At least seven of the 31 who traveled to Idaho are from Texas. In Texas, parents can be investigated for providing their transgender children with support, and yet the Lone Star State has been slow to address the continual teaching of white supremacy. What we don’t do is go after it the way Republicans went after transgender children who hope to play sports with their friends. Politicians consider them obstacles to reelection or an incident to talk about for fundraising.
He was only 36 years old, born long after all of this was supposed to be over.īut culturally we treat the examples of this hate as one-offs. Thankfully the FBI was able to intercept Wilson - who also considered blowing up several mosques, a synagogue and an elementary school mostly populated with Black children. Ruby Ridge from 1992 begat Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which begat Timothy Wilson, who texted an associate “How did McVeigh do it” before picking a hospital in the Kansas City, Mo., area to blow up in 2020. Back when men wore the pants, the wife stayed at home and prayer was still in school, white supremacy was being taught in this country. He wasn’t around during slavery, the Civil War or the civil rights movement, and yet we all instinctively assume we know the type: The accusations are in sync with the actions of many 18-year-old white males from each of those eras.īefore critical race theory and “Drag Queen Story Hour” were a thing, white supremacy was being taught in this country.
The person accused of driving nearly four hours specifically to kill Black people in Buffalo is just 18 years old. You know, for all of the hubbub surrounding book banning, critical race theory and this supposed concern about teaching children to hate, culturally we have done a poor job addressing the white supremacists who are grooming young white people. Whenever attempts are made to place the racist attack in context, Black people are reminded that slavery ended a long time ago - as if legislated racism hadn’t immediately been put in its place. That’s how recent we’re talking.Ĭontrarians always like to take examples such as the mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., and make it about one event or one person.
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That driver was just 20 years old - which means he was taught to hate after the first “Top Gun” movie. More than 50 people were injured, and one person died, in the Charlottesville rally after a white supremacist deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. No telling what would have happened if they had been able to follow through on their plans. We are all very fortunate that a stranger called the police after seeing the group piling into the truck in a hotel parking lot. 6 terrorist attack.īased on the evidence and documents, the group was planning to riot at the North Idaho Pride event, in addition to several other areas around downtown Coeur d’Alene. That’s all a long way of saying “make America great again,” apropos given the hearings on television about the Jan.