Troy

Well thanks for sharing a link to that old film review. Back in 2008 I had a guy who is the write movie reviews and interview celebrities. He interviewed Alicia Keys about this film as well. The reviewer died several years ago. I haven’t posted a film review since then. i’m sure the sisters who created the video review. Appreciate you sharing their videos as well. @richardmurray Do you have a connection to their platform or are you just a fan?

I read the AP story posted in the NPR article @Pioneer1 shared, “Trump says some migrants are 'not people', and warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses.” I mean again, this kind of article will it attract more attention, Trump’s message a very different headline could’ve been crafted, but this headline attracts attention. The media can’t help themselves they play right into trumps game act like this kind of story is gonna hurt him. NPR should know better.

As soon as I hear one chirp, I change the batteries to all of them. yeah, I saw a video with that guy who used to advise women on men. I forget his name, but he died recently. At any rate he told one woman she definitely didn’t have a man in the house because he could hear the smoke alarm chopping during their conversation

Enjoy your weekend too @richardmurray and consider going to the national Black writers conference next week too

I had zero interest in watching the state of the union address. It has nothing to do with Biden. These things are really just a pep rallies and propaganda. I’d rather watch a rerun of Sanford and son.

I wrote that? Show me. “Fear for my safety” was never a significant factor for my list for leaving NYC. When my safety was most in jeopardy, I was too young to leave. By the time I was old enough and had to wherewithal to leave I left for a nicer climate and lower cost of living. Not counting college, I left New York City to live in three other places suburban Philadelphia and Florida (twice) never did I leave for fear of my safety. Although every place I left for had a much lower crime rate. The way crowds behave is very different than the way individuals behave. It is not uncommon for people to get stampeded hurt and killed in situations that was initiated by a relatively innocuous event. This is why you don’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater.

@ProfD, oh ok.

@gulshanm I was on the fence about sprucing your account. Why do you think Emily Henry would be surprised for the National black writers conference?

Oh, ok gents thanks. However “univided” seems oxymoronic.

“Stupidly” is a very harsh description of the behavior. I guess you’ve never been in a situation were there was gun fire. I’d say the people were not sure what was happening and were scared. Also to be clear. I was saying that New York in the late 70s was relatively unsafe. In the 20 teens before I left, it was a relatively safe city— it wasn’t crime free, but compared to the 70s. It was a completely different place not just Harlem the entire city.

you were asking the same question 15 billion different ways. The answer is yes to all of it. lol! No one, who said they had to be some being behind this? Why is that an assumption, or prequiste?

@CHEEZITQUEEN well thanks for choosing to post here, finally If it were not for a handful of regular posters, this form would be dead. Many of the posts here get a tremendous amount of views, but people don’t create accounts and if they do create an account, they don’t post. since I have you here. You post on LSA, but it took you a couple of years to post here. Why did it take so long? I am contemplating the use of an open source social networks as the next iteration of this site software: https://bsky.app/profile/aalbc.bsky.social I’ll check LSA out tomorrow it have has been a few years… time really flies .

I agree pioneer; that is the situation we are currently in!

of course, but it is debatable if one can shift between those different realities, or if different versions of you exist and that can never interact. Sorry to hear about your. It could be in a different universe we don’t have knees, or we don’t stop at grocery stores. Maybe we don’t even experience pain. Of course, we don’t experience those realities. Just this one, and this one has made better by the presence of the poster formerly known as Cynique

Wars have objectives. If the number of mass school shootings , executed by lone gunman, increase what’s the point? When Hamas killed all those people at that concert, that was not war. When the Israelis retaliated by leveling Gaza, and killing everyone in sight, that was war. The goal being destroying Hamas regardless of the collateral damage.

So basically rioting.

punishing them is following the script. i’m not gonna try to extend the argument to the Soul, as I don’t no what you think it is, whether it adheres to the laws of physics. You’re stuck on the idea that our perception of choice is proof of a nondeterministic state. That is one way to view a dream. @Delano we have the ability to see some of the patterns. maybe that is why some people believe if you know the initial conditions of one’s birth, like their relative place in the cosmos, you can predict a lot about their lives.

OK what the heck does “multivided” mean?

As sad as this sounds, that sounds more plausible. The question remains who do you think would be doing all these mass shootings and who would they be shooting ? Would this mayhem be orchestrated? i’ll grant you that it will probably be angry white people doing the shooting as they are the ones most likely to engage in this activity. I know they like to shoot up churches, schools, outdoor concerts, gay clubs, movie theaters, essentially wherever people congregate and are not likely to be armed and on alert. Do you think it would just be a lot more of this type of carnage? If so, to what end? The civil war had a goal to maintain the institution of slavery. What could possibly be achieved by more frequent mass shootings?

Based upon that definition, the Civil War never ended. It just morphed. Instead of Chancellorsville, you have Charlottesville.

I dunno what are the felonies if they were 6 murders a day I would not feel safe. Are they 6 violence assaults, maimings, rapes? but I agree the media exaggerates things. And without knowing the nature of the felonies, my gut tells me Adams is right but he can’t control what the media covers if they are telling the truth albeit in a biased manner. He can launch a counter narrative and attempt to help people understand how relatively safe the subways, and indeed the city is today. Are Latino immigrants committing a disproportionate number of crimes? I hope he’s not scapegoating them, as a black man, he should know better.

I think Tavis owns the station, but I could be wrong

of course, evil should be discouraged and when excessive punished. As corporeal beings, bound by the constraints of the passage of time we exist in the world with the known and fixed past, and unknown but equally fixed future. We are, necessarily, content with the illusion of free will— otherwise, what meaning with life have? If there are multiple past and multiple futures, as some speculate, one can argue they’re all predetermined as well. And much the same way. We are unable to see the predetermined future. We are also unable to experience different realities within the Multiverse.

Yeah, they got a lot of guns but who are the poor whites gonna go after and this so-called Civil War, the rich, Black people, immigrants, Democrats, the LGBTQAI2X+, who?

I can tell y’all did not watch fortune video about Dr. West, if you had all the speculation and pondering would be unnecessary. I don’t know whether Travis is gay or not. I’ve never seen him with a woman but that doesn’t mean anything because I’ve never seen West with a woman and he’s been married five times! The following is a video it’s about 17 years old I guess during the launch of Smileybooks Tavis, Smiley’s publishing imprint. As Tavis mentions the wrong really was full of some very talented Black Book professionals. It is the first time I looked at the video in a long while, and I have a slideshow of photos which really brings back some memories. Some of the people I’m still very close to and work with including Paul Coates, Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati, Regina Brooks, Clarence Reynolds et al. Cheryl Woodruff, who actually did the work as Smileybooks is an iconic figure and Publishing.