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That is why i asked, I searched all the awards on the award page, none of them are remotely old, all are from the 1970s are later. if you find out it is a hoax, please tell me, i will write a retraction The oldest institutions post war between the states are the black protestant churches + HBCU's and in the black church's case, trophies or awards for writing are discouraged as they lack the christian humility, and then for the HBCU's most started by white churches or with black church folk, the diploma is the award.. hmmmm I checked the hbcu list and nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historically_black_colleges_and_universities

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book link https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/black-caesars-and-foxy-cleopatras TRANSCRIPT 0:00 [Music] 0:25 good evening my name is Susan Spurlock I'm the executive director of Ford Hall 0:31 Forum at suffk University and I'd like to welcome you to this evening's program 0:37 both for those of he here at suffk University and those who are watching the program on YouTube which has been 0:44 live streamed by gbh Forum Network I'm delighted to welcome you to an evening 0:50 with OD Henderson the chief film critic for the Boston Globe upon the 0:55 publication of his book Black Caesars and fox 1:00 cleopatras the history of black exploitation Cinema black Caesars is a spirited 1:08 history and definitive account of black exploitation Cinema the freewheeling 1:14 often Shameless and wildly influential genre from a distinctive voice in film 1:22 history and criticism OD grew up watching black exploitation films which he loved 1:30 without irony but with plenty of self-awareness and humor black exploitation was a major 1:38 Trend but it was never simple the films mix self-empowerment with 1:45 exploitation base stereotypes stereotypes with essential 1:50 representation that spoke to the lives of black 1:56 people and the fantasies of black viewers the time is right for a 2:03 reappraisal understanding these films in the context of the time and exploring their lasting influence and OD knew that 2:11 the time is right the time is tonight to our YouTube audience welcome 2:18 we are so happy that you are joining us we look forward to you joining the 2:23 conversation and putting your comments and questions in the chat which is been 2:28 monitored and we would love to get to your questions and comments uh when we get to that point um in the program I'd 2:36 like to uh recognize the evening's co-sponsors suffk University's uh 2:42 communication journalism and media Department our office of diversity access and inclusion our Student Center 2:50 for diversity and inclusion suffk University's black Alumni network gbh 2:57 Forum Network and I'm very proud to say that this is a program of suffk University's Ram inclusion week which is 3:04 a series of programs taking place all this week in honor of Black History 3:10 Month I'd like to thank the LOL Institute for their generous funding which makes programs like uh this 3:16 evening's possible the evening's moderator is Candace McDuffy who is a nationally 3:23 acclaimed senior writer at the root who focuses on the intersection of race 3:29 gender and entertainment her work has been featured on digital platforms such as Rolling 3:36 Stone MTV Forbes paper spin 3:43 Newsweek Entertainment Weekly glamour Vibe title Marie Claire Essence the 3:52 Boston Globe NPR I can go on and on um and Candace is also the author of 3:59 of a highly acclaimed book 50 rappers who changed the 4:04 world it is now my pleasure to introduce our esteemed guest who's 4:11 joining us in the Fort Hall Forum Podium this evening Odie Henderson 4:18 [Music] 4:25 Odie thank you um I'm going to read a couple of a brief sele from the 4:30 book uh let's see how this 4:36 goes some may ask why this book is being why this book is giving what many 4:42 consider a disreputable uh series of films the 4:48 spotlight indeed black sploitation did at times depict unsavory or stereotypical portrayals of black people 4:54 sometimes crossing the line of what was acceptable yeah looking at these films 4:59 with contemporary eyes requires adjusting one's mindset to engage with them in the context of the time in which 5:05 they were made however that does not mean that once's outrage is unwarranted 5:11 if it is still the outcome just keep in mind that said outrage is not a new 5:18 phenomenon as early as September 20th 1972 a mere month after the release of 5:24 Superfly the Associated Press ran an article entitled cores Hollywood to end 5:30 black exploitation movies core the Congress of racial equality is represented in the AP 5:37 article by its chairman Roy Enis at a press conference he demanded that Hollywood should not release any black 5:43 movies unless they had the core seal of approval core will take any action to 5:49 stop these films from being produced and is said at a press conference as Paramount Pictures found out at a 5:55 screening of konkin these actions included violence keep in mind this 6:01 article ran before coffee the Mac Foxy Brown and many other well-known black station films have been released let 6:07 alone made the article cited comeback Charleston Blue and shaft two of the tamest instances of black exploitation 6:15 hell Charleston Blu rated PG inis did mention Superfly as a 6:20 catalyst which makes sense as that's the film that the term black mutation was coined for but more credibly he would 6:28 have uh come sorry but more credibility would have come from a mention of the 6:33 legend of nword Charlie which opened in March of 1972 and had that slur in its 6:38 title we are sick and tired of these bad films being made said Andis destroying 6:43 the black image and producing the wrong kind of symbol for black youth but even his outrage wasn't new 6:51 black intellectualist had taken sweet sweetback's badass song Behind The Woodshed the year before there's no 6:56 mention of that movie in the AP article instead said the reporter listed the command the demands core was attempting 7:02 to impose on Hollywood in said these demands were not censorship but they damn well sounded like it in fact core 7:10 was attempting to do the Hollywood what the Hayes cod had done 40 years prior core wanted a Studios to submit all 7:16 scripts involving black characters to their board which had the right to reject them outright and forc changes to 7:23 be made or films not to be made Court also wanted to pre-edit any movie before it came out just in case something got 7:30 through that they missed not even the hay codes Chief sensor Joe Breen had the 7:35 ability to edit a movie that was already made so inis was clearly Chasing Rainbows here by 7:42 itself core would not have made much of a difference but Junius Griffin the soon to be fired head of the Hollywood 7:49 Beverly Hills NAACP yes Beverly Hills had an NAACP and the corer of black 7:56 exploitation was also on board with stopping these fils from being made he complained that kids should not see 8:01 these films but he made no mention that perhaps this was a parental responsibility not Hollywoods 8:08 additionally Reverend Jesse Jackson said that these movies were a major Target of his push initiative as well these forces 8:15 came together to form the Coalition against black exploitation we want to show the movie 8:20 industry how to make class a black film said inis a man with zero filmmaking 8:26 knowledge whatsoever the one good idea he did have was for a portion of successful black movies profits to go 8:32 toward scholarships for teaching black people how to make films this would have certainly made a difference and allowed 8:38 some form of balancing skilles to occur shockingly Hollywood didn't tell these 8:43 folks to kiss its white ass smacking the crack in November 1972 another AP 8:49 article appeared this one with the title minority groups to screen films his per 8:54 first paragraph read at least at least 10% of the 9:00 audience of all feature film screenings at Major motion picture studios will be minority group members who offer 9:06 criticism of the movies relevancy and credibility the Coalition against black rotation now known as the cab would 9:14 attend all screenings not just of Black theme films and rate them on a 1,00 9:20 point scale the Studios have never allowed themselves to be censored the spokesperson for the cab erroneously 9:26 stated see the haast code for that all we want is to give recommendations to be 9:31 heard the article further stated that talks between the studios and the cab were ongoing with more concessions 9:38 possibly granted both sides agreed there was no way in hell anybody but the studio where the filmmakers is going to 9:44 edit a movie protesting movies was still an option however in response to the 9:50 Cab's demands white film critic Steven Farber wrote a February 1973 article in 9:55 film comic magazine called censorship in California while he agreed that the Civic groups have the right to protest 10:02 the fact that these movies employ so few blacks behind the camera he expressed concern about what the cab considered 10:09 respectable he was no fan of the film innocent company kept holding up Marty Ritz Sounder calling it sanctimonious 10:18 and reminding the readers that unlike Superfly Melinda shf Sweetback or Charleston Blue sounded wasn't directed 10:25 by a black guy it was however written by the black guy wrote Melinda leld theii 10:31 far furly further stresses according to the protest groups the fact that black audiences flock to 10:38 shaft And Superfly is only a symptom of racial oppression in other words black audiences didn't know it was really good 10:44 for them the determination of moralities black or white should never be 10:50 underestimated personally this author agrees with farbor on that point the respectability Negroes who tell blacks 10:57 they need to act in the way to approve they approve and to be accepted 11:02 by the majority are a major thorn in my side so many images and black exportation are scandalous but the cab 11:09 and other more recent people like proven hypocrite Bill Cosby lecturing and 11:16 guilting black people into their version of Conformity is more offensive than any image on the screen plus it's not like 11:23 today where everything under the sun is available at the fingertips of those who probably shouldn't have access to it due 11:29 to their age in the blast ration era one had to either physically go to a theater 11:34 or wait until the movie showed up on TV in a Cho the bits format the cab gave no 11:40 responsibility to parents in terms of policing the habits of their kids it's the same old argument who protect the 11:46 children that shouldn't be a movie's job this author was too young to 11:52 remember anything about the cab growing up but he does remember two talk show appearances by the late Roy inis that 11:58 ended violently in the first in his knocked over Reverend Al Sharpton on repugnant talk show host Martin dowy 12:05 Jr's show in the second he contributed to the near Riot that resulted in 12:10 Heraldo rera getting his nose broken by a chair on his equally repugnant talk show in both of those instances in 12:17 looked like black space Asian character so much for respectability you can't 12:23 beat him join [Music] them there's 12:30 me while that's up there let me