The So-Called Uptick In Hate Is Fundamentally American [View all]

The killing of Richard W. Collins III. A noose cryptically left in an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History. “N***er” spray-painted in big black letters on the home of one of the country’s greatest black athletes. Two Portland residents stabbed to death by a white supremacist, after coming to the defense of Muslim and black girls being bombarded by slurs.
This is America. 

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But the truth is, we shouldn’t be shocked at all. Not by a single one of these hateful events, and not by a single one of the many surely to come. It’s a sad, but unfortunate reality: racism perpetuates physical, spiritual and emotional violence. That violence is not surprising, it is an inevitability of a racist society. 

Now, eight months later, it’s become impossible to ignore. The topic of hate seems to be “trending” right now ― but, in reality, it always was. 
As writer Jamilah Lemieux put it succinctly on Thursday: 

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These incidents aren’t isolated; they’re symptomatic of our country’s long history of white supremacy... We can’t ignore our country’s past, and we can’t allow ourselves to believe that this kind of violence is inevitable.”


To be truly surprised than any of these incidents have occurred in America is to ignore the fact that these events (the ones that make the news) do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they lie on a horrifying historical continuum ― a legacy of racism and hatred that has ebbed and flowed for as long as America has existed. 

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So instead of thread after fugging thread about the n-word. Can we please all sit down and talk about the legacy of racism and hatred and what the hell we are going to do about it? Come on people, it is 2017, past time we grew up and had an adult conversation. This isn't a black problem, it is a white problem.