"Our product is used, on occasion, to kill people."
Palantir CEO Alex Karp
Palantir Technologies, a data-mining company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence, military agencies and police departments, has filed to go public. cbsnews.com/news/palantir-…
"...the LA police department in 2007 used foundation funding to purchase surveillance software from...Palantir. Buying...with private foundation funding...allowed the department to bypass requirements to hold public meetings & gain city council approval." theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
Is it hyperbole to suggest that many of the people that will be targeted by this company will be black men?
"...the LA police department in 2007 used foundation funding to purchase surveillance software from...Palantir." @NAACPLegal
“In Mr. Trump we encounter a politician who uses social media to bypass the realm of ideas entirely, addressing the sentiments of his followers without a filter of educated argument.” #MAGA
"And perhaps the principal reason for doubting Mr. Trump’s conservative credentials is that being a creation of social media, he has lost the sense that there is a civilization out there that stands above his deals and his tweets in a posture of disinterested judgment."
"The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara and in Burkina Faso. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000."
The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.
Dogon country is one of Mali's major tourist attractions.
The Dogon astronomical beliefs
"Starting with the French anthropologist Marcel Griaule, several authors have claimed that Dogon traditional religion incorporates ....
A Radical Republican who fought White Supremacy; Sen. Charles Sumner was beaten for protecting black people on the Senate floor.
"Our people have come to this (Civil War) on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it." Laurence Keitt
“Voodoo is a religion that originates in Africa. In the Americas and the Caribbean, it is thought to be a combination of various African, Catholic and Native American traditions.”
An 1864 case that ended with the execution of eight Haitians for child murder and cannibalism has helped define attitudes toward the nation and the religion ever since
The slave ships during the XVII and XVIII century transported millions of colored people from Africa to America carried within it the seed of a religious cult that would help the slaves in the Confederacy for their freedom.