read you 12:35 this every genre has it Citizen Cane that is the greatest movie in its Cannon 12:41 Superfly fits the bill for black exploitation it screenplay by Philip Fenty is tightly constructed with 12:47 Hustler characters breathing life into that one final score Trope commun commonly found in heist movies it is 12:54 very well acted with few exceptions the reviews are better than most of the films that preceded and succeeded it the 13:01 soundtrack became a best-selling classic soul album and his fashion sense inspired by Nate ad Adams costume 13:08 choices and the actor's own closets started a trend so widespread that 13:13 influenced this book's author's mother who dressed him in a rust color Superfly coat and hat Ensemble when he was 3 13:19 years old he looked 13:25 fabulous one final thing 13:32 so when did black exploitation officially begin there are several possible answers to that question as 13:38 we'll soon see the term itself was coined after Superfly by Junius Griffin the head of the NAACP in Los Angeles but 13:45 was used to describe the entire set of movies released by that point this is well before many blast ration movies 13:51 have been released the era had yet to produce Pam gria tetrology or any of the films featuring the trio of machismo 13:58 known as Brown Williamson Kelly Black Hill hadn't even bitten anybody yet the 14:03 Mac hadn't unleashed the power of the player's ball nor had Dolomite uttered one wrong that leaves a few options 14:12 since sha the shaft marked the entry point what about sweet sweetback's badass song Love van pee had a fit every 14:19 time anyone referred to his film as quote a blast rotation move end quote technically he's correct for if we were 14:26 to operate solely on Logistics utation did not exist until Junius Griffith coined it in 14:32 1972 that's far from a satisfactory or definitive answer arguments abound for 14:38 the true heir of black station's origin story I think the better question to ask is what was the film that most influen 14:45 black exploitation shaft and cotton comes to Harlem set the standards for cops detectives in the genre coughing 14:51 and clear Patrick Jones uh ushered in the era of badass black heroins bucking 14:57 the preacher expanded the market for black westerns that would fall under the 15:02 black station Banner but many of the films that came in the latter half of the era tried to emulate the grit and 15:08 salaciousness of sweet sweetback's badass song while I believe that van pee's movie is the era's most 15:14 influential film I'd like to make the case that the blueprint for black ration was drawn three years earlier by uptight 15:21 Jules daon and Ruby D's 1968 take on Liam M fl's novel The 15:27 Informer in the black station documentary is that black enough for you director Elvis Mitchell makes a brief 15:33 reference to the film uptight the the brief reference that ties uptight to the black station era 15:39 which made me even more confident in my own theorizing the film features so many of the elements that are associated with 15:45 black exploitation and it does some of them better than the films that succeeded it the script by daon D and 15:51 her co-star Julian Mayfield handled a black militant angle with a rare similitude I can never say that word 15:58 unmatched by any film before or since Mayfield and future black vitation Legends Ramy St Jack and Max Julian play 16:05 this plotline with such realism that the viewer can feel the tension anger and the violence boiling over on screen upus 16:13 other ingredients at the black station Cannon for starters the scor is by Booker T Jones who plays it with his 16:19 band the MGs though it's not the first score by a black composer the work of Quincy Jones and Duke Ellington preceded 16:26 it is the first one to lean into the traing of Soul music Booker T and the MGs were were 16:32 artists on Stacks the same label that employed Chef's composer Isaac Hayes the 16:38 soundtrack's well most well-known composition time is tight is a play on the film's titular adjective in a rare 16:45 vocal performance Jones sings the film's hauntingly beautiful theme song Johnny I love you over John and Faith hu's 16:51 animated opening credits amid their images the hu pay homage to photos by Gordon Parks we've got a soul song over 16:59 a funky opening credits add to that the location of uptight Cleveland Ohio one 17:04 of the northern cities to have a quote Hood in this case it's called the Huff as Harlem Detroit Chicago and Oakland 17:12 would be in Black rotation films the Huff is another character in this film it's in the scene of BR police brutality 17:18 and uprisings and serves as the final resting place for more than one of the film's protagonists D and shot on location this 17:26 is aie Davis the D for comes to Har in keeping with the source material 1935 17:32 is the Informer which when directed John Ford's first Oscar uh uptight as two 17:37 characters coincidentally mirror the types of heroes normally found in Black spit there's tank Mayfield the 17:45 conflicted man pulled into a situation he needs to overcome to get out of the game and there's Johnny Julian his 17:51 militant best friend and the subject of Johnny I love you a man of action willing to use violence to achieve his 17:58 goal yet it still has a soft spot for his mother Julian will play A variation on both of these tropes in the mac and 18:05 his mother in that film and this one is paid by why I need a more there's even a white sidekick SL Ally and uptight 18:12 though this film handles him quite differently than black sploitation films would do later here he's the lawyer and 18:18 friend of BG St Jack and one of his best performances revolutionaries group's leader once Johnny returns to oops 18:26 telling my time's up but almost done once Johnny returns to town and the 18:33 group starts planning more acts of Disobedience B dismisses the white guy effectively kicking him out of the 18:38 picture thank you for your service he basically says but it's Black Folk Business now let's that forget there's 18:44 Lori a main squeeze for tank played by D unlike many Blas vitation women before 18:50 Pam Greer her role is more than just a side piece she and John are the only characters tank ever loved and when he 18:57 becomes an inform for the police against BG's group The Fallout from his betrayal reverberates through their face their 19:03 Fates there's also a scene recreated more comically in 1974 as Claudine where 19:09 Lori is confronted by her welfare worker at home Rosy Brown the soon to be ly Byron Jones at liberation of lbby Jones 19:16 plays Daisy a self-proclaimed n-word and F-word though the film throws these 19:21 slurs around Daisy has given more agency than most homosexual characters of the era Brown's flamboyance is not a done 19:28 it's quite convincing as a specific type of gay man however he's still villainous 19:34 and ultimately weak willed something that would characterize several gay characters in Black spectation the one 19:40 thing that uptight truly has over the black station films I believe in influenc was his sense of urgency and 19:45 his Unapologetic black rage made just a few months after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr the film uses that 19:53 event as the backdrop for its plot dason opens the film with several minutes of new new real footage of Dr King's 19:59 funeral and procession his voice is heard in speeches as shots of the Huff appear the character of tank can't 20:05 perform the task BG and Johnny wanted to do because he's gotten drunk over MLK's 20:10 death with the Watts Uprising and other more recent rebellions freshen the minds of the audience and the filmmakers 20:17 uptight is able to convey that time in history when the wounds are still fresh even sweet sweetback's badass song the 20:25 film that comes closest to that level of rage is working from more of a distance which makes the film feel less raw than 20:31 it does in D this movie regardless it's worth contemplating whether uptight is 20:36 truly the first black expectation film or merely the genre's first and most important 20:46 [Applause] architect thank you thank you very much 20:52 OD um please have a seat uh Candace will you join us um here here yeah and while 20:59 Candace is approaching um I want to OD I I love your sense of humor you are 21:06 hilarious you are brilliant thank you you are shy I've gotten to I'm a nervous 21:12 wreck don't be nervous um I've gotten to know OD a little bit uh during the time 21:17 we've been preparing for this program it's been a a true pleasure um and it's also been a pleasure reading the book uh 21:24 OD provided Advanced copies of the book to both Candace and me before was published in late January um it's a 21:31 beautiful book um and thank you so much for writing this important book Thank 21:36 you and we have copies of the book available for sale and there'll be a book signing after this evening's 21:42 program so I'm going to turn it over to you Candace congratulations on the book um I 21:49 had the privilege of reading it uh as Susan said and it is so rich with detail 21:55 and such historical knowledge um um one of the lines that stood out to me in the book was you said that black 22:01 exploitation was in my blood growing up um and we can clearly see it here and the outfit you know what I'm saying got 22:07 the r jacket on channeling your superfly I'm three years old in that 22:12 picture can you talk about the impact black exploitation had on you um growing 22:18 up so I I was one of six kids of that little era generation they were three 22:24 boys and three girls I was the fourth one um and my older cousins female 22:30 cousins would go to see Foxy Brown oh Pam Greer movies and they would take us 22:36 sometimes we weren't supposed to go to these movies I'm clearly too young to see Foxy Brown but they would feel they 22:42 would come out of the theater they want to play Pam Greer but they wanted to act like Pam Greer and it was a Sensi of 22:47 empowerment in that and I saw them and I saw the power they felt from Pam Greer 22:53 being the hero of a movie for Star artist and also justest that she was just such a badass for me it wasn't just 22:59 Pam Greer My First Crush but it was also Jim Kelly I saw a double feature of into 23:05 the dragon and U Black Belt Jones so this is around the same time I remember which one I saw first but Jim Kelly and 23:11 his enormous afro I mean just like the power behind and he was doing martial arts and he and Bruce Lee were kicking 23:18 behind and I was jealous of his afro because mine always looked bad and I 23:23 just felt like I was a be a kid that got beat up every day uh I learned how to 23:28 fight back and watching these movies made me feel like a sense of power that I could be like Jim Kelly I could be 23:35 like Jim Kelly and then I'm going go outside and the bully just still who my behind but that sense of power I I saw 23:40 that I didn't see that on television because there were no black empowered people in fact The Jeffersons the first 23:48 time I saw a black person I wanted to be on television because George was rich he was a you know a bigot and all that but 23:55 he was rich and so I saw that I didn't want to be you know JJ I mean that was my 24:00 [Music] existence when we talk about representation in terms of black exploitation it kind of ju deposes what 24:07 we see black people portrayed