“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Afterthought:
I’m so old that I can remember when they actually raced in stock cars.
Tapping the Reserve 0
Thom and Professor Richard Wolff discuss how the Federal Reserve creates money with mouse clicks.
Remember, every currency is a fiat currency. Even diamonds, gold, and silver are valuable only because persons think they are valuable.
Tales of the Trumpling: the Trumpling Goes Viral 0
Trumpled in the grocery store:
The man coughed on an employee, who backed away from the encounter.
A second employee intervened, and that’s when the man said that racial minorities are to blame for the coronavirus pandemic. Both employees were minorities, one black and the other of Asian descent.
The story goes on to report that the man was arrested, detained for a short time, then released “as police prepare a case for consideration of charges,” whatever that means.
Tales of the Trumpling: the Trumpling Goes Viral 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Bonnie Tsui tells tales of Trumpling in these viral times. A snippet:
The Trumpling Goes Viral 0
This is your–our–country on Trump.
(snip)
But as a bus rolled past, the man again yelled out, this time screaming at the driver to “run them all over,” Zhu said.
He turned to her and she knew it was coming.
“Please don’t,” she said.
“Right after I said that, he spit on me,” Zhu said. “I didn’t really know what to do.”
The story goes on to describe a web site being created to track such hate-full incidents.
Words fail me.
Contagion 0
Chauncey DeVega analyzes the role of racism in the spread of coronavirus in the United States and in the federal government’s less than competent response thereunto.
No summary or excerpt will do his piece justice. Just read it.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Des Moines Register’s brilliant Rekha Basu tags the Maytag Foundation (which is no longer in any way related to the appliance manufacturer) for its financial support of an anti-immigrant spin factory.
The Bush that Is Beaten Around 0
When someone argues that Confederate Monuments symbolize history, ask him or her to clarify what precisely is the history that they symbolize.