![]() ![]() The fight to create a less perfect union isn’t just reflected in white extremist terrorism and Fox News’s primetime lineup. ![]() Not since Reconstruction has this country so blatantly sought to reverse progress and strip away the most fundamental rights But that narrative obscures a variety of legally sanctioned acts of violence inflicted upon America’s non-white populace every day. It is easy to frame a lone gunman’s brazen act of lawlessness and the fearmongering ethnonationalism that produced it as a prototypical but rare act of white supremacy. Unfortunately (for the white majority), the only way to preserve white power is to stop moving forward. At its foundation lies the desperate attempt to preserve and maintain control based on nothing more than being born into whiteness. It is the same concept that once made interracial marriage illegal, spawned Jim Crow and motivated southern segregationists to switch to the Republican party. ![]() While more Americans are becoming aware of the theory, it is not new. On Saturday, an 18-year-old white supremacist traveled more than 200 miles to target Black residents of Buffalo, New York, in an attack inspired by the “great replacement theory” – the increasingly popular notion that America’s white majority is being intentionally replaced by a multiracial, multi-ethnic population. ![]()
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