“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
C&L points out that it also racism’s and the racists’ strongest ally:
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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Or,”If you want them to have a work ethic, don’t spare the whip.”
Words fail me.
The View from Afar 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., wonders how they do it.
Coinage 2
Badtux agrees that we need a new word and suggests that we adopt the term, “whitesplaining”; methinks yon penguin has a point.
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Immunity Impunity, the Poisoning of Flint Dept.
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Unspeakable venality.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, segregationists would always claim that civil rights demonstrations were the work of “outside agitators” because, according to them, “our darkies are happy darkies.”
I guess it’s comforting that some things haven’t changed.
The Middle Finger Having Writ . . . . 0
(Open tag fixed)
William Jones, president of a small Christian* college in the midwest, tells his tale. Here’s how he begins:
They drew a chalk outline of a dead body with the words “rest in peace my friend” and “make Lindsborg white again.” They wrote messages that were disgusting and completely contrary to Bethany’s core values and intellectual identity.
A few days later, a man who is not a student at Bethany and does not even live in Lindsborg called my office at the college to say that he and four other people were the ones who had committed this despicable act. He refused to disclose who his companions were, and no others have admitted to participating. And then he said something chilling: He said that he wrote the chalk messages because Bethany College has been recruiting students of color – and because I have adopted two biracial children.
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*I’ve not heard of his school, but I must say that it sounds like a “Christian” college in the “Christian” sense of the word, rather than in the “conservative” sense of the word.
Fair Game 0
Thom and his guest, Professor D. Watkins, explore why cops and their supports are okay with killing black folks.
Gun Whites 0
Eugene Robinson notes the disparity.
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Rotten Apples Fall from Rotten Trees 0
Shorter Alfred Doblin: Like father, like son.