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  2. @Troy I am harlem , manhattan, nyc  born and raised and live there. 

    ok cool, maybe making the polls open will be cool, if you can allow for members and guest votes to be shown too. 

     

    And add the number of votes in harlem of people who were formerly incarcerated. The years of unfair law enforcement created in the black community a large voting block of people who will vote for someone formerly incarcerated.  But, in terms of quality I argue he is low. The why being, the  city council works by committee. I is a legislative body so being elected to it means little if you have no connections. Richardson I think was more honest, but absent connections  being a socialist was isolated and attacked by the donkeys plus elephants. Salaam is not as honest or radical but he is in the donkey fold so he can have a common tenure in the city council but his policy ideas are less radical or honest.

     

    yeah circa two years ago, PErkins died. 

     

    My point in this post was to reaffirm the continual suggestion by black people that we are worse in many things is a falsehood. Black people's voting turnout is no worse than any other group but black people plus non blacks make it a point to emphasize what we aren't doing even when non blacks are equally inactive. 

  3. I asked prior in this forum if the Black community is to harsh on itself based on the activities of other communities 

     

    And tonight it was proven in the voting arena. Media in NYC continuously complained, why is such low turnout in NYC. But everyone knows the answer, it is the same reason why turnout is low across the board, why turnout in south africa went from 99% across the board to between 30% side 10% , why turnout in the USA's Black community went from over 90% of allowed, cause whites always did whatever it took to stop non violent blacks, whose non violence made it easier. Cause the government fails to return an investment on voting. The city council of NYC is impotent when the people need something or dysfunctional to the people's needs with their policy.

    You want people to vote, it isn't hard. get results.  But all communities in NYC, ALL communities are not voting in high numbers. I repeat all communities. That isn't because of magic, or the when , it is simple, all people know that voting for these people isn't going to help their community or the city at large.

    Ocasio Cortez is a prime example. She won, yes, the white man in that bronx district voting base left the area, age denied their ability to vote, or they died. Communities demographics change in NYC, and always against a communities wishes. But, She hasn't done anything to improve the area. 

    Some themes media has talked about is that people like Inez Dikens or Charles Barron have lost but are forgetting that unlike their rivals these are people who actually spent years advocating for rights on the ground before government. People like Kristin Richardson or Yusef Salaam or Ocasio Cortez have not been on the ground and not worked their way up into government. Based on current results, the new breed will be as impotent as the old breed without having a history of actual advocacy while making a lot more money in various ways.

    But the biggest takeaway is women. I don't know why or how, but from the female nypd chief to Kristin Richardson to the white woman of south brooklyn to Inez Dikens many women in general and particularly women not white european seem to be having a terrible time in NYC government. The answer must be the environment behind the scenes that the newspapers do not say. 

    I will end with a few notes on Kristin Richardson.  

    1) Affordable housing in NYC requires a 50,000 earned income which most people in NYC do not afford so saying she opposes affordable housing is false when what is labeled affordable housing isn't affordable. 

    2) Union jobs aren't enough for the populace in Harlem. HArlem has circa 100.000 people. I repeat, one hundred thousand people, that is larger than most cities in the United States of America. Harlem has no space to build anything new. Harlem has no regional industry. So, union jobs will not employ the many in shelters or similar in Harlem. 

    3) She is a socialist, not a democrat, sequentially she stood alone in the city council.  If you are not a donkey or an elephant, those two parties will restrict your abilities and they will look to criminalize you which was done to her. 

    4) Inez Dikens is right, women of color have it rough in NYC government. I don't comprehend all the why, but something is going on behind the scenes, cause way too women of color in general seem to lose in elections in NYC, and I don't buy the fair argument. 

     

     

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    Kristin Richardson Jordan drops re-election bid in crowded Harlem council race

    Embattled City Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan is dropping her re-election bid in a crowded race for her Central Harlem seat, she announced in an Instagram post Tuesday morning.

    “Dear supporters and volunteers, thank you for seeing the true possibility for racial love in the loveless land of politics — it is not easy to do,” Richardson Jordan wrote. “Unfortunately, I’m writing this to inform you that I have decided not to seek re-election and not to commit to another two years.”

    “I look forward to finishing out this term,” she added.

    Richardson Jordan didn’t immediately respond to a call and message left by a reporter Tuesday morning.

    The Democratic socialist council member was first elected in 2020 by just 114 votes over former state Senator and Council Member Bill Perkins — who died Monday night. She was vying to keep her seat against a packed field in the June 27 Democratic primary that includes Assembly Members Inez Dickens (D-Manhattan) and Al Taylor (D-Manhattan) and Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five — formerly known as the Central Park Five.

    All 51 council seats are up for grabs just two years after the last election, as opposed to the regular four-year council election cycle, because the body’s district maps were redrawn last year following the U.S. Census.

