Her book along with The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017), by Richard Rothstein and White by Law: the Legal Construction of race(2006), by Ian Haney-Lopez, reveal institutional and legal racism that still haunt America today. As Anderson argues in White Rage, whites’ use their power as the status quos to push back the rights and opportunities of blacks. After all, when Obama was elected, “voting rights were severely curtailed the federal government was shut down.” Black Americans did more to build this country than any white Americans and they are the least respected class of Americans. Obama did not do enough, perhaps he could not, but now we are faced with the maniacal rantings of a rich white racists whose only policy seems to be to undo everything Obama did. Unfortunately, this ‘voice’ is too little too late. It is built into the fabric of America since the Constitution and it has been a battle, ever since, for minorities to have a voice in America. That is why it has the use of the courts and other governmental bureaucracies. “The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement.” White rage is, in effect, part of America’s status quos.

Working the halls of power, it can achieve its ends far more effectively, fare more destructively.”

White Rage doesn’t have to wear sheets, burn crosses, or take to the streets. Too imperceptibly, certainly, for a nation consistently drawn to the spectacular - to what it can see. It wreaks havoc subtly, almost imperceptibly. “What rage is not about visible violence, but rather it works its way through the courts, the legislatures, and a range of government bureaucracies. “It was the same with policing, housing, voting, and employment.” “In the 21stCentury, Michael Brown’s school district had been on probation for fifteen years” for racial inequality. the Board of Education (1954) did virtually nothing. Board of Education, Missouri “declared all its schools would be integrated, only to announce that it would leave it up to the local districts to implement the Supreme Court decisions.” Brown v. Anderson reports that in 1954, in response to Brown v.

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