Today’s kinté Links

“Black women more likely to struggle with debt”

blackbritain.co.uk: “Women’s incomes are already known to fluctuate, particular during major life changes such as having children and relationship breakdowns, which makes it harder to keep up with financial commitments.” It may be interesting to you to contrast these findings with “Flippant Financial Statements.”

Black, Female Abortion Rates in Oregon in 1995

Our Undercover Black Man reveals, “We have a winner. (I’m not stumping anybody with this game.) BlackinUSA revealed that the chart represents the percentage of pregnancies terminated by abortion in Oregon in 1995.” What was surprising to me was the high rates for woman marked “African American.”

But with a little more thought since last August, my questions get mentionable:

• What are the rates in areas with “traditional” Black enclaves (the inner cities)? When the African numbers drop in this grouping, that means colored women in Oregon have a little something different going on (even though the national trend is still high)… this leads to my next question:
• Are these Oregon ladies “of color” getting pregnant predominantly by “males of color”? The results here might be a bit explosive.
• Are these Oregon ladies “of color” terminating a pregnancy to have no children at all—or are they terminating to have fewer children? What would be interesting is to see the numbers only for women with no children at all.### Movies “dumbing down” science

At arstechnica.com: “…Hollywood mixes realistic special effects with the physically absurd, they’re leaving a scientifically-illiterate public completely bewildered about what’s actually possible here in the real world.” When I was a young nerd, you could catch me whining about ‘stupid people.’ But now that I’m a little older, I know that stupors are generated by design—miseducation is not just for Lauryn Hill in particular or the Negro in general. This is foundational for captivity and control.

Here in the rasx() context, the number one science fiction movie fiction is the unexplained story element that recessive-gene humans can live far, far into the future without any explanation as to how their recessive genes were “protected” from those of us with dominant genes. For those of you that are “dumbing down,” recessive-gene people are so-called “white” people. My first rule for Hollywood media: entertainment is designed for the validation and perpetuation of whiteness. Eventually real Black people get tired of looking at pictures of white people thinking—not out of “hate” or “jealousy”—but out of boredom and a need for true diversity. I would rather watch pictures of Chinese people thinking than yet another American plastic bag of Wonder Bread—even when the bread is colored brown. My apologies for watching movies sober and alone…

Pedro Bell on Chic-A-Go-Go

So, I’m certain the Pedro Bell would disagree with me but his appearance on what seems to be a crappy children’s TeeVee show is a shining example of what can happen to a self-described “artist” when the “artist” tries to make “a living” as an “artist.” (The word “artist” has quotes to indicate my lack of “faith” in this European concept.) I would rather be a bricklayer or a carpenter than to soil my sacred creativity with ventures like that shit!

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