Does this guy look fragile to you? On the contrary, he looks nasty and he won’t back down. I’ve been reading Dr. Carol Anderson’s recent work, White Rage. If you haven’t heard her talk, do yourself a favor and head over to YouTube. She’s a top scholar at Emory University of African American but far from ‘academic’ and deeply passionate and revisiting. It’s almost as though after a lifetime of research she puts it all together and discovers that it’s rage, white rage from the concentrated group of white conservatives and business people that is the destructive force. She shows down civil rights was dismantled slowly from the start, sped up, but by Supreme Court decisions and laws, then speed up at super speed under Reagan, who scaled back massively the little gains black Americans made in closing the disparity gap and destroying the rising black middle class. Jailing more than three million blacks, mostly men, on petty drug charges, starting 1982, decimated black families, nationalizing white fear of the “super predator,” and created a cycle of arrests plea bargains, and private prisons.