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It's all relative isn't it? To some 250k+ is a dream salary. To others it's just a start.

> The vast majority of people in the US and Canada are not buying minivans. They're buying comically large cars that endanger road users... This is true in the surrounding suburbs …

> Exponential growth has not taken place in the fundamental economic activities on which modern civilization depends for its survival — agriculture, energy production, transportati…

> Chattel slavery still exists around the world, why aren't they the richer than the places where chattel slavery is outlawed? Chattel slavery no longer exists. That involved perpe…

Chattel slavery not only fueled the industrial revolution but laid the foundation for our modern world. Capital accumulation, investment of capital, private ownership of the means …

The last American slave died 70 years ago. Ignoring the millions that lived and died between the early 17th and mid 19th centuries is disingenuous. The nature of slavery and the op…

"Not all were slaves, and writing letters" Your point? "Free" Blacks were exceptions (about 9% by 1850) not the rule. Preservation of their history too was an exception, not the ru…

"Expecting someone else to document one's own history isn't going to work that well." Never indicted that. Dorsey collection and 19th century travels aside, how would you say a Bla…

"....scholars recognize the profound importance of materials such as the Dorsey collection—resources collected and preserved informally by African Americans at a time when white hi…

Calm down - I never indicated any of that. In a functional sense when compared to darker skinned, non European people; in the US specifically, European cultural differences are far…

Of course you see yourself differently as an "Eastern European" - Those distinctions don't translate to the US because when juxtaposed with darker skinned people (particularly the …

> I try to do a good job at whatever I'm doing, because it's more fun to do a good job than not. Yes it's "fun" and I'll add that it's a great primer for the more significant tasks…

It definitely makes you wonder how many brilliant Black minds were/are wasted due to conditions imposed on them by racism/ws.