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  1. Segregations Heritage or Separation 101 
    The USA has always had a form of integration financially and never  implemented segregation financially, a complete cut off between various peoples in the usa financially: between women side men or blacks side whites or religious side the atheist or other? 
    Do you think a complete fiscal segregation movement is needed in the usa?

     

  2. A Week Before Foolishness  
    RMNewsletter 4th Version March 22nd 2026 
    https://open.substack.com/pub/rmnewsletter/p/a-week-before-foolishness?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
    #rmnewsletter #richardmurrayhumblr #rmaalbc #hddeviant #richardmurray #rmworkcalendar #rmcommunitycalendar #black337

     

    A Week Before Foolishness by Richard Murray

    RMNewsletter 4th Version March 22nd 2026

    Read on Substack

     

     

     

     

  3. @aka Contrarian Well from my assessment of history Douglass never left his black wife for his white mistress, whom if I am correct, killed herself...I checked, frederick douglass first wife died before he married his second wife. as for nat king cole, I knew he had cheated on his wife ,but I have never seen whom or any photos or anything. His wife I recall in some interview said he cheated and she went on tour in europe and came back and they continued their lives, he didn't have cancer when she came back but it started soon enough after. So in both cases, i wouldn't say as a male, they left their wives. Both men were always married to their black wives while having a white mistress.  

     

    @ProfD 

    yes, your correct, financial revenue, financial value for most , 99% , black folk in any industry in the usa historically is based on white dollars in the usa, always has been , i argue always will be based on the demographic reality. but financial revenue isn't respect or admiration. it is earned value labor something whites historically never want to give black people, and for the financial record, Nat King Cole was cheated money by whites. so earning money clearly doesn't yield respect or admiration, but if it is evenly done, it does pay the bills

  4. @aka Contrarian 

    is unforgettable your favrite nat king cole rendition?

    @ProfD 

    a certain level of respect and admiration, interesting words you chose to describe levels that didn't include respect or admiration to nat king cole in his life from his enemies. 

    again, the issue isn't about black enemies, it is about black people gardless of their personal talents who are willing to live peacefully to the non black , it is that simple. 

    St patrick's day passed and I do like the film michael collins . Him and a few others in irish leadership really led to the movement that made a part of ireland free from england after 700 years, but the key moment was when he realized that the freedom the irish wanted the happiness the irish wanted as a people, not individuals,  wasn't going to come through business ownership, marching, peitions, government engagement, they did all of that for centuries and it led to nothing. The only way ireland was going to be free, which is why irish in most of ireland today are truly free, is by killing english....

    Agan, James Forten to NAt King Cole to various black folk today, live their lives to happiness in spite of the communities oppression. That to me is what warrants respect or admiration that is what nonblacks don't respect or admire. being entertaining doesn't grant you respect or admiration from the bully. 

  5. March Equinox , GOOD NEWS CALENDAR
    Today is the beginning of spring in 2026, it happened about 10:06 am eastern standard time. The equinox is when day and night have equal time. This is as nights get shorter while days get longer in the northern hemisphere or days get shorter to nights get longer in the southern hemisphere to the June Solstice, which is the the longest day in the northern hemipshere or longest night in the southern hemisphere
    enjoy the stories

     

  6. @ProfD 

    contraception comes in many forms and the only free contraception i know of is abstinence, which has always existed, but again, if humanity abided by your stated action then humanity wouldn't exist today. A species murdering themselves is the most unnatural thing for any species to do. To rephrase, all children of earth procreate, trees make babies in trashheaps, fish make babies in dirty streams, birds make babies under toxic air. humans like all other children of earth make babies under all sorts of circumstances and are not irresponsible for failing as a parent. PArt of maturity of any living being is comprehending this anceint truth and to think opposite is foolish.

  7. @ProfD 

    21 hours ago, ProfD said:

    The late, great Nat King Cole was a real troubadour & excellent musician.  

