“That Conversation about Race” category archive
They Are Not Even Trying To Hide It Anymore 0
Republicans wave their racist flags in the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings.
I’m a Southern Boy. I grew up with racism. It still sneaks up on me in my thoughts from time to time, but I recognize it and beat it back down.
I know racism when I see it.
The Republican Party has become the party of racism.
The Republicans Play The Only Card Left in Their Deck 0
The racist card, that is.
Hell, I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools. I know racists when I see them. But I digress . . . .
Elie Mystal comments on the Republicans who are questioning Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court.
Via C&L, which takes issue with some of Mystal’s comments. (Personally, I think that is a matter of unconscious vx. conscious motivation.)
Race Is a Fiction 0
At the Hartford Courant, Trinity University professor Johnny Williams writes powerfully of the fiction called “race.”
The blunt truth is that race is a construct created by English settlers in the American colonies to justify chattel slavery and continues to poison our polity today. It was founded in greed and exploitation and nourishes them still. Until we as a society are willing to face that–and we clearly aren’t–it will continue to pollute our polity.
Here’s a bit:
But there is no “white race.”
Whiteness is a shared conglomeration of fabricated meanings and ideas about biologically insignificant human differences. Whiteness only exists in relation or opposition to blackness and other fictitious racial categories created by whiteness adherents for the purpose of cementing a higher status and material advantage over other people that are excluded from being white.
Read the whole thing.
Borderline Disorder 0
Yastreblyansky makes the diagnosis.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
No doubt he will say he was just putting him in his place.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles Blow summarizes Republicans’ seven step plan to salvage segregation.
All the History that Fits 0
A retired Auburn University history professor responds to Alabama’s effort to whitewash (you will pardon the expression) American history.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept.
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At SFGate, Drew Magary argues forcefully that certain states (Texas, Florida, etc.) are trying to secede without actually seceding. He suggests that, in the long run, it won’t go well for them, but, in the short run, we can expect much gratuitous suffering for those who don’t fit their image of “real Americans.” A nugget:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses how Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed become the raison d’etre of the Republican Party.
I’m a Southern boy. I know bigots when I see them.
All the History that Fits 0
At The Roanoke Times, Richard Sullivan, Jr., envisions a history class free of “divisive concepts” as mandated by Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin.
No excerpt or summary can do his article justice. Just read it.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A caller calls out America’s color-coded double standard on granting refuge to refugees.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The St. Louis Post-Gazette’s Kevin McDermott offers some profiles in cowardice.