The racism behind the massacre in Buffalo, New York, “emerged from a society that regularly disregards the conditions of inequality and poverty in poor and working-class Black communities,” KeeangaYamahtta writes.
, “Buffalo’s a little bit like Scranton, little bigger version of Scranton. You know, Scranton. You live a long time and you love your community, but you get knocked down a little bit and don’t quite get the respect sometimes as other parts of your state do.” She went on to say that, as a result, “there’s something called Buffalove. It’s a combination of the words ‘Buffalo’ and ‘love.’ We call it Buffalove.
The effort to console and empathize can just as easily distort and conceal. Buffalo is not like Scranton, which has never had a population that was more than eight per cent African American. It is more akin to Philadelphia or Newark, with a large Black population constituting more than a third of the city. As in those cities, there is severe residential segregation, which keeps Black and white residents living in different social, economic, and political realities.
When these conditions exist for decades, they come to be seen as the natural order of things. In the largely white West Side of the city, there are brick homes, grocery stores, shops, and gorgeous parks designed by. On the East Side sit ninety-four per cent of the city’s vacant lots. In 2014, Evans Bank in Buffalo was sued by the state attorney general for engaging in modern-day redlining, excluding the entire East Side of Buffalo from its mortgage lending.
When Joe Biden travelled to Buffalo to console the city, he spoke passionately about white supremacy,, “It’s been allowed to grow and fester right before our eyes. . . . No more, no more. We need to say as clearly and as forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in America.” But racial segregation and poverty were among the conditions that left Black Buffalonians vulnerable to a white-supremacist attack. Calls for reforms on these issues have largely been ignored.
In the United States, it has always been easiest to denounce virulent and explicit acts of racism. Still, it is clear that there is mounting energy to resist forms of racism that are not explicit but are still deadly and stultifying. The
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