     

    Colorism goes way back.  They did this to Nat King Cole for a TV appearance:

    I know, but I look at it another way. Black people like Nat King Cole, like Frederick Douglass, MLK jr, James Forten, Michelle side Barrack Obama have always existed in the usa or the white european colonies/dominions that proceded it. 

    Black people like Nat King Cole say to non blacks, non black dosers, that I will treat you with respect, with civility , even if you don't treat me the same. And not because I want to be humiliated or insulted or because I am weak, but because I treasure peace even amongst you... especially amongst you. I don't want to live my life fighting whites every day. That to me is what Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine (that whites treated sinfully) Nichelle Nichols (who suffered a lot of crow for the idea of Uhura who lives among the non black humans in the future:) far far future in peace, sorry non humans still a way to go for that) and other entertainers are saying. They fully know the Nat turners, the Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Quilombos are in the community, black people who don't trust the non black, don't want to live civilly among the nonblack, are willing to be armed and violent to uphold the way of life they want to have. But, Nat King Cole and other blacks like him, are willing to trust, live civilly with, willing to be unprotected around the non black, not naively or stupidly but with hope. 

     

    That is the real point. Frederick Douglass's composite nation speech isn't suggesting the enslaver becomes the friend easily or overnight or simply. The enslaver becomes the abuser, the abuser becomes the trickster, the trickster becomes the dour, the dour may one day become the kin, the kin becomes the ally, the ally becomes the friend, the friend becomes the lover.  Cause all awhile from enslaver to lover, the other was always the neighbor, no segregation ever existed, it was always integrated ,in various forms. So, if the black is to embrace civility living aside the non black in various forms, it is a process, part of that process is being told to where white face paint and giving in sometimes and not giving in other times.  

     

  8. @ProfD

    3 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Irresponsible is the more appropriate word for people bringing children into the world & unable to provide for & protect them. 

     

    well fiscally poor people are not irresponsible for bringing children in this world, the simple truth is some fiscally poor people never have the ability to raise their children, no matter how hard they try. 

     

    3 hours ago, ProfD said:

    There is no "don't warrant having children" philosophy or movement. 

     

    Maybe there isn't but I have doubts, too many black people I have heard offline speak of fiscally poor people, especially black people ... being irresponsible having children... One day when I get time I will research and find the source in the usa , cause most of the black people I can think of in the past who said the point in question,  were black church folk or old black money in the usa, black people who were rich from the 1800s , and the rest is trickling from either source.

  9. @ProfD

    14 hours ago, ProfD said:

    I would hope that all parents feel similarly & they would do whatever it took to keep their offspring from being hungry &/or homeless.😎

    all parents don't cause all parents are human, humanity means various positions not just one , and my parents never said they would do whatever it took, they spoke the truth, they tried their best. My parents never suggested parental success is some mandatory, the key is to try, but failure is an option, a failing parent doesn't mean a malintentioned one. again, my enslaved forebears who were born and died enslaved to some white person weren't malintentioned because they had children. Their descendents first not legally enslaved while in jim crow were not malintentioned by having children absent any financial opportunity.

    The one thing I don't know is where do black folk like you get the "don't warrant having children" philosophy from? I have read many things of black people in the 1800s, I don't recall any thing like that. The only people saying black people shouldn't have kids in the usa in the 1800s is whites who didn't want black people to have kids cause they dislike /hate/some negative black people. 

    Who was the earliest black leader to push the narrative you and quite a few other blacks I have heard offline or online say?

  10. @ProfD 

    1 minute ago, ProfD said:

    Would like be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

     

    did you mean to ask the following: 

    Would life be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

     

    1 minute ago, ProfD said:

    Fiscal poverty has always existed.  Many people have found a way out of it too.

     

    I apologize, I realized late, I meant to type, time is irrelevant. But, the question isn't the existence of the fiscal poor, the question is, based on your publicly stated position, that fiscal poor should not procreate. so if true, then no one fiscal poor throughout human history should procreate, which means you are definitely not born?

