The irony of a “black” browser. Earlier I thought of Blackbird and when I first heard of it I felt, “Well this might be good… If it has any incentive to teach about technology to those from poorer inner-city school systems that don't prepare minorities. And if there is any incentive on it having to do with affordable tech/computing.”

When you brought up the potential for it to bury “non-black” or “not-black-friendly” content, suddenly my perspective shifted and I could see where the technology could be used to erase historical episodes that are important to view.

My grandfather was Jewish, for example. While images of the Holocaust are unsettling, it's important to remember the history so that it is not repeated. It's also important to remember those events so that the victims of those horrific and evil events in history [living and deceased] can be recognized. It's important to show the survival of cultures against ugly and evil acts that are completely retarded and insane. If content which is not politically correct and either has racist under-tones or something can be buried… Well then you have more and more stupidity come out into the open- For example, a noose being left at a campus in a provocative fashion as was described once on the national news within the last couple of years. OR you could have other racist acts afterwards like the time where a crazy guy brought in a gun to the “Schindler's List” movie and shot a woman in the back OR a time when a high-school class had laughed through “Schindler's List” offensively. Even negative stereotypes can be reinforced to draw a culture back.

Also, the thought of having a “Black” browser seems like a very subtle and “nice” way of putting going back to segregation. Maybe I'm exaggerating and this is like the hilarious monologue in “Chasing Amy” about “Star Wars” being race-war propaganda. (It is software after all- Not a public school or a restaurant or bathroom and no-one is being “forced” to use it.) In one of the last paragraphs where you discussed questions children may ask about why it is called a “black” browser and why there isn't an “asian” or “latin” browser remind me of hearing about segregation in history classes when I was little.

So, as someone white, I thought it was multi-cultural. Now that I see the browser doesn't do much except give itself an african-american theme, I suddenly feel queasy thinking of the potential it can have in cultural damage.

And that's why I look at the browser's concept as tasteless. Then again I may have read way too much science-fiction before I thought of it, but your thoughts on the potential hazardous double-standard for this browser are brilliant and make me think.

On another note, Flock makes perfect sense to use for some people. It adds value to your interactions with a lot of social services, not just bookmarks to those services. It just doesn't fit for me because of the random stuff I use