“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Whitewash 0
Speaking of the Republicans’ war against truth in learning . . . .
Alienable Rights 0
Michael Paul Williams reminds us that the United States and its Supreme Court have a history of granting, then retracting rights. Here’s just one of the examples he cites (emphasis added):
“Every 15 years, the status of Black people changed according to the Supreme Court,” Perry* said. “Our rights are as firm as the people who vote to protect them.”
The battle is never over.
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*Howard University political science professor Ravi Perry.
The Authoritarian Appeal 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Daniel F. Seidman compares and contrast democracy, authorianism, and laissez faire approaches to making decisions, with particular attention the the first two. Along the way, he discusses what attracts persons to authoritarianism. Much of what he says sounds eerily familiar . . . .
Here’s a tiny little bit:
The Rule of Flaw 0
Badtux has a theory about the Supreme Court’s radical disregard of precedent in the two big decisions rendered last week.
Frankly, I don’t think that much planning went into those decisions. I think the conservatives right-wing radicals on the Court were taking advantage of opportunities as they came along. But, as regard the long-term results, I think that Badtux may well be onto something.
We are a failing state.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sometimes the Freudian slips . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Texas Republicans declare that, if first you don’t secede, try, try again.
As Michael in Norfolk points out, Goldwater was right about one thing.
Stray Thought, Still Rising Again Dept. 0
It occurred to me yesterday that so many persons who are white like me are hostile to any remembrance of Juneteenth because it emphasizes what precisely was the cause that was lost in what has mythologized as the Lost Cause.
To put it another way, celebrating, or even recognizing, Juneteenth calls out the lie that the Civil War was about anything other than chattel slavery.
The Entitlement Society 0
Well-known author resents losing his free pass.
Racism is not just overt. It’s also covert. And this is about as covert as it gets.
Honest to Pete, he should know better.
But, clearly, he doesn’t.
All the News that Fits Meets
Still Rising Again after All These Years
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“It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means” 0
Thom explains the true origins of the Second Amendment to a caller.
Aside:
The Second Amendment was all about slave patrols. Any other explanation is, shall we say, ahistorical.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman argues that Florida Governor DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law stand squarely in the middle of a long tradition of suppressing speech in the American South, a tradition which, like so many of the negative aspects of our society, ultimately reaches back to racism and slavery.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Jim Crow Keeps Rising from the Grave 0
And this surprises you how?