US heading for a civil war: Analyst

Racism in the United States has plunged the country into such dire social straits that conditions in US society today look similar to those that led to the Civil War in 1861, according to an American analyst.

Rampant racist and xenophobic terrorist acts carried out by White supremacists in past years aim to cower the growing political and economic clout of a Black and Brown majority population in the US.

In this regard, political commentator Life Malcolm says African Americans and minorities in the United States have been subject to violence and dehumanization similar to what was practiced during the colonial era.

Donald Earl Collins, a lecturer of history at the American University in Washington, DC, said in an analytic opinion article published on Tuesday by Al-Jazeera news site that the terrorist operations and acts of racist and xenophobic shooting by the likes of rightwingers such as Payton Gendron, Dylann Roof, Patrick Wood Crusius and Robert Bowers aimed to fight the potential political and economic power the Black and Brown communities in the US could wield by the 2040s.

“Roof, Bowers, Crusius, Gendron and so many others hold a collective belief in the so-called Great Replacement Theory. They willed themselves to slaughter Black worshipers at church service, Jewish worshipers at temple, Latinx shoppers at a Walmart, and white protesters against police lethality. These heinous acts are their way of saying that white men are at war with this changing US,” according to Earl Collins.

“For them, the very existence of white people and Western civilization, American style is at stake,” he noted.

The American university professor cites these extremist Whites homicidal hate of the Blacks and Browns and “everyone who isn’t a white male supremacist” as the fuel exacerbating the deep-rooted animosity in US society.

"Hatred helps fuel their violence, but ultimately, hatred is mostly a consequence of their beliefs in white supremacy, and less a cause of it,” he said, noting that, “Hate is the residue of this constant quest, especially among the white males who believe in white supremacy nakedly and narcissisticasly. Hate is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg.”

Earl Collins cites terrorism as an outlet for the white male racists to express their narcissism.

He noted that White narcissists' supremacist ideology “has morphed into racist organizations, from the Ku Klux Klan to neo-fascist movements, from extralegal police actions to vigilante mass murderers like Gendron.”

Earlier this month, Gendron, who identified himself as a “fascist”, shot and killed ten people at a supermarket that mainly rendered goods and services to African Americans.

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Earl Collins warned that today’s widespread racism in US society, which is reflected in the numerous acts of xenophobic terrorism and hate crimes against colored people, has now led to conditions that put the US on the verge of another Civil War.

“Some may find such thinking alarmist, but the US is much closer to the conditions that led to its Civil War in 1861 than most Americans would dare admit. Gendron is yet another example of where the US could be headed if it continues to do nothing about white male supremacy and the pro-gun, anti-Black, and patriarchal politics that foment it,” he concluded.

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