'Hatred in the eyes': How racist rage animated Jan. 6 riots

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-missouri-congress-54ccb3bb19908667afcbe2e5c8b8e5ca

‘Hatred in the eyes’: How racist rage animated Jan. 6 riots
By FARNOUSH AMIRI

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Cori Bush is no stranger to protests. She spent years marching the streets of St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, rising to public office on the strength of her activism.

But as the Missouri Democrat looked out the window of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — only her third day as a member of Congress — she knew what was about to take place would be no peaceful protest. The Confederate flags in the crowd, and the makeshift noose and gallows erected on the Capitol grounds, spoke to a more sinister reality.

“I’ve been to hundreds of protests and have organized so many protests, I can’t count. I know what a protest is: This is not that,” Bush, who is Black, said recently in an interview with The Associated Press.

The insurrection by pro-Trump supporters and members of far-right groups shattered the sense of security that many had long felt at the Capitol as rioters forcibly delayed the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

But for people of color, including many in Congress, the attack was more than a violent challenge to a free and fair election — it was an eerily familiar display of white supremacist violence, this time at the very seat of American democracy.

[ancianita]

1. Since 1619, the "Hatred in the eyes" is this...

But for people of color, including many in Congress, the attack was more than a violent challenge to a free and fair election — it was an eerily familiar display of white supremacist violence, this time at the very seat of American democracy.

[agingdem]

2. not just hate but fear, too

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Trump and his white christian sycophantic worshippers were (are) bound together by hate..hate for "the other"..people of color, muslims, jews, hispanics, asians, Native Americans, LGBTQ, the disabled, and the poor...as long as Trump was in the White House, they could brandish their guns, kill and maim at will with no accountability.. he was their like-minded guy...he gave voice to their hate and legitimized it, but with Trump out of the White House, they would lose "permission" to threaten, insult, harass, and kill...with Trump out of the White House there would be no one to cover for them and that's what the rioters feared the most..the American landscape had changed..multicultural, multi-ethnic, non-gender specific..Trump in exile meant they would lose their whites only privilege, and so on January 6, after months of Trump's calls to arm and at his command, they stormed the capital building

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Kicked and recommended. Thank you. ❤