“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Republican Platform 0
PoliticalProf sums it up.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini dissects the deception behind the dog whistle (emphasis added).
They were playing off a book published in France some years earlier claiming that Europe was being overrun by immigrants (in this case, Muslim and Black immigrants) under a plan by “elites” to replace native-born Europeans.
This ugly “replacement theory” was quickly picked up by nativists here and expanded to “you will not replace us.”
(snip)
Creating an honest and fair immigration system, and a secure border, is a sensible, necessary national policy. This isn’t that.
This is an attempt to use fear and deep-seeded insecurities to win elections. And it works.
Indoctrination Nation 0
The Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald do the math.
“Just Live with It” Is Not an Option 0
A law professor takes issue with Justice (sic) Clarence Thomas. Here’s how he opens his article; follow the link for the rest.
This is a remarkable statement.
By this same philosophy, we should chide those, who were unwilling to “live with” Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Twits on Twitter 0
He was a mere twit. Now he’s a no account twit.
Theocracy, Reprise 0
Methinks Michael in Norfolk identifies the original sin.
As the Twig Is Bent . . . 0
. . . and, boy, are these twigs bent.
And you know very well they didn’t get that way all on their ownsome.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maureen Downey explores the effects of the state of Georgia’s war on historical fact. Here’s a bit:
It’s not a coincidence that the misinformation campaign that Georgia schools taught critical race theory followed the election of Georgia’s first Black and Jewish American senators, and as Confederate monuments fell across the country.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
Aside:
Farron missed the undercurrent. Let’s decode the code.
When right-wingers attack “welfare,” they are invoking the spirit and racist imagery of Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen.” The word “welfare” has become yet another racist dog whistle.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Honest to Betsy, this is just mean for the sake of mean.
What’s the Opposite of Woke? Asleep 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston skewers the duplicity and under-lying bigotry of Florida’s “anti-woke” law. Here’s a bit;
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Sam and his crew discuss the Republicans’ weaponization of anti-immigrant bigotry.
Freedom of Screech 0
Murjani Rawls finds an irony in the right-wing’s celebration of Elon Musk’s promises to make Twitter a bastion of free speech screech.
More irony at the link.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
(The flags above the right-hand door are flags of South and Central American nations.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It never ends . . . .
(snip)
Authorities allege in an affidavit that Pilon went to stores in Saginaw leaving nooses attached to a note that read: “An accessory to be worn with your ‘BLM’ t-shirt. Happy protesting!” The messages were found in several places, including a Goodwill parking lot, inside a beverage cooler at a 7-Eleven and in a Walmart parking lot.
He probably thought he was being witty.
He was half-right.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
Not that racism is intertwined in American society, history, and culture or anything like that there . . . .
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests, v. 2.0 0
Thom points out that the phrase “voter fraud” is nothing more than Republican code for “the wrong people voting.”
“Forced Busing,” Redux 0
Methinks Noz has a point.
Aside:
For those of you who don’t know that “forced busing” was, here’s a look back.
Of course, when I was growing up in the segregated South, it wasn’t “forced busing” when I was bused past the all-black school to go to the all-white school. It was just the way things were.
Those Who Ignore History . . . . 0
A people that refuses to face its past is condemned not learn from its history.
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