From what I understand, yes they do demand all of those things.

No one using Le-a or Le-ah is on record as a legal name in the USA, although there have been actual "Ledasha"s. http://www.snopes.com/racial/languag…

Rhianna isn't acting as a personal agent here; she's working editorial for a white-owned magazine that profits white people, white investors, editors, etc.

But you see - the Americans were white Christian missionaries whose parent organization subsidized their treatment. The Africans who died of it were black... even the black American guy who died was, you know, Black.

" In the US, we have the facilities and the infrastructure to take the required precautions. Patients would immediately be quarantined. As we said, people aren't really contagious until they start showing symptoms. You start showing symptoms and you go to an ER. The ER is set up to handle your care. "

Was that specific to the control room? Because black people - black women - did in fact work at NASA at that time, and were prominently involved with the launch and engineering.

Yeah, I mean the only way we can be aware of what these people are saying and what messages they spread, is to listen to what they are saying.

Do you have any links to this? I would love to read more about it. The history of computing is interesting - they used to employ women to weave the original circuitry because it had to be done by skilled textile artists with small fingers. So the original circuit designers/fabricators were women and it has a strong…

Algebra & the roots of most basic contemporary mathematics came from the middle east. The word comes from Al-Jabr, a Persian term. The origins of the hard sciences are in the Middle East, North Africa and China.

It's interesting how it's never the successful, attractive specimens of the white race who are heavily involved in white supremacy. Oh, white privilege and internalized supremacy and even sometimes overt racism? Sure. But the actual intelligent, "Cream of the crop" so to speak, know better than to affiliate with…

So you think that sexual violence is justified in any circumstance, and you're so homophobic as to assume that gay sex is a punishment? Gross.

They checked the towing records of his company, and there was a massive spike in towing at last year's Gay Days, but not other public events.

Mostly they are predatory, but I approve of towing being used to move cars away from hydrants and disabled parking spots.

#classism

I would be offended to see "Mein Kampf" on someone's registry... then again those people wouldn't be likely to invite me anyway.

Yeah lots of cultures do cash gifts... it's a very WASP thing to try to differentiate themselves, situate other cultures as rude/coarse/moneygrubbing, and then turn around and become authorities on etiquette and tell everyone else what is polite and how to behave.

I've been to a wedding like that. Chinese bride, Jewish groom. It was pretty cute, had an excellent Chinese reception dinner, everything great except when the dudes dropped the bride when they lifted her on the chair thing.

Perhaps she'll be able to earn way more than $2500 with that camera and screen!

Why is it considered more "adult" to have more expensive possessions?

I went to a wedding where the partners were really cognizant that many of their friends, spread all over the country, were very poor (as were the couple getting married).