“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Gutting Out the Vote 0
LA Granderson has a question concerning the Speaker of the house:
(snip)
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
Follow the link, where Granderson puts his question into context.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
AL.com’s Roy Johnson wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
They call themselves news hawks, but they are actually carrion crowers.
Republican Thought Police 0
The SPLC tells one teacher’s story.
Afterthought:
The Republican Thought Police have a motto:
Don’t educate. Indoctrinate.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and the crew skewer racists’ claims that somehow racists are discriminated against because they are called out for being racist.
Afterthought:
I remember when my father, who grew up under Jim Crow, as did I, said to me late in his life, “I’m glad those days are gone.”
Well, those days–or, more properly, the hatred and bigotry and greed and exploitation (read “theft of labor”) that created them–are not gone, though they may have been slightly in eclipse.
Over half a century ago, Richard Nixon’s odious “Southern Strategy” invited racists to join his political party. Now that “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed Nixon’s party, so that today we have a political party dedicated to bringing back Jim Crow.
Republican Thought Police 0
Say the New Secesh, “What they don’t know can’t hurt us.”
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom and Farron talk about how today’s robber barons are bringing about the return of child labor and wonder why it’s not getting the coverage it deserves.
Karen Karen-Like 0
Or perhaps merely Karenesque.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The myth of the Lost Cause rides again!
In the world of the New Secesh, power is ignorance.
Aside:
Yeah, I know that history is not exactly repeating itself, but, to borrow a thought from Mark Twain, it sure as heck is echoing, and quite loudly at that.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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Elon Must styles himself as a “free speech absolutist” (unless, of course, someone tweets–or is it now Xcretes?–something with which he disagrees).
Au contraire, says the editorial staff of the Las Vegas Sun, which argues forcefully that Musk does not even understand what “freedom of speech” means.
An Alternate Reality 0
The Inky’s Will Bunch tells what it was like when he visited a Trump rally over the weekend. A snippet:
The Chaos Agent 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Bryan Greenspun argues forcefully that, thanks to Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, America’s new normal is chaos. Here’s part of what he says:
Every day of the four years produced one form of chaos or another as norms were upended, laws were ended and civility expunged from the daily discourse.
All that ended with the election of Joe Biden. Normalcy was certain to return and the bananas-like blip in the American psyche could subside. Or so we thought.
What the entire world didn’t count on was that Trump and his cult would not do the honorable thing and just go away.
He did the opposite.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Echoes”* 0
Now comes Charles Dew, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, documenting an echo.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Echoes”* 0
This time, it’s the Chicago Tribune’s Sean Kim Butorac who hears an echo from over two centuries ago.
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*Mark Twain
