
How deep-rooted White fear throughout America's history allows massacres like Buffalo to happen
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The shooting in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 grocery shoppers dead wasn't anomalous. It was consistent with a long US history of violence produced by anxiety over supposedly dwindling White control.
A 180-page diatribe has been attributed to the White 18-year-old suspect. In it, he describes not only his preparations for the massacre but his reasons for wanting to kill in the first place.
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