“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Confluence 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Glenn Gerber takes a look at the recent shootings in Georgia and argues that attempts to find a single reason for them are wrong-headed and futile. He suggests that several factors contributed to them:
- America’s Gun Problem
- Systemic Racism
- Systemic Sexism (and possibly–ed.)
- Mental Health Issues
Follow the link for his detailed exploration of each one.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
The slaveholders lost the war, but won the peace, and they are determined not to let go.
The Price of Denying the Past 0
Tony Norman does the math.
The Anachronism 0
I find Prince Harry and Meghan Markel’s stories of how they were treated credible. After all, it was English settlers who fostered America’s original sin of chattel slavery and created the myth of white racial superiority so as to ease their consciences (and line their wallets).
What most strikes me, though, is the downright petty nastiness of the treatment they received. Even bigots are capable of being polite.
I’m a Southern Boy. I have known in my lifetime many bigots who are capable of politeness. It doesn’t make them any less bigoted, but at least they were able to dress up their bigotry in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
Also, I don’t get Americans’ fascination with the British royal family. Nor that of PBS viewers with soap operas set in Edwardian England. Grump, grump, grump.
Why I Put Quotes around “Social” in “Social” Media 0
Because far too often, it’s anti-social.
Susan Cousins describes a recent experience on Twitter:
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
A Day in the Life 0
At the Hartford Courant, an American child of Indian immigrants to the United States describes the casual stereotypes and bigotry (some would call them “microaggressions,” but they are still aggessions) that she encounters every day.
If it doesn’t tear your heart out, it’s because you don’t have one.