“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Guilty Until Proven Innocent 0
Using the killing in Brunswick, Georgia, of Ahmaud Arbery as a starting point, Jennifer Rae Taylor and Kayla Vinson explore the history of lynching in America. An excerpt:
“[The South’s] police system,” scholar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, “was arranged to deal with Blacks alone, and tacitly assumed that every white man was ipso facto a member of that police.”
Even after death, Arbery was denied the status of victim, and his killers were shielded from being treated as suspects. As during the lynching era, the mere claim that the dead black man deserved what he got was enough to satisfy the authorities and absolve the undisputed killers. In hundreds of the lynchings EJI (the Equal Justice Institute–ed.) has documented, the victims’ names are not known because newspaper reports did not bother to investigate even that deeply.
I commend the full article to your attention.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch wonders why right-wingers are waging war against the New York Times’s 1619 project.
Afterthought:
Me, I’m torn. I can’t decide between whether they (the right-wingers) can’t handle the truth or they don’t want anyone else to handle the truth. Or maybe it’s some of both all mixed up together in a steaming pot of denial.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
An invasive forest of Nathan Bedford Saplings runs amok.
Co-opting Covidiocy 0
Snopes has an article exploring why far-right groups, like the Proud Boys, are embracing the “reopen the economy” protests. An excerpt:
Once they’re standing side by side at a protest, members of far-right hate groups begin to share their ideas. That lures some people deeper into online groups and forums where they can be radicalized against immigrants, Jews or other stereotypical scapegoats.
Facebook Frolics, Twits on Twitter, Idiots on Instagram, Yahoos on Youtube 0
You can’t make this stuff up, but they can. And do.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Yet another schoolyard Trumpling.
They managed to get themselves expelled from school, even though it’s not in session in these viral times.