Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pocotrader who wrote (1410846)	7/19/2023 4:30:05 PM
From: Doren	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bill pocotrader Winfastorlose Respond to of 1578012

> too much racism Always will be. Its an effective tool to divide working people. I mean... I live in a mixed neighborhood. I have more in common with most black people here than they have with Franklin Raines or Oprah. WTF good do corporate assholes like Raines do for black people? So the powers that be, and that includes black demagogues who use race to gain power and easy jobs (Sharpton), have us working people split over race and therefore, impotent when it comes to solidarity for fair pay, anti-corruption, cronyism, nepotism pressure on a corrupt society. All the evils of unchecked power. Solidarity would go a long way towards a more equitable society with less poor and rich and a larger middle class. The best societies have the largest middle class. PBS is obsessed with race... and the people there seem to consider blue collar people as if they are aliens from another planet. It pisses me off to no extent. They have no concept of the lives of blue collar people... their culture, from work to dinner parties is all white collar culture. Still better than Faux though, don't get me wrong on that. We need REAL reporters, not interviewers or talking heads parroting teleprompters. During the sixties, with MLK, we gained solidarity... until the Black Panther movement came around and fucked that up. The Panthers weren't all bad people, but it poisoned the well and put black economic gains back a few decades. Middle class white people wanted to help but got tired of being called white racists so they lost that support. The ironic thing about reparations is... who will get $... more black people have slave owners in their background than white people, I think. Plenty of people who consider themselves black have over 50% European genes. So should their reparations be on a sliding scale and take into account how heinous their distant ancestors were? I have NO slave owners in my background. Reparations is just going to exacerbate our obsession with race, and resentments. What we need is Blue Collar & working people solidarity... not going to happen. We're fucked. That's why the gap between CEO pay and worker pay has grown geometrically for the last 50 years. They got us down cold.