“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
We are a society of stupid. And venal.
The Profilers 0
B-B-B-But he fit their profile.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg is a soulless monster.
And, in further proof that “social” media isn’t, there’s Florida Woman.
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Stephen discusses Governor DeSantis’s human trafficking of immigrants, plus a couple of other matters.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
As near as I can tell, the single underlying core value of today’s Republican Party is mean for the sake of mean.
PoliticalProf has a thought on this same issue.
Misdirection Play, CRT Dept. 0
At Crooks and Liars, Newshound Ellen follows the money.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Solomon Jones is fed up with the rule of flaw.
Deja Vu All Over Again 0
As Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., explores the reasons underlying the failure of Jackson, Mississippi’s water system.
Afterthought:
No surprises here.
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 . . . .