“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Well, this one’s not a snapshot. It’s a video, with commentary by David.
Base Desires, Cruel Delight Dept., Reprise 0
Charles Blow recognizes a common undercurrent in the Trumpling. A snippet:
Stop thinking that this is only about partisanship or polarization. It’s the cruelty, Stupid. It has always been about cruelty: racial cruelty, gender cruelty, religious cruelty. It has always been about bending the rest of America, the rest of reality, really, into subordination to the white supremacist patriarchy.
Do please read the rest. He makes a persuasive case.
Flagging Interests 0
Farron comments on the flap about Nike’s “Betsy Ross” flag shoes. (Yes, I know he said “Betty” instead of “Betsy.”)
Aside:
One of my pet peeves is persons who violate the U. S. Flag Code, particularly persons who wear U. S. flag-like clothing. You do not honor the flag by wrapping your greasy hair in a red, white, and blue bandanna, for Pete’s sake.
Stray Thought, Biden and Busing Dept. 0
(Slightly edited for precision.)
It’s all about the bus route, folks.
When I was going to high school, I was bused right past one high school (the black high school) to one three miles farther away (the white high school), because of my race.
And at the time everyone old white men thought that was just okay.
I like Joe and I voted for him when I lived in Delaware, but on this issue he was flat-out wrong.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Aside:
The notion that someone walking about hospital grounds with his doctor’s permission with an IV stand and an active IV inserted into his body is attempting to “steal medical equipment” is prima facie farcical.
“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten” 0
Elie Mystal channels William Faulkner, explaining for Joe Biden’s benefit* how “the past is not even past.”
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*No, Joe won’t benefit, but the rest of us might.
Moore of the Same 0
Dana Hall McCain, writing at AL.com, considers Roy Moore’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for an Alabama Senate seat and concludes that his underlying campaign strategy is that hate sells.
Suffer the Children 0
In case you haven’t noticed, that’s now a Republican Family Value.
We have gone from the American Ideal to become the American Ordeal.
The Entitlement Society 0
Thomas Chatterton Williams points out that not being hate-full is not a high hurdle to surmount.
Poolside Particulars 0
Mark Anthony Neal reflects on the pool of racism as reflected in one public pool’s banning of clothing and hairstyles favored by not-white persons. A snippet (emphasis added):
There Is No Right To Be Rude 0
LawProfBlawg finds that he must explain the obvious.