You’re attributing to me (1) something I neither stated nor implied about (2) a phenomenon I do not think important.

It’s such an amazing coincidence that anytime you find billions of dollars being shuttled about greedy, disingenuous grifters show up. Maybe the federal government can fund a study to determine if there are any causal variables to this phenomenon? Or someone can found a think tank to study it?

Actually, BLM do seem, in addition to their many other talents, to be shake-down artists of the most sublime order. They may call themselves “Marxists” but they are, in fact, Capitalists extraordinaire:
https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1283886317366018049

In fact, it’s as though the Cosa Nostra was their headiest inspiration, their most admired—even beloved—teacher.
(Sentiments and gratitude aside, they should still probably stay out of Italian neighborhoods, which is something I’m certain they’re prudent enough to realize.)

Once again you seem to state a contrarian opinion simply to be contrarian. I have no idea what your parents or grandparents were like, nor have I claimed to. If you are going to claim that Rochester on the Jack Benny Show is the equivalent of Dr. Cliff Huxtable, or Archie Bunker is no different than Marcus Welby, M.D. I’m not sure what more I can write to change your mind.

I independently developed the same theory. Evolution likely tilted towards hyperfocus on external traits and characteristics.

I can find very little about her from before she complete her Ph.D.
She was 48 when she was granted her PhD. (On “multicultural education.” Snort.)

The average time to complete a PhD in the humanities is about ten years. So what was she doing before she was 38?

Where did she get her undergraduate degree? In what? What did she do in those twenty years between graduation from high school and possibly starting her doctoral program?

She claims to have grown up “poor, white” but there’d not much info beyond that.

He made a great presentation about the distinction between formal and informal language and how it collapsed during/after the 60s. I was on the side of that collapse, but now I wish it were otherwise.

Actually, I’m not sure about that because formal language was so often such a crock. Maybe I’m wishing people were more honest and human.

Fat chance!

*You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

–Donald Rumsfeld
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McWhorter’s “Story of Human Language” from The Great Courses is quite good.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/story-of-human-language.html