    5 minutes ago, ProfD said:

    If my forebearers had chosen not to procreate that would have been perfectly fine with me. 😁😎

     

    ahh :) I like my personal life. Always been loved, always been supported. and all by my own kin. I don't mind coming from the enslaved/fiscal poor/bereft of hope... I rather honor a set /a selection of my forebears. ... just to explain, like all DOSers i have some white european forebears, so I can't look to honor all my forebears. 

  11. @ProfD 

    35 minutes ago, ProfD said:

    Herein lies your issue.  It is with the system of racism white supremacy.  Please share your idea(s) of how to dismantle it.

     

    Well, I treat each government in humanity individually. China isn't the usa, the usa isn't nigeria,  nigeria isn't bolivia. governments have alliances or agreements but those ties can be changed or manipulated... I don't have an issue with any system in the usa because in my view, the usa is what it always was starting from european colonies and always will be, a country composed of various peoples who are dysfunctional as groups with nothing in common in an integrated chaos led by individuals continually funneled in by immigration from various peoples outside the usa who keep it afloat with their individuality in various arenas from government to finance. To rephase, a potent shithole of individuals. Benjamin Franklin who published join or die begged england to bend a little to keep the colonies in the english empire. Thomas Jefferson alone wrote the declaration while he and all of his peers in private showed total disbelief to everything he wrote. George Wahsington went against nearly all his peers and stepped down voluntarily. James Forten , a black man, was a business owner literally fighting aside white men who felt the 95% of black people enslaved to whites had to stay in that condition. All these show the actions of individuals. If Franklin acted as the group he was apart of he wouldn't had made the newspaper snake, if jefferson acted as the group he was apart of he would never had written the declaration as is, if washington acted as the group he was apart of he would had been kind, if forten acted as the group he was apart of he would have fought against the creation of the usa 100%. But, all of them are individuals. That is the usa system. Faux Community. And you see this consistently all the time in the usa. Individuals using groups , screwing over groups, lying about their intent being best for groups. 

    I only have one issue with the usa or its people and it is in the very declaration of independence, it is lies. I don't like liars , I never have, and I never try to lie. but the usa's individualism loves to lie, breeds liars all over, and that does get to me, admittedly. 

    Outside of that, i am merely speaking the truth to the usa. 

     

     

    57 minutes ago, ProfD said:

    Not sure of why you would hope that everyone in my family suffers misfortune. 

     

    However, I can assure you that being keenly aware of the ups & downs of life & ultimately human mortality, I've never been adversely affected emotionally by it including my own family members, friends & associates.  Such is a part of life.

    To answer why I said the following prior, I despise quoting myself, but ...  

    22 hours ago, richardmurray said:

    And for anyone who feels doctors have earned the right of mistake, well I want you to lose someone you love right now and then tell me how you feel. 

    in the following comment

    https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12584-do-you-believe-in-first-come-first-serve-in-hiring/#findComment-80731

     

    57 minutes ago, ProfD said:

    I'm not surprised.  it comes through in your posts.😎

    yes, even as a kid, and while I can tell personal events in my life or sad history before my life, if I am blunt, I just don't care for the USA. In my mind I think, it makes sense that some black descneded of enslaved will not like the usa in their blood. Absent proof, even spiritual proof, it makes sense a little bit. 

  12. @ProfD 

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Again, I'll restate some people need to stop procreating.

     

    They're not too lazy to stop f8cking but cannot afford their offspring. Makes zero sense. 

     

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    It is selfish for people to bring children into the world & not be able to provide shelter, food & clothing for them.

     

    Broke men & women should get themselves fixed. That way, they can f8ck from sun up to sun down & not have to worry about bringing someone else into poverty & homelessness.😎

    Yeah, black people been mostly, over 95%, fiscally poor their entire history in the usa or the european colonies that preceded, based on the logic you just used, ninety five percent of black people in 1865 should had never had a child. 

     

    Time is relevant, fiscal poverty doesn't have a time limit in being true so...

     

    you agree you shouldn't had been born, because if you are a black descended of enslaved, then your forebears fit the exact category of people whom you say should get themselves fixed.

