“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David Atkins looks behind Donald Trump’s “nationalism” and sees America’s original sin. An excerpt:
“An Armed Society” Meets “Tales of the Trumpling” 0
Politeness in the time of Trump:
WSB reports that Banks was Facetiming with his girlfriend when he knocked on the wrong door.
He then walked away and was confronted by 32-year-old Darryl Bynes out on the balcony.
Police said not long after, he shot the teen.
“I heard him say, ‘Sorry, I’m at the wrong house.’ Then the man said, ‘No you’re not. N****, you at the right house.’ And he shot two more times,” Banks’ girlfriend told WSB in an interview.
WSB reports that Bynes initially claimed he shot Banks in self-defense, but officers said he shot the teen from his balcony as Banks was coming down the stairs and trying to get away.
Facebook Frolics 0
HUD has filed a lawsuit accusing Facebook of facilitating housing discrimination through the tools it gives to advertisers. Here’s a bit from the report:
HUD also alleges Facebook allowed advertisers certain tools on their advertising platform that could exclude people who were classified as “non-American-born,” “non-Christian” or “interested in Hispanic culture,” among other things. It also said advertisers could exclude people based on ZIP code, essentially “drawing a red line around those neighborhoods on a map.”
The story goes on to report that Facebook is claiming that it has been working in good faith with HUD to deal with these issues.
Disaster Belief 0
David wonders whether Donald Trump fully comprehends that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
Sins of Omission Omission of Sins
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Bob Gibson suggests that Virginia should teach all of its history.
Afterthought:
When I was a young ‘un in public school in Virginia, 1619 was taught as the “Red Letter Year.”
Just sayin’.
Missing the Message 0
Jamelle Bouie visits the Oklahoma City National Memorial, which commemorates the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and suggests that it ignores context.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Schoolyard Trumpling.
(snip)
The post threatened an ethnic cleansing in the form of a school shooting and told white students at CHS to stay home. The person who posted the threat claimed to be a Charlottesville student.
The message boards 4chan and 8chan have been frequented by white supremacists. The sites were banned in New Zealand in the wake of last week’s mosque shootings for hosting video of the massacre.
“A Globalized Ideology of Hate” 0
Thom interviews New York Times reporter Wajahat Ali about the roots of the Christchurch massacre.
Read Ali’s New York Times article.
Great Expectations 0
David wonders what right-wing extremists expect to gain from Donald Trump’s presidency.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The story mentions that what triggered the tirade was still not clear, but, frankly, that’s irrelevant.
Even had the man run into her grocery cart head-of-lettuce on, such language, not to mention the spitting, would have been unwarranted and, without question, constitutes a Grade-A case of Trumpling.
A There, There 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Naomi Ellemers considers why persons find it so difficult to recognize discrimination when it is present. Her article focuses on academia, but can easily be generalize to the larger society.
Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
All the News that Fits 0
Mike marvels at how persons can debase themselves by working for Fox News (warning: profanity):