“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Roots 0
Solomon Jones marvels at the capacity that some have for forgetting where they came from.
(Misplet wrod correxd.)
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.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Eugene Robinson sees the past in the present. Here’s a bit from the beginning of the article; follow the link for the rest.
Twittering Twits 0
Dr. B. Joyce Stallworth remarks on the unintentional–nay, ignorant and oblivious–irony of this twit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More politeness on the byways.
“While he was sitting in the car, he looked at me and said, you n*****, ‘You probably didn’t even have insurance,’ and I said, ‘Oh be quiet,’” Muhammad said.
“Old Times There Am Not Forgotten . . . .” 0
. . . and, yes, for you young whippersnappers out there, that’s what they looked like, when they weren’t on opposite sides of the room or around a corner from each other.
Word Games 0
Bruce Lowry cuts through the double-speak. A snippet:
That’s like saying the president’s “birther” conspiracy claims toward former President Barack Obama were only “nativist,” and not intended to incite racism or stoke the race-fed rage in some “white nationalist” quarters still steaming over the election of our first black president.
Immunity Impunity
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Shorter Elie Mystal: Justice is Barred.
Republican Odyssey 0
From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Stinkin’.
Follow the link for the cartoon, stay for the post.