“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Independence Day 0
When I was in elementary school studying Virginia history (mumble) years agom in third grade, 1619 was taught as the “Red Letter Year” because of three events:
- The arrival of the first English women to the Virginia colony.
- The first sitting of the House of Burgesses, the Virginia colony’s legislature.
- The first arrival of Africans to be sold as slaves (at a spot not far from where I type this).
The legacy of the last item on that list continues to exact its toll, as the stain of America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to pollute our polity.
One of my local broadcast stations has compiled a report which I think is worthy of attention, for it addresses events that many want to pretend didn’t happen.
You can ignore history or you can lie about it–many do every day–but you can’t make it unhappen, you can’t make it go away.
American Stasi 0
Starting with a video of an American WWII veteran, who says that he fought against concentration camps 80 years ago only to see them being established now in his own country, Rick Strom reviews a litany of abuses by the Trump maladministration’s hooded KKK secretive police.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As my old professor of the early fedeeral period was fond of pointing out, “History is irony.”
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . meet a notion of immigrants.
Republican Thought Police 0
North Carolina legislators just pushed through anti-DEI legislation over the governor’s veto. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Executive Director of Intergovernmental Relations Charles Jeter describes it as a “solution in search of a problem” and fears those problems. A snippet (emphasis added):
That gray area, he said, may hamstring educators or school districts.
“They give definitions, but the definitions in and of themselves are interpretable by different people,” Jeter told the Observer. “That’s the concern: it’s the unintended consequences.”
“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.
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes details how Donald Trump is making racism great again.
America Stasi 0
Under the rule of law, adjudicate and retaliate do not rhyme.
Under the rule of flaw, it seems that they may.
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.
American Stasi, Privatization Scam Dept. 0
Scripps News’s Patrick Terpstra follows the money. A snippet:
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.
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.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Via The Japan Times, Justin Fox debunks the racist bigots’ bunk. A snippet:
Devolution 0
I reckon it comes as no surprise that, in these Trumpled times, hate can be a viable career path.
American Stasi 0
David tells one family’s story.