“That Conversation about Race” category archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Solomon Jones is fed up with the rule of flaw.
Deja Vu All Over Again 0
As Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., explores the reasons underlying the failure of Jackson, Mississippi’s water system.
Afterthought:
No surprises here.
A Class Act 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal thinks that the sentiment agains President Biden’s student loan forgiveness is rooted in concepts of social class, that those who are being helped are somehow the “undeserving poor.”
Methinks she is on to something. Follow the link for her reasoning.
That Inconvenient Past 0
Writing at NOLA.com, Walter Kimbrough offers a perspective on President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. He argues forcefully that those who are shouting that Biden’s program is somehow “not fair” forget (or, I would suggest, are intentionally blind to) past unfairness. Here’s a bit of his piece; follow the link for the rest:
It isn’t fair that those same HBCUs were unequally funded, a practice that has continued for over 50 years. For example, between 1957 and 2007, Tennessee State University did not receive its matching state funding . . . .
He Wore the Grey 0
Warning: Short promo at the end.
I had ancestors who wore the grey.
They were wrong then, and those who would emulate them are wrong now.
Originalist Sin 1
Mark W. Schwiebert points out that the concept of Constitutional Originalism is, in fact, contrary to the thoughts of those who originated the Constitution.
Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
To be blunt, the motivating factor behind “Constitutional Originalism” it to restore the 3/5s clause, if not de jure, at least de facto. All the rest is smoke screen.
House of Wax 0
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice has–er–questions about the purported charity status of Professor Amy Wax’s new legal defense fund.
Florida Man 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells the tale of Captain Florida.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch opines that Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate seems to one of those risers again.