as um historically From Slavery to Jim Crow to 24:12 reconstruction we have these stereotypes that are very dehumanizing yes um so can you talk about how that racism trickled 24:20 down to Hollywood how black exploitation fought against it well keep in mind that 24:26 before Sydney he came on a scene 1950 in a movie called No Way Out which I highly 24:31 recommend it's a Noir it's I've never seen him more Angry in a movie that he 24:37 didn't direct uh and it was his first film before that you had mamy you had 24:42 what what Donald ble called Tom's Coons mad mamies and Bucks the stereotypes of black people you saw in films you had 24:49 Willie best you had you know man Mor and these other people and then Sydney came along and he brought some nobility to it 24:55 but then they just kept he couldn't do many things he couldn't play Denzel's character in Training Day because he was 25:02 basically representing all of us until 1972 buck in the preacher so with these 25:08 movies blast movies the thing that I think started making people enjoy them 25:14 was that as melv man people was pointed outet seatback no one thought his character was going to survive till the 25:20 end of the movie because if you were rebellious even Sydney you died you 25:25 never got away with any kind of crime or you never got it one over on the man and so these movies presented that they also 25:32 presented the neighborhood as I said aie Davis shot K comes to Harlem in Harlem and that was one of the first times you 25:37 saw Harlem on the screen in all its beauty and all its you know this repair but if you lived in Harlem or if you 25:44 lived in a hood like I did that wasn't too far from Harlem um you saw that on the screen and you felt seen you felt 25:51 represented you know there were drug dealers in my neighborhood there were pimps in my neighborhood there were sex 25:57 workers in my neighborhood they also were cops like coffinet and Gravedigger Jones in my neighborhood and nurses like 26:03 coffee and people who wanted to just make a living a black living but you never got to see that and so these 26:09 movies for better and For Worse put that on the screen and you know representation is power even if 26:14 sometimes is it's a double-edged sword so going to the movie as a little boy and seeing my neighborhood on the 26:21 screen was in an incredible feeling to a kid well exploitation um came right 26:28 after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and also Incorporated the Black Power movement and these themes of black 26:34 socioeconomic struggle um can you talk about whether it's from cotton Crums to 26:40 Harlem or Shaft or Superfly what makes these movies classic black exploitation 26:46 films well shaft shaft Coming Out of Time Square at the beginning of the movie It's kind of the epitome of the 26:53 attitude of black vitation you have a cool theme song you have a sve hero 26:58 coming out of the The Vines as they called them in the 70s their clothes his attitude walking down the street the 27:04 fact that he is the hero of the film the smartest person you know a bad mother shut your mouth in the movie they tell 27:09 you in the opening credits that you were not going to see you know a downtrodden brother mhm and that played on once that 27:17 happened you couldn't you really couldn't knock off a black character 27:23 Black Caesar famously since it was remake of Little Caesar Larry Cohen had Fred Williams's character killed at the 27:29 end because that's what happens at the end of L Caesar and the audience rebelled so much that Larry Cohen 27:35 literally went into the projection booth and cut the ending off the movie so whenever it went to every other place in 27:40 the world after its Premiere Fred Williams's character didn't die you couldn't kill these characters anymore 27:46 because you know black people always the the sacrificial lamb Dirty Harry you know do you feel lucky punk he's poting 27:51 the gun in a black person you know that's a far cry from Pam Greer pulling the gun out of her afro and shooting 27:56 somebody very far you know very very far and I think what what uptight does right 28:02 and what a lot of these black tiue movies does does do right is the militant aspect of it you know shafia Ben Buford and his militant little group 28:09 they didn't really want to say the Black Panthers unless you have something like the Mac which actually had the Black Panther involvement you got kind of a 28:15 watered down version of militancy but at least it was there yeah so I mean that's 28:21 better than nothing I mean I know it's crumbs and what have you but we're talking 1972 you can't talk about black 28:27 sploitation without talking about the backlash these films received um and one 28:33 of the most controversial if not the most controversial film was 1972 Superfly starring Ron um O'Neal so I 28:40 didn't know this before I started reading your book but the NAACP the southern Christian leadership conference 28:45 in the National Urban League joined to form the Coalition against black exploitation and core did too core was 28:51 part of it and push all of every every black group with an 28:56 acronym ever they're all in there um so we're going to play a clip actually of Superfly but before we do um they 29:03 released NAACP and corisa statement about the movie it said the movie 29:08 epitomizes without any hint of Retribution the absolute worst images of blacks it's an Insidious film which 29:15 portrays the black community at its worst Superfly glorifies the use of cocaine cast out upon the capability of 29:21 law enforcement officials and cast blacks in roles which glorify dope pushers pimps and GR theft that's not 29:29 not true but you guys will see it and you oh let's let them make the decision 29:34 and then I have a comment about them actually saying something about the cops we'll come back to 29:50 that this dude is bad and he ain't just fly he's Super Fly 29:58 yeah Super Fly when it comes to women they come to him but it's still not 30:05 enough he wants a big score a million in cash yeah the big one this is a chance 30:13 and I want to take it now before I have to kill 30:19 somebody before somebody ises me what kind of money are we talking 30:26 about that much I want his out 30:31 [Music] 30:46 working backward now that I took all this chance for nothing and I go back to being nothing working some J job for 30:53 Chum chains day after day look that's all I'm supposed to do the they going to have to kill me cuz that ain't enough a 30:59 I clean bad machine super cool super mean dealing good for the man Super Fly 31:05 here I stand secret stash heavy bread badest [ __ ] in the bed I'm your 31:11 pusher man can a Superfly Harlem dude beat the 31:19 system he's got a plan to Stick It To The Man He's super Hood super high super 31:28 dude Super [Music] 31:50 Fly yesterday in Chicago um The Music Box Theater showed it and I pointed out 31:57 that that um Curtis Mayfield said this movie is in essence a commercial for 32:03 cocaine in fact there literally is a commercial volane in the middle of the movie This Montage of people enjoying their product so what Curtis Mayfield 32:10 does and why I said this was the Citizen Cane of black exploitation is because what this movie has that most other 32:16 bation movies doesn't have is the complexity there's a moral it forces you to make a choice if you are for young 32:24 blood priest he is basically going to plot is he's going to sell 30 keys of cocaine so he can make a cool million 32:31 dollar 972 money and retire from the game it's the same old kind of high story I want one last score before I get 32:37 out the issue is though that he's selling this to black people in the hood 32:43 mostly so if you are for him you are basically buying into his capitalist 32:49 migraine Nightmare and if you're against him you're basically are on the side of the white cops that want a piece of the 32:56 action and are actually holding him down to making him think he has to do this and the movie does not make a decision 33:02 it is shockingly immoral however Curtis Mayfield whose soundtrack made more money than Superfly the movie did by the 33:09 way on the soundtrack Curtis Mayfield is telling you something else there's a narration a counter narration going on 33:16 that he worked into the music and into the lyrics and so on where basically you're seeing all this cool stuff the 33:23 younger priest is doing but Curtis is reminding you that Freddy is dead and you want to be a junkie wow remember 33:29 Freddy's remember Freddy's Dead and push your man the little song where you see him singing is a boast the only person 33:36 that gets off gets ahead is The Pusher in that song he's basically telling you 33:41 he owns you so Curtis is working both sides of the street here but what he's 33:48 doing is he's offering you or warning you about what was going to happen this 33:54 this is not going to have happy ending but the movie is all cool and you know great fashion and Ron O'Neal Who said he 34:01 was so upset about people blaming him for this movie he said they blamed for everything but Nixon's 34:08 election he made a sequel to the superfly called Superfly TNT which is written by Alex Haley and is Robert Gom 34:16 Benson's debut and it's a God awful film um he basically turned Superfly into 34:22 some black African militant but people that had gone to see the original Superfly wanted to see him you know 34:29 having sex with women and snor and cope meanwhile he's preaching to you and you know in in Africa no one wanted to see 34:35 that so it was an incredibly large flop so that was that was the downside he he 34:40 tried to he was blamed for so much the Coalition really went after him that he 34:46 tried to make a a you know a corrective and it didn't make any money and and that kind of cost him a lot of his 34:52 career for a while you know he's Whitley's dad on a different world remember oh that's right so he his 34:59 career didn't die he just would show up every so often and you know he was Whitley's dad I always like to point 35:05 that out to remind people on the flip side of this we have 1974 Foxy Brown starring Pam Guru so you 35:12 have Superfly being so controversial this bad portrayal of black people then you have Foxy Brown which is credited as 35:18 one of the first films that really showcase women protagonist doing action in movies so we're going to play a clip 35:25 of that now and then we'll get into it 35:34 okay when Foxy Brown comes to town when all the brothers gather around cuz she 35:40 can really shake them down Fox fo Pam Greer that one chick hit squad who 35:48 creamed you as coffee is back to do a job on the mob as Foxy Brown you tell me 35:55 who you want done and I'll do do the hell out of it a chick with Drive who don't take no 36:04 Jive that woman she's crazy there's no telling what she'll 36:09 do she's sweet brown sugar with A Touch of Spice if you see a man anywhere send 36:15 him in because I do need a man and murder if you don't treat a nice sounds 36:21 like a public menace show do Foxy's got guts no ifs ands or butts I better warn 36:29 you I got a black belt in karate and I got my black belt in bar 36:34 stools she won't Burge when she carries a grudge I want justice for all of them 36:41 whose lives are bought and sold so that a few big shots can climb up on their 36:46 backs sister I think what you're asking for is [Music] 36:51 Revenge so there ain't no hope for dudes who deal dope I swear where baby I don't 36:57 know what you're talking about we're going to kill ourselves a couple of 37:05 [Music] [ __ ] have no fear Pam Greer is here as 37:17 Foxy Foxy [Music] 37:25 Brown so this is supposed to be a sequel to coffeee so coffee was the movie that basically put Pam Greer on the map she 37:31 had done some films before this and coffee was the first time you had a black protagonist a female black 37:39 protagonist because black station at this point been mostly male the women in these movies didn't do anything but 37:44 either have sex with the heroin the hero or bringing some information or die where Pam Greer now she is the lead and 37:52 and she's not coffee is one of the most violent of all the black station movie she's one of the meanest protagonists in 37:59 in Black vitation so they wanted to give her this power and Foxy Brown was the sequel but the interesting thing about 38:05 coffee and Foxy Brown is that Superfly was technically a a pro drug movie I 38:10 guess if you want to call it that whereas coffee her the whole plot is Pam GRE is going out on the street and 38:16 killing drug dealers because they hooked her the sister on drugs so they had a very strong anying drug message which is 38:22 also new for black exploitation so not only do you have a powerful black woman 38:27 you also have this anti drug message that carries forth in Foxy Brown and and then Pam Greer the little trivia note 38:33 the next movie She Made after Foxy Brown Friday Foster the first black comic book 38:39 character isn't blade it's F it's Friday Foster Friday Foster was drawn in the 38:45 Chicago Tribune in the 70s and they made a movie so their first black comic adaptation is technically Friday Foster 38:51 so Pam Greer got to do that not only was she's the first really hero female hero 38:57 of almost any type you had Angie Dickinson before that in a similar expectation type film but it wasn't 39:03 common until Pam Greer showed up and then all of a sudden every woman had to be beaten the hell out of everybody in 39:10 movies instead of just being a victim so she kind of changed that and brought 39:15 that to Black exitation and she never lost a fight the last movie She Made 39:20 before this she was eaten by a mountain lion and the mountain lion was the last 39:27 thing to beat Pam gri in the movie after coffee nobody would take you know she 39:33 had to survive to the end of the movie she had the be the baddest person in the picture and then you also had Cleopatra 39:39 Jones the year before so the cleopatras they made two clear pck Jones movies 39:44 Tamara Dobson who once held the record for the tallest woman in film action movies she was 6'2 and according to Cle 39:51 Pat Jones all of it was Dynamite that same year know he had C P 39:56 Patrick Jones and coffee that was that double Wham me of these statuesque black women who were CIA a agents or 40:03 Vigilantes you know taking names and so that changed the blast vation trajectory 40:10 you really just couldn't have a a woman character even Dolomite you know lady Reed's character has some agency in that 40:17 so we get to the late 1970s and the early 1980s and black exploitation kind of just dies out and can you talk about 40:24 it you talk about it in the book in the epilogue about the demise of the genre but can you address that here was it the 40:29 backlash in terms of representation or were just people tired of them altogether well there's I had a 40:35 different Theory when I started writing the book I had a different Theory than the one I came to in the end I thought 40:40 it was this television because television was free back then and there were more black people on TV that was kind of the issue they weren't black 40:46 people on television so these movies were you know big because you had to go to the theater to see this but they 40:52 started putting on sord and son and and Jefferson's and shaft had a TV series 40:57 which lasted seven episodes God help us uh and there were other Positive Black 41:03 characters or at least black characters more on the screen and then jaws and Star Wars came out movies of no black 41:10 people in them whatsoever and Hollywood started thinking well black people are going to go see a movie with no black people in it you know we should make 41:17 more of those which is kind of ridiculous considering that black people were doing this before and then Elvis Mitchell's idea 41:23 was that the whiz killed black sploitation because the whiz cost $30 million and it didn't make its money 41:30 back although I don't know anybody that doesn't love the whz that's my age in black and there's a lot of us apparently 41:36 not enough to make the $30 million that would cost back and you know how Hollywood is you know you're a woman you're black you're gay you make a movie 41:42 and it's a flop you don't get another chance to make a movie to kind of fix that you're a white guy you get whatever 41:48 you want so I think that combination but I think the whiz they threw all this money at it was the biggest the most 41:55 expensive Black Moon movie you know lady s the blues cost money Motown was behind that and it was a hit it was you know D 42:02 Russ got nominated for an oscar but the it didn't cost $30 million and so when that happened they 42:09 basically black people disappeared unless you're a Richard prior or Eddie Murphy or if you were like a rapper at 42:15 the beginning of rap you know like Beat Street and break into electric Baloo you weren't on the screen think 42:21 about it you know until she's got to have it there was that whole black way new wav in ' 86 and going forward before 42:29 that how many movies outside of the ones I just mentioned that had rappers in them that were more like lowbudget the 42:35 next era of lowbudget underground Cinema for black people did you see uh multiple 42:41 black people in the movie you know Eddie Murphy didn't make a movie for black people until Coming to America so that they basically they were 42:49 punishing us because they figured that we would go see whatever mhm just like 42:56 before mhm I think that's kind of what did it in but uh also I think people 43:01 were getting a little tired of something the movies were losing quality whenever something is underground and it becomes mainstream it gets destroyed and I think 43:08 that's what really happened the movies they started making copies very very inferior copies of things you know Eddie 43:14 Murphy says and Dolomite is my name you know these movies have no titties no funny and no Kung Fu I love that 43:20 line and he's right they started making all these preaching movies like a piece of the action and black people didn't 43:25 want to see that they got preaching on Sunday at church so I think it was a combination of things but the bottom 43:31 line is financially Hollywood did not think that we were you know viable do we 43:38 have time for one more question um as a veteran film critic what is your opinion 43:44 on current black filmmakers finding new ways to tell black stories well I'm all 43:49 for it but I'm afraid because I've been down this road the older you get the more you realize that life is you start 43:55 living life over are thinking you're crazy you know I believe through Julie Dash and all these things they're saying 44:00 this is the new world day for black people I think black directors and producers and people have more power 44:06 than they did in 1973 but at the same time it seems hard Ian Spike Lee has to fight to get a 44:12 movie made I mean it's [ __ ] Le there are things I am enjoying I me I love movies 44:18 that that take a different approach like they clone Tyrone which is kind of a horror and uh black station hybrid but 44:25 actually had a message that was a very serious message underneath it and some of the you know par parotic things like 44:31 black dynamite and stuff going on and then you have something like Jordan Peele who it just has gets a blank check 44:37 I mean I just love that he can just make whatever he wants and I find that to be fascinating he brings black people in 44:43 and gives them training people of color in and allows them to be trained to do it Melvin man pees did the same thing 44:50 with with Sweet Sweetback he had to say it was a porn because the union didn't have any minorities in it and y wouldn't 44:56 work porn that was the way he got a multi culty C uh crew you can't bring 45:02 anybody you can't learn if no one's going willing to give you a job and so I I'm happy that more black and brown 45:09 creatives are bringing in or black and brown creatives and telling different types of stories and and promoting 45:15 different types of stories and I have hope but I'm just still I'm jaded I'm burn I've been burnt too many times too 45:22 many times so it's kind of like I'm cautiously optimistic to use that term 45:27 but I'm like talk to me again in 5 years where where will we be and on that Noe You' like to open it 45:34 up to questions from the audience so as well as those watching on 45:47 YouTube oh I've not read the book but I'm 45:53 interested in the music aspect of it because was uh the music in all these films uh it seems to me was music and uh 46:01 was ceiling and floor and so I'd really like to hear more of your talking about it as content as you know the scene um 46:09 because it's so interesting and I just brought back a lot listening to uh Curtis Mayfield Curtis Mayfield doesn't 46:17 get enough credit for this so I'm going to give him his credit I'm giv him a flow sorry Curtis is no longer with us 46:22 but he without Superfly the soundtrack album which served as a 46:29 marketing melv people started this he did sweet s back and album with every when a fire on it and he used the album 46:36 as marketing so sweet seatack was not just an album was also marketing Superfly the same way although Curtis 46:42 could sing Melvin couldn't And Superfly like I said the album made more money than the movie but the album came out 46:49 before the movie and that's what got people to go without Superfly without Curtis and making Claudine and spar 46:56 and and uh let's do it again and all these other short eyes all the soundtracks that he did there'd be no 47:01 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack there'd be no Grease soundtrack there'd be no Flash Dance soundtrack and by the way 47:07 Flash Dance is the movie that made Hollywood believe every single film has to have an album but Curtis and Melvin 47:14 started that and Motown became the label of black citation because they knew even if the movie was a flop they could get a 47:21 hit song out of it they could get a Hit album out of it cuz you know we buy records and you know my my parents had I 47:28 still have my parents shaft album that they bought in 1971 I have it and so 47:33 that that musical element was always one of the big things about I have a list of 47:39 top 10 black expectation songs in the back of the book I'm sure it's controversial but um I had to include 47:44 that because you can't talk about these movies without talking about their music sometimes that was the best thing in the movie but we don't get the credit as 47:52 usual uh we don't get the credit for you know as as cev little says in blaze and Sal they bet they w't give me credit so 47:59 they didn't give Curtis credit for that but he did and