“That Conversation about Race” category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
David dissects the racism and bigotry underlying the choice by Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers to blame the New Orleans Bourbon Street attack on immigrants when, in fact, said attack was perpetrated by an American-born American military veteran. Methinks his reasoning to be spot on. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
From the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up files: A member of the New Secesh laments having to give up freedom of screech.
We are a broken polity.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Farron makes a persuasive case that Donald Trump has made racism acceptable great again.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
My Daddy fought Nazis in the Ardennes.
Were he still with us, he would be–er–somewhat distressed to find home-grown Nazis on the homefront betraying the very cause that he fought for.
“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”* 0
And, remember, there are those who don’t want us to remember the past, because they do want us to repeat it, and they still rising again after all these years.
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The Entitlement Society 0
A Twits on Twitter An X Offender.
The Profiteers of Prejudice 0
David follows the money. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The SPLC takes a deep dive into the growth of anti-Haitian rhetoric lies and how they feed division and hatred.
Here’s a bit from their article (emphasis added. The whole piece is worth your while.
“The extremist forces behind the Springfield attacks know that they can only succeed with division,” she wrote. “They employ the machinery of antisemitism and racism to distract from the root causes of our collective struggles and turn us against each other.”
A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0
. . . let Texas Governor Abbott introduce you to Republican family values.
Courting Disaster under the Rule of Flaw 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice reports that, for some fool reason, Americans’ faith in the Supreme Supremacist Court, not to mention (which, natch, translates as “to mention”) lower courts is–er–somewhat in decline.
The Tales They Tell 0
To answer Curtis’s question, darn straight they do.
I went to all-white school under Jim Crow.*
They told us a lot of lies and even more half-truths about life in the old South.
And the lies live on.
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*At least, it was all-white until I think it was the tenth grade when one I’m sure very carefully chosen black girl joined the senior class; the next year, a few more black students joined the junior and senior classes, and so on.