“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling sportsmanship.
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The incident allegedly occurred May 1 when the Sterling and Haddon Heights girls’ track teams competed at Haddonfield in a tri-meet. A member of the Haddonfield boys’ lacrosse team allegedly told a ninth-grade competitor to “get off the track” and called the girl the N-word, according to the complaint.
I’m certain that the complaint will be found valid, because, honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The racism. The presumption of guilt. The privilege of whiteness.
Words fail me.
(Well, actually, they don’t fail me. I just know when to stop.)
Via Raw Story.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Rael discusses the theatrical you will pardon the expression white-washing of the Old South.
Snowflakes 0
(If the embed doesn’t work, click here. And, no, I don’t know what the problem is. The code looks fine.)
And this surprises you how?
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
In the Charlotte Observer, James E. Ford cuts through the rationalizations crap about charter schools.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A Trumpled work-out:
Rachid Maiga, 27, and Tshyrad Oates, 25, told WNBC-TV in New York they were playing basketball for a few minutes at the LA Fitness club in Secaucus on April 15 when an employee asked them to leave.
Gruesome and familiar details at the link.
Here’s the thumbnail: Of course, the police were called and of course there is a video and of course the video went viral and of course LA Fitness apologized after that happened and of course the victims think the apology is about as sincere as a Trump promise . . . .
White Coffee 0
Lee interviews an eyewitness to the racist arrest in the Philadelphia Starbucks. Listen.
Words fail me.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Now it’s “partisan” to condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.
As I said a few days ago, they aren’t even trying to pretend any more.
White Coffee (Updated) 0
The Des Moines Register’s Daniel Finney tells a story. Here’s how it starts:
He wore a gray hoodie, baggy pants, a ball cap pulled down to cover his eyes and about five days’ worth of growth on his face.
He picked up two newspapers — retail value: about $5 — and sat down at a table. He purchased no food.
A Starbucks employee cleaning countertops and taking out the trash said, “Hello.”
The man nodded but did not speak.
He proceeded to read the newspapers he had not paid for.
Follow the link to see how it ends.
Addendum, Later that Same Afternoon:
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stephen Greenspan offers some thoughts.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The play’s the thing with which to Trumple–the cast?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom stops a caller who tries to make excuses for American chattel slavery, then the bondage of usury.