The shooting in Buffalo belongs to a long history of racist terrorism in America | Opinion
People embrace outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket a day earlier, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. The shooting is the latest example of something that's been part of U.S. history since the beginning: targeted racial violence. The racist shooting massacre in Buffalo, N.Y., by a teenagewhite supremacist that left 10 Black people dead and injured three others is part of a deeper history of racial violence and terror that goes back to Reconstruction.
The striking juxtaposition between Reconstruction’s vision of multiracial democracy and Redemption’s support of white supremacist violence, election fraud and corruption became a core feature of American society ever afterward. The Janus-faced nature of America is reflected in the ongoing conflict between redemptionist and reconstructionist impulses today.
The term “Jim Crow,” named after a popular 19th-century minstrel show performance, obscures as much as it reveals. For redemptionist impulses did far more than create racial segregation, although they did certainly achieve this. Racist laws and policies that purposefully injured Blacks through inferior housing, education and life opportunities were indeed key to this era.
The Confederacy lost the war, but resoundingly won the peace. Over time, Northerners came not only to participate in the redemptionist lie, but to embrace the logic behind it. Religious beliefs, scientific racism, phony crime statistics and fake allegations of rape and sexual assault became codified in the national political and cultural imagination.
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