“That Conversation about Race” category archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes the disparate treatment. A snippet:
The black guy fails to wear a lapel pin and endures months of questions about whether he belongs. The white guy canoodles with Russia, insults the intelligence community, undermines the judiciary and makes a Gold Star widow cry, dismissing her husband’s sacrifice as, apparently, just one of those things.
Do please follow the link.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Hate-full mail. Follow the link for the complete article.
She noticed a piece of mail with “Proud American” scrawled above her address. Her family has an American flag hanging outside, she said, so Dunphy, home alone and curious, ripped open the envelope.
“As soon as I opened the envelope, my jaw hit the ground,” said Terri Kiral-Kuenzer, 56, of Pennsburg, who also received a flier. “Who could have done this?”
Inside the hand-addressed envelopes were fliers that contained racist, white supremacist, and anti-Semitic messages, drawings, and quotes from Adolf Hitler.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Elie Mystal takes a stroller through the dysfunction that is contemporary American air travel.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the increase of racial incidents in schools in the Philadelphia metropolitan area since November of last year. A snippet:
“Things like that give the white nationalists a green light,” Simmons said.
Nancy Baron-Baer, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it’s hard to know whether the recent outbreak of racist incidents in area schools represents an actual uptick.
“It may be that people who are taunting, people who are performing hate crimes seemingly have become emboldened over the last 12 to 15 months,” said Baron-Baer. “It may be those that are the victims or opposed to that behavior feel that they must speak out.”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A Halloween Trumpling.
The demonstration, which included marching around the school twice, was a display of unity from the student body, a protest of administrative inaction, and a call for change, student leaders said.
I’ve Been Published . . . 0
. . . at my local rag.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling high school football.
“Our cheerleaders and members of our band were insulted, using racial terms– the most divisive racial terms you can use,” Dr. Wagner Marseille said.
Quakertown Superintendent Dr. William Harner is ironically- a Cheltenham grad. He says a dozen middle school students were interviewed and two 8th graders were found to have engaged in the rock throwing and racial slurs.
Via Raw Story.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Paul Krugman discusses how the legacy of slavery still taints the United States, using the Virginia gubernatorial race as a springboard. A snippet (emphasis added):
Aside:
As a Virginian who is subjected to Gillespie’s campaign commercials, I can attest that they are truly vile and duplicitous.
Hate in the Mainstream 0
Ashley C. Rondini suggests that the right-wing makes up dangers to use the resultant fear as vector to spread their politics of hate. Here’s a bit.
These ideas should sound familiar for another reason: They now echo from our nation’s highest office as rhetorical strategies President Trump repeatedly returns to, bearing a familiar narrative structure.
Follow the link for the whole thing; it’s worth the three minutes of your time that you will need to read it.
A. Victimization 0
Q. What’s in a name?
The emails were identical except that half appeared to come from a DeShawn Jackson or a Tyrone Washington, names that have been shown to be associated with African-Americans. The other half used names that have been shown to be associated with whites: Greg Walsh and Jake Mueller. The email sent to each local officeholder was determined by chance.
Most inquiries yielded a timely and polite response. But emails with black-sounding names were 13 percent more likely to go unanswered than those with white-sounding names. This difference, which appeared in all regions of the country, was large enough that it was statistically unlikely to have been a matter of mere chance.
Much, much more at the link. Do please read the whole thing.
Responsible Fiscals 0
Republican “fiscal responsibility” is a con for the rubes. Indeed, Republicans are quite happy to waste public money so as to con the rubes.
Race at the Bottom 0
In a nation which was founded on theft of labor, that is, chattel slavery, and which invented racism to justify that theft of labor, it should not surprise that almost every issue ultimately winds its way back to racism and bigotry.