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I'd like to get a job working for the IG. I imagine them playing online poker and watching sports 7 hours out of the workday, maybe a few cocktails thrown in, steak for lunch...



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I THINK 4% IS TOO HIGH AS WELL. 2-3% MAX, MAYBE AS LOW AS 1%...

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Thanks, HGTV: Americans VASTLY Overestimate the Gay Population in U.S., Gallup Finds
By Paula Bolyard 2019-07-01T13:53:14



In 1989, Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen penned a book called After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear & Hatred of Gays in the 90's wherein the authors outlined a strategy for transforming how Americans viewed homosexuality. They proposed to harness the power of the ad industry and media to depict gays "in the least offensive fashion possible" while stigmatizing those who disagreed with the gay lifestyle. Kirk and Madsen were honest about their cynical scheme to manipulate the American public: "We're talking about propaganda."

They proposed "A continuous flood of gay-related advertising" while making "homo-hating beliefs and actions look so nasty that average Americans will want to dissociate themselves from them."

"We have in mind a strategy as calculated and powerful as that which gays are accused of pursuing by their enemies--or, if you prefer, a plan as manipulative as that which our enemies themselves employ," they wrote. "It's time to learn from Madison Avenue, to roll out the big guns."

Two decades later, no one would dispute that the campaign to normalize homosexuality has been wildly successful. So successful, in fact, that Americans vastly overestimate the number of gay Americans, believing there are five times as many as there actually are. A new Gallup poll reveals:

U.S. adults estimate that nearly one in four Americans (23.6%) are gay or lesbian. Gallup has previously found that Americans have greatly overestimated the U.S. gay population, recording similar average estimates of 24.6% in 2011 and 23.2% in 2015. In each of the three polls in which Gallup has asked this question, a majority of Americans estimated this population to be 20% or greater. Americans' estimate of the proportion of gay people in the U.S. is more than five times Gallup's more encompassing 2017 estimate that 4.5% of Americans are LGBT, based on respondents' self-identification as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. [Emphasis added]

Gallup says the massively inflated estimations are owed to the group's "outsized visibility." Citing an annual report by LGBT advocacy group GLAAD, Gallup explained that "representation of LGBT people as television series regulars on broadcast primetime scripted programming reached an all-time high of 8.8% in the 2018-2019 television season, which is nearly twice Gallup's estimate of the actual population."

One need only watch HGTV's House Hunters for a few hours to understand just how gay mainstream televisions has become. (It's not just television—the mainstream media slants their reporting on LGBT issues in favor of gay rights and goes out of their way to demonize religious conservatives who object to same-sex marriage.)

And let's not forget that this group—representing less than five percent of the population—gets an entire Pride Month to celebrate their lifestyle, with major corporations falling all over themselves to prove how woke they are, despite the fact that Americans are still deeply divided on these issues. They'd rather have their LGBTQ street cred than the dollars of average Americans who refuse to join the moral revolution. There's no escaping Everything Pride during the month of June. LGBTQ affirmations are all over television, the news, and social media. The messaging is also being heavily directed at children—in schools, public libraries, stores, and even in some churches— glamorizing the gay lifestyle and heroizing its practitioners.

It's no wonder Americans wildly overestimate the size of this minority population.

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Trending: SLAVE REGISTERS FROM LONDON Name The Slaves Kamala Harris’ Ancestor Owned

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is descended from Irish slave owner Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown’s Town in Jamaica, who recruited massive numbers of Irish migrants to Jamaica to work on his sugar plantations after the British empire abolished slavery.

Kamala Harris’ father Donald Harris wrote an essay entitled “Reflections of a Jamaican Father” for Jamaica Global Online, in which he made a startling admission (emphasis added):

“My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).”

Harris’ father’s passage ends

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Hamilton Brown was not only a slave owner, but also an engineer of mass Irish migration to Jamaica after the British empire abolished slavery in 1834.

Jamaican Family Search recorded: “Hamilton Brown owned several plantations over the years 1817 to about 1845. According to the 1818 Almanac which can be found on this site, (Jamaican Family Search) , he was the owner of Minard (128 slaves) which he must have acquired from its previous owner (John Bailie) in 1815 or later. The number of slaves on this estate approximates the number of slaves in one of the registers attributed to his ownership (124 slaves). The other register (86 slaves) cannot be assigned to any estate, although he is listed in Almanacs for subsequent years as owning several, (Antrim, Grier Park, Colliston, Little River, Retirement and Unity Valley).”

