“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Both Sides Don’t 0
Rick Reynolds, writing in the Las Vegas Sun, explains why.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Ames, Iowa, Tribune, Walter Suza explores why some persons are so opposed to DEI (i. e., diversity, equality, and inclusion). A nugget (emphasis added):
DEI is also about becoming willing to admit that inequity has existed in America for so long that it appears as normal. Inequity being normal makes DEI abnormal. The result is some opposing DEI because it threatens their own power or rights , , , ,
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini reports on the outpouring of racism and bigotry at the latest Turning Point Action conference. Montini found the events to be–er–somewhat dismaying.
Here’s a bit from his article:
Kirk and his organization flourished during the Trump administration and have become major players in Republican politics, holding events like the one in Florida and supporting political candidates.
Republican politicians are afraid to ignore Kirk, now, and even more afraid to criticize him.
Or perhaps — and this would be worse — the majority of Republicans simply agree with him, and what he says, and what he espouses.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sometimes, they slip up and show us who they really are.
Presumed Guilty 0
I wonder just why oh why something like this could have happened?
The Whitewash, Reprise 0
Sam and his crew point out that denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Plus Ca Change 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Hakeem Jefferson reminds us that what Frederick Douglass said almost two centuries ago is still true today.
By the by, if you haven’t read Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, you can get it a Project Gutenberg.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Davidson College Professor Isaac Bailey reacts to a message that he received that started out by addressing him with “Hey, boy!”
I commend the complete article to your attention.
Precedented 0
In his letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Gil Eisner is sees shadows from the past.
I do hope he is, as my old boss used to say, in error, but I fear–oh, never mind.
Establishmentarians 0
Farron argues that the Republican Party in no longer a political party in any traditional sense, but rather has become little more than a tool of right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians.
None So Blind . . . . 0
Courting DIsaster, Reprise 0
In reviewing recent statements by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Supremacist Court, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier finds himself somewhat taken aback by what hurts said Chief Justice’s tender fee-fees.
