Five. Hundred. Times.

It’s been widespread and relentless and there has been no connection made until now between these racist, extremist assaults because we refuse, as a country, to reckon with the disease of white supremacy and all of its ills. https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1299305016939950082

Major media outlets, politicians, and public figures will not make clear what is obvious. The major threat to American safety and national security is white terrorism and we are living through a moment of widespread attacks by white extremists carrying out their own war.

The problem is that for the powerful to admit white supremacy and terrorism are major issues is to admit that their power and influence is at least partly predicated on white supremacy and terrorism. It’s an admittance that our entire system is riddled with it.