Unless we're talking H1-Bs I don't see that in the slightest. What I do see is several of my buddies in dead end jobs (and a few acquaintances rocking recent CS degrees stuck in crap IT jobs) while workers here on cheap visas and outsourcing dominate the industry. I suppose if they can keep this up though nobody local will go into IT (since you can't get work). I can tell you this, I just sent my kid to college to be a nurse. IT ranked below liberal arts degree on the list of things I wanted her to major in.
Bush Jr's b.s. "service" was real. It was painfully obvious he landed a cushy position with the Airforce he had no business or qualifications for and that his father's connections got him that (and kept him out of war zones). What's more, his opponent Kerry actually went to 'Nam and somehow managed to get branded a coward.
The whole thing stinks. Like it was cooked up to shut down talk about why it was Bush Jr ended up with such a desirable position in the first place. During the latest election there were several incidents of phony docs critical of Trump floating around too. Tax documents, stuff that "proved" the Russian connection, etc, etc. IIRC Sam Bee got one (she mighta just reported on one).
it's wealth inequality. Nobody would really care about corruption if they had what they needed. The problem is we have a powerful ruling class who benefits from the existence of poverty. e.g. what good is being rich if nobody's poor? You can't boss people around if you don't have control over their economic future. At least not without being an actual expert in something, which members of the ruling class generally are not.
The future can definitely be predicted. Maybe not with 100% accuracy but we _can_ see problems coming and fix them before they can happen.
not in any meaningful way. Individuals can't 'resist' any broad societal change on their own.
That said, the Unibomber's manifesto is just plain silly. The problem isn't dependence. It's tech being used to make our lives worse instead of better, usually at the behest of the ruling class. It's everything from tracking cookies that know exactly how much extra you'll pay for that bag of cat food or that box of diapers to armed autonomous drones. That's the part that's worth resisting. Not some nebulous assault on an idealized way of life pulled from something Thoreau wrote but systemic oppression of the sort that leads to the next 1000 year dark ages. And no, you can't resist that as individuals. It requires a concerted effort on the part of the working class. Unions, Democracy and powerful institutions that are carefully and continuously monitored.
Just how bad off these guys are. They barely have jobs, and only if you count crap like Uber or part time at Walmart a job. You can forget about a wife and family since no women wants a man without a steady job. They've got just enough food to survive and prevent them from turning into roving bands of bandits.
These are the people our economy abandoned when manufacturing moved overseas and light blue collar work started going to illegals. Trump is the first politician to acknowledge their suffering. Hilary & co figured the 'Blue Firewall' would keep them voting 'D' and didn't even bother campaigning at them. She was horribly wrong.
Yeah, I know Trump's awful. So do they. But Trump _might_ do something positive for them. And for us too. He _might_ kick out the illegals and end the H1-B program and get better trade deals that favor American workers. Now, I'm rational enough to know he won't actually do any of that. But I also have something to lose. I'm not sure how I'd vote if I was in the shape these Trump voters are. I think if I'd lived that poorly for that long I wouldn't be rational though.
All of this is why we need to reach out and take care of those people. It's the same problem we had in WWII. We abandoned the Germans and look what it got us: Nazis. We've abandoned the American working class and, well, what do you know, we've got Nazis again.
the folks who voted Trump don't care. They're not seeing any of that Soy, wheat & corn money. It mostly goes to big agrabusiness. They really don't give a flying rat's ass if the whole country goes to pot because right now they're pretty much at rock bottom.
Calling these folks racists while ignoring their very real economic problems is what got us Trump. Steve Bannon might be an asshole but he said something brilliant. He said if the left keeps up these pointless identity politics while the Right runs on economic populism then the Right is going to rule America for the next 1000 years. He's right.
Now, the Right isn't actually going to _do_ anything populist. They're all bought and paid by the ruling elite. But if you're giving me the choice between Hilary's "neo-liberalism" (e.g. all the same economic policies as the Right wing but Gays & Abortions are OK) and Trump at least _saying_ he's going to do something material to help the working class folks are going to pick Trump every time. And why shouldn't they? Especially when Trump at least gives lip service against violence?
