Many Millennials are Plagued with Racism. Young people increasingly engaging in racist antics
Jun 4, 2019 · 6 min read
It seems that racial invective by White supremacists and their sympathizers is skyrocketing these days, which is infecting younger generations like a fast spreading virus. Consider just a few of the outrageous racial antics we’ve recently observed from members of the Millennial generation:
Who could forget the horror of Charlottesville, Virginia? Let’s recall the searing and chilling images of a group of approximately 300 young White men (and some women) in khaki pants and polo shirts carrying tiki torches and chanting:
- “Blood and soil!” and
- “You will not replace us, Jews will not replace us!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDF_GkNAYA
These radical right-wing White Supremacists and neo-Nazi extremists marching at night in the city which slave owner Thomas Jefferson called home — while passionately proclaiming a vigorous defense of their Caucasian heritage — is still deeply etched in our minds.
Before that, the year 2015 gave us a group of loudmouth, abhorrent University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers chanting obnoxious, racially inflammatory lyrics on a bus as they headed toward a social function.
That same year also gave witness to Dylann Storm Roof, a 21 year old misfit, drifter and White supremacist sympathizer who took it upon his mentally unhinged self to sadistically slaughter nine church worshiping citizens (the majority of them senior citizens) as well as state senator, Clementa C. Pinckney, at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
What each of these retrograde individuals had in common was the fact that they are Millennials (or Generation Y).
Racist Invective
Millennials represent the large demographic of men and women born between 1981–1998. The only good news, if any, about the aforementioned racial atrocities is that there was a steep price to pay for the perpetrators.
To wit:
- The predominately male group of…
