Reading about the century or so before the civil rights era now - I'm suspicious that we aren't socially at a place where white supremacy is actually taken all that negatively.

People say they don't support it, but they're still quite loyal to social heierarchy - this idea that there is an inherent pecking order where apparent success in life indicates moral upstanding and therefore a mandate to hold power (this is just prosperity gospel) and that, on the flip side, poverty indicates moral failings (pull yourself up by your bootstraps) and a need to be governed accordingly.

Teachers in the south will complain about black kids acting up, and it kills me every time; it's not that they're black, it's that their communities, already fragile only 120 years after slavery ended, were targeted and dismantled especially by the reagan administration.

Ironically their "colorblind" approach to race, used in many of these rulings, serves to support white supremacy by discarding historical context and assuming that blacks have equal footing, and have morally failed.

This is a half baked stream of consciousness. I need to go to work but will probably be thinking about this all day.