black station films served as music Movie music as marketing 48:06 before any white film did I have sha too but I'm from Memphis 48:11 ah so that makes sense another question um we have one 48:17 from YouTube Someone wants to know what your favorite film is oh my favorite black sitation movie that's hard I mean 48:25 I I I guess I would have to say shaft only because when I was a kid I wanted to be shaft I wanted to girl when I 48:31 leave come out of the station on Time Square and granted it doesn't look like it does 1971 but I remember it I 48:37 Remember the Time Square that was of the era of black vitation the Funtime Square 48:42 uh whenever I come out of the station I hear shaft like shaft was like the epitome of 48:49 cool for me when I was writing the book I went to Sha's house which is at 55 Jane Street in the village and I just 48:56 wanted to soak up this environment I wanted to be as cool as Rich round the man he just passed away round Tre just 49:02 passed away and I I think that may my favorite movie but I have other movies I love coffee I love Foxy Brown I love 49:09 Sugar Hill a horror movie with Marky Bay a seeking revenge on the man through 49:15 Voodoo with Mother Jefferson as the voodoo priestess zarak cly by the way research 49:22 her she is one of the great black um 49:28 like playright she was what she did so much for black actors and for black theater by the time she got to the 49:34 Jefferson and we all knew who she was she was in her 80s she was known for her elocution she taught you know how to 49:41 speak people how to speak that's why she has such a crazy proper voice in a Jeff even though she's always using it as 49:47 she's drunk but she was one of the most fascinating people that I kind of discovered when I was researching the 49:53 books I only knew her his mother Jefferson I never noticed she had an entire 50-year history in the black 49:59 theater before that any more 50:08 questions oh sorry thoughts on gangster rappers who are now part of the uh TV 50:15 and film industry IC tea IC tea this is funny everything is tied together um 50:23 they remade Superfly not the W in 2018 in 1990 they made Superfly it was called 50:29 The Return of Superfly and it had the black dud from Days of Our Lives played priest and Curtis Mayfield and IC tea 50:36 did the score for that movie and so you know rappers Foxy Brown Biggie Smalls 50:43 yeah you know these names they came from rap you know and then also rap a lot of 50:48 they sampled a lot of black station music you know James Brown's music and then for Black Caesar is one of the most 50:55 sample you know cuts for rap um so I I mean it TI it all it's all tied together 51:01 I mean it's they kind of and then again between black new wave and Blas rtation 51:07 there was Crush Grove and the disorderly all these movies where the rappers got 51:13 on the screen and I was a teenager at the time so I was just in love with these types of things so it's all of a 51:18 piece I think everything kind kind of ties together and you explore it in the book as well yeah and so gangster rap 51:24 was just another element of it's almost like the sweet sweet back or almost like signifying like the signifying monkey 51:30 Dolomite type thing it it kind of got I think away from its Origins and became 51:36 again once something becomes mainstream it is destroyed but I think that's kind of they're all of a piece they're tied 51:42 together have time for one more question we have a another question yeah this is 51:47 another YouTube question I was surprised to see that Gordon Willis was the director of Superfly um are there some of these 51:55 black explo exploitation M movies that are particularly well-made technically 52:00 well Gordon Parks that was Gordon Parks junor Gordon Parks his son directed Superfly he directed thomasine and 52:05 Bushra which is a black Bonnie and Cloud which is very very good with Max Julian and Vanetta McGee uh Gordon Parks senior 52:11 directed shaft obviously and Gordon Parks was the photographer and so was Gordon Parks Junior and some of the 52:17 movies look really good and you had Lucian Ballard who was a cinematographer 52:22 in the 30s he shot through the hard way and shot a couple of other films you have Michael Khan who became Spielberg's 52:29 editor he did four black cation movies uh he did spookly St by the door which is a great movie it was so controversial 52:37 the government pulled it from theaters because it was a recipe it taught you how to be a black revolutionary because 52:44 it was written by a black CIA agent the book was he also did the screenplay and it was so dangerous to the government 52:51 they yank the movie so there there are s several movies that are very well made and there 52:56 are several movies that look like trash but I like them anyway you like them anyway 53:06 um oh thank you um I had two questions but my first question was what was your 53:11 process like writing your book and what is the biggest takeaway you want audience to remember from reading your 53:17 book well I that's I'll ask a second question first the biggest takeaway I want is I want people to realize that 53:23 for better and for worse because I don't I mean there I take some of these movies to the Woodshed and I I criticize 53:30 several elements of them so it's not just this Love Fest of me just going on and on about how much how great they are 53:36 I think the takeaway from it is that this was an eror and just like any other era it influences the movies that were 53:43 made and you have to look at it from what was going on what was changing and 53:49 brought these movies in and also the bation technically is in dead you see so 53:54 many tropes and elements in movies of the day and Tarantino of course does it all the time but not just Tarantino I 54:00 think black filmmakers do the same thing they add little kind of um you know like little like signposts or maybe like uh 54:07 know little things that you would be able to pick up on immediately that come from black vitation so the take away from the book is I just wanted to talk 54:14 about the history of black vitation and how it shaped the little black kid me how what was the because the Coalition 54:21 against black was saying these are harmful movies and I wanted to look at that I wanted to look at what I got out 54:26 of it pro and con as far as the process of the book I seen all these movies as a 54:32 kid and as a teenager I worked in a video store so we had black citation and porn kept us 54:38 open those to that and and kung fu movies so you know we had all that that 54:44 kept the store open and so I would watch them as a teenager so I was watching him as a kid watching him as a teenager now 54:50 I'm watching him as an old man and I wanted to write down what I got out of it Pro incom because a lot of times 54:57 these movies was giving you a message about what black masculinity what black femininity was and sometimes it was a 55:04 good message and sometimes it was not a good message so that's kind of what I wanted to look at it from the 55:10 perspective of it's not just black spt's history in a way it's my history it's your history as well we have time for a 55:17 couple more questions we have another YouTube question who are some of your favorite actors and actresses who you 55:24 feel had the greatest impact Ramy St Jack doesn't get enough credit um he was 55:30 a great actor and he they made a movie uh there were several black versions of 55:36 classic movies there was a black version of the Get Carter called Hitman that's the movie where Pam GRE gets eaten by a 55:41 mountain lion there was a black version of the ashole Jungle called Cool Breeze 55:47 which has Ramis and Jack in it and thas rasala another great actor and all these actors it's funny is you would see them 55:54 on on television in the 70s and even going forward you know Everybody Hates Chris is almost like a you know a 56:01 chronopia of old black actors showing up in in roles Antonio Vargas for example 56:07 you know it shows up in those things so uh Pam Greer obviously because just because of her power and because she was 56:15 a star you know and and Fred Williamson I mean he was a really bad director but 56:21 he had presence I mean he could play a role he could play Black Caesar and then he could play a almost comic role and 56:27 take a hard ride and he had a lot more Talent than be in front of the camera 56:32 and presentence then we give him credit for now behind the camera is another story but but he directed I got to give 56:39 him credit he got a lot of his movies made he was an independent he made he directed his films he was in them and 56:47 they made money and he raised money to make those movies but I thought that he was and I was going through all these 56:52 movies again and I wrote about 84 movies in this book I really was impressed by 56:58 by him by by Fred Williamson last 57:06 question hi um so I was just thinking about uh the movie Coming to America you just mentioned it briefly before and I 57:14 was wondering because I I was thinking about how that movie was praised for um celebrating the African 57:20 Heritage um in the movie but it I remember that it was also criticized because uh from from the African 57:27 Community from some African communities because uh the misrepresentation um of 57:34 Africans in the movie so I was wondering what your opinion was about that you know Coming to America is an interesting 57:41 movie I I wouldn't say that it was in any way accurate about the African immigrant experience but what Coming to 57:47 America does that I think is genius is that Eddie Murphy Prince aing is the 57:55 outside he's coming to a black neighborhood that you would see like 58:01 she's coming to Queens and a lot of black folks myself included saw that neighborhood we we we 58:08 recognize the Jerry curls and recognize the the knockoff McDonald's you know there and my 58:16 neighborhood there was a kentaki fried chicken it was probably good too it was 58:21 damn good anyway and so what Coming to America does I 58:26 think his genius is that Eddie Murphy is like representing the white audience coming 58:33 into a neighborhood that we know very well so we're already automatically laughing and Eddie is responding to this 58:39 new world I think that kind of plays into the Immigrant experience of coming 58:45 into a new place but I don't think it does Justice to someone like a king's experience it's 58:51 a fairy tale you know but it's primarily isn't to show his he's the straight man 58:58 in Coming to America the regular black neighborhood is kind of like the the 59:03 universe that he's coming to he's an alien coming to this foreign planet that we all know and love so it's not really 59:10 the Immigrant experience it's him the the America imposing its will on 59:17 him so I would agree that that the criticism was probably very valid about this is not a representation of African 59:23 immigrants but I don't think that's the movie's intention we have time for just one 59:30 more this is also from YouTube do you believe that black actors have a responsibility to present only the 59:37 positive that that's that's a great question to close out on Norma R Jones wrote an article 1976 that asked that 59:45 exact question can black art be free as long as we are oppressed 59:50 people and I i' like I'm not going to spoil the book can tell you what her conclusion was