“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Status Anxiety 0
Atrios has a theory.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Robert Boyd explains Jim Crow 2.0.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Solomon Jones finds it–let’s see–willfully blind that in the face of a lifetime of Donald Trump’s racist behavior some persons are only just now discovering Donald Trump’s racism. He suggests that those who do not speak out against the Trumpling are ipso facto complicit in it. A snippet:
In truth, Trump’s racism is profoundly American, because America is a racist country.
Racism built America’s wealth through brutal African enslavement. Racism supported the subjugation of black sharecroppers after the Civil War. Racism drove home the Jim Crow laws designed to create a permanent black underclass. Racism was enforced through state-sanctioned violence carried out by lynch mobs and police.
That is the true history of race in America, and in some ways, not much has changed. If we are ready to face that truth as a country united for justice, we can move forward. But if America continues to paint racism as a figment of black peoples’ fertile imaginations, our country will never change.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Shaun Mullen explores how the Trumpling has routinized racism (once again, as it was routine before).
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Just can’t stand the uppity.
Michael Tippins accused the attendant of ogling his girlfriend, Lexie Muffett, as they paid for their items Tuesday night at a Rome gas station, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling basketball in Cincinnati.
Some of the players identified themselves with phony names such as “Knee Grow” and “Coon,” which opponents believed were intended as racial slurs.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Here’s a tale of a Trumpled school. An excerpt (emphasis added):
The first time she encountered it was in early September as she walked home alone from school. She said a truck filled with white classmates, mostly boys, drove by.
“I was just minding my business and then a car with a group of white kids sticks out their heads and calls me the N-word with a hard ‘r,’ zooms away, and I’m just there like, ‘Well what do I do?’ ” she said.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
Base Desires 0
Dick Polman suggests that the news media’s fascination with Donald Trump’s base is old news. A snippet:
You know what? Enough already with these people. They’re not newsworthy anymore.
They’re the impenetrable hard core. They’re not going to change, no matter how much damage Trump does. Last week, after I listed a mere 40 of Trump’s most blatant bald-faced lies, I was emailed by a Trump fan who acknowledged none of them. Doris, who lives in central Pennsylvania, instead told me this (I’ve preserved her spellings): “Your column degraded our president who wants only to make America a great country for all that live here. I hope in the future you right a piece about all his accomplishments as he swims upstream in the ocean of democrates that seeks only to bring him down. He wants to make America GREAT and strong to be the backbone of democracy around the globe to promote peace, as I believe he will accomplish better than any president we ever had.”
Wait a sec … Trump, the devotee of dictators, is “the backbone of democracy around the globe”? Nothing penetrates the fan base.
Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the mainstream press: Dial it down with the Trumpkins. They are just 35 percent of Americans.
I suspect that part of the media’s fascination with Trump’s base is an inability or unwillingness to understand what activates them (I’m betting on “unwillingness” here).
What activates the Trump base is racism. There are, natch, other stones in the arch of Trumpery, but racism is the keystone.
The corporate media, which wants the Trump base to read its columns and watch its television networks, doesn’t say that out loud because it might offend 35% of its viewers, readers, and masters.
The Lies People Tell Themselves 0
Another Southern myth, busted.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Breakfast with a side of bigot:
A Texas waitress said some customers left a racist symbol behind when they left their table.
Tenasha Ballard said she had been serving four high school students recently at an IHOP in Sherman, and they asked for a takeaway coffee cup, reported KXII-TV.
When she returned with the cup, Ballard found the teens had cut some leftover pancakes into the letters “KKK” and fled.
More Trumpling at the link.
No Place To Hide 0
Thom discusses our culture of institutionalized spying and the loss of privacy.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Tony Norman suggests that refusal of “Judge” Roy Moore to concede defeat in the Alabama Senatorial race is a fitting analogy to the Southern myth of the “Lost Cause.” A snippet:
With the passage of time and enough lies, even allegations that he tried to initiate romances with children will be brushed off by sympathetic historians as scurrilous propaganda the same way the atrocities of the antebellum aristocracy are considered lies spread by liberal historians. They’ll say he took countless lie detector tests and passed.
One more time, when next you hear someone bemoan the “Lost Cause,” ask him or her to explain precisely just what was the cause that was lost.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 2
Elie Mystal gets to the nub of the Republican gut-out-the-vote movement:
Of course, up here in “evidence based” land, the black vote is the result of the Republican party’s ongoing strategy of ignoring black people and, latterly, being expressly racist towards black people in hopes of energizing racist white voters.
Much more at the link.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Our Trumpled youth speak out.
“Black people are trash; they need to die,” she said.
The racist, hate-filled rant has gone viral on social media, of two Pleasant Grove High students — one is seen in the background laughing at her friend’s racist remarks.
The girl in the video went on to say: “When the police were killing all those black people I was so happy.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles Finn eviscerates the rationalizations of the secesh and their sycophants in a searing screed.