“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling the students:
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The email was opened by two of the six intended recipients, MLive reported, who then alerted school authorities. The other four emails were deleted from the students’ inboxes before they could be opened.
“U need ta [sic] get your n**ger loving as* out of here and all this black lives matter bullsh*t,” the email read. The sender went on use the slur multiple times when writing that African Americans should “leave this country.”
“One day your kids will get what they deserve being on this land,” the email continued. “White lives matter….go Trump!!!!”
“Look Away, Look Away, Look Away” 0
Shorter Tony Norman: It’s an ugly society that dares not look in the mirror.
Republican Core Values 0
Atrios sums them up.
The Devolution 0
Thom discusses how the Republican Party has gone from “conservatives” to “racist authoritarian corporate toadies.” An excerpt:
Dwight Eisenhower . . . when conservative meant conservative, not billionaire bought and owned . . . .
Pigeons in the Holes 0
In a long and thoughtful post, Professor Rupert Nacoste considers the interplay between law and culture and, in particular, the poisonous side-effects of pigeon-holing people by race and heritage. Here’s an anecdote from his piece; follow the link for the rest.
“Hi my name is J-M and I want to be a psychologist like my mom and that means I need to be in middle school and high school here…”
After a long pause, Ms. L replied, “Where did you move from Miss M?” (She mispronounced my name). So I replied, “Its M and Tampa, but before that I lived in 29 Palms, California and before that was Virginia, and I was actually born in North Carolina but I don’t remember it.”
“Well you’ve certainly moved around a lot”, she said, “You have such beautiful olive skin, where is your family from?”
“Up-state New York!” I replied without hesitation.
“I mean what are you? Mexican? Indian?… your ethnicity? Your last name is different from normal…” She trailed off.
I could feel my face turning red and I stuttered that I was…”
Remember, this is an interaction between a teacher and a seventh-grade student; an adult and a thirteen-year-old. Indeed, when it comes to the possibility of being taken over by neo-diversity anxiety “who are the ‘we’ and who are the ‘they’”, there are no innocent.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling the basketball game.
Elder High School students chanted the name of a Chinese restaurant chain at an Asian-American player, along with homophobic slurs, and singled out a black player for racist abuse, reported WLWT-TV.
The chants reached a peak in the third quarter, when Friday’s game between Elder and St. Xavier High School was finally called off.
More Trumpling at the link.
“Judged, Not by the Color of Their Skin . . . .” 0
Maria Panaritis tells a tale of profiling. A snippet (emphasis added):
Guests of a neighbor had seen a black man pull into his own house in an affluent enclave and assumed he was a burglar.
Follow the link for details.
Decoding De Code 0
Sam and his guest discuss how racism is much more present in American society than most persons think.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Oh, my.
Tuimauga reportedly said, “This is what happens when you bring black people around here” and continued to beat Horne as the Lyft driver went to park two houses away and call 911. The driver claimed he saw the victim try to get up and walk, but fall to the ground again. Tuimauga allegedly took the bat and returned to the house.
Medics took Horne to Harborview Medical Center, where doctors removed parts of his cranium to relieve the pressure of his swelling brain, according to the incident report.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
You know that the Trumpling’s got to be bad if the Trumpler got banned from Uber.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
For the Trumplers, it’s all about the color of the skin, not about the content of the character.
One dark-skinned Arizonian who was asked if he was in the country “illegally” was Rep. Eric Descheenie (D-Chinle).
Rep. Descheenie is a Navajo lawmaker.
Jim Crow 2.0 0
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal argues convincingly and disturbingly that the Republican Party is working to re-establish American apartheid. The most disturbing part of his argument is the “convincingly” bit.\
Here’s an excerpt:
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We have a word for what Republicans are trying to do: apartheid. That’s what we call it when a racially homogeneous population tries to rule a larger population through rules and laws that prevent the larger population from exercising political power. With this Census trick, Republicans are trying to make it so that many brown people are not even counted.
Do please read the rest.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A trumpled school:
Often, when Caldwell raised her hand in class to speak, the boy would say that black people are dumb, referring to her with the N-word, the complaint charges. He also used sexually derogatory language, said Makayla Madkins’s sister Chardonnay Madkins, a 2010 graduate of the IB program.
No Surprises 0
The Sunday New York Times Magazine had (yet another) article attempting to understand Donald Trump’s base. It revealed a predictable stew of willful ignorance, fabulism, racism, and selfishness, with a side of Fox News.
I would not recommend wasting your time with it; there is nothing new to see.
Instead, read Chauncey Devega’s recent article, in which he gets right to the base of the Republican debase. Here’s a bit:
However, there is one group of people who are honest about Donald Trump. White supremacists know that Donald Trump is one of their tribe. The Daily Stormer, the white supremacist website founded by neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, described Trump’s comments last week as “encouraging and refreshing,” because they suggest that “Trump is more or less on the same page as us with regards to race and immigration.”
Carded 0
Alfed Doblin comments on the Republican Party’s reaction to Senator Cory Booker’s criticism of the (likely feigned) amnesia of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. You will recall that, in the manner of Jeff Sessions, she had an attack of “I can’t recall” while testifying before a Senate Committee.
As background, the Republican Party sent a mailer criticizing Booker for, for lack of a better word, being uppity.
Silence is not acceptable when racism rears its ugly head. It was not acceptable when Trump promoted the “birther movement” against Obama, and in light of that, it is impossible to dismiss what Trump allegedly said as “tough language.” Racism is linear. It moves chronologically from slavery to Jim Crow to saying that there are some good people on both sides of a violent, white supremacist rally.
Some Republicans want to play the “sexism” card, but it’s the “race” card that is on the table.
(Link fixed.)
Status Anxiety, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Steve Taylor takes issue with evolutionary psychologists who suggest “racism is prevalent because it was beneficial for early human beings to deprive other groups of resources.” Looking at the behavior of hunter-gatherer communities that still exist in isolated areas, such as the upper reaches of the Amazon River, he finds little evidence to support that reasoning.
He offers an alternative view. Here’s a snippet:
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpled Minnesota:
“WHITE PRIDE” screamed the headline in capital letters on fliers distributed in the Range communities. “You can say it — I’m proud to be white! Why are we not allowed to celebrate our culture?”
The fliers were part of a recruiting effort by a North Carolina-based group calling itself the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Hundreds were distributed in the city of Virginia, as well as the nearby towns of Buhl and Embarrass.