How White Supremacy in America is Increasing?

Entranced by a white supremacist ideology, a teenage gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday, May 14, 2022.

He deliberately killed 10 people and injured three more and all the victims were Black.

Commenting on one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent American history, President Joe Biden condemned on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, what he branded the "poison" of white supremacist ideology behind a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, “and said that racism is being stoked for political gain,” according to The New York Times.

US authorities have identified the gunman as an 18-year-old teenager living in a small town in New York’s rural Southern Tier, his name was Gendron.

 

Methodical Shooting and Killing

Known as the replacement theory, Gendron was one of those excited by white supremacy ideology; he drove more than 200 miles to kill 10 Black people and injured three more, on Saturday, May 14, 2022; the 18-year old racist also live streamed his attack, the police said, by chilling video feed “that appeared designed to promote his sinister agenda,” NYT reported.

Shortly after his arrest, a manifesto, full of racist, and anti-immigrant views, was claimed to have been posted online by the gunman. It was also promoting the idea that white Americans were at risk of being replaced by people of color.

Four employees were also shot in the Buffalo grocery store where the savagery and the planning were evident.

The criminal was holding an assault weapon and wearing body armor, according to the police.

His target seemed clear as well, the 11 people shot were Black and two were white.

NYT quoted John Garcia, the Erie County sheriff, as saying: “It was a straight up racially motivated hate crime.”

 

A Whole Racist Plan

Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo native, decried the attack in a news conference and said it was an “act of barbarism” and an “execution of innocent human beings,” as well as “a frightening reminder of the dangers of white supremacist terrorism.”

“It strikes us in our very hearts to know that there is such evil that lurks out there,” Governor Hochul added.

According to what was written in the manifesto, the attack was likely inspired by previous massacres motivated by racial hatred, like the mosque shooting in New Zealand and the Walmart shooting in Texas, both attacks were in 2019.

In the same publication that was reviewed by law enforcement, Gendron wrote that he had chosen this area because many Black residents are living near his home “in the state’s Southern Tier, a predominantly white region that borders Pennsylvania,” according to NYT.

A careful plan was set in the document to kill as many Black people as possible, in addition to the type of gun, he would use a timeline, “and where he would eat beforehand, as well as details of where he would live stream his attack.

Gendron had carefully studied the layout of the grocery…writing that he would shoot a security guard before stalking through aisles and firing upon Black shoppers,”  the same source read.

He also wrote he was “passively preparing” for his attack for years, buying ammunition and gear, but rarely practicing shooting, however, in January, his plans “actually got serious.”

The document expressed “praise for the perpetrator of the 2015 attack in South Carolina, and for a man who killed 51 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019,” NYT reported.

 

White Supremacy History

The attack at the Market in a Black neighborhood in east Buffalo has taken people back to a series of previous massacres motivated by racism, including the attack on a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, where nine Black parishioners were killed, and in 2018, an antisemitic rampage in a Pittsburgh synagogue ended up by the killing of 11 people, and another attack at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019, where the killer had expressed hatred of Latinos, killing more than 20 people.

Commenting on the murder of the 10 African Americans who were killed in a neighborhood supermarket, Biden said: "What happened here is simple and straightforward terrorism. Domestic terrorism."

"White supremacy is a poison running through our body politic and it's been allowed to fester right in front of our eyes," he added, condemning "those who spread the lie for power, for political gain, and for profit."

Biden visited Buffalo, New York, last Saturday, to mourn the victims and condemn the racist shooting.

The US president was close to tears when he recalled the victims’ lives, then became angry when describing forces of hatred that have haunted the American administration.

“In America, evil will not win, I promise you,” Biden said. “Hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word.”