“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
At the Guardian, Steven W Thrasher explains that it’s all about the racism. A snippet:
Read the whole thing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that Robert E. Lee, who knew when a cause was lost, would resent being a rallying point for the New Secesh.
The Tiki torch ceremony, which Charlottesville’s Democratic mayor, Mike Signer, likened to KKK tactics “designed to instill fear” in minorities, was staged by a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the Charlottesville City Council recently voted to remove. More than a hundred demonstrators chanted “You will not replace us,” “Blood and soil” and “Russia is our friend.”
Via Raw Story, which reports that there are racist twits on twitter.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
That the police are far more likely to arrest Not White than white persons on drug charges, even though the rate of drug use is pretty much the same amongst the various populations, is extensively documented.
Consequently, if you don’t realize that this is all about locking up as many Not White persons as possible, then you haven’t been paying attention.
The Comeyuppance 0
In yesterday’s performance of the frog and the scorpion, who knew that James Comey would end up playing the frog?
Certainly not James Comey, for he thought that he had served his masters well.
I am no fan of James Comey, as he grossly violated the public trust and may have swung the election. Nevertheless, I am confident that whomever The Donald selects to replace him will make him look like Prunella Purity.
And, make no mistake, it’s the racism that has brought us here. I’m not going to link it up now because it’s late as I write this, but a look at my posts in this category will enable you to catch my meaning, to get my drift.
Immunity Impunity
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Leonard Pitts, Jr., remarks on the deployment of yet another Get Out of Jail Free card, this time via passivity.
Pennant Racism 0
Even if you do not follow baseball, you may have heard about the incident in Boston in which a small number of Red Sox fans hurled racial epithets and peanuts at the Baltimore Orioles’s Adam Jones. Ultimately, 34 fans were ejected and one has been banned from Fenway Park.
Alfred Doblin considers the incident’s implications. Here’s a bit of his considering.
Still Rising Again After All These Years 0
Daniel Ruth marvels at the antics of a Florida Republican who is determined to block a memorial to persons held in chattel bondage. A snippet:
Instead Baxley, R-“I Love the Smell of Juleps in the Morning,” said he would prefer a memorial that celebrates people in a more uplifting manner. And since he chairs the Government Oversight and Accountability Committee, where the slavery memorial bill landed, the measure wasn’t even scheduled for a hearing.
. . . because if you don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen, right?
Brain Drain 0
Words fail me.
Robin Attas, an assistant professor of music at the school near Burlington, says her husband, Nicolás Narváez Soza, who is from Nicaragua, and their children have endured a number of incidents that made her family feel threatened and unwelcome.
More at the link.
The Missing Piece (Updated) 0
The reason Republicans are so determined to repeal the ACA, which they chose to dub “Obamacare,” is quite simple.
They cannot stand that the Black Guy did it.
Via Job’s Anger.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
Josh Marshall comments on ACA repeal passing the House (emphasis added):
That’s the Iron Law: the ‘GOP moderates’ will always cave.
More at the link.
Afterthought:
In order to have a “crisis of conscience,” you must first have a conscience.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
This should not surprise you.
This is the United States of America. Everything eventually wends its way back to race.
Stamped by Racism 0
Let Field tell the story.
The Unstated Clause 0
Jorge Reina Schement, a vice chancellor at Rutgers University, recalls his summer job working on a loading dock when he was a student. Here’s a snippet; follow the link for the rest:
I ran to the front office, where I was told that immigration – La Migra – had swept all the loading docks. When I asked about my fellow workers, I received a shrug. Later, I asked the boss why they didn’t take me. He laughed and replied, “You don’t look like a Mexican.” I was a light skinned Mexican-Italian born in Texas. My first lesson about deportations: Skin color matters.
One could argue that “skin color matters” is an unstated founding principle of the United States, just as the 3/5ths rule was a stated one. The 3/5ths rule is gone (at least formally), but skin color still matters.
Southern Heritage 0
(Post fixed.)
From the land of gracious living: Deneen Brown writes of two historians who are trying to compile a complete listing of ads still extant for runaway slaves in the ante bellum South.
Click to see the article with more examples of gracious living.
A web search for “runaway slaves ads” will turn up a number of sites with actual historical facts that the New Secesh want to pretend don’t exist.
Aside:
I must have broken this post when I was troubleshooting the sidebar issue.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., excoriates Attorney-General Jeff Sessions’s intent to somehow emasculate consent decrees governing how certain police departments treat Not White persons. A snippet:
In a memo released last week, Sessions worries about tarring police with the actions of a few “bad actors.” Yet DOJ investigations repeatedly found that, far from being isolated events, police abuse – unlawful stops, searches, harassment and beatings targeting African-American citizens – were endemic to the very culture of these departments. They were not flaws in the system. They were the system.