Editorial: As the El Paso massacre showed once again, white supremacy is the poison in our well
Most people know that racism and white supremacy have been part of America since even before we became a nation. There's no need to recount the slavery system on which this country's early wealth was built, from Southern plantations to New England-owned slave ships to the rise of Wall Street banks that financed both the cotton and slave trades. Most of us also know about the Jim Crow system, the bouts of xenophobia, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the internment of