she was writing about 59:57 Sweet Sweetback specifically and How Sweet Sweetback is a myth making kind of film but she asked that question and 1:00:04 it's a valid question but I think it's an unfair question it's a loaded question it's a very loaded question 1:00:10 because again it's always like we have to take it upon ourselves to educate you to We Can't be you know we can't be 1:00:18 complicated that's what was Sydney's problem until he started directing his own movies he had to be this noble black person that was completely faultless and 1:00:25 no such person I come from a predominantly black family let me tell you let me tell you D Ain 1:00:32 perfect so I think it's an unfair question but it's a question that we have to wrestle with I feel like it is 1:00:40 it prohibits you as an artist because you're constantly thinking I have to represent black people we're not a 1:00:46 monolith so you can't really represent all of us I can this book represents me 1:00:52 as what my opinion is but there might people who completely disagree with my opinion I am not speaking for black 1:00:57 people I'm speaking for this one black person but we always have to be the person to speak for all black people and 1:01:03 that that drives me crazy because it's not fair but it it's it's a it's it's the cross we have to 1:01:09 bear so I mean I don't I don't have my answer is no but I know that that is not 1:01:18 the answer that you know that's that's not the definitive answer that's not the answer that we can have to go with it's 1:01:23 your answer so yes we do huh it's your answer so yes we do yeah we do we do OD this has been so much fun 1:01:31 um we selling black Caesars and Foxy cleopatras after the event thank you so much for joining us um live as well as 1:01:39 on YouTube thank you so much I want to Candace I want to thank you Candace 1:01:46 has traveled from Chicago Illinois to be here tonight thank you for that uh thank 1:01:51 you so much for your beautiful moderation Candace and I have had the privilege of 1:01:57 working on a number of programs together so thank you Odie thank you for your 1:02:02 heart your humor your Brilliance um and thank you 1:02:08 for writing this book congratulations to you um and thank you to the audience our 1:02:14 YouTube audience for your wonderful questions thank you and who's Gloria Henry Gloria Hendry is an actor who was 1:02:22 in was the first black um Bond girl and living that die and it's a horrible her 1:02:29 treatment in black exploitation the movies that are not black portation she was never given a good role to Black 1:02:35 Belt Jones she has a great role in that she was an actor who deserved like Teresa Randall who deserved better who 1:02:42 needed to fire her damn agent but she was the first black bom girl okay that 1:02:47 was uh another YouTube question that I wanted to see if we could throw in um so 1:02:52 the bookstore has very very graciously uh uh put forward a 20% discount on od's 1:02:59 book um so um and we are uh setting up the uh book signing in the back so I do 1:03:06 hope you will grab a book um OD brought a Sharpie pen and 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So in her writing, lets do the other way around. She finds free hand helps her. she tends to have a 5000 to 10000 outline and she knows the black swans. and she gets up day to day and then massages it 0:36 which plot twists or black swans stand out in literature or film? steve jobs says you can always connect the dots backwards, she loves those she refers to Chinatown chinatown chinatown john huston plays the father and he made a child with his daughter, faye dunaway 0:39 How to market thrillers, how has being analytical helped? She decided from the beginning to say she wanted to start a business, she didn't want to sit in a booth and drink maugeritas. She planned the same way for her job. If she can plan a nine hundred million dollar then she can plan her tiny little book business. now she does quarterly marketing plans. She admitted she lost alot of money. Before she left her job she put her financial house in order. The biggest mistake she made was listening to people that followed a route who wasn't helpful, they may have made their money during a goldrush when their actions don't apply anymore or they have access to markets or associates she doesn't. does technique x work today She did facebook ads , she spent $6,000 dollars and lost it all. it was a big lesson. Figure out who should she listen to, will their techniques apply to me or will their techniques apply today 0:43 How the indie community help? It helped and didn't help. What made her lose alot of money didn't help. She ask more questions now to others in the community. What have you sold, when have you sold? have standards , and if some one says i am making millions of dollars on TikTok, well what books, how are you making , and more questions It is helped cause i am not alone. It isn't a race, she has given herself ten years. 0:47 how do you balance your time creating to commercial management? I can always make more money and you can't make more time. she refers to someone who says people spend so much time cutting coupons and don't spend it on something sunday home day, Saturday 5,000 words day The Eisenhower matrix, importance versus urgence , a square with four quadrants, if everything is urgent or everything is important then burn out, but if little then what life is that? when you manage large scale projects you have to prioritize Saturday, what is the most urgent, the bottom left hand quadrant, is important but not urgent, best place to spend time. Sunday morning is her day off 0:52 What about nonfiction? Her husband had an accident and changed life. She made four self help, she hated writing them. they don't sell. but she wrote them for herself. She meditates. But she promised she will never write nonfiction again. 0:54 What are working on right now , Q4? 18th novel, an fbi detective and a canine, everyone loves her canine dog. She is thinking of writing a new series. readers say you can commit genocide in your books but dont touch that dog:) 0:56 you can do box sets? I plan on doing that. her readers are used to three to four books today, she will not write more with the more tools. she has to take sundays off. 0:58 do you take days off? In her job she dreaded Mondays and loved Fridays. she wanted in the next phase of her life to enjoy Mondays and when she left she had to recreate a new group. the fire in her belly came from seeing the women who had less rights outside the western European zone. In her mind, Canada is the best country on earth IN CONCLUSION One thing i learned is her personal experience has many takers among the women in the western eruopean cultural zone which includes the usa and Australia. She is a multi immigrant who found herself in the western eruopean world. and many people especially women in modern humanity , non white European women find western eruopean countries,includes the usa/Canada/Australia beneficial but still like to connect to the non western European peoples, so her themes have great width in modernity. HER BOOKS ON KOBO https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/search?query=tikiri+herath&ac=1&acp=tikiri+herath&ac.author=tikiri+herath&sort=Temperature&fclanguages=en her webpage https://tikiriherath.com/ Writing on the dark https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/writing-into-the-dark?srsltid=AfmBOoruvZk-R82Mg4LdnN3_9jsWHEqDY99XUXdBxCItcueWR5StDulF Eisenhower matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method

The main issue of this post is not, is not, to speak on Eric Adams as a mayor, for which his policy history is poor. Not to speak on Eric Adams the law enforcer, who clearly maintains the history of criminal plus illegal acting law enforcers of New York City from New Amsterdam to the future because Eric Adams clearly has accomplices with his financial activity in the NYPD. The main issue of this post is the rhetoric to the remaining Black populace of NYC. Eric Adams is a black man who constantly told other black people trying to make money illegally or emit their anger physically that they need to get their life together, have mental health issues. Well, based on Eric Adams current case, Eric Adams has mental issues, needs to get his life together. Black people who are fortunate to have a better financial situation have always angered me when they tell less financially fortunate black people to get their life together or seek mental help. Not every black person who tried to escape the plantations escaped. Most black people ho tried to escape the plantations failed, over 99% failed,. That doesn't mean the 99% of black people who tried to flee plantations need to accept the plantation because they failed or fall in love with the white master to embrace their enslaved situation. The next time a black person sells some illegal drugs, or steals from a store, or emits violent aggression at an environment that is against them, please eric adams and all similar black people who exists in the naacp, in the congressional black caucus, amongst the black entertainment millionaires like berry gordy who tricked black musicians out of money, like robert johnson who didn't tell his wife he was selling bet, or in this aalbc online forum, shut up, shut up, shut up. Stop telling other black people their mental health is poor, or they need to get their life together. If all humans could get away with illegal financial activity no body would be poor, but don't knock others stealing to get by while you are a massive cheater, which many black people with money are in one way or another. Again, to get a full phenotypical spectrum. Steve Job didn't design the apple. Bill Gates didn't design DOS, Musk didn't design the satellites. Living off of others like a leech is a crime, legal but a crime, don't knock others who are being far more financially or emotionally honest, albeit illegal or physical

glad to see you guys back:) 2:36 keith david is getting work late in the career 4:11 interesting, they made the characters indicative of the voice actor 8:05 good point an african american romantic animation 10:03 oh nike, you and your sexual themes ahhhh, great show:)

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read it here Happy Autumnal equinox all, today the sun's path , the ecliptic, crosses the equator, so most places will have circa 50/50 time of day and night, and the progression of nights getting longer in the nrthern hemisphere while days get longer in the southern hemisphere will progress to the december solstice when the longest night in the northern hemisphere and longest day in the southern hemisphere will occur and start legnth of days getting longer in the northern hemisphere and nights getting longer in the southern to the march equinox where we get 50/50 and to the june solstice where the longest day in the northern hemispher occurs or longest night in th southern hemipshere occurs. Remember, the earth is continually shortening its linear distance to the sun in its elliptical orbit to the perihellion which occurs in early january . Even though you may not realize it, the sun is actually larger in the sky day by day to the perihelion. and just so you know the linear distance after the perihelion gets longer and longer till the aphelion when the earth is farthest from the sun and yes the sun is smallest in the sky.