If you don't like the road this country's traveling down you need to get with Bernie & Co. That means Single Payer Healthcare, ending the 7 pointless wars we're fighting, free college for everybody, $15 minimum wage, etc, etc. It means taking care of the working class even if it pisses you off to think somebody has a nice life and didn't have to work that hard to get it. Otherwise those Angry White Men are going to stay angry and they're going to go find themselves a Stalin style strong man who _isn't_ a 70 year old charlatan and when they do expect lots of nasty violence. It's not a nice thing to think about, but it's reality. It's what happens everytime we abandon a signinficant portion of the ruling class to abject poverty.
For the same reason robot warehouses have more stuff in them: They don't need aisles for those troublesome fleshies.. Plus no AC or heat. And they're not trying to compete with Amazon, they're competing with 7-11. I don't buy coffee and stale donuts online.
You're right about the bums peeing, or more likely punks tagging the thing. Japan's had tons of vending machines selling damn near everything for ages. It works because they have very little vandalism. My guess is there'll be cameras everywhere and they'll track and prosecute people who tag the machines. Maybe get some laws passed for much, much harsher sentences for vandalism (in America that wouldn't be hard). After a few guys do 1-3 years hard time for spray painting a dick on these things word'll get around. Either that or they're gonna coat them in something that makes it really easy to clean spray paint off. But either way they've got to solve the vandalism problem somehow.
if you can get desperate people to do your stocking for you because they can't find full time work.Amazon's doing that right now with their delivery system. One of my brother's coworkers delivers packages after work for them because he doesn't make enough money at his full time job to make ends meet.
As long as we're giving companies a pass on minimum wage law because it's 'on an app' you'll see more of this. There's a whole universe of shitty business models that spring to life when the working class stops taking care of its own...
is part of a major chain. The only one that's not completely awful is Qwik Trip, which at least pays it's people moderately well. What I remember was they all ran 24-7 and the folks on the night shift were going to get shot sooner or later. It was never a question of if it was when.
I guess what I'm saying is, who still has a nice little mom & pop shop left that they can get mad at bodega? I watched all those get swallowed up by Circle K/7-11 in the late 80s. Even the immigrants don't run 'em any more.
On the other hand it's hilarious having this guy talk about making jobs with a business model who's entire point is eliminating cashiers. And you can damn well bet the guys that stock these things will be on the 'sharing' economy payscale where they somehow manage to earn less than minimum wage and it's still legal. I'd like to think the backlash is more about that than about actual bodegas.
we've been letting a lot of money accumulate at the top. So much that it's easier for companies to buy out potential rivals before they get too big. Microsoft was famous for this and I've been seeing EA & Activision doing it for decades too.
I'm less worried about losing privacy than I am about the affects of wealth inequality and having that much money/power at the top. Most people don't abuse privacy for fun, they do it to take all the world's money for themselves. Solve income inequality and the privacy problems will take care of themselves.
I've mostly seen the advertisers coming back. There's a lot of stuff out there I just plain don't need but that I might actually want. If you don't advertise to me I honestly forget the stuff exists. Video games are an obvious choice. But there's other stuff like computer hardware upgrades, cool parts for my bike and other misc hobby stuff. And when I still had a kid under my roof there was the nonstop cavalcade of adverts for cloths and movies she was into.
fed to them by billionaires and corporations that don't want to pay taxes. I remember a story during the height of the tea party boom of a small town that tried something like that. They eliminated all taxes and were genuinely shocked when the services stopped. They just figured all the waste would get cut and everything would be honky dory.
There's also a lot of "I got mine, fuck you" going around. A general sentiment that since I worked hard to get where I'm at I shouldn't have to pay for other folks. One of the big problems I see is baby boomers who got where they are through sheer dumb luck but also had to work hard to take advantage of that luck. They forget or ignore the luck part and get mad at folks who don't work as hard as they did.
Then there's good 'ole fashion tribalism and the racism that goes with it. Nobody wants to pay for the other 'tribe' to have health care.
because it was still only a small number of (mostly old and conservative) people showing up for the primary. If the primaries had the same turnout as the General we'd be saying President Bernie right now because Clinton's shenanigans wouldn't have flown. You need tight margins for cheating to work in elections.
to sit around waiting for these kinds of things. But you need skilled people to do it and there's only so many H1-Bs you can have work full time on one thing while three or four times a year ramping up to an 80+ hour work week. Most experienced programmers won't put up with those kinds of hours except occasionally. Once they figure out it's part of the job they leave if they can.
