“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Philistines! 0
Jeeves, fetch me my fainting couch and my clutching pearls. I think I shall have the vapors.
How dare someone inject reality into a commercial cathedral to consumption!
Driving while Black, Reprise 0
Ron Sims, who has served as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as King County (Seattle) Executive, tells his story to the Seattle Times. Here’s a bit of it:
Four stops occurred in my neighborhood, two on Beacon Hill, and one near the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. I was never ticketed but was always asked, “Do you live in this neighborhood?” or “Where are you going?”
More tales of even-handed law enforcement at the link.
“Inflaming Passions,” Reprise 0
One more time: It’s not the deed. It’s the light shining upon the deed.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Really, now, you do realize these are just innocent Civil War re-enactors, do you not?
(snip)
The Polaris had a Confederate flag attached to it and was driven by a man who allegedly approached the victim and said, “You need to leave,” followed by a slur for African-Americans. The man then repeated the slur, telling the victim that such people “get hung around these parts.”
“Inflaming Passions” 0
It’s not the deed. It’s the light shining upon the deed.
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’.