“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Lessons Unlearned 0
At The Roanoke Times, Robert Myers recounts how he came to realize the picture of the Old South fed to him in his Virginia elementary school was a somewhat sanitized view of the South and slavery a Confederate crock of lost cause myth-making (my words, not his).
Aside:
It is extremely likely that he and I had the same textbook.
(Misplet wrod correx.)
Heritage 0
At The Roanoke Times, Reggie Figard responds to those who protest the removal of Confederate monuments; he reminds them that their treasured “Southern Heritage” is not what they would claim it to be. Here’s an excerpt:
A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery 0
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III delivers a sermon for our times. H/T to my friend Andrew Jackson for the link.
If you are white like me, I especially urge you to listen to this message.
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.