Politics of Hate category archive
American Taliban 0
Warning: Language.
Plus Ca Change 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, my school district finally gave in to Brown v. Board of Education, a decision rendered eleven years earlier. (My county had not participated in “massive resistance”; its resistance had been quite passive.)
We “integrated” (this was in 1965) which meant that one very brave black girl (who I am certain was carefully chosen for toughness and resilience) from the black high school joined the white high school’s senior class; no white students moved to the black high school.* The next year, a few more black students joined a few more classes at the white high school.
This was known as “gradual integration.”
Proms and school dances for that and I-don’t-know-how-many subsequent years were then cancelled because one of them and one of us might dance together.
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*Many white students, though, were pulled out of the white high school to attend the new seg academy all-white “private” school.
By the by, whenever I hear anyone complain of “forced busing,” I will remember that I was forced-bused right by the black high school to the white one.
A Picture Is Worth 2
Image via Juan Cole.
Aside:
It is ironic that, if (when?) this country goes to hell, it will be persons who loudly proclaim themselves “Christian” who lead it there.
Walkering Back to the Gilded Age 0
James Causey details Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s latest ploy to humiliate the have-nots.
Paris 0
If you want to follow events in Paris, you will probably get the best English-language coverage at TheLocal.
“People of the Book” 0
In the Guardian, Gayatri Devi suggests that persons who pound the Bible should take a break and read a bit of it. A snippet:
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Do fundamentalist readers hear the hope and humanity of the ark myth and connect it to the specter of poverty, suffering and degradation in the wastelands of our great nation? Or do they, like Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry, read natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina and the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, as God giving them the green signal for the Christian Right to take control of our government?
The Art of Appeal 0
Keith Larson thinks he has uncovered the secret of Donald Trump’s success and sums it up in two words.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., decodes de code.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Proposed headline: Hen House Strikes Back at Fox.
Fox News was found in breach of British broadcast code that says, “Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience.”
More at the link.
“Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves” 2
Wisconsin Republicans seek new ways to punish the poor for being.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.