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I have never heard or read anyone say the hayes code is a  needed guide to male directors. 
19:09 good point on the dominance of the image of the baby grown woman. I just learned of the terms born yesterday beauty
20:30  I have to admit I disagree with the idea of the lead female character being so sexual. I don't think a child brain will allow an adult body to perform the way depicted.
23:54 angelica's point:) 
26:54 I argue the black and white movies did the sexualization of the gender bend frankenstien though lets be honest, frankenstien's monster  in  film was never Mary Shelley's  frankenstiens monster. he wasn't this ugly man. the monstress must remain fuckable, well said:) 
31:!6  the world doesn't go to technicolor when a women sleeps with a man:)  [ a joke]
32:11  good point, the writer/director missed one there
33:47 well done, the speech of the actress makes your whole point, that is the proof beyond anything. I doubt the actress said that accidentally. 
36:55 great point on duncan, raffallo got a good role there
39:55 did anyone ask the director why the end change? I love the book change much better. and she is right, the book ending shoud had been for the film. but i wish someone ask the director or team why not the book ending? 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTRLRpgZtSc

REPLY TO A SPEECH ON LOLITA
The first problem with books that deal with mature/nsfw/erotic/sexually uncommon or illegal activity is films visual aspect tends to force a sale. 
1:35 interesting, I find it interesting as a writer that she is bored with the book, from Humbert's dialog, or the 60s film in that it was boring to her as well. 
2:25 Adrien lynn, lolita lays in the wet grass:) hilarious, it is a like a tease in the movies. 
2:29 Shelley Winters, great thespian
3:49 she says not all stories are made for every medium. I don't know. 
Didn't know not one obscene term is in the book. It isn't erotic but a journey of the pedophile. I love the care of the author to restrict himself from going erotic or displaying. It is easy for most male writers to sooner or later , go descriptive. 
5:42  I concur to the videographer, this story needs care, i can't deny it can be quick but t
6:03 Nabokov said," he wants pure colors, melting clouds, .. no girls.... settle for immaculate white jacket with lolita in bold black lettering.. one subject i am emphatically opposed to, any representation of a little girl"
by two years, the Stockholm Sweden, the region where an author of a little book originally titled , "why men hate women" , is from, made the first cover where a little girl is present. I think that is telling to the nature of various communities. But I pause. 
7:49 the 1959 Turkish version:) I don't blame Nabokov for laughing, this lolita is older than the man:) 
8:24 the film changes the visual covers of the book ever after
the ninety pound four foot tall lolita in the book is dead and the "grown girl" who acts lascivious takes over the cover. 
Good point how the covers seem to be of lolita's mother, not lolita, which is saying what? 
10:14 She makes a convincing point of James B Harris as the source of the problem. 
12:31 the hayes code prohibited a lot and Nabokov composed a 400 page screenplay, after first saying no. 
I concur to Nabokov. if lolita has a relative, that supposedly cares, how can she get married to this predator.:) 
14:23 The MPAA said it was too immoral, but Harris said that in the usa it was and still is legal for a girl of 12 to marry a man of Humbert's age as long as she had the parents consent. but they dropped the marriage plot line. And made lolita 15 not 12. 
15:24 I concur the 60s film couldn't let lolita be viewed as a girl. a pure girl, not late teen.
16:30 Nabokov thought Catherine Demongeot from Zazie and the metro would be the ideal, but while it is legal for a child looking like demongeot to marry a grown man in some states in the usa, Hollywood would never pronounce that to the larger world. 
16:48 great point from how Nabokov saw Dolores Hayes opposed to Hollywood. 
great split screen showing how Humbert's view is stronger than Dolores's reality. 
17:45 While what Harris said may be deemed insensitive, financially HArris is right. People are self righteous. If you show an honest relationship between a grown male and a child female , however negative, it will kill the film. The book is about an adult male who takes advantage of a child female who is alone in the world. and the negative path that he is on that drags others around him. The book  isn't meant to be an upbeat story. And film, especially USA film, always goes upbeat. Look at song of the south. You will never realize the terror that black people live with surrounded by all powerful whites in the usa. Past the silent era, the usa film industry is a myth machine and when it comes to white identity or usa identity or white male identity, outside independent films, it always supports non criminalizing or displaying negatively, the usa, white people or white males. 
18:25 proven point, harris mad elolita an international underage sex symbol. 
19:08 sue lyon and james b harris real life Humbert/dolores scenario needs to be a movie. 
20:14 the tragedy of films like lolita is the people involved never escape the film because the film has a greater range than the bok and all the various tribes against or for the book based on its themes attack constantly. 
Her contract had her supposed to do five or six movies but she spent years promoting the film. 
21:45 Sue lyons the thespian says no 14 year old girl should be in this film as this character,
23:00 great point on abuse between mature or immature. A murder on film is not a real murder, no matter how it may look and while i oppose the videographer, i think those who desire violence like such scenes. But, a story about relationships between a child an adult, become solid interpretations of said relationships and if negative their abuse. A parent helping their child go to a camp ro school is a scene between a child and an adult, but it is generally positive. but a scene with a man ripping the clothes off a girl who lays their... pleasantly, is candy for such a crowd of adults that want to do that. 
24:32 This videogrpaher's point is great, a thespian female child acting like an abused female child , even though it isn't a real experience, is a fake experience that is too dangerous for children, and historically female child thespians. she gives a list of names.: brook shields/sue lyon/dominuqe swain/nina sivari/natalie portman.
Natalie Portman's admittance that her first fan mail ,after her first film "the professional" ,was a rape fantasy, a countdown on her radio show when it would be legal for her to sleep with, movie reviews talked about her budding breast. 
28:35 The videographer makes a good point, the two other films that she recounts that deal with the topic of an adult sexually abusing a child are from books that are told from the perspective of the abused, the child. But lolita is from the perspective of the abuser, the adult, sequentially, the desire, the lust to the child has to be in that story, not the fear from the child or confustion from the child but the eagerness or passion from the adult to the child. and thus different films,
30:45 Great that the woman in the film mentioned , bel powley,was 22 playing an 18 year old. 
31:45 great contrast between the diary of a teenage girl film and euphoria show
32:41 The videographer makes the point, supported by another, Roxanne Gay of ugly Beautiful, that, the problem with lolita in book or video form is that the narrative angle is the primary problem. At the end of the day, the angle of view isn't the child but the adult... and thus while a book can be read , even in a group, the ability of a video to be shown and absorbed makes it far more... delicate or dangerous to evade promoting the behavior of the adult abuser. 
I do not think any subject matter is out of bounds. I despise birth of a nation, song of the south, gone with the wind, but I don't have a problem with it being shown. The art world isn't meant to make people comfortable. The art world is not meant to fight culture wars. it is a place for all views all visions, yes that includes the southern slaver, the nazi, the british general. It isn't meant to be legal or civilized or caring. It can be , but it can be all opposite.
Everyone has the right to tell any story, it may not be good, it may not be gentle and yes it may trigger, yes, it may trigger , but that is ok in my eyes. 
35:17 I agree, the creative process in a book, a book of fiction besides the authors has no creators. But films involve far more, are  much more collaborative and in terms of female thespians that are children, child thespians male or female, their involvement in such a film project is... historically negative. I will be open minded and say that a good example hasn't been made yet, where a teenage female hasn't had an abusive time portraying a female character that has sexual interactions with males.
35:51 great point about the modern media's ability to have common folk make their own videos which mimick or mirror or imitate film visions and generate community plus wealth around behavior that is at the least dangerous. 
37:11  Tom Bissel's point the videographer shares is key. The hunger games or Lolita films prove that the media focuses on messages against the books point. but I argue many movies need to use the term inspired by not from . The Hunger Games isn't from the books but inspired by, the lolita films are not from the books but inspired by. The Lolita films legally must cite where they came from, the books, but they need to specificy they are not from the book, they are truly loosely inspired. 
41:21 I give Jeremy irons credit,  a wise male actor never touches this film, he is brave. 
42:01 Nabukov said it best here what lolita is and the fact that both films or most similar films that focus on the mature person's angle of perception are unable to convey this is key.
This point is present. Humbert is unreliable. 
44:34 Lauren Groff makes a good point. The film needs to groom the viewer in the same way the book groom the reader.
45:54 the videographer closes with an honest quote from Tom Bissel , from his book Nabokov's rocking chair. Few starving writers would say no to writing lolita as a screenplay but it is on average an experience that will harm a child thespian. 

