Editing White supremacy (section)

==== 21st century ====
The presidential campaign of [[Donald Trump]] led to a surge of interest in white supremacy and [[white nationalism]] in the United States, bringing increased media attention and new members to their movement; his campaign enjoyed their widespread support.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2016-04-11 |title=Why White-Nationalist Thugs Thrill to Trump |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016/04/11/donald-trump-white-supremacist-supporters/ |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824100325/https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016/04/11/donald-trump-white-supremacist-supporters/ |archive-date=2018-08-24 |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Candace |title=The White Nationalists Who Support Donald Trump |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-nationalists-support-donald-trump/story?id=37524610 |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=ABC News |language=en |archive-date=July 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717215621/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-nationalists-support-donald-trump/story?id=37524610 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web |date=2016-03-07 |title=How Trump Is Inspiring A New Generation Of White Nationalists |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-white-nationalists_n_56dd99c2e4b0ffe6f8e9ee7c |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=HuffPost |language=en |archive-date=July 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717215621/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-white-nationalists_n_56dd99c2e4b0ffe6f8e9ee7c |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":10" />

Some academics argue that outcomes from the [[2016 United States Presidential Election]] reflect ongoing challenges with white supremacy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Inwood |first1=Joshua |year=2019 |title=White supremacy, white counter-revolutionary politics, and the rise of Donald Trump |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2399654418789949 |journal=Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=579–596 |doi=10.1177/2399654418789949 |issn=2399-6544 |s2cid=158269272 |access-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225200807/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2399654418789949 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bobo |first1=Lawrence D. |author-link1=Lawrence D. Bobo |date=n.d. |title=Racism in Trump's America: reflections on culture, sociology, and the 2016 US presidential election |journal=The British Journal of Sociology |volume=68 |issue=S1 |pages=S85–S104 |doi=10.1111/1468-4446.12324 |issn=1468-4446 |pmid=29114872|s2cid=9714176 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Psychologist [[Janet Helms]] suggested that the normalizing behaviors of social institutions of education, government, and healthcare are organized around the "birthright of...the power to control society's resources and determine the rules for [those resources]".<ref name="Helms 2016 6–7" /> Educators, literary theorists, and other political experts have raised similar questions, connecting the [[scapegoating]] of disenfranchised populations to white superiority.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1, 2016 |title=Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/1/cornel_west_on_donald_trump_this |website=[[Democracy Now!]] |access-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325233311/https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/1/cornel_west_on_donald_trump_this |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 13, 2016 |title=Politics of Gender: Women, Men, and the 2016 Campaign |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/the-politics-of-gender-2016/2016/  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309021849/https://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/the-politics-of-gender-2016/2016/ |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |access-date=March 25, 2018 |website=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref>

As of 2018, there were over 600 white-supremacist organizations recorded in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hughes |first=Trevor |title=Number of white and black hate groups surge under Trump, extremist-tracking organization says |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/22/number-white-and-black-hate-groups-surge-under-trump-extremist-tracking-organization-says/363978002/ |access-date=October 1, 2020 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929051441/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/22/number-white-and-black-hate-groups-surge-under-trump-extremist-tracking-organization-says/363978002/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 23, 2019, [[Christopher A. Wray]], the head of the [[FBI]], said at a [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] hearing that the agency had made around 100 [[domestic terrorism]] arrests since October 1, 2018, and that the majority of them were connected in some way with white supremacy. Wray said that the Bureau was "aggressively pursuing [domestic terrorism] using both counterterrorism resources and criminal investigative resources and partnering closely with our state and local partners," but said that it was focused on the violence itself and not on its ideological basis. A similar number of arrests had been made for instances of international terrorism. In the past, Wray has said that white supremacy was a significant and "pervasive" threat to the U.S.<ref>Chalfant, Morgan (July 23, 2019) [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454338-fbis-wray-says-majority-of-domestic-terrorism-arrests-this-year "FBI's Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve white supremacy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927222838/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454338-fbis-wray-says-majority-of-domestic-terrorism-arrests-this-year/ |date=September 27, 2020 }} ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]''</ref>

On September 20, 2019, the acting [[Secretary of Homeland Security]], [[Kevin McAleenan]], announced his department's revised strategy for counter-terrorism, which included a new emphasis on the dangers inherent in the white-supremacy movement. McAleenan called white supremacy one of the most "potent ideologies" behind domestic terrorism-related violent acts. In a speech at the [[Brookings Institution]], McAleenan cited a series of high-profile shooting incidents, and said "In our modern age, the continued menace of racially based violent extremism, particularly white supremacist extremism, is an abhorrent affront to the nation, the struggle and unity of its diverse population." The new strategy will include better tracking and analysis of threats, sharing information with local officials, training local law enforcement on how to deal with shooting events, discouraging the hosting of hate sites online, and encouraging counter-messages.<ref>Sands, Geneva (September 20, 2019) [https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/politics/dhs-counterterrorism-strategy/index.html "Homeland Security counterterrorism strategy focuses on white supremacy threat"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922061050/https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/politics/dhs-counterterrorism-strategy/index.html |date=September 22, 2019 }} ''[[CNN]]''</ref><ref>Williams, Pete (September 20, 2019) [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/department-homeland-security-strategy-adds-white-supremacy-list-threats-n1057136 "Department of Homeland Security strategy adds white supremacy to list of threats"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921170824/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/department-homeland-security-strategy-adds-white-supremacy-list-threats-n1057136 |date=September 21, 2019 }} ''[[NBC News]]''</ref>

In a 2020 article in ''The New York Times'' titled "How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror", columnist [[Charles M. Blow]] wrote:<ref>{{cite news |date=May 27, 2020 |title=How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html |access-date=February 5, 2021 |archive-date=May 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528023029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|We often like to make white supremacy a testosterone-fueled masculine expression, but it is just as likely to wear heels as a hood. Indeed, untold numbers of lynchings were executed because white women had claimed that a black man raped, assaulted, talked to or glanced at them. The [[Tulsa race massacre]], the destruction of Black Wall Street, was spurred by an incident between a white female elevator operator and a black man. 
As the Oklahoma Historical Society points out, the most common explanation is that he stepped on her toe. As many as 300 people were killed because of it. The torture and murder of 14-year-old [[Emmett Till]] in 1955, a lynching actually, occurred because a white woman said that he "grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her". This practice, this exercise in racial extremism has been dragged into the modern era through the weaponizing of 9-1-1, often by white women, to invoke the power and force of the police who they are fully aware are hostile to black men. This was again evident when a [[Central Park birdwatching incident|white woman in New York's Central Park]] told a black man, a bird-watcher, that she was going to call the police and tell them that he was threatening her life.}}