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. She is the author of “Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960.”
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. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.

Protests and looting naturally capture attention. 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. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.

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So when you think of Ferguson, don’t just think of black resentment at a criminal justice system that allows a white police officer to put six bullets into an unarmed black teen. Consider the economic dislocation of black America. Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin interacted, thus transforming a 17-year-old, unarmed kid into a big, scary black guy, while the grown man who stalked him through the neighborhood with a loaded gun becomes a victim. Remember the assault on the Voting Rights Act. Look at Connick v. Thompson, a partisan 5-4 Supreme Court decision in 2011 that ruled it was legal for a city prosecutor’s staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years. And think of a recent study by Stanford University psychology researchers concluding that, when white people were told that black Americans are incarcerated in numbers far beyond their proportion of the population, “they reported being more afraid of crime and more likely to support the kinds of punitive policies that exacerbate the racial disparities,” such as three-strikes or stop-and-frisk laws.

Only then does Ferguson make sense. It’s about white rage.

American Negrophobia: the unjustified fear of black people. Studies show that Black people, particularly Black men, are the group most feared by White adults. Negrophobia fuels the triangular system of oppression that keeps people of color pinned into hapless ghettos between the pillars of militarized police, starved inner-city schools, and voracious prisons. And this summer there weren’t only Garner and Brown; there were John Crawford, and Ezell Ford, and many others who will not be eulogized in the media.

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Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies


I stopped there, already know the agenda.

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Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies





I stopped there, already know the agenda.

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It's a wonder the black community can't fix its own problems with critical thinkers like that on board.

So when you think of Ferguson, don’t just think of black resentment at a criminal justice system that allows a white police officer to put six bullets into an unarmed black teen.

Look at Connick v. Thompson, a partisan 5-4 Supreme Court decision in 2011 that ruled it was legal for a city prosecutor’s staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years.

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Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies


I stopped there, already know the agenda.

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Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies
I stopped there, already know the agenda.

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They don't have to live on the plantation.  They choose to live there, getting subsidized housing, living expenses and take home cash.  In exchange for votes and support in the political spectrum.

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They don't have to live on the plantation.  They choose to live there, getting subsidized housing, living expenses and take home cash.  In exchange for votes and support in the political spectrum.

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They don't have to live on the plantation.  They choose to live there, getting subsidized housing, living expenses and take home cash.  In exchange for votes and support in the political spectrum.

But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials ... seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment.

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ETA: whoops, wrong thread

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I`m so full of white rage that I worked all my life and DID NOT attack police officers along the way. I also had only the children that I could afford. So mad and angry about the white folks and how they treated me that I REFUSED to go on welfare. In an effort to vent a bit I paid my bills! The shame I feel.  

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Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies

I stopped there, already know the agenda.

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All sorts of stupid in that "professors" writing.

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It truly is a mental disorder.

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Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American Studies and history at Emory University.   Professor Anderson’s research and teaching focus on public policy; particularly the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice and equality in the United States. She has recently been named the Visiting Gladstein Professor of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.

Professor Anderson is the author of Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards.  In her forthcoming book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, Professor Anderson uncovers the long-hidden and important role of the nation’s most powerful civil rights organization in the fight for the liberation of peoples of color in Africa and Asia.

Her research has garnered substantial fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (The Big Ten and the University of Chicago), and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

She has also served on working groups dealing with race, minority rights, and criminal justice at Stanford’s Center for Applied Science and Behavioral Studies, the Aspen Institute, and the United Nations.

Professor Anderson was a member of the U.S. State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

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Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.

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They don't have to live on the plantation.  They choose to live there, getting subsidized housing, living expenses and take home cash.  In exchange for votes and support in the political spectrum.