“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tale of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
He takes the snap, drops back, and Trumples the football!
Aside:
That he thought it was a private message means only that he knows how to behave in public.
Facebook Frolics 0
Yet more racist frolics.
I majored in history (U. S. Southern, but my college did not recognize concentrations). I unlearned these myths a long time ago. I should be taken aback that persons still believe them, but I’m not.
I learned a long time ago that racism trumps (accurate verb, that) truth.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time: It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy. For example:
“I am your mommy, papi,” she says in Spanish.
He squirms to get away.
“What is wrong with my son?” she sobs in a heartbreaking video shared by the American Civil Liberties Union.
He doesn’t recognize her. They’ve been separated for more than three months. That’s a lifetime at 3.
Follow the link for more.
“Still in Slave Patrol Mode” 0
From the web page:
Dr. Crystal Fleming has some ideas on how we can be less stupid on race, namely to stop thinking about them as simply individual acts but as part of larger systems of power. Dr. Fleming and Thom Hartmann bring up the recent Serena Williams scandal to document how discussing issues as acts of individual prejudice instead of as acts of power limit our understanding and ability to fight racism.
The Con of “Colorblindness” 0
Thom explores how “colorblindness” is a cover for racism.
Blatherskate 2
In case you wonder what lies white Southerners tell to convince themselves and others that the Civil War was not about slavery and theft of labor based on race, you need look no further than this heaping mound of propaganda which for some fool reason a reputable newspaper has published.
How do I know that this is Southern propaganda?
Because it’s the sort of stuff I heard over and over when I was a young white Southerner growing up under Jim Crow. Most Southerners don’t want to admit, even to themselves, that their ancestors fought to preserve chattel slavery, even though every state that seceded cited preservation of slavery in its secession documents.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron and Chauncey Devega discuss the overt racism of Donald Trump, his supporters, and his enablers.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses how racism and racist violence have ramped up in the last few years and suggests that the unifying force on the far right is hatred.
The Dog Whistler 0
Tony Norman names the tune that Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is whistling. A snippet:
Mr. DeSantis is a case in point. His use of the racist dog whistle was so obvious when leveled at his black opponent that even Fox News was compelled to rebuke it as “inappropriate” a few hours later.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Tampa Bay Times columnist Bill Maxwell goes on a road trip and finds himself reliving his youth.
Facebook Frolics 0
Excuse me, would you like a cup of Facebookly-brewed tea?
Aside:
We are having municipal elections this year, and the news coverage is rather lacking. My local rag is a shadow of its former self (like many local rags), and I refuse to waste my time with TV what-passes-for-news.
A friend sent a notice of a local candidates forum (the best way to get to know the candidates in my city), so I attended and left with some disorganized first impressions and a list of candidates.
Then I went looking for information on the candidates. Some of them had campaign websites–rudimentary, but still websites. For many of them, though, all I could find was Facebook pages for their campaigns and sometimes not even that–just Facebook pages–forcing me to visit Facebook and soil my browser cache with the Zuckerborg’s tracking cookies (which I promptly deleted as soon as I was done).
It was most frustrating.