“That Conversation about Race” category archive
“Alligator Alcatraz” 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes notes the Florida’s Governor DeSantis isn’t interested with draining any swamps. Rather, he wants to fill one–the Everglades–with immigrants imprisoned for being, well, immigrants.
Aside:
Sounds awfully like a concentration camp to me.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Chris Williams parses the three planks of the platform of today’s Republican Party.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Grung_e_Gene minces no words as to what he sees as the goal of today’s Republican Party. Here’s a bit from his article:
The Hostile Takeover 0
Gene Collier looks at the Trump maladministration’s attempt to stage a military invasion of Los Angeles and is not sanguine. A snippet:
“GOP Jesus” 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers explains the RRV–the Republican Revised Version–of the Bible.
Republican Thought Police 0
- A diller, a dollar,
No funding for scholars.
The Pettiest Officers 0
Andreas Kluth examines the maliciousness of what he calls “the petty purges of Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio” and concluces that
Follow the link for his path to that conclusion.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seth notes that Donald Trump’s pogrom against immigrants appears to be less popular than he might have expected.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes about Arizona’ state Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne, who’s position on a history book that contains actual history can be summarized as “I haven’t read the book, and you shouldn’t either.”
I commend her article to your attention.
Aside:
As one who trained as an historian, I find today’s Republican Party’s efforts to claim that history wasn’t to be particularly offensive. And stupid. And insidiously, invidiously harmful to the polity.
Masked Marauders 0
Thom argues that Trump has given a green light to racists to act like racists.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Lawrence O’Donnell minces no words in commenting on Donald Trump’s restoring the names of military bases so as to honor the Secesh.
Via C&L, which has the transcript.