IN CONCLUSION

I think one thing she doesn't  state explicitly but imply is the power of a great producer. Writers/directors have in their nature a desire to tackle challenging stories. Yes, make money, but sooner or later, most artists: illustrators, writers, singers , dancers, directors want to tackle topics that will always create varying crowds about them like interracial relationships [birth of a nation/song of the south/guess whose coming to dinner]/historical assessments[gone with the wind/pocahantas/1492 conquest of paradise]/illegal or criminal abuses between individuals[lolita/] . But producers who are the bank, the money, should be more concerned with the result of investment and beleagured female child thespians , in my opinion, isn't a positive return on investment. 

As I saw this I thought the screenplay , if you are going to do the angle of the abuser, you can't have the four foot 90 pound female in the film directly. In a book yes, it is words, readers, no matter their nature can imagine,and yes, some males will imagine with all the fornicative violence that will frighten the civilized, but in a film such a character will require a thespian , now i admit, it is possible to make a computer generated character that is of the appearance of a human female child but... any child who looks like her will be attached in the larger media so... I argue it goes down the same path , albeit with less immediate consequence. So don't ever depict Dolores visually, but she can be heard. And the Humbert character can interact with her absent her viewing. It takes skill but it can be done. And Lolita can be present as Humbert's imagination through drawings and can be made unreliable by other characters interactions with him about his representations of lolita. 

URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qw1d7aKZOo

For me I don't see any taking for grantedness. I think it is far simpler. The problem in the usa is that you have a populace over 300 million who are culturally disconnected and in such an environment for every person that is looking for individual freedom plus  acceptance or a meritocracy there is another similar in all racial ways except the race of culture that desires collective freedom plus acceptance or  a tiered system for their groups benefit. 

The style of integration + segregation in the usa has always been about one thing, power. 

Sport was segregated for the same reason everything was, whites wanted the benefit of underclasses [native american/black/non white europeans] to uphold their community + financial economy. People forget, the negro leagues, black tennis players, black basketball existed. segregation never stopped black people from doing things, Jim thorpe existed yes? it stopped non white european people from accessing white european wealth or limiting it financially by non white european wealth, all which supported white european power. And the same to integration. As the kerner commission, mostly held by white people said correctly, all institutions in the usa including the federal government, need an overhaul, to delete the negative racial biases. Integration's form in the usa is another white european power scheme. In the black populace in the usa during the period commonly called segregation [ which in my view was merely another form of integration] Black people had a financial aristocracy, the talented tenth right? There has always been a small populace of wealthy blacks in the usa, the only change from the british colonial period to now is the amount of wealth the black financial aristocracy in the usa can achieve and their overall heritage makeup. 

Steven Barnes is how i found this post and this is what he said 

To me, part of the reason sports were segregated was that people understood that you can game the results of tests, and schooling, but the body is what it is, can be developed without external cooperation or approval far more than can the heart or mind. And that if we ever entered that arena, there would be nothing to stop us from demonstrating excellence. And of course, people who think dualistically would have to deal with the possibility of superiority.
And since coordination is kinesthetic intellect, that opens that door to an entirely different, and even more disturbing range of possibilities:
People who preach superiority are afraid of being inferior.  The schoolyard bully can beat up the "brains" and end up working for them a few years later.
The implications are fascinating.   But I'll stay with "equality" as my go-to for race and gender.  To do otherwise would be understandable...but would be the thought patterns of my enemies.  Won't go there.

