“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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.
Ignorance /= Bliss 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Antonio French derides the duplicity of those (mostly Republican) politicians who have embarked on a crusade against “critical race theory.” Here’s an excerpt; follow the link for the rest.
But, of course, willful ignorance is never the answer.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Seattle Times’s Naomi Ishisaka explains.
Being While Black 0
In more news of the vile, a black business owner was assaulted for being:
“Black b-word, n-word, talked about my hair, ‘You black women with your weaves,’ ” she said.
And it got worse from there.
Critical of Critical Critics 0
At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia’s 2017 Teacher of the Year is taken aback at the movement to forbid the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools (where, as a matter of fact, it generally is not taught, being largely a topic in academia). Here’s tiny bit from her article (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
The Unwelcoming 0
At the Kansas City Star, Toriano Porter tells the story of the behavior that greeted a black family when they moved into a new town seeking better schools.
Spoiler Alert: It’s not pretty.
They Must Be High on Something . . . 0
. . . but, whatever it is, it won’t be Coke.
The ban passed during a Board of Commissioners meeting on May 17 with a 3-2 vote as a direct response to Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey’s comments calling the voting law “unacceptable” and “a step backwards.”
More news of the petty racist stupidity at the link.
“If We Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., gets to the core of the sudden wave of opposition to critical race theory. Here’s the gist; follow the link for the rest.
Strike None! 0
At Above the Law, Elizabeth Dye argues that courts will bawk at Trumpettes’ attempt to sue Major League Baseball for moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to the Georgia legislature’s voting suppression efforts.
Misdirection Play(s), Florida Man Dept. 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell takes a look at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s practice of building windmills just so he can tilt at them, with a focus on DeSantis’s latest shibboleth, Critical Race Theory. Here’s a bit; much more at the ink.
The declaration scored the governor the headlines he craved. (Washington Times: “Ron DeSantis vows action on critical race theory that teaches children to ‘hate their country’“)
Except for two key points:
1) That’s not what Critical Race Theory actually does.
2) No local school districts actually teach this theory as part of their curriculums.
