Many Millennials are Plagued with Racism. Young people increasingly engaging in racist antics

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
7 min readApr 27, 2020

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

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…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.