“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Snaring Economy 0
Zandar looks at AirBnB and finds that not all “sharing” is equal–or equitable. A snippet:
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“I’m not staying in her home, it’s probably dirty” or “I don’t feel comfortable letting them stay here” happens a lot more than people will ever admit.
The larger problem is the tech world’s idiotic insistence that the internet makes race invisible or irrelevant, when clearly the opposite is true. And that’s because the flawed business models are nearly all invented by white techbros who have never had to think a day in their lives about their privilege.
Pot, Legal, Black 0
Methinks Bad Tux is onto something.
Look in the Mirror 0
If you are white like me and this doesn’t make you a bit uncomfortable about the presumptuousness of whiteness, you aren’t paying attention.
Below the fold in case it autoplays.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Jackie does a capsule history of the Republican southern strategy and, along the way, she decodes de code.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Tou Ger Bennett Xiong, an American citizen of Hmong descent, wonders what is happening to his country. Here’s how he starts his article; follow the link for the rest.
Lately, though, I feel that my faith in America’s great promise is being called into question again by the recent hate and animosity in our political climate.
Plus Ca Change 0
Bruce Lowry has seen it before:
Then go back and look at the expressions on some of the faces — almost all of them white — at a Donald Trump rally today.
You don’t need me to point out the eerie similarities, and, God help us, they are all too real.
He’s quite correct, you know.
Follow the link for the rest.
Tips on Terrorism 0
Michael Herriot submits The Caucasian’s Guide to Living under a Terrorist Threat. Here’s one of his hints:
“The Lost Cause” 0
Buried deep in a story about another subject in my local rag–almost an aside–are two sentences that in their off-handed casualness highlight just exactly what cause was lost.
Owners treated the workers* better after an 1808 law prohibiting new slave importation, McGill said.
“You wanted to get the longest service you could out of the ones you owned,” he said.
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*Did he really refer to them as “workers”?
The Chicago Riots 0
Chauncey Devega was at the Chicago rally for Donald Trump, the one that was purportedly canceled for “security concerns.” He says it has been grievously misrepresented. An excerpt:
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At Friday’s rally in Chicago, the members of the “silent majority” that Trump speaks for were made, at least for a few hours, to realize that other Americans actually have a voice too. Of course, this moment will only encourage their right-wing politics of racial resentment, hatred, nativism and revanchism. The Trumpeteers now have a story to tell of black and brown savagery in the evil “Democratically controlled” Chicago. This distorted version of events will resonate throughout the Fox News right-wing disinformation machine. Those Trumpeteers at his planned Chicago rally will spin tales of being imperiled by “Mau Maus” and “Commies.” In reality, they were never in any real danger. And like Trump’s other events, the fights and scuffles that did take place were mostly instigated by his supporters.
Follow the link to read (or listen to–he also made this into a podcast) the full report.
No End in Cite 0
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal mulls over whether Donald Trump can be charged with “incitement to violence” in connection with one of his supporter’s “sucker punching” a protester and concludes “no.” Mystal applies the Hollywood super villain standard to illustrate the reasoning:
He’s not throwing cash in the streets and watching people fight over it, like Jack Nicholson’s Joker. He’s giving middle class people the moral authority to blow up some undesirables, like Heath Ledger’s Joker.
Follow the link for the details.
Unintended Consequences 0
Jamelle Bouie, writing at the Boston Review, finds something positive in Donald Trump’s race to the bottom for the Republican presidential nomination. A nugget:
Do read the rest.
Playing Trump 0
Tony Norman considers Donald Trump and his no-longer-silent racist dog whistles.
It’s worth a look.
Hint: He’s more optimistic than I.
Video via Balloon Juice.
Times Change 0
Warning: Language and innuendo.
I believe the psychological term for what Jeffrey Lord (“Helmet Head”) is doing is “projection.”
Via Raw Story.
