Sisters in Hate: American Women and White Extremism

by Seyward Darby

“Amazing things will happen today if you choose not to be a miserable cow,”

combating hate requires understanding it—not what it seems to be or what we hope it amounts to, but what it actually is. That includes who supports it, why they do, and how their experiences reflect a reality we all share.

There is hope if white Americans can confront the true face of hate and their own complicity in bigotry, however oblique. There is hope if they can see white nationalism as a crisis of individual and collective responsibility. If that sounds kumbaya, so be it. Once upon a time, the word didn’t conjure cynicism. It summoned strength and resistance.