“That Conversation about Race” category archive
The Unifying Factor 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at how Trump and the Trumpettes are reacting to the Supreme Supremacist Court’s decision to uphold the U. S. Constitution–specifically birthright citizenship–and points out what should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention:
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Thought Police 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses the Trump maladministration’s attempt to desecrate the Smithsonian Museum. A quote from his commentary:
Telling the truth is not “activism.”
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk calls out the goal of the unholy alliance between Trump and right-wing Christians:
The Rule of Lawless, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
According to an article in The Hill, the Squeaker of the House thinks that Congress can find some way to amend the Constitution all on its ownsome in the face of the Supreme Supremacist Court’s ruling that Donald Trump does not have the power to amend it himself.
The Squeaker points to the scourge of “birth tourism,” which, according to figures in the article, amounts to approximately 0.7% of babies born in the U. S. every year–this from the same people who are claiming that too few babies are born in the U. S. every year.
Left unsaid is what’s truly behind the Republican panic propaganda about this issue. Left unsaid is their actual selling point:
- Far too many these babies may be (gasp!) Not White.
They’re selling hate, and they have far too many eager buyers.
Independence Day 0
When I was in elementary school studying Virginia history (mumble) years agom in third grade, 1619 was taught as the “Red Letter Year” because of three events:
- The arrival of the first English women to the Virginia colony.
- The first sitting of the House of Burgesses, the Virginia colony’s legislature.
- The first arrival of Africans to be sold as slaves (at a spot not far from where I type this).
The legacy of the last item on that list continues to exact its toll, as the stain of America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to pollute our polity.
One of my local broadcast stations has compiled a report which I think is worthy of attention, for it addresses events that many want to pretend didn’t happen.
You can ignore history or you can lie about it–many do every day–but you can’t make it unhappen, you can’t make it go away.
American Stasi 0
Starting with a video of an American WWII veteran, who says that he fought against concentration camps 80 years ago only to see them being established now in his own country, Rick Strom reviews a litany of abuses by the Trump maladministration’s hooded KKK secretive police.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As my old professor of the early fedeeral period was fond of pointing out, “History is irony.”
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . meet a notion of immigrants.
Republican Thought Police 0
North Carolina legislators just pushed through anti-DEI legislation over the governor’s veto. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Executive Director of Intergovernmental Relations Charles Jeter describes it as a “solution in search of a problem” and fears those problems. A snippet (emphasis added):
That gray area, he said, may hamstring educators or school districts.
“They give definitions, but the definitions in and of themselves are interpretable by different people,” Jeter told the Observer. “That’s the concern: it’s the unintended consequences.”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Survivors of America’s World War II Japanese internment camps look at the Trump maladministration’s concentration camps detention centers and hear a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses Louisiana’s decision to bring back slave labor involuntary servitude.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes details how Donald Trump is making racism great again.
America Stasi 0
Under the rule of law, adjudicate and retaliate do not rhyme.
Under the rule of flaw, it seems that they may.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice that todays Supreme Supremacist Court has openly exchanged its robes black robes for white (my phrasing, not his).
No summary or excerpt can do his piece justice (just like today’s Supreme Supremacist Court can’t seem to do justic–oh, never mind). Just go read it.