Raceology

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/how-the-nfl-continues-to-unsurprisingly-fall-short-on-promised-diversity-efforts/ar-AATCnlv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531 f you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more. ____ On the first day of Black History,  news broke  of a potential class-action lawsuit filed by Brian Flores against the NFL. Flores is the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins football team. The lawsuit alleges racist discrimination in the hiring practices of NFL teams. He explicitly names three NFL teams in the lawsuit. Not only did this announcement come during the first day of Black History Month, but it also comes ahead of the star-studded NFL Super Bowl halftime show that features Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog.  After two years of painting messages like “end racism” on football fields and printing anti-racist slogans on t...

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-next-century-s-big-demographic-mystery/ar-AATGPWi?cvid=0c07cff294e649e7f68b00dec7db2e23&ocid=winp1taskbar T he first modern, comprehensive attempt to predict the human population’s long-term trajectory took place in 1945. The number of people on Earth had more than doubled in the previous century and a half, to more than 2 billion, and experts worried that food production would not be able to keep pace. Frank Notestein, the founding director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, estimated that about 3.3 billion humans would be on the planet by the year 2000. © The Atlantic Two Conflicting Prophecies for Humanity’s Future He was only about 3 billion off. The global population  topped 6 billion  by the millennium’s end, and has grown by nearly 2 billion more since. Nevertheless, Notestein’s work was foundational. In 1946, he was appointed director of the newly formed United Nations Population Division (UNPD)...

  The following is based on actual events but a few details have been glossed over, or altered slightly just to make it a little more anonymous and not to go off on tangents. This story presents itself as me being of a more solitary, and inward disposition after a troubled, and difficult childhood, having to go to of all things a multiracial school in Canada. Also it should be noted that I have Eastern European ancestry in contradistinction to the predominant Anglo-Saxon based White population. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all know that high school can be an awkward time in our lives. It's the time that we transition from childhood  into adulthood. The vestiges of more immature, and possibly casual violent behaviour tends to decrease, and we find ourselves seeking identity, find out what we want to do in life, our status on the pecking order, who we might want to socialize, or get i...

Hello all, sorry for my absence. I wanted to share one of the few films available on YouTube, that may be worth watching, at least for the younger ones. This movie is based on the story and album by recording artist Harry Nilsson. The famous song from this album is "Me and My Arrow".  Nilsson explains his inspiration thus: "I was on  acid  and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's no point to it.'" There are many interpretations of the film, but if one of them is that our differences are superficial and we are all equally valuable, although well-intended it is false. Our differences cause conflict, that's just the reality. Still it is a fairly nice film overall and probably not too bad for the kids.