Your Obligation To AALBC

[Pioneer1]

Back in my teens and 20s, I wouldn't have believed that I would feel so obliged or dedicated to people I wasn't related to or something I wasn't getting paid to do.

But as we know, things and often attitudes and mentalities change with time.

Now if I spend an extended amount of time away from AALBC whether it's a few days, a few weeks, or a couple months.....I feel OBLIGATED to go back and as best I can respond to all  posts directed at me or about me.
And also, if time permits....address posts that grab my interest even if they weren't directed at me.

And it appears that most of you seem to feel the same way.
 

 

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And by the way let me thank @Troy for providing this space for us to do so.
It's been a while since I sent a token of my appreciation because I've had new personal obligations to focus my resources on these past few years, but your treasures are building up.
Trust me 
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I suppose it's just human nature; however knowing this makes me feel good, proud, and hopeful.

Why?

It shows me that there are certain feelings, emotions, and drives that are just innate in human nature that guarantees that no human society will degrade down past a certain level.

We will never get so selfish and individualistic AS A COMMUNITY where we simply ignore eachother and focus on our own issues and promotions.
Some will, but the vast majority will not.

There are certain ways we relate to other human beings that seem to be "in" us; ingrained in our psyche.

These are the traits a progressive well functioning society should be built on and modeled after.
Characteristics that agree with basic human nature.
 

[Troy]

@Pioneer1 I've said it before and I'll say it again.  This site would be nothing without other people, including people like you

 

The WWW is a place that rewards those who support the "other man" and not the Brother man. It is a very perverse and pernicious in this regard, because it works against all of us.

 

Consider the fact that many Black people spend a great deal of time, energy, and money trying to understand a learn how to "work" some social media platform owned by a white, male billionaire who not only does not give two shits about us, but in most cases actively works against us.  

Meanwhile, Black platforms struggle and fold.  I know I make it because of Black people who support the site in big and small ways -- it is the collective effort that makes the difference. 

 

Check out the book Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell it addresses the issue of "There are certain ways we relate to other human beings that seem to be "in" us; ingrained in our psyche." in a clever way.

 

[ProfD]

Thanks @Pioneer1.

 

Any thread that praises AALBC & @Troy is a great thing. I certainly appreciate him for providing this space for us & everyone who contributes & reads it.

[Pioneer1]

16 hours ago, Troy said:

Consider the fact that many Black people spend a great deal of time, energy, and money trying to understand a learn how to "work" some social media platform owned by a white, male billionaire who not only does not give two shits about us, but in most cases actively works against us.  

 

That's the sad and disappointing part.

It reminds me of those Black people of the past who tried to eat at segregated restaurants and demand equal and fair service.

1. Why would you want to push yourself into a space you aren't wanted or respected?
2. If somebody obviously hates you and is making it known, why would you eat any food or consume anything they bring you if they DID serve you?

That time and energy could be spent patronizing and uplifting your own.
 

 

 

It's beyond disappointing but to the point of being ridiculous to see so many Black people SELF CENSURE their own speech just to be able to have a space on these platforms.
Grown men saying things like "pew pew" because they can't say "shooting".

 

 

"Black men must take responsibility for all of 
unprotected thang-squirting and senseless
pew-pewing they commit in the community."

Can't say "murder".....gotta say "unaliving".
Can't say "molested" or "raped".....gotta say  "graped".
Can't say "white people".....gotta say "YT" or "dem folks".

The language is so coded you don't even know WHAT the hell some of these people are saying or talking about

It's getting more ridiculous by the week, how restricted and control speech is getting on most of these social media platforms.

The internet used to be the place FOR free speech.
Now it's to the point that common words that you could see on television 50 years ago is somehow not allowed on certain social media spaces.

[ProfD]

10 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

1. Why would you want to push yourself into a space you aren't wanted or respected?

That always reminds me of Diana Ross song "I'm gonna make you love me".

 

Like any other dysfunctional relationship, the abused &/or oppressed is always trying to do something in hopes that they will be loved & appreciated. 

 

10 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

2. If somebody obviously hates you and is making it known, why would you eat any food or consume anything they bring you if they DID serve you?

Right. Black folks can be OCD when it comes to who made the potato salad for a family dinner depending on how clean they keep house.

 

OTOH, that same person will think nothing of what goes on in the kitchen of a restaurant. They have no idea of the food items that have been dropped or spat on or worse.

 

10 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

That time and energy could be spent patronizing and uplifting your own.

A lot more of time has gone into conditioning Black folks to hate themselves. 

 

10 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

It's beyond disappointing but to the point of being ridiculous to see so many Black people SELF CENSURE their own speech just to be able to have a space on these platforms.

 

Can't say "murder".....gotta say "unaliving".

Guilty as charged. It's not that I can't curse or use certain words & phrases. It's part etiquette & algorithm. 

 

 

10 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

The internet used to be the place FOR free speech.

Free speech is still alive & well. Nobody's being arrested for cussing others the f8ck out.

[Pioneer1]

11 minutes ago, ProfD said:

 

Guilty as charged. It's not that I can't curse or use certain words & phrases. It's part etiquette & algorithm. 

You know, I actually wasn't even thinking about you when I wrote that....lol.

When you mention it, I remember that you DO seem to censor your speech a lot for the algorithm but you are so good with words and getting your point across it doesn't matter.

But some of these influencers I see on youtube and X are just ridiculous.
It's to the point that whatever point they're trying to make is completely lost in the sauce because they are so afraid of losing their platform or being demonetized.

And what makes it so ridiculous and confusing is that it's half-ass enforced.
They'll do a show about racism and use the words "YT" for "white" or censor out the word "rape".....but 15 minutes later in the same show they openly use both words.
Atleast when the television networks censor words...it's uniform and across the board.
These niggaz are lazy with it....lol.

And if they are banned or suspended....they are devastated.
Complain about being in "facebook jail" or "youtube jail".

 

[ProfD]

4 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

But some of these influencers I see on youtube and X are just ridiculous. 

It's to the point that whatever point they're trying to make is completely lost in the sauce because they are so afraid of losing their platform or being demonetized.

And if they are banned or suspended....they are devastated.
Complain about being in "facebook jail" or "youtube jail".

The funniest part is n8gglets are using white platforms to talk sh8t about the system of racism white supremacy.

 

To complain about being censored by the same white folks you're talking about on their sh8t is ridiculous. 

 

Imagine a n8gglet moving into your house & complaining about everything in it. Your 1st response would or should be...get the f8ck out.

[Troy]

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

The internet used to be the place FOR free speech.

 

That last for a few minutes relatively speaking.  Just long enough for me and many others to get excited about the potential only to have it usurped by the folks maniacally fixed on money. The same thing will happen with AI; money will be the only motivator in how it is used and criminals will have unfettered access to use it to fuck over the world. 
 

Today I resurrected a Search Engine, Huria Search, which only queries Black-owned websites. There are hundreds on Black owned sites that are indexed. It uses Google's tech in the way it was originally designed -- just to direct you to websites. 

It used to sit on it's own domain huria.org, but I allowed the domain to lapse.  I have pulled the search engine it back into AALBC.com.  I naively thought Black folks, especially the website owners themselves would support the search engine -- maybe embed it into their own sites. 

 

That never happened website owners actually stopped linking out to other websites as Google told them it would potentially hurt them in search -- as a result it became virtually impossible for people to discover another website from a website.  I have NEVER stopped linking to other website because, despite what Google says that was the beauty of the web.  I sure you will not find ANY Black site that links to more Black sites than AALBC.com. 

[richardmurray]

Ditto @Pioneer1 

I didn't know of Huria @Troy 

thanks for sharing

[richardmurray]

@Troy 

thanks I never heardo f the african american golf digest

 

[Troy]

10 hours ago, richardmurray said:

thanks I never heardo f the african american golf digest

 

Exactly.  That is why I created Huria Search

 

11 hours ago, richardmurray said:

I didn't know of Huria

 

I literarily brought it back yesterday.  It was down for several years, but as I'm revamping the site I'm bringing back features that I abandoned -- even if a few people will use and benefit from it.  It took me all of 5 minutes to bring it back.  AI made this possible.

