“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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:
Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Trumpled 0
Dick Polman considers the procedures as defined on Law and Order: Celebrity Apprentice. He takes Donald Trump’s complaints about the judiciary to its logical conclusion (emphasis added):
More jurisprudence at the link.
In the Cards 0
When America Was “Great” 0
Jeffrey Gillespie recalls the good old days.
For the angry white male, American “greatness” conjures an era when he and his cohorts could get away with more at the expense of others: unchecked predatory sexual behavior, casual racism, easy access to opportunities denied everyone else and a “status quo” mentality preserved at the expense of millions of people who happened to not be middle-aged white guys.
Read the rest.
Cognitive Dissonance 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jay Richards dares to address the contrasts in the public reactions to the shooting of Harambe the gorilla and Tamir Rice, the person. He sensitively negotiates the historical stereotypes that such a comparison might evoke as he tries to understand why one evoked outrage against the authorities, whereas the other evoked support for them.
I’m not going to summarize or excerpt it. Just follow the link.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits who don’t know how to behave in public.
And, in more news of twits, a run-of-the-mill obnoxious twit (no, “obnoxious twit” is not inherently a redundancy).