“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Great Expulsion 0
The Roanoke Times editorial board remembers.
Twits on Twitter 0
One more time, why does anyone pay attention to David Brooks?
Myth, Busted 0
At the Des Moines Register, Walter Suza explains that the Old West was nothing like what we were taught from movies and television shows and Zane Grey novels. Here’s a bit:
(snip)
The conflict between white and Native Americans was about land. Native Americans’ land.
White settlers wanted the land and would kill to obtain it, and the Native Americans were willing to die to protect their land.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One of Donald Trump’s most poisonous legacies was to give, by his example, racists permission to be racist in public in a manner not seen since the days of George Wallace and of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy.” Thom and Joe Madison discuss how to deal with this.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At NJ.com, Albert Kelly compares and contrasts.
This Too Shall Pass. Or Not. 0
In contemplating life after Trumpling, Frances Coleman is somewhat optimistic.
Martin Longman is not so sanguine.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A woman from India, now a Bollywood star, remembers the racist bullying she experienced attending high school in the United States.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Make no mistake. Trump may be gone at noon today, but the Trumpling will continue. He has given Trumplers permission to Trumple, and they will not stop easily.
As my brother said, that bunch is capable of anything.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Jamelle Bouie looks at the long history of Republican attempts to gut out the vote and at the racism that underlies them. A snippet (emphasis added):
Not that this was a shock. As an accusation, “voter fraud” has been used historically to disparage the participation of Black voters and immigrants — to cast their votes as illegitimate. And Obama came to office on the strength of historic turnout among Black Americans and other nonwhite groups. To the conservative grass roots, Obama’s very presence in the White House was, on its face, evidence that fraud had overtaken American elections.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Vanessa Williamson, Sam’s guest, historian Vannessa Williamson, discusses the ways in which white persons rhetoric and tactics in rolling back Reconstruction continues to affect our politics today.
It’s a relatively long segment, but well worth a listen. As you listen to Williamson talk about events a century and a half ago, you will find disquieting parallels with what passes for discourse today.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun has a question.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Paul Krugman marvels at the mendacity. A snippet:
For the big thing that has changed since Hofstadter wrote is that one of our major political parties has become willing to tolerate and, indeed, feed right-wing political paranoia.
This coddling of the crazies was, at first, almost entirely cynical. When the GOP began moving right in the 1970s, its true agenda was mainly economic — what its leaders wanted, above all, were business deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. But the party needed more than plutocracy to win elections, so it began courting working-class whites with what amounted to thinly disguised racist appeals.
Those “racist appeals” he mentioned weren’t even “disguised,” not even “thinly,” to the eyes of anyone who pays attention.