“The South in some ways becomes the repository for the nation’s sins, right? And then it allows the rest of the country to conceive of itself as relatively pristine.”

‘Community Character’ Concerns Are a Veil – a Thin One [Al Abdallah, COO, Urban League of San Diego County/Voice of San Diego]

[Groups] behind the most recent efforts to ostensibly protect “community character” – like those in Kensington, Talmadge, and El Cerrito – have something obvious in common. These are the same communities that used redlining to shut out families of color decades ago.

School boards boil

School Boards Are Losing It. By Will Huntsberry at Voice of San Diego — School board standoffs around San Diego County go back to fights about reopening during the pandemic, and have moved on to other issues and racism. These include the movement to recall Charda Bell-Fontenot in the La Mesa-Spring Valley school district, where we live.

Congressman Paul Gosar is cozy with white supremacist anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers, and neither the GOP leadership nor Democrats have spoken against him.

Throwing tortillas isn’t a racist act — until it is

Paul Atreides is no savior, but “Dune” is a white-savior narrative — Emmet Asher-Perrin on Tor.com