 

AI is reminiscent of the early days of the web.  This time around fewer people will take advantage of it and the benefit to individuals will not be very long.

[richardmurray]

@Troy 

8 hours ago, Troy said:

I literarily brought it back yesterday.  It was down for several years, but as I'm revamping the site I'm bringing back features that I abandoned -- even if a few people will use and benefit from it.  It took me all of 5 minutes to bring it back.  AI made this possible.

 

When you say AI made this possible, what do you mean? 

Didn't you have the code? why was AI needed? I imagine all you needed to do was load the frontal code into an aalbc page post and return the backcode onto the server, godaddy. 

8 hours ago, Troy said:

AI is reminiscent of the early days of the web.  This time around fewer people will take advantage of it and the benefit to individuals will not be very long.

well, we will see what happens. You offer the question. What advantages does modern computing power you plus others label artificial intelligence offer? Are any fiscal? 

NYC just finally admitted a quarter of its populace is hungry, circa two million and five hundred thousand people are hungry. Don't tell me they all are lazy. The internet whom you say more took advantage of, at the end of the day has three primary industries: sex/retail shopping/influencers , not all people can offer sex or have anything to sell or wish to evangelize themselves enough to be sponsored. 

 

https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/11/1-8-nyc-public-school-kids-was-homeless-last-school-year/401093/

November 18, 2024

The number of students who experienced homelessness in New York City last school year could fill Yankee Stadium nearly three times over. That’s according to a new report [ https://advocatesforchildren.org/policy-resource/student-homelessness-data-2024/ ] released Monday from Advocates for Children of New York, which found over 146,000 public school children – or 1 in every 8 – didn’t have a permanent place to call home during the 2022-2023 school year.

Of the over 146,000 students impacted last year, 41% spent time living in city shelters, 54% were doubled up with other families, and 5% were unsheltered or living in cars or hotels, according to the nonprofit’s annual report on New York State Education Department records. That’s a 23% increase from the 2022-2023 school year, spurred in large part by an uptick of students living in shelters.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/special-reports/in-the-dark-new-yorks-child-welfare-deaths

26% 

 https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/nyc-spent-roughly-81k-per-person-on-homeless-services-last-year-comptroller/

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, richardmurray said:

NYC just finally admitted a quarter of its populace is hungry, circa two million and five hundred thousand people are hungry. Don't tell me they all are lazy. 

Again, I'll restate some people need to stop procreating.

 

They're not too lazy to stop f8cking but cannot afford their offspring. Makes zero sense. 

 

1 hour ago, richardmurray said:

The number of students who experienced homelessness in New York City last school year could fill Yankee Stadium nearly three times over.

 

Advocates for Children of New York, which found over 146,000 public school children – or 1 in every 8 – didn’t have a permanent place to call home during the 2022-2023 school year.

It is selfish for people to bring children into the world & not be able to provide shelter, food & clothing for them.

 

Broke men & women should get themselves fixed. That way, they can f8ck from sun up to sun down & not have to worry about bringing someone else into poverty & homelessness.

[admin]

4 hours ago, richardmurray said:

Advocates for Children of New York, which found over 146,000 public school children – or 1 in every 8 – didn’t have a permanent place to call home during the 2022-2023 school year.

 

146,000, i’m surprised it’s not more. I would be willing to bet that it is. New York is Hard and unforgiving if you don’t have any money.

 

I don’t know why people have children they can’t afford. it’s probably the programmed primal instinct to procreate. 

 

4 hours ago, richardmurray said:

Didn't you have the code? why was AI needed?

 

Well, Richard is not that simple. If it was, I would’ve done it already.The calculus completely changed in an AI world. I’m now doing things that I would not have considered doing because it required effort, time, intellect and money that I did not have.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD 

19 hours ago, ProfD said:

Again, I'll restate some people need to stop procreating.

 

They're not too lazy to stop f8cking but cannot afford their offspring. Makes zero sense. 

