“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
- A diller, a dollar,
No funding for scholars.
The Pettiest Officers 0
Andreas Kluth examines the maliciousness of what he calls “the petty purges of Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio” and concluces that
Follow the link for his path to that conclusion.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seth notes that Donald Trump’s pogrom against immigrants appears to be less popular than he might have expected.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes about Arizona’ state Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne, who’s position on a history book that contains actual history can be summarized as “I haven’t read the book, and you shouldn’t either.”
I commend her article to your attention.
Aside:
As one who trained as an historian, I find today’s Republican Party’s efforts to claim that history wasn’t to be particularly offensive. And stupid. And insidiously, invidiously harmful to the polity.
Masked Marauders 0
Thom argues that Trump has given a green light to racists to act like racists.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Lawrence O’Donnell minces no words in commenting on Donald Trump’s restoring the names of military bases so as to honor the Secesh.
Via C&L, which has the transcript.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Garrett Epps hears a rhyme:
The struggle in the 1850s arose out of the federal government’s determination to return Black Americans to slavery (via the Fugitive Slave Act–ed.) even after they had escaped to the free North. What is happening on the streets of American cities—and most particularly, now, on the streets of Los Angeles—carries uncanny echoes of that decade-long battle, which ended in secession and Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron argues that Stephen Miller is upset because there’s no there there.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump maladministration has taken off its mask–or, perhaps more accurately, put on its hood.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
Wearing a mask to protect your health and slow the spread of a pandemic is not the same thing as wearing a mask to hide your identity while violating persons’ Constitutional rights, regardless of what some pipsqueak pol who’s in way over his head might say.
Separation of Posers 0
Sam and the crew dissect Donald Trump’s feud with Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill debunks de bunk. A snippet (emphasis added):
“If We Don’t Talk about It, Then It Must Not Have Happened” 0
The Trump maladministration’s attempt to expurgate America’s history of the parts is doesn’t like continues apace.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It was supposed to be a father-daughter fishing outing.
It turned into the daughter’s first encounter with a rock-throwing name-calling racist.