![]() ![]() This attack on the Penn State community comes in the midst of a pandemic that is exacerbating racial inequities and in the wake of steadily intensifying racial provocation that has taken many forms-from the flying of Confederate flags to police killings of defenseless Black citizens to outrageous use of force against citizens at Black Lives Matter demonstrations to campaigns of intimidation against officeholders of color to attempts to discount the votes of the most predominantly Black cities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Īs historians, we are all too familiar with centuries of racial violence whenever the primacy of white supremacy in American governance has been challenged: the reactionary response to Bacon’s Rebellion in colonial Virginia the political racism of Jacksonian America the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in response to the nation’s post-Civil War move toward interracial democracy the wave of white riots and mass murders and the emergence of the second Klan in the 1910s and 1920s the KKK’s third iteration as a response to the black freedom struggle that followed World War II and the seditious insurrection at the nation’s capital only weeks ago. The racist mass zoom-bombing of the Penn State Black Caucus on January 27 th is the most recent example of highly-coordinated white supremacist aggression against Black people and other individuals of color at our institution. ![]()
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