“That Conversation about Race” category archive
“What They Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Me” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at Florida Man’s war against history. A snippet:
Debunking de Bunk 0
The College Board has responded to Florida Man’s efforts to white wash–I use that term advisedly–American history as taught in Florida schools. Here’s a bit of their response:
Follow the link for the complete letter, in which they debunk in a detailed in a point-by-point manner Florida Man’s bunk.
The Great Erasure 0
Congressperson Alma Adams sees precedent for current attempt by the New Secesh to pretend that slavery wasn’t and racism isn’t.
Ignorance Is Not Only Bliss . . . 0
, , , it’s also Florida Man’s educational you-will-pardon-the-term strategy.
The Privatization Scam 0
At the Des Moines Register, Matt Pries, teacher from a family of teachers, offers some thoughts about why public schools have become a favorite target of the New Secesh. Here’s a bit of his article; I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Freedom of Screech 0
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice deciphers some doubletalk.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
If you dig into the politics of hate in the United States, however it be manifested, your shovel will eventually strike America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racism which was manufactured to justify it. We close our eyes to that at our peril
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At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Charles B. Dew–who, like me, grew up under Jim Crow–explains how he came realize how he was raised to be racist and how eventually, through education and experience, came to recognize racism for the evil it is. Now retired, he has returned to his native Florida.
Here’s how he starts his article (emphasis added):
I suspect our current governor would be just fine with this.
Follow the link, where explains what he meant with the last sentence above.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Aside:
Many years ago, during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the highest officials from my then-segregated school district drove to New Orleans for some sort of conference. My father later told me that one of them–who went on to serve competently and honorably as the county Superintendent of Schools for many years–told him this anecdote:
In Mississippi, the atmosphere was so hostile that the travelers–all white Southerners, remember–started to fake their accents to sound even more Southern than they already did.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Gary Franks, who served in the House of Representatives during the Clinton Presidency, was the first black Republican elected to the House in New England in five decades. Now, two decades later, he reminds us the KKK may no longer hide in hoods, but that it still does exist. Here’s a bit from his article:
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun parses Florida Man’s playbook; they conclude he is implementing a three-pronged strategy to bring back Jim Crow, Here are the prongs:
- The first is you must separate groups of people as much as possible.
- Importantly, an essential piece of isolating people from on another is not allowing the history and reality of other people to be discussed.
- The third essential element needed to create a society that will tolerate racism is to deny the oppressed group equal access to that core of democracy: the ballot box.
Follow the link for their reasoning.
(Not that there’s any kind of pattern that one might discern in recent events.
Base Desires 0
Thom and Dean Obeidallah discuss why Republicans don’t like Representative Ilhan Omar and what it says about the Republican Party.
Calling Out the Craven 0
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had it with Republicans’ racism, bigotry, and hypocrisy.
Not that they care.
As I have mentioned before, Richard Nixon’s racist “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. The Republican Party is now the party of the New Secesh.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun weighs in on the antics of the Republican-led House of Representatives incongruously assembled.
The prognosis is not encouraging.