“The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem; rather, it is blackness with ambition, with drive, with purpose, with aspirations, and with demands for full and… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The Brennan Center for Justice estimates that as “many as 12 percent of eligible voters nationwide may not have government-issued photo ID,” and that… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“White rage is not about visible violence, but rather it works its way through the courts, the legislatures, and a range of government bureaucracies. It wreaks havoc subtly, almost imperceptibly. Too imperceptibly, certainly, for a nation consistently drawn to the spectacular—to what it can see. It’s not the Klan. White rage doesn’t have to wear sheets, burn crosses, or take… — Carol Anderson Copy Share
“And so, at a December 1981 meeting, Contra leaders, whom Reagan referred to as the “moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers,” floated the idea… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“African Americans weren’t the only ones who took a hit. The states of the Deep South, which fought Brown tooth and nail, today all… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars on baseless… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“Wisconsin took another tack when Republican governor Scott Walker championed a bill requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote, and then proceeded to close… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“These were not idle threats. Suspected labor agents were arrested routinely whenever a trainload of African Americans left or when the fields were empty… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“There have been proven instances of vote fraud in the past, but those cases involved election officials’ wrongdoing or the manipulation of absentee ballots.… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“Somehow many have convinced themselves that the man who pulled the United States back into some semblance of financial health, reduced unemployment to its… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12” — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“In Georgia, beating back a 1949 challenge from black parents to equalize the schools, Governor Herman Talmadge had already proposed a constitutional amendment that… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
