GRITtv: Who Can and Can't Talk About Race

Judith Browne-Dianis and Melissa Harris-Lacewell discuss who can and can't talk about race publicly, and why Joe Biden might have an easier time broaching the subject than Barack Obama.

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[RonQE]

Funny how this discussion is being held between one roughly half-black mixed woman, one mostly-white mixed race woman and one white woman.

[level242]

What's a grit?

[RonQE]

@kmcl11 I know which one is Judith.

She is clearly at least as much white as black. Very much a mixed woman. That is obvious.

[kmcl11]

@RonQE Judith is the darker woman. She looks nothing white.

[RonQE]

@kmcl11 OK, I can agree with you.

Judith is probably LESS than half-black. I was just referring to "roughly".

But the more I look at her, the more it's obvious to anyone with experience and half a brain that she's more white than black.

[kmcl11]

@RonQE Not funny at all, makes sense. Judith is not half black.

[godnosnotrue]

Once there was a movie about what Burroughs called anteamnesia, which was called Memento, which involved one with a head trauma that allowed him to remember only the very recent past, to the exclusion of all that went before. We see it here. The commenters can only recall the most recent news event, sufficient to hold their attention in that it involved the F word, and for no other reason.

At least the victim in Memento had the good sense to keep notes.

[Poetlawyer06]

Is cursing necessary? Really? Also, Joe may have a few gaffes (what longstanding politician does not) but he is compassionate, human, and respectful. This is why he has been in congress so long is so well respected.