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Every single thing that's been done to help black people has been done specifically because they're recognized as a Crayola crayon color. Speaking of which, one wonders how long it will be before Crayola discontinues black crayons because they've "woked" to how insensitive having a black crayon is to those people for whom being a crayon color is an identity. But I digress. Bigoted pompous blowhards view themselves as the summum bonum of all things they deem beneficial to humanity and specifically humanity recognized as a crayon color. And therein lies the problem. Whether for personal gain, adulation and/or power,...

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this ''green thing'' back in my earlier days." The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today – your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the ''green thing'' in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them...

Obama proposed to create a new racial classification of "MENA" for Middle East and North Africans. On Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget advanced the proposal with a notice in the Federal Register, seeking comments on whether to add Middle Eastern and North African as a separate racial or ethnic category, which groups would be included, and what it should be called. Under the proposal, the new Middle East and North African designation – or MENA, as it's called by population scholars – is broader in concept than Arab (an ethnicity) or Muslim (a religion). It would...