White fear produces eliminationist responses rather than addressing root conditions

Evidence

White fear has never motivated people to look for solutions that would involve ameliorating the deep conditions that produced the fear in the first place. Instead, the response has been to eliminate the fear by eliminating black people. Either we needed to get rid of black folk physically or just make the whole damn country color-blind. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 240

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense, counterintuitive claim: the very ‘moral anxiety’ of white fear does not motivate reform but elimination, physical or symbolic — color-blindness framed as its own kind of erasure.
• XREF: Connects to Ta-Nehisi Coates on the ‘Dream’ and to the common critique that color-blindness functions as a way to ignore structural inequality rather than solve it.