that fear is covered up by teeth gritting civility. Temporary agreements can create unjust peace but they don't solve unjust fear. Illegitimate fear.
What drives militias adjacent to a III%er household is their illegitimate fear -- fear of a black planet. They fear racial retaliation, their own safety; their own enslavement.
And so white supremacist organizations and politicians' policy and ideology is that America is for white people only. Local supremacists tattoo their warnings to all; they threaten anyone who allows anything multicultural, even if it's by majority rule and rule of law. They spoil for public win-lose clashes so they can fill public spaces with fear and threat.
Local "Working together" with tattooed militant racists is really appeasement to murderous white supremacy. Their deep illegitimate fear of being replaced by another race is the basis of their violence disguised now as patriotic self defense. These whites wait for that race war, gauging and testing any weakness in their white enemies.
What militant racists pretend is to work with other whites until their decision making power is unassailable, which is why they groom local law enforcement to be legacy of the slave patrols that existed all over the nation, not just in the South.
What we antiracists pretend is that they can change.
At local levels, we are the ones who have become ... not stupid, but scared-stupid, cowering under cover of 'adulting,' afraid to confront, take a stand, believing that if we don't talk about it, if we ignore it, white supremacy will go away.
Those of us who have lived around white supremacists, we have no excuse for not knowing they will not go down without a fight. They have to be soundly beaten and jailed. Which is why the Ahmaud Arbery white murderers are spending life in prison. That is the only way the rest of their kind learn.
Black people know that. It's time that their white allies know that.
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