Why White Folks Are Grieving Over Destroyed Relics to White Supremacy

Why White Folks Are Grieving Over Destroyed Relics to White Supremacy

Source: Steve Schaefer / Getty Black folks have spent all week cackling, meme-making, and yelling collective gratitude into the smoke as we watched the ancestors give multiple divine smacks to the face of white nostalgia and its sadistic fetish for racial oppression.  In the span of days, three shrines to white supremacy caught heat, holy fire, and even a drop kick from a tree. First, a fire engulfed the big house at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantat…

Ashes to Ashes, Big House to Dust: Why White Folks Are Grieving Over Destroyed Relics to White Supremacy

Source: Steve Schaefer / Getty Black folks have spent all week cackling, meme-making, and yelling collective gratitude into the smoke as we watched the ancestors give multiple divine smacks to the face of white nostalgia and its sadistic fetish for racial oppression.  In the span of days, three shrines to white supremacy caught heat, holy fire, and even a drop kick from a tree. First, a fire engulfed the big house at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantat…

Op-Ed: Ashes to Ashes, Big House to Dust: Why White Folks Are Grieving Over Destroyed Relics To White Supremacy

Source: Steve Schaefer / Getty Black folks have spent all week cackling, meme-making, and yelling collective gratitude into the smoke as we watched the ancestors give multiple divine smacks to the face of white nostalgia and its sadistic fetish for racial oppression.  In the span of days, three shrines to white supremacy caught heat, holy fire, and even a drop kick from a tree. First, a fire engulfed the big house at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantat…