“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Blissful Students, Ignorance Is Bliss Dept. 0
The Houston Chronicle lists the five books in Texas public school systems most often challenged by parents and politicians who want Texas students to remain blissfully ignorant.
Some of them will surprise you.
Immunity Impunity
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Tony Norman recounts how police officers’ killing a black man who had done nothing wrong becomes reduced to “a series of procedural flaws.”
Words fail me.
The Kult of Kyle 0
This is just creepy.
How Stuff Works, Racism in Schools Dept. 0
Apparently, one town has decided that, if no one talks about it, it must not have happened.
Will Lack of Preparation Prove Pestilential? 0
John J. Petillo, president of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., is concerned that the neglect of education in civics bodes ill. He writes in the Hartford Courant:
Follow the link for more.
Regulating the Marketplace of Ideas 0
A retired English teacher has a suggestion for parents who fear that their children might learn something of which said parents disapprove (like, for example, American history or human diversity).
Follow the link for his rationale.
History Hysteria 0
Farron comments on Ron DeSantis’s attempt to make history go away.
This is little more than the Lost Cause redux.
America’s racists hate history, because history reveals that they are what they are.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It is also a key element in the strategy of American racists and bigots going back over a century and a half.
The Prison Reformer 0
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks the insurrectionists in the D. C. jail are suffering unduly while awaiting trial for an attempted coup d’etat.
Karen Karen-Like 0
A Karen phones it in.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A Tennessee teacher was fired for teaching truth. Apparently, his own white privilege flew.
Here’s a bit of the report.
Then at the start of last school year, he made a pronouncement during a discussion about police shootings that would derail his career. White privilege, he told his nearly all-White class, is “a fact.”
He spoke truth to students. We can’t have that, now, can we?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports on a long-time white supremacist, ex-KKK leader, and convicted felon running for local office in Georgia.
The report points out that, though not a common phenomenon, this is also not an isolated one in these Trumpled times. Given the increased boldness of white supremacists, bigots, and haters, I think the article is well worth a read. Here’s a tiny bit:
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Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior political scientist with the RAND Corp. and an expert on political disinformation, said candidates with Doles’ background have good reasons to see an opening in mainstream politics. The rapid spread of disinformation on social media, a hyperpolarized political environment and the increase power of partisan rhetoric have created fertile ground for such campaigns, she said.