He’s an odd one. He likes to skirt the plantation. He’s been pretty honest about blacks only to turn around and say racism created the tea party.
“He’s an odd one. He likes to skirt the plantation. He’s been pretty honest about blacks only to turn around and say racism created the tea party.”
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Agreed. But his idea of building the middle class would be to raise minimum wages, cap executive pay, give unions more power, have single-payer health care for everyone, and increase compensation for government workers.
You have to remember Freeman's roots. His partner in both Ground Zero club and Mahabi (sp) is a very liberal trial lawyer and politician. I think he had a lot of influence on Freeman's politics and might help explain his “skirting the plantation”. Great phrase. I may have to steal it.
I think Mahabi went bankrupt, but I do believe Ground Zero is doing well.
I saw him on his shoe Through the Worm Hole on SciTV last night. The episode was about human ideals of ‘fairness’ and inequality may be in our genetic makeup.
Tests with primates, specifically monkeys, showed that they would accept certain levels of inequality in rewards for tasks, but not inequity.
They took two monkeys in side by side cages, had them perform the same task. One was given a piece of bell pepper for a reward, which they like, and the other was given a grape, which they like better. The monkey that got the bell pepper had a fit.
The alpha male that got the grape would eventually turn it down rather than accept it in front of the other monkey.
He has his moments. But I’m sure somebody will get to him and “put his mind right.”