“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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.
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump Administration wants to throw away the key.
“The Truth! They Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., is taken aback by white folks who can’t handle the truth about the Old South.
No excerpt or summary can do justice to his column. Just read it.
Mails of the Trumpling 0
Elie Mystal reads his email.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rosemary K. M. Sword and Philip Zimbardo point out that we’ve been here before. A nugget:
Follow the link for the rest of the article.
An Armed Society Is a Polite Society, Meet Tales of the Trumpling 0
Be polite to high school athletes.
Police in the eastern Arkansas city of Wynne, about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock, said the incident happened Aug. 7. Police responding to reports of “suspicious persons” found the four children on the ground, with Jerri Kelly, who is white, standing over them holding a gun, Memphis TV station WMC reported.
I remember that, when I was in high school in the still-Jim-Crow South, I and my teammates were dispatched on a similar fund raising effort, though I forget exactly what we were selling. No one pulled a gun on us, but we were not-black.
