💯 : your last line. The system supports allopathy rather than homeopathy. Medicating you till death instead of a focus on preventative care and maintaining wellness. We do not make ties between big agriculture and big pharma and the fact that often the very people who write the bills work for the corporations. The…

Her cells were taken without consent. Used and leveraged for research and profit without remuneration to her descendants. The cells themselves were lauded when the donour was anonymous then denigrated when it was revealed the source was black. So yea. Abominable behaviour. Add to that some people (no citations…

All true. But must be understood in context: the cells were taken from her without her consent, leveraged for profit and research and the science community’s racism and eugenic like mindset can be confirmed by the fact that they were happy to laud the revolutionary revelatory findings of HELA cells, until! until! the…

Starred for *incognegro*

:) ok then. Nah.. I’m fascinated by race politics in the Caribbean. And in Jamaica, Indians are the least insular of all the Indians in my experience. I studied census data for migration during and post slavery a long time ago...early Caribbean historians with a focus on which tribes ‘settled’ in what islands. Jamaica…

No bossman. Your pepper sauce moniker suggests you know the Caribbean space but your reply is a nope. Tobago is much blacker than cosmopolitan TRinidad which has close to 40% East Indian and I forget the figures for Chinese. Jamaica is 90% African with some East Indian and Chinese in low percentages- more local…

What country is he from, may I ask?

This. Both sides use coded language: ‘war on drugs’, ‘war on crime’, ‘super predators’ etc.

This is Reason with a capital ‘r’. Preach.

This was my first thought. Ha!

Bingo!

Suis d'accord, j'ai noté la même chose. The irony.

Oversimplification of a much larger issue. Maybe heed your moniker? For a developed country the United States is way behind other developed nations on maternity and paternity leave. Middle class people here have this problem too. Believe it.

Williams? Genius. I did not know this. Respec’.

She tours the ‘yacht scene’, a euphemism for ‘high class’ prostitution, which does not always involve yachts but may include annual seasons at Cannes etc. This has gone on from the days of Grace Kelly- who herself was part of this scene. I wasn’t there but this is not conjecture.

Your oral history sounds amazing and interesting.

I used to struggle with this too. I’m of mixed ancestry, I’m from three different places, and have lived in a fourth (USA) for longer than anywhere else: how does one answer that question really? You don’t want to lie, you don’t want to over-explain. Meh. I focus on my other champagne problems.

The opposite of being good at their religion.

How can they ‘learn’ when unarmed young black boys and girls, as young as nine, are cut down like animals in the playground, in the street, in their local Walmart, with little to no consequences for the perpetrators. No sense fixing the symptoms if the sickness that is structural racism is never addressed. /shrug

This. Period, full stop, fat lady sang.