     

    @admin

    16 hours ago, admin said:

    146,000, i’m surprised it’s not more. I would be willing to bet that it is. New York is Hard and unforgiving if you don’t have any money.

     

    I don’t know why people have children they can’t afford. it’s probably the programmed primal instinct to procreate. 

    i am 100% sure the real numbers are worse. ahhh NYC isn't hard and unforgiving, why do people in usa keep trying to soften the ineptitude of the country. NYC isn't hard and unforgiving, it simply is mismanaged in government while infested with charlatan cheater fiscal operators for hundreds of years, longer than the usa was in existence. 

    16 hours ago, admin said:

    Well, Richard is not that simple. If it was, I would’ve done it already.The calculus completely changed in an AI world. I’m now doing things that I would not have considered doing because it required effort, time, intellect and money that I did not have.

    please help me to comprehend.

    If the code is already present and placing the code in your server was easily doable, then you must have needed to add something to the code and placing it in the server is most convenient with modern computing power.

    If the code was not already present or the code being placed in wasn't easily doable, then modern computing power allowed you to generate the code needed or place it in the server satisfactory to whatever conventions. 

     

  13. @ProfD 

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Qualifications are determined & taught by subject matter experts in a given field.

     

    who or what determines who is a subject matter expert?  better questions... who does profd rely on to determine who is a subject matter expect? how does profd determine who is a subject matter expert?

     

    I will speak for myself and say, pieces of paper mean nothing to me in determining if someone is an expert

     

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Reads like your relatives didn't hire the *right* lawyers.

     

    let's jump beyond my relatives, all the black people in the usa who deal with tons of abuses, sometimes leading to death, daily, from law enforcers, from banks, from hospitals. I assume you feel the answer to these abusers is in the court room? So these abusers outside of being penalized after someone takes them to court or just free to continue?

     

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    any people &/or their families have won medical malpractice lawsuits.

     

    Doctors with a track record of failure lose their medical licenses. 

    not most people win medical malpractice lawsuits let alone as you asserted earlier, most people provide a lawsuit from this little unimportant thing to you called fiscal poverty.

    why does a track record have to occur? how many errors on a record warrant demeriting? Funny, when a black child steals an apple, black people have no mercy in claiming that child did a wrong above wrongs but a white man with a piece of paper, needs how many strikes before he is outcase as a doctor? what number is it exactly? Or is it a random number? 

    Gardless, most doctors with a track record of failure don't lose their license, and more importantly , in the usa at least, most doctors are allowed at least one failure which goes to my point. qualifications mean nothing when no penalty exist.

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    ll jurisdictions put a certain amount aside for civil litigation. 

    Are you suggesting the city of new york has a surplus of cash left from its reservoir of losing lawsuit money. You do realize what your saying? I hope you do. 

    Your telling me NYC had 1.5 billion dollars prepared for 2024 for civil litigation, who gave them this money? the federal government has never done anything like that. NYC gets money from new york state which it has to beg for every year, without new york state money new york city is collapsed with no question. Your telling me NY state gave ny city 1.5 billion dollars in preparation:) come on! but ok, if that is your position, just give me a yes or no and be gone

    https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/city-paid-1-45b-in-settlements-last-fiscal-year-nyc-comptroller-finds-in-fy-2023-claims-report/

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Some law enforcement officers have been stripped of their badges or fired or imprisoned for committing crimes. 

     

    not most, this goes back to the jim crow era, the black populace in the usa from 1865 to 1980 had millions of cases that never went to court based on white terrorism. Millions of cases. I am 100% certain less than one percent of the law enforcers who abused black people at any given year from 1865 to 2026, any year, not one percent of the combined years, less than one percent of any given year.  And I extend that to all fiedls. to restate, less than one percent of the incidents of law enforcers who serve white no matter their phenotype, doctors who serve white no matter their phenotype, white owned firms  abusing/terrorizing/harming black people were taken to court in any given year from 1865 to 2026. So then from the less than one percent of court cases that even were started by black people against their white abusers in whatever form,  then you have the rate of success of court cases which means ten percent of cases had success. Cause white law enforcement/ white medical services /white fiscal firms usually win ninety percent of the time. So, ten percent of less than one percent which is VALUE: 

    if WhiteTerror ~ to millions of incidents of terror by white to blacks per year

    VLAUE= (WhiteTerror/.99/10)

    Your correct, it is some, the question then is, to any black person, is that some something you respect or view positively or not. I view it as feces, you view it as something to be noted. ok, even enough

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Failure of banking systems is a function of greed fueled by risky & bad investments.

