“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Immunity Impunity, Driving while Black Dept.
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There’s a reason different states’ license plates have different color schemes.
Plus, in my experience, automobiles are generally somewhat larger than motorcycles (emphasis added).
(snip)
Police then determined they had stopped the wrong car. It had Colorado license plates but a motorcycle with the same license plate number from Montana was the vehicle that had been reported as stolen on Sunday.
More at the link.
What’s in a Name? 0
A contributor to The Roanoke Times poses the question.
Karen Karenlike 0
Robert J. Cramer, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, explores white privilege, its symptoms, and its effects. Early in the piece, he provides a definition (emphasis added):
A common misconception of whiteness or “White privilege” is that they imply White persons do not work as hard as other minority group members. This is not the scholarly definition and the misunderstanding can lead to needless intergroup tension. Rather, from a social science vantage point, whiteness or privilege does highlight how racial stigma about work ethic, safety, and other characteristics of minorities create systematic inequality.
Follow the link for his discussion of techniques used to deny or distract from the existence of white privilege and some thoughts on how to combat it.
Facebook Frolics 0
At The Seattle Times, One of organizers of the #StopHateForProfit campaign to boycott Facebook to encourage it to clean up its act writes that Mark Zuckerberg just doesn’t get it.
Our meeting made one thing clear: Zuckerberg has an extremely limited understanding of systemic racism and the ways it has infiltrated his company.
Republican Family Values, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
AZCentral’s Elvia Diaz wants to know what ICE is doing to the children.
Presidented 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear marvels at the irony that the Reagan Foundation has requested that Donald Trump no longer use Ronald Reagan’s name in fundraising. He notes that, even though Reagan knew much better than Trump how to conduct himself in public, Reagan’s policies presaged in many ways Donald Trump’s actions. Here’s one example; follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
I say “Trump’s actions,” not Trump’s policies, for, as far as I can tell, Donald Trump does nothing consistently enough to warrant the sobriquet of “policy.”
Presidented 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson argues that Donald Trump is the Bull Connor of our times.
Cognitive Flailure 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpled at the BLM protest (details and context at the link):
Aside:
. . . thus revealing the oft unspoken meaning of the “all lives matter” hockey puck.
The GOP’s One-Note Samba 0
Martin Longman speculates about the long-term results of the Republican Party’s decision to put all its eggs in one pasty-white basket. A snippet:
Of course, each act of racial polarization and every racist utterance and pronouncement only exacerbated the problem and thus served to justify the next round of outrages. Eventually, only a Donald Trump could adequately encompass and express the kind of racial fear and hatred required to keep the GOP viable.