“That Conversation about Race” category archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Sam posits that American conservatism has devolved into a mix of greed and racism, then discusses how it intertwines with gunnuttery.
The History We Want vs. the History We Have 0
Sam Osherson mediates of the gap between history and reality in the tales (white) Americans tell themselves about American history. Here’s a bit:
Yet if you’ve been paying attention lately, there’s been some disturbing news. Professor Jill Lepore’s recent history of the United States, These Truths, for example, is organized around our country’s involvement with slavery from before we were even the United States, a “deep and dark” relationship, in which Jefferson, Madison, and George Washington owned slaves even while they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” and have an inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One of the byproducts of the Trumpling is that it has given bigots license to come out of the closet.
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump Administration wants to throw away the key.
“The Truth! They Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., is taken aback by white folks who can’t handle the truth about the Old South.
No excerpt or summary can do justice to his column. Just read it.
Mails of the Trumpling 0
Elie Mystal reads his email.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rosemary K. M. Sword and Philip Zimbardo point out that we’ve been here before. A nugget:
Follow the link for the rest of the article.
An Armed Society Is a Polite Society, Meet Tales of the Trumpling 0
Be polite to high school athletes.
Police in the eastern Arkansas city of Wynne, about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock, said the incident happened Aug. 7. Police responding to reports of “suspicious persons” found the four children on the ground, with Jerri Kelly, who is white, standing over them holding a gun, Memphis TV station WMC reported.
I remember that, when I was in high school in the still-Jim-Crow South, I and my teammates were dispatched on a similar fund raising effort, though I forget exactly what we were selling. No one pulled a gun on us, but we were not-black.
