You'd think there would be a way to make a buck off this trend. I've often thought if I'd paid more attention to this type of trend since back in the early '80s I'd have millions more in my portfolio.

Follow the money. As in keep a close eye on the members of the "Black Congressional Caucus" and what minority small companies they get chummy with. Buy long when a connection develops and sell short as soon as the con-gress critter bails or the enterprise becomes yesterday's news. The same applies to small green companies.

I've spent a lot of my investment time looking for and researching good companies, but now in the winter of my lifetime I realize all I really had to do was closely follow the politicians and speculate the hell out them. Alas, I don't do the market anymore so I don't care anymore, but for a younger person this strategy is probably worth pursuing.

So much for the assimilating into society theory ... how many different “divisions” will it take before the tribes declare war on each other.

Think there would be profit in the New Jim Crow Doll?

Can you say, "New Jim Crow"?