“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has come up with a new right. Here’s the title of his article:
Follow the link for the article itself.
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Thom argues that the New Secesh are coming out in the open. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
Richard Nixon welcomed segregationists into the Republican Party.
Now they have taken it over.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In Republican world, if you don’t talk about history, it therefore isn’t.
This is the same sort of reasoning that white Southerners used to turn the Civil War, started by seceding states sseking to secure slavery, into the Lost Cause(TM), the notion that the poor persecuted little seceded states were simply struggling to protect their Southern Way of Life(TM).
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*Mark Twain.
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At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains why the Supreme Supremacist Court is relying on its “Shadow Docket” to roll back civil rights, resuscitate Jim Crow, and take the nation back to the 1950s {if not the 1850s, which, methinks, is where they truly want to be):
It relieves the burden of having to slap lipstick on this pig.
Follow the link for context.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom reports on ICE agents who are confessing to investigative journalists under promise of anonymity that, under the Trump maladministration, it’s all about the color of the skin.
American Stasi 0
NJ.com reports on a nurse who gpt ICEd was treated roughly because she was trying to, well, be a nurse:
Bowe said that’s when an officer grabbed the back of her shirt and threw her onto the sidewalk.
More mean for the sake of mean at the link.
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UNC law professor Gene Nickol tells NC Republicans that, try as they might,
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Afterthought:
I think “racist agenda” would have been a more appropriate phrasing, but that’s just me.
American Stasi 0
As far as I can tell, this is little more than KKK v. 2.0.
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.
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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 . . . .