A White Supremacist Dictionary
For anyone having trouble reading between the lines.
When White (and Black) conservative Republicans speak these days — to borrow from the late, great James Brown — they talk loud and almost always say nothing. (Exhibit A: Georgia’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s pregnant cow parable.)
And my capacity to connect dots (and shameful rhetoric) has led me to a fateful conclusion: In the age of Donald Trump, there is very little difference between conservative Republicans and White supremacists, who, by the way, come in all races. They now speak the same language.
You may have noticed that conservative Republicans/White supremacists now pepper their language with certain words and phrases that are meant to flip the script and transform themselves from instigators into victims. The trigger for their use of these words and phrases, which have increased in popular usage since the murder of George Floyd inspired resurgent Black Power, is usually a Black person (like me) speaking their mind.
Here’s what conservative Republicans/White supremacists really mean when they drop their favorite buzzwords.
All Lives Matter
Basically, this is just their roundabout way of saying White Lives Matter — and now there are…
