One year later, mainstream media still doesn't see Jan. 6 attack as racial

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One year later, mainstream media still doesn't see Jan. 6 attack as racial
Jan. 6 was literally a white supremacist assault on democracy. Has anyone in the media come out and said that?

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
PUBLISHED JANUARY 18, 2022 6:00AM


(Salon) Public opinion polls and other research have repeatedly shown that white racist attitudes, whether presented as "old-fashioned" racism or in less direct fashion as racial resentment and racial hostility, are strongly associated with support for Donald Trump and his Republican fascist movement. It is certainly true that feelings of economic insecurity, inequality and social alienation among the white working class are central to understanding the rise of American neofascism. But throughout American history, those forces have primarily manifested through white racism in its various forms.

As social theorist Stuart Hall described this dynamic: "Race is the modality in which class is lived."

W.E.B. Du Bois explained it this way in a memorable passage from "Black Reconstruction":

Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own "niggers." To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system. The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white.

President Lyndon Johnson offered a famous observation in a similar vein: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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It is simply factual to describe Jan. 6 as a white supremacist attack on multiracial democracy. But if one were to rely on the consensus of the America's mainstream news media on the one-year anniversary, one might come away with the belief that racism and white supremacy played little or no role in the events of that day.

Very few of the personal essays and reflections from journalists and others who were at the Capitol or nearby on Jan. 6 explicitly mentioned that Trump's attack force was almost entirely all white. Instead, those accounts depicted a race-less and colorless horde of angry political hooligans attempting to overthrow American democracy. ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/18/one-year-later-mainstream-media-still-doesnt-see-jan-6-as-racial/

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[EYESORE 9001]

2. It's textbook racism

If attempting to disenfranchise voters based on their race isn’t racism, I don’t know what is.

[intheflow]

3. Absolutely racist.

A direct line can be drawn between the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and January 6, 2021. From the supposed expectation of Dem/leftist counter-protests as at least one reason given for why the National Guard wasn't called, to the ripping out of emergency buttons and trashing offices of Congressional Black Caucus members, it's was absolutely racially motivated.

[fwvinson]

4. I'd like someone to do an investigation of who pays the blacks to sit on the first

few rows of his rallies.

[Skittles]

6. YES

IDENTIFY AND INTERVIEW THEM TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY ARE PAID TO HUMILIATE THEMSELVES

[Skittles]

5. imagine if it was BLM who stormed the Capitol

think they would all have been allowed to just go home?

[Samrob]

7. The media doesn't want to admit it because, you know, CRT...whatever that is.

Supremacists want you fear them but please don't print anything that makes them feel ashamed of themselves or their true history.
History may be "written by the victors" but it is verified or not by the vanquished.