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This was one the the click-baity headlines you see advertised on websites. Even though my perverse curiosity is often peaked (who can resist the "You'd be alarmed how these 10 beautiful famous people look today") I avoid these links like the plague. How every this title, "WATCH: Two Transgenders Blow Out Girls In State Meet," made me laugh because I immediately thought about @Pioneer1 Rather than clicking the link I did a google search and was surprised to discover Transgender athletes is "a thing" now. Apparently all a guys has to say is that he is a girl and he can race with the girls. The "ex-dudes" are breaking records. From YouTube Earlier this week when Connecticut held its CIAC Track & Field Championships, the previous records for girls were broken in both the 100 and 200-meter runs. A transgender, won the events. Another transgender, was the runner up in the 100 meter dash. According to the Connecticut Post, the results are causing some controversy. “A lot of people have asked, can you run a separate race, can you put an asterisk next to their name, do something that shows there is a standard that is different from that?” said CIAC executive director Karissa Niehoff. “When you get into that playing out, you have got civil rights issues. “Then within the same gender, you are taking one population of the gender and you’re separating them and creating another class. That’s what Title IX speaks to. That’s what Office of Civil Rights guidelines speak to. You cannot discriminate based on gender. And in our case in Connecticut, gender is gender identity.” Yet what about the two girls who worked for years who got knocked out of the finals by Miller and Yearwood? And what about the two girls who finished seventh and eighth in the finals who were denied a chance to compete in the New England championships? “We do feel for them,” Niehoff said. “Fully agree it doesn’t feel good. The optic isn’t good. But we really do have to look at the bigger issues that speak to civil rights and the fact this is high school sports.”

Well the so called "evil white man" has not been around since the beginning of time 🙂 Indeed for most of recorded human history The Black man flourished. The "evil white man" has only been wreaking havoc for a couple thousand years, and much of this time they were running around killing each other. Just think about the last 150 years; Civil war 800K, WWi 20M, WW2 60M... Sure darker skinned people will almost certainly outlast melanin deficient people, but that is because they are so outnumbered.

The "employment" data is a joke. And yes those fees accrue interest and penalties if not paid in a timely fashion -- making a bad problem worse even insurmountable. I predict crime will start to increase in places like NYC as a result. I could see Black people becoming republican because they are fiscally or socially conservative, but today it is the party of 45...

MOMMY'S KHMAR by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, Illustrated by Ebony Glenn "A Top 130 African-American Children’s Book" I thought this book was sweet. While Muslims make up a relatively tiny portion of Black America's religious community. I think it would be useful not just for children in this religious minority for children outside the group to learn about different aspects of our multifaceted American culture.

@Queen X speaking of poverty, @Kalexander2 raised an interesting point that is rarely discussed: fines. I've lived in the' hood for most of my life and fines are crippling our communities. Over policing and onerous fines leveled against poor people is devastating to many. I could go on all day about parking traffics, traffic violation, littering tickets. White people walk around greenwich village smoking pot in the open, negros in Harlem get run through the system -- don't let it be the weekend you might spend a night in jail.

Poverty, for the descendendants of formerly enslaved people in America is a complex problem. We have been, and are, bombarded by a wide variety of assaults. What I do not is that our poverty will not be alleviated by the actions of out government alone. The government is necessary, but not sufficient to solver poverty in our communities. Black people must to do most of the work. This is a very difficult thing for us to do. This was made crystal clear to me only after I became a business owner. AALBC has lasted more than 20 years only because of my community. If we are to pull the Black community out of poverty we have to be the ones do to it.

@Delano just click Mel's Avatar and you'll see a list of everything thing she has posted including a recent one about block chain.