When Black Empowerment Fuels White Rage
White rage stems from Black empowerment — these terrorists feel like power was stolen from them
White grievance against Black enfranchisement was the main theme of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Listen to the on-the-scene interviews given by Trump supporters who viciously stormed Congress with confederate flags and swastikas on the false premise that the federal election was “stolen” from them. “They work for us,” said one angry terrorist in live footage from ITV News amid screams of “U.S.A.,” and “Stop the steal!” Others told the ITV reporter:
“You guys did this to us! We want our country back!”
“This is our house. This is our country. This is our country.”
“We all know that they changed the rules!”
Exactly what “rules” were changed? Clear in this rhetoric, which has been flagrantly encouraged by Donald Trump and his Republican sycophants in Congress, is a sense of White nationalist ownership over the country and its political functions — and most importantly, the notion that these political functions should always work in their favor. Those were the rules. That was how “their” country was supposed to work.