So you either find a way to get the indentured servants that are folks here on work visas or you pay people to sit around waiting for problems and fixing them. It's usually only $300-$500k/yr. A sizable chunk of change but still quite affordable to large companies. But saving that $300-$500k was somebody's bonus the year the decision was made.
She retired. She wasn't fired. So she'll get to take it all with her. Once again, the ruling class (and at CSO level she's a member) take care of themselves. And once again, I sure wish we could get the working class to do the same. Hell, we can't even get the working class to agree Healthcare is a right and not a privilege.
it's hard to think that way about voting. Our last election was Giant Douche vs a Turd Sandwich both of which were rammed down our throats.
Thing is, you need to get people to show up to primaries, but it's hard enough to get them to mid terms. Voter suppression doesn't help matter either. I don't know about the rest of you folks but I waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in my primary. That wasn't an accident. Nor was it because of overwhelming turnout.
as well as why it's OK to use the n-word in that context. First, it's a historical piece. Second, it's playing with our preconceived notions of racism by showing that the Irish held in deeper contempt than the Blacks & Chinese at one time (they were actually) in order to make it clear how ridiculous racism is.
Also, I looked up the guy that your sig is about (Anthony Johnson). He owned indentured servants. Effective slavery but only because the laws were not being enforced. The first slaves were brought from Africa in the early 1600s by the Dutch. Your pal Johnson was still an indentured servant himself. If I were politifact I'd rate your sig Mostly False. I'm not sure where you came up with it, but It's purposely misleading. You should do a bit more research to convince yourself and then remove it.
is an end of the racially tinged and antisemitic skits. That more than any apology is what he needs to do right now. Not because he's upsetting people, but because those skits encourage and normalize racism and antisemitism. Whether he wants to acknowledge it or not. There's plenty of other, productive ways to discuss race without paying folks $5 bucks to hold up the Nazi flag or blurting out the n-word. He could be a guide for a lot of frustrated youths to help make the world a better place. If he does that, well, all is forgiven.
The trouble is that's probably not going to get him as many views because, as the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad advertising. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
you fight oppression with deeds. The South was basically dragged kicking and screaming, literally at the barrel of a gun circa 1864, into the world of civil rights. It took constant pressure from the North and West Coast to first end Slavery and then Segregation. And they've hated us for it since. Yeah, there's the "Liberal Redneck". The South isn't a monolith. But such people's voices were a minority in the 60s and it was a Supreme Court case that ended it. Didn't they make you read about Brown vs Board of Education in school?
Words make people feel good. Deeds solve their problems. As for getting rid of racism: It's all about money. It's a wedge used by the ruling class to divide the working class. It has been since our societies got big enough to need such things. The reason you're seeing a flare up is both the Dems & the Republicans abandoned working class white men to globalism and Trump & the Alt-Righters noticed that and are capitalizing on it. If you want to stop it the solutions are economic. Hell, that's what end slavery more than anything, it wasn't a good deal economically anymore.
Needs bad relations with Cuba to help them win votes in Florida for presidential elections (and Florida elections in general). Lots of ne're do wells benefit from poor US/Cuban relations. Meanwhile it only hurts Cuba who could use the tourist dollars and trade.
not for blacks. It's about decades of systemic violence. e.g. Terrorism. They're frightened of casual racism leading to regression. It's not hard to imagine if the economy keeps getting worse. Folks will start looking for a scapegoat and a visible minority is always going to be the go to. Right now it's illegals and I heard a lot of talk about walls and such the last year but very damn little about income inequality or the fact that all the gains since 2008 have gone to the top. Hell, it made the news when median income went up a few hundred bucks for the first time since 1999.
I guess what I'm saying is: Folks are working harder and not seeing anything for it. They're angry, especially white men. That anger has to be placed somewhere, and there's lots of people with an interest in misdirecting that anger away from them.
doesn't have 200+ years of systematic terrorism, slavery and economic oppression associated with it. Blacks have only had full civil rights for about 50 years now with lots of gaps in enforcement. Black people are understandably frightened our country will regress. They're still a minority and a highly visible one and ruling classes have used visible minorities for scapegoating for thousands of years.