Ask Eddie

7:55 Eddie: unromanticized suicides are not good ways to end movies
9:27 Eddie: Fatal attraction [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Attraction ] is more film noir to eddie than basic instinct[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Instinct]. 
I think Romancing the stone [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancing_the_Stone ] + jewel of the nile where Michael Douglass mirror movies to fatal attraction or basic instinct
11:55 Eddie: if it has a science fiction setting it isn't film noir, not science fiction, even if it has noir elements. Some say invasion of the body snatchers. Speculative science fiction is something else, ala bladerunner [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner] 
12:59 Eddie: "dark city" is a science fiction noir, but nothing from the black and white film era. 
13:42 Ann Hockens: Flesh and Fantasy, is an example, like night of the hunter.  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film) ] 
Eddie: It is fantastical. 
14:56 Eddie: he has talked with universal to combine "flesh and fantasy" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_and_Fantasy ] with "destiny" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_(1944_film) ]
16:47: Eddie: do you think Night of the Demon [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demon] would be more noir if they don't show the demon?
20:25 Ann: What are the best car scenes in film noir?
Eddie: all the driving scenes in they live by night [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live_by_Night], the chase scene at the end of side street[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_Street_(1949_film) 
21:47 Eddie: that is why gun crazy scene was great, cause you didn't see that until cameras got smaller, you can put them into cars.
26:42 Eddie: tom cruise , tom hanks and other actors directed some episodes in Fallen Angels [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(American_TV_series)] 
28:30 Eddie: we still have things from the classic era we want to save so you think 1990 it would be taken care of but
31:30: Eddie: am I planning on a second round of noir bar, danielle wants to see a vermouth cassis recipe [ https://www.thespruceeats.com/vermouth-cassis-recipe-759272] in a future book, the drink is in the damned that dont  cry[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Damned_Don't_Cry], and the unsuspected. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unsuspected] 
32:45 Eddie: A vermouth cassis is a sweet italian vermouth with creme de cassis which is a blackberry liquer and soda water
33:47 Eddie: being hungarian the correct pronounciation is michael curtis. Kur-teg is really his name. 
34:45 Eddie: when his daughter tells you it is das-iell, not dashell hammet, it comes up all the time. 
Ann: the director Melville, but I heard people pronounce it mel-veel. 
Eddie: You are absolutely right. People Jules Dascent, He is a new yorker not french he is July Dascent. Trying to put a french on it is silly... But after watching noir alley for five years, and I say mul-er, but i see many people saying it mueller. But that is not my name. My father's name was vokinic. Son of the wolf. It is the name on the birth ceritificate. Muller became my father's legal name after writing professionally. His grandfather was from Dalmatia , my grand father on my mother's side , german jewish. 
39:58 Ann: My favorite radio theater, academy award theater and they did a twenty five minute version of the maltese falcon, an impressive piece of radio play . They expected people to see the people to have seen the movie or read the book. A radio adaption of "shadow of a doubt" with  cary grant playing uncle charlie, which was wierd. Lux radio theater[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Radio_Theatre], she is not a huge fan. It is such an ego stroke. 
She found cecil b demille ... Jack BEnny did fabulous adaptations. Like the lunch counter murders. 
43:01 Ann: they didn't adapt the movies, but they adapted alot of woolrich [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich]. if you like noir that is the best. 
45:46 Ann: sorry wrong number was a Lucille Fletcher's [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Fletcher] original script, came from there. She wrote another one with a real freaky story, with vincent price and ida lupino. The film is [Fugue in C Minor -> https://archive.org/details/440601 ]  
47:21 Eddie:  It is a piece of music written for noir alley, by a musician named reed hall, and it is called noir alley theme,.
51:05 Ann: I want people to learn about firesign theater [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre]
53:22 Eddie: MEn's health magazine, they asked me about Sugar,  what makes the character of the private detetive, eternally popular .What makes this a popular fantasy figure for guys.
54:15 Eddie: Sugar[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_(2024_TV_series)] uses more clips from film noir than any other show.  
55:33 Ann: Ripley, remember when you said, eddie, that is was ai and green screen. He is writing an article about it. She thought it was high contrast cinematography. The next issue of american cinematographer is going to have his article on this. It was all shot on location. 
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https://youtu.be/J3AijXY_DqU?si=E8U69gpF0KlIXMvP
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Interview with Edward g robinson's daughter

Contest 5 (and) 7 is 1 (and) 2 is 3

The journal listing

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Contest-5-and-7-is-1-and-2-is-3-1057747565

Entries

Tree
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Ancestral-Tree-front-color-966926481
Spring
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Addietober-Day-11-Crows-ink-894624695
Sky
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Promptpot2022Day06-932264684
Music
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/What-s-god-got-to-do-with-it-1002676684
Flower
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Skirt-19-Witchtember-2022-930139763
Monument
I learned for this challenge that getting plans for buildings is a process. The department of buildings in NYC has a bureaucratic process to obtain original plans for buildings that took me back, I never tried hard enough to get through this. But the building I want I will produce something later.
Everlasting Memory
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Everlasting-Memory-1057744285
Thankfulness
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Thankfulness-1057745323
Birds
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Imaginary-friend-color-2023-959899729
What could Malintra shadowmoon be? 
colored
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1058384368
black and white
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1058370026

Superhero or supervilain synthography

I saw the entries before mine. None were a black hero or villain in usa comics. so I like to go towardthe earliest and while I don't care for Black Lightning. I thought lets use him. And I thought to myself, what baout a female black lightning. He is old enough to have a female version and a dog version and et cetera. so what about a female Black ightning. 

I named her Preta Raio. her unmasked name, Pretty Ray. 

I made a prompt video 

These two entries were selected by others , they are in the video above

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https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Female-Black-Lightning-selection-AI-1057351079

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https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Female-Black-Lightning-selection-AI-1057349022

The problem here is language. When did hunger become a non usable word. Food insecurity means hunger, it isn't a slur or insult to call hunger what it is. Hunger isn't beyond the USA or foreign to the USA. 

white people say NYC has circa 8,200,000 people. I say 10,000,000 but if 1,200,000 humans in NYC are hungry then that is 14.6 percent to 12 percent. so one out of every ten New Yorkers are hungry . Visits to pantries are up 100% which means hunger is growing. Now, I argue this is part of eric adams plan. Many people in the USA love to forgive the government for its injurious planning, while supporting the institution of law enforcement as a tool to keep the hungry from rioting. 

The report shows a nearly 100% increase in visits to pantries by families with children, compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. (Spectrum News NY1)

Report: Child hunger rates continue to rise in New York City
By Rebecca Greenberg Brooklyn
PUBLISHED 8:40 PM ET May 28, 2024
A new report by City Harvest finds one in four children in New York City are experiencing food insecurity — a trend that continues to worsen since the COVID-19 pandemic.

What You Need To Know
Last year, families made more than 1 million average monthly visits to food pantries in the city, according to a report by City Harvest

The report shows a nearly 100% increase in visits to pantries by families with children, compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic

Community Food Connection, which supplies high quality food to charities and food banks, could have its funding slashed by $30 million as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ preliminary executive budget for next year
Courtney Fields is among 1.2 million New Yorkers who don’t have enough to eat and don’t know where their next meal will come from.

She said her nearest food pantry is a lifeline for herself and her five young children.

“It’s serious at the end of the month for single moms and I don’t know what I would do if the pantry wasn’t here. Honestly, I don’t,” Fields said.

Every week, the single mother walks one mile from her homeless shelter to the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger.

She said without this food pantry, her family would not survive.

“I’ll probably have to resort to things that I don’t want to resort to. Some people don’t have fathers for extra help. I don’t even have a father. I lost all the support. So it’s just me. I don’t know what I would do,” Fields said.

According to a new report by City Harvest, one in four children doesn’t have enough food to meet their nutritional needs. Last year, families made more than 1 million average monthly visits to food pantries in the city.

Data also shows a nearly 100% increase in visits to pantries by families with children compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jerome Nathaniel, who is the director of Policy and Government Relations for City Harvest, which published the child hunger report, said resources for low-income families have dwindled in the years following the pandemic.

“During COVID, there were a number of critical government programs and new food access programs that were put in place to support families and unfortunately, many of those programs have shored up or they’ve been allowed to sunset, leaving children without that support,” Nathaniel said.

Advocates for the hungry say the city should continue to invest in programs like Community Food Connection, or CFC, which supplies high-quality food to charities and food banks.

