“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
And the Trumpling continues . . . .
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According to Johnson (recipient of the letter–ed.), the letter was loaded with N-words and contained the threat: “We are asking nicely but one time only.”
To the Contrary 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Ronald Riggio explores the reasons why persons will vote against their own self-interest. Here’s a bit of his piece:
In the U.S. Presidential election, two other psychological processes come into play: (1) the limitations caused by a two-party system; and (2) the we-they feeling (or in-group, out-group bias).
Follow the link for the rest.
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*I must quibble with his use of “surprisingly.” The Republican Party has quite skillfully marshaled white resentment and racism since the days of Richard Nixon and his odious “southern strategy.”
Republicans listened to Lyndon Johnson, even if no one else did, and took his words to heart.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
As Washington’s KHQ station reports, the manager, Jade Cardwell, was sticking up for a black bartender against two unruly customers before the situation escalated to violence.
“Right away, when they came in, they were dropping the N word,” Cardwell said. “We have a black bar tender we just employed. We weren’t having it. We wanted them gone.”
The Trumplers left him severely injured and in need of surgery.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Ryan Bills of Las Vegas, Nevada, was charged with criminal mischief, a serious misdemeanor, Storm Lake police said. His case did not appear in Iowa’s online courts records system Tuesday afternoon.
More Trumpling at the link.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A jury of their peers . . . .
The Associated Press, via ABC News, reports that attorneys for defendants argued on Friday that it would be wrong to only pick jurors from a pool of urban residents because they could be prejudiced against the defendants for political reasons.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field reports from the field. A snippet:
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*Moore made no mention, of course, that enslaved mothers, fathers, and children were routinely separated and sold off to different buyers, nor that enslaved women were not uncommonly used as brood mares to generate more “stock” for slave traders.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The attempt to prettify slavery and romanticize slaveholders continues apace.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Balloon Juice reports on how racists have seized on the license granted by Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, fellow travelers, and, natch, the Republican Confederate Party.
We are now a pariah nation.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Brian K. Fennessy looks up the history of Confederate statues. What he finds is no surprise: they were statues to racism. Here’s the nugget:
Racist language pervades the dedication speeches. If one assumes that the speaker is excluding blacks from the term “southerners,” when its use clearly meant only white southerners, then white identity politics are present in every speech. But speakers were often more explicit. 14 speeches explicitly invoked “our Anglo-Saxon ancestors,” “love of race,” or “your own race and blood.”
Follow the link for examples.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Above the Law’s Elie Mystal reacts to reports that Attorney General Sessions wants to investigate Harvard Law’s Affirmative Action program. A snippet (emphasis added):
African-American Harvard students are fully ready to stand on our “merits.” In fact, we’ve yearned and strived to be judged on our merits our whole lives. We’re not necessarily thrilled to be judged on merits according to the white man, as strained through the racially biased lens of his standardized testing. But if that’s the unrealistic standard, we’re ready for that battle too. Harvard blacks standardize test pretty well.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
The Charlotte Observer’s editorial board notes the hypocrisy of North Carolina Republicans’ claim that undoing the effects of their racist redistricting is somehow itself racist.
“Call 911” 0
Alex Steed shares a story of privilege.
Remembrance 0
Badtux notes the intellectual acrobatics. The gist: