A horrible thing happened after Gabby won her gold medal in gymnastics. Someone at ABC ran an ad of a monkey training for the Olympics.
It is probably just a coincidence, like when a throat medicine company ran an ad featuring an auctioneer distressed by a sore throat when the TV Miniseries Roots was running in the 1970s.
Sensitivities run high because there is no doubt people with some African heritage in USA are a targeted class. Our prisons are full of people with some African heritage who self medicate or provide a missing product in society, and people with some African heritage are used for all sorts of experiments such as the Tuskegee thing.
Here an MD lets the cat out of the bag...
No one would likely notice if Nabisco ran cracker ads after every Romney news story. Slights to people with some African heritage are noticed because people with some African heritage are clearly targeted.
You'll notice I try not to say "black" because racially categorizing is about as sensible as categorizing by shoe size. The bad guys use race, class and gender politics to destroy the market, through divide and conquer.
Every country in the world has a group targeted for abuse. The Japanese have the Ainu, the Germans have their Turks, the French the Algerians, the Peruvians their Indians, the British the Irish and so on.
Big economies have more than one despised group, and one group in China is the Hakka. I first encountered these people in Hong Kong back in the mid-1970s. They tended to be the ones who did the dirty work, and they were the only women I saw in China smoking. They were plentiful in Hong Kong, and easily distinguishable by their distinctive hats.
Now to my point. In Hong Kong people are no different than anywhere else on earth. People will have a group upon which they look down. The difference is no matter what your biases, you really do not have much chance to act on them in a place with a polity like Hong Kong. It takes a powerful state for people to leverage hate into action, to where people can be exempt from punishment for perpetrating horrors on others.
Cops, doctors, jailers, building inspectors... it is always those backed by government who can be exploitative. Little or no government, and bad guys have trouble getting the traction to do evil. Remember the Jim Crow laws were laws, written and passed by racist cracker legislators. And remember that when Abernathy and King finally appealed to business, instead of wasting their time appealing to the state, that the walls came tumbling down.
In Hong Kong people of merit can and do excel. Because of Hong Kong, with so many people who would be despised for backwardness or lack of intelligence in fact excelling, no one can quite maintain the conceit that Hakka are somehow lacking. Deng Xiaoping is Hakka, and the list of famous Hakka is quite long. And note, China has no "affirmative action." These Hakka rose on merit. No affirmative action to shade their success.
So what to learn from this? Instead of affirmative action, how about affirmative freedom? Make a deal: if you ever qualified as "black" in USA, you can apply and become exempt: exempt from taxes, the draft, licensing, regulations, truly free in USA. You can trade in illegal substances, and cannot be arrested. You may have a passport for convenience sake, but otherwise have no connection to the State.
At the same time you can receive no Government benefits and you are subject to free market justice.
Now before you say this is unworkable, it is exactly the deal USA has with American Indians, in place, right now (with a few liberties thrown in). Indians have restaurants at their casinos that are not subject to health inspectors. Indians trade illegal fireworks and all manner of goodies. The only difference is people who were once deemed "black" will not be limited to reservations, as they are now in USA prisons and in criminal supervision.
Put it to a vote.
Remember, to be in the black is a happy thing in business. USA still allows slavery in its Constitution. Let's go for real freedom. Reverse what we are socially conditioned to expect.
Warning: Diabetics may experience insulin shock:
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
It is probably just a coincidence, like when a throat medicine company ran an ad featuring an auctioneer distressed by a sore throat when the TV Miniseries Roots was running in the 1970s.
Sensitivities run high because there is no doubt people with some African heritage in USA are a targeted class. Our prisons are full of people with some African heritage who self medicate or provide a missing product in society, and people with some African heritage are used for all sorts of experiments such as the Tuskegee thing.
Here an MD lets the cat out of the bag...
No one would likely notice if Nabisco ran cracker ads after every Romney news story. Slights to people with some African heritage are noticed because people with some African heritage are clearly targeted.
You'll notice I try not to say "black" because racially categorizing is about as sensible as categorizing by shoe size. The bad guys use race, class and gender politics to destroy the market, through divide and conquer.
Every country in the world has a group targeted for abuse. The Japanese have the Ainu, the Germans have their Turks, the French the Algerians, the Peruvians their Indians, the British the Irish and so on.
Big economies have more than one despised group, and one group in China is the Hakka. I first encountered these people in Hong Kong back in the mid-1970s. They tended to be the ones who did the dirty work, and they were the only women I saw in China smoking. They were plentiful in Hong Kong, and easily distinguishable by their distinctive hats.
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Cops, doctors, jailers, building inspectors... it is always those backed by government who can be exploitative. Little or no government, and bad guys have trouble getting the traction to do evil. Remember the Jim Crow laws were laws, written and passed by racist cracker legislators. And remember that when Abernathy and King finally appealed to business, instead of wasting their time appealing to the state, that the walls came tumbling down.
In Hong Kong people of merit can and do excel. Because of Hong Kong, with so many people who would be despised for backwardness or lack of intelligence in fact excelling, no one can quite maintain the conceit that Hakka are somehow lacking. Deng Xiaoping is Hakka, and the list of famous Hakka is quite long. And note, China has no "affirmative action." These Hakka rose on merit. No affirmative action to shade their success.
So what to learn from this? Instead of affirmative action, how about affirmative freedom? Make a deal: if you ever qualified as "black" in USA, you can apply and become exempt: exempt from taxes, the draft, licensing, regulations, truly free in USA. You can trade in illegal substances, and cannot be arrested. You may have a passport for convenience sake, but otherwise have no connection to the State.
At the same time you can receive no Government benefits and you are subject to free market justice.
Now before you say this is unworkable, it is exactly the deal USA has with American Indians, in place, right now (with a few liberties thrown in). Indians have restaurants at their casinos that are not subject to health inspectors. Indians trade illegal fireworks and all manner of goodies. The only difference is people who were once deemed "black" will not be limited to reservations, as they are now in USA prisons and in criminal supervision.
Put it to a vote.
Remember, to be in the black is a happy thing in business. USA still allows slavery in its Constitution. Let's go for real freedom. Reverse what we are socially conditioned to expect.
Warning: Diabetics may experience insulin shock:
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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