“That Conversation about Race” category archive
“Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . .” 0
Methinks Noz has a point.
Scars 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Cynthia Lin Sugiyama writes powerfully of her experiences with anti-Asian racism and bigotry as she grew up in the United States. Here’s how she starts her tale:
I remember the day I was targeted just because I was Asian.
I was 7, maybe 8? It was sunny. I was outdoors, happy and carefree. A group of much bigger, older Caucasian boys started walking toward me. That alone scared me. When they then proceeded to poke fun at me, saying, “Ching ching, chong chong,” laughing hysterically as they walked off, that then scarred me.
Follow the link for the rest.
“Turn a Blind Eye” 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu excoriates a proposed bill in the Iowa state legislature designed to protect bigots and racists from having their sensitive ‘ittle fee-fees hurt.
No excerpt or summary–just read her article.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that this symbolism was not intentional.
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves” 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Emory University Professor Falguni A. Sheth discusses the recent mass shooting of women of Asian descent and punctures the pretense that racism had nothing to do with it. A nugget:
The absurdity of these statements is insightful: It allows us to glimpse the ways in which racist violence is denied and separated from its longstanding history in the United States.
Follow the link for the rest.
Tales of the Trumpling, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
The Rude One explains how and why the situation at the southwestern border is a direct result of the incompetence and venality of the previous federal executive. (Warning: Language.)
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
In a larger piece discussing what is wrong with press coverage of the immigrant situation at the southwestern border, Will Bunch provides a partial answer to one of the questions I raised earlier today:
Here’s another bit of Bunch’s article (linked above), regarding what is wrong with the coverage of the current situation; I commend the rest to your attention.
The border situation is neither the first crisis facing the new administration nor close to the biggest — not with a pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 Americans and the related economic crisis leaving 10 million out of work — but it is the nation’s most visible problem that can be so easily demagogued by Republicans looking to score cheap political points against a popular president, or get lapped up by Beltway journalists eager to go back to the brunch of lazy punditry.
Aside:
It is worth remembering that much of the chaos in those countries is the direct result of Ronald Reagan’s policies.