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Unless we're talking H1-Bs I don't see that in the slightest. What I do see is several of my buddies in dead end jobs (and a few acquaintances rocking recent CS degrees stuck in crap IT jobs) while workers here on cheap visas and outsourcing dominate the industry. I suppose if they can keep this up though nobody local will go into IT (since you can't get work). I can tell you this, I just sent my kid to college to be a nurse. IT ranked below liberal arts degree on the list of things I wanted her to major in.
Bush Jr's b.s. "service" was real. It was painfully obvious he landed a cushy position with the Airforce he had no business or qualifications for and that his father's connections got him that (and kept him out of war zones). What's more, his opponent Kerry actually went to 'Nam and somehow managed to get branded a coward.
The whole thing stinks. Like it was cooked up to shut down talk about why it was Bush Jr ended up with such a desirable position in the first place. During the latest election there were several incidents of phony docs critical of Trump floating around too. Tax documents, stuff that "proved" the Russian connection, etc, etc. IIRC Sam Bee got one (she mighta just reported on one).
it's wealth inequality. Nobody would really care about corruption if they had what they needed. The problem is we have a powerful ruling class who benefits from the existence of poverty. e.g. what good is being rich if nobody's poor? You can't boss people around if you don't have control over their economic future. At least not without being an actual expert in something, which members of the ruling class generally are not.
The future can definitely be predicted. Maybe not with 100% accuracy but we _can_ see problems coming and fix them before they can happen.
not in any meaningful way. Individuals can't 'resist' any broad societal change on their own.
That said, the Unibomber's manifesto is just plain silly. The problem isn't dependence. It's tech being used to make our lives worse instead of better, usually at the behest of the ruling class. It's everything from tracking cookies that know exactly how much extra you'll pay for that bag of cat food or that box of diapers to armed autonomous drones. That's the part that's worth resisting. Not some nebulous assault on an idealized way of life pulled from something Thoreau wrote but systemic oppression of the sort that leads to the next 1000 year dark ages. And no, you can't resist that as individuals. It requires a concerted effort on the part of the working class. Unions, Democracy and powerful institutions that are carefully and continuously monitored.
Just how bad off these guys are. They barely have jobs, and only if you count crap like Uber or part time at Walmart a job. You can forget about a wife and family since no women wants a man without a steady job. They've got just enough food to survive and prevent them from turning into roving bands of bandits.
These are the people our economy abandoned when manufacturing moved overseas and light blue collar work started going to illegals. Trump is the first politician to acknowledge their suffering. Hilary & co figured the 'Blue Firewall' would keep them voting 'D' and didn't even bother campaigning at them. She was horribly wrong.
Yeah, I know Trump's awful. So do they. But Trump _might_ do something positive for them. And for us too. He _might_ kick out the illegals and end the H1-B program and get better trade deals that favor American workers. Now, I'm rational enough to know he won't actually do any of that. But I also have something to lose. I'm not sure how I'd vote if I was in the shape these Trump voters are. I think if I'd lived that poorly for that long I wouldn't be rational though.
All of this is why we need to reach out and take care of those people. It's the same problem we had in WWII. We abandoned the Germans and look what it got us: Nazis. We've abandoned the American working class and, well, what do you know, we've got Nazis again.
the folks who voted Trump don't care. They're not seeing any of that Soy, wheat & corn money. It mostly goes to big agrabusiness. They really don't give a flying rat's ass if the whole country goes to pot because right now they're pretty much at rock bottom.
Calling these folks racists while ignoring their very real economic problems is what got us Trump. Steve Bannon might be an asshole but he said something brilliant. He said if the left keeps up these pointless identity politics while the Right runs on economic populism then the Right is going to rule America for the next 1000 years. He's right.
Now, the Right isn't actually going to _do_ anything populist. They're all bought and paid by the ruling elite. But if you're giving me the choice between Hilary's "neo-liberalism" (e.g. all the same economic policies as the Right wing but Gays & Abortions are OK) and Trump at least _saying_ he's going to do something material to help the working class folks are going to pick Trump every time. And why shouldn't they? Especially when Trump at least gives lip service against violence?
