From TPM Reader SD …
I was listening to some old Shelby Foote C-Span interviews recently on YouTube. I was listening to this one on his interactions with William Faulkner. If you listen to this interview between roughly the nine-minute mark and the 16-minute mark, he gives a lengthy perspective on his views of the South and Mississippi of his youth.
From TPM Reader DH …
I was happy to see MK’s comments. They helped me understand a bit what the anti-wokeness energy is about.
It’s arguably been a challenging week for false information peddlers who seem unable to keep from getting caught advancing fact-free claims as they mount falsehood to generate outrage over a nonexistent meat rationing policy — and now — a fictional tale that Vice President Kamala Harris’ book was part of a welcome kit for migrant children.
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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack after being beaten by the pro-Trump insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6, slammed ex-President Donald Trump and the lawmakers who have been downplaying the events of that day.
From TPM Reader MK …
I’ve never written in about a story before, but I’m right at the heart of this one! I’m in my early 40s, female, and mixed race. People usually think I’m Latina, occasionally they think I’m Black (I’m neither). I’m pretty progressive (voted for Warren).
I work in a very woke environment. Some of the things are great! It’s nice to know people’s pronouns.The company Ramadan message included helpful, actionable suggestions on how to be considerate of our fasting colleagues. This workplace is absolutely more diverse than anywhere else I’ve worked.
I don’t agree with TPM Reader PC on the inevitability of this. But I think he captures certain key dynamics of language and power.
I think it is important to view the “wokeness” field of battle as primarily and initially as a raw display of shifting power relationships.
In this light, the use of constantly changing norms of language is not a bug but an epiphenomenal feature.
In a sense, the whole rightwing fear and pushback against “wokeness” is a tacit acknowledgement that, actually, the culture war is already over and they lost.
When Greg Keoleian and Diego Rose flicked through their email inboxes Sunday morning, a message caught their attention.
Federal investigators have launched a civil rights investigation into the law enforcement killing of Andrew Brown, a Black man shot and killed in North Carolina last week.
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From TPM Reader DW …
Great piece today…I had several phone conversations with Shelby in the early 2000s. I grew up in Memphis, but have lived in NYC since 1997. What started as a discussion about The Moviegoer with Wynton Marsalis turned into a discussion on white southerners and race. Wynton has been a mentor to me, and through him I’ve gotten to score several films for Ken Burns. Shelby is difficult to pigeon hole, as you know.
I’ve been making my way through your emails about this morning’s post on language. I’ll likely be publishing some of them later. One was from longtime TPM Reader NG who writes: “I am wondering if TPM could do a piece on the African-American use of the term “woke,” which has been appropriated and turned into a culture war cliche that ridicules black history/struggles and either self-victimizes or self-aggrandizes the person who bandies the term about.”
