“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
And now they’re even Bragging about it.
Afterthought:
Their cover story is flimsier than a house made out of straw.
It’s quite clear to what audience they bow.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:
And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Donald Trump spreads racist bigoted xenophobic bunk about immigrants.
Katharine Davies Samway and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez debunk de bunk.
The Privatization Scam 0
And it is a scam. You can voucher on it.
(At about the eight minute mark, Emma and the crew veer off from that subject and discuss listener comments. but the part up to that is well worth a listen.)
Making America Grate Again 0
Aside:
On Thursday’s episode of the Bob Cesca Show, one of the participants–I forget which one–made a remark that resonated with me: that what’s happening today seems to echo the end of Reconstruction.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at the Portland Press Herald, Peter Pressman and Edward A. McCulloch tell of a rhyme they are hearing. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for further reverberations.
The Nazis started with the Civil Service . . . .
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A Texas judge who was dealing with immigration case decided to visit the Texas-Mexico border. What he found was not what we’re being told. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Follow the link for some of the lessons he learned.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clearly, if we don’t talk about America’s original sin of chattel slavery, then it must not have happened.
Because that’s the way history works.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom is astonished. I’m not.
All pretense is off.
The racism and misogyny of today’s Republican Party are fully out of the closet.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Will Bunch heard a chilling rhyme. A snippet (emphasis added):
The irony of all of this — good people cowering in their attics, praying to avoid getting cuffed and shipped thousands of miles away by camouflage-wearing soldiers — happening on Holocaust Remembrance Day is almost unbearable.
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*Mark Twain.