topics The seventieth of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. DogoKwan of the HDKiriban in Black Games Elite OshunBala or Why the bees sing like Muxinho Dates: autumnal equinox, judy reed patent, Francesco Borromini IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Black Men side Black Female athletes , Diego vs Pasquale , Deep Space Nine - introducing Commander Sisqo , Kintsugi , Flickr side Black Women Photographers , gas floating downward in liquid , The Isolation of the Black DOSer in a non black land URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/11/09/22/2024-rmnewsletter.html

THE 1805 CONSTITUTION OF HAITI SECOND CONSTITUTION OF HAITI (HAYTI) MAY 20, 1805. PROMULGATED BY EMPEROR JACQUES I (DESSALINES) The document below was printed in the New York Evening Post, July 15, 1805. It was transcribed into the version below by Bob Corbett on April 4, 1999. I did not translate it, only transcribed. It was printed in 1805 in English. There is no mention in the newspaper who translated it. But, given that Henri Christophe was involved in the publication and that he had a strong liking of English, perhaps he is responsible. Unless American English has changed in this regard, I suspect a British translator given the use of "colour" and "honour" in the document. It is not the complete constitution, but close. Articles 40-44 are absent. The document mentions that these are "interior regulations respecting the ministries," otherwise it is all here. I have followed the published document in all capitalization and grammar and noted a few spelling oddities. The Constitution, Haiti's second, was promulgated on May 20, 1805. The reader should note that at this time the entire island of Hispaniola was under the rule of Haiti (Hayti), thus the mention of islands that are today part of the Dominican Republic. The original newspaper is in the library of Bob Corbett. ============================ CONSTITUTION OF HAYTI We, H. Christophe, Clerveaux, Vernet, Gabart, Petion, Geffard, Toussaint, Brave, Raphael, Roamin, Lalondridie, Capoix, Magny, Daut, Conge, Magloire, Ambrose, Yayou, Jean Louis Franchois, Gerin, Mereau, Fervu, Bavelais, Martial Besse… As well in our name as in that of the people of Hayti, who have legally constituted us faithfully organs and interpreters of their will, in presence of the Supreme Being, before whom all mankind are equal, and who has scattered so many species of creatures on the surface of the earth for the purpose of manifesting his glory and his power by the diversity of his works, in the presence of all nature by whom we have been so unjustly and for so long a time considered as outcast children. Do declare that the tenor of the present constitution is the free spontaneous and invariable expression of our hearts, and the general will of our constituents, and we submit it to the sanction of H.M. the Emperor Jacques Dessalines our deliverer, to receive its speedy and entire execution. Preliminary Declaration. Art. 1. The people inhabiting the island formerly called St. Domingo, hereby agree to form themselves into a free state sovereign and independent of any other power in the universe, under the name of empire of Hayti. 2. Slavery is forever abolished. 3. The Citizens of Hayti are brothers at home; equality in the eyes of the law is incontestably acknowledged, and there cannot exist any titles, advantages, or privileges, other than those necessarily resulting from the consideration and reward of services rendered to liberty and independence. 4. The law is the same to all, whether it punishes, or whether it protects. 5. The law has no retroactive effect. 6. Property is sacred, its violation shall be severely prosecuted. 7. The quality of citizen of Hayti is lost by emigration and naturalization in foreign countries and condemnation to corporal or disgrace punishments. The fist case carries with it the punishment of death and confiscation of property. 8. The quality of Citizen is suspended in consequence of bankruptcies and failures. 9. No person is worth of being a Haitian who is not a good father, good son, a good husband, and especially a good soldier. 10. Fathers and mothers are not permitted to disinherit their children. 11. Every Citizen must possess a mechanic art. 12. No whiteman of whatever nation he may be, shall put his foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor, neither shall he in future acquire any property therein. 13. The preceding article cannot in the smallest degree affect white woman who have been naturalized Haytians by Government, nor does it extend to children already born, or that may be born of the said women. The Germans and Polanders naturalized by government are also comprized (sic) in the dispositions of the present article. 14. All acception (sic) of colour among the children of one and the same family, of whom the chief magistrate is the father, being necessarily to cease, the Haytians shall hence forward be known only by the generic appellation of Blacks. Of the Empire 15. The Empire of Hayti is one and indivisible. Its territory is distributed into six military divisions. 16. Each military division shall be commanded by a general of division. 17. These generals of division shall be independent of one another, and shall correspond directly with the Emperor, or with the general in chief appointed by his Majesty. 18. The following Islands are integral parts of the Empire, viz. Samana, La Tortue, La Gonave, Les Cayemites, La Saone, L'Isle a Vache, and other adjacent islands. Of the Government 19. The Government of Hayti is entrusted to a first Magistrate, who assumes the title of Emperor and commander in chief of the army. 20. The people acknowledge for Emperor and Commander in Chief of the Army, Jacques Dessalines, the avenger and deliverer of his fellow citizens. The title of Majesty is conferred upon him, as well as upon his august spouse, the Empress. 21. The person of their Majesties are sacred and inviolable. 22. The State will appropriate a fixed annual allowance to her Majesty the Empress, which she will continue to enjoy even after the decease of the Emperor, as princess dowager. 23. The crown is elective not hereditary. 24. There shall be assigned by the state an annual income to the children acknowledge by his Majesty the Emperor. 25. The male children acknowledged by the Emperor shall be obliged, in the same manner as other citizens, to pass successively from grade to grade, with this only difference, that their entrance into service shall begin at the fourth demi brigade, from the period of their birth. 26. The Emperor designates, in the manner he may judge expedient, the person who is to be his successor either before or after his death. 27. A suitable provision shall be made by the state to that successor from the moment of his accession to the throne. 28. The Emperor, and his successors, shall in no case and under no pretext whatsoever, have the right of attacking to their persons any particular or privileged body, whether as guards of honour, or under any other denomination. 29. Every successor deviating from the dispositions of the preceding article, or from the principles consecrated in the present constitution shall be considered and declared in a state of warfare against the society. In such a case, the counselors of state will assemble in order to pronounce his removal, and to chose one among themselves who shall be judged the most worthy of replacing him; and if it should happen that the said successor oppose the execution of this measure, authorized by law, the Generals, counselor of state, shall appeal to the people and the army, who will immediately give their whole strength and assistance to maintain Liberty. 30. The Emperor makes seals and promulgates the laws; appoints and revokes at will, the Ministers, the General in Chief for the Army, the Counselors of State, the Generals and other agents of the Empire, the sea offices, the members of the local administrations, the Commissaries of Government near the Tribunals, the judges, and other public functionaries. 31. The Emperor directs the receipts and expenditures of the State, Surveys the Mint of which he alone orders the emission, and fixes the weight and the model. 32. To him alone is reserved the power of making peace or war, to maintain political intercourse, and to form treaties. 33. He provides for the interior safety and for the defense of the State: and distributes at pleasure the sea and land forces. 34. In case of conspiracies manifesting themselves against the safety of the state, against the constitution, or against his person, the Emperor shall cause the authors or accomplices to be arrested and tried before a special Council. 35. His Majesty has alone the right to absolve a criminal and commute his punishment. 36. The Emperor shall never form any enterprize (sic) with the views of making conquests, nor to disturb the peace and interior administration of foreign colonies. 37. Every public act shall be made in these terms: "THE EMPEROR I. OF HAYTI, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE STATE." Of the Council of State. 38. The Generals of Division and of Brigade, are of right members of the Council of State, and they compose it. Of the Ministers 39. There shall be in the Empire two ministers and a secretary of state. The ministers of finances having the department of the interior, and the minister of war having the marine department. 40-44. [Interior regulations respecting the ministry.] Of the Tribunals. 45. No one can interfere with the right which every individual has of being judged amicably by arbitrators of his own choosing whose decisions shall be acknowledged legal. 46. There shall be a justice of peace in each commune. Any suit amounting to more than one hundred dollars shall not come within his cognizance. And when the parties cannot conciliate themselves at his tribunal, they may appeal to the tribunals of their respective districts. 47. There shall be six tribunals established in the cities hereafter designated, viz. At St. Marc, at the Cape, at Port au Prince, Aux Cayes, Lanse-a-Vaux, and Port-de-Paix… The Emperor determines their organization, their number, their competence and the territory forming the district of each. These tribunals take cognizance of all affairs purely civil. 48. Military crimes are submitted to special councils and to particular forms of judgement. 49. Particular laws shall be made for the national transactions, and respecting the civil officers of the state. Of Worship 50. The law admits of no predominant religion. 51. The freedom of worship is tolerated. 52. The state does not provide for the maintenance of any religious institution, nor or any minister. Of the Administration 53. There shall be in each military division a principal administration, whose organization and inspection belongs essentially to the minister of finances. General Dispositions. Act. 1. To the Emperor and Empress belong the choice, the salary, and the maintenance of the persons composing their court. 2. After the decease of the reigning Emperor, when a revision of the constitution shall have been judged necessary, the council of state will assemble for that purpose, and shall be presided by the oldest member. 3. The crimes of high treason, the dilapidations of the ministers and generals shall be judged by a special council called and presided by the emperor. 4. The armed force is essentially obedient: no armed body can deliberate. 5. No person shall be judged without having been legally heard in his defense. 6. The house of every citizen is an inviolable asylum. 