If you don't like the road this country's traveling down you need to get with Bernie & Co. That means Single Payer Healthcare, ending the 7 pointless wars we're fighting, free college for everybody, $15 minimum wage, etc, etc. It means taking care of the working class even if it pisses you off to think somebody has a nice life and didn't have to work that hard to get it. Otherwise those Angry White Men are going to stay angry and they're going to go find themselves a Stalin style strong man who _isn't_ a 70 year old charlatan and when they do expect lots of nasty violence. It's not a nice thing to think about, but it's reality. It's what happens everytime we abandon a signinficant portion of the ruling class to abject poverty.
For the same reason robot warehouses have more stuff in them: They don't need aisles for those troublesome fleshies.. Plus no AC or heat. And they're not trying to compete with Amazon, they're competing with 7-11. I don't buy coffee and stale donuts online.
You're right about the bums peeing, or more likely punks tagging the thing. Japan's had tons of vending machines selling damn near everything for ages. It works because they have very little vandalism. My guess is there'll be cameras everywhere and they'll track and prosecute people who tag the machines. Maybe get some laws passed for much, much harsher sentences for vandalism (in America that wouldn't be hard). After a few guys do 1-3 years hard time for spray painting a dick on these things word'll get around. Either that or they're gonna coat them in something that makes it really easy to clean spray paint off. But either way they've got to solve the vandalism problem somehow.
if you can get desperate people to do your stocking for you because they can't find full time work.Amazon's doing that right now with their delivery system. One of my brother's coworkers delivers packages after work for them because he doesn't make enough money at his full time job to make ends meet.
As long as we're giving companies a pass on minimum wage law because it's 'on an app' you'll see more of this. There's a whole universe of shitty business models that spring to life when the working class stops taking care of its own...
in poor areas where you don't have regular access to mouthwash.
is part of a major chain. The only one that's not completely awful is Qwik Trip, which at least pays it's people moderately well. What I remember was they all ran 24-7 and the folks on the night shift were going to get shot sooner or later. It was never a question of if it was when.
I guess what I'm saying is, who still has a nice little mom & pop shop left that they can get mad at bodega? I watched all those get swallowed up by Circle K/7-11 in the late 80s. Even the immigrants don't run 'em any more.
On the other hand it's hilarious having this guy talk about making jobs with a business model who's entire point is eliminating cashiers. And you can damn well bet the guys that stock these things will be on the 'sharing' economy payscale where they somehow manage to earn less than minimum wage and it's still legal. I'd like to think the backlash is more about that than about actual bodegas.
we've been letting a lot of money accumulate at the top. So much that it's easier for companies to buy out potential rivals before they get too big. Microsoft was famous for this and I've been seeing EA & Activision doing it for decades too.
I'm less worried about losing privacy than I am about the affects of wealth inequality and having that much money/power at the top. Most people don't abuse privacy for fun, they do it to take all the world's money for themselves. Solve income inequality and the privacy problems will take care of themselves.
I've mostly seen the advertisers coming back. There's a lot of stuff out there I just plain don't need but that I might actually want. If you don't advertise to me I honestly forget the stuff exists. Video games are an obvious choice. But there's other stuff like computer hardware upgrades, cool parts for my bike and other misc hobby stuff. And when I still had a kid under my roof there was the nonstop cavalcade of adverts for cloths and movies she was into.
fed to them by billionaires and corporations that don't want to pay taxes. I remember a story during the height of the tea party boom of a small town that tried something like that. They eliminated all taxes and were genuinely shocked when the services stopped. They just figured all the waste would get cut and everything would be honky dory.
There's also a lot of "I got mine, fuck you" going around. A general sentiment that since I worked hard to get where I'm at I shouldn't have to pay for other folks. One of the big problems I see is baby boomers who got where they are through sheer dumb luck but also had to work hard to take advantage of that luck. They forget or ignore the luck part and get mad at folks who don't work as hard as they did.
Then there's good 'ole fashion tribalism and the racism that goes with it. Nobody wants to pay for the other 'tribe' to have health care.
because it was still only a small number of (mostly old and conservative) people showing up for the primary. If the primaries had the same turnout as the General we'd be saying President Bernie right now because Clinton's shenanigans wouldn't have flown. You need tight margins for cheating to work in elections.
to sit around waiting for these kinds of things. But you need skilled people to do it and there's only so many H1-Bs you can have work full time on one thing while three or four times a year ramping up to an 80+ hour work week. Most experienced programmers won't put up with those kinds of hours except occasionally. Once they figure out it's part of the job they leave if they can.
