“As much as folks want to try to contain this to just knocking down black folks, you can’t contain evil. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement to the election of America’s first black president in 2008.īlack progress ratchets up white resentment and triggers new policies, such as voter ID laws, which undermine democracy, weaken the nation’s economic competitiveness, leaves segments of the population uneducated or undereducated and is detrimental to more than just black folks, says Anderson. In the fact-packed, but readable book, Anderson traces white backlash against African American progress from Reconstruction, Brown v. Carol Anderson, author of “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,” will bring her insightful message and historical perspective to the Levine Museum of the New South on Sept. It wreaks havoc subtly, almost imperceptibly. “White rage is not about visible violence, but rather it works its way through the courts, the legislatures, and a range of government bureaucracies.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |