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richardmurray

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  1. @Troy I love it:) it produced something rythmical. though it clearly didn't know the speech cause biden had tons of policy references , i like the allusion to a hidden laced issue.
  2. https://www.tumblr.com/princessmuk/722972552729853952/attention-fellow-writers
  3. @ProfD and, in the year 2024 , at least in nyc, it is clear that the media's ways have trickled into all populaces. Again , you will be surprised how often I heard latinos- any phenotype, speak ill of illegal immigrants or fiscally poor latinos. And at the end of the day, what is the core idea? You are fortunate, so speak ill about those who are unfortunate in your race. whether phenotypical/geographic/gender or other. It serves the NYPD in their statistic claim. It serves media who likes to announce negativity even if most scenarios are positive. It serves the fortunate in various populaces who don't want to admit how they undercut their own populace supporting dysfunctional ideas.
  4. @Pioneer1 The question to you is simple, what percentage will satisfy you? I will explain. Lets go to the numbers. NYC is over ten million people. Ten percent is one million. One percent is one hundred thousand. Now lets say one hundred thousand people were murdered last year, which didn't happen. This unverifiable website said circa 80,000 people died in NYC from all causes last year. https://deadorkicking.com/death-statistics/us/new-york/2023/ This site also said NYC is circa twenty million people. It also gives the majority of deaths in NYC coming from health things that many suffer from and is not connected in my mind to the nypd or legal issues. Many people in the usa live unhealthy but their deaths are not nypd related. So what is the point between that point and the article I shared to you before, the percentage of deaths in nyc from violence is a fraction of a percent. Based on the unverified website plus my eyes and ears living in NYC. And that has always been true. More people in NYC die from being poor than violence. But again, the issue here isn't poverty but crime, injury from one citizen to another. So , if those that are harmed in NYC is a fraction of one percent, the question to you is... what percentage is acceptable for you to not feel crime is an issue that needs the nypd? 100%? You can say 100% and I totally accept it and oppose your position. But, For me, NYC can go to 95% Five percent of people in NYC being harmed is a negative but with so many people I don't comprehend how that speaks emergency, or need of grand law enforcement. And from people who lived in NYC far longer than me, nyc was never the cesspool of violence suggested in media. well strangified, the people coming in aren't betters just different. You have to comprehend, cost of living in nyc is too high. Many people laughed at the black POAJ guy but he was right, the rent is too high. But the real estate industry is very powerful. To break their influence isn't simple. NYC has such a multracial populace, which is not congruent on any racial quality outside human that no matter who you get, they can always finance another communities elected officials to protect them From elementary to college i walked home from school every day. 99% of the time, no problems whatsoever. through parks, various avenues, in some regions may be not majority black. always some guys out in the street all over. I remember a commercial when i was a kid, a kid is black and running, through his region. and I laughed cause I never ran home. And when i became an adult I realized, and maybe this is you. Maybe someone in your clan got hurt , maybe a child of yours or relative you loved. but you guys are the one percent, not the 99%. I am in the 99% , nothing happened. I had all black friends, we played in the street, went to our various homes. Nothing happened. I realize some people have incidents, negative ones, but i think 99% of black people never have these prolbems but people like you, who admittedly may have been hurt, now want 100% , fear because of life experiences maybe. But those fears are falsely applied on the black populace and moreover are used to maintain negative governmental actions in the usa to black people. I am a black child of NYC, I have been everywhere, every burough. I have relatives in every burough as a child. Your wrong. I realize I have to stop saying no child, but 99% of black children had no problems. They didn't. Well, let's reverse it. NYC, doesn't list how many children happily go to school every day and come back home smiling. I have never seen local NYC media list the number of kids who don't get killed, haven't been bullied, haven't been raped [raping as in stealing a body, not forced fornication]. Why can't the people who aren't killed, who aren't robbed draw attention in NYC? It seems to me, people like you clearly control media in NYC cause media in NYC don't see anything of value with those who are not robbed, not killed, not harmed, having fun, enjoying their lives in their populace. It seems to me, people like you in NYC are willing to keep walking or don't want any attention drawn , when a black child is happy to and from school , playing outside , with black men shirtless selling drugs hanging on a corner. I will accept in NYC drawing attention to those robbed or killed in the local media if the quantity of those who are not gets an equal rate of NYC media's time. Which if course has never happened in NYC. So if less than one percent of the kids in NYC are getting killed then less than one percent of NYC media's time should be to them. And your later prose proves my earlier guess correct. It is unfortunate when someone gets hurt, but the black populace in NYC has existed for too long with those, including in the black populace, who turn the unfortunate scenario for a minority in the black populace of nyc into the status of the whole black populace in nyc and that to me has done far more damage and to be blunt, for the betterment of the black populace in nyc need to stop well, not just lost, but I have an offline friend , went to school together. we are still friends I might add, he lost a family member of his. I am not going to give personal details. But, I told him that it was unfortunate, i am saddened for his lose as a friend, but it didn't warrant what his quite vocal support for the NYPD or various law scenarios. Your certainty is flawed. but I am lucky. I have true friends offline. I am used to talking to my offline friends regularly. and we talk about all sorts of issues to be fair, so this isn't a common situation. Remember, the black populace in nyc is large. IT is the largest of any city in the usa. and with that comes the reality that, you and me and our different circles isn't some impossibility. It isn't a longshot. It is arithmetically very possible. And this goes to the larger issue in the black populace in NYC. I have said for a while, too many black people put on other black people in nyc their experience and again that is where it all goes wrong. Just because everybody died in your family from street violence side other black people, which has happened to some black people in nyc, doesn't mean the existence of a black person in the same city where everybody in their family simply died of old age is impossible, ala me, and what that means is, what is then stop and frisk, the war on drugs, the war on crime when you have such a range. And to my earlier point, the issue is emphasis. And in NYC, the emphasis by media is flawed for me concerning the black populace. Media in NYC which is mostly white owned or controlled, always emphasis the negative minority, the one percent in the black populace, in nyc. in the amsterdam news, i just got this morning @Troy Armstrong williams, whom you know I oppose , is still continuing his viewpoint similar to Pioneer:) about the black populace near the brink. But he is wrong. but again the question is, do you want 100% cause if that is what you want, that is an inhumane desire. And, to go away, Eric Adams, recently has suggested it is time to "Crack down" on immigrant violence. And why? as the city's immigrant populace grows and the media changes its tune on the black populace slowly but surely the NYPD need a new target, they i think want the asian but they aren't large enough, but the illegal immigrant populace is. The media is slowly criminalizing the illegal immigrant more and more. The problem is, many populaces, non black or white, in NYC are used to the media narrative or government legislation to the detriment of or bad speak to the black populace that some in the non black are trying to slow this down. But, the nypd need statistics. That is how it works. In this very community i shared how the nypd literally use black people they pick up and the supposed crime they were picked up for as statistics for those crimes. The nypd don't calculate their wrongful or false actions, they count their successful or their assumed. This will happen with illegal immigrants i bet. It is an easy black book and in media i already saw, people [latinos any phenotype/asians any phenotype] already sound like pioneer, like their community is on the brink, which it isn't. Poverty is just poverty. Yeah is it on the corner. Outside the store. Yeah it drinks, does some crack, meth. yeah it's loud. Sometimes harasses. But usually it doesn't harm.
  5. greater power also exposes more of what you are not. Better hope you have friends. My two questions are the following IF discovery channel takes your name out of a container of random writers names, and gives you the chance to do a superman movie. Describe your film in one sentence? LEt's say Discovery channel chose you and not tae nihis coates to do a black superhero movie, what will the superhero be and describe it in one sentence? My answers, for it isn't fair to ask and not answer:) a human looking alien with super speed/strength/leaping ability/super tough skin raised on a farm in the usa midwest by two loving adopted human parents but born on an alien world whose people's negative bias to leaving led to their destruction while saved from said alien world by his two loving biological parents fights crime on earth as a superhero while working as a private investigator having complex interactions with a human female reporter and young male photographer. My favorite usa based superhero comic is blood syndicate of milestone. sO I will ask discovery for them though I know i have to also ask milestone as well.... and the sentence is -> A group of survivors from a gang battle involving all of the cities urban non white gangs organized by law enforcement plus multiglobal corporations for an illegal or unethical experiment band together to exist as an illegal overseer to a region in the city. BUT , comprehending the inequal answer as it involves milestone not just discovery channel, I will provide an equal answer and say, Black lightning, the sentence is-> a black male schoolteacher happily married to a black woman lives in a financially destitute section of a city with wealth in other regions like metroplis and on a happy vacation in the countryside outside the city with his wife a meteor falls near their camp and the only remnant technology of a completely dead extraterrestrial community in any other way survives the crash and after learning about this technology side his wife plans to aid common folk in his section of the city with the powers he has been able to gain from it. OK... now you go for it!:)
  6. @Troy nice, thanks for joining in my favorite lines in the poem, did you write it? , are the following For in the spaces between the lines read, Lay unaddressed issues, silently spread. What part of my poem did you enjoy most? You can say none at all:)
  7. After listening to the speech, I made the following poem. Centos or sharing your own poetry is welcome. TITLE: Biden's Pulpit Some will say Biden shouted Some will praise his vitality Some will think it for an opponent Some will hear stroking naysays While me, plus others, heard a plea ... A plea embedded in, a declaring free That one day, the land of genocide, slavery, plus greed Will be a civil being, matching a dream but... The plea has a problem Multimade in said land's past The murder of those who led Without need of a plea By their neighbors, who saw the usa Eternally, as a land of said three things Not sinful, evil, or any inhumane Where love to son is not to the stranger So the white haired president, pleaded to those he don't need He need those who will act without his plea, who are all in graves ...Now Dear reader, do not think me a peer I merely scribed the truth to what I live in. I know stars and stripes, is said eternally While! I don't hate, fear or work against those Who hope the usa become said being. When descended from enslaved, you can be me ... I will leave to do my own things But, all are warned, to the following beware old slavery or bright dreams And hope you live as the lucky In tomorrows ... the free Author: Richard Murray If you enjoy my poetry consider my poetry collection Poetry or More , it is very affordable https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poetry-or-more-1 Or my book of centos- centos are poems made from other poems https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/richard-murray-centos-2023
  8. @Dee Miller I will say Zora Neale Hurston is who I am thinking of but like me, her little section of the black populace when she was growing up was a place of positivity for her in a way most black people didn't and don't have in the usa. Poem Title: Zora Take me down to Eatonville Take me right down to Eatonville where the vineyards ripe with currants dressed in plum, cherry, and of course a blushy peach all swing with me brush their bruised skin— drop against the sediment that covers their sweet Take me down to Eatonville Take me right down to Eatonville where the laughter crackles, shrieks roars rude as belches, fine as gratitude thick as contrite where notes grab me by the waist side squeeze my handles and brush my skin against grins set with peppered sweat Take me down to Eatonville Take me right down to Eatonville where the eyes are set apart but roam like unbridled streams, coil like kitchen hair all over because of Song of Solomon 1:5 not because of the fruit Take me down to Eatonville Take me right down to Eatonville where glazed hardwood floors are for lindy hop scuffs— not blackened knees Take me down to Eatonville Take me right down to Eatonville Where I’ll be— But you won’t, Zora Because you’re too busy sharpening your oyster knife In amendment, for me, alot of Black music is poetry with instrumentation so I have to add the following Weed Smoker's Dream by Joe McCoy and Herb Morand Sitting on a million, sitting on it everyday Can't make no money giving your stuff away Why don't you do like, like the millionaires do Put your stuff on the market and make a million too Face of a betting women, she bets on every hand She's a tricking modafunkyou everywhere she lands Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do Put your stuff on the market and make a million too May's a good looking frail, she lives down by the jail On the back though she got hot stuff for sale Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do Put your stuff on the market and make a million too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyjW8FTGxbI Why Don't You Do Right? Joe McCoy You had plenty money in 1922 You let other women make a fool of you Why don't you do right like some other men do? Get outta here and get me some money too You're sittin' down, wonderin' what it's all about If you ain't got no money they gon to put you out Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get outta here and, get me some money too if you had prepared, twenty years ago You wouldn't be drippin from door to door Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get outta here and, get me some money too ... I fell for your jargon and I, took you in Now all you got to offer me is a, drink of gin Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get outta here and get me some money too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavQY5V0xpg
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  10. @Troy yes, i comprehend but my point is about the publicly traded firm model being the problem. Public traded firms allows for firms absent revenue or savings or even in debt to gain investment or balance their value. But the problem is, staying in the publicly traded form too long forces a firm to act financially foolish. I Wonder Troy, do you know how many firms in the usa went from publicly traded to private in 2023? I don't know but i imagine you know where to look yes, still black owned, still in print. .. still in harlem:) yeah, i don't always get the time, i am working on my craft, but I try to aid the discourse in this website:) @ProfD well, the two problems are not easy challenges. everything works conceptually. but the reality is the usa's fiscal capitalistic environment is a slaver, it looks to use , to abuse, to enslave, to prey. Look at Crypto's fallout, all the cheats and scams all over the place. Look at the scams being aided by modern computing power [usually called AI] giving people money to use as they wish with these financial practices... is devastating. Now some have suggested as a federal program in the usa to limit the uses but many lobbyist serving varied financial actors will be outside the door of elected officials with the money to make sure their clients prodcuts are not banned so, the problem isn't little. People elected in the usa are not happy to do for the people, they are all looking, correctly in my view, for financial reward. They will accept the money to gain their loving ones generational wealth. And this doesn't include the international complexity of universal basic income. And it is the international aspect that can lead to a path of war.
