Last week, it was Megyn Kelly’s weird comments about Barack Obama, this week, Laura Loomer, who is considered an advisor to the president, has been on a vitriolic and racist rant on the platform formerly known as Twitter regarding U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, referring to Crocket in a most disgusting way.
Then if that weren’t enough, a couple of disciples of the dead podcaster, who are embarking on what they are calling the Fearless Debates tour, decided to set up one of their debate tables on the Tennessee State University (TSU) campus, uninvited and without permission. For those who don’t know, Tennessee State University is a historically Black college (HBCU). In fact, last year my daughter and I toured the campus as she was looking at schools to transfer to once she is finished at the local community college. TSU is not only a historically Black school, but it is situated in a Black community in Nashville.
Not surprisingly, two young white men wearing red MAGA hats, sitting on the campus of a historically Black college, located in a Black neighborhood, at a card table with signs that read “DEI should be illegal” and “Deport all illegals right now” were not met with a warm reception. In fact, a number of students swarmed the young men, and campus security and police escorted them off the campus. There was no violence but there were hot and hostile words and, frankly, I don’t blame the students.
Despite what the young men claim, they were not seeking honest discourse. If they were, they would have approached the school and arranged to come to campus through the proper channels. No, they wanted to stir shit up and capture it on video and break it up into bite-sized morsels to show a narrative that fits their agenda. Given that one of the young men reportedly has ties to the dead podcaster’s operations, it is safe to say their agenda is to show a narrative of Black people being “less than” or “other.”
I mean, people are funny that way. If you show up in a space that you haven’t been welcomed to, with symbols that show you are hostile to those people whose spaces you have invaded, people tend to get hot and bothered and not in the fun and sexy way. If I were to show up in a white conservative MAGA-loving community, with provocative signs stating that whiteys are colonizers who need to be eradicated, and egging people on for “honest discourse,” I fully expect those white people to pack my Black ass up. In fact, I fully would expect to be arrested.
But the arrogance of whiteness expects a seat at the table, even when it is not their table—even when they have forced themselves into the space. Not only is it arrogance but also ignorance in not knowing why someone else built that table.
Historically, Black colleges and universities exist because we, Black people, were not allowed to attend white institutions. Full stop. White-bodied people decry the existence of Black schools and communities without the historical knowledge that it wasn’t that long ago that Black people were not allowed at “their” schools. Or in their communities. When we moved anywhere near them, they fled—hello, white flight. Which my grandparents experienced when they bought their home in the 1960s in Chicago.
The angry white people of today decry diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts as being racist towards them without acknowledging that the real racism started hundreds of years ago, when Black people were brought to this country against their will and forced to build a country and generate wealth for people who treated them as less than.
Even when slavery ended, after the brief period of reconstruction period, Jim Crow laws were enacted to keep Black people from building a future for themselves in this country. We still persevered. But legalized racism only ended less than 60 years ago in this country; some of the Civil Rights heroes from back then are still very much alive.
Any “extras” that white people perceive that Black people and other marginalized people have received is about trying to reduce longstanding artificial imbalances that were created by racism—attempting to make right the harm that has been caused and to finally acknowledge that the playing field in this country isn’t fair, especially when you built an inequitable country that literally allowed white people to advance by holding others back.
While no white person alive was directly involved in the founding inequity in this country, white people as a collective still benefit. By the same token, Black folks still live with that inequity and how it shows up in our lives: lack of generational wealth, earlier death rates, less access to jobs and financial opportunities, etc.
Unfortunately, the two provocateurs are now using their ejection from the TSU campus to “show” how uncouth Black folks are and have literally called for TSU to be defunded. Again, one of the provocateurs conveniently has ties to the dead podcaster’s organization. Their little stunt is earning them plenty of attention and no doubt will help fill their coffers because in this current environment hate sells and truth doesn’t. Facts will have you hoping your readers like your work enough to support it, but hate? That is where the cash is at, extra for being a person of color who turns your back on your community and participates in the lies.
Just as I was sitting down to write this piece, my daughter came home and asked me if I had heard the lynching song. I had in passing but with everything going on I hadn’t really sat with it, but she sat down and played it for me. I won’t go into details, because my heart is breaking as I write this through the tears, but in our current climate, young white men feel quite comfortable writing about lynching Black folks in 2025. Young white men; the same young white men that so many of you thought would be better than the old generations. The ones that even I had hoped would be better.
There is so much going on in the country that it is hard to keep it all straight, but one thing is becoming clear to me: We are very well possibly headed toward a race war.
The president is a misogynist, but he really and truly hates Black women. His most vicious attacks and words are for Black women. Even in the press pool, he says things to the Black female reporters that make me admire their courage because the day a white man speaks to me that way to my face is the day that I accept I am going to jail. Black women are being tossed out of the work force at a rate not seen with any other group and yet, when push came to shove, America rallied around a white man to get him back on the air. Meanwhile, one of the best journalists of our time, Karen Attiah, was unceremoniously let go from The Washington Post and the best she gets is kind words and hopefully paid subscribers to her Substack. The cuts this administration is making will come down even harder in Black and brown communities.
As painful as it was, I am glad I watched the dead podcaster’s memorial service because it also clarified where we are headed, particularly in light of the head ghoul, Stephen Miller’s, words. They want a white America. Full stop.
The thing that is egregious is that while people are seeing the attacks on the immigrant and trans communities, the attacks on Black folks—particularly Black women—are subtle enough that unless you connect the dots, you don’t see them. Which is quite convenient in a country skilled in ignoring Black humanity and pain. It’s also what terrifies me: If our fear and what this administration is doing to us is not obvious, how much destruction will occur before anyone notices? Will you notice ever? When it happens fully, will you care?
A race war is coming and a generation of young white people—radicalized while chilling with their devices at home under the safe and watchful eyes of their parents who suspected nothing—are eager to be the foot soldiers to carry out the destruction and mayhem. The rallying cry across the internet for many of them is that they are Charlie. I have no doubt we will see legions of young people embarking on their own version of “fearless debates” to carry on the mission of their lord and savior podcaster and the best we as Black parents can do is to tell our kids to stand down and not give these provocateurs the fight they want.
Yet even that doesn’t sit right with me. In 2025, when white boys are baiting us, why must the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Jim Crow remain silent? Why must we always take a higher ground instead of people raising better white kids? Why is our shared history and pain so inconsequential that it is neither remembered or taught, instead leaving these youngsters to fall prey to those who profit and traffic in hate and separation?
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