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"Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.” Coates called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying a day earlier that reparations were not “a good idea” because no one who is currently living is responsible. Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities." It is a wonder people like Mitch McConnell, without basic understanding of a simlle issue can rise to power. Just another inducation of just how shitty America's political process is.

Thanks for taking the time to publicly comment Claudette. While I know people are reading these posts, it is always helpful when readers comment, because it encourages others to do so, which in turn increases readership :-) I don't understand the psychology, but this is what I've observed over the years.

The website Genius used a clever tactic to catch Google stealing lyrics from their website and posting those lyrics directly on their search engine results page, keeping searchers on Google's site and eliminating the need for them to visit the Genius website. The Wall Street Journal reports: This is because Google posts answers to users' queries directly on the search engine results page, eliminating the need for searchers to visit the underlying sites that compiled the information. Google claims this provides users with a "better experience." Of course this provides users with a better experience. But this is like me going into Walmart stealing their Electronics, setting up a table directly in front of the store and selling the stolen products at 90% off, then claiming I'm providing the customer with a "better experience." I've been arguing for years that Google has actually made the WWW a less rich place because of their greed. There are far fewer indie books websites, and those that remain are less well off, because of Google puts their own bookstore (and book related content copied from Wikipedia) directly on the search results page -- eliminating the need for readers to visit the underlying book websites. The problem with Google doing this is that, besides being wrong, they are killing the sites that that compile and add value to this content. Adding value to content is something that Google simply does not do. Books sites publish book reviews, interview authors, make personalized recommendation (algorithmically generated recommendations are purely profit driven), and more. Our dysfunctional government has shown little indication that they will attempt to reign in the multiple monopolies Google holds. The WWW is coalescing into the ownership of three websites Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Wealth inequality is worse than it has been in the last century in the United States. Monopolies like Google, being allowed to run buckwild over the internet, is one of the reasons wealth is increasingly concentrated into the hands of a few. As always, Black folks are disproportionately harmed.

@Mel Hopkins did I mention that Kam was also a technite. He had a brother that graduated in our class (I believe).

Those guys you pointed out Pioneer are in a shrinking minority.

@Pioneer1 the one drop rule is as absurd as any purely subject rule you've come up with to plop people into arbitrary "racial" buckets -- especially since race itself has no scientific meaning and is purely in the eye of the beholder

@Chevdove do you really care when and what the next perfect number is? If so why?

Yes, it is obviously interesting to them. My question is why? Why would anyone about the next astronomy large number no one can even say

@Chevdove my distain for the woman is irrational I'm sure. It is rare for me to dislike people from jump, but she is one...

@Delano is being modest he probably knows more than me. I'd forgotten what a perfect number was until I looked it up. I was only sbke to coreect him because I'd just did a little research. It also stuck me peole have computer actively looking for the next perfect number. It stuck me because I can't figure out the motivation to do it. Is there is a practical application for discovering the next perfect prime?

This past week I was invited to participate in a book club discussion about Barracoon in St. Thomas. Here is a video of some of our conversation. The people who participated were from Amsterdam, England, Harlem, St. Thomas, Jamaica, St. Kitts, and South Carolina. I think the conversation was very interesting.

Now if Cynique was still around you know you would never have done that. You even "liking" things now. What gives?

Creole is just another word for "spook." Homer could pass for white (only one of his 8 great grand parents was Black). Indeed he was chosen to test the absurdity of the one drop rule for this reason. Most the so xalled white folks in the area, at the time, had some African ancestry. I doubt Homer considered himself "Black." So he does not meet either of definitions if being Black.

Hundreds of years of white privilege. Look what happened to homie you tried to correct the white guy in the parking lot. There are MANY Black people in the south who don't want the gun laws changed either. In 50 years all the gun nuts will be dead and fewer people will gunned down over silly shit.

Nope, not going that road with women and their hair. Not worth it and there are better thing to worry about. Sure I think many women put waaay too much time money and energy into their hair -- some even forsaking the health in doing so -- living with diabetes and hypertension but not a hair out of place.

Women are not a monolith @Delano. If Megyn Kelly disagreed, not only would not care, I would be happy about it.

Oh I did not know that. I have heard her name before. I have never watched Fox News, so I did not know this about her. I'm actually repulsed by the woman -- and I've never met her... White men feel emboldened to harass people then shoot them when those they bother retaliate. People should not be allowed to walk around with guns here -- anywhere. If old white guys were unarmed they'd be far less likely to be shooting people over a stupid parking spot, or for talking in a movie, or playing music too loud and more Black people would be alive.

Pioneer We can't control how other (especially the po-po) define us, but we can define ourselves. So if someone says they are Black, I'm inclined to take them at their word. Pioneer I'm sure you are familiar with Homer Plessy (of Plessy v. Ferguson fame). Does he meet your criteria for Blackness?

Yeah the Blond wig is crazy looking to me, but I'm "woke" so I won't say anything about it. @Delano it is not sexist to point out the sista's magnificent form.

Simmilarly, if a Black person like Carol Channing, Angie Dickenson, Dinah Shore, and others disavow their Blackness by claiming they are white they are not Black. Being "Black" is more than skin color, kinky hair, and full lips Brother.

...don't go there man ;-)

I completely agree.

OK, who is this and what did you do with Pioneer?

If you get a chance watch the video @Pioneer1. It does explain the situation even saying the guy was a local nut and has previously harassed other people over the handicapped spot. I was really Megyn herself that irked me. She just rubs me the wrong way on a visceral level. I don't even like the way she spells her name. She was going on about how "we all get upset" when we see someone who is not handicapped parking in a handicap spot -- I don't -- who does? I could care less, besides not all handicaps are visible.

Attorney Ben Crump has a new Book coming out in October, called, Open Season, so I'm building content about him for the site. I discovered this video as it related to a shooting here in Florida in which a white man shot a young Brother over parking in a space reserved for the handicapped. The Brother was killed. That situation is sickening enough but if you listen to the entire video you'll hear how Megyn segues from the unjustified killing of an unarmed Black man to her dog that recently died. She broke down in tears. I was listening to the video and I was like WFT is going on?! I "disliked" the video and closed the browser tab as I could not stand to listen to Megyn crying about her stupid pooch -- juxtaposed against the reporting of the senseless death of another Black man, I found it sickening.