Bullock Texas State History Museum
Smash Structural White Supremacy
RECEIVED Fri., March 23, 2018
Dear Editor,
Both structural and individual racism and white supremacy explains why the Austin Police Department did not initially suspect a racist white American male engaged in domestic terrorism when the first bombs killed three Black and Brown people.
Instead, Austin Police first engaged in a “blame-the-victim” assault suggesting that one of the Black victims was actually making a bomb when it accidentally exploded. Then when the Latina was killed, the White Supremacist Austin Police suspected a drug cartel.
Come on.
Now that the domestic terrorist is revealed to be a racist, Christian home-schooled, young white male – a self-described psychopath – who opposed abortion and homosexuality yet thought it a good idea to get rid of the sex offender registry (?!) AND who was associated with survivalists, one must wonder: Will the Austin Police Department update its suspect profiling criteria and methodology as well as assisting the FBI and other law enforcement in doing the same thing?
Had the APD not been paralyzed from the outset by structural and individual racism and white supremacy, it is AT LEAST CONCEIVABLE the domestic terrorist, Mark Conditt, could have been identified and apprehended earlier – than, say, if the PD was looking for drug cartels or something – thus eliminating weeks of outright terror inflicted on Austin through police white supremacy, incompetence, and outright stupidity.
And need it be asked, had the bombs had gone off in West Austin or Northwest Hills, whether the APD response would have been vastly different and immediate?
Structural White Supremacy in the Austin and other law enforcement agencies needs to be smashed into a thousand pieces the way President John F. Kennedy wanted to smash the CIA into a thousand pieces.
Law enforcement is necessary in civilization, but it is necessary for the structural white supremacy to be smashed into a thousand pieces and that police officers be hired or retained based on how well they have identified, neutralized, or mastered and controlled their own individual, societal-inflicted white internalized racism.
Both structural and individual racism and white supremacy explains why the Austin Police Department did not initially suspect a racist white American male engaged in domestic terrorism when the first bombs killed three Black and Brown people.
Instead, Austin Police first engaged in a “blame-the-victim” assault suggesting that one of the Black victims was actually making a bomb when it accidentally exploded. Then when the Latina was killed, the White Supremacist Austin Police suspected a drug cartel.
Come on.
Now that the domestic terrorist is revealed to be a racist, Christian home-schooled, young white male – a self-described psychopath – who opposed abortion and homosexuality yet thought it a good idea to get rid of the sex offender registry (?!) AND who was associated with survivalists, one must wonder: Will the Austin Police Department update its suspect profiling criteria and methodology as well as assisting the FBI and other law enforcement in doing the same thing?
Had the APD not been paralyzed from the outset by structural and individual racism and white supremacy, it is AT LEAST CONCEIVABLE the domestic terrorist, Mark Conditt, could have been identified and apprehended earlier – than, say, if the PD was looking for drug cartels or something – thus eliminating weeks of outright terror inflicted on Austin through police white supremacy, incompetence, and outright stupidity.
And need it be asked, had the bombs had gone off in West Austin or Northwest Hills, whether the APD response would have been vastly different and immediate?
Structural White Supremacy in the Austin and other law enforcement agencies needs to be smashed into a thousand pieces the way President John F. Kennedy wanted to smash the CIA into a thousand pieces.
Law enforcement is necessary in civilization, but it is necessary for the structural white supremacy to be smashed into a thousand pieces and that police officers be hired or retained based on how well they have identified, neutralized, or mastered and controlled their own individual, societal-inflicted white internalized racism.
Sincerely,
Thomas A. Prentice, Ph.D.
Thomas A. Prentice, Ph.D.
News Editor Chase Hoffberger responds: No Latina was killed. Esperanza Herrera, a Latina, was injured on March 12.
