Posted on 08/19/2017 9:10:34 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. The moon’s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.
Presumably, this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system. It is a matter of population density, and more specifically geographic variations in population density by race, for which the sun and the moon cannot be held responsible. Still, an eclipse chaser is always tempted to believe that the skies are relaying a message. At a moment of deep disagreement about the nation’s best path forward, here comes a giant round shadow, drawing a line either to cut the country in two or to unite it as one. Ancient peoples watched total eclipses with awe and often dread, seeing in the darkness omens of doom. The Great American Eclipse may or may not tell us anything about our future, but its peculiar path could remind us of something about our past—what it was we meant to be doing, and what we actually did along the way. And if it seems we need no reminding, consider this: We tend to backlight our history, and so run the risk of trying to recover a glory that never existed. When the light in August changes, watch carefully.
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A professor at Brooklyn Law school says so.
Jury is still out on the Moon.
#Sun so white /s
There ya go. Launch Antifa and BLM protestors to the sun so they can topple it.
the American blackout was January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017.
How will this impact globull warming? Or is it due to globull warming?
Black Pony Lives Matter!
The moon is just trying to fight global warming.
The author is a liar. Oregon is 15% hispanic.
I agree!...the only thing i use the sun for is to hunt,fish, and garden..../S
It’s cause the sun is so damn white!
I’m pretty sure he meant that as satire as is the entire piece.
I skimmed through the article, WTF.
Just off the top of my head, some of the cities included are Portland, KC, St Louis and Charleston.
But in some of these cities, the totality eclipse zone purposely misses the black people!
Is it too late to postpone the eclipse to allow for massive busing of people who don’t want to be bused, so they can see the damn eclipse that they don’t care about? Let’s get NASA on it.
Only when at work, at home, or having crimes committed against themselves.
If perpetrators of crime, then according to some (many?) statistics methodologies --they be "white" ...
All gore made invented the moon
Along with their neglagent parents.
Racism blinds him.
It makes him look stupid -
I hope the Son will put light into his life and the Truth will set him free.
Other than possibly being some percentage Indian as American Indian, how is it possible that Hispanics can be anything other than White? To make this determination we we must consider that there are only three races of man, Caucasian, Mongolian and Negro.
Certainly most Hispanics are not Negro and probably have fewer Negro genes than most white Southern folk. I would put money on this statement.
Hispanics are considered White just as the Aryans of India are considered White, no matter what.
But, then, only while living in Africa did I see Blacks who I thought might not have any White genes circulating. But here in the States, all bets are off.
How come those who purport to be Black, do not acknowledge their Whiteness? Even my own oldest daughter thinks it is great to have at least 1% of her genes to be Negro.
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