“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Courage of Their Conniptions 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Base Desires 0
At the Kansas City Star, Melinda Henneberger argues that Donald Trump poses a much greater danger to the survival of democracy than most politicians and pundits are willing to admit. She presents compelling evidence and I commend her piece to your attention.
One bit, in particular, caught my eye: an explanation of why, despite Donald Trump’s long and documented history of duplicity and venality, despite his fomenting an insurrection, despite his demonstrated disdain for the rule of law, his base continues to support him with such fervor and enthusiasm:
Follow the link for the complete article.
Karen Karen-Like 0
A Karen who suffers the children.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
PragerU wants your kids to be taught that theft of labor is a good thing.
Decoding de Code 0
At the Hartford Courant, David Holohan explains “woke.”
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch sees a parallel:
Gov. Robert K. Scott told the president that loyalists to the party that got fewer voters “will not submit to any election which does not place them in power.” He further warned: “I am convinced that an outbreak will occur here [on] the day appointed by law for the counting of ballots.”
The year was 1870, and the state was South Carolina.
Follow the link for more echoes from the past.
Thought Police 0
If they see a thought, they’re gonna put it under lock and key.
The Privatization Scam 0
LZ Granderson peels the onion about “school choice.”
Follow the link for his evidence.
Aside:
I remember when my school started to integrate [mumble] years ago (one black student the first year, 11 the second year, etc.), two private schools suddenly appeared where none had been before.
We called them “seg academies” because that was what they were.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the efforts in some southern states to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–their history of slavery and racism and wonders what all the fuss is about.
After all, he points out, old times there are not forgotten.
“Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to Florida’s new social studies standards.
The South – the whole country, really – doesn’t need to study real history anymore.
It’s too busy living it.
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew stand aghast at Fox News’s Jesse Watters’s defending Florida Man’s claim that slaves learned skills while enslaved, so that, somehow, being stolen from their homes, transported across the sea while bound in chains, and whipped into submission by their “owners” was therefore somehow a good thing.
How do these people sleep at night?
Oh, I forgot.
Money.
It buys souls, at least, those souls that are for sale.
“The Victim Complex” 0
Farron suggests that Trump voters fear that karma is real and that it’s coming for them.