Open Thread

Lech, both deal with problems from the past. The significant difference is that reperations are a one time fix. Affirmative action means a group gets favored treatment forever. Or at least until another group gets the spotlight.

Personally, I think “race” is a totally man made cultural phenomenon. There is a huge scale of skin color, facial features, shoe size, whatever.

Don Mattingly replaces Joe torre at the Dodgers!!!!

I’m Jewish, Choctaw, and Black. All of this “mixing” within the past three generations.

We believe one of my grandmother’s fathers is from Barbados. My grandmother said he talked with an accent uncommon to any part of the US. We tried to track down his records and came across the deed to his land, which was considered prime land and purchased just after slavery ended. One of my professors in undergrad, from Trinidad and an expert in the migration of blacks throughout the diaspora, looked at everything and told us he was likely Bajan and in the British Navy in some capacity and ended up in the states. He said it was pretty common at the time. He gave me the info to look up naval records, but I’ve been too lazy to do it.

Dave, I said rip off the filter…not denigrate folks and throw out nasty statements about female body parts! Sorry, but with the What, that was all we got. He occasionally had a good point/argument, but the pure, unadulterated vitriol he spewed made most of it unreadable/not worth reading.

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It’s something we learn at a very early age. I think it’s in the John, Jean & Judy readers. 🙂

wasnt is sally dick and jane?

*rob*