  11. Your thoughts to black literature in magazines that never became books? any thoughts The video below is where the still is from?
  12. The Color Purple 2023 0:43 interesting start point 4:47 well did it make money , it has been around for 13 years 8:50 the old spide brother brother:) that is like the mayhem guy in john wick 11:32 Danny glover is still mr mister:) 12:04 palatable is the right word zenobia 14:04 good point, lou gossett wasn't allowed to be meaner than danny glover 17:48 didi it being a musical lead to some miscastings or some time taken away from some characters? 19:56 her, meaning taraji p henson, issue was the money, the producers 20:48 steven speilberg was part of the production, has the color purple joined immitation of life as one of those films whose remakes are schism amongs fans 23:19 you are a producer/money, director, thespian, someone says, Color Purple as a superhero film, what do you say? 25:40 couldn't find the young lady, wish her the best though
  13. comments to American Fiction 3:32 white people in modernity don't run to read ulysses from joyce or war and peace from tolstoy. The books monk was writing were boring. The modern audience rightly or wrongly, like an overabundence of drama 8:10 good point 10:36 sterling k brown, from pastor to plastic 16:35 this film wasn't the kind of film that can get a wide release, black panther is the kind. At the following place https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/american-fiction-movie-ending-explained they ask the following Was he trying to imply that as creatives, no matter our best intentions or moral code, we are all slaves to capitalism, and that our work will inevitably bend the knee to the almighty dollar? Did he mean to stress that within a white supremacist media context, Blackness will always be commodified for the masses? Was Jefferson pointing out the hypocrisy of bourgeois Black elite spaces and the futility of intraracial classism? Is the entire film a metaphor for the insidious nature of anti-Blackness and how we as Black people often perpetuate it without even knowing? It isn't artist's work that bends the knee but artist themselves for the work comes from the imagination of the artists and it is the imagination of the artist that becomes flooded with the desires from the financiers from the needs in another section of the artist mind. And, artists are free to not let those financial concerns manipulate their imagination, and some artists do that. We hear their tales of fiscally impoverished geniuses like a Zora Neale Hurston or Phillip K Dick or Poe or Van Gogh. Well, in a fiscal capitalist media context, all cultural aspects will be commodified . Birth of a Nation is not what the fiscally poor white southerner's journey at the end of the war between the states was. Outside the fact the film lies about the black populace, it isn't a truth teller to the white. The truth is, the leadership in the confederacy was split on the goals and destinations and the side that got to implement miscalculated terribly, so much so that, the south which was the financial breadbasket of the usa is the fiscally poorest region in the usa today and whose black or white populaces at the time of the end of the war between the states have both been harmed long term with the results of that war. I don't know if any group is above judgement, but the urban black financial elite have always existed in the usa, ala solomon northrup and always led their lives with a faith in the system in the usa that is historically misplaced. Financial racism commonly called classism in the usa has always been prophesied by some blacks as the aphenotypical racism that will lead to a betterment. I can't say it is futile as much as, what is the goal? the assumption by many in the usa , not most I think, is that aphenotypical financial racism will lead to aphenotypical activity , but that mentality misses that the purely fiscal nature of fiscal capitalism is not concerned with changing behavior from aphenotypical to phenotypical or from phenotypical to aphenotypical . Does the film transfer the heritage of anti blackness in the usa into a film? Do Black people perpetuate anti blackness ignorantly? The heritage aspect is the only part of any of the questions that I feel doesn't warrant questioning. I will question the second part. Black people have never been ignorant to anti blackness in the usa, never. The problem is, in the embrace of nonviolence which most black people in the mid 1900s to now in the usa exhibit, the power in situations is always with whites, because when someone is violent towards you but you chose to be nonviolent towards them, you have no way to get them to change so sooner or later the violent actor wins, and that is the source of the perpetuation of sameness concerning anti blackness that continues in the usa. Violence isn't evil. but it is a tool, that can be useful. Now to the first part of the last question. Anti blackness in the usa has always been holistic, pervasive, synonomous with slavery. The film displays that slavery as an institution, one human being forcing another human being to act, is quite strong and though it is not as crude as the whip of the past, is definitely active and arguably less dodgeable Now the answer to all the questions is honestly maybe, but I provide my thoughts to the questions themselves.
