The White Supremacy Hoax
Every GOP victory brings a new wave of fictitious claims about white supremacy.
by David Catron
November 11, 2021, 11:26 PM
As the 2022 midterms approach, the Democrats face what may well be an insurmountable obstacle blocking their attempt to retain their thin congressional majorities. The support they once enjoyed among nonwhite voters is softening. This phenomenon has been most obvious among Hispanics, but it is also true to a lesser extent among Black voters. It was the source of considerable comment after the 2020 election, when Trump made unexpected gains with minorities, and the trend was again evident in the recent Virginia elections. This unnerved the Democrats and their media allies who have reflexively resorted to scare tactics involving white supremacy.
All too typical of this tactic is a recent column published in the Guardian titled, “White supremacists declare war on democracy and walk away unscathed.” Written by Carol Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University, this screed portrays the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as part of a long tradition of white supremacy that begat the American Revolution and has dominated the nation’s entire history. As is often the case among those who perpetuate this perverse view of our past, Anderson has a very tenuous grasp of basic historical facts. She claims, for example, that the notorious three-fifths compromise was inserted in the Constitution at the behest of the southern states:
In tough negotiations, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia’s representatives were willing to hold the nation hostage and risk its destruction unless protection of slavery and the empowering of enslavers was embedded in the constitution … the infamous three-fifths clause passed under the southern threat to walk away and, thus, scuttle the constitution and the United States.… The enslavers’ extortionist threats — white supremacy as the price for the nation to come into being — should have created a massive backlash. But it didn’t.
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