    Richardson Jordan appeared to draw such a large number of eager rivals after she vehemently opposed the One45 rezoning in Central Harlem, that would have brought 458 income-restricted “affordable apartments” — making up 50% of the project’s units, to an underused stretch of 145th Street. Following her opposition, the developer backed off of the project and decided to turn the site into a truck stop instead, though he filed to give the rezoning another go in February.

    Richardson Jordan’s stance on One45 coupled with several controversial Tweets she authored, including one where she appeared to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and her anti-police stance have drawn ire from more moderate local Democrats and made her appear vulnerable to a primary challenge.

    United Brotherhood of Carpenters Executive Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Geiger said it was Richardson Jordan killed her re-election chances when she opposed the One45 development. The union endorsed Taylor’s campaign.

    “For once, Council Member Kristen Richardson Jordan is doing the right thing for her constituents,”  Geiger said, in a statement. “While she quit before formally losing her reelection, the message it sends is still the same: you cannot win re-election in New York City if you are against union jobs and affordable housing.”

    Dickens, who formerly held the seat from 2006 to 2016, before running for the Assembly, voiced her support for all women of color in government and said Richardson Jordan did the “best she could” for the district.

    “I applaud the political participation of all women of color. I started my own political journey as a local organizer and worked my way up to the state legislature, and if there is one thing I have learned it is this: we need women of color in rooms where decisions about our lives are being made,” Dickens said. “I’d like to thank Kristin for her service as [a] council member. She did the best that she could for her community and that is all that anyone can ask of her.”

    Salaam, in a statement, also thanked Jordan for her “service and commitment to the Harlem community we call home.”

    “This race is about the future of Harlem and I am running because we need real change that lifts up our seniors, gives people opportunities, improves our schools, enhances public safety and creates affordable housing,” he said.

    In his own statement, Taylor acknowledged Richardson Jordan’s decision not to seek re-election must not have been easy.

    “I give my deep regards to the councilmember for what must have been a difficult and somber decision,” Taylor said. “We run for office because we have a passion and conviction for making things better for our neighbors and communities. I respect her decision and I wish her only the best in the next chapter of her life.”

    Progressive Democratic Strategist Camille Rivera, a partner at New Deal Strategies, told amNewYork that while she doesn’t know the exact reasons why Richardson Jordan dropped out, her decision changes the dynamics of the contest. Rivera also said it’s “sad” that another woman of color has decided not to run.

    “I think it becomes a race that is more open,” Rivera said. “I do think it’s sad to me, I mean this is another woman of color who has decided not to run. And despite whatever folks have said and not been supportive, she’s always done her best to be on the right side of things … I mean she is a progressive, she is somebody that people did trust, but sometimes the stuff just becomes too much.”

     

    URL

    https://www.amny.com/politics/kristin-richardson-jordan-drops-re-election-bid-in-crowded-harlem-council-race/

  6. You made a statement on Stefan's post about the supreme court legislation that will force the district map in lousiiana to change 

     

    @ProfD  and I want to interject simply... It isn't moral or symbolic, it is legal, it is structural. 

    As the black elected official who helped the black family get their land back... who sold it back to whites , said, I paraphrase, the black family won but the black community didn't. A black individual is about to get a 50 year plus seat, in government with full healthcare coverage, access to various opportunities, and will benefit those in their close circle they care for. So a minority of black people will benefit 100%. But,  Will the larger black community in the district in Louisiana or the potential other places about the southern states or other states in the usa  get high quality black elected officials , quality based on getting results, results defined as policy that helps black people without question? only time can tell, but based on the history of black elected officials from the 1970s onwards, the odds are very low or as near to zero as you can get. But the tradition of Black Elected officials in the USA since the 1970s, and before to be blunt,  is universalism so this is expected. Universalism in black elected officials in the usa is based on an interpretation of christian morality. But it isn't a symbol, Black people, few black people, will thrive with these new opportunities. 

    My Proof 

    < https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2349&type=status ; the exact quote: Community is what got the land back. So, yes, the family won, but the community did not.> 

     

     

  8. @Pioneer1

    Well one of the great myths in modernity is the earliest film era. the earliest film era I argue was freer than any film era since. but two things happened. One the back to back European Imperial Wars and the movie codes and machinations by all religious communities in the usa to eradicate early hollywood from memory. 

     

    Gay men had orgies back in the 1920s. Some styles of fornication back then will make some of the most pornographic people today puke. The problem today is the past has been taught as some form of christian decency instead of a very wild place under greater cover with greater threat from christian condemnations. Going to the reformation period in england. Alot of fornication went on then. 

     

    Today, modernity, people are used to publicity with things. Things happen when you make them public and people join up. But in the past, publicity wasn't how things worked. You needed to be in communities. But once you were in, you were privy to private things that many in modernity haven't done. 

