“That Conversation about Race” category archive
“A God among Men” 0
Afterthought:
If Elon Musk, just to pick one rather obvious example, has demonstrated anything, it’s that our society really needs to stop equating bank balances to IQ points.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Kansas City Star, professors Victoria Johnson and Karen Piper take a look at the unholy alliance between right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians and today’s Republican Party. Here’s a brief bit of their piece:
Fundamentalists within many religions believe their interpretations are the absolute truth, and that those who oppose their claims to speak for God are characterized as evil and must be converted or destroyed. Such religious beliefs are used to maintain authoritarian political control today in theocracies such as Iran and Afghanistan, and supported the legitimacy of past monarchies in France and Great Britain through the “divine right of kings” — which is one reason America’s Founding Fathers were adamant about the separation of church and state.
“A Notion of Immigrants” Meets “Republican Family Values” 0
it would seem that one of the cardinal Republican Family Values is mean for the sake of mean.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Republican effort to normalize sedition continues apace.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Thom dissects a racist fund raising email he received from Donald Trump’s campaign and the troubling implications of news media’s failure to call out racism, whether it be subtle or blatant.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Derefe Kimarley Chevannes sees a pattern repeating itself:
Yet, America seems intent on repeating its noxious history of Black oppression.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Fright-Wing Politics 0
Thom discusses Donald Trump’s resort to stochastic terrorism so as to protect his assets.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Diane Roberts serves up the story of the Civil War, Southern style.
No excerpt or paraphrase will do her piece justice. Just go read it.
A Notion of Immgrants 0
Methinks Atrios pretty much nails it.
Aside:
Today’s Republican Party understands buy-partisan. Indeed, it is a treasured Republican Family Value.
In contrast, it finds the concept of bipartisan repelling.
None Dare Call It (Domestic) Terrorism . . . 0
. . . but, according to the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, it most certainly is.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Henry once said
It appears that the New Secesh beg to differ. It appears that they are choosing to secede again, only, this time, without bothering to put it in writing.
Gamergate Goes to Harvard 0
Writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch thinks there’s more than meets the eye in the who-shot-john over ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay. A snippet (emphasis added; follow the link for his reasoning.
But the conservatives who drove the frenzy over Gay care about proper citations in obscure dissertations as much as the misogynistic dudes behind Gamergate pretended their orgy of harassment was actually about ethics in video-game journalism. This was a proxy war over something much, much bigger: Who controls the narrow pipelines into America’s elites, and how to preserve ancient hierarchies around race, gender, economic class, and social status.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Historian Charles B. Dew responds to those who would preserve, even celebrate, Confederate monuments because they are “part of history” by reminding them of just what part of history they would cherish. Here’s a bit:
Follow the link for more from the historical record.