“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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).
The Snaring Economy 0
Zandar looks at AirBnB and finds that not all “sharing” is equal–or equitable. A snippet:
(snip)
“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.