“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Discovery 0
Thom and Joe Madison discuss Donald Trump’s “discovery” of Juneteenth, the Tulsa riots, and related issues.
Afterthought:
It occurs to me that much of what is commonly referred to as “white fragility” results from white folks’ reluctance/refusal/unwillingness to face up to what their ancestors and fellow white folks and even they themselves have done to the various “others” in our society.
So they pretend it never happened or if it happened didn’t/doesn’t matter or happened so long ago that it doesn’t matter any more, even as it continues to happen every day.
“Systemic” Explored 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research has posted an article discussing an upcoming paper that explores the elements of racism in American society. The post starts out by pointing out that racism in much more than liking or disliking persons because of the color of their skins. Here’s a bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
“The New South” 0
When I was in grad school for history, I wanted to concentrate on the ante bellum South.
I had several reasons for this, including an interest in the causes of the Civil War; the disconnect between history that happened and the “Virginia Cavalier” mythology I was taught in my all-white Jim Crow elementary school; a Virginia heritage that dates to the 1600s; and an ancestry that includes slaveholders, Confederate officers, and proponents of slavery.
In our first meeting, my faculty advisor, whose interest was “the New South,” asked me why I was interested in a society that was–I can still see him say it–“gone with the wind”
But, as we see every day, it was not gone with the wind.
It has not even gone.
And, ironically, that novel to which said adviser so sarcastically alluded was without question one of the most poisonous and effective works of political and social propaganda ever propagated.
All Tuckered Out 0
David looks at the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and explains how, despite the plaints of the Trumpettes, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Misdirection Play, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Claire Jack suggests that many tactics we see in our political you-can-hardly-call-it discourse are “emotional and manipulative tactics” that amount to gaslighting on a societal level. An excerpt, referring to the current reaction to the police murder of George Floyd (emphasis; follow the link for the rest.
By the way, the last sentence above captures succinctly why those monuments were erected in the first place.
“Those Who Forget Ignore the Past . . . .”
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In The Roanoke Times, a veteran teacher speaks out about (white) America’s collective decision to stop teaching about America’s dirty linen. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
“The Talk” 0
At the Inky, Sozi Pedro Tulante describes, first, receiving as a child the talk that children white-like-me never have to receive, and, then,having to give as a parent the talk that parents white-like-me never have to give.
