White rage at play here?
Whenever events improve the African-Americans’ situation, white
rage reacts to dilute the full power of the change.
So writes Carol Anderson in the Washington Post.
The white rage is more discreet and therefore more insidious,
Anderson writes.
Like gerrymandering districts to dilute black voting power,
cutting government programs that help black employment or well-being, stricter voter ID laws.
The courts, police, legislatures and governors side with the white
rage and attack black rage with rubber bullets and tear gas.
It happened after the Civil War, after Brown v. Board of Education
shot down separate but equal schooling and with the ascent of African-American
Barack Obama to President.
Republicans and conservatives couch it in language that pretends to espouse other values, but the goal is the same: Take back some of
African-Americans’ advancements.
Uneasy with Obama becoming president, Anderson writes, “a rash of
voter-suppression legislation, a series of unfathomable Supreme Court
decisions, the rise of stand-your-ground laws and continuing police brutality
make clear that Obama’s election and reelection have unleashed yet another wave
of fear and anger.”
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