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Eh ... If it's on private property the property owner should be the one who decides if it stays or goes, provided it isn't violating some ordinance just by being there. Public property is a bit different. If the enough of the public says "get rid of it" it's going be removed if only to make...

The numbers are skewed like that due to demographics. There are a whole hell of a lot more white people in the US than there are black people in the US and the 85.5% you posted is about what a statistician would expect the percentage to be if the victims were chosen randomly.

Drive home the point that we're all the direct descendants of just two people many times over. Genetic Adam: He's your great-up-whatever grandfather through an entirely male line. Genetic Eve: She's your great-up-whatever grandmother through an entirely female line. They did not live at the...

Multiethnic isn't the problem. It's bigotry and old grudges people refuse to let go of.

Um, ... There isn't a single American who doesn't have immigrant ancestors, and this includes Native Americans too. Saying that immigration is detrimental to the US is one of those "Ha, ha, you've got to be kidding me!" statements which just makes me want to laugh harder. BTW: Everyone alive...

Here's the thing with conservatives, which you aptly pointed out: change is considered to be a bad thing. Without change we'd still be hunter-gatherers using stone tools if we didn't go extinct back when the total human population bottlenecked down to about the size of a modern-day small town.

Actually, they can. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/27/national/social-issues/aging-hunters-look-fresh-blood-solve-boar-woes/ What they can't do is walk into a store, say "I want that gun", and walk out of the store with the gun without answering a whole lot of questions first...

Chang and Eng Bunker, cojoined twins from Siam (they're why cojoined twins are called Siamese twins) settled in North Carolina in 1839, married a pair of American sisters, sired 21 children between them, and owned slaves. History is rife with stories which, at first glance, make you think "that...

One of the two stole* a Confederate battle flag in 1864 and had the USPS deliver it to his sister. * "captured" is probably the word he would have used to describe what he did.

When Commodore Perry ended the Tokogawa-enforced Japanese self-isolation in 1853 Japanese people started showing up in all sorts of unexpected places around the world. I know that at least two wound up in Indiana by 1861.

Say what you will about what the Spanish, Portugese, and Dutch did when they were exploring and colonizing pretty much everywhere way back in the day the adventurers who went out into the unknown tried, and ususally succeded at, being less of an asshole than the local leaders. They were...

For as awful as the Spanish could be when they controlled almost all of South America, Central America, The Caribbean, Florida, and huge chunk of the US West of the Mississippi River they were often nicer than the powers-that-were they replaced.

The Aztecs were one of those rare societies where practically everyone who had the misfortune of dealing with them just wanted to be rid of them. It took the spread of highly contagious foreign diseases they weren't immune to which devastated all of the local populations and the assistance of...

Those same judges also say that we must allow things like the public display of Confederate, Communist, NAZI, Fascist, etc. flags and symbols by private individuals on their private property, that distasteful political parties can not be banned, &c. It goes both ways.

When you ask someone if they're Hispanic you aren't asking them about their race. You're asking them if their ancestors came from a Spanish-speaking country in North or South America.

The circumstances of how you meet someone does matter because a first impression is very hard to change. The guy from East St. Louis met one of my distant cousins when they were 16 or 17 and they became fast friends when they were 18 and taking the same college class. The homeless guy one of my...

I learned long ago to never judge someone by the where they came from. One of my sisters is married to a man from East St. Louis and another is very good friends with a homeless man.

You did do that old school nonsensical punctuation string most people don't actually read.

If I had to make an educated guess: personal experience.

Umm ... Almost 80% of my neighbourhood isn't white.