Gore Vidal famously said, “We live here in the United States of Amnesia. No one remembers anything before Monday morning. Everything is a blank. They have no history.”
Police from various departments stand guard on Aug. 18, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo., just days after a grand jury decision not to indict the white police officer who had shot and killed an 18-year-old African-American sparked protests. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
The past few years in the United States has been characterized by many as a period of unrest in the black community. Media coverage of demonstrations like the 2014 Ferguson protests often refer to rage by African-Americans towards police shootings.
In her new book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson offers an entirely different explanation for racial tension in America. She claims the recent violence in protests and civil unrest is not a product of black rage, but rather white rage towards black empowerment. Read further at the Current
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