Cori Bush, other lawmakers, cite white supremacy through Capitol riots

“Let’s make it clear, it was a domestic terror attack carried out by riotous crowds of white supremacists, armed and very skilled in police and military tactics that overthrew an election in which their candidate Trump lost,” Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said in the group’s hearing.

“Madam Speaker, St. Louis and I are in support of the article of accusation against Donald J Trump. If we do not remove a white president of the supremacist government inciting a white opposition to supremacy, it is communities like Missouri’s first district that suffer the most, “Bush said during her speech.

People marched in thousands of people after believing that an injustice had been done to them. The calls for racial justice in America during the summer were backed by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the pain of subsequent generations’ anti-black sentiment. Unlike BLM protests, the uprising at the Capitol was caused by lies and deep-rooted racist stereotypes, experts say.

Because of the belief that the presidential election was stolen, insurgents considered themselves ‘patriots’ and repeatedly chanted ‘USA, USA’ while vandalizing and destroying the building in the heart of American democracy. Trump, who calls whistle-blowing tactics like the Mexicans ‘rapists’ and calls the words Black Lives Matter a ‘symbol of hatred’, has incited them.
“Once something like this feels true, you can not dissuade them from the facts,” said Ian Haney López, author of “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”

Here’s a look at what has driven the Black Lives Matter movement for nearly a decade and why Trump supporters broke into the Capitol:

False and deceptive claims have attracted thousands to the Capitol

Crowds flocked to Washington, DC last week to protest the confirmation of President Joe Biden's election election victory in the presidential election.

After several weeks of false allegations that the presidential election was uneventful, Trump supporters flocked to Washington to fight the ceremonial count of the election votes that would confirm President Joe Biden’s election.

Hours before the uprising, Trump addressed a crowd of supporters who had gathered at the Ellipse near the White House, making false allegations of voter fraud and telling them to “fight like hell.”
“I’m absolutely 100% behind what happened here today,” Todd Possett, who was part of last week’s mob, told Donie Sullivan, CNN. ‘It’s awful how this election was stolen. I had to come here and do my patriotic duty. ‘
Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said on Wednesday the mob was motivated by racial resentment and a conspiracy theory rooted in the attempt to invalidate black people. ‘

“The mob has received empathy and respect from some in law enforcement and others in a military institution that houses white supremacists, let’s say it among its own ranks,” Morial testified during the trial of the Black Caucus in Congress on the riots.

After the election, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey, were among the cities that falsely accused the Trump campaign of voter fraud and corruption. These cities are either majority black or have large black populations.

Speaking at a news conference in November, Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said: ‘You knew if you lived in Philadelphia. “Unless you’re seductive – it’s an Italian expression for stupid – unless you’re stupid, you knew a lot of people came from Camden to vote, ‘he said. “It happens every year. It happens all the time in Philly … and it may be allowed, because it’s a democratic (sic), corrupt city, and it’s been for years. Many, many years. And they have it in places performed. where they could get away from it. ‘

Insurgents believe a story is deeply rooted in racist stereotypes that have been consistent with Trump’s government over the past 50 years and used by other politicians, according to Haney López, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. .

Rioters violated the safety of the American Capitol on Wednesday.  This was the reaction of the police when black protesters were in DC streets last year

“What they are mainly trying to unleash is a feeling that dangerous coloreds are going to take over the country,” said Haney López.

“They believe this because it is true in their hearts that this multiracial coalition is taking power,” he added. “It’s just wrong for them that black people in coalition with Latinos and Asian Americans and Whites should take power.”

Political leaders have long used phrases for dog whistles to exploit the racial fears of White America. Some of these terms are ‘illegal alien’, ‘thug’ and ‘Queen of Welfare’, used by President Ronald Reagan when he elected Republican presidential nominee in 1976 to attack successful chisels during campaign speeches.
In his first public remarks to reporters since the uprising, Trump insisted that his speech to incite the riots was “completely appropriate.”

He claims the ‘real problem’ is what other politicians have said about summer protests in Seattle and Portland, Oregon.

The uprising at the Capitol was also a beautiful display of power for the fringe movements with various symbols of white supremacist and extremist groups.

A global rallying point for black lives

Protesters marched in Hollywood, California, last June to protest the death of George Floyd.
In 2013, the unexpected verdict in the murder trial over the murder of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black teenager who was walking in his Florida neighborhood, led to the birth of Black Lives Matter – one of the best-known organizations fighting for the well-being of black people.

What started as a hashtag has become a website, an organization and later grew to more than a dozen local chapters in the US and Canada. They were driven by the series of deaths of black Americans among the police and the vigilantes.

According to the BLM website, its mission is “to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence that the state and vigilantes have inflicted on black communities.”
But BLM’s purpose is not just to protest against police brutality. At the local level, the organization advocates mutual aid, the police and access to housing and health care for black and colored workers.
How Black Lives Matter went from a hashtag to a global rally

“We live in a country built to keep us from the resources we need,” said Kailee Scales, managing director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. “People in the movement have been constantly fighting to reverse the trend, to raise awareness that this is not the way we should live.”

Studies have shown that segregation continues in many American cities, leaving the black neighborhoods behind in most countries. Black communities do not have the same access as Whites to health care, quality education, good jobs and other resources.

“You know, for many of us in this country we know what it’s like to be treated differently. And we also know what it’s like to be told that all the things we experience every day do not exist, or that it exists that it is our fault (and) that we have somehow created the conditions of inequality, ” said Alicia Garza, who co-founded the Black Lives Matter Global Network with Patrice Cullors and Opal Tometi.

In the aftermath of Floyd’s murder last summer, large crowds in several cities took to the streets in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The protests were bigger and more sustained. The BLM signs that popped up in many people’s yards were just the first signs of a nationwide race bill.

People marched against police violence, systemic racism, to be seen and heard.

“If you do not speak and say nothing, you are just like the officers standing there watching,” Randy Fikki, a Kansas City protester, told CNN’s subsidiary WDAF-TV, referring to the officers involved. in Floyd’s death.
Critics have responded to the phrase “Black Lives Matter” by inventing their own slogans, such as “All Lives Matter”, which according to some is the current struggle of black people against systemic racism, and “Blue Lives Matter”, which refers to the lives, reduced. of the police.

Last week, Trump supporters were criticized on social media after using another phrase that has been known for years as a call for racial justice.

They used the hashtag #SayHerName when referring to Ashli ​​Babbitt, a 35-year-old white woman who was fatally shot when the mob tried to force him to the floor of the house.
They seem to have been unaware of the #SayHerName campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the black women and girls who fall victim to police brutality – and who are often overlooked and forgotten.
The campaign, launched in 2014 by the African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, worked to address the cases of dozens of black women, including Atatiana Jefferson and Michelle Cusseaux, both by police in their homes. killed, to highlight.

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