“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Woke to the Misdirection Play 0
LZ Granderson argues forcefully that the “wokeness” at universities is not the issue that some persons are trying to make it out to be. In his article, he calls out the misdirection play (emphasis added):
The criticism is all part of a larger bid to dismantle the attributes of diversity in general and on campus specifically. That’s why the question of merit arises from affirmative action programs, not from legacy admissions or the power of the donor class.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It looks like old times there may not be forgotten.
The Black couple said they walked outside to a burning cross facing their home over Thanksgiving weekend.
“There was a cross burning about eight feet from our fence,” Monica said. “We were speechless because we’ve never experienced something like that.”
More at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles B. Dew reminds us that, despite the words in the song, today’s planter class wants old times there to be forgotten. (Methinks that may be why they want to ban the teaching of factual history.)
And he offers evidence of why they want those times forgotten.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News points out that supremacist courts are gutting out the Voting Rights Act explains why that is a bad thing. Here’s a bit their editorial (emphasis added):
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At my local rag, columnist David Hall writes eloquently of an incident of racist name-calling at a college basketball game. I commend his article to your attention.
This bit, in particular, caught my eye:
Methinks he has a point.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Methinks the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is onto something.
American Legacy 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery refuses to go away.
It may morph and reshape, it may reclothe and redrape, but it continues to poison our polity.
Decoding Deconstructing De Code
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Emma and Blair LM Kelley discuss that the “working class,” despite what the press seems to think, is not personified by Trump supporters lounging in diners in the Midwest.
The Party of the New Secesh 0
In a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gerald Kreienkamp argues that Republicans aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.
Republican Thought Police 2
Emma talks with Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers about the poor showing of right-wing nutbags in recent school board elections.
Aside:
I love me Weingarten’s phrase, “constant anger fest.”
Methinks she hit the nihilists on the head.
They got nothing, festering anger is all they got.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
When the truth hurts, ignore the truth and complain about the hurt.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
In a longer article musing about the long-term potential of what’s been inaccurately dubbed “artificial intelligence,” John Nosta aptly describes the clamoring coming from the American right-wing. Here’s the bit that caught my eye:
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Looking at recent shenanigans involving the North Carolina state supreme court, UNC law professor Gene Nichol suggests that they embody a simple principle:
