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Yes our generation. Though if you explore "decent opportunity," you might not chose that terminology. Man when you rant about the laziness and self-hatred of Black people relative to whites. It reads like you are saying we have some inherent, therefore genetic inferiority to white people. Is this what you are trying to say?

It is a good idea; the problem is executing on it. I need more time. It you invited him here and he participated, I'd be happy to put some money in your pocket. The transfer would be electronic.

No these people are not civilized if they continue to believe this stuff and act upon these beliefs. They are the exact opposite to civilized they are barbarian. Political postions, money, and power does not make you civilized. Is 45 civilized? Not if he is dead from Malaria... Look, there are stronger people, smarter people, people who are poets, and people who can make you laugh. Some are super nurturing and others can fight like hell. We need each other. No one is inherently better to superior to another. We can not survive without each other. Dinosaurs lasted for millions of years. Humanity will be doing good if we make it out the next century in one piece.... seriously.

Exactly! I messed up now I have to wait another 10 years.

Now you just talking crazy LOL! @Pioneer1 had it ever occurred to you that most of the time all the law enforcement jobs you talking about Black being too lazy to get -- we were excluding from being hired into them until our generation. Most of the teachers I had all through school were white jewish women. I had on Black (gay male) homeroom teacher, from pre kindergarten to 12th grade. I never had a heterosexual Black man as a teacher. Ever. I have two masters degrees. When I was in 3 grade I spend most of the year sitting in the corner in a desk by myself. The white lady did not no what to do with me. I could do all the work given in the class. Do you think I learned very much that year? There are many Black men who were destroyed by the school system. You expect these very same dudes to have the wherewithal to start an educational institution. It is often said, the worst thing for Black people was integration. I completely understand the reasoning. But even when we thrived on our own white folks came in a destroyed it. We have been systematically destroyed by an inherently racist system. You can't continue to blame the victim and expect them to solve the problem. The system has to change and we have to help change it. We will never see the change for it will take generations -- assuming it even happens.

Yeah when the white man created that fantasy for us he knew he'd make mucho bucko off our collective psychological need for something positive. Really? Do you really believe all those Black people in Flint out the lead in their own water destroying a generation of Black children Do you believe all damn near two million Black people locked up actually belong behind bars? Do you blame the shitty schools so many poor Black kids are forced to languish in is their fault too? Man... You could be the first enrollee @Pioneer1. You'd be in science classes all day. 😊

I wish the government would stop wasting my money trying shoe horn people into racial boxes every 10 years. I was planning mark myself as white just to see what benefits I'd get.

I never read the Origin of Species, so I don't know if he was spewing racist propoganda, but if he was a man of his time he probably was. In any event the average 12th grader, from a half way descent school, knows more about genetics than Darwin possibly could. Why linger on 19th century ideas today? The question does not make sense to me. Homo spaiens have approxinately 20K genes some are reccessive others aren't. The relative expression of human genes does not make one inherently superior or inferior. Consider the gene that results in a sickness like sickle cell. If the person with sickle cell is a genius does that make him superior or inferior to a dumb person without sicke cell?

Man personally inviting someone to participate in the forums makes sense. I should do that. I seriously doubt he'll come here and chomp it uo on the regular but maybe talk about his book makes sense. Man I should have thought about something like this long ago. Thanks!

I'm not surprised at all by the silence in reaction to this question. Several years ago the strongest critics to to the idea of an all out boycott of Amazon came from indie authors. Many indie authors are beholden to Amazon. In fact they have given Anazon the exclusive right to sell books. Even if they haven't given Amazon exclusivity, Amazon published their book and the terms to other booksellers are so bad it is not profitable for other booksellers to sell their books. Now if you posed that question in a room full of booksellers with physcial bookstores you would not have been able to shut anyone up. I think one solution is helping readers who buy books to buy from anyone but Amazon. The other problem is that too many indie booksellers use Amazon's marketplace to sell books. Unless this stops Amazon's virtual monopoly will grow stronger. They won't stop because these booksellers would be out of business without Amazon's platform. Ultimately, the only solution is a boycott of Amazon. I'm boycotting them and I know others who are too. Talk to you later this afternoon Wendy. I was thinking about creating a drop squad to deal with Black booksellers who sell books on Amazon. 🙂

Yes, because that is where the money is, but it is a self fulling prophesy. That is where the money is because the is where we go. The reason Twitter can't be our news source is because profit drives how the information one sees is curated, not how important it is to know. How else would you explain way social media provides completely different information to different people? You wrote: Sure, and Twitter was optimized to do just that. Keep in mind most people are not professionally trained journalists like you with ability to tease out fact from fiction, to understand the biases of different sources. Most are content to watch their feeds scroll by without giving it very much thought. It is easy. People are too stressed out and tired. ______________ Did you know Black people just love Joe Biden? Everthing I read or heard says that this is true. Funny, I don't know any Black people who love him as much as the media says.

Yes I'm aware thisecwhites were using junk science to advance the udea of racial superiority. I must have missed them. Do me a favor and pose them again.

John Brown was WAY off script -- especially for his day. Even Fred Douglas was said "dat nigga's crazy!" 😀 Yeah Tim Wise is cool; he is even on this site. Wise is not alone there are many conscious white folks. Once you realize that you can see they are not all devils and are needed to make this country better. Even Malcom the 10th knew that.

Really? I guess I'll never see it. It is interesting to me that I have zero interest in anything BET does. Thirty years ago i watched everything they showed. The last time I watched anything on the network was Tavis Smiley and honesty i was nit that craxy about him, but once he was gone it was a wrap for me. Perhaps. Clearly, Europeans have destroyed numerous cultures across the globe. But it is unknowable what the world would be like today if they just played nice and did not rape, pillage, and plunder the world. Why you so hard on our people knowing what we are going through?

Thanks @Mel Hopkins I always view opinion pieces as opinions. But some opinions are more valuable than others. This particular opinion seemed suspect, things simply were not adding up. If anything this CEO was saying was true then it is newsworthy and the WSJ should be reporting on it. I kept asking myself why is in the opinion section and not a news story? And if it is not newsworthy why put this stuff on the paper at all?! If you read the entire piece it clearly bolsters 45 position. Up until this point I had not put Fox News in the same category as the WSJ. With this type of propganda out there 45's chances at a 2nd term are not as bad as thought. We could be looking at a 2nd trump term followed by two years of pence

From last week's Wall Street Journal (@Pioneer1 I guess this is more proof of the superiority of white people huh 😉) Black Americans are dying of Covid-19 at a higher rate than whites. Socioeconomic factors such as gaps in access last week's Wall Street Journato health care no doubt play a role. But another possible factor has been largely overlooked: vitamin D deficiency that weakens the immune system. ... Vitamin D supplementation in African-Americans reduced cancer risk 23%. How? Cancer cells develop regularly in most animals, including humans, as the result of toxic injuries or glitches in DNA replication, but a healthy immune system destroys them. There is evidence that low vitamin D levels make the immune system go blind.

Excerpted from the opinion section of today's the Wall Street Journal. @Mel Hopkins are there any standards for truth and accuracy in opinion pieces. If the following is true that's crazy. On April 20 we put out a press release titled “Aytu BioScience Signs Exclusive Global License with Cedars-Sinai for Potential Coronavirus Treatment.” The treatment is called Healight, and it was developed by research physicians at the hospital’s Medically Associated Science and Technology Program. The technology, which has been in development since 2016, uses ultraviolet light as an antimicrobial and is a promising potential treatment for Covid-19. Aytu and Cedars-Sinai have engaged with the Food and Drug Administration to pursue a rapid path to human use through an Emergency Use Authorization. But hardly anyone noticed—until Thursday, when President Trump mused, “. . . supposing you brought the light inside the body . . .” My team and I knew the president’s comments could trigger a backlash against the idea of UV light as a treatment, which might hinder our ability to get the word out. We decided to create a YouTube account, upload a video animation we had created, and tweet it out. It received some 50,000 views in 24 hours. Then YouTube took it down. So did Vimeo. Twitter suspended our account. The narrative changed from whether UV light can be used to treat Covid-19 to “Aytu is being censored.” These days, politics seems to dictate that if one party says, “The sky is blue,” the other party is obligated to reply, “No, it’s not, and you’re a terrible human being for thinking that.” That leaves no room for science, in which the data speak for themselves, regardless of ideology, and only when they’re ready. Unfortunately, the visceral excitement of political conflict draws far more clicks and better ratings than the methodical world of science. Technologies like Healight, which if borne out through clinical studies may represent a viable way to kill coronaviruses, aren’t provided the clear-headed consideration they deserve but are instead flushed into the political mosh-pit of “us vs. them.”

Yes, I know. It is not the right word. It implies a change from a simpler to a more complex form. White people aren't more complex than or superior to Black people. Even those terms Black and white are not the correct terms because they are sloppy ways of grouping people. Using these arbitrary racial terms just makes having a meaningful conversation about people impossible.

Switzerland, Sweden my bad, but what's the difference to the world? Dynmite has had zero impact on life in the 21st century.

Yeah the Nobel prize ... celebrating the accomplishments of other countries. I'm sure they are greatful. Dynamite, I thought the Chinese came up with gun power. Well thanks Sweden for the crude application of another country's discovery. I know I'm veing hard on those countries but I'm tired of them being held of as paragons of civilization. They would not have the livestyles they enjoy today without the U.S. They are good at sheltering our money.

A white supremacist would not give you, or I, the pleasure.

Utopia, please, what have they contributed to the world? They live in their heterogenous white countries benefiting from the rest of the planet's productivity. Let them open their schools. Again, caucasians are not a monolith. John Brown thought differently than an evil southern plantation owner. Racism wasn't even "a thing" a few hundred years ago. Racism is a tool of the psycopathically greedy.

"Evolved" is not the right word. Again homo sapiens are virtually identical genetically. Less melanated skin doesn't make one homo sapien superior that another. I appreciate there are dumb people who might not accept this and believe Black people are inferior because of this. So what is the answer? Fighting back by using more junk science to say Black people are genetically superior?

Pioneer, don't you think white supremacists have better things to do? Seriously, what can they learn by monitoring AALBC? Now I get why they may come here and troll, but even trolling has lessened in recent years. There are more juicy targets like Zoom video conferences.