     

    The qualified people know exactly what they're doing even if it means running a business into the ground. 

    A logic people like you keep saying makes no sense to people like me, you keep touting greed as a negative element in fiscal capitalsim, when by default greed is inherent. 

    Greed has nothing to do with it. The fiscally successful business is greedy. The fiscally ruinous business is greedy. It is quality and the point is, a failing business is not a sign of positive quality. 

    By your words, a firm failing or succeeding is not a measure of quality. Because someone you deem qualified no matter what results you can't delete your deeming, cause you consider the results of their actions  never warranting declassficiation or dequalification. 

    That is dysfunctional to me, but ok. 

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Experience & track record among other factors separates the amateurs & pros.

    Are you saying that those you label amateur are not qualified and those you label pros are qualified? the issue here is qualification . You have now added two terms that in my mind have nothing to do with qualification. 

    19 hours ago, ProfD said:

    There are penalties for failure.  We don't always hear about it.

     

    Qualifications do not equal perfection. Humans are flawed. They will make mistakes too.

     

    However, I believe legitimate doctors save more lives than they lose.😎

    I don't know everything that happens in humanity, your right. I can only guess everything that happens in humanity. But I can tell you from all that I have heard, less than one percent of those deemed qualified gets penalty for harming black people in the usa. 

    I promised the following beforehand , I hope everyone in your family get sick in hospitals, hurt by law enforcement and cheated by firms and then tell me about mistakes. 

     

    That is third term you have added, to me,  legitimate/amateur/pros are unrelated terms to qualified or qualification. Legitimate means of the law. The law can't qualify anything outside the law. Quality is a measure of oneself. A law's quality is in the law itself, its results. A doctors quality is in the doctors results. a law enforcers quality is in how they enforce the law. a fiscal firms quality is in their ability to make money/fiscus. Amateur/lover + professional/pros/one who does a thing are misused words in modernity that have nothing to do with their literal intent, it is another linguistic statianism. But one deemed an amateur in modernity is differenced by one deemed a professional in modernity by revenue to labor or scale to profit. 

     

    But as for the gathering of doctors in the usa, do I think they heal[not just save lives] more than they harm[not just murder]? that is a great question you pose. sadfully, I don't know.  I can't give a weight to either side. I know doctors in the usa have harmed and are harming, while also healed and are healing.  Belief in this case will require me to give benefit of doubt to the usa or its people and i never have and never will, the majority of people in the usa will always be scum for me. 

  14. @Troy 

    8 hours ago, Troy said:

    I literarily brought it back yesterday.  It was down for several years, but as I'm revamping the site I'm bringing back features that I abandoned -- even if a few people will use and benefit from it.  It took me all of 5 minutes to bring it back.  AI made this possible.

     

    When you say AI made this possible, what do you mean? 

    Didn't you have the code? why was AI needed? I imagine all you needed to do was load the frontal code into an aalbc page post and return the backcode onto the server, godaddy. 

    8 hours ago, Troy said:

    AI is reminiscent of the early days of the web.  This time around fewer people will take advantage of it and the benefit to individuals will not be very long.

    well, we will see what happens. You offer the question. What advantages does modern computing power you plus others label artificial intelligence offer? Are any fiscal? 

    NYC just finally admitted a quarter of its populace is hungry, circa two million and five hundred thousand people are hungry. Don't tell me they all are lazy. The internet whom you say more took advantage of, at the end of the day has three primary industries: sex/retail shopping/influencers , not all people can offer sex or have anything to sell or wish to evangelize themselves enough to be sponsored. 

