"Fueled by psychopathic narcissism of a delusional autocrat in WH, the Capitol Hill rioters didn’t speak openly of white supremacy yet never had to bc it so drenched their cause like the kerosene-soaked rag of a Molotov cocktail."

If @Will_Bunch wrote it, you should read it™

2/ "The white mob that sacked the seat of U.S. government the moment it promised to look more like the real America was the living, contemporary proof of the “hard fact” that King warned about 54 years ago..."

3/ " But the very real gains of the last year... have encountered the harshest law of American physics, that for every step forward on race there is an unequal and often more powerful backlash, so strong in 2021 that it even breached the citadel of our fragile democracy"

4/ "While the Jan. 6 mob may have invoked the spirit of 1776, it was propelled instead by the cruel, icy currents of 1619, the year that the first slave ship reached our soil."

5/ "Some 80 years of white authoritarian government in the Deep South mocked any spirit of 1776."