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5 months ago

in This made me think of Oscar Grant… on Blacksmythe
Simple solution to neighborhood crime - the three S's - Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup...

6 months ago

in Connecting the dots on a Monday Morning on Blacksmythe
Obama gonna fix all that...??

Or, perhaps sell franchises to the ganglords Chicago-style...??

7 months ago

in The Death of the Southern Strategy? on Blacksmythe
This is truly awesome. The desire to "Hang with the Homies" exists as a form of genetically driven behavior even at the most primitive levels (single-celled organisms). Even among the DNA spectrum of a single species of single-celled organisms, an equivalent of the Bloods and Crips aggregation, fighting for turf, occurs...

The latest peer-reviewed research:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/08...

7 months ago

in The Color of Obama’s Cabinet on Blacksmythe
"As blacks were the demographic that put him over the top it only makes sense that blacks ...get an equitable portion of those jobs"

Whether or not they are the most capable applicants.
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blacksmythe Like the last guy's?

8 months ago

in Blacksmythe | Race vs. Class pt 1000022 on Blacksmythe
"In 1947, the bottom fifth of wage-earners got 5 per cent of total income; today it gets 3.4 per cent."
Makes perfect sense. Sixty years ago, anyone with a strong back could make a good living at manual labor. In today's high tech society, brainpower is required. Lefthand edge of the BellCurve takes a bigger hit...
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blacksmythe no. middle income families take the hit as well, as their wages are decreasing even as overall productivity increases.
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