But Mayor Eric Adams’ preliminary executive budget for next year includes $30 million in cuts to that program.

“If Community Food Connection is cut, then chances are, we will have to cut from every end because they’re the ones supporting all our programs. We’re serving over 14,000 per week,” Melony Samuels, the CEO and founder of The Campaign Against Hunger, which has 250 locations across the five boroughs, said.

In a statement, a spokesperson for City Hall said, “The Adams administration continues to combat food insecurity in our city… We will continue to closely monitor ongoing needs through the budget process while simultaneously working with our city partners and key stakeholders to delivery for New Yorkers in need.”

Meanwhile, Fields hopes programs like The Campaign Against Hunger will continue to operate so she and her children can have a fighting chance.

“They’re gonna go hungry. So they need places like this so they can eat if someone like me doesn’t have support to feed the kids. We rely on places like this to feed the kids,” Fields said.

Adams still needs to negotiate a final budget with the City Council before the July 1 deadline.

URL

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/05/29/report--child-hunger-rates-continue-to-rise-in-new-york-city

The average Electric vehicle in the USA is $52,000 , Chinese electric vehicles are being bought in Europe, dominating their market at a price of $10,000 . So Biden wants people in the usa to pay five times more for an electric vehicle made in the usa. Biden is denying the most affordable option available in the global market while trying to hope the domestic environment can provide an alternative. The simple arithmetic is clear, the global market for electric vehicles will be dominated by chinese automakers and the usa will be the one place where the chinese automakers don't dominate because of governmental tarrifs. Which the usa chagrined other countries do to protect their domestic markets. 

The USA for years has benefited from cheap chinese goods. Manufacturers in the usa are too costly 
 and to be blunt, tend to be beneath acceptable quality when they sell something affordable to the masses. (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/business/biden-china-tariffs.html)

Biden Doesn’t Want You Buying an E.V. From China. Here’s Why.
The president wants to shift America’s car fleet toward electric vehicles, but not at the expense of American jobs or national security.
By Jim Tankersley
Reporting from Washington

May 27, 2024
President Biden wants more of America’s cars and trucks to run on electricity, not gas. His administration has pushed that goal on multiple fronts, including strict new regulations of auto emissions and lavish new subsidies to help American consumers take as much as $7,500 off the cost of a new electric vehicle.

Mr. Biden’s aides agree that electric vehicles — which retail for more than $53,000 on average in the United States — would sell even faster here if they were less expensive. As it happens, there is a wave of new electric vehicles that are significantly cheaper than the ones customers can currently buy in the United States. They are proving extremely popular in Europe.

But the president and his team do not want Americans to buy these cheap cars, which retail elsewhere for as little as $10,000, because they are made in China. That’s true even though a surge of low-cost imported electric vehicles might help drive down car prices overall, potentially helping Mr. Biden in his re-election campaign at a time when inflation remains voters’ top economic concern.

Instead, the president is taking steps to make Chinese electric vehicles prohibitively expensive, in large part to protect American automakers. Mr. Biden signed an executive action earlier this month that quadruples tariffs on those cars to 100 percent.
Those tariffs will put many potential Chinese imports at a significant cost disadvantage to electric vehicles made in America. But some models, like the discount BYD Seagull, could still cost less than some American rivals even after tariffs, which is one reason Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and some other Democrats have called on Mr. Biden to ban Chinese E.V. imports entirely.

The apparent clash between climate concerns and American manufacturing has upset some environmentalists and liberal economists, who say the country and the world would be better off if Mr. Biden welcomed the importation of low-cost, low-emission technologies to fight climate change.

Mr. Biden and his aides reject that critique. They say the president’s efforts to restrict Chinese electric cars and other clean-technology imports are an important counter to illegal and harmful trade practices being carried out by Beijing.

And they insist that Mr. Biden’s trade approach will ultimately benefit American jobs and national security — along with the planet.

Here are the policy and political considerations driving Mr. Biden’s attempt to shield American producers from Chinese competition.
Denying Beijing a new monopoly
China already dominates key clean-energy manufacturing in areas like solar cells and batteries. Mr. Biden’s aides want to prevent it from gaining monopolies in similar industries, like electric vehicles, for several reasons.

They include climate concerns. Administration officials say Chinese factories, which tend to be powered by fossil fuels like coal, produce more greenhouse gas emissions than American plants.

There is also a central economic reason to deny China a monopoly: ensuring that electric cars and trucks will always be available, at competitive prices. The Covid-19 pandemic drove home the fragility of global supply chains, as critical products like semiconductors became hard to get from China and other Asian nations that the United States relied upon. Prices for consumer electronics and other products that relied on imported materials soared, fueling inflation.

Biden officials want to avoid a similar scenario for electric vehicles. Concentrating the supply of E.V.s and other advanced green tech in China would risk “the world’s collective ability to have access to the technologies we need to be successful in a clean energy economy,” said Ali Zaidi, Mr. Biden’s national climate adviser.

Shoring up national security
Biden officials say they are not trying to bring the world’s entire electric vehicle supply chain to the United States. They are cutting deals with allies to supply minerals for advanced batteries, for example, and encouraging countries in Europe and elsewhere to subsidize their own domestic clean-tech production. But they are particularly worried about the security implications of a major rival like China dominating the space.

The administration has initiated investigations into the risks of software and hardware of future imported smart cars — electric or otherwise — from China that could track Americans’ locations and report back to Beijing. Liberal economists also worry about the prospect of China cutting off access to new cars or key components of them, for strategic purposes.

Allowing China to dominate E.V. production risks repeating the longstanding economic and security challenges of gasoline-powered cars, said Elizabeth Pancotti, the director of special initiatives at the liberal Roosevelt Institute in Washington, which has cheered Mr. Biden’s industrial policy efforts.

Americans have struggled for decades to cope with decisions by often hostile oil-producing nations, which act as part of the OPEC cartel, to curtail production and raise gasoline prices. China could wreak similar havoc on the electric-car market if it drives other nations out of the business, she said.

If that happens, she said, “reversing that is going to be really difficult.”

Biden needs the energy transition to create jobs
There is no denying that politics also play a huge factor in Mr. Biden’s decisions. Simply put: He is promising that his climate program will create jobs — good-paying, blue-collar manufacturing jobs, including in crucial swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Mr. Biden is a staunch supporter of organized labor, and is counting on union votes to help win those states. He has pledged that the energy transition will boost union workers. He is betting their support for tariffs meant to protect American manufacturing jobs will dwarf any complaints from environmentalists who want faster progress on reducing emissions.
“One of the constituent groups in the Democratic Party that’s really highly organized, that gets people out to knock on doors, is the labor movement, more so than the environmental movement,” said Todd Vachon, a professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and the author of “Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice.”

