“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Glimmers 0
Dick Polman finds some straws to grasp at.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Roy B. Johnson points out that a Republican President is sowing seeds of discord again still.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Wallace’s daughter sees echoes of her father’s racist political tactics in Donald Trump’s behavior.
One Note Samba 0
Kimberley A. Johnson sums it up.
Roots 0
Solomon Jones marvels at the capacity that some have for forgetting where they came from.
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Tutorials of Toxicity 0
Will Bunch, in the course of a long column about the spread of the Trump toxin through our polity, notes a particularly distressing incident involving a young girl in the audience behind Donald Trump at last week’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina. He suggests that Trump’s rallies are training seminars for hate and the hate-full:
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts.
Unconscious and Biased 0
At The Charlotte Observer, Aleta Payne compiles a list of occasion on which white persons treated her in a certain way simply because she is not-white. Here are a couple of examples; follow the link for the litany.
All the times the “inoffensiveness” of the Confederate flag has been explained to me as if I’d just been missing the nuance.
The time a coach gave my son, the only African American on the tennis team, a towel embroidered with the nickname “Cocoa Puff,” and I had to explain why that was a problem.
