This is embarassing for @NYMag -- these "gifted" children were about 30X more likely to acheive eminence than their peers. By any standard that is not a "mirage", but the embodiment of whatever metric identified them as gifted.
It's one thing if their writers don't understand baserates and probabilities, but this should have never gotten through editorial review.
Africans were brought to the western hemisphere to be exploited not compensated.
Once slavery was abolished what to do with the former slaves has always been an issue. The goal has always been eradication not reparations.
The creation of the black elite (Boule pts 1 & 2 ScoonTv App features section) served to misdirect former slaves.
Margaret Sanger did her part. Segregation and Jim Crow did its part. Feminism did its part. Drugs and pop culture doing its respective parts. LGBTQ is doing its part. Artificial intelligence and automation will finish the job.
By 2053 the average net worth of blacks in America will be ZERO. The same as it was in 1865. Let that sink in.
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โTrumpโs sons became partners in a Kazakh mining company.
โRight after the company received a $1.6 billion government contract in the US!
โAre we having fun yet, America?
May in Baltimore ended with 8 homicides. Thatโs down from:
-15 last May
-29 in May 2023
-39 in both May 2021 and 2020
-40 in May 2017
-and 42 in May 2015