An article about the day back in 1957 when Louis Armstrong decided that the time had come for him to speak out on racism.
Definitely worth reading.
Category: Racism
White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
“Americans want to believe that the surge in white-supremacist violence and recruitment has no roots in U.S. soil, that it is racist zealotry with a foreign pedigree and marginal allure,” wrote Adam Serwer in April 2019.
When in fact, he argued, “a strange kind of historical amnesia has obscured the American lineage of this white-nationalist ideology.”