“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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:
(snip)
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.
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.