Comments on: BlackBird: the Black focused Browser Speaks

By: Blackbird Opens Walled Garden and Releases Mac Version | Black Web 2.0

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:01:37 +0000

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By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:29:00 +0000

Markus have you ever been to a primarily black school? Have you ever actually been to a place like Compton or Oakland and really gotten involved with the people who influence what’s cool in the black culture? There is nothing there but chaos and stupidity, Markus. I grew up there and I taught at a school there. It is seriously, no exaggeration, like walking into a fucking monkey house every day. Black kids literally do not give a shit about their education, and black parents who don’t believe that are living in a fucking dreamworld. The main problem is they all seem to think something is owed to them, when in reality nobody owes them a goddamn dime. Respectable people apply for welfare and things like that only in their darkest hour, after all other resources are exhausted. But a lot of black people seem to think that the government has specifically targeted them and that they -deserve- to be paid for sitting on their asses all day.

What say you friend?

By: Blackbird: I was not waiting for this moment to arise — CECILY.info

Blackbird: I was not waiting for this moment to arise — CECILY.info — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:39:06 +0000

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By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:00:07 +0000

This is a patch only to compensate for racism or other daily challenges to the minority. There needs to be more integration of black (and other) culture among everyone. Ideas like this only strengthen segregation. The general public is often viewed as white people, so a WhiteFox would be immediately viewed as racist. I lived in a town of 500,000, 90% Hispanic. The general public is not white. What about an AsianFox? We need to stop fueling segregation… work on the source of the problem by, for instance, asking Google to allow customization of searches for any ethnicity, age, and gender.

By: originaldna

originaldna — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:33:04 +0000

This for James, it’s not a THEORY Africans are the mother and father of all humans, as for the China thing.
Their DNA is the closest to Africans .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/183392.stm

95% of the human DNA dwells in Africa.

By: Cpl Carter USMC

Cpl Carter USMC — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:23:01 +0000

@Big Al

“First off who said it was for blacks only? CPL Carter as soon as I read your first sentence I knew you were going to be way out in left field!!!!”

Download Blackbird

* CONNECT to African American Internet News, TV, Sports, websites, and all that’s most popular in your community
* EMPOWER your Internet to find what you want when you want it
* ENTERTAIN yourself with entertainment content from the African American community
-taken directly from http://blackbirdhome.com/

Excuse me Big Al, here is something else from blackbirdhome.com-

After more than six months of development, 40A, Inc. has completed the development of the Blackbird internet browser, a software application designed for the African American community by the African American community. The Company has also today announced a grassroots marketing program to promote the Blackbird Browser — making available banners and buttons for use on websites to promote downloads of the Blackbird Browser. The Blackbird download graphics can be obtained from the Company’s website under the tab, “Spread the Word.”

With statements like these, I can see how Caucasians, Asians, Native Americans and Hispanics are encouraged to download and use this browser. If you would like I am sure I can find more statements like the following on the home page:

BlackBird is the web browser for the AFRICAN-AMERICAN community.

And in response to your question, yes I have downloaded, installed and used the browser. And guess what, it uses Google Search. I tried the “Black Search” and yes I found news reports from BlackPressUSA and blackvoices.com and blackamericaweb.com. Guess what else, those same stories can be found on any other news site.

And to your disdain at the inclusion of my race, I was merely trying to show that even though I am white and from the South, most of my closest friends are not. My personal opinion of the BlackBird web browser, that is clearly targeted at African Americans(so says the very homepage where said browser may be downloaded), is no different than FireFox or IE. It still uses a Google Search. When someone is on FireFox there is no option for “White Search” and I feel there should not be. You clearly do not wish to discuss this topic in a rational and reasonable manner so it is here that I say good day.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:08:55 +0000

Thank you tiffany, that’s one of the best comments on here. You gave hard facts about it’s features and it’s usefullness,it’s pros and cons. Not just talking about it randomly. Kudos!!!

By: tiffany

tiffany — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:02:45 +0000

@lynne, a browser is a tool.how much sense does an african-american hammer or an african american television set make? i think that’s why the idea of a black browser rankles so many. a portal is a community centered on interest in a particular topic or way of life. a browser is … that piece of software i use to get on the internet.

but i’ll go at your point from a different direction. n00bs aren’t quite the audience for this browser either. after all, it requires the user to (1) fire up a browser, (2) go to blackbirdhome.com, (3) download the software, and (4) install it. if you know how to do steps 1-4, you probably know how to use google or yahoo or rushmoredrive.com to find what you want. and if you don’t, wouldn’t it be just as easy to learn how to use Firefox or Internet Explorer?

let’s be real: the browser UI itself is not n00b-friendly. it’s a hot a** mess. there’s poor contrast. there’s ugly iconography and typography. it’s cluttered. it’s inconsistent. and it behaves like shady software by featuring ads, by looking bad, by not being clear about its licensing, and by making itself the user’s default browser without asking. it fails all the way around.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:00:54 +0000

I’ve been gone for a minute,I come back and I’m still amazed at the OVERBLOWN thought process!! Look,I get most of the opinions ,but what are we really talking about here? Belch speak?( Doesn’t the name say it all?)WTF!!?! are you talkin about man! And puertoricanwhitey,see what happens when you began to think? Strained race relations is all you could come up with? What about the fact that Blackbird choose one of the MOST downloadable open-source web browsers ever to piggyback off of,and the best some of ya’ll can come up with is “a blacks only web browser”. First off who said it was for blacks only? CPL Carter as soon as I read your first sentence I knew you were going to be way out in left field!!!! Who wanted to know that you were white? TMI homie. Has anybody even downloaded Blackbird yet? Or are we going to criticize from afar? Tgrundy is one of the few that has even used it. I guess I’ll be looking at tgrundy’s outlook on Blackbird, and give one myself in a few days.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:04:59 +0000

@rasheen & everybody else…

Your comment about BlackBird filtering content from the perspective of Blackness, as well as, your comment on trust is…just bad.

First you don’t know every person that writes all of the information or content you consume on a daily basis. Or the people that directly or indirectly impact your personal well-being. Its impossible. Second, trust is implied in alomost everything you do. You trust banks, your boss, food producers, medicine makers, your doctor, traffic light builders. You trust a whole bunch of people that can do harm to you, but a bunch of guys that are TRYING to enrich your internet experience, you don’t know and don’t trust.

People we have to do better by each other. If not, 8 years will pass and nothing will have CHANGED.

MINI RANT: By the way, I’m going to join my homeboy. I don’t want to be Black anymore. If your actions and thoughts posted on this blog help to define Black Thought, Black Unity, & Black Loyalty…you all can have it. You all depress me.