“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Still remembering Professor Shade, I wonder whether he would find irony in the Republican Party’s transformation into the party of the Secesh.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
At the Des Moines Register, Walter Suza explores the reality and effects of racial separation in the United States, citing events from his own life as a black American, and suggest that there are none so blind as those who will not look. A nugget; follow the link for his larger argument.
Why is it that some white people deny that systemic racism exists in the United States?
Those who deny that systemic racism exists have probably lived largely in a segregated white world.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Nancy LeTourneau explores Donald Trump’s intent to deny the reality of racism as part of America’s past.
Afterthought:
It is worth remark how the “Lost Cause” keeps getting found again.
Turning Blind Eyes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, H. Colleen Sinclair explores why good people do nothing in the face of bad people doing bad things.
Please just read it, because I fear what I might say were I to write more.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Thom remarks on the similarities between stuff that appears on QAnon and Nazi (and before that Russian) antisemitic propaganda and posits that there is a direct link from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Nazism to QAnon.
Maskless Marauders 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Presumption 0
Police pummel passenger for being in a “ride share” with a broken tail light.
It is difficult for citizens to respect law enforcers when the law enforcers do not respect either citizens or the law. Just sayin’.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In The Roanoke Times, an old white man (I can identify) tells of his journey to discover the lie of the myth of the Lost Cause which he absorbed during his upbringing. It is a powerful piece; here’s a bit: