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We have been needing to brace for that since the Sarah Palin Klan-style rallies where people screamed âkill himâ regarding Barack Obama, the tea party rallies where President Obama was hung in effigy, screaming right wingers spitting on John Lewis to stop healthcare and more. https://twitter.com/timalberta/status/1348328968081072133
The far right hasnât been quiet. The progenitors of the lot described above blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City. And THEIR progenitors dropped bombs on Black Wall Street, not far away. They have always been here, since the moment the Civil War was won. Wake up, at last.
The refusal to accept Black citizenship is as old as the Virginia colonies. It is the virus for which there is only one inoculation: a thorough and accurate understanding of our history and a willingness to act on that knowledge by taking the threat of white supremacy seriously.
The primary failure that made the MAGA putsch possible was the ingrained belief among law enforcement leadership that people many of them SUPPORT: white majority, anti-democratic, authoritarian groups, cannot by default be violent or threatening, versus Black rights groups...
who are treated as de facto threatening, as are anti-war groups, by the way. Those groups are met with overwhelming force because they threaten the status quo ante of white supremacy, wealth supremacy and militarism. White groups, even when they promise violence, are underplayed.
