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This 1963 (pre-CRA and VRA) description of the “white backlash” as a function of white people “wearied and angered by all the placard waving and demonstrating” is an apt example of the pre-emption and topsy-turvy nature of backlash politics. /1
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Fannie Lou Hamer may have been “sick and tired of being sick and tired” in the African American freedom struggle, but in this conception of backlash white people demanded the right to express their grievance and weariness as well. /2
This is a good example of what I call “elite victimization,” which turned weariness into the prerogative of those who had had quite enough of the “placards and demonstrations” of those protesting second-class status and the racial caste system. /3
