Grace Meng Sounds Battle Cry for New Ideal of Democracy and Justice in America
Last week’s racist and misogynist murder spree targeting Asian American women in Georgia marks yet another episode in an ongoing string of violent manifestations of white supremacy in America.
As I’ve written about previously in the pages of PoliticusUsa, these acts of white supremacist violence, powerfully exemplified by the assault on the Capitol last January 6, are assaults upon democracy itself; or, more properly put, they are efforts to maintain racial inequality and injustice, to thwart the achievement of democracy in our nation long hobbled by white supremacy.
Indeed, we need to recognize that racism isn’t just a defect in democracy that needs to be tinkered with; it’s a complete negation of democracy. The January 6 storming of the Capitol wasn’t an insurrection, or a rebellion, against our established system; it was an attempt to preserve the status quo of white rule that the surge in African American suffrage in particular threatened.
Some of our political leaders called January 6 a humiliating day for America. We should ask why January 6 was such a humiliating day, and not so much January 5 when it the Kenosha County District Attorney announced that the police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an African American, in the back would not be indicted; or not…
