Apparently the internet can tell if you are black or not now....

[bsaunder]

Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership (http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/05/09/ap4992863.html)

I don't quite understand this part of the objection
"Historically, mega-corporate mergers nearly always negatively impact the black community," Gary Flowers, executive director of the Black Leadership Forum. Reducing competition on the Internet would "limit new business opportunities (http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/24/afx4930469.html?partner=lingospot) on the Internet for African Americans."

Can anyone explain to me how a merger between yahoo and google, or any other partnership between the two, would be able to specifically target and negatively impact an ethnic group? Maybe my understanding of the internet is not fully up to date, but I have yet to see a piece of software code that by it self can identify who the person is on the other end of the keyboard...

[Leon Phelps]

I want my damn reparation check :flipoff2:

Honestly, I dont get it...... borderline ignorance at work :shrug:

[Steve]

Ben, for many people it's simple:

Small business = good

Big business = evil

Doesn't matter what the business is, small is good and big is bad - period.

[oleblue]

What steve said.

Now axe me another question :D

[cheftyler]

Ben, for many people it's simple:

Small business = good

Big business = evil

Doesn't matter what the business is, small is good and big is bad - period.

And ironically...many of these people only shop at Walmart...:stirpot:

[ni0h]

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[Dagimp]

I've heard some far stretches before, but that has to be in the top 10.

When is the "race card" BS going away?

[Scott@Rockstomper]

Small business = good
Big business = evil


So... somewhere in between ( ? ) is "medium business", right? Or is it just "big business" and "small business" ? How big does a "small business" have to be, before it's big?

Do the same people rail against all "big business" (Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Safeway, Sears, Wells Fargo) equally, or do they just pick and choose their demons (Walmart) because everybody envies a success?

Smells kinda like that wingnut crying over how all the New Orleans beer looter chops all over the 'net were racist... no, dummy, they'd be just as funny if he was white, or green, or whatever... they're funny 'cause he's looting beer.

[creepycrawler]

When is the "race card" BS going away?


It never will because we are bad honkies.

[Steve]

So... somewhere in between ( ? ) is "medium business", right? Or is it just "big business" and "small business" ? How big does a "small business" have to be, before it's big?

From my exhaustive research on this subject there is no objective criterion, but if a business is big it's the devil; all others, including medium-sized businesses, are inherently wholesome and pure.

[Walking Eagle]

A small business becomes big when they make a profit.

[oleblue]

A small business becomes big when they make a profit.
So I'm big business :cool:

I made a profit of 30 percent on net income, I made $30.00 :D

I guess people can hate me now. - Naw - I did not screw anybody to get this far, so I still think i'm good :P

[bsaunder]

So I'm big business :cool:

I made a profit of 30 percent on net income, I made $30.00 :D

I guess people can hate me now. - Naw - I did not screw anybody to get this far, so I still think i'm good :P

you made 30% !!! -- we need a windfall tax!