Racism in Connecticut: nooses in West Hartford and Stamford
The recent attacks on a young black man in Plainfield are rightfully a reason to be outraged and to speak out in support of people of color and against bigots. But too often when such incidents occur in small towns and rural areas (whether it’s Plainfield, CT or Jena, LA) too many of us treat it as a given that the problem is “rednecks” and “white trash.” Treating deliberate and knowing racism as “ignorance” feeds into the stereotype of rural working class whites as “backward” and makes them the source of racism. Even the association of white supremacist thinking with the sound of a southern drawl is often used by white liberals to distance themselves from the reality that racism pervades the lofty heights as surely as it does the depths of our society.
Today’s Courant lets the cat out of the bag: incidents involving the hanging of nooses in West Hartford’s Blue Back Square and in Stamford tell the truth about how broadly the disease of race hatred infects white America.
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