![]() ![]() It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. Protests and looting naturally capture attention. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless. ![]() What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. She is the author of “Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960.” ![]() Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at Emory University and a public voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project. ![]()
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