  10. @Pioneer1

     

     

    I will repeat the question with one addition in underscore. 

    is the severity in which  black people communicate our internal troubles  fair or unfair based on the activities of others? 

     

    I showcased two articles that display two non black communities with an internal problem. One that some, will deem far worse than the parallel in the black community. And then I asked a question. 

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    photo reference   Tolmer Falls | Litchfield National Park Sunset | Louise Denton | Flickr

     

    Happy June Solstice

    May all be cool in the northern hemisphere summer, may all be warm in the southern hemisphere winter. A solstice is when the a pole is angled most toward the sun, thus causing the effect of the sun standing still. Another way of saying it, is the ecliptic , or axis based on the equator of the earth has the largest angle distance to a line from the sun center to the earth.

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    From Movies That Move We 
    Richard Murray's Corner 
    Episode 1
    The Blood of Jesus
    TRANSCRIPT
    00:00:00
    Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are listening. I am Richard Murray and this is the first episode in the series in Movies That Move We, I call Richard Murray's Corner. 
    The goal of this series is to provide a talk on the oldest Black Cinema, cinema defined as film. I define , I define, you may concur or not, Black Cinema as films that have a majority of Black control or involvement in all aspects of creation. So , in this series, when I say Black Cinema I do not include things like video recordings of Porgy and Bess, a white written story. Or a film like the WIZ whose script was written by schumacher , based on a play whose stage script was written by William Brown , another white person, while both stage or film were primarily financed by twentieth century fox. And for the record I support the WIZ stageplay or film. The point is not to criminalize or oppose multiracial collaborations in film, but to focus on all or nearly all Black collaborations in film in the past. I have learned in my experience that White produced art involving Black people is usually different than Black produced art involving Black people.  I use "Shuffle Along" in opposition to "Porgy and Bess".  Here is the talk to the film, the WIZ ,on Movies That Move We < https://www.facebook.com/687782856/videos/10158170810782857/ >  I end with, this irregular timed series will focus on said Black Cinema. Old as possible and as much Black involvement as possible.
    ...
    I begin, not with an Oscar Micheaux film but with a work entitled the "Blood Of Jesus" ; Written/Directed/Co Produced by Spencer Williams,  the other producer was a white jew named Alfred N Sack who owned theaters and had distribution deals. Remember, all films outside of private made autodocumentarian films involving one subject made by produced or crafted by the same person are collaborative art projects, always. You need other people to work on the film or produce it / to get to theaters/ or to handle distribution , for ninety nine percent of films in all humanity, all the woods together, sequentially why you need so much money on average.
    Well, Now I will present the introduction to the film , The Blood Of Jesus . 
    00:02:55 Video segment 01
    00:04:10
    Ok, This movie I chose for various reasons, artistically. The theme of the presence of the Black Christian Community, which at one time was nearly synonomous to the entire Black community in the USA, in films involving Black people is clearly shown here. When you think about shows like Power from Fifty Cent or Sanford and Son or  films like The Five Heartbeats or the Blues Brothers the film heritage of mentioning the Black Christian Community in the USA when a Black character is present is embedded in Black Cinema itself. It isn't a caraciture by White artist applied to Black people. If anything a telling thing is how lesser the quantity of Black Christian references are in modern film involving Black people. 
    Alright, onto the next segment
    00:05:01 Video segment 02
    00:06:59
    The link to the film in completion is at the bottom of the transcript, if you want to know why the Black man was running. All I will say is, jesting at the Black Christian culture isn't untold or unheard of in Black Cinema. So,whenever someone Black tells you what shouldn't be done, please refer to this film. Now, another thing, the showing of the shoulder, by Cathryn Caviness playing Sister Martha Ann Jackson, was deemed in 1941 risque. Yes in modern, 2023 , standards this is nothing. But, in 1941 for a woman to show shoulders was deemed by some indecent, or others tawdry. 
    Alright, onto the next segment
    00:07:44 Video segment 03
    00:08:45
    Yes, Juanita Riley playing Sister Jenkins knows Ras is lying. But what is most interesting is how muted the Black women treat the Black man who is a criminal. In the 2007 film Pride, the character played by Kimberly Elise reacts so vibrantly when she discovers the character portrayed by Terrence Howard was in an altercation with law enforcement and went to prison. Yes, Ras has stolen. He can't even keep the species of creature he killed the same in his storytelling. But the Black women don't act like the world has fallen, which is a very modern movie trope involving Black characters in cinema. Either we are not breaking the law to live better and overreact at the sight of the law being breaking or we are breaking the law to live better and we are unconcerned with anything... am I my brother's keeper. right? What movie is that from? Hint , Black Director, aided in financing by Clint Eastwood.
    Alright onto the next segment
    00:09:52 Video segment 04
