Most nations are smart enough to give foreign nationals respect during times of crisis in order to garner sympathy. If Ukrainians don’t know how to act towards black people during a crisis that is being televised and tweeted and “selflied” all over the world, that is a Ukrainian problem not a black or African problem.

Apparently, as it has always been, a lot of members of other non black minority groups want “in” at any cost. One cannot be immersed in white culture in the US and be oblivious to how common and how deeply ingrained reflective anti-black animus is both in the US and in many white, western cultures in most parts of the…

“Lack of intent” has rarely if ever resulted in these kinds of displays of judicial mercy when it comes to black people. I wonder why that’s the case...Well, not really.

Name a single US political party with a real track record when it comes to genuine police reform, the kind that would actually hold cops accountable and by doing so, discourage others from acting out or “making mistakes” which ONLY seem to occur over and over again during encounters with black people. The trembling Dem…

Your observations are spot on. Unfortunately it appears that no amount of analysis or clarification or outrage will move the people who run this system to do better because it is doing exactly what it was designed to do, and many want it to continue to do so even as they continue to lie about their intentions and…

Those who condemn so-called critical race theory on the grounds that it assumes and teaches that all white people are inherently racist should be expected to come up with explanations for the creation and existence of so many extremely racialized white dominated societies all across the globe since 1492. If white…

Malfeasance which would have remained hidden and unpunished if it was left up to the political system and what passes for oversight in Michigan and in much of the rest of the modern US. If I remember correctly, it was foreign investigators and journalists who did most of the initial heavy lifting, not homegrown ones.…

NONE of those investments will be made unless or until the current population is displaced by gentrification or through some other means. Flint is still part of the United States.

Do white people tend to mentor black people, choose to go into business with them as equal partners, or to invest in their businesses or to buy goods and services from them? Are latinos and Asians any different when it comes to these issues? If not, then, what “networks” are black students gaining access to by…

You are spot on! No one teaches jewish children that anti-semitism died in a bunker in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. I wish that black parents would stop, repeat, stop buying the American party lines that anti-black racism died out in 1865, or, was it 1964, or when Obama got elected, or re-elected, and that, therefore,…

I noticed that pathological knee-jerk response to any criticism of anything which has been defined as “American” by mostly, but not by any stretch of the imagination exclusively, white people many decades ago. Many immigrants and a surprising number of foreign nationals, including those who only “know” the US through…

I don’t know very many young children who aren’t naturally curious about everything. Yet, magically American schools seem to excel at sucking that natural curiosity out of black and brown children. Maybe that technique should be studied. What about the personal responsibility of the institutions and of those who run…

Viewing how police “unions” operate, and how police arbitration cases tend to work out, I have the same feeling. As a union person in aviation/aerospace for over 36 years, I would say that when it comes to arbitration the union loses 75% of the time even when the company has clearly violated terms of the contract.…

Beautiful and brilliant! Your cynicism almost matches my own. I would add that their contract probably allows them to cash out unused racial egregiousness upon retirement.

Exactly. That’s the problem which confronts those who are faced with the true teaching of American history and with an honest evaluation of American culture as a whole. In order to sell it, and to make it palatable and rational and moral, one has to justify and to embrace the ugly racial hypocrisy not only of the so…

By the time of the civil war, a few of the so-called civilized tribes had adopted the white slave masters culture, “values,” and racist ideology lock, stock, and barrel. They weren’t coerced to side with the rebels. They sided with the confederacy to keep their black chattels producing wealth for them. In 2017, they…

Many people fought because it was a required service in exchange for freedom or for British citizenship. The US resisted arming black people at all, and offered nothing in exchange for military service. Some people fought against the American rebels to avenge past wrongs, to free their families, or because the saw the…