“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Privilege Flew, Karen Karen-Like Dept. 0
The Central Park Karen’s lawsuit gets tossed.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Roanoke Times, Roland Lazenby describes how Virginia Military Institute’s “Old Guard” has united with Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin to fight a rear guard action.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago catalogs Florida Governor DeSantis’s lies about the asylum seekers he had kidnapped and transported. Here’s a bit from her article:
“They aren’t from Jupiter or Mars,” says Emilio Martinez, a Cuban American immigration lawyer. “And the ‘unauthorized’ is categorically untrue.”
“What they’re doing [arriving at the border and asking for asylum] is not illegal,” Martinez said, an assertion echoed by other lawyers, citing federal laws.
Gutting Out the Vote 2
The Washington Monthly’s Joshua Dounglas thinks the Supreme Supremacist Court is poised to take another whack at the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A snippet:
Then, just last year, the Court in Brnovich v. DNC made it much harder for plaintiffs to use the Voting Rights Act to fight election rules with a discriminatory effect on minority voters. Section 2 of the act is a nationwide provision barring discrimination in the voting process. T. . . .
The third case in this grim trio, Merrill v. Milligan, is now before the Court. It’s another Alabama case that could severely limit the act’s protections for minority voters during redistricting. It could even lead to the Court declaring Section 2 unconstitutional.
Follow the link for discussion.
Florida Man 0
I think that Florida’s Governor DeSantis has plucked Grung_e_Gene’s last nerve.
Methinks he is onto something.
After all, I’m a Southern Boy who grew up under Jim Crow. I am familiar with–er–DeSantis’s type.
Monetizing Sadism 0
Republicans are fundraising on being mean for the sake of mean.
The irony is that, unless they are descended from Native Americans, they are descended from immigran–oh, never mind. They are beyond irony.
They are, indeed, beyond caricature.
We are a failing state.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom and Chris Lehmann of The Nation discuss the possible implications of Florida Governor DeSantis’s kidnapping and transportation of immigrants who were legally seeking asylum in the United States.
Thom is less than sanguine.
While we’re on this topic, the editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun offers its opinion.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Writing about Florida Governor DeSantis’s kidnapping and transportation of immigrants (again, most of whom, if not all, were legally seeking asylum and abiding by the rules), Leonard Pitts, Jr., gets to the heart of the matter (emphasis added).
Follow the link for the evidence.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Just when you think America’s bigots and racists have reached the bottom of the pit of vileness in which they dwell, they dig deeper.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson suggests that Florida’s Governor DeSantis’s stunt of kidnapping and transporting refugees who fled to the United States to escape tyranny and oppression* (and who were here legally, by the way) may have backfired on him.
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*Only to find themselves kidnapped by a tyrannical oppressor, but that’s a topic for another day.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Maxwell raises a question (emphasis in the original):
Why did the governor of Florida use migrants from Texas for his political theater?
Florida, after all, is chock full of undocumented citizens — an estimated 800,000 or more. So instead of playing games with migrants from Texas, many of whom were reportedly legal asylum-seekers, why didn’t Florida’s governor choose some of the many people known to be illegally living and working in his own backyard?
Probably because that would highlight an embarrassing reality for DeSantis — that Florida is a hotbed for illegal immigration, thanks partly to GOP lawmakers who have given companies the greenlight to employ and exploit undocumented workers here.
Follow the link for details
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk is aghast at the mean for the sake of mean.
Unchecked and Unbalanced 0
Read about the Stanford Prison Study and consider, does it remind you of any dynamic in our recent news? (The link I posted is to an article at the Britannica; a web search will turn up many more references.)
I would argue that it exemplifies why the Founders placed a high value on “checks and balances” in governance and why it is important to respect the rights of the disadvantaged on par with the rights of the advantaged.