"They seem not to have wondered why a white supremacist would find it necessary or useful to communicate such beliefs by an obscure hand gesture that isn't really a white supremacist hand gesture, when so many other forms of communication are readily available and more easily concealed from alert eyes like their own.
They seem to find it inconceivable that everyone doesn’t know that the hand gesture recognized universally and for many years in this country as signifying "OK" now signifies support of white supremacy.
In other words, they have taken leave of their senses....The United States, in their view, continues to be an irredeemably racist country.
That's the message of bestselling writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. “America’s progress on race has been minimal,” as Columbia’s John McWhorter summarizes this view, “just pretty window dressing here and there,” with “no reason to hope things will get even better.”
...focusing on hidden hand signals and phantom masses of white supremacists is just plain nuts. Democrats need to keep the signals from getting out of hand."
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