The impeachment trial and the MLK Day mass gun intimidation in Virginia shares not only a dearth of blackness, but an excess of white fragility. My latest for @RollingStone, on why we are seeing such outsized reactions to perceived challenges to power. rol.st/2sVeda4
Both the Republican reaction to an impeachment trial and the Virginia demonstration speak to the extremes that America permits white people in power—whether granted by gun or government—to assert themselves when that power is challenged or held to account. rol.st/2sVeda4
We would be ignoring generations of history if we presumed that seeing this behavior would wake people up to the evils of unchecked, extremist white power. Showing America its own ugliness, too often, has only encouraged it to disfigure itself even more. rol.st/2sVeda4
