“That Conversation about Race” category archive

Driven to destruction.

Brownsville (Texas–ed.) police say seven people were killed Sunday morning and it appears they may have been intentionally run over by a motorist.

We are a broken society.

(With a broken link, which is now unbroken.)

Trials, not to mention convictions, on the charge of seditious conspiracy are rare, but four leaders of the they-call-themselves Proud Boys beat the odds and were found guilty.

At the Inky, Philadelphia activist Gwen Snyder details the years of harassment she has endured from the they-call-themselves Proud Boys. This was how it started; follow the link for full account.

The first time the Proud Boys came to my home to threaten me, I was out of state, traveling to attend a family function. It was June 2019, and they arrived at nearly midnight.

My downstairs neighbor was home, out on our building’s porch for a smoke break. The far-right gang members approached him, demanding to know if I was there.

He didn’t know, he told them. They demanded that he tell me to stop writing about their racist activities and posting members’ names on Twitter. Then they plastered a sticker with their logo onto my front door. They placed more around the neighborhood for good measure.

Image via Balloon-Juice, which has commentary.

Via Yellowdoggranny.

At NJ.com, Lisa Davis takes a deep look at the efforts of Republicans, particularly in the South, to pretend that history isn’t. A snippet.

Attacks on knowledge generally, and African-American history specifically, are an attempt to erase the gains of the 20th century and return this country to one of patriarchal white supremacist rule.

Read the whole piece for her reasoning.

Florida Man, in his own words . . . .

The Detroit Free Press’s Keith A. Owens decodes de code of de day: “anti-woke.” The short version: it’s a war against history and fact. Here’s a bit from his article:

. . . the attempt to protect the people from the threat of fact-based intelligence isn’t just going on in Florida, it’s a Hail Mary arcing across the entire country promoting the desperate MAGA belief that if they can just turn out the lights in America’s classrooms fast enough, maybe the kids won’t realize they’re sitting in a dark room. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop being woke and become convinced it was always that way.

The entire piece is worth your while.

A Navy veteran speaks out against what he refers to as Florida Governor DeSantis’s “religious fascism.”

As I mentioned earlier, today’s Republican Party seems not to care much about the United States Constitution, particularly the bit about “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

Thom discusses how Hitler rose to power by exploiting fear, bigotry, and hatred.

Aside:

Speaking of culture warriors . . . .