Just think:

Without The Civil Rights Movement, Little Richard probably wouldn't have been able to sue Pat Boone for ripping him off. 

There's no reparations for that:

Having to fight for what's yours is, still, just expected,...

ELLE France's beauty editor, Jeanne Deroo, who is French (the folks who want you to know, despite their disgusting history, are not racist) "honoring" a black person (non-racially) because (after France's long, evil, and bloody racial history) she didn't know she was doing wrong - until someone black told her. I'm surprised she listened then. 

That's how things "work" in totally non-racial environments non-racial blacks (try to) maneuver non-racially - otherwise, they're out of the non-racial jobs the non-racists, like Jeanne Deroo, hold over their trying-to-be-non-racial heads - which is as fair and non-racial as it gets.

BTW - Jeanne Deroo will apologize (has apologized) and the controversy's all over, for her, now.

That's totally fair - by NewAge standards - and completely non-racial,...

I don't know what I was thinking, America. 

The liberals must've got to me.

Maybe - if we tone down the rhetoric - then, together, we can once again re-establish that "common ground" we used to have, regarding the issue of race, in America. I'll go first:

"A convenience store owner in Miami Gardens, Fla., installed 16 cameras in his Quickstop a year ago. The aim was not to surveil shoppers, but rather the police repeatedly harassing the store’s black workers.

One employee, 28-year-old Earl Sampson, has been stopped by cops 258 times in four years, searched more than 100 times and arrested 56 times. The most serious offense Sampson has ever been found to have committed throughout all these stops was low-level marijuana possession. He has even been stopped dozens of times by cops for 'trespassing' in the store where he works."

And they got it on tape:

So - we can agree "things are improving" now - yes?

 

For a people and country, supposedly into fairness and justice, it sure takes a while for whites to admit when they're wrong:

"Parole board posthumously pardons 'Scottsboro boys' suspects in racially-charged 1930s rape case - 25 years after the last one died"

At this rate - long after I'm gone - somebody's going to find this blog and say, "Damn, you know what? If it wasn't for racism, that Crack guy would've been known for being right about everything."

Oh well, I'll be the bad boy for contemporary fools, instead,...

 

Surviving In Numbers

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.

The nonbinding resolution, which passed on a voice vote, was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen, a white lawmaker who represents a majority black district in Memphis, Tennessee.

While many states have apologized for slavery, it is the first time a branch of the federal government has done so, an aide to Cohen said.

In passing the resolution, the House also acknowledged the "injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow."

"Jim Crow," or Jim Crow laws, were state and local laws enacted mostly in the Southern and border states of the United States between the 1870s and 1965, when African-Americans were denied the right to vote and other civil liberties and were legally segregated from whites.

The name "Jim Crow" came from a character played by T.D. "Daddy" Rice who portrayed a slave while in blackface during the mid-1800s.

The resolution states that "the vestiges of Jim Crow continue to this day."

"African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow -- long after both systems were formally abolished -- through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity," the resolution states.

The House also committed itself to stopping "the occurrence of human rights violations in the future."

The resolution does not address the controversial issue of reparations...