What strikes me as most curious here: is this profoundly unexceptional person simply a highly-compensated mouthpiece for someone else's idea, or is she like a one-hit-wonder musician who had just one idea that happens to be wildly lucrative?
I would love to know did she hook into a patronage network, is she just a front, or actually hit on something that resonated at the right time after a long time slogging away?
In thinking about and applying the concept of fist, which you introduced me to - she wrote about segregation and, for lack of a better term, disparate impact for twenty-ish years and I don't see slavery mentioned. All the ProPublica works are the same ground and opening a random selection and searching for "slavery" yields nothing. Curious indeed.
Mea culpa, slave is in there in an early ProPublica article: 2012, and it's a pair of paragraphs and not a focus in an article about segregation, and again in a few others but it never seems to be what the articles are about. The Greenwood story seems closest in that there's a line about how black labor was what made things possible along with mentions of slavery.
She's one who benefited from opportunities not available out side of the U.S.A. and has turned against it to feather her nest .
I may be wrong here, if so apologies .
Nevertheless, reparations are and always will be BULLSHIT as no slaves are currently alive .
Segregation and racism are wrong yes, make no doubt .
Expecting special treatment and lack of responsibility three hundred years later is worse than a joke, it's farcical and ignorant to boot .
I _could_ tell stories about racism against the Irish that include murder but that'd be the coward's way like any black person using it as an excuse today to not get ahead .
Life's not fair, America gives even those the deck is stacked against the opportunity to do well and make it .
What strikes me as most curious here: is this profoundly unexceptional person simply a highly-compensated mouthpiece for someone else's idea, or is she like a one-hit-wonder musician who had just one idea that happens to be wildly lucrative?
I would love to know did she hook into a patronage network, is she just a front, or actually hit on something that resonated at the right time after a long time slogging away?
In thinking about and applying the concept of fist, which you introduced me to - she wrote about segregation and, for lack of a better term, disparate impact for twenty-ish years and I don't see slavery mentioned. All the ProPublica works are the same ground and opening a random selection and searching for "slavery" yields nothing. Curious indeed.
Mea culpa, slave is in there in an early ProPublica article: 2012, and it's a pair of paragraphs and not a focus in an article about segregation, and again in a few others but it never seems to be what the articles are about. The Greenwood story seems closest in that there's a line about how black labor was what made things possible along with mentions of slavery.
Sounds like more racist B.S. to me ~
She's one who benefited from opportunities not available out side of the U.S.A. and has turned against it to feather her nest .
I may be wrong here, if so apologies .
Nevertheless, reparations are and always will be BULLSHIT as no slaves are currently alive .
Segregation and racism are wrong yes, make no doubt .
Expecting special treatment and lack of responsibility three hundred years later is worse than a joke, it's farcical and ignorant to boot .
I _could_ tell stories about racism against the Irish that include murder but that'd be the coward's way like any black person using it as an excuse today to not get ahead .
Life's not fair, America gives even those the deck is stacked against the opportunity to do well and make it .
Stop crying and get to work .
-Nate
I think the extreme outcome is basically this is providing apologia for race war or at least laying the groundwork.
I agree that it's racist which makes it really something that NHJ is a white person (her mom is Czech-Anglo).