“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The myth of the Lost Cause rides again!
In the world of the New Secesh, power is ignorance.
Aside:
Yeah, I know that history is not exactly repeating itself, but, to borrow a thought from Mark Twain, it sure as heck is echoing, and quite loudly at that.
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Elon Must styles himself as a “free speech absolutist” (unless, of course, someone tweets–or is it now Xcretes?–something with which he disagrees).
Au contraire, says the editorial staff of the Las Vegas Sun, which argues forcefully that Musk does not even understand what “freedom of speech” means.
An Alternate Reality 0
The Inky’s Will Bunch tells what it was like when he visited a Trump rally over the weekend. A snippet:
The Chaos Agent 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Bryan Greenspun argues forcefully that, thanks to Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, America’s new normal is chaos. Here’s part of what he says:
Every day of the four years produced one form of chaos or another as norms were upended, laws were ended and civility expunged from the daily discourse.
All that ended with the election of Joe Biden. Normalcy was certain to return and the bananas-like blip in the American psyche could subside. Or so we thought.
What the entire world didn’t count on was that Trump and his cult would not do the honorable thing and just go away.
He did the opposite.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now comes Charles Dew, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, documenting an echo.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
This time, it’s the Chicago Tribune’s Sean Kim Butorac who hears a rhyme from over two centuries ago.
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*Mark Twain
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom reviews the racist tactics of the Party of the New Secesh today’s Republican Party.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing. Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, and even Barry Goldwater must be turning over in their graves.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Confederate gentlemen ride again.
The slurs were etched into the side of St. Daniels Community Church of Iron Hill.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Peter Gariepy suggests that, instead of going to court to block a KKK member who wants to run for the Republican nomination for governor of Missouri, perhaps, instead, the Republican Party should ask itself why a KKK member feels at home running for the Republican Party’s nomination.
The Blame Gamer 0
Afterthought:
“Woke” is worn out; “DEI” is the new proxy for “n-word.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, Frances Coleman argues that the words might be different, but the thought’s the same. A snippet:
It may not have the same rhetorical ring as George Wallace’s “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” but it puts the point across.
Precedented 0
Michael in Norfolk has seen it before the mythmaking before. A snippet:
More at the link.
(Broken link fixed.)
Stray Thought 0
I suspect that, if I looked up “truth” in my trusty Roget’s Thesaurus, which I’ve had for forty years, I would not find “divisive concepts” listed as a synonym thereof.
But, if I had an updated version, I think I just might.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Brandeis professor Robert Kuttner observes that
Republicans in the former Confederacy seem determined to refight the Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.