{"id":926,"date":"2009-09-17T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2009\/09\/contrast-and-mirror\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:17:00","slug":"contrast-and-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2009\/09\/contrast-and-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrast and mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Family time.<\/p>\n

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During that time, August in Paris makes you believe that the capital is at least half black, half asian demonstrating who can go on vacation, sort of. It makes me feel bad that my white friend after four years in China seeing that too is feeling \u201cinvaded\u201d<\/em> while at the same time he loves black pussies.<\/p>\n

And then I see angry young black men<\/a> at la Def. Usual stuff for a suburb parisian like me. Never had relation with french black communities. Not nerd enough for me I guess.<\/p>\n

In L.A. it\u2019s different. Black people are quite rare where I live but they all share the streets and card boxes. A large part that I saw for now are homeless or poor with shitty jobs. Last night I paid a vegan taco to a big black man with a guitar before he did go to Mc Donalds.. \u201cBlack man.. Guitar..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

They all have this \u201csympathy by default\u201d bro\u2019<\/em> thing with me, always smiling with the classic \u201chow\u2019s it going?\u201d<\/em> coming out from their mouth shortly after. Sometimes I want to talk and share.<\/p>\n

Then of course there\u2019s Barack the Boss. Health care debate on TV. Openness.<\/p>\n

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And then I read that<\/a>, here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople of all races got sucked into subprime and adjustable-rate mortgages, but even high-income blacks were almost twice as likely to end up with subprime home-purchase loans as low-income whites \u2014 even when they qualified for prime mortgages, even when they offered down payments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Something that follow the analysis of the End of Work<\/a> which explain how technology has killed millions of jobs for minorities since half a century:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn October 1944 the first mechanical cotton picker was successfully demonstrated in the Mississippi delta.vIt could pick 1000 pounds of cotton an hour, thereby doing the work of 50 seasoned pickers. 1949 only 6 percent of the cotton in the South was harvested mechanically; by 1964 it was 78 percent. Eight years later, 100 percent of the cotton was picked by machines. <\/em><\/p>\n

More than 5 million blacks migrated north in search of work between 1940 and 1970. The fortunes of black workers in the North improved steadily until 1954 and then began a forty-year historical decline.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIn the mid-1950s, automation began taking its toll in the nation\u2019s manufacturing sector,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHardest hit were unskilled jobs in industries where black workers were concentrated. Between 1953 and 1962, 1.6 million blue-collar jobs were lost in the manufacturing sector. While the unemployment rate for black Americans had never exceeded 8.5 percent between 1947 and 1953 and the white rate of unemployment had never gone beyond 4.6 percent, by 1964, blacks were experiencing an unemployment rate of 12 percent while white unemployment was only 5.9 percent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seems like the economic race is always lost twice as much by the same people. For no reason. Just History and slow progress.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fortunate enough to be in the tiny knowledge and high profile economy,I\u2019m lucky enough but I know that without my unique experience and \u201cwhite legacy\u201d<\/em>, I would probably not be here. It hurts. It fuels me too.<\/p>\n

In the game industry where there\u2019s less than 2% of black people (yeah, less than women can you imagine?), it\u2019s just not the representation of western societies today. Didn\u2019t see a change in ten years. On the consumer side of it, I read that<\/a> and I feel sad that people just don\u2019t get the solution (Valve totally got it with L4D, Sega totally got it with Streets of Rage in 19 fucking 91) and get angry instead. And sure thing is, there is never been a time more multi-cultural than now.<\/p>\n

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These gigantic contrasts between what I live and what I see around me, what should work and doesn\u2019t make me contemplate all that shit. I\u2019m in the middle. No sides, nothing to say except that everybody\u2019s to blame. Not very useful.<\/p>\n

Also, there\u2019s the fastest man ever. Coming from the country more known for its slow tempo music and slow motion grass. You can\u2019t invent that.<\/p>\n

\"bolt\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes I want his legs. I want to run. Run away from you, society you are so slow! I want the Future Now.<\/p>\n

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