Those concerns have come into especially high relief given that many clean energy jobs are with young companies where workers aren’t unionized, he added.

Mr. Biden put those concerns front and center when announcing his tariff decision last week.

“Back in 2000, when cheap steel from China began to flood the market, U.S. steel towns across Pennsylvania and Ohio were hit hard,” he said at the White House. “Ironworkers and steelworkers in Pennsylvania and Ohio lost their jobs. I’m not going to let that happen again.”

URL
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/business/biden-evs.html

The problem isn't the rule of the people, the problem is dysfunctional policy. One of the problems of the usa model is that dysfunctional policy works. This is based on the advertised success of the usa militaristically + financially. But the usa was and is a huge financial profiteer of centuries of mass enslavement. Remember most continental european countries enslavement was external, the cost of shipping and maintain the overseas military was a cost the european american did not have to deal with as its enslavement was local. Second the usa used immigration to strengthen its populace to maintain violent control over the enslaved+ eradicate or annihilate the indigenous or remaining indigenous. The funny thing is how a country like South Africa whose black populace have a majority in populace but are the lowest financial rung  think a system by the usa or from white european heritage can work. Luckily for me south africa's change from apartheid to post apartheid is in my lifetime. I saw how south africa  under mandela was guided to its current state. The USA was a jewel of white european imperialism that broke away from its motherland/Western European Countries were former global empires built up by the usa to stop them from joining Soviet russia/Russia has an untold level of natural resources and a military to protect itself/ japan was a former global empire rebuilt by the usa to stop them joining soviet russia/China is a country that found freedom from white domination, including that of the usa, during world war two and through a large populace+large natural resources+ a distrust of all foreigners including the usa became a world power. But South Africa was a country majority black whose majority population was  taking a nonviolent approach to the minorities: whites/indians/coloreds who enjoyed their financial luxury while keeping the black majority under foot through violent means. Mandela gave this racial relationship, totally negative in structure, a legal fellowship that was and is totally absent. Blacks/colored/indians/whites are four different peoples, they can not fornicate into one people, nor do any of them want to. Mandela chose the wrong system, he should had did what china did, take some ideas from outside but make a system that relates to the situation of south africa specifically. China has a law that says no law from outside of china has superiority over chinese law in china. That stems from the fact that the usa/england/france/germany/russia/japan all had spheres of china as domains.  The chinese learned no one can be trusted from their experiences. But the chinese also applied this after violence. Black South Africans need violence and then need to turn south africa into what they want, and if they want the coloreds/indians/whites around. 

South Africa’s Young Democracy Leaves Its Young Voters Disillusioned
We spoke to South Africans who grew up in the three decades since the country overthrew apartheid and held its first free election about their lives and plans to vote — or not — in this week's pivotal election.

By Lynsey ChutelPhotographs by Joao Silva
Reporting from Johannesburg, Polokwane, Carletonville, Phoenix and Gqeberha in South Africa

May 28, 2024
At the dawn of South Africa’s democracy after the fall of the racist apartheid government, millions lined up before sunrise to cast their ballots in the country’s first free and fair election in 1994.

Thirty years later, democracy has lost its luster for a new generation.

South Africa is now heading into a pivotal election on Wednesday, in which voters will determine which party — or alliance — will pick the president. But voter turnout has been dropping consistently in recent years. It fell to below 50 percent for the first time in the 2021 municipal elections, and analysts said that voter registration has not kept up with the growth of the voting-age population.

This downward curve has mirrored the support for South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, or A.N.C., which was a liberation movement before becoming a political machine. Polls show the party may lose its outright majority for the first time since taking power in 1994 under the leadership of Nelson Mandela.

A new generation of voters do not have the lived experience of apartheid nor the emotional connection that their parents and grandparents had to the party. The A.N.C. as a governing party is all young people know, and they blame it for their joblessness, rampant crime and an economy blighted by electricity blackouts.
“Generational change or replacement has finally caught up with the A.N.C.,” said Collette Schulz-Herzenberg, an associate professor in political science at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

South Africa is no exception to global trends: Studies show that Gen Z and millennial voters in many countries have lost faith in the democratic process, even as they remain deeply concerned about issues like climate change and the economy.

But in South Africa, where the median age is 28, young people make up more than a quarter of registered voters in a population of 62 million, and are a crucial voting bloc. But only 4.4 million of the 11 million South Africans ages 20 to 29 have registered to vote in this election, according to statistics from South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission.

The commission staged national campaigns to persuade more young people to register, and data show an encouraging uptick in registration of 18- and 19-year-olds who will vote for the first time in this election, to 27 percent from 19 percent since the last election.
 
But we spoke with many young people across the country who told us that they would sit out the election — a political rebuke to the A.N.C. and an indication that the country’s many opposition parties had failed to woo them.

‘We are raising a generation of dependent young people’
Athenkosi Fani, 27

His whole life, Athenkosi Fani has relied on the A.N.C. government, and he hates that feeling.

“I am made to depend on the system,” he said, sitting in his dorm room at Nelson Mandela University in the coastal city of Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth. “We are raising a generation of dependent young people.”

Mr. Fani is a postgraduate student who has attended universities named for A.N.C. stalwarts, like Mr. Mandela and Walter Sisulu, but he said that staying in school was all that kept him from being yet another unemployed Black graduate.

He had a tragic childhood, worsened by the enduring poverty in Eastern Cape Province where he grew up. Mr. Fani’s mother received a social grant for him when he was born. Social grants, or welfare payments, are a lifeline for more than a third of households in South Africa — a state of affairs that A.N.C. politicians frequently remind voters about.

At age 11, Mr. Fani was placed in an orphanage when his mother could no longer care for him, and he became a ward of the state until 18. But he is gregarious and outspoken, and received a series of important boosts along his path.
To attend university, he relied on government financial aid. A provincial A.N.C. leader bought a laptop for him and paid for him to attend a monthlong traditional initiation for young men, an important rite of passage in the region. At his graduation in March, a member of the National Youth Development Agency attended, after it, too, funded him.
He has been an L.G.B.T.Q. activist since he was a teenager, and traveled to the United States to attend a Lion’s Club conference for young leaders to promote democracy. He was briefly an A.N.C. volunteer. All these experiences made him an ideal ambassador for youth issues, but also deeply resentful.

He said that he grudgingly voted for the A.N.C. in the last election as a sign of gratitude. This time, he said, he is staying home on Election Day.

“I still do believe in democracy,” he said, but added, “I don’t want any organization that gets to have so much power.”
‘My vote isn’t going to count’
Shaylin Davids, 23

Down deep, Shaylin Davids knows she’s part of the problem.

“The crime rate would actually go down if they start employing people,” said Ms. Davids, as she held court in her garage in Noordgesig, a township west of Johannesburg, with several friends. All are high school graduates, and all are unemployed.