Here is a full accounting of the slaves owned by Hamilton Brown, according to the National Archives in London, as of June 28, 1817 in the parish of St. Ann in Jamaica:

NAMES

Names of all Males to precede names of females

MALES

Colour



AgeAfrican or creoleRemarks
1 ApolloNegro45African
2 JeinNegro40African
3 SamboNegro40African
4 CiceroNegro30African
5 St???eNegro45African
6 ChanceNegro44African
7 ClendinNegro42African
8 JamaicaNegro32African
9 ApolloNegro32African
10 MontagueNegro38African
11 JackNegro30African
12 MarkNegro32African
13 NedNegro36African
14 SharperNegro40African
15 CeasarNegro38African
16 JohnNegro30African
17 CharlesNegro35African
18 OxfordNegro35African
19 HannibalNegro32African
20 ??illNegro30African
21 DickNegro35African
22 DukeNegro32African
23 NelsonNegro34African
24 RobertNegro30African
25 GeorgeNegro35African
26 PrinceNegro40African
27 HenryNegro38African
28 HamiltonNegro28African4
29 Tom JackNegro40African
30 NealNegro34African
31 LukeNegro28African
32 BelNegro25African
33 ?????Negro33African
34-39 missing
PAGE 89
40 CharlesNegro16Creole
41 LondonNegro11Creole
42 NelsonNegro10Creoleson of Juddy
43 JamaicaNegro10Creoleson of Evey
44 ?SenyNegro8Creoleson of Juddy
45 VirgilNegro8Creoleson of Love
46 TomNegro4Creoleson of Juddy
47 JoabNegro3Creoleson of Lucky
48 HarperNegro3Creoleson of Love
49 JackNegro2Creoleson of Lucy
50 JamesNegro2Creoleson of Tamer
51 SamboNegro2Creoleson of Evey
52 DickNegro1Creoleson of Nanny
53 CharlesNegro1Creoleson of Nelly
54 HughNegro5mosCreoleson of Maria
55 SamNegro4mosCreoleson of Gift
56 GeorgeNegro6mosCreoleson of Flance
FEMALES
1 PhebaNegro50African
2 LoveNegro42African
3 JuddyNegro40African
4 ?Floramel ?MeromelNegro40African
5 FloraNegro38African
6 LucyNegro40African
7 MariaNegro40African
8 LauraNegro30African
9 EveyNegro30African5
10 OliveNegroAfrican
11 LuckyNegro28African
12 VenusNegro32African
13 RachelNegro30African
14 ?BetsyNegro27African
15 JulietNegro48African
16 HellenNegro40African
17 NannyNegro27African
18 NellyNegro28African
19 GiftNegro25African
20 JeaneNegro33African
21 MillyNegro32African
22 IndustryNegro13Creole
23 MargaretNegro10CreoleDaughter of Juddy
24 NancyNegro4CreoleDaughter of Tamer
25 Mary4CreoleDaughter of Evey
PAGE 90
26 PeggyNegro3CreoleDaughter of Flora
27 SarahNegro2CreoleDaughter of Nanny
28 ? HannaNegro6mosCreoleDaughter of Tamer
29 HellenNegro5mosCreoleDaughter of Milly
30 NellyNegro2CreoleDaughter of ?Floramel ?Meromel
Hamilton Brown officially swore to the authenticity of this record, stating:

“I Hamilton Brown do swear that the above list and return consisting of two sheets is a true perfect and complete list and return, to the best of my knowledge and belief in every particular therein mentioned of all and every slaves possessed by me as owner, considered as most permanently settled, worked and employed in the Parish of Saint Ann on the twenty Eight day of June One thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen without fraud, deceit or evasion So help me God.

Sworn before me this twenty fourth day of September 1817”

Hamilton Brown’s slave owning shows up in other records, as well.

“Hamilton Brown was instrumental in the importing of several hundred labourers and their families from Ireland to Jamaica between 1835 and 1840,” according to University College London’s project “Legacies of British Slave-ownership.” The project describes Hamilton Brown as a “Major attorney and resident slave-owner in Jamaica.”

The Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner reported in July 2012 in a travel piece on Brown’s Town:

“As we struggled to stay on the narrow sidewalk, we noticed an elderly man coming our way. He had an unruly grey beard and wore spectacles with thick frames and cloudy lenses.

“Hallo! Hallo!” he said. We stopped and returned the greeting. The man gave his name as Ferly and he told us a bit about Brown’s Town.

“A good amount of Brown live here, you know,” he said. “People what name Brown pack up the place. It all coming from Hamilton Brown who the town name after. Yes man, dem teach it in school,” said Ferly, nodding.

He told us that Hamilton Brown was buried in the graveyard at the nearby Anglican Church. “But a lot of people don’t even know that. Is only long-time people like me know dem tings,” he said.”

The Gleaner passage ends

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