  14. comments to Rustin 3:17 what? somebody got their tooth removed for a role... oh the method 4:36 would you have used the two characters that were made up? as a writer Nike 6:11 who is your favorite mlk jr impersonator?:) 9:03 and communal banishment, in most communities if people knew it publicly, people will excommunicado you 12:58 going back to the black church's power in those days. No present day group has that influence. 14:29 exactly, it is the publicity of it, not the knowledge 16:26 yes, black women were always the basis for every movement in the black populace in the usa 17:28 still kind of an oppression, zenobia, it is an oppression. Remember, if it wasn't for malcolm, Fannie Lou HAmer would not been able to speak during a gathering in harlem 19:21 they were made by black people so afraid of whites that they couldn't 20:03 i recall in new jersey a quaker community had a black town in new jersey, but quakers aren't not evangelical if i am correct and evangelism tends to get more followers 22:50 the thing about Higher Ground that is cool is it is a private company 24:26 amen Nike, teach it at home and to be honest, that is all populaces, even the white populace. No education system in humanity covers history or culture truly holistically.
  15. Rustin 2024 American Fiction 2023 The Color Purple 2023
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  17. @Delano well remember the heritage of the usa, financially, is Genocie+ slavery. Many people in the usa think of genocide or slavery from the perspective of physical pain or violence but not the financial systems which are about a minority getting access to great fiscal wealth at the detriment to the lifetime of other peoples + control or abuse with the harshest penalty to those who fight against it or the most overwhelming power against those trying to do other. That financial heritage often gets lost when people talk of genocide or slavery in the usa. The financial heritage of the genocide to the native american and the enslavement to the blacks has never abetted or lessened.
  18. It's funny, years ago i heard about the federal government program in some city northwest that gives money to people for living. That is the answer. If the usa can give money to people to live, absent worry , that will allow a constant flow of consumption. as the publicly traded markets will not be hindered but helped. this will mean, content creation will continue online for free , as people will be free. Just a guess to the future
  19. @Troy Does the information resonate or not? Do you care about the subject, why or why not? Do I make a compelling case, or is it mostly boring My thoughts as I listened? 4:26 exactly, I was asked similarly by folks. All to often one of the earlier phases of the internet was advertised , falsely, as a auto revenue stream forgetting the truth behind, brands/customer outreach/internet markets 6:18 march 1998 aalbc's intro, i didn't know 7:50 you are not alone many leave nyc to lower overhead:) but the rent or food keep raising 9:36 truth, if the government under Clinton was ranked by those who were engineers who solve prolbems not lawyers who get commission no matter what, maybe the internet would had been guided to aid brick and mortar but instead it was guided to favor the highest financial powers who are far from brick and mortar 10:48 yes, searching in the largest library has to be selective and sequentially, positively or negatively biased to this or that 13:43 good history lesson for those who don't know about search engines ways 14:27 your correct about google but beyond that, the wealth of the internet, the wealth in its activity, has always been and will continue to be a place for financial manipulative activity. 18:53 it is funny how china has such a large populace and their entire internet is manicured highly. 19:47 thank you for saying that, I keep telling people the internet is not free but many, many don't seem to comprehend this, maybe especially in the usa. 21:11 well, I will say the design of the internet in itself is the problem. IT isn't the tool it is the engineering of it. The beetle is still a great car. Volkswagon , as a publicly traded firm has remade the beetle three times in worse forms than its original, but why? volkswagon is a publicly traded firm whose stockholders can't accept positive financial stability. The internet is poorly structured 27:09 clear history on aalbc's and black owned newspapers websites. I do wonder why you guys didn't attach to the non english internet. 29;15 yes, AALBC is a business but it has a personal or communal aspect you love. And I argue, the internet is full of people who have lesser spheres of influence that is surviving. 33:08 I disagree, I think some computer engineers predicted the internet had problems but I do concur about the silo aspect of the internet 36:08 Yeah, I have seen countless people in my personal life offline who are die hard users of computer programs that have the algorithmic finess/memory capacity/speed of calculation to aid in human activity, falsely called AI. The ability to do for another is not a sign of intelligence. 