Ms. Davids said she was good at school, but used her smarts to run drugs instead of attend university. An uncle she was close to was gunned down this past New Year’s Eve.

Aspiring now to turn a page, she started a computer course at a community center this year, hoping that it would land her a job if an employer looked past the tattoos on her face and fingers.

Ms. Davids’s grandmother told her that young people like her in her township actually had better prospects under apartheid. Ms. Davids is Coloured, the term still used for multiracial South Africans, who make up just over 8 percent of the population. Under apartheid, Coloured South Africans had better access than Black South Africans to jobs in factories and the trades.

Like many other Coloured South Africans, Ms. Davids feels left behind by a majority-Black government, and blames the A.N.C.’s affirmative action policies, which favored Black people, for reducing her job opportunities. This sentiment endures despite the reality that the unemployment rate for Black South Africans is 37 percent, compared with 23 percent for Coloured people in the country. But it has been enough to grow support for ethnically driven political parties.

Ms. Davids, though, is not interested in their slogans. She doesn’t follow politics, but she does follow the news. She watched bits of the finance minister’s budget speech in February, and concluded that he understood nothing about the cost-of-living crisis choking her neighborhood or how insufficient the social grant is.

Misinformation is rife, and she and her friends have heard rumors that if they registered, their votes would automatically go to the A.N.C. And even without that, she can’t see how her vote would change the country.
“I don’t want to vote because my vote isn’t going to count,” she said. “At the end of the day, the ruling party is still going to be A.N.C. There’s still no change.”
‘It’s not as good as it could be’
Aphelele Vavi, 22

High school was great for Aphelele Vavi. His teachers were “superstars,” he said; the cafeteria had great snacks; and it is where he discovered his love of audiovisual production, which he is now turning into a career.

Mr. Vavi spent his teens ensconced in the bubble of a Johannesburg private school, and the friends and connections he made continue to shape his network and his prospects.
He lives in Sandton, a cluster of wealthy suburbs in northern Johannesburg, the son of a prominent trade unionist — making him part of the Black elite. But he was also exposed to the harsh realities of less-privileged South Africans, like his cousins, who still live in rural Eastern Cape Province.

He said of post-apartheid South Africa: “It’s been really good to me.”

A first-time voter, he hopes the electricity blackouts that have plagued the country for years are the issue that will get other young people to vote. Studying audiovisual production, Mr. Vavi loses hours of work in a blackout. It also means a loss of connection to his close circle of friends, and turns his mobile phone into what he called “a very expensive brick.”

“As much as there’s been definite improvements, it’s not as good as it could be or should have been,” he said.
Hanging on the walls of the Vavi home is a portrait of the family posed with former President Nelson Mandela. Mr. Vavi’s father was once the leader of the country’s most powerful union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, an ally of the A.N.C., and knew Mr. Mandela personally. All the younger Mr. Vavi remembers of that moment is “the hullabaloo of trying to find the bow tie” that he is wearing in the photograph.

Still, Mr. Vavi said that he would not be voting for the A.N.C. He said that he had read all the parties’ manifestoes, but the politician who stood out for him did so by making a joke on X, formerly Twitter. To Mr. Vavi, the quip transformed that politician, Mmusi Maimane of the recently launched Build One South Africa party, into a relatable guy. Mr. Vavi is savvy enough to know that Mr. Maimane’s and other opposition parties won’t unseat the A.N.C., but they could shake up the party of his parents.

“The hope is that because of how unlikely it is that the A.N.C. are going to be voted out, at least scare them into picking up their socks and doing better,” he said.

‘South Africa can come back’
Dylan Stoltz, 20

When Dylan Stoltz shared his dreams for South Africa with other young white South Africans, they laughed at him.

“They say you can’t do anything in this land anymore,” he said.

Mr. Stoltz’s optimism seems at odds with his surroundings in Carletonville, a dying mining town 46 miles southwest of Johannesburg. After the end of apartheid and the collapse of mining, fortunes have changed for men like Mr. Stoltz.

His grandfather had a farm of 215 acres and a senior job in a gold mine. Mr. Stoltz works as a fuel attendant in an agricultural supply store, where he serves an increasingly diverse group of farmers.

His stepfather arranged a higher-paying job for him outside of Vancouver, Canada, where he plans to go next year to work in construction for a South African émigré.
“I don’t want to leave South Africa permanently,” Mr. Stoltz said.

Since 2000, the number of South Africans living abroad has nearly doubled to more than 914,000, according to census data. His plan is to work as hard as he can in Canada and make as much money as he can. Then, he’ll return to Carletonville to start a business and marry his girlfriend, Lee Ann Botes.

Fresh out of high school, Ms. Botes is considering becoming an au pair. It would give her the opportunity to travel, and perhaps finally see the ocean. Still, she, too, plans to return.
“Doesn’t matter how much the violence and crime can be, this is your home,” she said.

Mr. Stoltz added, “I think South Africa can come back to where it was a few years back.”

While some white South Africans may be nostalgic for the apartheid years, for Mr. Stoltz, South Africa’s heyday was during the presidency of Mr. Mandela, when he believes there was racial unity. The closest he has come to this ideal in his own lifetime, he said, was when South Africa won the Rugby World Cup last year.

Mr. Stoltz said that he would vote for Siya Kolisi, the current captain of the national rugby team and the first Black player to lead it — if only he were running.

So he’s considering voting for the largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, or the Freedom Front Plus, once a minority Afrikaner party that has grown to become the fourth- largest in South Africa. His grandfather is a local councilor with the Freedom Front Plus.
‘I’m still waiting for someone to impress me’
Matema Mathiba, 30

As a sales representative for a global brewery company, Matema Mathiba spends her days driving around South Africa’s northernmost Limpopo Province.

Ms. Mathiba spent much of her childhood in the provincial capital, Polokwane, once an agricultural center that has seen a mushrooming of large homes built by a new cohort of Black professionals. With the end of apartheid, the Mathiba family’s fortunes grew to provide a house with a bedroom for each of the three sisters, who all have college degrees.

In the struggling economy under President Cyril Ramaphosa, Polokwane is less expensive than living in Johannesburg, Ms. Maiba said, sipping a lemonade in a recently opened chain restaurant. The city is also an A.N.C. stronghold, with the party. taking 75 percent of the votes in the last election.

In the past, Ms. Mathiba had voted for the A.N.C. because, she said, “the devil you know is better.”

This election, though, she remains undecided. She is losing patience with the A.N.C., comparing the party to a 30-year-old, like herself, who should by now have a clear direction.

“A 30-year-old is an adult,” she said.

Ms. Mathiba’s church congregation of young Black professionals is her community, she says, and seeing television news footage of the A.N.C.’s tactic of campaigning in churches left a bitter taste.
“We can see through it, but can the older people?” she asked.

