“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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.
The Meme Chance 0
Tony Norman comments on the recent spate of videos of white persons calling the cops on not-white persons who are minding their own business. He starts with the recent incident in which, even as the phone call is placed, you can hear the white guy’s little boy pleading with him not to do it. A snippet:
Like “Permit Patty” and “BBQ Becky,” two fellow Bay Area would-be-snitchers that preceded him in media infamy by having their calls to the cops filmed by the indignant subjects of their call, Mr. Cukor operated in a sphere of privilege so elevated that he never considered the possibility that he would have to pay a steep price for being wrong, even after Wesly Michel promised him that he would be “the next” viral video sensation.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Well, this one’s not a snapshot. It’s a video, with commentary by David.
Base Desires, Cruel Delight Dept., Reprise 0
Charles Blow recognizes a common undercurrent in the Trumpling. A snippet:
Stop thinking that this is only about partisanship or polarization. It’s the cruelty, Stupid. It has always been about cruelty: racial cruelty, gender cruelty, religious cruelty. It has always been about bending the rest of America, the rest of reality, really, into subordination to the white supremacist patriarchy.
Do please read the rest. He makes a persuasive case.
Flagging Interests 0
Farron comments on the flap about Nike’s “Betsy Ross” flag shoes. (Yes, I know he said “Betty” instead of “Betsy.”)
Aside:
One of my pet peeves is persons who violate the U. S. Flag Code, particularly persons who wear U. S. flag-like clothing. You do not honor the flag by wrapping your greasy hair in a red, white, and blue bandanna, for Pete’s sake.