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Ask JTF for Sunday, April 26, 2009
chicagojew:
Shalom Chaim, on April 19, 2009, the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illinois opened up. Do you reccommend I visit it?
SavetheWest:
Chaim,
What do you think of Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, pressing charges against former Bush officials for "enhanced interrogation techniques"? Why are the Republicans and the ex Bush officials so impotent in responding to realistic threats against themselves or is it that they still don't believe anything will happen to them?
Daniele.from.Italy:
Dear Mr.Ben Pesach,
I would like to inform you about Blackbird: the first "African American Browser".
It's an internet browser, based on Mozilla Firefox, that has been developed by "afro-americans" so that they could browse the net without using (and I quote) "browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera which are specifically designed for white people".
I really can't understand what makes a browser like firefox "a racist browser", I mean maybe because when you open a new tab on firefox you get a "blank page" and that I guess it's offensive for them, the blank page is too white!
I was curious so I went to the "official website" to see what the browser's features are, well... It says it features: "Black search, Black News Ticker, Black Bookmarks" and other nonsense stuffs.
Two more facts about this:
- First: as I said this browser is based on Mozilla firefox, so they didn't start from a scratch, and the whole project has sponsors so it's not an amateurish project at all... Well you will not belive me if I tell you but they are developing Blackbird for more than 13 months now and is still a (buggy) Beta! I'm wondering why, maybe you know the answer
- Second: there were blogs in which were published the news about this so-called browser, and there you had really a lot of "happy" black people leaving comments saying how regular firefox is "racist" and so on, then you had a couple of white people saying "well then we're going to make a whitebird broswer" which of course created a mayhem of comments like "No u can do dat your racist!"
In other words you can have blackbird (they still have to manage to finish it, though), but you can't have whitebird because "that's racist!"
What is your opinion on this?
Why do you think afro-americans feel that regular browsers are racist? What do they miss?
And also how long this double standard is going to last? Will it come even the day when normal people will be forced to use blackbird to not being called "a racist"?
Thanks in advance for your answer, sorry for the long question
Ulli:
Dear Mr. ben Pesach,
why do black people make this "mmhmm" sound, what is the meaning of it and where do it come from?
Sincerly,
Ulli
takebackourtemple:
Do you think there are any groups that might let you speak at one of next year's tea parties?
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