“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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As one who trained as an historian (with a focus of U. S. Southern) and as the descendant of persons who, as the saying goes, “held” slaves, I hold DeSantis’s and his tools’ hypocritical denial of the reality of chattel slavery, quite frankly, beneath contempt and disgusting beyond words.
I would add this: A point seldom mentioned is that, as far as slaveholders were concerned, slaves were not persons; they were, to put it bluntly, livestock.
The reason behind racism as it developed during the period of European expansion–the belief that white persons were somehow superior to persons of other skin colors–was to justify treating those persons differently. It was literally whitewashing cruelty.
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Arkansas Senator wants to go back to the land of Cotton and to make sure the old times there are not forgotten.
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Rick Reynolds, writing in the Las Vegas Sun, explains why.
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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 , , , ,
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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.
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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.
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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.
