These are cities that have sizable or majority Black or minority populations. In many ways, these are the same cities that the manufactured lie of massive rampant voter fraud came out of after the 2000 election. He pointed to Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta. And when you think about Trump’s big lie - that these elections were stolen - and you see where he identified these so-called stolen elections, he didn’t point to Salt Lake City, Utah. When you look at voter suppression policies, that’s the hit list. He pulled through millions of new voters with his ground game that were overwhelmingly African American, Hispanic, Asian American, the young, and the poor. Since white rage is a response to African Americans’ political advancement, we saw them rise up in mass after the election of Barack Obama, for example. White rage is about policy, and one of the big policies driving this thing right now is voter suppression. These policies sanction the violence that accompanies white rage to make that environment look legitimate. When I talk about white rage, I’m talking about the policies that undermine African American achievement and advancement. I think a lot of folks get white rage wrong.
What is white rage and how does it apply to this moment? Carol Anderson Our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, also addresses how to put an end to it. I talked to Anderson, who wrote an entire book about white rage, about its meaning and how it has historically operated in America.
It is predicated on a sense that only whites are legitimate Americans,” Anderson told me.
It is the fear of a multicultural democracy. “White rage is the operational function of white supremacy.
It is the rage that fueled the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to dismantle America’s multicultural democracy - and it hasn’t gone away. It lives in criminal sentencing laws and plays out in a war on drugs that was waged against Black people. It lives in voter ID laws and manifests in the Black votes that are never cast. According to Anderson, white rage is legitimatized through the policies that make up the American political framework.
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