“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Incarceration Nation 0
At the Inky, Will Bunch uses the recent shooting (gang fight?) in Sacramento as a starting point to consider whether self-proclaimed tough-on-crime prosecutors, who tend disproportionately to target minorities and the poor (remember New York City’s “broken windows” policy?), make a difference. After crunching the numbers, he argues that they do not, despite their preening posturing and pandering to the prejudiced.
A snippet:
Seeking Refuge 0
It has been noted that persons have responded differently to different groups of refugees; a number of examples have been in the news recently.
Here in the States, for example, some want to build a wall go keep out persons from Central America fleeing violence and climate change, while welcoming persons fleeing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. (And this is not a new phenomenon.)
In a timely post at Psychology Today Blogs, Professor Natalia Kucirkova explores the reasons for this.
I commend it to your attention.
The Disinformation Superhighway of Hate 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Unbending the Twigs 0
Headline: Ted Cruz’s Daughters Attend a Private School That Is ‘Antiracist’
Afterthought:
It’s really not hard to treat people like people. All you need to do is remember that they are people.
Hurdles 0
Helen Ubiñas points out that Republicans’ blatantly rude and disrespectful behavior towards Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is not unprecedented.
A Question of Identification 0
David and a caller discuss the rise of the right as it relates to cultural identification and prejudice. (Warning: short commercial at the end.)
They’re Not Even Trying To Hide It Any More, Reprise 0
The Republican Party has become the party of racism.
A Tune for Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
The Out-Liars 0
Thom follows the money.
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.