“That Conversation about Race” category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Apparently, law professor Amy Wax wants to bring back the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Afterthought:
The United States’s immigration restrictions are a history of racism writ in law.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Christopher Dale is less than optimistic, and I fear he has reason.
Equal Justice under the Law 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun reminds us that some people are more equal than others,
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
In a fascinating example of history’s repeating itself, Karen Dunn and Roberta A. Kaplan explain how the increased racist militancy and violence of the New Secesh has breathed new life into the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871.
They Can’t Won’t Handle the Truth
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At The Philadelphia Inquirer, journalism professor Linn Washington Jr. looks at the continuing attempts to conceal* “critical race theory” (which, again, is not taught in schools; it’s grad school topic) and, indeed, any discussion of America’s history regarding race and racism, from school children. He concludes
Critical race theory is not an existential threat to America.
The greater threat remains continued denial of truths about racism.
Follow the link for his path to that conclusion.
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*Which, indeed, is what this is about: concealing truth in a cloud of pious, hypocritical “concern for the children.” They aren’t concerned about the children. They are concerned about their own damned white privilege.
Twits on Twitter 0
A twit who is still rising again after all these years.
School Daze 0
At the Washington Monthly, Jonathan Zimmerman looks at the conflicts regarding, critical race theory (which, again, is not taught in primary and secondary schools); library books and reading lists; and curricula that is currently bubbling at many local school boards and puts them under a macro-Scopes.
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.