“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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.
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.