I've seen no redlining. Most [of] my clients are non-white and they never have trouble getting mortgages or buying into specific neighborhoods. I see (non-white) people almost exclusively want to live with people like them.

If you run a small business nepotism makes sense, if that fails you've lose everything. Hiring relatives and people you know isn't to excludes others, it's to hire people you trust.

Although LBJ's Great Society didn't help, I don't blame either side for disruption of the black family, the rates of unwed mothers, for all races, shoots up immediately after abortion and contraception become legalized. Although it freed up women from being forced into marriages to avoid social stigma, it also allowed women to have children without being forced into marriage. It's not clear why blacks were more affected.

Unlike fentanyl and oxycontin, crack was a big city problem, it wasn't nationwide. New York, Newark, and Philadelphia were hit hardest by crack. It wasn't that black people were more likely to use crack, it's that people in big cities were the ones affected by crack, and that's where most black people tend to live.

While it's true black people in the past had a difficult time accumulating wealth due to government policies, those policies aren't in effect anymore and immigrants have no trouble accumulating wealth. I see it everyday, poor immigrant grandparents, parents go to college, their kids grow up in the suburbs.

I'm mixed race but look white, grew up in a black neighborhood, in a broken home, with a mentally ill mother, on welfare, and lived in the projects. Any kid who did well in school got good grades or "talked white" was relentlessly bullied, regardless of race. And since it was a majority black neighborhood and a majority black school, that meant mostly black kids. I don't know why that started and you can blame Nixon or Clinton, but black people have destroyed the lives of more black people than any government program or supposed racist conspiracy. Even today black men shoot other black men at incredible rates. I don't know the solution, but blaming the problem on racist whites in the 1950s is nonsense.

I've worked for both big and small companies and black people were more likely to get hired than anyone else. If you're a black person with a college degree you're more likely to get hired than anyone else. Joe Biden said of Obama, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man," and he was criticized for it, but if you fit that description and apply to a big company they put you on the fast track.

The people in banks lend to the people who are going to pay back loans. I don't think the issue is racism, it's personal financial history. I'm a real estate agent, there's no issue in black people getting loans or buying houses. If you can manage your money and have a stable history you'll get a loan.

The structural racism is in schools, black children get a poor education and the school system just claims it needs more money but nothing ever changes. Think about any case that became national news involving a black person and the police. Do you think any of those black men had a high school diploma?

Seventy percent of black children are born to unwed mothers, and it's been shown time and again that growing up without a father has a tremendous negative effect on both girls and boys. I have two kids and I can tell right away which of their friends come from intact families, which kids are only children, and which kids are from broken homes. That's the fundamental problem but it's hard to think of solutions and society has chosen to look the other way.

I was in China a couple of times and I don't know if they were racist or not because everyone treats everyone else like crap.

You're throwing those numbers around as if they mean something. If more black people are committing crimes then there are going to be more black people in prison and that's what's happening.

You can claim cops are racist, juries are racist, everyone is racist, but you can watch the news and see who's beating Asian people and Jews for no reason, who's getting into gun fights on sidewalks, and who's looting stores.

It's not racist to acknowledge that black people commit more crimes, but the biggest crime is that if you're a young black man growing up in the US you don't have a chance and no one is willing to look for solutions. It's easier to accuse everyone else of racism than deal with the fact that if you're a young black man in a big city, you're fucked.

>America ranks very low among other Western countries on most racial discrimination metrics because nearly half of our population exhibit some level of racist beliefs.

Most Western countries don't have non-white populations as large as the US does.

And as a white who grew up in a black neighborhood, and now live in an area with more Indians than anywhere else in America, I can tell you that the racism in this country is not coming from where you think it's coming from.

Korean business owners don't ban black people from their stores, they're the only ones willing to open up in black neighborhoods and deal with the problems.

I grew up in a black neighborhood and Korean shopkeepers weren't following around black people (and the few white customers) because they're racist, they were doing it because they learned who the thieves were. Koreans business owners want to make money, they care about green more than skin color.

Don't forget his affair with Elle Macpherson. For a trollish little man with a drinking problem, Joel has done amazingly well.

Interesting article, it's a good lesson on the law of unintended consequences.

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"Les gens malodorants qui ont un nez comme un pénis" is a mouthful.

Yes, Winnebago translates as "person of dirty water."

I added a comment mentioning that as an alternative possibility, but that's unconvincing because the Ojibwe told the French that the Iroquois were named "Nadowe" or "big snakes."

I'm pretty sure it means A Whale's Vagina.

There are several groups but essentially there are two main groups based on language divisions, the Lakota and the Dakota. Those are used primarily to identify them, but collectively they're the "Oceti Sakowin" which means "Seven Council Fires."

An alternative explanation is that Nadowessiwag means "to speak a foreign language. However, the Ojibwe introduced the Iroquis to the French as "Nadowe," or "big snake," which makes the snake translation more likely.

Doc Pomus was a stage name, his real name was Jerome Felder. His brother is the attorney Raoul Felder. [Doc] He also wrote a bunch of songs for Elvis.

Now that pot has been legalized we're growing everything.

I went from I hate it to It's growing on me in thirty seconds.

There was a Ramesses XI.

Many of them had their own names, Amenhotep was the son of Ahmose I. There are eleven different Ramesses, but only some of them are father and son.

It might have been a general tradition in that some people's sons are juniors.

EDIT: Apparently they often took regal names. Ramesses X was born Amonhirkhepeshef, but ruled as Khepermaatre. I'm not sure why we know him as Ramesses X.

Everyone had names, but I doubt the Pharaoh was walking around chatting with people. "Hey, Banafrit, how's Khaemweset doing? I heard he's working on my pyramid now. They grow up so fast."

It's hard carving hieroglyphs, it's much easier to scratch in lines after someone's name.