“That Conversation about Race” category archive
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.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0
Shorter Steven Miller: Constitutional rights? We don’t care about no Constitutional rights.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to have decided that it would be a darned shame if members of our military had access to ideas that said maladministration wishes to suppress.
Trade Deficient 0
The Trump maladministration is trying to get foreign countries to comply with its anti-DEI (that is, racist and bigoted) “policies.” Here’s a bit from the report at Mediaite:
Specifically, U.S. embassy officials in Stockholm gave the city’s planning office 10 days to sign an agreement stating that Swedish officials would comply with U.S. anti-discrimination laws and eschew DEI policies that run afoul of them. The agreement would apply to contractors that do work for the U.S. embassy.
Republican Thought Police 0
It looks as if things didn’t go so well for the Republican thought police in the recent school board elections in Texas.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette’s Gene Collier warns of some arresting developments.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Indiana’s Lt. Governor tries to rewrite history.
Afterthought:
They don’t want to admit the reality of slavery because that would require them to come face to face with who they really are.
They would rather believe that Gone with the Wind was an historical document, rather than what it was, probably the single most effective piece of political propaganda in America’s history.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Suffer the children. It’s a Republican family value.
So is mean for the sake of mean.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
“Woke”? Not if today’s Republican Party gets its way.
Via Boston.com, Republicans are now opposing efforts to remove bigotry and racism from AI.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Rick Strom looks behind the curtain and explains it all in one simple sentence.
Because you are not a white person who is from this country, you are a target.
Watch the full clip for context:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority manufactured to justify it continue to poison our polity.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets Republican Family Values 0
We are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
A Definitional Issue 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Ricky Kendall argues that DEI is not the horrible thing that today’s Republican Party seems to think it is and offers to explain it to them in words of one syllable.
Still Rising Again after All the Years 0
The New Secesh have decided that, if they can’t acually undo history, they can hide it away so that no one remembers it.
Collateral Damage 0
The first crew of the U. S. S. Barry chose as a motto “Strength and Diversity” (meaning diversity of tactics and weaponry) over three decades ago.
Now comes James Stavridis, who served on that ship, to report that the anti-DEI crowd now is coming after its motto.
We are a society going backwards.