    00:11:16
    Remember in First Sunday when Tracy Morgan said, Jesus is looking at me. I couldn't resist. But love the honesty in the action. An old gun, not upkept well cause folk don't have even anything to eat can trigger like that. A pure accident but warranted.
    Alright , onto the next segment
    00:11:54 Video segment 05
    00:12:30
    I have seen Christian Heaven depicted in many films, and I can not recall one that had spirits walking up to the gates of heaven from earth. If you pay attention, the spirits are not flying, they are walking... on the clouds, to the gates of christian heaven. I can not verify but this scene was supposedly made from scenes from the 1911 italian film L'iInferno. I watched the italian film, it was very augmented to create this scene. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Inferno > To the scene construction, don't take it negatively, if you are Black. I think the message is interesting. The message is, even if our spirits when dead do not have wings, we can walk on clouds to get to heaven, and that is alright. I think it is a message about what the afterlife means to many Black people then. The afterlife isn't a place of getting what you never had. The afterlife is a place of being free from enslavement, from restriction, from disability through human involvement. In parallel, the film L'inferno is about punishment. 
    Alright, onto the next segment
    00:13:49 Video segment 06
    00:15:11
    The acting by Cathryn Caviness slowly dying at peace is well done,take a look at the full film. But I hope you enjoyed the special effects. The angel is played by Rogenia Goldthwaite, thus she has wings. So, it wasn't that Black Angels didn't have wings, but when Black people go to christian heaven, it is interpreted differently.
    Alright onto the next segment
    00:15:40 Video segment 07
    00:17:23
    I know the film is old but I will love if anyone can comprehend for sure the highway of light or life. It looks like a video of an urban city at night. I love how the angel left no nonsense. It is all up to you.  Simple instructions. Right is good, Left is bad. Poor Judas. That name has been criminalized. Satan clearly. 
    Judas Green, knowing both my parents mothers, he would had been in trouble the second he said that to them so they clearly evaded his machinations. Doesn't the angel sound like Phyliccia Rashad when she interviews people. 
    Alright onto the next segment
    00:18:07 Video segment 08
    00:21:09
    The funny thing about the bar scene, before this segment, outside the nice three individual acts: tap dance/acrobat/singing is not one criminal act is present. It is just Black people hanging out in a bar. Even Sister Jackson, who has been persuaded by Judas Green to join the character, Gambler, is wearing a cross. The second spot where the segment comes from, which is alluded to as farther down, is just that a spot. The heater in the center of the dance floor suggest this is almost a converted shack, not an a urban nightclub. Love the dancing. Notice no necklace with a cross on Sister Green now. On a musical note, it is clear Jazz side Blues were equally deemed temptation music unlike like Gospel in the black community. I think one of the unique cultural elements is how the road to temptation isn't an extremely cruel path. At the end of the day, she is in a spot where women get money to dance and give a little nooky to men. The funny thing is all of these people are spirits. 
    Alright onto the next segment
    00:22:44 Video segment 09
    00:27:17
    Interesting perspective how on the crossroads, you have spirits like the gambler, happily engaging in acts of theft and lying. The female thief spirit, just successfully suckered the male spirits. Again, if you think of High John the Conqueror or the Devil's Daughter, I argue, Black people, had created a secular mythology which treated tricking and the ability of devils to do good or be content , less sinful and more a part of life or acceptable. Against the religious fervor of Black Christianity.
    Alright onto the next segment
    00:28:00 Video segment 10
    00:30:09
    Very much an interesting painting, the black woman lying at the base of the cross slightly on the right side. Look at the size of those stones used. Let he who is without sin cast the first boulder. We do not see hell in this film or heaven, it can argue purgatory is seen. Which meansthe spirits in the middle are in a limbo. 
    Alright onto the next segment
    00:31:01 Video segment 11
    00:34:06
    The Blood of Jesus has the ability to return someone from the crossroads of the spirit world, after proclaimed dead in the living world, but before a soul makes a choice at the crossroads. Like the film Body and Soul < https://archive.org/details/body-and-soul_202107 > , the first film for Paul Robeson, an Oscar Mischeux film, the theme of Black Women traversing between worlds is common. An interesting note, the body wasn't removed immediately after the sheet was put over the head. Which makes sense, people didn't move the proclaimed deceased immediately to the ground or the fire. 
    Blood Of Jesus, free to view in completion < https://archive.org/details/blood_of_jesus > 
    Happy Juneteenth 2023
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  22. @Pioneer1 

    the only issue I raised is a question, is the severity in which  black people communicate our troubles  fair or unfair based on the activities of others? 

    I used two cases, one of white europeans, concerning violence of men to women  in general,  side one of white asians , violence of men to women or children sexually, to display how another community has a publicly stated problem that can be deemed worse than the black community. 

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