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American Blackout
The Atlantic ^ | 8-18-2017 | Alice Ristroph

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eclipse; solareclipse
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Just so you know, the sun is racist.

A professor at Brooklyn Law school says so.

Jury is still out on the Moon.

1 posted on 08/19/2017 9:10:34 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

#Sun so white /s


2 posted on 08/19/2017 9:13:12 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Snickering Hound

There ya go. Launch Antifa and BLM protestors to the sun so they can topple it.


3 posted on 08/19/2017 9:13:19 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Snickering Hound

the American blackout was January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017.


4 posted on 08/19/2017 9:13:40 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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MUST EVERYTHING BE ABOUT RACE?!
5 posted on 08/19/2017 9:15:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Snickering Hound

How will this impact globull warming? Or is it due to globull warming?


6 posted on 08/19/2017 9:16:02 PM PDT by umgud
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black Pony Lives Matter!


7 posted on 08/19/2017 9:17:55 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Snickering Hound

The moon is just trying to fight global warming.


8 posted on 08/19/2017 9:19:24 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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That is one of the most ridiculous statements ever published.

KC and St. Louis have significant black populations. Memphis and Nashville. Etc.


9 posted on 08/19/2017 9:20:18 PM PDT by TomGuy
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MUST EVERYTHING BE ABOUT RACE?!

only because the dumbocraps make it so


10 posted on 08/19/2017 9:20:36 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Snickering Hound

The author is a liar. Oregon is 15% hispanic.


11 posted on 08/19/2017 9:21:39 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: BradyLS

I agree!...the only thing i use the sun for is to hunt,fish, and garden..../S


12 posted on 08/19/2017 9:22:14 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Snickering Hound

It’s cause the sun is so damn white!


13 posted on 08/19/2017 9:23:29 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: TomGuy

I’m pretty sure he meant that as satire as is the entire piece.


14 posted on 08/19/2017 9:24:44 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Snickering Hound

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.


15 posted on 08/19/2017 9:27:23 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: aimhigh

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" ...

16 posted on 08/19/2017 9:34:57 PM PDT by BlueDragon (three dots added in honor of the bitter& fat know-it-all guy in Colorado...and Herb Caen, of course!)
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To: AmusedBystander

All gore made invented the moon


17 posted on 08/19/2017 10:30:26 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Texas Eagle

Along with their neglagent parents.


18 posted on 08/20/2017 12:08:01 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Snickering Hound

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.


19 posted on 08/20/2017 3:57:21 AM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: aimhigh

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.


20 posted on 08/20/2017 4:57:51 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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