“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh have launched a counterattack.
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You 0
Unless you’ve been asleep, you have seen the news about how Republican Thought Police are busy policing thoughts they don’t like, particularly thoughts granting equality and inclusion to persons who diverge from being white, Evangelical they-call-themselves Christians, or straight. I’ve certainly posted about it a number of times (you can search for “Republican Thought Police” on the sidebar, over there —–>).
At Psychology Today Blogs, Heather Rose Artushin looks at the harm banning books can do. Here’s a tiny bit from her article; follow the link for a detailed look at the harm that Republican Thought Police are causing.
Research supports that book bans are bad for mental health, especially impacting:
1. Marginalized individuals whose stories are contained in the majority of challenged books. . . .
2. Children and teens suffer when books are banned in their schools and public libraries for many reasons. . . .
3. Librarians and school staff experience added stress and anxiety due to the atmosphere of censorship that book banning creates. . . .
4. Authors make their livelihood selling books, and book bans not only impact some authors’ income, but might leave them feeling excluded and marginalized as well. . . .
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Today’s rhymes are brought to you by Michael in Norfolk and by AL.com’s Roy S. Johnson.
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*Mark Twain.
Diagnosis: Delusion 0
I think any psychologist would agree with me that this is a clear case of projection.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
If this is not de facto secession, I don’t know what is.
The Woes of Jerry Whinefeld 0
Sam Seder dissects Jerry Seinfeld’s whining about “woke.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron delights in Florida Man’s being hoisted on his own petard.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
LA Granderson has a question concerning the Speaker of the house:
(snip)
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
Follow the link, where Granderson puts his question into context.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
AL.com’s Roy Johnson wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
They call themselves news hawks, but they are actually carrion crowers.
Republican Thought Police 0
The SPLC tells one teacher’s story.
Afterthought:
The Republican Thought Police have a motto:
Don’t educate. Indoctrinate.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and the crew skewer racists’ claims that somehow racists are discriminated against because they are called out for being racist.
Afterthought:
I remember when my father, who grew up under Jim Crow, as did I, said to me late in his life, “I’m glad those days are gone.”
Well, those days–or, more properly, the hatred and bigotry and greed and exploitation (read “theft of labor”) that created them–are not gone, though they may have been slightly in eclipse.
Over half a century ago, Richard Nixon’s odious “Southern Strategy” invited racists to join his political party. Now that “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed Nixon’s party, so that today we have a political party dedicated to bringing back Jim Crow.
Republican Thought Police 0
Say the New Secesh, “What they don’t know can’t hurt us.”
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom and Farron talk about how today’s robber barons are bringing about the return of child labor and wonder why it’s not getting the coverage it deserves.
Karen Karen-Like 0
Or perhaps merely Karenesque.