“That Conversation about Race” category archive
American Stasi 0
Retired ATF agent David Ziegler contrasts the behavior of Donald Trump’s secretive police with the standards he was expected to comply with when he was on active duty and issues a warning:
For those who believed, “It can’t happen here,” it already has.
Follow the link for his reasoing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The NAACP has suggested that black student athletes to unite against the New Secesh, refusing to attend sports powerhouses (such as UGa., Alabama, FSU, etc.) in states that are attempting to gerrymander minority voters out of existence. Rick Stron discusses this.
(In the first two minutes, you can watch the New Secesh come out from under their hoods and show themselves. It’s pretty scary.)
Republican Thought Police 0
The Constitution may protect freedom of speech, but, in Texas, freedom of speech is apparently not street-legal.
American Stasi 0
Yet another persons held in an ICE detention center concentration camp tells his story.
Just read it, and, as you do, remind yourself that this is being done in the name of liberty and justice for all..
A Self-Fulfilling Predicament 0
After I read this news item, the one thought that came to my mind was, “Why am I not surprised.”
There’s a Price Tag on Prejudice 0
Farron runs the numbers.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.
Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0
In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:
Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.
And, while we’re on the subject . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools. I know how to decode de code.
Today’s Republican Party wants to bring those days back.
Indeed, they’re not even trying to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash it any more.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
If you don’t like historical fact, well, heck, just go with historical fiction.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Speaking of normalized nastiness, Florida Man.
They’re not even bothering to don their hoods any more.
All the News that Fits 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.
Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
(snip)
So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.
The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
Presumed Guilty 0
Rick Stron discusses cases of black persons reported to police for being.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to poison our polity.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald grieves the Supreme Supremacist Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. He notes the role that events in Alabama, from Selma to church bombings to the murder of civil rights activists, had in leading to the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s, then laments:
That Alabama would erase the brave, peaceful, legacies of Lewis and Martin Luther King and so many more is not surprising. That the federal courts would ignore those moments of hard fought freedom, the acts that gave meaning to the promise of equality, is something else.
It is heartbreaking, a halt to the progress of the 20th century, a twisting of the arc of the universe away from its just destination.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via the Tampa Bay Times, Scott Maxwell identifies a sub-species of the Republican thought police, which he has dubbed “bro-flacks.” Here’s how he defines them:
Bro-flakes are convinced they’re victims. So they get enraged when anyone offers facts that contradict their narrative of self-pity. They want history books censored and all talk of racial disparity silenced — unless it’s their talk about how white guys have it rougher than anyone else.
They’re angry snowflakes … so bro-flakes.
Follow the link for examples of bro storms.