Dahleen Glanton: Angry white men are fueling racial violence
by By Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune
Aug 14, 2017
3 minutes
Unlike the bigoted protesters in the 1960s, the demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., did not wear hoods. On Saturday, we saw their faces clearly. And they were angry white men.
If we are to get to the root of the recent escalation of confrontational bigotry in America, we must acknowledge who is fueling it. That is the growing demographic of insecure white males who blame their social and economic failures on everyone but themselves.
Demonstrations like the one this weekend represent the false notion that white men are
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