White fear persists indefinitely and derails any real racial reform

Evidence

Here Fisher describes fear generally. But in the United States white fear never ends either. It is always present, ready to be activated by the slightest encounter or gesture and ready to be used to short-circuit any serious attempt to end racial inequality. And its gravitational force (the media) pulls all Americans, no matter their color, into its orbit. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 218

Categorization

• XREF: The enduring, gravity-like white fear names the mechanism behind why moral panics recur, connecting to the reader’s earlier panic research. — connects to: Mandating white majorities made fully desegregated schools inherently unstable. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 94