 

19 hours ago, ProfD said:

It is selfish for people to bring children into the world & not be able to provide shelter, food & clothing for them.

 

Broke men & women should get themselves fixed. That way, they can f8ck from sun up to sun down & not have to worry about bringing someone else into poverty & homelessness.

Yeah, black people been mostly, over 95%, fiscally poor their entire history in the usa or the european colonies that preceded, based on the logic you just used, ninety five percent of black people in 1865 should had never had a child. 

 

Time is relevant, fiscal poverty doesn't have a time limit in being true so...

 

you agree you shouldn't had been born, because if you are a black descended of enslaved, then your forebears fit the exact category of people whom you say should get themselves fixed.

 

@admin

16 hours ago, admin said:

146,000, i’m surprised it’s not more. I would be willing to bet that it is. New York is Hard and unforgiving if you don’t have any money.

 

I don’t know why people have children they can’t afford. it’s probably the programmed primal instinct to procreate. 

i am 100% sure the real numbers are worse. ahhh NYC isn't hard and unforgiving, why do people in usa keep trying to soften the ineptitude of the country. NYC isn't hard and unforgiving, it simply is mismanaged in government while infested with charlatan cheater fiscal operators for hundreds of years, longer than the usa was in existence. 

16 hours ago, admin said:

Well, Richard is not that simple. If it was, I would’ve done it already.The calculus completely changed in an AI world. I’m now doing things that I would not have considered doing because it required effort, time, intellect and money that I did not have.

please help me to comprehend.

If the code is already present and placing the code in your server was easily doable, then you must have needed to add something to the code and placing it in the server is most convenient with modern computing power.

If the code was not already present or the code being placed in wasn't easily doable, then modern computing power allowed you to generate the code needed or place it in the server satisfactory to whatever conventions. 

 

[ProfD]

40 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

Yeah, black people been mostly, over 95%, fiscally poor their entire history in the usa or the european colonies that preceded, based on the logic you just used, ninety five percent of black people in 1865 should had never had a child. 

Would life be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

 

40 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

Time is relevant, fiscal poverty doesn't have a time limit in being true so...

Fiscal poverty has always existed.  Many people have found a way out of it too.

 

40 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

you agree you shouldn't had been born, because if you are a black descended of enslaved, then your forebears fit the exact category of people whom you say should get themselves fixed.

If my forebearers had chosen not to procreate that would have been perfectly fine with me.

 

 

[richardmurray]

@ProfD 

1 minute ago, ProfD said:

Would like be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

 

did you mean to ask the following: 

Would life be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

 

1 minute ago, ProfD said:

Fiscal poverty has always existed.  Many people have found a way out of it too.

 

I apologize, I realized late, I meant to type, time is irrelevant. But, the question isn't the existence of the fiscal poor, the question is, based on your publicly stated position, that fiscal poor should not procreate. so if true, then no one fiscal poor throughout human history should procreate, which means you are definitely not born?

5 minutes ago, ProfD said:

If my forebearers had chosen not to procreate that would have been perfectly fine with me.

 

ahh  I like my personal life. Always been loved, always been supported. and all by my own kin. I don't mind coming from the enslaved/fiscal poor/bereft of hope... I rather honor a set /a selection of my forebears. ... just to explain, like all DOSers i have some white european forebears, so I can't look to honor all my forebears. 

[ProfD]

9 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

did you mean to ask the following: 

Would life be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

Correct.  Like was a typo.  

9 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

...the question is, based on your publicly stated position, that fiscal poor should not procreate. so if true, then no one fiscal poor throughout human history should procreate, which means you are definitely not born?

Correct If f you're going with a literal interpretation.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD

8 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Would life be any worse if they chose not to procreate?

My parents always said that having children is a joy unlike any other... they both helped many children, not their own by blood... I can't answer your question. I think for some no, for some yes.

[ProfD]

6 hours ago, richardmurray said:

 

My parents always said that having children is a joy unlike any other...

I would hope that all parents feel similarly & they would do whatever it took to keep their offspring from being hungry &/or homeless.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

A lot of people who have children in poverty come from a religious or "culturally" religious background.

