Yep, we’re moving toward racial unity, all right

From the website of Blackbird:

INTRODUCING BLACKBIRD

Blackbird is the web browser for the African American community. Blackbird was developed by a team of African Americans to allow you to connect to what’s going on in the African American community.

To paraphrase a quaint motto used in restaurants decades ago, “Our food has not been touched by human hands” (meaning that the kitchen staff all wore gloves), we could say of Blackbird that this web browser has not been touched by Caucasian hands.

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Mark Jaws writes:

We ought to be encouraging blacks to have their own little search engine which will allow them to dwell in their alternate closed universe in which their forefathers were the originators of math and science, the designers of pyramids, the Jews of the ancient world and the builders of our Western civilization. After all, if they can separate themselves with their own media, then obviously more of us white nationalists will feel equally motivated to follow.

I am intrigued by this Blackbird and I wonder what would happen if I were to download it to my computer and enter in the search box “Hero of American Revolution.” No doubt the Blackbird search engines would return Cyprus Attucks and make no mention of George Washington, Ethan Allen or any other Dead White European Male. Likely if I were to “black google” for hate crimes, I would receive only those deeds perpetuated by whites against blacks. The more alienated and marginalized American blacks, the better for us people of pallor.

LA replies:

It’s a free browser, you can try it and see.

James R. writes:

At a website where Blackbird was being discussed, this comment was posted:

“Posted by Bill G @ 2:40 PM Thu, Dec 11, 2008 Does it have a Frequently Axed Questions page?”

Dimitri K. writes:

For a programmer this sounds a complete nonsence: browser to connect to African community. Any browser can connect to any site. So, its probably some way to whitewash money. And I bet, it will not work.

MP writes:

The Blackbird browser is based on Mozilla, a free, open-source framework for developing web applications (open-source means that the source code is free to anyone who wants to study it or use it for their own projects). It provides the core functionality of several browsers, with Firefox being the most popular. All this means is that the “blackness” of Blackbird is limited to its interface and web presets, with the underlying code being purely race-neutral. At least, it’s not “black.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 11, 2008 02:47 PM | Send