“That Conversation about Race” category archive
American Stasi, Reprise 0
Thom takes an in-depth look at what’s happening in Minneapolis and finds a straw at which to grasp.
American Stasi 0
Methinks a strong case can be made that they are practicing cannon law.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:
Follow the link for context.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well-established, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
And nothing says “Republican family values” more than detaining the father of a six-year old girl on his way to pick up their supper because he’s brown.
“The Rent Is Too Damn High”
And Republicans Are Lying about Why
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Davud debunks de bunk and, in the process, explains how lies work.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom reports on ICE agents’ handcuffing a pastor for peacefully protesting their actions.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald takes issue with Donald Trump’s recent claims that white persons were badly treated after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. A snippet:
Or to believe it.
Because the Civil Rights Act – the Movement itself – didn’t just make life better for Black people. It made life better for poor white people too, no matter what the anger mongers might say. It gave them voice in elections and the tools to compete in the marketplace. It broke down walls and made America better. Particularly in places like my home.
His entire article is worth the few moments it will take you to read it.
Aside:
Trump’s remark provides another bit of evidence that Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Foxy Shady 0
Sam and the crew delight in a Fox News interview that goes absolutely not how Fox wanted it to go.
American Stasi 0
He’s an American citizen, but he looked as if he might just possibly could be of Hispanic descent, so ICE agents rammed his car.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s bit of the cadence:
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*Mark Twain.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
The killing of a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, by an ICE agent this week, was a tragedy, due to a situation created by Trump as a political stunt and a show of force in a state that he lost in the last election, all aimed at getting revenge on Governor Walz, who has called Trump out as a dangerous, power-mad, corrupt and petty fascist.
While it is impossible to know what went on in the mind of the ICE agent as he fired multiple times, at close range, into Good’s car, I find Kristy Noem’s version of events hard to believe. Based upon what I saw on video of the event, I imagined my own narrative of what might possibly transpire in a similar situation. My version seems as likely as the version created and pushed by the government.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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It looks like the hood has slipped off.
Misdirection Play, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Sal Rodriguez discusses that furor over welfare fraud in Minnesota. He notes that, though Somali immigrants are being targeted by the Trump maladministration, (emphasis added)
The founder of the organization, a white American named Aimee Bock, was convicted of her crimes. Dozens of others involved in the scheme have pled guilty. Most of those involved were of Somali background.
So why, one wonders, are Somalis getting all the blame publicity? Rodriguez suggests that the answer is quite simple:
Methinks the full article. is worth your while.
No Rooming at the Inn 0
These days, you hear a lot in the news about the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. You don’t hear much about the Third Amendment, which was written in reaction to the British forcing colonials to take British soldiers into their homes back in colonial times. It reads in its entirety
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice predicts that it might be a thing because of the actions of the Trump maladmistration.