“That Conversation about Race” category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Aside:
Natch, Donald Trump is descended from immigrants. If I remember correctly, he’s second-generation.
For that matter, so are all of us descended from immigrants whose families arrived after, say, just to pick a date, 1492.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron comments on the irrationality of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s most recent call for secession. (Of course, he’s wasting his breath; irrational persons can’t deal with rationality.)
Republican Culture War Coffers 0
Michael in Norfolk follow the money.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
The Rude One pulls nary a punch.
Methinks, though, that he could just as easily–perhaps even more accurately–have used the term “Secesh.”
Woke to the Misdirection Play 0
LZ Granderson argues forcefully that the “wokeness” at universities is not the issue that some persons are trying to make it out to be. In his article, he calls out the misdirection play (emphasis added):
The criticism is all part of a larger bid to dismantle the attributes of diversity in general and on campus specifically. That’s why the question of merit arises from affirmative action programs, not from legacy admissions or the power of the donor class.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It looks like old times there may not be forgotten.
The Black couple said they walked outside to a burning cross facing their home over Thanksgiving weekend.
“There was a cross burning about eight feet from our fence,” Monica said. “We were speechless because we’ve never experienced something like that.”
More at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles B. Dew reminds us that, despite the words in the song, today’s planter class wants old times there to be forgotten. (Methinks that may be why they want to ban the teaching of factual history.)
And he offers evidence of why they want those times forgotten.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News points out that supremacist courts are gutting out the Voting Rights Act explains why that is a bad thing. Here’s a bit their editorial (emphasis added):
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At my local rag, columnist David Hall writes eloquently of an incident of racist name-calling at a college basketball game. I commend his article to your attention.
This bit, in particular, caught my eye:
Methinks he has a point.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Methinks the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is onto something.
American Legacy 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery refuses to go away.
It may morph and reshape, it may reclothe and redrape, but it continues to poison our polity.
