"#America is living through a reign of #whitesupremacist #terror, but we won’t bring ourselves to call it that, treat it that way, or hold accountable the provocateurs in the #RepublicanParty who are #catalyzing and #instigating the attacks.
You might be forgiven for missing the significance of the weekend #news that a gunman who fits the profile of domestic #rightwing #terrorist – white, male, 21 years old – allegedly targeted Black people and opened fire in a #Jacksonville #DollarGeneral store, killing three people of color before committing suicide.
It’s easy and not entirely erroneous to drop this incident in the bucket of runaway gun crimes in an America with few gun regulations. But it’s the wrong bucket to put in it. This is the runaway violence of white supremacists against minority groups happening in tandem with the rise of a radical right-wing Republican Party, but with little public acknowledgment or understanding of what’s really happening."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/america-is-in-the-grip-of-reign-of-white-supremacist-terror