Yet as white, there are goodies to be reaped, and your hands are not totally clean. Speaking of contemporary white supremacist organizations, Jessie Daniels writes: In many ways, the presence of white supremacist organizations and their discourse functions to confirm the social order for whites in much the same fashion that, in another historical context, lynching—violence directed primarily at Black men—functioned. Even those not implicated, those who may have been appalled by such “vulgar” displays, still reaped the rewards of living in a system in which being born white was a social
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