“That Conversation about Race” category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom comments on the Trump maladministration’s acting to sue the city of Chicago for not keeping them uppity darkies in their place (and if you think my characterization of the suit to be a tad flippant, just watch the video).
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh’s efforts to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history find another target.
On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.
To translate, the words
portray the country’s past in a negative light
is New Speak for
tell the truth about.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts wonders why the Trump maladministration is punishing persons for playing by the rules. A snippet:
Now, Trump is going after people who made appointments to come into the country legally to seek asylum — people who were issued court dates and showed up for those hearings.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s Republican policy. Here’s more evidence: Farron looks at the potential effects of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on America’s children.
Read the report that Farron discusses.
Courting Disaster 0
Writing at the Washington Monthly, George Thomas expresses–er–concerns that we cannot rely on the Supreme Supremacist Court to check Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back the clock to the 1950s (or, for that matter, the 1850s, which methinks is where his heart am longin’ to go).
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, the Los Angeles Times’s Karen Musalo hears a rhyme of refugees betrayed a long time ago.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
News item:
Even if there’s little or no truth to this report, that persons are willing to believe it shows the extent that mean for the sake of mean has become an accepted Republican family value.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Rude One looks at Donald Trump’s attempt to undo birthright citizenship and argues forcefully (and rudely) that “there Is no ‘America’ without birthright citizenship.”
Here’s a bit from his article (slightly expurgated); follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
Donald Trump himself, as a descendant of immigrants, has benefited from that very birthright citizenship he would deny to others, yet he seems eager to take us back to the days–and to the era–before it was passed.
Cruel and Unusual
0
At NJ.com, Daysi Calavia-Robertson describes what life is like for an Uber driver who’s now in an ICE concentration camp detention center.
Just go read it.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson notes that Donald Trump, who has been busily slamming the “golden door” in the faces of immigrants, threw said door wide open for 59 South Africans.
Johnson thinks the reason is quite simple:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Republican Thought Police 0
Retired professor Peter S. Wenz wonders why Pete Hegseth has purged a book that he coauthored, Faces of Environmental Racism, from the Navy. Here’s a bit of his article:
My more serious guess is that the term “racism” is the reason for the book’s expulsion.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Hoist on His Own Petard 0
As my old professor of the Early Federal Period delighted in pointing out, “history is irony.”
And some ironies are more delightful than others.
Much more at the link.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It’s just my opinion, but I do not think that “enforcing the law” and “mean for the sake of mean” are synonymous.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme–one that I am also hearing–and it’s given him a straw at which to grasp.
I hope he’s right about said straw.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and the crew explain why the Trump maladministration is renditioning refugees, including Afghan refugees who helped American forces during George Bush’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie, but making exceptions for white folks from South Africa.
(Spoiler alert: No surprises here.)
A Contradiction in Terms 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sheri Berenbaum explains why fighting prejudice, in this case antisemitism, while also opposing DEI is an oxymoronic objective, regardless of what Trump and the Trumpettes would have us think. Here’s a tiny bit from her letter to the editor (emphasis added):
A Notion of Immigrants 0
For the life of me, I can’t see anything behind this but racism, bigotry, and mean for the sake of mean.