White supremacy is a comprehensive cultural education whose primary function is to prevent people from reading—engaging with, understanding—the lives of people outside its scope.

The White religious right rest their theology on an ideal of moral “cleanliness” that is, if challenged, to be defended violently. There is nothing new about ugliness in a very dressed-up place. It is endemic in some ways. That is something you must understand. Perhaps you remember from lessons of the civil rights movement that the White citizens’

The growth of the religious right in the 1970s was in large part a backlash against the civil rights movement and women’s movement. To this day, in North Carolina, 65 percent describe themselves as very religions. Three-fourths say they believe in God with absolute certainty. And 77 percent of the adult population identify as Christian, the majorit