“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Santayana’s famous saying has never seemed more apt: Those who do not remember the past (or, in this case, those who would pretend the past never happened) are condemned to repeat it.
The Spate of Hate 0
Senator Mazie Hirono talks with Thom. Among the topics is the rise in hate-full acts and crimes against persons of Asian descent.
(Yet Another) Wall-Eyed Piker 0
E. J. Montini writes of local Arizona officials who called out Arizona Governor Ducey for grandstanding at the southwestern border. A snippet (emphasis added):
Sheriff David Hathaway of Santa Cruz County and Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County told the governor thanks, but no thanks.
Hathaway said, “We both responded saying, ‘We don’t have a migrant crisis on the border. We do not need to militarize our counties and have troops come to the border.’”
Follow the link for the rest.
(Missplet wrod fixked.)
All the News that Fits 0
Farron looks at right-wing “news” media’s reaction to the Chauvin verdict.
Freedom Florida Style 0
Warning: Short ad at the end.
There Are Too Many Thumbs Still on the Scales of Justice 0
I have not blogged about the Chauvin trial because I have had nothing to add to what everyone else has been saying.
The whole damned thing has been blatantly obvious from the git-go. A white cop killed a black man because (he was certain) he could get away with it. (And, chillingly, said cop seemed to relish the experience.)
But methinks Tom Levenson makes a telling point about the guilty verdict over at Balloon Juice.
Driving While Black, Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud Dept. 0
In a related vein, Tony Norman reflects on the teacher and the lesson.
Cyber-Bigots Cultivate Virtual Bigotry 0
The Seattle Times takes a deep dive into the proliferation racist zoombombings and finds that they are increasingly coordinated efforts:
Follow the link for their evidence.
Driving While Black 0
Many years ago, in my incarnation as a technical trainer (training is training; the skills are the same, only the subject matter varies, though, natch, you do have to master the subject matter), I was teaching a class about how to implement a piece of security software manufactured by my employer of the time. During casual chit-chat on a break, one of the students, the owner of security business who happened to be a black man, told me a story.
He was visiting his mother, a financially well-situated woman who lived in a gated community outside a major city a little bit north of Toledo, Ohio, in the upper Midwest. He was running an errand at her request and happened to be driving her Mercedes.
The police stopped him because, for some reason, they thought he needed to prove that he belonged.
What, one wonders, might that reason might have been?
Image via Job’s Anger.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Saying the quiet stuff out loud.
The racism is appalling (but not surprising). The stupid, though, is astounding.
And, in more news of the Secesh . . . .