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Del, I agree 100% on the lets stop doing the stuff we don't need--I don't even care how we arrive at the conclusion it that is the outcome. I do know almost every major city I visited recently, Tampa, Sacremanto, Altanta, DMV, New York, Charlotte is buried in traffic. In places like Tampa, everyone drives humongous vehicles all by themselves. If we changed our collective behavior I think the population would not be much of a factor.

It wouls be more destabilising to admit that our election was hacked. An investigation also wasn't likely tobbe finished before the election. Also its a transitional government. So what as done was document abmormality. To leave a paper trail.

Pioneer how many languages can you speak or understand. Pioneer not everything is binary. For instance Dr King didn't want to lead nor did Ghandi. Just because someone has no desire to lead doesn't mean they can't be leaders. Pioneer not everything is binary. For instance Dr King didn't want to lead nor did Ghandi. Just because someone has no desire to lead doesn't mean they can't be leaders.

@Pioneer1 i'm impartial when it comes to whether or not global warming is a real threat. i don't have an opinion one way or another, so where do you get the false idea that i have a hotline to NASA? All i said on the subject was that time brings change and that Earth's climate goes in cycles, and that i was more concerned about more pressing issues. Next time i respond to one of your theories, i'll cast you in a scenario where after leaving a strip joint, while riding in your Lexus on your way to an executive meeting, you got a "bright" idea.

Just because you say the picture that Viola Davis, in fact, voluntarily posed for and subsequently approved of, apparently not having a problem with the art concept of the free lance photographer hired by TIME to photograph her, doesn't mean that it is an example of subtle racism; that's your skewed paranoid mind-set at work. And just because i don't agree with your examples of the negative use of race in politics and social issues doesn't mean that i don't think that this doesn't occur. This isn't a new idea originated by you. It's that i do indeed, have a different mindset from yours because i am not naive enough to think that the institutionalized racism in this country will be dissolved by sitting in Starbucks dreaming up ways to show how different blacks are from whites. What you and Farrakhan need to do is go somewhere and build your own nation, because this jive-assed country that you honor and revere and yearn to be loved by will never relinquish its white entitlement, and the hybrid "race" of 40 million people of color that you attempt to establish a criteria and agenda for and put into a neat little box will not be whipped in line by your pie-in-the-sky-ideas.

Russia's impact on our election is not Obama's fault; Russia is to blame. Now we can argue about what an appropriate response should have been, but we both know virtually anything Obama would have done would have been twisted by the other party and the Trump campaign, or thwarted by the Republican House and Senate.

@Pioneer1 Come on. Science is intrinsic. it has no color; maybe its motivation does. A black scientist might be motivated to diligently and exclusively focus his scientific research on a specific disease or tendency that is relevant to his race.The "miracle workers" you cite are not doctors practicing black medicine. They are black doctors practicing medicine and, as in all professions, there are brilliant practitioners among them. A white scientist developed the best treatment for sickle cell anemia because he made it his project. Race is always a factor in research and statistics about disease but the methods applied to reach these conclusions are scientific ones. The science that the Greeks stole from the Egyptians and took credit for didn't change; just the history of who originated it did. Purveyors of folk medicine and natural cures come in all races. The Nazis experimented on the Jews to discern scientific data not jewish data, the same as black people were used as Guinea pigs to learn about human diseases not black ones. Eugenics were more about social injustice than scientific differentiation. Black teachers teach standard education and, if they are good teachers, they filter it through the black experience. But what they teach is basic. Reading is fundamental and 1+1 will always equal 2. You and i will always disagree because you are partial to anecdotal evidence being proof of your generalizations. If you are saying that there should be a field of black doctors exclusively available to concentrate on and treat black diseases, then OK. What i am saying is that this isn't about science, it's about specialization.

Try searching for African American Scientist and Mathematicians. I am sure there are associations.

Our body of knowledge would be broader. If there were less institutional barriers in society in general and education specifically.

I didn't even know there were 197 Black owned book stores IN America, let alone closing down! Infact there are some on that list in the Detroit area that I didn't even know existed....lol. You can add another one to that list as the Truth Book store in Northland (Southfield Michigan) has closed down. I had left Detroit by the time it opened up, but I heard it was a regular hang-out for Pan Africanists and is sorely missed by the handful of Black nationalists in an otherwise middleclass Black community. 　 I agree with CD and have been saying for years that we need an AfroAmerican bookstore chain similar to Barnes and Noble or Chapters (Canada). I've probably possessed enough books in my life to start my own book store. But I've given away much of them to make room, I'm not a horder. Perhaps I should have kept them and sold them. You get tired of going over cat's homes only to see the SAME book you gave them 3 years ago sitting in the SAME spot you saw them put it when you handed it to them.....lol.