A Pandemic Couldn’t Crumble the Wall of Whiteness and White Supremacy: A Critical Race Perspective


Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University

I use CRT as a response to the continued conversation about race in the United States. As the timeline, at the beginning of the chapter shows while race may not be the only factor it is never not a factor. I also want readers who will read this chapter 20 year from now to remember that in 2020 in the middle of a global pandemic the United States, whiteness and white supremacy received 72 million votes. That poor white people in this country chose white over their well-being and continued to support a President that was more concerned with his stock portfolio instead of those suffering and the number of poor white people in places like Texas who were in food lines for hours still supported his racist tirades.

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