You’re Allowed to Storm the Capitol, If You’re White and Angry

Riad Kherdeen
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readJan 8, 2021

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A Trump supporter carrying a Confederate flag in the US Capitol. January 6, 2021. Image via Mike Theiler/Reuters
A Black Lives Matter protestor carrying flowers in Seattle. June 8, 2020. Image via David Ryder/Getty Images

Apparently, if you’re white and angry, you can break into and storm the US Capitol and nothing will happen to you. The scenes of the Capitol today, wherein insurgents illegally broke through police barricades and…

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Riad Kherdeen
ILLUMINATION

PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley. Your source for original, critical, thought-provoking content about art, history, culture, and politics.