Why Affirmative Action is White

The Black past teaches us that periods of racial progress in America, whether real or perceived, are followed by periods of racial retrenchment. For example, the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) resulted in the Nadir of Race relations, the Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), succeeded by the Nixon administration’s emphasis on law and order, and the historic election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first Black president, culminating in the resurgence of White Nationalist Hate Groups (WNHG); a surge in white vigilante violence (George Zimmerman, Michael Dunn), and extrajudicial killings of African Americans (Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, George Floyd, etc.) at a rate that rivals the first nadir. This resurgence in organized acts of violence towards African Americans and the rise in anti-Black racism is arguably due to the rising tide of color in America. As reactionary efforts of white Americans to safeguard their presumed threatened social status have emerged from their perception of a gap between their expected and actual social status and power, causing them to resent current social arrangements. <a href="https://medium.com/pan-african-voice/why-affirmative-action-is-still-white-c1f062f2d059">Click Here</a>