I'll never forget or forgive all the people who told me, in 2016, that I was overreacting about Trump's violent, white supremacist rhetoric because they were "just words."
Listen, my scholarship is on white supremacist movements and white Christian nationalism. I knew that Trump's rhetoric would lead to violence because that's what happens.
But so many folks just didn't want to believe it.
But so many folks just didn't want to believe it.
So, these folks decided that a scholar of white supremacy was "overreacting" when instead I was drawing from my research to say Trump's rhetoric was never, ever "just words" but always held the potential and likely possibility of violence.
I'm so tired of the fact that so many people, primarily white people, didn't take Trump's white supremacist vitriol seriously. It was always fucking serious, even when people didn't acknowledge that it could be.
And now there's a coup.
And I can't decide whether to sob or scream or do some combination of both because so many of us knew that this could happen and said so and many people didn't even try to listen.
And I can't decide whether to sob or scream or do some combination of both because so many of us knew that this could happen and said so and many people didn't even try to listen.
And guess what?
"I told you so" isn't a balm when a coup is happening.
"I told you so" isn't a balm when a coup is happening.
"I told you so" doesn't do shit.
Also a big FUCK YOU to all the people who told me I was reaching to far when I said that the Tea Party and the Republican Party were white nationalists.
I was, in fact, not.
I was, in fact, not.
Sitting here right now makes me think of all the white people who tried to diminish, shut down or malign my work on white supremacists as "overreaction" and their complicity in upholding the violent, white supremacist status quo.
Really, I just feel sick.
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