White Supremacy and “White Innocence” Were Behind the Killings in Jacksonville
The murder of three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, last month by white male supremacist Ryan Christopher Palmeter, who later killed himself, cannot be understood as anything other than an act of racist terrorism. In the wake of the horror of the attack, we are left needing once again to make sense of this latest iteration of the U.S.’s relentless history of anti-Black terrorism.