Mel Hopkins

College grads today may need to board a flight to Latin America to find their next job. And this time it is not because corporations are looking for cheap, low-skilled labor. U.S.-educated LATAM professionals, including lawyers, finance specialists, and HR directors, are filling back-office roles that used to sit in American cities. This has been quietly accelerating since the early 2000s. This week, a VP of Global Services Finance at a major Dow company, Johnson and Johnson departed to 'pursue external opportunities' — the same week senior procurement postings went live in Bogotá. This is the pattern. Sad part is, the current administration has halted immigration while U.S. corporations export the jobs immigrants were supposedly taking. If this feels like it should be bigger news, consider who funds the news. History does tell us all of this may backfire because I left Brooklyn when the Colombian Drug Cartel ran roughshod through parts of Brooklyn.

History class was kicking my butt! It was a short semester class jammed packed with a lot of work including up to the very present. I did get an "A" and learned a lot about the United States that even I didn't know! And I read a lot! Some of it was so depressing I felt like I was struggling through PTSD. Thank goodness my professor was a Black woman with a PhD - she held the light towards the finish line. I took the summer off from school. I needed a break. 👋🏽🙋🏽‍♀️

No lies detected - Was Curry's father a high profile baller?

Pareto principle - 80/20% Or 20% of the people do the work. While 80% folly. "vital few", "trivial many" And the vital few group is usually very diverse.

In a similar vein to "Watermelon Man", I need to add, "The Blackening," which I initially overlooked, but I was drawn in once I saw it on Netflix's "before it leaves soon" page. It's genuinely hilarious and the best satire horror comedy I've seen in a while! It's about a group of college friends meeting up at a cabin in the woods after a hiatus - you know, the "life 'be lifing'" type of excuse for absence. So, like any cabin in the woods horror flick scenario, the first to die is a black person - but who's the first when everybody is Black? Well, surely it has to be the Blackest one, right? I hollered when they pointed to the actual African in the group. Anyway, that's the premise of this satirical flick, and it is really funny. Tongue-in-Cheek funny! So, although The Blackening was released in 2023, it should be a contender for this list because it absolutely has staying power.

Maybe the DOJ, IRS, or FINRA paid them a visit. 👀

"Between nine and fifteen thousand years ago, scholars believe that a land bridge existed between Asia and North America that we now call Beringia. The first inhabitants of what would be named the Americas migrated across this bridge in search of food. When the glaciers melted, water engulfed Beringia, and the Bering Strait was formed." ( Mack 1.1) We just walked on over to the Americas. There were Black people here before Columbus It was easy to migrate to the Americas - heck most indigenous people and Hawaiians were Black first.. Heck "erry body" was Black. I truly believe that is the only way would could initially survive the UV rays from the sun. -

I'm assuming this stands for "Foundational Black Americans" and ADOS American Descendants of Slaves? What is the difference? Or is the difference because they (Black People) were never slaves in the Americas? If yes, while those Black people weren't slaves, they weren't citizens either. They were Stateless and had no rights or protection under the U.S Constitution until the 13th and 14th Amendment.

I have to disagree. Some Africans were reported to be sold because they were imprisoned or had debts. But the Portuguese literally built a fort at what is now Ghana's shoreline because they had already invaded West Africa and had to fight other invading Europeans who headed to the continent to get goodies. But we are talking about the 1400s. This was just the beginning of what historians call the Atlantic Slave trade. Elmina Castle "In 1482, Portuguese traders built Elmina Castle (also called São Jorge da Mina, or Saint George’s of the Mine) in present-day Ghana, on the west coast of Africa. (Mack 1.1 Portuguese Exploration..") But the millions of enslaved Africans wasn't sold by Africans, that was the British, French, and Spain until they finally got out of the human trafficking business. Then the newly minted Amerricans started a second middle passage - and imported a few million more. By the time of the Civil war there were four million Africans in the southern states (also why they lost) ...Africans selling Africans is white propaganda to deflect from the truth of the slave trade that harmed so many lives. The reason why historians know they trafficked all those Africans to various Carribbean islands and the Americas is because of the hubris of the white man who kept-effing records. Like Thomas Jefferson who had a list of his 600 slaves, they kept records everything!

We do have interest! There a many Black people interested in diplomacy. But it would help if we all vote so we can get in an executive in the oval office who would appoint us. Linda Thomas-Greenfield - Wikipedia Championing Equality at Home and Overseas: African Americans Leading at the UN No, that's one of the reasons I married him. He had this annoying sense of humor but it helped me loosen up a bit. Then he went and cheated on me - (after I had the twins) and treated me like the side-chick. I took him back but then he said one thing that hurt my feelings so bad that I was done. I ran and got my name back and probably decided then that I would never marry again. Shoot, I barely even dated anyone seriously. But enough my sob story. 😩 I think you both said the same thing because most men have different goals than women -Some women can live a lifetime alone and men can't imagine a life without someone in it.

I haven't. Thank you for sharing! I probably won't. I am working on my first screenplay but it's historical fiction.

OMG! Do you know that my ex-husband said the same exact thing LOL! | I'm not on the campus this semester. I've only registetered for asynchronous online classes.

I was included. I didn't know until this semester. I'm taking this awesome history class at my local university. 😊

We can too! That is still our medium. But I get your point, we don't have the other media. Heck we barely have newspapers!

Weren't the Russians, and Ukranians Slavs? The Slavs were enslaved back in the 9th and 10th century. If they supported it , it would make sense. The U.S. kicked China out of the U.S. country in the 19th century. "In 1882, Congress took up the power to restrict immigration by banning the further immigration of Chinese."