The conservative hysteria that seeks to envelop U.S. history in a shroud of innocence and ignorance — and thus refuses to acknowledge the roots of racial inequality, residential segregation, underemployment — is a convenient justification for never having to use the power of the state to address these issues.

This is not just wrong; it is dangerous. And, on an otherwise warm Saturday afternoon, a shooter stepped out of the darkness and showed us what happens when we continue to hide from our history. — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in The New Yorker

The waves of white panic, political rampages, and terrorist attacks are always in response to a sense that society is becoming more equal (even when it isn’t).

As much as the white establishment pretends to be motivated by fear of Black criminality, it’s actually images of Black equality that spark the rampaging violence we experience from white society . . .

— Bree Newsome

Their cross-border insurgency, launched from U.S. soil, was a landmark revolt against the U.S. empire and the suffocating power Anglo-Americans held over Mexican lives.

Pursued by the nascent FBI, the rebels wrote in secret code and organized thousands of workers to their cause.