     

    https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/11/1-8-nyc-public-school-kids-was-homeless-last-school-year/401093/

    November 18, 2024

    The number of students who experienced homelessness in New York City last school year could fill Yankee Stadium nearly three times over. That’s according to a new report [ https://advocatesforchildren.org/policy-resource/student-homelessness-data-2024/ ] released Monday from Advocates for Children of New York, which found over 146,000 public school children – or 1 in every 8 – didn’t have a permanent place to call home during the 2022-2023 school year.

    Of the over 146,000 students impacted last year, 41% spent time living in city shelters, 54% were doubled up with other families, and 5% were unsheltered or living in cars or hotels, according to the nonprofit’s annual report on New York State Education Department records. That’s a 23% increase from the 2022-2023 school year, spurred in large part by an uptick of students living in shelters.

    https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/special-reports/in-the-dark-new-yorks-child-welfare-deaths

    26% 

     https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/nyc-spent-roughly-81k-per-person-on-homeless-services-last-year-comptroller/

  15. @ProfD 

    18 hours ago, ProfD said:

    I would prefer that a brain surgeon be *qualified* to perform that work.

     

    Nobody wants their head cut open & brain exposed by someone who watched a few Youtube videos & think they got it.🤣😎

     

    I would prefer too, all would and will prefer, but the question is what determines qualification? the key is the question of how is qualifications determined?

    When relatives of mine have been malpracticed on by doctors, what was the penalty to said doctors, who are supposedly qualified because of pieces of paper from columbia and MIT and Johns Hopkins? the answer is nothing. So,  your correct, all people want the best healthcare BUT what determines the person who is the best? pieces of paper. 

    Again, the united states of america is a case study on the lack of quality. 

    The Newspapers reporters or owners are clearly lacking in quality because

    Hospitals have daily malpractice suits, from supposed qualified folk , supposedly trained to be the best doctors 

    Law Enforcement agencies have mounds of domestic violence or domestic abuse claims unattended from supposedly qualified folk, supposedly trained to be the best law enforcers.

    Billion Dollar firms in the usa continually are bankrupt and need saving administered by supposedly qualified folk, supposedly trained to be the best business operators or lawyers.

     

    The Newspapers will put on page one when a black child steals an apple or a black adult holds a knife.

    But medical malpractice in the united states of america has always been rampant, and always protected from negative public opinion by media. And medical malpractice occurs from those supposedly qualified so... where is their demerit? how are they then unqualified? Don't tell me a doctor that has medical malpractice is still qualified. And for anyone who feels doctors have earned the right of mistake, well I want you to lose someone you love right now and then tell me how you feel. 

    Law Enforcement costs the usa billions in civil court because of law enforcers committing crimes. PEople talk about city budget but the NYPD has cost NYC since the 1970s billions of dollars in civil court. And, lets not go into the fact that the NYPD alone has a much longer history of criminal activity that it was completely protected from. So , do their badges burn when their fail in quality? How do they remain qualified ? 

    When the entire banking industry went bankrupt in the united states of america filled with massachusetts of institute of technology graduates, doesn't that mean MIT's teaching qualifications or Goldman Sach's and simila firms accounting qualifications are proven false? Don't tell me it was their plan to go bankrupt and beg for money worse than any black woman on welfare ever did, or as well as white women on welfare have. 

     

    Yes, people learning online may be no better as doctors or law enforcers or corporate executive officers but if they are learning from what is given in a short time, how is that worse than people supposedly trained to be the best whom have already shown a lack of quality and lost any admission of qualification if honest? 

     

    I don't sense penalty in the usa for those who are supposedly qualified to do anything, whether it is failing elected officials, failing corporate executive officers, failing doctors , failing law enforcers all of whom are plenty in modern day , 2026 , usa. 

     

    So maybe first come first serve as a penalty for proving oneself unqualified is the answer.

     

     

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