With a degree in development planning, Ms. Mathiba actively participates in South Africa’s hard-won democracy, reading bills and commenting online. She understands the stakes of policy-making, but as part of the social media generation, she wants to know her leaders more personally.

That she knows nothing about Mr. Ramaphosa’s family unsettles her. She took notice when Julius Malema, the firebrand leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, an opposition party, posted something personal about his children online. But she does not agree with his policy on open borders, she said.

Data show that a quarter of South African voters will make their decisions just days before the vote. So will Ms. Mathiba.

“I’m still waiting for someone to impress me,” she said.
‘When it’s time to do the action, they can’t’
Shanel Pillay, 24
As a girl, Shanel Pillay loved to go to the library. It’s where she studied, hung out with friends and met the boy who would become her fiancé.

Today, Ms. Pillay says she would not risk the 10-minute walk to the library. Like many Indian South Africans living in Phoenix, a majority-Indian community founded by Gandhi when he lived in South Africa, Ms. Pillay feels that Phoenix has become unsafe. So has the surrounding city of Durban, on South Africa’s east coast. Crime keeps her indoors, producing TikTok videos to pass the time.

Ms. Pillay vividly remembers hiding in her home for several days in 2021, when Durban was gripped by deadly riots that pitted Black and Indian South Africans against each other. The violence highlighted how poor and working-class South Africans felt left behind by progress made since the end of apartheid.

Recently, parts of Phoenix have not had running water for weeks, she said.

Under apartheid policy, Indian South Africans received more economic benefits than other groups of color. Since the end of apartheid, Indians, who make up 2.7 percent of the population, have seized opportunities in education and skilled work.

Ms. Pillay wanted to become a teacher, but when she arrived at college, she picked what she hoped would be a more lucrative career: finance.
“I wanted to be successful,” she said. “Have my own house, have my own car, have a pool, although I can’t swim.”
After her stepfather fell ill and lost his income during the coronavirus pandemic, Ms. Pillay dropped out of college. Home for two years, she took a short course in teaching, and soon found a job at a small private school. On the side, she works as a freelance makeup artist.
“As an individual in South Africa, you need to be independent,” she said.

She sees no point in voting. Neither large parties nor the independent candidates vying for Phoenix’s vote have wooed her.

“When it’s time to do the action,” she said, “they can’t.”
URL
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/world/africa/south-africa-election-youth-vote.html

Nice to see the indigenous people of the place now called New York, former NEw Amsterdam be given some respect absent violence demanding it 

‘Old’ Amsterdam Looks Back at New Amsterdam Through Indigenous Eyes
The violent history of the Dutch colony that is now New York is not well known in the Netherlands. The curators of a new exhibition want to change that.
Chief Urie Ridgeway and other representatives of the Lenape people spiritually cleansed the galleries of the Amsterdam Museum before the opening of “Manahahtáanung or New Amsterdam? The Indigenous story behind New York.”Credit...Françoise Bolechowski/Amsterdam Museum
By Nina Siegal
Reporting from Amsterdam

May 24, 2024
In the language of the Lenape Indigenous people, the word for European explorers who crossed the Atlantic in the 17th century to settle on their lands was “shuwankook,” or “salty people.”

The term first applied to the Dutch, said Brent Stonefish, a Native American spiritual leader, because they emerged from the sea to first trade with, then exploit and kill, his Lenape ancestors.

“The Dutch were basically those who ran us out of our homeland, and they were very violent toward our people,” he said in an interview. “As far as I was concerned, they were the savages.”

So, when the Dutch Consulate in New York approached Stonefish to ask if he’d help commemorate the anniversary of the 1624 establishment of the first Dutch settler colony, New Amsterdam, he was taken aback.

“They wanted us to celebrate 400 years of New Amsterdam, and we’re like, ‘No, that’s not going to happen,’” he said. “At the same time, I thought it was an educational opportunity,” he added. “We had a lot of hard discussions.”
The Dutch Consulate, which was creating an events program around the anniversary called Future 400, then connected Stonefish with the Museum of the City of New York and the Amsterdam Museum, an historical museum in the Netherlands.

The result is the exhibition, “Manahahtáanung or New Amsterdam? The Indigenous Story Behind New York,” running at the Amsterdam Museum through Nov. 10 and moving to the Museum of the City of New York in 2025 as “Unceded: 400 Years of Lenape Survivance.”

Imara Limon, a curator from the Amsterdam Museum, said that the project was a true creative collaboration between the museums and the Lenape, including the organization that Stonefish co-directs, the Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Collective. It felt particularly important, Limon said, to present the show in the Netherlands, where few people are aware of the Dutch colony’s impact on Indigenous peoples.
“It wasn’t part of history classes in school,” she said. “And we realized that our institutional memory on this topic is also very limited, so we needed their stories.”
Each museum searched its holdings for material about the Lenape, but found only a few official records. In the Amsterdam City Archives, curators discovered a record of an enslaved Lenape man who was brought to the Netherlands in the 17th century, which is on display in the show. To supplement the documents, the Lenape contributed artworks and traditional ceremonial artifacts.

Objects are just one part of the show, however: The exhibition is dominated by video interviews with Lenape people, which run from about seven minutes to 50 minutes each.
“Usually in a museum exhibit, videos are three to five minutes long,” Limon said, “but here we made them longer, because we felt we wanted to have them really present, physically present, in the space.”

Cory Ridgeway, a member of a Lenape group that collaborated on the show, said she welcomed this approach.
“Traditionally museums want very object-based programming, and they will come to us and say, ‘Give us some stuff and we’ll talk about it,’” she said. “A lot of museums don’t really credit oral history as history, and that’s our main form of history.”
Stonefish said his primary goal was to show that the Lenape still exist, and that they still have a voice.

“The one thing we wanted to convey was that we weren’t a relic under glass,” he said. “We still live and breathe, and strive to live good lives.”

Some 20,000 living Lenape people are descendants of an estimated population of one million that originally lived in the region of present-day New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

In 1609, the Dutch East India Company, one of the world’s largest merchant firms, dispatched the English explorer Henry Hudson to find a trading route to China. But Hudson veered off course and arrived in the Bay of Manhattan.

He quickly claimed the whole area between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers for the Netherlands. There, Dutch merchants engaged the Lenape in trade for beaver pelts and other furs.

Later, the Dutch West India Company, founded in 1621, established its first settlement on Governors Island in 1624, and made its colony of New Amsterdam on the tip of Manahahtáanung, what is now Manhattan. Two years later, a company executive, Peter Schagen, said he had purchased Manhattan from the Lenape for 60 guilders, or approximately $24.
The Lenape dispute that claim.

