“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Facebook Frolics, Misty Water-Colored Memories Dept. 0
A frolicker describes what it was like to grow up side by side with other frolickers, but in a whole nother world.
Establishmentarianism 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that the Republican Party is in the grip of the Establishmentarians.
Follow the link for his reasons.
Afterthought:
I think he has a point. It would help to explain in part the devolution of a political party into a personality cult.
Decoding de Code: “Parents’ Rights” 0
Michael in Norfolk clarifies the concept.
Follow the link for the complete clarification.
Indoctrination Nation 0
Nevada attorney Tom Harper shares his thoughts about Florida Governor DeSantis’s efforts to white-wash* American’s history.
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*I use the term advisedly.
Naming Frights 0
Michael Paul Williams explores the history of Fort Pickett and of one of the families whose land was–er–repurposed for its construction.
It is not a pretty story (indeed, I suspect that it could not be told in Florida and other states which are committed to CRT, that is, to consciously rejecting truth), but it is one which bears telling.
Let’s Do the Time Warp Again 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock argues that today’s right-wing wants to roll back America’s clock to the 1950s.
Personally, I think he’s off by about precisely a century, but his article is worth a read.
Dropping the Mask? 0
Writing at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Solomon Jones argues that Republicans’ attempts to shield Donald Trump from legitimate legal investigations reveals an ugly truth.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The Green Book is returning, thanks to Florida Man.
Decoding De Code, Little Chickens Dept. 0
Roy Johnson has figured out the right-wing’s definition of “woke.”
Something they can’t comprehend? It’s woke!
Something they don’t know—and don’t want to know the truth? It’s woke!
Global warming? Gun reform? Expand Medicaid so working-class Alabamians have access to quality healthcare? It’s all woke!
Woke is the far right’s sky is falling.
Follow the link for context.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch sums up the evidence for Jim Crow redux.
Woke to the Misdirection Play, Reprise 0
You can see the “woke” misdirection play in all its gloried story in one of the most appallingly bogus pieces of deceptive drivel that I’ve read in years. I hesitated about mentioning it, but it illustrates how a misdirection play spreads and pollutes dis coarse discourse.
For one thing, the author claims that “woke” is a movement, when it is, in fact, a right-wing pejorative. There is no “woke” movement except in the minds of bigots who resent being called out for their bigotry.
Then he argues that somehow “woke” is a mirror image of MAGA, whereas, if there were a “woke” movement (remember, no such movement), it would not be a mirror image, it would be the antithesis of MAGA, of bigotry, the antithesis of hate, of–oh, heck, words fail me.
