Clarence Page: Don’t be duped by ‘replacement theory.’ Put race in its proper place
That’ s what many of us wanted to think three years ago, when a white supremacist fanatic killed dozens of people in El Paso, Texas. Large sections of his rambling so-called manifesto were lifted directly from the writings of the perpetrator of another social network-driven racist massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand. That age-old“ replacement” garbage...
I know it happens a lot, but we in the news media perform a public disservice when we run headlines like “The US white majority will soon disappear forever” and “America is becoming a white-minority nation.”
I am not sorry to report that this change, such as it is, is not happening overnight.
But some people for reasons of their own are using that interpretation to inflame racial anxieties in our country, which already has more than
