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another negative image for me, an artist paints the picture of tv father's throughout his life. I love my father, he is a king for me and his wife, my mother. I never cared for nor needed a tv black father, and to be blunt , I find tv black father's all poor in many ways.

MY REPLY I want to say, in my home , I was always supported growing up, I still am now. My parents , both , came to all my poetry shows, painting shows. Uncles/aunts/friends of the family all supported me, never said ,i can't do or won't do or some negative else. I know I am being very personal or selfish, but not all creatives were told by numerous people "to be realistic" which is really not about realism but about financial prudence. In the USA this stems from the financial reality of fiscal capitalism. 99% of all artists don't find adequate financial revenue through art, common knowledge, thus the "get real" speech. And in the black populace in the usa, being an artist is 99.99% financially incapable of adequate revenue earning. I was supported by those in my home or my clan or in school. And I am black and went to schools with mostly black teachers til college. And I admit I went to college through federal money, never any debt. I just have to say, not all creatives have the personal history of the naysayed artist the turbulent. My only negative in my art life is I haven't reached the commercial quality I will like but I am getting there. I can only hope that I can find the kind of community I was born in , cause sadly, the community I was born in doesn't exist anymore. And I will like to raise a child in a community like the one I was raised in which doesn't exist in the usa anymore. THE CLICHE I don't know the author but I had to reply

I made a list, please help

National Black Cheerleading championship https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10962-national-black-cheerleading-championship-2024/ Miss Black America https://www.missblackamerica.com/ Black Reel Awards https://www.blackreelawards.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Reel_Awards American Black Film Festival https://www.abff.com/ Thanks for helping, add in comments and I Will place in the list @Chevdove

GDBee got over 1000 preorders for her book:) congrats and if you can get in, go for it https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astroladies/dreams-artbook-by-gdbee-art/description

KWL Live Q&A – Exploring Romance Writing Tropes with Jennifer Hilt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4hRNLhro-Q MY COMMENTS from tropus, latin for a turn interesting , a cliche is a underdevelped trope what is the most well known example of forced proximity Ms Hilt? thank you Ms Hilt , sci fi , I remember farscape, stuck on a ship can be romantic Her Book, the Trope Thesaurus [ https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-trope-thesaurus ] ms hilt, What trope in your reading experience is the hardest to utilize in romance? GOal/Motivation/conflict if yu know anime, the love between vegeta and bulma in dragonballz is interesting asit grows with very little romantic interaction is the happy indian a trope or a cliche, concerning monkey man film with patel, which i think is going against it your thoughts on 50 shades? I think a good movie example of love story that is not how people think romance is the film "random Hearts" great point ms hilt @Collean O'Brien like the old carnival thing with a hammer and knock up the hammer good question Laura, too many tropes in one book thanks for saying that as a female writer/reader said the same Jennifer, about the lead characters in 50 shades or twilight, @Collean O'Brien do it for the covers as well, trope meter for covers good point on speed of capitalization Ms Hilt Most authors don't but some do Collean , the key is to be honest about how you like to write, don't chase if you are not a writing runner @Collean O'Brien tolkien himself simply took time and bult his world over time @Collean O'Brien I never think about a series, just the entire journey to the end. no matter the length. I don't like to extend story for the sake and that is a risk when you think of seires please defien alpha hole? hahaha:) @Collean O'Brien there are many types of women in this world:) do you like lone wolf and cub Mr Hilt? MS Hilt, have you ever wrote a character with a trope you don't like?

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MY COMMENT love the school house rock shirt:) what is that on zenobia's shirt? 13:51 your black mama mindset is too strong:) it is 2024:) yes, zenobia , smile:) .. as black individuals acquire fortunates or more financially opulent lifestyle, will the black parental mold, born from the quarters of the enslaved, become similar to the white parental mold born from the house of the enslavers? no soul food ending:) you two really liked this film? was this the best film you guys saw from the past ten reviews? the power of non advertising:) that is how gems get through cover image

@Troy you reading anything from tananarive due?

Tananarive Due speech transcript, not perfect - Thank you so much to the LA times - the other nominees were incredible to say this this is an honor is an understatement back in 2014 I got a phone call from the florida state attorney's office And learned that my great uncle robert stevens died in 1937 at a notorious - school for boys, a reformatory in florida and after attending a meeting there with my father freedom rider john - due jr I knew I had to write about robert stevens but i also knew that my story would need a different ending , and ghost The novel took me seven years, to write, thank you so much to my husband Steven Barnes, I love you so much, also a great writer, for keeping me on the path, my editor-, my agent donald- , my father for helping me manage the jim crow judge's chamber, my sister joanna- , and my late mother patricia - due, for her courage as a civil rights activist. If I didn't know what should happen next in my book I just had to ask what would mom had done. There are countless robert- stevens in the world. And too few of them get a happy ending. so as we face the horrors in our world, in our cities, in gaza and elsewhere. And where there's true life racism , homophobia , islamaphobia, and antisemiticsm, let us honor the courage of young people as the primary creators of change throughout history and the lesson my mother taught me , activism takes many many forms, as the late octavia a butler said, the only lasting truth is change. thank you very much

well done, thanks:) I asked there what I will ask here? where is the website, who owns this? I searched online and didn't find a website? how? @Chevdove and all others , let us make a list of all the black federal wide competitions in the usa, federal wide, I can't believe many exists

@Milton I put what I placed on your blog... will you follow me on aalbc? Many artist found themselves adding a different aspect of their operations during the covid19. I admit I have been slow to embrace escapism but I didn't feel the same sense of loss during 2020-2022 as many others. Glad you are going in another path. On a literary note, when I think of "American Fiction" the film or the book it is from "Erasure" from percival e. I think a great contrast exist between writing in a new genre to placate to an old negative environment opposed to writing in a new genre to embrace a new positive aspect in one's environment. good luck:) as always

topics The forty-eighth 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. synthography sentiments Dates IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We , Kindergarten Cooking , Ki Khanga the role playing game , Notre Dame in recovery , Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University , Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic , a wooden hand https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/04/14/2024-rmnewsletter-6.html

haha I was about to put this in:)

@Troy I do troy but I don't recall any mention of graphic novels in the video so I fugre the video si just for the video character, thus culture section.

