Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Racism
In a New York Times op-ed today, a black member of the Southern Baptist Convention says he’s done with the largest Protestant body in the nation. Read more →
Appearing on Weekend Edition Sunday, James said white people “need to police their own imaginations.”
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What does it say about America that a guy can’t dress up like a bear and play some music without getting jumped?
It happened again to Keytar Bear, who is an iconic busker in Boston.
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Is there a language that’s too strong to use when condemning white supremacy?
The Southern Baptists thought so this week until yesterday when they formally condemned ‘”every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as of the devil.’ Read more →
The school district says students can rip the page out or they’ll provide a sticker to go over the offensive quote.
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Adams Jones, the Baltimore Orioles star who focused attention on racism among baseball fans, has a message today for people who dismiss his claims.
‘Come play centerfield,’ he said in an essay. Read more →
Not surprisingly, last week’s multiple posts about the racists who attend games at Boston’s Fenway Park brought out the commenters who view these sorts of things as assaults on free speech.
They’re probably racist too, a study released last week from the University of Kansas says.
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After the uproar this week when a player for the Baltimore Orioles reported he was the target of racist epithets at Boston’s Fenway Park, some fans gave Adam Jones a standing ovation the next night.
Heartwarming stuff. Everything cool now?
Nope. You can’t clap racism away. Read more →
It doesn’t erase the stain of its racist reputation, but Boston Red Sox fans did what they could last night to apologize to a black player who was subject to racist taunts the night before. Read more →
The shame we feel in incidents like this is our brain’s way of telling us what our heart doesn’t want to accept: We own the racism that lives among us. Read more →
Particularly in a rural part of the state, finding people to volunteer for party leadership at the county or district level can be difficult. But the answer isn’t to take whomever is willing to do the job.
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Changing a sports team’s logo is a pretty simple task. All it takes is a bucketload of money, as the Minnesota Timberwolves showed last night as part of the team’s plan to wipe away the stench of bad basketball.
Wiping away the stench of racism, however, continues to befuddle the sports world and the people who run the leagues, particularly baseball and football. Read more →
Timothy Caughman, an Army veteran, was pretty proud of himself on Election Day, getting up early to stand in a fairly long line for the privilege of voting. God bless America.
Mr. Caughman is dead because he’s black.
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It happened to the Pleasant Run Panther Bots, who had just won the competition near Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Star reports. Two on the team are African American, three are Latino. After they won, students and parents reportedly told them to ‘Go back to Mexico.’ Read more →