“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Jamelle Bouie is less than optimistic.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Des Moines Register, an immigrant from Viet Nam who came here at the age of nine muses on her American experience. Here’s a bit:
“Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . .” 0
Methinks Noz has a point.
Scars 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Cynthia Lin Sugiyama writes powerfully of her experiences with anti-Asian racism and bigotry as she grew up in the United States. Here’s how she starts her tale:
I remember the day I was targeted just because I was Asian.
I was 7, maybe 8? It was sunny. I was outdoors, happy and carefree. A group of much bigger, older Caucasian boys started walking toward me. That alone scared me. When they then proceeded to poke fun at me, saying, “Ching ching, chong chong,” laughing hysterically as they walked off, that then scarred me.
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“Turn a Blind Eye” 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu excoriates a proposed bill in the Iowa state legislature designed to protect bigots and racists from having their sensitive ‘ittle fee-fees hurt.
No excerpt or summary–just read her article.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that this symbolism was not intentional.
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves” 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Emory University Professor Falguni A. Sheth discusses the recent mass shooting of women of Asian descent and punctures the pretense that racism had nothing to do with it. A nugget:
The absurdity of these statements is insightful: It allows us to glimpse the ways in which racist violence is denied and separated from its longstanding history in the United States.
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