“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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Thom shares the backstory of why the United States is the only major industrialized country that does offer universal health care.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll.
The Seeds of Dysfunction 0
Michael in Norfolk considers the state of today’s Republican Party and considers how it became what it is today. Here’s a bit of his article:
My two or three regular readers know that I agree completely with him about Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
I’m not so sure that the Moral Majority and its ilk deserve to be considered a separate cause. White Southern Protestant fundamentalism and racism have always been intertwined. Just to pick one example, the Southern Baptist Convention seceded (you will pardon the expression) from the national group in 1845 in support of slavery.
If the two causes Michael identifies are not bother and sister, they are at least first cousins–and incestuous ones at that.
The Crypto Con 0
The Southern Poverty Law Center follows the funny money.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, seven former presidents of Florida universities unite to speak out against efforts in Florida (and other states) to pretend that history isn’t and certain persons aren’t. A snippet (emphasis added):
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There are none so blind as those who will not look.
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Emma talks with Professor John S. Huntington about the deep racist and anti-worker roots of today’s it calls itself “conservative” movement. Those roots go deeper than you might think.
Indoctrination Nation 0
Peter Smagorinsky, emeritus professor at the University of Georgia, points out that not only can it happen here, it is happening here. Here’s just one of the examples he cites:
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Thom points out that Republicans’ efforts to gut out the vote are rooted in racism.
I’m a Southern Boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.
I was there when the first few black students (one the first year, eleven the next year) integrated my formally all-white high school. I was there when I found out that they were people just like me. I was there when one of my white (natch) teachers was horrified that my local paper had switched my name with that of one of my black classmates in a picture of the track team. (As an aside, I didn’t care a bit because he was a good guy. Plus I wasn’t very good at track, though track was good for me, but I was a great scorekeeper.)
I know racism when I see it.
Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle.
Today’s Republican Party is the party or racism.
It has no ideas.
Racism is all it’s got.
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The New Secesh deploy duplicitous doubletalk to defeat desegregation.
Righting the wrongs of the past is in their eyes a wrong.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Clarence Page sees an uncomfortable parallel. A tiny bit from his article:
Yes, also new in this campaign, Trump’s attack invokes a theme from Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” in which the Nazi Party leader railed about what he called the impurity of immigrants, Jews and interracial couples.
The Weather Vane 0
The Kansas City Star’s Melinda Henneberger reviews recent events in the Republican Party, particularly in the House of Representatives. She comes to a disturbing conclusion and offers a way of predicting what might happen next.
And none of the current chaos on or off the Hill makes any sense unless you ask yourself this question: What would Putin do?
Follow the link for her reasoning.
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Sam and his crew dissect the falsehoods and delusions in Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld’s call for Civil War v. 2.0.
In a similar vein, Will Bunch highlights Donald Trump’s continuing calls for violence. Just go read it.
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At AL.com, Roy Johnson makes a compelling case that Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville prefers to judge persons, not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.
The Transmogrification 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, letter writer Darryl Cornelius traces the path of the Republican Party from the party of Lincoln to the party of stinkin’.
Whitewashing History 0
At the Des Moines Register, Gerald Ott reacts to Republican attempts to pretend that America’s history wasn’t.
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Tommy Tuberville lets his Stars and Bars fly.
I’m a Southern boy.
I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.
I know racism when I see it.
This is racism.