This article was originally published by The Emancipator.
The Trump administration is trying to put everyone on patrol – serving and protecting racism. Americans are being ordered to report on their neighbors’ antiracist activities.
This takes a page out of an old racist playbook. From the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to intelligence agencies infiltrating antiracist movements in the 1960s and recently, the U.S. government has long turned everyday Americans into informants to conserve racism.
Ibram X. Kendi breaks it down in this exclusive, new video commentary from The Emancipator.
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