“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Driving While Black 0
A caller describes her experiences to Thom.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One more time, when you hear someone wax romantic about “The Lost Cause,” ask, “What, exactly, was the cause that was lost?”
That Unsupported Feeling 0
Writing at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, James Causey talks of being while black in the United States. A snippet:
Too many black men are being shot and killed by police, and this is scary to me because as a black man I know that if I’m shot by police or one of my black friends is shot by police, there is a good chance that nothing will happen to that officer. This is not to say all officers are bad. But I can be stopped by an officer who may be a little jumpy one day and I can reach for my wallet and he can say he thought I was going for a gun — and my life is over.
Read it.
Dallas 0
I got nothing. I don’t yet know enough to form an opinion and my first thought is something I’d later regret voicing.
My motto is, “Opinion-based snark: the snarkiest kind.”
I will, nevertheless, commend Thoreau’s remarks to your attention.
Still on the subject of Dallas, Leonard Pitts, Jr., sees parallels with the 1960s.
Facebook Frolics (Udated) 0
Now you see it, now you don’t.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
From El Reg:
Multiple sources with knowledge of the event have tonight confirmed to The Register that someone – highly suspected to be the city’s police – used her phone to remove her recording from public view shortly after the shooting. This was no technical glitch.
More at the link.
Red Harvest* 0
At Science 2.0, Hontas Farmer discusses yet another case of a black man killed by police for being.
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*With apologies to Dashiel Hammett.
The “Trump Effect” 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear explains how Donald Trump has given white supremacists license.
Stray Question 0
Have you noticed that, when it’s black folks, the drug is heroin and usage is a crime wave; when it’s white folks, the drug is “opioids” and usage is a health emergency?
Just sayin’.
Dis Coarse Discourse 2
Historiann tries to understand why Donald Trump chose to refer to Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” and has difficulty finding a rational rationale. Here’s a snipped; follow the link for the rest (you’ll be glad you did).
The sad truth is the name-calling bullies don’t have rational rationales. One of the characteristics of unthinking knee-jerk hatred and bigotry is not thinking.
The White Identity Anxiety Party
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Tony Norman muses on Congressman Steve King’s attempt to keep Harriet Tubman off the double sawbuck and on King’s claim that racism has nothing to do with it. Here’s a bit:
The prospect of honoring Harriet Tubman, an ex-slave, an early American feminist and symbol of the Underground Railroad movement at the expense of Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson was too much for the Iowa Republican who considers the elevation of any woman or minority evidence of President Barack Obama’s “radical agenda.”
Afterthought:
Maybe it’s a side-effect of Trumpery, but really, they’re not really trying to hide the racism any more. They’ve stopped whistling for the dogs; they are now calling them by name.
Plus Ca Change 0
BadTux steps inside the Wayback Machine.
Football uber Alles, the Prevent Defense Dept. 0
Play college football. Doing so gives you magical powers to prevent prosecution.
Aside:
It’s not that I think they should necessarily be prosecuted, but it’s Louisiana, folks. What do you think would be happening to them if they were just two random black kids from down the street?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It would appear that Reconstruction v. 2.0 needs to be installed.
One of the things that continually amazes and bemuses me, when it’s not horrifying and disgusting me, is the ability of racists to convince themselves that, somehow, their racism isn’t racist. It’s something I’ve observed since I first became aware.
Nothing better illustrates how easily persons turn a blind eye upon themselves.
“He Fits the Profile” 0
And he’s not who you think he is.
“Acceptable and Unacceptable Racism” 0
Tony Norman considers the faint, fluttery, pro forma Republican protests of Donald Trump’s overt racism even as they line up to endorse his candidacy. Here’s a nugget: