Looking back at AD 2019:
Turning 50: Sesame Street, Apollo 11, Woodstock and the Internet.
Turning 400: Black America. It has now been 400 years since the first recorded arrival of Black people on the mainland of English-speaking North America.
Blackface: Both the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, and the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, were caught in blackface scandals but remain in office. Blackface is still totally a thing at the Bolshoi and other ballet companies. So much so that the Bolshoi feels no need to apologize.
Reparations for Black slavery in the US is now enough of a thing that Democrats running for president are asked about it. And enough for ADOS to be a word.
The word “racism”: Thanks to the vileness of President Trump, the White Liberal press in the US is beginning to use “racist” to describe a person’s words and actions, not just the (unknowable) contents of their heart.
Terrorism: White nationalists carried out massacres in Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, Texas. Muslim terrorists in Sri Lanka killed hundreds of Christians and others on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.
Concentration camps are making a comeback in the US, China, and India.
The Mueller Report showed that Russia tried to swing the US election in 2016 in Trump’s favour, but could not prove that Trump himself conspired with Russia – presumably because of his obstruction of justice.
Impeachment: Trump was later impeached for trying to get Ukraine, a foreign power, to help him win the 2020 election. Half the US thinks he should be removed from office. Trump will go on trial in the Senate – where bootlicking Republicans have most of the votes.
Britain: Boris Johnson became prime minister of Britain and went on to win a historic landslide on the promise of “Get Brexit Done”.
(Leah Millis/Reuters)
Hong Kong has seen its biggest pro-democracy protests since becoming part of communist China, with over a million having taken to the streets.
Brazil on fire.
On fire: forests in Australia, California, Brazil, and the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
The Doomsday Clock: still two minutes to midnight.
Global temperature average: 14.63°C in April (NOAA), the second hottest on record. The average for the 1900s was 13.7.
Word of the Year: climate emergency (Oxford).
Time’s Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg, queen of green, a Swedish high school student and climate shamer.
(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation)
Coon of the Year: Jay-Z, beating out Oprah (“Leaving Neverland”), Judge Tammy Kemp, and Candace Owens.
Top US R&B song: “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas ft. Billy Ray Cyrus.
Top Hollywood film: “Avengers: Endgame”.
World map:
De facto borders, May 14th 2019. Click to enlarge. [x]
the most beautiful woman:
Bella Hadid
well-dressed man (same as last year):
car:
Audi RS Q3 Sportback (2020)
computer:
Dell OptiPlex Dual Core. RAM: 4 GB. OS: Windows 10.
president:
US President Donald Trump
In memoriam: Carol Channing, James Ingram, Karl Lagerfeld, Dick Dale, Nipsey Hussle, John Singleton, Doris Day, I.M. Pei, Franco Zeffirelli, João Gilberto, Johnny Clegg, Toni Morrison, Valerie Harper (Rhoda), Eddie Money, Jessye Norman, Diahann Carroll, D.C. Fontana (Star Trek writer), Carroll Spinney (Big Bird), Joshua Brown, Atatiana Jefferson, Willie McCoy, Brandon Webber.
Good riddance: Jeffrey Epstein, David Koch.
– Abagond, 2020.
See also:
- AD
- Nobel Prize winners for 2019
- Books I read in 2019
- US White nationalism
- White Liberals
- coon
- Leaving Neverland
- Hong Kong
- reparations
- global warming
- Boris Johnson
- Greta Thunberg
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Abagond 
Pure hell.
4G of RAM? I think my phone has that much. I’d say i5, 8G, windows 7. Windows 10? Maybe, many companies upgraded this year, as 7 is EOL.
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Dang, Abagond, You took me out with coon of the year next to Oprah. Yeah, Jay-Z is a sellout along with Kanye West, Steve Harvey, and the two clowns Diamond & Silk, Candace Owens and Ben Carson.
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