“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Parallels 0
Will Bunch joins Sam and his crew to discuss the similarities between Frank Rizzo and Donald Trump. (My two or three regular readers will know that I link to Bunch’s articles fairly regularly.)
Read the Will Bunch’s article about Rizzo and Trump.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
WVEC, my local ABC-affiliated television station, has an excellent article about the raising of Confederate monuments across the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The writer does an excellent job of placing those memorials to treason in context; if you don’t understand what the statues and the movement to remove them (is that a removement?) is about, I urge you to give it a read
It includes this prophetic quotation from John Mitchell, who edited a black newspaper in Richmond, Va., during that time period:
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A PTA Trumpling, that is, parents Trumpling academicians.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Afterthought:
For a humane take on this “nation of immigrants,” see the marvelous article by the Des Moines Register’s Reka Basu. Here’s a bit:
What’s in a Word? 0
The Angry Gammarian decodes de code.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Anquan Boldin and Takeo Spikes, retired NFL players, decode the dog whistle.
Rand Gestures 0
One might perhaps call this a paranoia of delusions.
Behind That Curtain* 0
David talks with Talia Lavin about her experiences in infiltrating white supremacist groups.
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*With apologies to Earl Derr Biggers.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Afterthought:
You know, the harsh truth is that persons who don’t think like that, well, they won’t talk like that.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Tony Norman marvels at the dissonance.
What was that war in the heart of Europe all about if the enemy they fought and defeated has somehow captured the hearts and minds of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren nearly eight decades later?