You mean these White supremacists? They are the ones spreading race baiting and critical race baiting using Marxist teachings
The Communist Party USA condemns the racist shooting massacre in Buffalo, New York at the TOPS supermarket in a predominantly Black community and left ten people dead. We strongly denounce all racist lynchings whether committed by a white supremacists armed with an assault weapon or the police.
We join with other progressive and democratic forces in saying the names of the victims so they will not be forgotten, and send our deepest condolences to the families of Katherine Massey, Ruth Whitfield, Roberta Drury, Aaron Slater Jr., Celestine Chaney, Andre (Elliot) Mackneil, Pearly Young, Heyward Patterson, and Margus Morrison, whose lives were ended by Payton Gendry”s gunshots.
18-year-old Payton Gendry, a fascist and white supremacist, carried out the massacre. Gendry was seen wearing the patch of the Black Sun symbol in photos, which is a symbol of neo-Nazism frequently worn by the Azov Battalion in Ukraine. The Azov Battalion is a white supremacist and fascist paramilitary unit that holds leadership positions in the Ukrainian National Guard.
Gendry also left behind a manifesto praising the Christchurch shooter in New Zealand who, not surprisingly, also praised the neo-Nazi Azov unit in Ukraine. In the manifesto, Gendry advocated the white supremacist “great replacement” claim repeated in extreme-right media outlets like Fox News with host Tucker Carlson. This fascist theory promotes the idea that white Americans are being replaced through an orchestrated campaign by non-white people, in particular darker-skinned immigrants from Latin America, Africa and other Global South countries. This false claim has its roots in the post-Civil War period. White plantation owners and former enslavers fearing a loss of power used similar ideas to denounce “Black domination” and supported the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremist terrorist organizations. Their vile actions led to the forced passage of Jim Crow apartheid laws that remained in place until the 1960s. It was mimicked by the Nazis in the 1930s to justify their invasion of surrounding countries, and building a vast concentration camp system that claimed the lives of six million Jewish people and millions of other ethnic minorities, queer people, disabled people, and political opponents. Over 20 million Soviets were murdered by the Nazis defending their nation.
This recent massacre of Black people by a white supremacist is not an anomaly nor new phenomena in the United States, though the government continues to promote the false idea of supporting democracy abroad while lynchings continue at home. Gendry’s actions and beliefs are of a piece with the rise of Trumpian fascism, the resurgence of racist and conspiracist militias, and the turn of the Republican Party as a whole toward extreme-right racism and a fascist-like political party.
Organized white supremacist fascist violence is at the core of this recent massacre. On June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr. was lynched by three white supremacists in Texas. Byrd was beaten then chained by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged three miles to his death. Another example is the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which killed many Black federal workers. The forces involved with Charlottesville in 2017 and the January 6, 2021 insurrection to overthrow democracy are also connected with this violence. We also cannot forget the Charleston shooter Dylan Roof and the El Paso Texas shooter who were also inspired by fascist ideology and violence.
The list is extensive. We need to consider re-circulating a We Charge Genocide petition to the United Nations to call for a serious investigation into fascist, white supremacist violence in the United States. And we need to continue our efforts to organize a strong anti-fascist alliance to rid this country of fascist thinking. November’s election will be an important site of struggle in this effort.
But the authors of the Genocide petition warned against believing that racist violence was an individualist action. They saw it as a systemic crisis that had defined U.S. history and its political and economic system. “Its very familiarity disguises its horror,” they stated. Gendry’s radicalization isn’t an accident or a deviation. It is the natural result of a capitalist social system that cannot value people of color’s lives.
As the recent police murders of unarmed African Americans Sandra Bland, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright, Botham Jean, Terence Crutcher, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Patrick Lyoya show, there is a racist double standard of how mass shooters are treated by the police. White supremacists, like Dylan Roof were peacefully arrested and taken to lunch at Burger King with a bullet proof vest. The media plays a serious role in this as well by perceiving Black youth as threats and not properly investigating white youth that purchase weapons. We need to challenge this racist dynamic.
Black people, with all people who stand against racism and for justice, are searching for answers.
As the extreme right attacks, the teaching of racism and slavery in K-12 schools and banning of books by Black authors, fascist ideology seeps in. The concerted political campaign to denounce critical race theory as part of the Republican Party’s election strategy is a feature of this fascist ideology. It aims to control, through law and threats of imprisonment or being fired the ideas and voices of teachers, professors, journalists, or other public figures who offer clear-sighted analysis of racism, white supremacy, and capitalism. As the right-wing media continues to push these ideas on to the US public, we stand with the people’s and democratic movements that demand our institutions tell the truth about our history as painful for some as it may be. We stand with the people’s movements against white supremacy. We join the call for a serious, not just a performative, commitment to fighting systemic racism. This is an urgent crisis. It is an emergency that demands a serious response. Thoughts and prayers, flowers and commemoration of the loss of our elders are important. But we need a working-class leadership that will fight to protect Black lives, uplift our worth in a society divided by hate, and commit to a democratic future.
The Communist Party USA joins with others to demand the Buffalo shooter be immediately tried for a hate crime under the new federal lynching bill. Our duty as Communists is to help build an anti-racist pro working-class movement to force an end to the legal and extra-legal lynching of Black people, and to end the capitalist system that systemically requires racism and an attack on the truth for its continuation.
The problem with this lie is exposed when they try to eliminate what isn't there or exaggerate it to create a paper tiger. We did. In 1865. The Democrats went to war to defend their right to own black slaves and the Republicans defeated them. The war is over. The good guys won.
If you think white supremacists are still a problem, please show me where. Where are the mobs of white supremacists lynching black people? Where are white supremacists rioting in the streets and burning down buildings? Where are they stockpiling weapons and preparing for a race war? Etc.
Liberals see a white supremacist in every closet and under every bush. They come up with the most strained claims that it is just laughable. The police arrest a black person caught in the act of a violent crime, often against a victim who is black, and they scream that they’re only arresting him because of racism. Someone expresses disagreement with a black political activist, and they insist the only possible explanation is racism. Someone makes an “ok” sign with his fingers, a gesture that has been understood to mean “ok” by millions of people for hundreds of years, and they insist that’s a secret racist sign. It’s just dumb.
First of all there’s the 1st Amendment guaranteeing free speech and freedom of association. It’s constitutionally protected to say that whites are superior. Or that blacks are superior and whites are inferior. And don’t start with the “yelling fire in a crowded theater” argument. The case that came from was overturned in the 1960s.
Besides, the Wiemar Republic tried to suppress any talk of Nazism and look how well that turned out. It made it seem more attractive.
But, as others have pointed out, white supremacy is more of a bogyman than an actual threat. The Democrats are trying to use the threat of white supremacy to hurt the Republican Party and the news media is obligingly amplifying this.
Trump’s election set off the “Trump effect” of racist attacks and messages. Most of those turned out to be hoaxes, often perpetuated by the supposed victim. When asked why they did it they admitted they wanted to be part of the anti-Trump movement. Conservatives refer to this as what happens what the demand for racism is greater than the supply.
In 2021, anti-Asian violence was on the upswing. Again, this was reported to be whites attacking Asians because Trump called COVID the Chinese Virus. Reporting on this died down after every anti-Asian hate crime caught on video involved a Black perpetrator.
Soon after his inauguration, Biden announced that the US military was infested with white supremacy and the threat to national security. He ordered a 24-hour stand-down while every member of the military was checked. The result? Fewer than a dozen members were discharged.
Yes, there are white supremacists. My impression of them is that they are people still living their parents’ basement and they spend their time blaming others for their lack of advancement instead of admitting their own failures. The days when white supremacy was openly accepted are long gone.
The white supremacy boogie man is imaginary. Look at the FBI crime statistics and you can see there are substantially fewer whites killing blacks than vice versa. All propaganda from Democrats.
Mainstream Media (MSM) reports about hate crimes is often lop-sided and inaccurate; for instance, White-trash males are often accused of most mass shootings (Statistica, 2021). Whereas a review of the data from the Mother Jones website, reveals that Mass Shooters have many different hues. Arabs had 9 shooters, which is 7% of the total or 744% higher than Arabic percentages of the US population; 2 Native American shooters are 165% higher; 21 Black shooters make 145% higher; 8 Asian shooters are 110% higher; and whites had 66 shooters which is 55% of the total, or 12% lower than their population total percentage (Mother Jones 2021).
Similarly, there have been false claims of increasing white-trash violence against Asian people (Fadel, 2021). Using the published data, violent incidents committed against Asian victims by Asian offenders (24%) was 3.9 times higher than the percentage of Asians in the population (6%). Violent incidents committed against Asian victims by Black offenders (27%) was 2.25 times higher than the representation of Black persons in the population (12%). Violent incidents committed against Asian victims by White offenders (24%) was 0.38 times less than the representation of White persons in the population (62%). CRT advocates illogically assume that every arrest or police arrest is due to racism (Schwartz, 2021, page 72). Instead, CRT advocates should educate themselves on crime data and stop fear mongering – and those of us falsely accused by CRT advocates need to start filing civil lawsuits to stop the slander, defamation, and their manipulative propaganda (Morgan & Oudekerk, 2018).
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