“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron points out how thoroughly Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Leonard Pitts, Jr., Channels The Who . . . 0
. . . and tells America to look in the mirror.
It’s the Racism 0
(Noz asked a question.)
Job Opening 0
(I’m certain there will be no lack of applicants eager to fill that seat.)
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Arizona Congressperson Debbie Lesko takes a discriminating view. Here’s a snippet from the article by the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts:
Just don’t put those “very good workers” in line to be vaccinated against a potentially fatal virus that has disproportionately attacked Latinos and other minority populations.
Aside:
Looking at this and the previous post, one is tempted to conclude that cruelty and callousness are Republican Family Values.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu comments on Iowa legistors’ attempts to keep information from the New York Times’ 1619 Project out of public schools. She finds that effort particularly disheartening because the project was led by a black woman from Iowa.
A snippet:
One more time, heaven forbid that American students learn what life was really like in ye olde South.
Parler Talk 0
A New Jersey school board member didn’t know that insults could be, well, insulting.
Underpinnings 0
American history and race (and racism) are intimately intertwined.
In a fascinating article at The American Scholar, Nancy Isenberg explores what she calls the “problem of whiteness” in American history and culture. She traces the historical roots and variations and permutations of the meaning of “white” and “whiteness” from the Colonial era forward. In doing so, she helps illuminate events and attitudes that shape American society today.
Her piece is beyond summary, but here’s an excerpt which will give you a hint of some of the contradictions and hypocrisies that she tracks; follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Heaven forbid that students should ever be taught the truth about ye olde south.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Aside:
I flew into Charlotte once many years ago (it was so long ago that you could check one bag at no charge). The wait to get my checked luggage was longer than the flight from Philadelphia.