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richardmurray

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  1. @Pioneer1 @ProfD @harry brown who among you answered no in the poll above and t ot he one who did, please speak of the black populace in a government in the american continent that doesn't have a mardi gras/carnival?
  2. @ProfD I am not saying black people are our own worst enemy. I am saying the black populace has a large percent of people , at least in NYC whose position isn't the majority outside their group but was used by whites to aid in justifying false situations. And it matters cause the black populace in the usa today is built on those lies not just from the white man but black people themselves. the black drug dealers was never in control, the NYPD always controlled them. You have to comprehend how illegality works in every city in the usa. TO be blunt, the NYPD have usually controlled the entire illegal financial operation in nyc since their creation. Yes, a few phases had true mob control but those are rare. The NYPD tells you where you can operate you know. Anyone who knows anything about the street in nyc knows this already . No the NYPD never take the majority cut because to take the majority cut will expose the nypd to internal affairs plus federal revue. The goal is to get a sweet cut, control where the illegal activity operates and let the illegal operators have the rest. So no one, white black or other in NYC's illegal fiscal market can do what they please as you suggested black drug dealers should had. Anyone tell you that can commonly happen is a liar. And those who want to go against the nypd or a larger mob will need serious arms, ok. this is not a simple thing. And as the nypd has grown in number this is even more of a challenge. But to talking about growing black wealth. well, what do you mean? Remember, most of NYC's buildings were originally owned by whites or were through bankruptcy owned by the city government which for most of its history is over 95% white in terms of employees. I argue,in cheap retrospect the better argument is to grow black wealth outside nyc by said black drug dealers. Cause NYC, Chicago, Los aNgeles, or similar are all silly places when it comes to black empowerment. For black individuals they are fine but for the black populace they are never fine. @Troy I admit I was so concerned with the topic of black people's false positions in the black populace in the usa to search my own posts in this community, AALBC, where i cite. But I link something below for the staticticphiles. Now listen I can't verify anything. As I tell people elsewhere online, the only way to truly know the validity of any statistics is to do it all yourself. but anyway https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/educational-attainment.html They say the following The high school completion rate in the United States for people age 25 and older increased from 87.6% in 2011 to 91.1% in 2021. The percentage of the population age 25 and older with associate degrees rose from 9.5% to 10.5% between 2011 and 2021. So I will retract my statement and say Most people in the usa don't have a college diploma near 70% But the statistics do not matter. The point is black people speaking false to other black people. Which no one seems to be interesting talking about who commented on this post. Why support false things? And I will even be as public to my personal life as i can stomach and say, there are those in my bloodline who concur to you Troy, about the condition of the black populace or NYC themselves, while they actually knew the white hand. But I have to add , there are those in my bloodline who concur to me as well, about my position in opposition to yours. And the people I am speaking about are older than you and lived in NYC their entire lives. Now I am not going to go any further and if anyone doesn't believe well ok. But, I am not going to provide some valdiation or quotations or names. Crooked cops, in my view , crooked NYPD, it isn't cops for me, it is the entire organization. Every single law enforcer in NYC knows a fellow law enforcer who is committing a crime and sequentially they are aiding and abetting said crime plus breaking the oath they utter. I never said Drug dealers were traitors to the race Troy. I was speaking of black church people. I apologize for confusing you plus the people i call the black one percent. They in my view were and still are the traitors cause their positions are false to the situation of the larger populace. but I comprehend why , as i said in my comment if I said black drug dealers were traitors to the black race please quote me and I will retract that.
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  4. @Pioneer1 I will not speak for everywhere but I know offline people older than you , who were in NYC during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. 1. Most black people in NYC saw the white hand, moreover, knew the white hand and spoke about the white hand. I repeat most Black people in NYC knew of the white hand. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. But to my point about traitors, the damn black church which in the 1960s, 1970s, and onwards was losing its cultural grip in the black populace of nyc. I am not saying no one didn't go to sunday service, people still do now, but the situation today started then. In NYC, i will not speak for other places, but in nyc, the black church had lost ground. And in the 1970s with the white call for the war on drugs, which the nypd , a white organization started, the black church in nyc supported that even though anybody black who lived in nyc, if honest knew the black populace in nyc wasn't a war zone at all. that is a lie. The black church folks are traitors who were bitter that all age groups of black people were less and less buying into their nonviolent/law abiding speech that produced in nyc no results and if anything gave whites the cart blanche, the white card, to take advantage of the black populace absent any resistance. It is the year 2024. I am not going to write a white history book for these folks. They were bitter or alienated. Most alienated, least bitter. But feeling angry that your tribe in the village is losing potency in the larger village doesn't warrant aiding and abetting a rival village harming your own even worse. 2. Well in NYC the dealers was and still are the NYPD. Just in the past few months a law enforcer got "caught", meaning she iddn't pay her higher ups their cut, selling drugs. the nypd is the dealer Pioneer. Who is going to put the nypd in jail exactly? Please answer. Please answer. Those traitors in NYC did want to blame the financially poor black person without an opportunity or pot to piss in for trying to make dollar in this of all countries, while as always they are totally silent to the NYPD continuous criminal actibities. Who runs the prostittuion, who runs the drugs, who runs the extortion, I just made a post in this very community exposing how the nypd is allowing the illegal marijuana business to thrive. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2597&type=status The NYPD aren't traitors they are enemies. Where is the black church on that ... Many other black folk online of offline , yes i have said this offline in my local neck of the village, have opposed my view on the black elder traitors. But I hold firm. If ever their comes a day when I am in a black community I love again, I will not allow tis sort of behavior.
  5. Well...:) I have spoken on parties of governance so much on this website i have little to say new. I think the current populace in the usa's multiphenotypical, multireligious, multifinancial, multiphilosophical, ... multiracial form aside the current rule of law is exposing the weakness in the system. The system in the usa was never designed to support the current situation nor was never designed to change to accommodate the current situation. The question to the future is, how can the current empire to all in humanity, which the usa is, maintain its status internationally while changing sufficiently internally to accommodate its current situation. Various answers exist. The problem is who among the populace in the usa that has an answer plus is willing to emit an answer will be in a position to enact their answer?
  6. New York State has levied more than $25 million in fines against unlicensed smoke shops while it has collected $22,500 in fines from unlicensed shops. Where is no mercy. Where is the black church? Where are the people in various black communities, offline or online like this one, that constantly complain about drug use or drug activity? I remember being a child in New York City, so many self righteous black people would get on white media and preach daily about drugs in the black community. Criminalizing any black person just trying to get by. Where are they now? Most people in the usa don't have a high school diploma, near 70%. Why did some Black people make it seem like a Black child not getting a high school diploma was a capitol crime? Yes, I have a piece of paper from the white man. But most people, including white people, don't have a high school disploma in the usa, why did Black people make such a fuss? I find as I have reached adulthood so many things that black people outside my home or my local neck of the black woods uttered were and are lies, feces , terribly smelly feces that explain more to me the problem in the black populace in the usa. A minority in the black populace of the usa have always been haters, I see now. Preaching legality in the black populace with no mercy, preaching education in the black populace with no honesty, never willing to harm nonblacks who harm the black populace, speaking against any black person or black group that is militant or nationalist or seperatist or segregationist or anything that isn't a loyalist to the USA or a nonvolent phenotypically integrated lifestyle. Scum. The articles at this link support the position https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2597&type=status
  7. cool, glad you are out and about:)
  8. @ProfD that is true, all humans love handouts, its a myth that humans don't. Unfortunately, the black populace in the usa never had someone wealthy enough to give money to a large set like whites have on multiple occasions. The rockefellers in ny for example did that, gave jobs, gave things to the white community in the city. But they had the level of wealth to do that.
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  12. oh @Pioneer1 midwesterners, what card games you play over there, uno?
  13. I will defend the million man march in, the black populace in the usa is circa 50 million people. 1 million is not even ten percent, so I don't think the million man march called for all black people to attend, the idea was for a large group of black people to attend. and in defense of the black populace in the usa, i think the people the masses in the black populace did their part. the problem was the black leadership showed its poverty of quality. not having desire to guide that momentum. @Troy the tragedy in the million man match was how many black men, plus black people, i recall black women publicly being proud of black men, black children being proud, at least where i was offline, who embraced the comradery, embraced the communalism, left disheartened when black leadership showed its lack of positive quality. Either None of the black leaders for or in and about the million man march expected the turn out or they never were going to plan anything anyway. in defense of @Pioneer1 numerical statement, I can tell you from first hand accounts it was an order of magnitude more. It was more than a million. easy. and that goes back to my painful dislike of black leadership during that moment. The black populace were hoping in washignton with all those elected black officials whose offices are less than ten miles away, such a showing would come with their end, but at always black elected officials have shown their poverty and it has no excuse. I know people in here talk about the fiscal wealthy's influence, but that is a historically invaldated defense to elected officials impotency To your point about black leadership @Pioneer1 I oppose your position. he offered nothing. I realize that maybe most black people in this online community and maybe most black people in the usa grew or feel they grew up in a local black community that is full of black individual failure but I didn't. My local black community's problem was the white man it is that damn simple. Black people voted, owned homes, worked worked worked, all that B.. what you call advise or instructions black men in my local black community were doing before the match pioneer.ok. now maybe in yours it was all black statian hell but it mine it was not. , white man has power, the power you get with guns, the power to do regardless of education or financial value. Black leaders don't provide what local black communities like mine needed. maybe your local black community needed all that individual call stuff, but mine didn't ok. And i oppose your position, two million black people are less than ten percent of the black populace in the usa. Don't underrate the size of the black populace in the usa, it isn't the white jews. it is far larger. The KKK at its height had tens of millions. now if ten million black people were united under an organization then... that can lead to making changes, but not two or one million black people.
  14. ah ok @Troy I will not do so any more. I figured black artist offering commissions is positive. Where in the forum space shall i put these in the future?
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  16. @Pioneer1 yeah farrakhan wasted that march with no plan, whatsoever. him and the others told over a million black men to come and only could chastize or tell them what they already know, not have a plan. And white power wasn't why, it was as often in modern times, poor black leadership
  17. @Pioneer1 I comprehend the why , i asked if you agree. If you do then what do you think can happen to strengthen this time. @harry brown do you have anything positive to say?
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  20. @Pioneer1 why didn't you vote yes? in the poll in this post?

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