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I predicted in my upcoming book that America was at risk of falling apart:
“The nation is currently teetering on its axis as American Apartheid threatens to tear the nation apart. America is splintering politically because it is fractured spatially.”
“The nation is currently teetering on its axis as American Apartheid threatens to tear the nation apart. America is splintering politically because it is fractured spatially.”
When you redline and subprime Black neighborhoods in hypersegregated cities (and then hyperpolice them), while maintaining demographically dominant White suburbs & rural areas, you create spatial geographies that produce divergent cultural realities instead of social solidarity.
Ultimately America’s government-enforced racial segregation produces frictions and contradictions that tear apart the fabric of society.
American Apartheid is the wall that was built long ago and it’s that wall that is at the root of what we’re seeing today.
American Apartheid is the wall that was built long ago and it’s that wall that is at the root of what we’re seeing today.
When you spend all your time painting Black people in hypersegregated cities as the enemy, you’ll eventually turn against a government elected by those people—like we saw in 2020 when Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Flint, Detroit, and Pittsburg put Biden over the top.
That’s what makes it a Jim Crow Coup! Voter suppression of Black voters in hypersegregated cities didn’t work like before. And when Georgia—a former state in the Confederacy—delivers the Senate, well that’s when they sought to obtain by force what they couldn’t win at the polls.
In short, the Jim Crow Coup is about achieving Black voter suppression on the back end because it could not be achieved on the front end.
