Category Archives: The Week in White Supremacy

May 5 – James “Major” Woodall, state president, Georgia NAACP: “The modern-day lynching of Mr. Arbery is yet another reminder of the vile and wicked racism that persists in parts of our country. The slothfulness and inaction of D.A. Jackie Johnson of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit and George Barnhill of the Waycross Judicial Circuit areContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #123: “The modern-day lynching of Ahmaud Arbery””

CAIR-SFBA and Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus: The Trump administration recently issued a Proclamation expanding immigration restrictions in a broad attempt to further its xenophobic agenda while distracting Americans from its own failure to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic. In a blatant attempt to pit communities of color and immigrants against one another, the ProclamationContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #122: What You Should Know About Trump’s Latest Immigration Ban”

(Vox) Why do many working-class white Americans support politicians whose policies are literally killing them? This is the question sociologist and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl tries to answer in his new book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. The book is a serious look at how cultural attitudes associatedContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #121: How the politics of racial resentment is killing white people”