“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Racism Goes Coronaviral 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, television newsperson Nydia Han, who is of Asian descent, makes a request:
My dad does not have coronavirus. Neither do I. So please don’t treat us like we do.
Follow the link for the rest, and feel shame that she had to say it.
The Colorbind Society 0
At the Hartford Courant, sociology professor Johnny E. Williams reminds us that “race” is a social construct fiction created to legitimize white dominance. Specifically, it was formed in the English colonies in the colonial period so as to justify chattel slavery and theft of labor.
Here’s a bit from his article:
But there is no “white race.”
Whiteness is a shared conglomeration of fabricated meanings and ideas about biologically insignificant human differences. Whiteness only exists in relation or opposition to blackness and other fictitious racial categories created by whiteness adherents for the purpose of cementing a higher status and material advantage over other people that are excluded from being white.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Tampa Bay Times asks a good question regarding Donald Trump’s latest attempt to restrict the American dream to persons whose looks he likes (follow the link for the complete letter):
The Law’s Delay 0
Nancy LeTorneau reports on the years of efforts to pass a federal anti-lynching law that preceded the recent successful passage of such legislation (which, as of this writing, has not yet been signed).
Epidemiology 0
A first-person account of the spreading epidemic–no, not the new coronavirus, but the old racism.
A Misdirection Play . . . 0
. . . of monumental proportions.
Misdirection Play, SOTU Dept. 0
At the Hartford Courant, Dahleen Glanton decodes de code.