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  4. Slap: state your case, no answer is wrong or right

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    Each reader, the question that pertains to you is under your gender in bold. 

     

    WOMEN

    Married black women or boyfriended black women: you are at an award show with your significant other. A comedian makes a snide jest to your physical condition as a joke. Regardless of what your significant other does, what do you do? 

     

    MEN

    Married black men or girlfriended black men: you are at an award show with your significant other. A comedian makes a snide jest to your significant other's physical condition as a joke. Regardless of what your significant other does, what do you do?

     

    Remember, no answer is right or wrong. I just want to know what you will do. Hopefully you can be as honest as possible. 

  14. A question that begat from a multilog concerning Brittney Griner

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @Stefan fair enough...To support your point,  like any community the Black community on Earth has many possible destinations in the future, some positive, some negative. The route to any of them can be simple or complicated based on what Black people choose to do. And we or individuals in we can choose to do anything. 

    I will amend to the Black community in the USA. I don't think the black community in the usa has ever truly battled in itself. In parallel, the white community in the usa has truly battled in itself, went to war in itself. War , or negative actions in general,  can lead to great positive things.  

     

  16. Open Commission by Aderinola

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  17. A question that begat from a multilog concerning Brittney Griner

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    @Delano I don't know anything about you or anyone else on here nor have i inferred anything. I don't know how you sound. 

     

    I am not judging the answers, i asked questions on the answers. Just because a person gives an answer to a question doesn't mean the questioner comprehends the answer, and if I don't comprehend the answer, i ask another question. It is interrogative. 

     

    But, to your credit, unlike ProfD, your answer to my question about your original answer I comprehend. 

     

    I asked about what an individual wants in the black community in the future. 

    You answered to think freely.

    I didn't comprehend the answer and asked did it refer to all humanity.

    You replied life's problems are perceptions and all prejudices and some racial categories are based on false superiority.

    Thus I realise the answer to my secondary question was yes. and you explained why even, which wasn't necessary. 

    Thank you 

  19. A question that begat from a multilog concerning Brittney Griner

    in Culture, Race & Economy

    Posted

    @ProfD this isn't a court,and you answered my original question but when I questioned a part of your reply, your answer had nothing to do with it. I wish I had questioned a part of your reply better, so you could answer it. 

    @Delano you said 

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    I would want people to be able to think freely.

    So I asked about the black community and your answer is about all humanity? Again, I just want clarity to your answer, like with ProfD. 

    I thought my question was clear, I apologize, it seems my questions are poorly constructed. 

  20. A question that begat from a multilog concerning Brittney Griner

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @ProfD you said I quote

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    50 years from now, I would want the black community to be more unified and self-sufficient in all areas of human activity.

    I asked, I quote 

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    do all those areas include war, extortion side other negative human activities?

     

    Why couldn't you say yes or no? you state when war is necessary but I didn't ask when war was necessary. You state what you endorse but I didn't ask what you endorse. 

    I will reask , is war a human activity, whether you endorse it or not ?  if yes then , when you said you want the black community to be unified and self-sufficient in all areas of human activity 50 years from now, you were not referring to all areas of human activity? 

    My last question is, when you said "our sovereignty " you meant the black communities sovereignty? if no please explain, if yes can you explain what that is? 

  22. Favorite Sci-Fi movie?

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @Stefan I know the topic you wanted to discuss , I gave my thoughts to that.

    And I know your position on my topic redirection. And I didn't post to demand a reply from you or any others to my topic. You never know who will read something one day online. 

    And, In posts I have started others have went away from my themes, and I didn't have to mention it, as it is no problem. 

     

    Well, many artistic question go unanswered in this forum. Artistic question don't offer much room for argument, like geogovernance or communal strategy or individual or collective financial strategy. I do care about the state of any black collective scenario. 

     

     

    @daniellegfny the problem with all artistic labels is how they are determined is all human craft. The art of categorization is that, an art. Yes, colleges and universities are in the business of creating a narrative from supposed experts in the arts, but that is merely cultural control. 

    What is science fiction? The word science itself means knowledge. So, fictional knowledge can be magic, pseudo documentaries, theoretical ideas of physics or chemistry. 

    In my experience, artistic groups: black, white, female, male, christian, muslim, et all other racial groups, don't agree on many genre labels. What is a romance? What is a whodunnit? 

    My point is, the acceptance of commonly stated labels is never holistic or appropriate. 

  25. Favorite Sci-Fi movie?

    in Culture, Race & Economy

    Posted

    @Stefan yes, if i do not place a name then I am communicating to the initial poster

     

    After Reading your reply, my first thought was, what does it take to have a film environment. 

    you said Black people were not on many screens in sci fi films or films in general. That is true, but it means you need a place to show films.

    you said Black people didn't run film studioes or have financing to make equal budget films. That is true, but how cheap can one make a film.

    You said you don't comprehend expecting a blackwood. But was a Blackwood impossible before modernity, meaning the last forty years.

    Now you say, the internet provides possibilities. And I concur, but does that mean a Blackwood was impossible in the past. 

    Now you say you want to enjoy a science fiction film first and be happy for who participates in it second. I am 100% certain most black people, over 90%, in the usa and definitely in the white countries in humanity, USA/UK/France/Brasil et cetera, concur to you. 

    And yes, Nollywood exists today, though they don't make blunt science fiction films. Many people in the usa consider Daughters of the dust a science fiction film so the artistic debate I will leave alone. 

    But, was it possible to have black financed/directed/produced/acted, ala a Black Wood?

    Now, body and SOul by Micheaux to Meteor Man from townsend prove, Black people did make movies from the silent to today, with financial or quality standards that are on par to what audiences may have expected.

    But, if the BlackWood was created, how could it be?

    The questions are: 

    Where to show the films?

    Who to make the films? 

    Who to finance the films? 

    How to distribute the films?

     

    My quickest answers, 

    Where to show the films?

    From the 1970s to the end of the war between the states, the most prolific places in the black community, that black people had control over was black churches. Black churches are the theaters. Take a wall, color it white, project on it. If someone has a white curtain use that. Now the white law will definitely find the act of a church theater fiscally improper, so show the films for free, people need popcorn, water, vending is the roots of retail. A person with a little cart is as ancient as the pyramids. Nothing bars the church from having a small set of vendors outside. The vendors are free to donate to the church some of their revenue.

    Who to make the films? 

    I think many Black people made films, but it was common Black folk, not the OScar Micheaux's or Robert Townsends of the world. And, if you have a video recorder, then you have all it takes to make a film, starting with yourself. animation is not new, I know for certain black people near 100 years old recall seeing animation as a child in NYC alone so I know it isn't fantastical. Common Black folk made films. Maybe not close encounters of the third kind in production level, but artistic display isn't about competition it is about creation. if you don't create it doesn't exists.

    Who to finance the films? 

    Black businesses are not new. The Black people who financed MLK jr, the Nation of Islam, Madame CJ Walker has her old house upstate new york. Somebody black had enough money to make a small production film, every year since circa 1865.  Now again, do they have hollywood money? no. But is the goal a blackwood or the goal competition with hollywood. 

    How to distribute the films?

    Oscar Michaeux's films were all found in Europe , not the usa. so somebody copied them and I think oscar micheaux knew who. so, I can't believe later, the ability to copy a film and send to the churches was beyond the means for the Black community in the USA.

     

    Thus, in my view, a Blackwood should had existed already in the USA from the Black community in it. Now some caveats. yes, the Black community in the USA from the Negro leagues to my potential Blackwood are more interested in Black people aside whites than Black people alone. But, I think Black churches, showing films by Black people, spending money to make copies based on word of mouth, with small revenues was sustainable. I didn't even add historical Black colleges for the southern Black populace, which is historically or modernly the largest in the USA per a region. I can't deny many Black people wouldn't care, or would snub. But I think the model was sustainable... if attempted. 

     

    South side home movies project 

    https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/

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