Brooklyn, I asked some serious questions that you seem to be avoiding.
I think it would be useful for you to take an honest crack at them.
I have absolutely no idea what the f****k you're driving at here but I'll give it a try.
Being of mixed ancestry my history goes back to Spain, France, West Africa, Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and no doubt, other parts of the West Indies. Most of my ancestors came in slave ships where they were forced to eat animal excrement in order to survive. I have virtually no knowledge of extended family history and have no documentation to prove any part of our history other than the fact that all four of my grandparents names are listed on the roster of people persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition as per sephardim.co website.
My maternal grandfather was in the army during WW I. An uncle KIA in the Spanish civil war. My dad was in the South Pacific during WW II. Upon returning to Brooklyn he attempted to get a job as a dock worker but was told "we don't hire Spicks". Despite being a self taught scholar, he, like my polymath godfather were restricted to menial jobs (my godfather was so stricken by his unhappy fate that he became a drunk and died on skid row). Like them, I, too, am a scholar (though some may not be inclined to agree) but have been restricted to mostly low paid jobs (true, I was an IRS agent for some years but that was a terribly underpaid job). In my work as writer, editor, researcher I have made a lot of money (for others) but not so much for myself. Am retired now but never quite achieved the American dream.
Now, can you tell me, how does this in any way offer any kind of solution to the problems we are seeing in society today? How are you now elevated? How is anyone on this forum better off for knowing any of this? How do you know that what you have just read is even remotely true? I could have made this up and you wouldn't know it or even care.
Getting personal does not solve the problems of the world or of this society. It is so much better for people to offer meaningful solutions to the problem we have in this society and the world. I continually try to do so. Examples include the idea of a one state solution in Israel, the redirection of immigrants to the suburbs where they can be better accommodated and where they would not impose any burdens upon the underprivileged in the ghettoes, my affirmation of 2d Amendment rights in the city as protection against government abuses, the end to overseas tax shelters to relieve the national debt, and a few dozen more solutions to society's problems. More often than not, whenever I offer any such solutions they are met with skepticism and downright hostilities from members of the forum right wing whether here or on LP. OK, so you or others don't like those ideas. That's your right - but offer some alternatives rather than criticizing. Jumping off onto personalities does nothing, absolutely NOTHING, to create any form of constructivism to the exchanges we have here.
So, go ahead and show me how the forum has now benefited from my story.