“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
As Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
And the rhymes are Trumpeting.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Editorial Staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune suggests that Republican Thought Police look back on history and shout, “Get me rewrite!”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via Rolling Stone, meet one of the New Secesh.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Nick Geir attacks a full ennead of Donald Trump’s lies about events that the U. S.-Mexico border with a most starting weapon: actual data.
Here’s one lies he dissects (emphasis in the original):
83% appear for asylum hearings
Trump pulls yet another figure out of the air: he asserts that only 3% of those who claim asylum show up for their court hearings. I’ve looked at several studies and the number of asylum seekers who do report ranges from 83% to 92%. It is essential to note that migrants who report to authorities are not, under the 1980 Refugee Act, illegal aliens.
Follow the link for the remaining octad.
Courting Disaster 0
Peter Jensen reflects on the recent news about Alito’s antics and wonders
Follow the link for the thoughts that led him to the question.
Fiction Comes Alive 0
And you thought that the Keystone Kops were just something from old movies that your grandparents watched on black and white telly visions.
Nope. They are very real and may be at your doorstep today.
Chaos Agents, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
At the Arizona Republic, Eddie Jones, an architect who designs border entry facilities and spends much time at around the U.S-Mexican border, argues forcefully that, despite the claims of right-wing politicians, there is no crisis at that border. Here are a couple of snippets from his article; follow the link for evidence and examples.
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One thing, however, is for sure: If we continue to make the border a security hot potato, ignoring the humanitarian reality and failing to upgrade our immigration system, we will continue electing people who feign outrage and perpetuate border confusion for their own self-interest.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
This time, it’s The Virginian-Pilot’s Larry Rubama who hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain
The Privatization Scam 0
Michigan State professor Josh Cowen documents the duplicity. A snippet (emphasis added):
More documented duplicity at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael Paul Williams hears echoes of the rise. Here’s a bit of his article:
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We’ve seen this backlash at pivotal points in U.S. history: the Reconstruction period following the Civil War; the aftermath of the American Civil Rights Movement; and in response to the election of our nation’s first African American president. Its latest iteration is the reaction to the 2020 racial reckoning that occurred after incidents of police brutality that took the lives of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among others.
I commend the entire article to your attention.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Robert Reich argues that the America’s second Civil War has already begun.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A local high school baseball team has been benched because some of its members insisted on rising again.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll and poison our polity.
Afterthought:
That some of the team members are racist does not surprise me.
After all, racism is an American creation. Specifically, the belief that one race is somehow inferior to another and therefore can legitimately be subjugated and exploited is a construct created in the British colonies in America during the 17th Century to justify rationalize excuse chattel slavery. From there, it spread to everywhere Europeans established colonies during the Age of Empire.
I am, however, somewhat disturbed by how willing persons are today to flaunt their racism before others, over half a century after the passage of the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s.
Why, one wonders, do they think it has become okay to take their hate-full-ness public.
(Yes, I have my theories.)