In early August, the White House invited a group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy. But all of those experts were white — and it shows, critics say.
President Joe Biden argued that Donald Trump's supporters pose a threat to U.S. democracy during an address billed as the"battle for the soul of the nation" at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Thursday.President Joe Biden argued that Donald Trump's supporters pose a threat to U.S. democracy during an address billed as the"battle for the soul of the nation" at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Thursday.
"They compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II," read the Post's sub-headline. Jelani Cobb, a New Yorker writer and the new dean of Columbia Journalism School, adds,"The formative experience around American authoritarianism has been the treatment of people of African descent and people of Indigenous descent."If you don't examine how democracy has died for people of color in this country, you might miss how freedom fades not in big bombastic moments, but in slow ongoing repression.
"It all went down the drain because of a very reactionary Supreme Court and because of state laws and local authorities who were willing to subvert elections and not allow people to vote."There was rising white supremacist domestic terrorism, lynchings and the reign of the Ku Klux Klan, and what Sinha describes as"racist authoritarianism."Both Sinha and Mack note that the past cannot just be grafted onto the present.
He didn't mention that in the 1940's many Black people already lived under authoritarian systems, like Jim Crow. "That certainly happened before the Civil War and led to secession. The slaveholders' rebellion in which they said, look, we don't believe in your constitution. Your constitution is wrong."
It's not enough to understand democracy is at risk, without learning from those who have borne — and still bear — the brunt of its loss.
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