“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Aghast and Furryous, Reprise 0
Kyle Whitmire looks at Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s bizarre claim that airliners are crewed by furries, then proceeds to decode de code (emphasis in the original):
Tommy Tuberville’s political pitch to Alabama has been as simple as it is old.
I hate all the same people you do.
Follow the link for his evidence.
American Stasi 0
Your tax dollars at work. From The Guardian:
Needless to say, the U. S. citizen in question was not white.
American Stasi 0
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump maladministration needs to improve the conditions in its concentration camps detention centers. Here’s a bit from the news report:
“Make no mistake, decisions about immigration and related enforcement policies are largely committed to the political branches of our government – Congress and the Executive, not the courts. But there are limits. The Constitution demands humane treatment of everyone in government custody. It requires that they receive due process of law. And it limits the Executive to enforcing the laws that Congress has enacted rather than doing whatever it wishes,” Kaplan wrote.
Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0
As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”
American Stasa 0
If the American Stasi weren’t wearing uniforms issued by the Trump maladministration, they’d be wearing their traditional garb–hoods and sheets.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Yet more evidence that Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party is the party of the New Secesh.
Republican Thought Police 0
Apparently this Republican believes that teachers must be spied upon so as to ensure that do not waver from his party’s line,
Aside:
As far as I can tell, “woke” is Republican newspeak for “not racist and not bigoted.”
American Stasi 0
AL.com’s John Archibald tells another family’s story. An excerpt:
Leaving those grandchildren, scarred by heartache, to wonder again what would become of them, and the people they love.
Again we are reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Stray Thought 0
One of the distressing things about dis coarse discourse is that one our political parties, even members of it that have sworn an oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution, seems to have forsaken loyalty to the country for loyalty to the Clown Prince of Hot Air.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A New and Improved Poem.
In Fact, the Greatest Poes of All Time.
As Revised by President DJT et. al.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breather free,
And I will deport them to some place where they don’t even speak the language becauase that are not white like me.
Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . . 0
This court claims it never heard of no “general welfare.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
University of Dayton professor Art Jipson looks at the right-wing’s response to the Trump maladministration’s farcical indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to fight against prejudice, bigotry, and racism and argues that
Follow the link, where he decodes de code.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration plays a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for an American Stasi.
The Rule of Lawless 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration has decided that, if they can’t get judges to agree with their actions, they needn’t try to change the law. Instead, they can just change the judges.
American Stasi 0
Via The Charlotte Observer, Amelia Robinson tells the story of a legal Haitian immigrant driven to suicide. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Language.