Trump's Mob Attacked the Capitol—But Democracy Was Their Real Target

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'January 6 will go down in history as a day of infamy, the natural result of decades of white supremacists being told that the oppression of others is their freedom,' writes Karnythia.

But truthfully, our democracy was under attack a month ago. It was under attack a decade ago, too. In fact, American democracy has never been inviolate; it was always subject to the instability of an unequal society that chose to hang its hat on the myth of equality, instead of working towards a better reality.

We’ve seen this unfurl in history time and time again. Today, we celebrate how women fought for the right to vote, but the reality is that in practice only white women received that right in 1920—all Black women wouldn’t be afforded the same until 1965. We celebrate the Civil Rights Movement, and yet ignore the fact that the reasons the movement was initially needed still have not been resolved.

 

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