RSH 51 -- Authoritarianism and the Inevitable White Backlash (9.9.2020)

Recorded September 7, 2020. The Sankara fellas, Adam and Peter, are back. They talk about U.S. federal agents killing an antifa supporter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who allegedly killed a far-right militiaman, Aaron "Jay" Danielson, in Portland, Oregon and how it connects to growing racist authoritarianism. Then they talk about declining white support for Black Lives Matter and the revanchist white racist backlash to protests against police racism and violence. 

 

Links: during arrest, feds kill an antifa supporter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who allegedly killed a far-right militiaman in Portland, Oregon: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/michael-reinoehl-arrest-portland-shooting.html , https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/man-sought-in-the-fatal-downtown-portland-shooting-reported-to-have-been-killed-by-officers-in-wa.html , https://www.thedailybeast.com/portland-shooting-suspect-michael-forest-reinoehl-killed-during-arrest-attempt?via=twitter_page , Reinoehl's interview with VICE: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7g8vb/man-linked-to-killing-at-a-portland-protest-says-he-acted-in-self-defense , U.S. marshals task force killed Reinoehl: https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/crime/article245485220.html  ; far-right militiaman killed in Portland on August 30, 2020 was Aaron "Jay" Danielson and member of far-right group Patriot Prayer: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/man-fatally-shot-after-pro-trump-caravan-was-patriot-prayer-friend-and-supporter.html, https://nypost.com/2020/08/30/patriot-prayer-supporter-identified-as-portland-shooting-victim/ , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-trump-rally-shooting.html , Danielson was also a Jeremy Christian supporter: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/10/08/19375638/a-man-had-a-gun-stowed-in-his-scooter-at-todays-patriot-prayer-rally-he-was-arrested , Patriot Prayer tried to incite violence in San Francisco in summer of 2017 after Charlottesville: https://sfist.com/2020/08/30/member-of-right-wing-group-that-tried-to-make-trouble-in-sf-three-years-ago-fatally-shot-in-portland/ ; white support for Black Lives Matter drops: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/01/opinion/support-black-lives-matter-is-dropping-among-white-americans/ (movement is co-opted and gentrified: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-04/black-lives-matter-white-people-portland-protests-nfl) ; white backlash to Black Lives Matter: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/blake-white-people-backlash/ ; Trump cracking down on federal anti-racism training: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/04/trump-antiracism-training-white-privilege-critical-race-theory ; Trump calls for cutting funding to schools that teach the 1619 Project: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-1619-project-funding_n_5f556a47c5b62b3add4270fd?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=bv_fb&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&fbclid=IwAR0GF4-13UCzIqw1H0md_i5VuByJ570dhH1RuvhQpm00chiAdh7WHPiV1js ; Trump casts himself as the defender of White America: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/trump-race-2020-election.html ; SFPD shooting of Luis Gongora Pat in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/12/luis-gongora-san-francisco-police-shooting-homelessness ; 

 

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