Re: Tariffs and bikes

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 08:07:03 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/7/2025 3:24 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 19:12:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 4/6/2025 12:25 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sun Apr 6 12:59:52 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 4/6/2025 8:13 AM, John B. wrote:

On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 07:46:16 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Exceptions abound within all non-white or non-male examples. This in no
way affects the facts around institutionalized racism in this country.

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Although perhaps not as obvious but what is basically "racism" exists
in many societies. As an example, here (Thailand) Americans are
generally considered rather stupid and are normally over charged.

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I agree that racism is extremely common throughout the world. I once
read that human societies (from tribes up to nations) tend to welcome
single foreigners as interesting temporary visitors, but tend to get
much more skeptical when, say, clusters show up to move in. And when
larger numbers arrive, it's treated as an "invasion."
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The U.S. is an oddball country. Its origin was based on (mostly
inadvertently) killing off the aboriginals, leaving much of the land
unclaimed; then on importing (mostly) Europeans in wave after wave to
make productive use of the land.
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But each new wave went through the "invasion" gauntlet. "No Irish Need
Apply" and all that. But most - Irish, German, Italian, Polish, etc. -
were eventually able to blend in.
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Those of African origin could not blend in unless they were white enough
to "pass." They're still considered part of an "invasion." And yes, that
attitude has been in our institutions for a long, long time.

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Frank I would mostly agree with you but blacks are a special case. The Irish were the first slaves of the English which comprised the initial settlers. Blacks are only significant because they were the LAST slaves and it took a civil war to free them whereupon the Democrats reassumed power and installed everything except outright slavery again. California was more or less exempt from discrimination except from the English elite in power here but the common man in California never went for it.
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Indians were hunter/gatherers and required huge tracks of land to maintain small tribes. They considered farmers to be encroaching on their land which led to wars with the different tribes who fibnally were forced to surrender. They were then GIVEN their rights rather than keeping them from before European settlers. A few east coast tribes considered the very small numbers of initial settlers to be interesting and odd and learned that the ways of farmingf and ranching required a lot less work to survive qand copied them effectively turning them into Europeans themselves.
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This business of wars in virtually every place in the world could have and should have been avoided had they listened to the conservatives rather than the extremists.

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"Blacks are only significant because they were the LAST slaves"
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Not the last any any means.  Slavery is popular again.
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We currently have an epidemic of enslaved people in US and
worldwide. And growing. In USA they are primarily young
central/south American women and girls but boys as well.
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https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/24-02934-TIP_Factsheet-Western-Hemisphere-Region_508-Accessible-8.13.2024.pdf
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https://hopeforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/USA-MSHT-Briefing-Document-Updated-May-2024-1.pdf
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"On any given day, there are 1,091,000 people living in
conditions of modern-day slavery in the
USA"
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https://womenonguard.com/statistics/human-trafficking/
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Roughly 28 million people worldwide as we write.

 
Indeed.
 
I've been researching human trafficking in the USA for my latest book.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/54435782663/
 
The cover picture above is one of several I've been working on. Yeah,
the picture is kind of weird, but it fits because I'm kind of a weird
guy. The blurb below is also a work in progress. It will probably be
modified before you read it.
 
Vincent Rivera was exonerated and freed from a wrongful conviction in
Texas. An experienced sailor, he used the compensation money to buy a
refurbished 41 foot masthead sloop named the Cultured Pearl. Ignoring
the superstitions about renaming a boat, he re-registered the Morgan
Out Island as the Uncultured Pearl. It was a response to a comment
about his education, made by the man who framed him for murder and is
now in prison for that same murder.
 
Intending to return to his home country of Puerto Rico, he stopped for
minor repairs in a small harbor town in Florida. Unfortunately, the
mangrove lined cove where he'd dropped anchor was the home port of a
criminal operation.
 
--
C'est bon
Soloman

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You created a cover?  Authors I know have done a slow burn
over cover art as it's usually foisted by the publisher.

I created all my covers.  I'm pretty handy with graphics software. I
do my own publishing via Amazon so it's not a problem.

Small quibble: Puerto Rico is not a country. It's a US
Territory, part of our country and Puerto Ricans are full US
citizens.

Thanks....    I knew that...  wasn't thinking when I wrote the blurb.
I'll have to rewrite it. I'll also have to check the book and see if I
made the same mistake there.

--
C'est bon
Soloman