“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Dragnet 0
Solomon Jones recounts tales of being while black.
Suffer the Children 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the Trump administration’s institutionalization of cruelty.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At The American Scholar, Elizabeth D. Samet takes a deep look at the history and meaning of the South’s Confederate monuments and the recent raising of a monument to Ulysses S. Grant at West Point. An excerpt:
The Institutionalization of Sadism 0
That’s what happens when cruelty becomes routine . . . .
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Sam posits that American conservatism has devolved into a mix of greed and racism, then discusses how it intertwines with gunnuttery.
The History We Want vs. the History We Have 0
Sam Osherson mediates of the gap between history and reality in the tales (white) Americans tell themselves about American history. Here’s a bit:
Yet if you’ve been paying attention lately, there’s been some disturbing news. Professor Jill Lepore’s recent history of the United States, These Truths, for example, is organized around our country’s involvement with slavery from before we were even the United States, a “deep and dark” relationship, in which Jefferson, Madison, and George Washington owned slaves even while they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” and have an inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One of the byproducts of the Trumpling is that it has given bigots license to come out of the closet.