“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Zero-Sum Thinking
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A recent study lampoons the reasoning behind (some) white persons’ claims of “reverse discrimination.” In short, “reverse discrimination” is a figment of (some) white imaginations.
The Rule of Lawless . . . 0
. . . meets a notion of immigrants.
The Entitlement Society 0
Nancy LeTourneau argues that a fear losing their entitled status as white persons in a white (supremacist, dominated, led–you choose the word) country is at the heart of Donald Trump’s support. A snippet:
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Statues of Limitations 0
In The American Scholar, Robin Kirk, who served on a committee about Confederate monuments for the city of Durham, North Carolina, considers the import and future of those monuments to treason. Here’s a tiny little bit, in which he discusses the toppling of the statue that led to that committee (emphasis added):
I commend the article to your attention. It’s a long read, but a worth-while one.
Disparate Treatment 0
And this surprises you how?