Hurricane Harvey threatens more than you think

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>Today, Hurricane Harvey hovers in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening parts of Texas with nearly three feet of rain, and armed white nationalists march through the public squares of the United States, emboldened by a blustering president.
>This coincidence is cause for concern. A century ago, a Texas hurricane provided the opportunity for white vigilantes to perpetrate what may have been one of the worst racial massacres in American history. And white politicians, acting with subtler means, used the storm as a pretext to restrict African American voting rights.
>When crises of state and storm collide in an already anxious nation, the thirst for stability has led too many to the well of white supremacy.
> The mythical language of “ghouls” suggests that these scenes, like the myths about black men raping white women that suffused the South at the time, were cooked up in the sociological cauldron of white fear. White people have long dreaded the specter of imagined black predators, and the storm offered an occasion for white readers to revel in their racist fantasies.

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