“That Conversation about Race” category archive
A Class Act 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal thinks that the sentiment agains President Biden’s student loan forgiveness is rooted in concepts of social class, that those who are being helped are somehow the “undeserving poor.”
Methinks she is on to something. Follow the link for her reasoning.
That Inconvenient Past 0
Writing at NOLA.com, Walter Kimbrough offers a perspective on President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. He argues forcefully that those who are shouting that Biden’s program is somehow “not fair” forget (or, I would suggest, are intentionally blind to) past unfairness. Here’s a bit of his piece; follow the link for the rest:
It isn’t fair that those same HBCUs were unequally funded, a practice that has continued for over 50 years. For example, between 1957 and 2007, Tennessee State University did not receive its matching state funding . . . .
He Wore the Grey 0
Warning: Short promo at the end.
I had ancestors who wore the grey.
They were wrong then, and those who would emulate them are wrong now.
Originalist Sin 1
Mark W. Schwiebert points out that the concept of Constitutional Originalism is, in fact, contrary to the thoughts of those who originated the Constitution.
Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
To be blunt, the motivating factor behind “Constitutional Originalism” it to restore the 3/5s clause, if not de jure, at least de facto. All the rest is smoke screen.
House of Wax 0
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice has–er–questions about the purported charity status of Professor Amy Wax’s new legal defense fund.
Florida Man 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells the tale of Captain Florida.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch opines that Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate seems to one of those risers again.
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at the motivation for the right-wing’s current book-banning frenzy. A snippet:
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
At the Roanoke Times, Arnold Schuetz, who grew up and attended school in Germany shortly after the end of World War II, sees echoes of his own experience in current attempts to–you will pardon the expression–whitewash America’s history of chattel slavery and racial discrimination.
No excerpt or summary will do his article justice. Just read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At NJ.com, Michael A. Gottesman argues convincingly that DEI is the new CRT.
Immunity Impunity
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“But he fit my profile . . . .”
Stray Question 0
When you cut through the persiflage, you realize that “woke” means “aware.”
What does that tell you about folks who don’t want persons to be “woke”?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson explains the difference between an error and a mistake.
He Must Be Guilty 0
After all, he fits the profile.
