By Barbara Goldberg and Nathan Frandino SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - One year after a statue of Francis Scott Key was toppled by racial injustice protest.
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Well, that’s… not at all ludicrous. Personally, I’m in favor of presenting text in full but then not gratuitously turning the class into an opportunity for adolescent edgelord white professors to hurl racial epithets. Everyone can read the case and know what it says, we don’t need to have dramatic reenactments in class.
But even if this particular proposal is too extreme a solution, cutting back the text of the case to a version that delivers the crux of the Court’s disgraceful argument without necessarily dragging everyone through the rhetoric isn’t an absurd proposition. How one gets from this honest philosophical question to the idea that the case will soon be excised from courses is hard to fathom.
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Commentator Peter Goodman shares thoughts on racism, discrimination, and bias that continues to exist in our country.
Commentary: Suppose that, because interest rates are low, you’re refinancing the house you bought a few years ago for $100,000. Everyone knows home prices have risen. Your first two appraisals come in at $110,00 and $125,000, but your house is clearly worth much more. You pay for a market analysis: $187,500. Closer.
Finally, you try one little cosmetic change, and a third appraisal values your home at $259,000, more than double the first two appraisals. Same house. Same neighborhood.
We’ve spent much of the last year watching white folks finally “get” that driving while black is actually dangerous. Hard to imagine that those courteous, professional cops can make someone feel like a spy hiding from Stalinist police on a Soviet train in some black-and-white film. But they do. When my pal Rollin washed his classic white convertible in his own driveway,