A short piece about the truth of racism in America. We all have paid a price but there are forces at work that stir up racial division; look instead  at the history of America and you realize there is something that binds us together; It belongs to us and it's the only way to end racism in America, by being Americans first.

One guys perspective on race relations, growing up poor, hating the elite attitude of artists and the new youths obsession with hate, all this and more on this episode of Speaking Out with Jim Watkins

In this debut episode of The Human Report we take a look at eight different categories of human endeavor, sixty-three different activities common to human behavior and examine the raw data, the human footprint each day and each year as it happens, in real time.

This will be a new edition to the Speaking Out Podcast, a weekly update filled with interesting information that will make you think about just how big our impact is on planet earth, and in strange way, how truly small we are in the big scheme of things. 

I hope you enjoy this report.

This a double-plus-good episode of a movie that is more relevant today than ever before.

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History doesn’t lie.

It is absolutely true that less than two-hundred years ago black people were bought and sold and it was a perfectly legal transaction. It is absolutely true that humanity is capable of doing such horrible things to his fellow human.

What also is tragic is that for thousands of years Africans sold their brother and sisters to other tribes, to the highest bidder. Human labor was a commodity.

There are a few reasons why the Black men seemed to fall victim more often to slavery than most other peoples, part of it geographical, part of it had to do with climate, but most of it was because Africa is such a large place, there were just too many settlements, tribes, cultures, languages and traditions that never coalesced into a cohesive core continental government, where a single, common language could have given the African a better way to fight off his neighbors to the north as the Dutch, Spaniards, Middle Eastern and English others came to subjugate the individual tribes while poaching laborers, setting them apart from one another.

Reflecting on my own personal experience of working with Ms. Crowley, I have a little fun taking a slight jb at her new gig in the White House, plus some parting observations.

In this edition of Speaking Out with Jim Watkins we look at the contributing factors to the demise of the Black American male in the latter half of the 20th Century. If we are having a real debate about Racism in America we need to have a discussion that includes what I call are the four or five confluences that worked against Black males in America.

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Why do we have statues and what does it mean when they start tearing them down. Let's discuss.

Who is Joe Vinas? He is the prosecutor who helped to convict George Floyd for a 2007 home invasion robbery in Houston that involved George as the chief suspect (several men were also involved). 

The case pleaded out and George would serve five years in federal prison, and the attorney joins us to discuss the case and his thoughts on the Floyd incident in Minneapolis that led to his death.