So you either find a way to get the indentured servants that are folks here on work visas or you pay people to sit around waiting for problems and fixing them. It's usually only $300-$500k/yr. A sizable chunk of change but still quite affordable to large companies. But saving that $300-$500k was somebody's bonus the year the decision was made.
She retired. She wasn't fired. So she'll get to take it all with her. Once again, the ruling class (and at CSO level she's a member) take care of themselves. And once again, I sure wish we could get the working class to do the same. Hell, we can't even get the working class to agree Healthcare is a right and not a privilege.
it's hard to think that way about voting. Our last election was Giant Douche vs a Turd Sandwich both of which were rammed down our throats.
Thing is, you need to get people to show up to primaries, but it's hard enough to get them to mid terms. Voter suppression doesn't help matter either. I don't know about the rest of you folks but I waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in my primary. That wasn't an accident. Nor was it because of overwhelming turnout.
as well as why it's OK to use the n-word in that context. First, it's a historical piece. Second, it's playing with our preconceived notions of racism by showing that the Irish held in deeper contempt than the Blacks & Chinese at one time (they were actually) in order to make it clear how ridiculous racism is.
Also, I looked up the guy that your sig is about (Anthony Johnson). He owned indentured servants. Effective slavery but only because the laws were not being enforced. The first slaves were brought from Africa in the early 1600s by the Dutch. Your pal Johnson was still an indentured servant himself. If I were politifact I'd rate your sig Mostly False. I'm not sure where you came up with it, but It's purposely misleading. You should do a bit more research to convince yourself and then remove it.
is an end of the racially tinged and antisemitic skits. That more than any apology is what he needs to do right now. Not because he's upsetting people, but because those skits encourage and normalize racism and antisemitism. Whether he wants to acknowledge it or not. There's plenty of other, productive ways to discuss race without paying folks $5 bucks to hold up the Nazi flag or blurting out the n-word. He could be a guide for a lot of frustrated youths to help make the world a better place. If he does that, well, all is forgiven.
The trouble is that's probably not going to get him as many views because, as the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad advertising. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
you fight oppression with deeds. The South was basically dragged kicking and screaming, literally at the barrel of a gun circa 1864, into the world of civil rights. It took constant pressure from the North and West Coast to first end Slavery and then Segregation. And they've hated us for it since. Yeah, there's the "Liberal Redneck". The South isn't a monolith. But such people's voices were a minority in the 60s and it was a Supreme Court case that ended it. Didn't they make you read about Brown vs Board of Education in school?
Words make people feel good. Deeds solve their problems. As for getting rid of racism: It's all about money. It's a wedge used by the ruling class to divide the working class. It has been since our societies got big enough to need such things. The reason you're seeing a flare up is both the Dems & the Republicans abandoned working class white men to globalism and Trump & the Alt-Righters noticed that and are capitalizing on it. If you want to stop it the solutions are economic. Hell, that's what end slavery more than anything, it wasn't a good deal economically anymore.
Quite a few of them woke up hanging from trees though. Well, they didn't wake up per se...
provided you've got universal healthcare there's the opportunity to get tested, treated and cured before it's an issue.
Needs bad relations with Cuba to help them win votes in Florida for presidential elections (and Florida elections in general). Lots of ne're do wells benefit from poor US/Cuban relations. Meanwhile it only hurts Cuba who could use the tourist dollars and trade.
not for blacks. It's about decades of systemic violence. e.g. Terrorism. They're frightened of casual racism leading to regression. It's not hard to imagine if the economy keeps getting worse. Folks will start looking for a scapegoat and a visible minority is always going to be the go to. Right now it's illegals and I heard a lot of talk about walls and such the last year but very damn little about income inequality or the fact that all the gains since 2008 have gone to the top. Hell, it made the news when median income went up a few hundred bucks for the first time since 1999.
I guess what I'm saying is: Folks are working harder and not seeing anything for it. They're angry, especially white men. That anger has to be placed somewhere, and there's lots of people with an interest in misdirecting that anger away from them.
doesn't have 200+ years of systematic terrorism, slavery and economic oppression associated with it. Blacks have only had full civil rights for about 50 years now with lots of gaps in enforcement. Black people are understandably frightened our country will regress. They're still a minority and a highly visible one and ruling classes have used visible minorities for scapegoating for thousands of years.