“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The First “Cleveland Indian” 0
The Bangor Daily News tells the story of the first Native American major league baseball player, a member of Maine’s Penobscot Nation. It is not pretty.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
That legacy of racist language and iconography lived on after Sockalexis, and in 1915 the team that was known as the Cleveland Spiders became the Cleveland Indians — a name that the team and its fans claim was chosen to honor Sockalexis and Native people in general, but in reality had a far more complicated, racist origin.
Know Them by the Company They Keep That Keeps Them
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Farron wonders why that, even if Kelly Loeffler does not know neo-Nazi Chester Doles (and Farron concedes that she likely does not), Chester Doles is a Loeffler fan-boy.
What Did I Say? 0
The Party of the New Secesh fails yet again. The Supreme Court has refused to do them a favor though.
Parallels 0
Will Bunch joins Sam and his crew to discuss the similarities between Frank Rizzo and Donald Trump. (My two or three regular readers will know that I link to Bunch’s articles fairly regularly.)
Read the Will Bunch’s article about Rizzo and Trump.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
WVEC, my local ABC-affiliated television station, has an excellent article about the raising of Confederate monuments across the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The writer does an excellent job of placing those memorials to treason in context; if you don’t understand what the statues and the movement to remove them (is that a removement?) is about, I urge you to give it a read
It includes this prophetic quotation from John Mitchell, who edited a black newspaper in Richmond, Va., during that time period:
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A PTA Trumpling, that is, parents Trumpling academicians.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Afterthought:
For a humane take on this “nation of immigrants,” see the marvelous article by the Des Moines Register’s Reka Basu. Here’s a bit:
What’s in a Word? 0
The Angry Gammarian decodes de code.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Anquan Boldin and Takeo Spikes, retired NFL players, decode the dog whistle.
Rand Gestures 0
One might perhaps call this a paranoia of delusions.