“That Conversation about Race” category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
After Stephen Miller’s most recent antic, it’s difficult avoid the obvious: the Trump maladministration’s campaign against immigrants is about the color of their skin.
Claims to the contrary are just hoods to hide the truth.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Reprise 0
For example.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Jodi Bondi Norgaard expresses concern over the ethnic and national slurs, invective, and insults that have become routine under Donald Trump and his maladministration. She has qualms about what this behavior may portend.
Methinks her concerns may not be misplaced. A snippet:
So we must ask, as citizens and as humans: What kind of society do we want?
The Rule of Lawless 0
Harvard law professor Noah Feldman argues that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Family Values 0
Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, reminds us that mean for the sake of mean seems to have become the overriding Republican family value. Here’s how he opens his piece:
The entire article is worthy of your attention.
Cui Bono? American Stasi Dept. 0
Who’s making money from the racist crackdown by the New Secesh? Truthout follows the money. A snippet:
Rogue State 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones draws upon his own experience in combat during the war in Viet Nam to discuss the Trump maladministration’s overt and willful violations of the rules of war in their campaign against Venezuelan fishing boats.
Just read iit.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Kansas City Star, Joel Mathis argues cogently that the Republican thought police do not just want to stop students from being “indoctrinated” (something that isn’t happening except in their own warped minds:, they want to stop them from learning. He asks
What good is higher education if it doesn’t broaden a student’s understanding of the world?
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts on the matter.
The Republican Health Care Plan:
“You’re on Your Own, Buddy”
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Sam and the crew discuss the Republican nothingburger.
Aside:
If you wonder why the Party of the New Secesh is so determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamnacare” by the Republican Party, I think the answer is quite simple.
Barrack Obama is not white.
And he is a Democrat.
Every time the Party of the New Secesh hear the word, “Obamacare”–a word which they coined, mind you–it reminds them that a not-white Democrat crafted a somewhat successful plan to make America’s health care you-can-hardly-call-it-a system a little fairer, and it drives them nuts.
They just want to make it go away.
But that’s just my take.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the behavior of Tommy Tuberville, who wants to be Alabama’s next governor, and sees George Wallace rising again.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
For some fool reason, I seem to hear a rhyme in this statement of the Commander of the U. S. S. Gravely upon its return from patrolling the Caribbean against the dangers posed by Venezuelan fishing boats (emphasis added):
“I follow the news. I also follow the orders of the Secretary of War and the President of the United States, and so that’s what we carry out,” he said.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Sam and the crew discuss ICE agents’ ignoring Americans’ Constitutional rights.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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It appears that Kyle Rittenhouse may have, you will pardon the expression, shot himsself in the foot.