“…the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.”
On Wednesday, responding to the murders in Atlanta of eight people, six of whom were Asian, a writer for The Root who also is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times asserted that “whiteness is a public health crisis.”
Damon Young opined, “It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.”
Opining that the murders should be tied to “the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year,” Young posited that former President Trump, as well as the Republican Party, “can and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans.”
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