“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle.
The Republican Party has become the party of the Secesh.
Inculcating Ignorance 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun takes a look at Republicans’ campaign to erase America’s history from America’s schools. Here’s the lede:
Follow the link for the evidence.
“As the Twig Is Bent . . . .” 0
And, boy, this is one bent twig.
Dred Scott Redux 0
Sam talks with Ian Millhiser about the current state of the Supreme Supremacist Court. It’s a long listen and a worthwhile one.
I know.
I stayed up later than I intended to listen to it.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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An X Offender with a notion of immigrants.
Foxy Shady 0
Sam and the crew ponder the pandering.
Patterns 0
Noah A. McGee notes a number of similarities in shootings by young white men of black persons over the past three years. The article focuses on three specific incidents: one in Buffalo, N. Y., one in Charleston, S. C., and the third–the most recent–in Jacksonville, Fla.
Here’s just one of the commonalities he enumerates; follow the link for the others.
Payton S. Gendron, the shooter who fatally shot 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, wrote a manifest where he described himself as a white supremacist.
Dylan Roof, the white man responsible for killing nine Black people at a Charleston church in 2015, wrote a manifesto nearly 2,500 words long where he shared his thoughts about Black people, Jewish people, Hispanics, East Asians, and many others.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery, along with the racist mythology manufactured to rationalize it, continues to exact its toll.
“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten” 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that today’s Republican Party wants to bring back those old times.
Base Desires 0
Michel in Norfolk argues that Hillary Clinton was right about the deplorables. A snippet:
Facebook Frolics 0
Devilish frolics.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Francis Wilkinson considers Donald Trump’s slogan and asks, “‘Make America great again’ for just whom, exactly?”
Follow the link for her answer.
It’s Bubblelicious 0
Thom talks with Wayne State University professor Seth D. Norrholm about the dynamics of the “cult bubble.”
What’s in a Word? 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Ellen Dohmen tries to make sense of the fuss over “woke.” A bit of her article:
Stray Thought, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
The legacy of Richard Nixon’s odious southern strategy lives on.
In our politics, we no longer have a left-wing, a middle-of-the-road center, and a right-wing.
We have a slightly-left-of-center-wing, a characterless mush-in-the-middle that believes in nothing other than that in between is the place to be, and an unabashedly white-wing that wants to turn the clock back 160 years.