“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk is less than sanguine about the new Speaker of the House. A snippet:
The Spirit of the Secesh Haunts the House 0
Afterthought:
I do find it puzzling why so many they-call-themselves pundits want to hold Democrats to account for Republicans’ actions.
Could be that on some level they realize that Republicans are no account?
Tricky Treating, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes has some ideas as to what Halloween costumes will be acceptable to Floria Man’s Republican Thought Police.
The Coronation 0
Dick Polman is less that taken with the Republicans’ choice for Speaker of the House. Here’s a bit of what he has to say:
Follow the link to find out what he really thinks.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Aside:
You can listen to the threatening phone call for the Congressman’s wife.
Karen Karen-Like 0
What’s the proper term for a cosplaying male Karen?
Republican Thought Police 0
Florida Man plans to enforce Newspeak, Florida style.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom shares the backstory of why the United States is the only major industrialized country that does offer universal health care.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll.
The Seeds of Dysfunction 0
Michael in Norfolk considers the state of today’s Republican Party and considers how it became what it is today. Here’s a bit of his article:
My two or three regular readers know that I agree completely with him about Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
I’m not so sure that the Moral Majority and its ilk deserve to be considered a separate cause. White Southern Protestant fundamentalism and racism have always been intertwined. Just to pick one example, the Southern Baptist Convention seceded (you will pardon the expression) from the national group in 1845 in support of slavery.
If the two causes Michael identifies are not bother and sister, they are at least first cousins–and incestuous ones at that.
The Crypto Con 0
The Southern Poverty Law Center follows the funny money.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, seven former presidents of Florida universities unite to speak out against efforts in Florida (and other states) to pretend that history isn’t and certain persons aren’t. A snippet (emphasis added):
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
There are none so blind as those who will not look.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Emma talks with Professor John S. Huntington about the deep racist and anti-worker roots of today’s it calls itself “conservative” movement. Those roots go deeper than you might think.
Indoctrination Nation 0
Peter Smagorinsky, emeritus professor at the University of Georgia, points out that not only can it happen here, it is happening here. Here’s just one of the examples he cites:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom points out that Republicans’ efforts to gut out the vote are rooted in racism.
I’m a Southern Boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.
I was there when the first few black students (one the first year, eleven the next year) integrated my formally all-white high school. I was there when I found out that they were people just like me. I was there when one of my white (natch) teachers was horrified that my local paper had switched my name with that of one of my black classmates in a picture of the track team. (As an aside, I didn’t care a bit because he was a good guy. Plus I wasn’t very good at track, though track was good for me, but I was a great scorekeeper.)
I know racism when I see it.
Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle.
Today’s Republican Party is the party or racism.
It has no ideas.
Racism is all it’s got.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh deploy duplicitous doubletalk to defeat desegregation.
Righting the wrongs of the past is in their eyes a wrong.