7. It cannot be entered but in case of conflagration, inundation, reclamation from the interior, or by virtue of an order from the emperor, or from any other authority legally constituted. 8. He deserves death who gives it to his fellow. 9. Every judgment to which the pain of death or corporal punishment is annexed shall not be carried into execution until it has been confirmed by the emperor. 10. Theft shall be punished according to the circumstances which may have preceded, accompanied or followed it. 11. Every stranger inhabiting the territory of Hayti shall be, equally with the Haytians, subject to the correctional and criminal laws of the country. 12. All property which formerly belonged to any white Frenchmen, is incontestably and of right confiscated to the use of the state. 13. Every Haytian, who, having purchased property from a white Frenchman, may have paid part of the purchase money stipulated in the act of sale, shall be responsible to the domains of the state for the remainder of the sum due. 14. Marriage is an act purely civil, and authorized by the government. 15. The law authorises (sic) divorce in all cases which shall have been previously provided for and determined. 16. A particular law shall be issued concerning children born out of wedlock. 17. Respect for the chiefs, subordination and discipline are rigorously necessary. 18. A penal code shall be published and severely observed. 19. Within each military division a public school shall be established for the instruction of youth. 20. The national colours shall be black and red. 21. Agriculture, as it is the first, the most noble, and the most useful of all the arts, shall be honored and protected. 22. Commerce, the second source of the prosperity of states, will not admit of any impediment; it ought to be favored and specially protected. 23. In each military division a tribunal of commerce shall be found, whose members shall be chosen by the Emperor from the class of merchants. 24. Good faith and integrity in commercial operations shall be religiously maintained. 25. The government assures safety and protections to neutral nations and friends who may be desirous of establishing a commercial intercourse with this island, they conforming to the regulations and customs of the country. 26. The counting houses and the merchandize of foreigners shall be under the safeguard and guarantee of the state. 27. There shall be national festivals for celebrating independence, the birth day of the emperor and his august spouse, that of agriculture and of the constitution. 28. At the first firing of the alarm gun, the cities will disappear and the nation rise. We, the undersigned, place under the safeguard of the magistrates, fathers and mothers of families, the citizens, and the army the explicit and solemn covenant of the sacred rights of man and the duties of the citizen. We recommend it to our successors, and present it to the friends of liberty, to philanthropists of all countries, as a signal pledge of the Divine Bounty, who in the course of his immortal decrees, has given us an opportunity of breaking our fetters, and of constituting ourselves a people, free civilized and independent. Signed H. Christophe, & (as before) Having seen the present constitution: We, Jacques Dessalines, Emperor I of Hayti, and Commander in Chief of the Army, by the grace of God, and the constitutional law of the state, Accept it wholly and sanction it, that it may receive, with the least possible delay, its full and entire execution throughout the whole of our Empire. And we swear to maintain it and to cause it to be observed in it integrity to the last breath of our life. At the Imperial Palace of Dessalines, the 20th May 1805 second year of the Independence of Hayti, and of our reign the first. DESSALINES By the Emperor, Juste Chanlatte, Sec. Gen. URL http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/history/earlyhaiti/1805-const.htm

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thank you @ModestoGarr I don't see a link to your online artwork gallery

@ProfD ok and i have a question for you. But first a premise. this codification you speak of, it really took over 150 years, since the war between the states to get to it current position in the ados community. Reparations has been discussed since the end of the war between the states among black dosers, so... it took over 150 years just to get to the current condition. So my question is the following, accepting the premise, what if the black dos populace in the usa never finishes codifying reparations?

@ProfD well. I will never deny things to repair the negativity in the heritage, reparations, of the descendants of those enslaved in the usa is important. But... I have never seen offline or online, enough strategic cohesion in planning or definition to said reparations in the ADOS/FBA community. In this very community I recall this great quote by a black community advocate " I wanted to see strong, young Black entrepreneurs like Charles and Willa Bruce take up space here and be able to build and develop here, like the Bruces once we're able to do. Community is what got the land back. So, yes, the family won, but the community did not. " to read the full transcript https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2349&type=status That quote embody the problem for the millions of black descended of enslaved in india/millions of black descended of enslaved in brasil/ millions of black descended of enslaved in the usa... that while all DOSers concur the issue is important, the consensus in our tribe in the village doesn't exist and sequentially other links https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10813-california-reparations-leaves-out-cash/?do=findComment&comment=65454

For those that may know I have always said I will honor those who follow me but I have been too busy creating my own work. A few months ago, I realized I wanted/needed to program more and so the HDKiriban series was born and this is the first in the series. DogoKwan is a simple tile game. You can change the settings , the dimensions or the difficulty. For my first 25 followers on deviantart I have a dropdown list to display their work. I will continue my HDKiriban series with the second game in the list for members 1-50 . I am open to discussion:) And please save a screenshot of you finishing a game in the comments. WARNING!:) let me help you, this game has an easy bug, if you change the dimension or difficulty settings while playing you will cause problems

@ProfD haahaha at least it is three of us this time:) I do think the status of slavery in the usa, + the comprehension of the war between the states are vital in the black dos populace in the usa.

I see @Pioneer1 That wasn't my intent. I sadly , contruscted my prose poorly.... I never said anyone enslaved has any responsibility to anything. I quote the remainder of my prose to clarify for the online stranger @ProfD+ @Pioneer1 to the war between the states, after reading both of your proses segments, placed at the following I have issues to the statements you both make... Pioneer Slavery didn't end with the war between the states Pioneer. You know this. Profd does as well, all black people do. you know slavery is legal to this day in the prison system and blacks, specifically black men were herded into the prison system legally while criminally by white state governments of the former confederacy or their municipal counties starting immediately after the war between the states ended. I Argue, slavery has never ended in the usa, mutated yes , changed yes, but never ended. Rikers island ,started in the 1970s in nyc, to me is connected to the plantations of infant USA. Everyone , blacks or non blacks have to stop the slavery ended in the usa thing. It not only is a lie, because I know of groups, composed of blacks + non blacks, who are fighting to end slavery in the year 2024 in the usa as we multilog. But also because the lie isn't about slavery really, but about identity. When non blacks say slavery is ended they want to suggest their wealth isn't connected to it + their community has no modern role in it+the usa is a country for all above other countries. WHILE , yes i capped while, when Blacks say slavery is ended they want to suggest their community isn't influenced by white abuse+ black individuals are free to act in positive relation to whites absent a negative communal relationship between the two peoples in the modern+ the usa is a country for all above other countries. Slavery never ended in the usa, changed yes, mutated yes, but never ended, when anyone says slavery has ended in the usa , from indigenious on some reservation /open air prison for natives to someone from somewhere outside the usa landing somewhere in it the day this post was created, beyond the lie of if, the elemental reasonings why are very harmful. Profd well has the civil war done what you suggest. remember school books in elementary school that stated how benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and george washington saw slavery as a countdown issue. To rephrase, they all said it would lead to a serious internal issue, and i call an internal war a serious internal issue. I think even the most common history books to little wee children in the usa make it clear, albeit with less verbosity than me, that the war between the states was an inevitability based on the obvious dysfunctional friction from the beginning of a legal system which suggest universal individual rights while having legal enslavement of individuals. I think many whites like to suggest either they were goodie whites fighting for the negro or proud whites looking to maintain their enslaving heritage but both are wrong, all sides of whites+ blacks+ indigenous were simply playing out the inevitable war that was started by the humans commonly called the founding fathers of the usa. the war was predicted in 1776 yes, it took circa one hundred years to finally happen but it was predicted because of the dysfunction. At the least, I am glad not merely in my home but even the local educational environment i had that the usa was never presented as you suggest. And I want to defend your position in one way profd, something I learned a while back, in the usa, education is really fractured , fractured meaning, people can have totally different educational experiences or environments and be neighbors in the same municipal region. So I end with , maybe that is how the war between the states was presented to you and I am glad to not have been in such a zone. And no way exists in the usa to apply one system to every municipality in the usa. Pioneer The confederacy lost the war because of two people, robert e lee + jefferson davis, they both acted stupidly in their own spheres of influence, it is that simple. Modern history proves the problem, look at Sudan/look at many countries that were former white european descent imperial possessions in central america/south east asia/parts of africa/eastern europe/western asia... secession is easy but secession requires one thing more than anything else to lead to success, what is the plan to be at peace? If no plan exists then you get the confederacy.

topic The sixty-ninth of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. Dates: full moon, lunar eclipse, Neptune in opposition IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : The White Saviour in film from Princess Weekes and where is the Black savior , Strangers from Within saved by Charles Monteith , kiratheartist i love my hair 2 , Steven Seagal and the kung fu of usa film chaos , Love License written by Thelma Iheanacho , Miffy Face cooking , NYPD stop and frisk URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/11/09/15/2024-rmnewsletter.html