“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette’s Gene Collier warns of some arresting developments.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Indiana’s Lt. Governor tries to rewrite history.
Afterthought:
They don’t want to admit the reality of slavery because that would require them to come face to face with who they really are.
They would rather believe that Gone with the Wind was an historical document, rather than what it was, probably the single most effective piece of political propaganda in America’s history.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Suffer the children. It’s a Republican family value.
So is mean for the sake of mean.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
“Woke”? Not if today’s Republican Party gets its way.
Via Boston.com, Republicans are now opposing efforts to remove bigotry and racism from AI.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Rick Strom looks behind the curtain and explains it all in one simple sentence.
Because you are not a white person who is from this country, you are a target.
Watch the full clip for context:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority manufactured to justify it continue to poison our polity.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets Republican Family Values 0
We are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
A Definitional Issue 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Ricky Kendall argues that DEI is not the horrible thing that today’s Republican Party seems to think it is and offers to explain it to them in words of one syllable.
Still Rising Again after All the Years 0
The New Secesh have decided that, if they can’t acually undo history, they can hide it away so that no one remembers it.
Collateral Damage 0
The first crew of the U. S. S. Barry chose as a motto “Strength and Diversity” (meaning diversity of tactics and weaponry) over three decades ago.
Now comes James Stavridis, who served on that ship, to report that the anti-DEI crowd now is coming after its motto.
We are a society going backwards.
Republican Thought Police 0
David points out that
Silencing dissent doesn’t show strength. It shows fear.
(Warning: Short commercial starts at about the 5 1/2 minute mark.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Haajrah Gilani writes that Americans of Japanese descent see Donald Trump’s treatment of immigrants and hear rhymes of the Japanese internment camps of World War II. Here’s a bit from his article:
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants, Catch-22 Dept. 0
He went for a walk, got lost, got arrested by ICE, was incarcerated for over a week, and nearly got deported exiled.
ICE claimed that he did not have “proper immigration documents.”
Not being an immigrant, of course he didn’t.
Catch-22.
It’s the best catch there is.
You can read the full news report here.
(Broken link fixed.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Laura Loomer complains that “uppity blacks” don’t know their place.
Yup, she actually said, “Uppity.”
They’ve taken off their hoods.
They’re not even trying to hide their racism in these Trumpled times.
(Slightly edited for style.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Via the Las Vegas Son, Juan Esparza Loera notices a pattern (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the context of his conclusion.
Aside:
Why am I not surprised?