37:28 yes, the usa historically has always flooded technology into the marketplace and just let human imagination plus perserverance figure it out. I honestly don't feel frightened by the modern capability of computer systems 39:32 The questioner said something I find many black people say all the time to all technology, I Can hear the influence of frederick douglass. Learn how to use the tool better, faster. The funny thing about the entire culture of learning how to use faster, better is that culture is at its heart individual. It isn't communal. In all humanity, a minority , a one percent, always master some tool faster or better than the remaining ninety nine percent. But that has never truly made the community better and as troy said, which i always say, nothing is free. The modern capabilities of computers does not reach all in humanity, even in the usa itself. What people call AI does not reach everywhere in humanity, it simply is taking over the activity of many , maybe most, in the wealthier parts of humanity. The poorer parts of humanity will have to learn how to use the tools they already have, ala wisdom, what no computer has. 41:11 exactly, the computer programs make simulations which by default are approximations, not truly imaginative. 43:56 It is clear to me that many people clearly know people who are not using the modern computer systems. I find it interesting how many black people online keep saying, learn how to use it, ride the wave, like they either know many people not interested in using it or don't want to see any people who aren't using it. It is clear the population in the usa has an imbalance in its relationship to computer technology 46:54 well, in star trek between the enterprise computer side the holodeck side the borg the destination to the computer programs called AI was imagined. Humans were fine. Cutting out human desire to enslave other human beings seemed to help... 50:36 Good goal in being free from google or am*zon in advertisements or book sales 54:17 good point, other technologies are not dead. Humans still need hand wrenches, even though you have electric powered. And humanity has enough people not connected to the internet to allow little zones online 56:00 well monopolies are mandatory goals in a public traded company environment where no firm is ever accepted for consistent financial results. Public trading demands greater growth all the time which is financially untenable or unrealistic but the bind 59:15 I know of Zane, I should had known she is the top seller on aalbc, erotic always sell. 1:00:38 great history on Zane and wikipedia and its editing, ahh terry mcmillan too. I don't use wikipedia for biography, but then I don't care for biography anyway 1:02:50 yeah, the village voice is gone in nyc, amsterdam news in harlem is a weekly, tough time 1:04:11 yes support black online 1:06:21 exactly, am*zon is competing against all other bookstores, or in retail against all other retails, this is why the federal government has anti trust agains them. I Wish someone would had asked you what you will like to see in an am*zon break up? any analogies to the ATT or MA Bell breakup in the 80s. 1:08:21 great point on the illusion of the cheapest. I think how buyers in china are accustomed to getting cheaper than the usa, through sometimes illegal means or legally thin means but the point is, a buying culture of finding the cheapest exist in the world and those in the usa who are willing can do the same 1:09:12 that is diedre, dee, cool:) she is on aalbc right? Using computer programs to make a website is interesting cause I wonder if human lawyers can use the computer programs to check websites to make sure they are not skimming content. 1:11:12 i didn't know am*zon asked writers to disclose if they used computer programs to write a book 1:!2:03 oh wow, you got a review written by an computer... I wish you could tell us what human presented such a thing as their own , anyway 1:12:17 I told people teachers will not be challenged, as someone who has educated, it is very simple. students research your content tonight. Tomorrow 1/2 hour to write it in class. anyone pull out any technology, you are not allowed to submit anything and get a failing grade. I Don't think teaching is harmed, the problem with teachers is many of them don't want to challenge children as such because when children have failing grades, the systems dumps the problem on teachers even if the teacher's methodology is sound. It isn't a teaher's fault if a student doesn't study, if a student is disinterested, but the concept of no child left behind is... 1:12:47 her question is a challenge, why can't what successful black businesses did in the past work now? What is wrong? I think an answer of communalism is missing. The reality is, the usa has a large sense of individualism. I , me, mine. It isn't we, us, our. Kids get online, search their stream, have their content. It isn't communal activity, merely one in a field. 1:16:14 and in defense, the black populace in the usa, has more funding than ever before. We forget, our financial allowance in all industries in the usa started in the 1900s not 1492. I argue 1980s is the first decade in the usa where all sectors in the usa was actually open to black people, that is centuries blockaded and that is not easy to recover. 1:18:19 exactly, the individualism is rampant in the usa, communalism has it's advantages 1:18:56 This questioner is asking a way to determine truth in modern media absent any doubt, in the governmental sector, that doesn't exist outside door to door offline. The only way an elected official can reach people to give them the truth from their mouth, is town halls, door to door. To be historical , bill clinton told hillary clinton that she needed to do more groundwork, but she didn't feel it was needed. It isn't a problem, go door to door, be communal. it is time consuming, it isn't flashy. it isn't quick money but... 1:22:56 Nice talk , enjoyed your pulpit:) my thoughts in conclusion Does the information resonate or not? Do you care about the subject, why or why not? Do I make a compelling case, or is it mostly boring To anyone online, the issue of the algorithms online that dictate how the info flows should resonate, if it doesn't well, you are a true libertarian or maybe elibertarian. I care about all subjects, I grew up and still have a home where topics are discussed offline. I Care about this issue as an artist online trying to figure out how to gain more outreach or fiscal profit while still be myself. I have heard most of your points to be honest, but the points are warranted and to those who haven't heard hopefully will enlighten. Boring is a funny word. You do drill some of your points. But is that drilling excessive, where it nulls the mind. I don't think so. But to those minds already nulled welll:)
  20. I checked the forums, I didn't see anything about CBD products?
  21. Some of her artwork https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2598&type=status her linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-ann-ozurumba-465110183/ cover image referral https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-ann-ozurumba-465110183/overlay/1635545996092/single-media-viewer?type=IMAGE&profileId=ACoAACtDz40BSK4J0CaazR8-tlgQRGNyZMtaJX4&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3B1A8IrqQPR6y3suga17646g%3D%3D
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  23. @Pioneer1 I oppose your position concerning the black populace in NYC, maybe other black populaces in the usa need law enforcement in their modern condition. But the black populace in nyc in modernity and i argue in the past as well never needed the NYPD. Outside the fact that the NYPD's own statistics have never suggested even close to one percent of the black populace in NYC is active in events https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1805&type=status A floor count of the black population in nyc is one million and six hundred and i know it is larger but lets go with that. ten percent of 1.6 million is 160,000, one percent is 16,000. Now harlem is 206,000 ... approximately half is black today. that is 100,000 and ten percent is 10,000 around the one percent mark of the whole. And one percent in harlem is 1,000. Yes, the black populace in NYC is historically or commonly poor. The reasons why have nothing to do with the black populace in nyc. But , there has always been black people in NYC, like yourself, that suggested and today suggest a need of law enforcement which most black people in nyc know is 100% not true, even if they don't say it. White, the lawyer from the NAACP once said living in harlem, in the 1960s black people in harlem shouldn't riot as if black people rioting was common. Black people who talk like you pioneer exist in all black populaces. Every instance of murder or theft is turned into the rapture or some sort of apocalyptic scenario in need of attention. I repeat, NYC's black populace does not need and has never needed law enforcement. Black people selling drugs that people have to pay for was criminalized. Black people stealing in NYC was never as rampant as the white populace. Isn't as rampant as the non black people of color in NYC now. but the only populace in NYC that has a large percent of itself talking about needing the NYPD is the least criminal acting populace which is the black populace in NYC. From the experience of me , my bloodline, who have lived in nyc for a time over one hundred years, NYC's black populace has NEVER needed law enforcement, but the black people in NYC who did utter and do utter the lie of a populace plagued by negatives are all traitors whose damage to the black populace in NYC I wish I can undo. Yeah, lost your mother, lost your cousin, lost your grandpa, lost your friend, ok unfortunate, but in human allowance. I do not deny some black people have been harmed by other black people in every black populace in a city. But, in NYC over 95% of black people have experienced no criminal activity by other black people towards them and the five percent that have need to is acceptable. No human populace is ever going to be absent some percentage of internal criminalization. It is inhuman to not have crime amongst humans. I wish the black traitors in NYC, again other places are not what I am speaking of, would accept the bad hand of fate and stop judging the black populace in nyc based on their bad hand or their christian morals or their fortunate turns advantages.
  24. @Dee Miller I am no photographer, all the photos in this post were stefans. I write and illustrate.

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