White Supremacy

Opinion — Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea begins the end of this phase of an embarrassing, sad and morally absurd saga of American history.

A broad-ranging set of demands relating to immigration enforcement has been laid out by the White House as the condition for a compromise that would see immigrant young adults secure Obama-era protections. About 690,000 holders of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status could soon face deportation if a deal isn’t agreed to when the Obama-era program expires.

Last weekend, tens of thousands of people marched in Washington, DC in the combined March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women. Native Americans joined black and brown people to lead the march.
At the march, Rev. Graylan Hagler said:

The logic of ‘race as a social construct’ must be tightened and the focus sharpened.

Tucker Carlson says that the SPLC is a corrupt group that seeks to raise a lot of money, yet mainstream media outlets take them seriously and pretend that they are legitimate. [...]

An academic journal called Whiteness and Education that published an article that declares “white neurosis and white fragility” have become “widespread phenomena” in the US. [...]

Alt-left leader, Jordan Towers, sent a tweet threatening to pound Nazis with a bat with nails in it at a San Francisco prayer rally scheduled for this weekend. [...]

Winston Churchill’s definition of history was simple but true: “One damn thing after another.” That’s the way the summer has unfolded, particularly the sticky and steamy month of August, historically a month when nerves are frayed and conflict simmers underneath an oppressive sun. So many events. So many angry voices. So little time spent on self-reflection. American fascism is back in the public eye, flaunting its wares and waking up the domestic population, which tends to snooze through the application of its imperial variant to all variety of freethinkers abroad.

Now that the violence in Charlottesville has forced “white supremacy” into our political vocabulary, let’s ask an uncomfortable question: “When will the United States transcend white supremacy?”