“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The White-Washing 0
As one who trained as an historian, I have not the words to express the disgust I feel at Republicans’ desire to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) the reality of America’s history.
Image via Job’s Anger.
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
Michael in Norfolk discusses the bubbleliciousnes of right-wing news “coverage.” A snippet:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Missouri’s attempt at Nullification v. 2.0 fails in Federal Court, as anyone who understands the concept of a federal republic could have predicted.
Nullification was all the rage in the slave states the 1850s.
To cut through the multi-syllabic verbiage, nullification was an attempt to secede without actually seceding, and the New Secesh have decided to give it another whirl.
Afterthought:
As Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Hoist on His Own Petard 0
The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page offers a perceptive perspective on the perturbing performance of Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist, who has recently been in the news for recommending racism.
Adams, you may recall, got worked up because of a survey in which a significant minority of black person answered “no” to a survey question. I was particularly struck by this bit, which indicates that Adams punk’d himself:
In other words, it’s a trick question — and Adams, who leans quite conservative on such matters, appears to have been a bit too eager to fall for it.
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The Bullies’ Pulpit 0
Stephanie Hayes thinks she has identified the location of said pulpit.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Mike Littwin is an optimist.
Guns and Posers 0
The ADL runs the numbers. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the report.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Oathkeeper 0
The Seditionist Caucus 0
Thom argues that racism is and has long been a misdirection play.
And methinks he argues his point well.
The Graham Cracker Has a Notion of Immigrants 0
Republicans play the race card because it’s the only card they have left. Otherwise, they got nothing other than their fealty to the robber barons of our New Gilded Age.
The Republican Party of my youth–the party that could include persons of integrity, such as Dwight Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Everett Dirksen–no longer exists.
Richard Nixon’s racist Southern Strategy is all that remains of it.