1. They think abortions and birth control are wrong and immoral.
2. They believe that if they have children that "God" will take care of them and make a way for them somehow.

It's hard to convince them otherwise because it's culturally ingrained.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD

14 hours ago, ProfD said:

I would hope that all parents feel similarly & they would do whatever it took to keep their offspring from being hungry &/or homeless.

all parents don't cause all parents are human, humanity means various positions not just one , and my parents never said they would do whatever it took, they spoke the truth, they tried their best. My parents never suggested parental success is some mandatory, the key is to try, but failure is an option, a failing parent doesn't mean a malintentioned one. again, my enslaved forebears who were born and died enslaved to some white person weren't malintentioned because they had children. Their descendents first not legally enslaved while in jim crow were not malintentioned by having children absent any financial opportunity.

The one thing I don't know is where do black folk like you get the "don't warrant having children" philosophy from? I have read many things of black people in the 1800s, I don't recall any thing like that. The only people saying black people shouldn't have kids in the usa in the 1800s is whites who didn't want black people to have kids cause they dislike /hate/some negative black people. 

Who was the earliest black leader to push the narrative you and quite a few other blacks I have heard offline or online say?

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

 

all parents don't cause all parents are human, humanity means various positions not just one...

Obviously. 

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

again, my enslaved forebears who were born and died enslaved to some white person weren't malintentioned because they had children.

Nowhere did I type anyone wss mal-intentioned in having children.

 

Irresponsible is the more appropriate word for people bringing children into the world & unable to provide for & protect them. 

 

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

The one thing I don't know is where do black folk like you get the "don't warrant having children" philosophy from?

There is no "don't warrant having children" philosophy or movement. 

 

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

Who was the earliest black leader to push the narrative you and quite a few other blacks I have heard offline or online say?

No Black leaders have championdd such a thing as far I know. 

 

Many people in one way or another & for similar reasons through their actions have purposefully avoided bringing children into this world. 

 

From one generation to the next, regardless of conditions /or circumstances, people continue procreating. Such is life.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

Irresponsible is the more appropriate word for people bringing children into the world & unable to provide for & protect them. 

 

well fiscally poor people are not irresponsible for bringing children in this world, the simple truth is some fiscally poor people never have the ability to raise their children, no matter how hard they try. 

 

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

There is no "don't warrant having children" philosophy or movement. 

 

Maybe there isn't but I have doubts, too many black people I have heard offline speak of fiscally poor people, especially black people ... being irresponsible having children... One day when I get time I will research and find the source in the usa , cause most of the black people I can think of in the past who said the point in question,  were black church folk or old black money in the usa, black people who were rich from the 1800s , and the rest is trickling from either source.

[ProfD]

14 hours ago, richardmurray said:

well fiscally poor people are not irresponsible for bringing children in this world...

Contraception is free especially in places where poor people live. 

[richardmurray]

@ProfD 

contraception comes in many forms and the only free contraception i know of is abstinence, which has always existed, but again, if humanity abided by your stated action then humanity wouldn't exist today. A species murdering themselves is the most unnatural thing for any species to do. To rephrase, all children of earth procreate, trees make babies in trashheaps, fish make babies in dirty streams, birds make babies under toxic air. humans like all other children of earth make babies under all sorts of circumstances and are not irresponsible for failing as a parent. PArt of maturity of any living being is comprehending this anceint truth and to think opposite is foolish.

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, richardmurray said:

contraception comes in many forms and the only free contraception i know of is abstinence...

Clinics hand out free contraceptives.

 

1 hour ago, richardmurray said:

A species murdering themselves is the most unnatural thing for any species to do.

I do not recall where I typed that people should kill themselves and/or have abortions. 

 

Humans have found ways to avoid procreation for a very long time.

 

 

1 hour ago, richardmurray said:

...humans like all other children of earth make babies under all sorts of circumstances and are not irresponsible for failing as a parent. PArt of maturity of any living being is comprehending this anceint truth and to think opposite is foolish.

Humans have been given the ability to think & rationalize.  Maturity is understanding the responsibility that comes with it.