Franklin
      "Think (1989)[6]"    Aretha FranklinTed White 3:39
      Through the Storm 1989 

       

      "You Can't Take Me for Granted" (Aretha Franklin)
      "What Did You Give" (Aretha Franklin)
      What You See Is What You Sweat 1991 

       

      "The Woman" (Franklin)  – 7:41
      A Rose Is Still a Rose 1998 

       

      "So Damn Happy" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:29
      "You Are My Joy" (Franklin) - 2:34
      "You Are My Joy (Reprise)" (Franklin) - 2:33
      So Damn Happy 2003 

       

      "The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) – 5:43
      This Christmas, Aretha 2008 

       

      ? I was unable to find out the writers to these songs
      Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love 2011 

       

      "Think"    Aretha FranklinWhite
      "Angel"    Carolyn FranklinSonny Saunders
      A Brand New Me 2017 It ends with Respect from Otis Redding, not accidental to me, she really liked Redding, Cooke and those Southern Balladeers. 

       

      Also consider the Dinah Washington Album, I heard it, it is a true ode. Her Sparkle film soundtrack album is underrated for the timing of it side quality having all song written from curtis mayfield. Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics 2014 is another gem, showing how much she listened to other singers honestly.  
       

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