Exposing White Terrorism
Dr. Godby Confronts the Violence of Voter Suppression in Texas
In a clip that is going viral on TikTok, Confronting Whiteness graduate, Dr. Katherine Godby, speaks truth to power to county commissioners about the violence of voter suppression in Texas and connects it to the long history of white terrorism toward black people in America.
“I’m so tired of these racist policies, racist actions by my county government. Voter suppression is an act of violence. It’s in the long tradition of what Ben Boswell calls ‘White Terrorism’ as in ‘the middle passage, chattel slavery, police brutality, redlining, mass incarceration, gerrymandering, sundown towns, lynching, urban renewal, Jim Crow laws…white people have been terrorizing Black people for over 400 years’ and we’ve got to stop it.” - Dr. Katherine Godby