Why is this in the literature sections? shouldn't it be in the culture section?

@Troy I see. You and I have different definitions to the word mecca. And that is why I said the following https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10751-these-black-mayors-arent-powerless/?do=findComment&comment=66656 I quote myself that depends on how you define a mecca but thank you Troy I comprehend in this group I have made a devastating error. For too long I use words in my own way but don't add adjectives explaining these are my definitions. And so it invites others who definitions are different to then come with their definitions but their definitions don't match mine and this our dialog's positions don't align. Based on your definition of mecca you are correct troy. Yes, but not based on my definition. And we both are keeping our won definitions so we each are correct plus incorrect. I will state how I define mecca. A mecca to me isn't a place that draws people. Any place draws people. I call that a condition of any place as a gathering spot. I define a mecca as a place that has intrinsic value to a race of people regardless to if they are drawn to it physically. I base my definition on the role of Mecca to the muslim heritage which is the source of the word. Muslims pray towards mecca, they honor mecca regardless of being able to go to mecca. It is not a gathering spot. it is a revered place to Muslims regardless of whether they go to it or not. Harlem by my definition of Mecca is not a mecca and NYC is not a white mecca. Again, Troy you plus others , not me plus others, define race as phenotype. Based on your definition of race I speak incorrectly or dysfunctionally. based on my definition of race I speak correctly or functionally. The following is my definition of the word race which are from my parents, my first teachers, plus the books I learned about words from. The word race does not mean phenotype. Phenotype means appearance. Race means a characteristic similarity, it can be any characteristic; it can be gender [male/female/hermaphrodite] , clan[your last name] , language [anglo/laltino/sino] , geographic [african/european/asian], religion [ christian/buddhist/muslim/vodun], nativity [ indigenous/immigrant/migrant], and yes phenotype[black,white, mullato, arab, mestizo,dark, light ] and based on my definition of the word race, all humans have a set of racial labels based on their characteristics. So I am a black male anglo harlemite , four different races : phenotype/gender/language/geography . I have more but I said this for explanatory purposes. Now I am not asking anyone else to use words as I use them or define words as I use them but I will continue to use definitions of words in a manner I find most correct. @ProfD can you describe the better financial opportunities south of NYC? I want to tell black people offline about them

@Troy based on how you define a mecca, do non phenotypical racial groups have mecca's in the usa? for example latinos [who can have any phenotype] or asians[ who can have any phenotype]?

@Troy that depends on how you define a mecca I have never defined a mecca to any people through the lens of those who are most financially fortunate. The mecca of islam isn't revered because financially fortunate muslims travel their on caravans or planes of gold from somewhere else. It is revered because even the fiscally poorest muslim sees in mecca the spiritual homeland of their people. NYC in my view is not a mecca for whites or specifically white statians. In the same way Harlem was never a mecca for blacks or specifically black dos. well, you say take over but harlem was white before it was black, it was native before it was white. Everybody black who lived or lives in harlem should know this from their black parents. And modern harlem is probably the finest example of a phenotypically/linguistically/religiously mixed region in nyc. I don't know nyc has alot of problems Troy. First, NYC is going to have an explosion in populace in a decade or two that to be blunt has no way to be anything but a horde of fiscally poor people unless some financial event occurs.

Have any of you played this? I think a nice project for this group will be making an electronic version of this. what do you think @Milton? We can work together and make it in the aalbc website? link Buying page at  MVmediaatl Info on the book Ki Khanga: The Sword and Soul Role Playing Game puts you in the role of a character of your liking in a world of mystery and magic; of villainy and victory; of sword... and soul. Will you delve for lost artifacts in the ruins of ancient temples? Strap on beaded armor and an nkisi necklace to battle undead legions as they storm your city upon the backs of skeletal camels, or defend your village from a swarm of ravenous impundulu? Whether you're making your way through the magical forests of Wandatu or fighting to survive in the palm oil-lit back alleys of Sati-Baa, you and your team will need all your wits, combat skill, and magic to make it through. But most of all, you'll need each other. $20.00 $25.00

@Troyyou comprehend what i mean

I comprehend @Pioneer1 I think alot can be said about how groups approach problems. A functionality exist in being honest, that is lacking in the usa en large. The most truthful thing to say is , being honest has problems or at least potential problems, but the veiled approach also has problems or at least potential problems as well. I argue one of the problems with the native american in the context of the usa, from the usa's very infancy is the native americans who fought for their way of life couldn't create an illusion in the usa system that mirrored the life style they had or wanted. It is a matter of taste @ProfD no profd, I have to say, we black people need to stop suggesting grand organization amongst non blacks in the usa. I don't really see evidence to that. The system the non black founding father's implemented doesn't need non blacks to engage in it to be betterment for non blacks. I look at NYC in all earnest, if the non black populace had the kind of positive organizational qualities black people tend to suggest then nyc would be a white mecca to be blunt.