“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Thought Police 0
If they see a thought, they’re gonna put it under lock and key.
The Privatization Scam 0
LZ Granderson peels the onion about “school choice.”
Follow the link for his evidence.
Aside:
I remember when my school started to integrate [mumble] years ago (one black student the first year, 11 the second year, etc.), two private schools suddenly appeared where none had been before.
We called them “seg academies” because that was what they were.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the efforts in some southern states to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–their history of slavery and racism and wonders what all the fuss is about.
After all, he points out, old times there are not forgotten.
“Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to Florida’s new social studies standards.
The South – the whole country, really – doesn’t need to study real history anymore.
It’s too busy living it.
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew stand aghast at Fox News’s Jesse Watters’s defending Florida Man’s claim that slaves learned skills while enslaved, so that, somehow, being stolen from their homes, transported across the sea while bound in chains, and whipped into submission by their “owners” was therefore somehow a good thing.
How do these people sleep at night?
Oh, I forgot.
Money.
It buys souls, at least, those souls that are for sale.
“The Victim Complex” 0
Farron suggests that Trump voters fear that karma is real and that it’s coming for them.
One Thing Is Like the Other Thing 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, it was perfectly okay to use race to keep persons out of college (and many other places).
Now, per the Supreme Supremacist Court, it’s not okay to use race to help them get into college.
Yup. They are still rising again after all these years.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
The “Party of Lincoln” is now the “Party of Stinkin’.”
Image via Juanita Jean.
Triggers 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Daniel Smith offers an interesting perspective on why some Republicans are so frightened by “wokeness.”
The Time Machine 0
John Young, discussing the recent Supreme Supremacist Court ruling in Moore v. Harper, argues that MAGA Republicans and their sponsors (might one call them “groomers”?), such as the Federalist Society, want to roll back the clock by packing the Court with their dupes, symps, and fellow-travelers.
Here’s a bit of his article:
And so, in a right-wing laboratory, rows of judge-robots were programmed:
“I will destroy democracy.”
“I will destroy democracy.”
“I will destroy democracy.”
MAGA true believers will say this is not the intention of their chosen jurists. They mean only to return the workings of our democracy back to the way they were in the — uh, oh, what the heck — 18th century.
Before the invention of flush toilets. When slaves, not electricity, powered the economy. When only property owners, White ones, ran the place.
An Unintentional Truth 2
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found itself somewhat taken aback by the statements of Florida Governor DeSantis defending chattel slavery. Here’s a little bit from their editorial:
What’s next? Suggesting that the Nazis’ horrendous wartime experiments on Jews weren’t entirely evil, because they yielded medical data?
Little did they expect that what they intended, in my opinion, as rhetorical hyperbole for emphasis would, within a matter of days, become a prophecy come true.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
On-the-job training, Florida style:
Image via Yellowdoggranny.
Afterthought:
It occurs to me that a case could be made that some states are trying to secede once more all over again, but this time they’ve chosen not to put it in writing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
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.