“We say that that’s a myth,” Stonefish said. “We didn’t have a concept of ownership; we had a concept of sharing the land, and having a relationship with all of the land, the animals and the plants. Our idea of civilization was accepting all of creation, and taking no more than what we needed.”

In the exhibition, this myth-busting is represented by a wampum belt, specially created for the show. Stonefish said a ceremonial belt would have been given to the Dutch as part of any property-sharing agreement, but there was no mention of one in the Dutch account. “Our leadership would not have entered into any type of agreement without something like this,” he said.

For about two decades, trade continued between the Dutch and the Indigenous people, but in 1643, the New Netherlands governor Willem Kieft ordered the massacre of the Lenape and other tribes living in the colony.
A two-year war ensued, during which at least 1,000 Lenape were killed. Kieft was ordered to return to the Netherlands to answer for his actions, but died in a shipwreck.
The West India Company appointed Peter Stuyvesant as Kieft’s successor, and he managed New Netherland until the English conquered the territory in 1664, and renamed it New York. The Dutch colony lasted just 50 years.

Ridgeway, the member of the Lenape group, said that, for her, making connection with the “salty people” was an opportunity to initiate discussions with the Dutch government about healing the past’s wounds.

“I would love to see an apology, and I would like to see reparations,” she said. “It would be used for our language, which is nearly extinct, so that it can be spoken again, and for our elders. The majority of our people are living below the poverty level today.”

Her husband, Chief Urie Ridgeway, said the story of his people had been largely erased from American history books, but it has been transmitted through storytelling by generations of survivors. “We know our histories, but now we are starting to share them.”
He added that the current exhibition gives the Lenape a chance to tell a story that has long been ignored. “It’s about time,” he said.
URL
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/arts/design/amsterdam-museum-indigenous-new-york.html

A correction was made on May 24, 2024: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the organization that Brent Stonefish co-leads. It is the Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Collective, not the Delaware Nation Collective.

AALBC built a survey

https://aalbc.com/pdf/Authors-Guild-AALBC-US-Published-Black-Author-Income-Study-12072023.pdf

My thoughts

The percentage of less black male authors in all black authors compared to a greater percentage of non black male authors among non black authors is interesting to me in that I think black women as book buyers or book writers is a stronger force but the contrast to the non black explains the disconnect. THe non black audience is larger in the usa than the black so having the black book buying or book writing be led by females means the black populace will trend a different gender way.

The tragedy of the black dos populace is that, it had its own set of languages or literary possibilites at the end of the war between the states but black DOS-ers themselves, pushed a white language/literary molding in the black populace so hard, black people turned their back on their own languages + literary possibilities. So the white asian + white latin american communities multilingual existence , allowed by fellow whites, side their growing population quantities gives them a greater and specific reach financially. The native american will always suffer as they are by default the losers as long as the usa exist.

The reality is, the black populace ever since the end of the war between the states has been a community based on merit. What does that mean? The black populace in the usa didn't earn a form of  freedom through violence, it was handed a form of freedom after its masters battled themselves. So, the black populace found itself with a freedom absent opportunity. This meant what, if nonviolence is to be embraced? This meant getting the former masters , now opportunity holders to value you through merit is the simplest straight forward strategy. And for a extreme minority of blacks it has worked since the end of the war between the states because their are aways situations where merit has value. Entertaining others requires skills that can only be proven through merit. Being athletic requires skills that can only be proven through merit. But, the problem was and is, most things don't require merit. So for example, even though many blacks have graduated with engineering degrees since the end of the war between the states, research and engineering don't have a merit based system cause the truth is, most research or engineering doesn't have a way to merit through to financial return. For example, if you are a boxer, you can't remain a champion absent proving it in the ring, their is no work around. But you can be a researcher or engineer for decades and never yield a grand monetary value.  To restate, being an engineer or researcher doesn't have a way to rank one against another honestly. And thus, it isn't a merited job. The only way engineering or researching can show merited ranks is if people research or engineer on their own, not as paid employees. remember bill gates plus steve jobs weren't the engineers who made the initial softwares that led to their riches, it was others whose names I can't remember as easily. So having a merit based community leads to less power by default, by default. But that is the tradeoff to a nonviolent stance that has allowed the usa to grow into the multiracial body it has currently.And the lack of merited labor extends to most jobs. Ceo's of firms/presidents of firms/financial officers of firms/auto workers/calminers/ most jobs don't have a way to demand merit as a hired entity. Why should one or another be a model for vogue? one should one or another be a newspaper reporter ? Most jobs can be filled by a various set of people who want them absent any way to say one is better than another outside of meritless biases like phenotype/gender/school you graduated from/language or most other. So this explains the financial impotency of blacks in the usa from the war between the states to today. 

Something told me I should had known nonfiction was the biggest publishing category by blacks. it makes sense in the usa. black fiction is very old but historically it has only had financial wings in the black populace while black nonfiction has financial wings in the non black community. The good news for me, is this proves my idea correct for a project i want to have in process this year.

The heirtage of whites wanting to adopt/embrace/take native american or black culture in the usa is a centuries old tradition and thus the book buying. Whites in the usa historically consider asian or latin american culture a dangerous other, not to be embraced.

Advertiisng is the key but white authors have the money for more adveritisng time

the pdf is from the following forum post

the history of black people did not begin in chains but the hisotorical relationship black people have to the usa did begin in chains. In the same way native american history didn't begin with being slaughtered but the historical relationship native americans have to the usa began with being slaughtered. non dos blacks or non indigenous don't have this problem. their historical relationship to the usa began with dreams of a better life. The problem is that their will always be a significant, at one time majority populace of black people in the usa who have a well earned negative relationship to all the usa is or the white people in it and that has never been able to work with black people who choose , absent historical basis, to integrate positively or peacefully into the usa or aside the whites in it. 

Brother Malcolm's quote is to remind black people in general that we are more than our experience in the usa, BUT he wasn't trying to deny that the experience in the usa for black people is majority negative,always. 

Too many black elected officials or black financial aristocrats in the usa have tried to use malcolm's words to suggest a sort of ignorance or laziness in the larger  black populace while ignoring the true problem with the majority of the black populace in the usa. the true problem is most blacks are simply angry at whites plus the usa and unfortunately, their anger has never had an outlet. so blacks who have chosen not to be angry have only suggested , for their own benefit, a change of mind. 

IN AMENDMENT

malcolm is correct, but i think the problem isn't black history from the beginning of time as much as black history in the usa, the question is simple, based on black history in the usa, should a black person feel positive to /want to integrate to /be happy about the usa or the white in it? I argue no is the all the questions based on history alone and i think most black people in their brains know it. I challenge anyone to tell me one year in the usa where most black people had a reason to be happy or hopeful? The answer is none.

IN AMENDMENT 2

in the history of the usa, i can't recall one year where most black people were happy or hopeful? the history of the usa for most black people's bloodlines begins with and only had chains