white supremacy

As participants descended on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the NAACP’s national convention, delegates and leaders saw the gathering as a needed chance to push back against white supremacy and conservative policies that they said pose a threat to Black communities.

A recent study found that 1 in 3 Americans, presumably white Americans, are convinced that there is a move afoot by unnamed conspirators to replace them.

On a recent broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” viewers witnessed a classic example of the decoupling of people of color from notions of America.

When the crazed insurrectionists surged through the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to keep Donald Trump in the White House, high above them, painted on the ceiling of the Capitol’s dome, the slave-owning first president of the United States gazed down on them. This painting is titled “The Apotheosis of Washington.” Apotheosis means “becoming a god.”

White supremacists love their narrative of America. They spoon-feed it to their children and force-feed it to people of color.

The shrinking of the white majority in America has agitated a certain portion of the population that sees a threat in the rising tide of black and brown people.

Elections should be won because voters are knowledgeable and fully persuaded of the value of the voters’ choices. There is no place for trickery in a democracy

The Biggest Lie, which much of the American news media continues to perpetuate, is "This is not who we are" whenever the notion of white supremacy produces a horrific act of violence or destruction.

Dissidents are at war with America. There was an attack on the nation’s Capitol building on Jan. 6, but the insurrection has been defeated. The relative quiet that followed does not indicate that issues have been resolved.

The Jan. 6 Capitol invasion by Trump supporters intent on preventing the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election induced many Americans to reassess the validity of white supremacy.

In the 19th century, U.S. Sen. John Calhoun codified the tenets of white supremacy in United States law and politics creating a legacy of racism that Donald Trump is perpetuating today.

Through analysis of photos and video, as well as interviews with law enforcement officials, ProPublica and Frontline were able to establish Miselis’ membership in RAM and verify his role at the center of melees last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, and an earlier pro-Trump event in Berkeley, California.