American Racism’s Dying Rage

Is the stake in the heart of white supremacy coming?

A pro–Hiester Clymer racist political campaign poster from the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election — (Public Domain)

“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.” — Dylan Thomas

An addiction to white supremacy

It is always hard to face the truth of a close family member’s faults and transgressions. We languish in denial when a brother or sister is addicted to narcotics or alcohol. We can’t face it.

We deny they are a terrible human being (while actively addicted). We make excuses. We let them keep wreaking havoc.

So it is with America and its racial legacy, white supremacy, etc. Far too many Americans continue to deny the depraved state of their country’s sordid racial and racist origins and the inability to correct itself.

They keep acting as if white supremacy never existed and does not exist. They act as if white supremacy is a tiny pimple on someone’s back rather than the whole back.

White supremacy is the entire back and too many continue to deny the need to stop drinking from the vat. Stop sipping the whiskey of white supremacy. Get off the bottle. Get…