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NEW from me, @AP: The race double standard is clear in rioters’ U.S. Capitol insurrection. Lots of folks have talked about it over the last 24 hours. But understanding the why of it is important. Thread. https://bit.ly/398Nsjn
Yesterday's ordeal drew expressions of bewilderment and disbelief from some citizens who believed such a display was impossible in a democracy as revered as America’s. (Black folks have always known this was possible. That's another thread.) Few people should be all that shocked.
The response to the mayhem is consistent with a long pattern of society coddling racists and downplaying the violent white supremacist ideology that routinely places the grievances of white people above those of their Black, often disenfranchised and downtrodden countrymen.
Since the founding of the democracy in the blood and secession of the American Revolution, white people’s destructive and obstructionist conduct has been couched in patriotism. (And let's remember, it's historically been most lethal for Black people.)
This coddling has been a fundamental part of a national myth about whose dissent and pursuit of redress for grievance is justified, and whose is not. (Hint: Black people originally were never meant to be considered part of this fragile experiment we've call "democracy.")
Still, the violent breaching of the halls of power on Capitol Hill by the insurrectionist mob on Wednesday represents one of the plainest displays of a racial double standard in both modern and recent history.
Give it a read and share, please: https://bit.ly/398Nsjn
Give it a read and share, please: https://bit.ly/398Nsjn
TLDR? (Even though you should!) https://twitter.com/NRKveronica/status/1347002291249770496
