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“That Conversation about Race” category archive

“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Survivors of America’s World War II Japanese internment camps look at the Trump maladministration’s concentration camps detention centers and hear a rhyme.

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*Mark Twain.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses Louisiana’s decision to bring back slave labor involuntary servitude.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes details how Donald Trump is making racism great again.

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America Stasi 0

Under the rule of law, adjudicate and retaliate do not rhyme.

Under the rule of flaw, it seems that they may.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Samuel Alito rewriting the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty so that it reads,

Click for the original image.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice that todays Supreme Supremacist Court has openly exchanged its robes black robes for white (my phrasing, not his).

No summary or excerpt can do his piece justice (just like today’s Supreme Supremacist Court can’t seem to do justic–oh, never mind). Just go read it.

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American Stasi, Privatization Scam Dept. 0

Scripps News’s Patrick Terpstra follows the money. A snippet:

As the federal government sought more bed space, the private detention system grew faster, especially in the Texas desert where Scripps News discovered an unmarked plane offloading handcuffed immigrants at the El Paso airport. Some of the detainees were still wearing their work shirts.

ICE was bringing them to Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention center. An obscure company called Acquisition Logistics LLC won a $1.2 billion no-bid contract to stand up the soft-sided facilities designed to house thousands of migrants.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Voter Fraud Fraudsters Dept.
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Jamielle Boule offers the theory for Donald Trump’s fetish about voter fraud

He suggests that said fetish isn’t based on the idea that persons who can’t legally vote are voting. Rather, it’s based on the idea that persons are legally allowed to vote who shouldn’t be legally allowed to vote because votting is not a right; it’s a privilege of which those are unworthy–persons, for example, who couldn’t afford to pay poll taxes or couldn’t pass literacy tests that were rigged against them back in what Trump and the Trumpettes think of as the time when America was great.

Methinks his argument makes sense of the senseless and commend his article to your attention.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Via The Japan Times, Justin Fox debunks the racist bigots’ bunk. A snippet:

This is a persistent theme in current right-wing commentary about immigration — that recent arrivals to the U.S. aren’t working hard, aren’t following the law and generally aren’t fitting in as past generations of immigrants did. It’s also a load of hooey.

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Devolution 0

I reckon it comes as no surprise that, in these Trumpled times, hate can be a viable career path.

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American Stasi 0

David tells one family’s story.

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American Stasi 0

We are again reminded that “suffer the children” is not scripture.

Rather, it’s a Republican family value.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

An excerpt:

A society moving forward doesn’t need to erase its history. It needs to understand it . . . .

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Thom explains how the Trump maladministration and its American Stasi are routinely violating the U. S. Constitution in pursuit of their racist agenda. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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The Past as Prologue 0

Phenix S Halley steps into the Wayback Machine and offers a glimpse of the America that the Trump maladministration would make great again.

Afterthought:

It’s the America I grew up in.

I don’t want to go back.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Via SFgate, a federal judge has ruled in favor of a coalition of groups suing to stop the Trump maladministration’s attempt to erase those portions of American history that it doesn’t like. Here’s a bit from the ruling:

“Plaintiff has demonstrated a likelihood that Defendants’ efforts, ostensibly taken in the name of restoring dignity, instead seek to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen,” the court order read.

The story goes on the report that (no surprises here) the Trump maladministration is consdiering an appeal.

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Stray Thought 0

Nethinks one clear warning sign of a rule of lawless is “a secretive police.”

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American Stasi, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s “concentration camps for children.”

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Speaking of Rhymes . . . . 0

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