“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Origins (of an) Issue 0
David Neiwert takes a long look at why, after languishing in the obscurity of academia for four decades, “critical race theory” has become the target of a crusade by right-wingers and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers.
I commend his piece to your attention.
“If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen” 0
LZ Granderson ponders on the reasons for opposing the discussion of critical race theory. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
Afterthought:
I’m a Southern boy.
I had ancestors who held (as the expression goes) slaves.
I don’t feel guilty about it, because I wasn’t there. But I will be damned if I will participate in excusing or exculpating or whitewashing (you will pardon the expression) their sin.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell explores how Florida’s governor managed to pander to the prejudiced and procure plaudits from right-wing media while changing practically nothing. Maxwell looks at a recently passed Florida law that purportedly requires employers to check the legal status of job applicants using the federal “E-Verify” system, except when it doesn’t. A nugget (emphasis added):
“But There’s No Other Possible Explanation” 0
In the December issue of Psychology Today, Jennifer Latson explores why smart people can believe dumb things, such as the notion that
- 5G cell towers cause COVID-19;
- the January 6 invaders of the Capitol were “Antifa crisis actors” pretending to be Trump supporters; and
- honesty about this nation’s racist history causes more racism.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Follow the link for the rest.
The Noaccount Recount 0
At AZCentral.com, Warren Stewart explores the motive for the Arizona Senate’s noaccount recount:
Follow the link for his evidence.
They Know Not of What They Speak 0
AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire asked an Alabama legislator who submitted a bill to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in primary and secondary schools (where it is not taught, by the way) to define “critical race theory.”
The Whitewashing of American History 0
I’m a Southern boy.
I lived through my own whitewashing in my segregated school, where what I was taught about Virginia’s history was, shall we say, less than objective. Then I trained to be an historian . . . .
Hell, I was taught that 1619 was the “red letter year,” because it saw the arrival of a significant number of English women to satisfy the lust of the colonists (lust was not addressed in the third grade) (that part seems questionable, but that’s what I was taught when I was eight years old), the creation of the first representative organ of government in the English colony, and the first arrival of African slaves.
Yes, I was taught that the establishment of slavery was a good thing, a red letter thing.
I guess you can call that “uncritical race theory,” the sort of “race theory” that the Republican Party now advocates.
The Republican Party has become the party of racism.
Issues or Identity? 0
Thom wonders whether the United States can survive as a multi-racial, ethnic, religious democracy.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” has come full circle.
The Republican Party has become the party of racism.
The Cowardice of Their Convictions 0
The Des Moines Register’s Reka Basu calls out Republicans’ efforts to ban “critical race theory” and, along with that, honest discussion of American history. A snippet:
It’s too guilt-inducing, they say.
Aside:
Methinks it induces guilt because the guilt is deserved, and they can’t face that.
Or perhaps they feel no guilt and don’t want others to do so.
Borderline Insanity 0
The Arizona Republic’s Elvira Diaz is fed up with right-wingers’ faux outrage over Vice President Harris’s decision to skip a meaningless photo op and, instead, do something substantive.