Friday, December 19, 2008

"Blackbird" Browser by Mozilla

Mozilla has helped develop a new browser codenamed "Blackbird" and a beta version has been released online. I have not posted a link for this browser because all in all, I disagree completely with its whole premise.

The concept of this browser is "A browser for the African-American Public."
No one else. Just African Americans. This means that in all its entirety, there is nothing on this browser of interest to anyone who isn't black. All of the bookmarks, the quicklinks, the search engine, and even the color scheme is Black-oriented.

I am appalled, utterly disgusted, and outraged by this. How dare a company (owned and operated by African-Americans) allow their premiere product to be so racist, and anti-caucasian and not even realize it?

What if a company that was made up of all-white people decided to release a browser called "Whiteboard" and it was "Only for Anglo-Saxon / Caucasian People"???

Would that be acceptable? Would it be right?  I highly doubt the majority of the public would openly accept such a concept, so why is it ok to do the Blackbird browser???

Racism comes from many angles. This one is sharp.

-Toast. 

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