The long history of black Americans being told to ‘go back’
Al JazeeraIf the blatant racism on display in the lead-up to the 2020 election is at all surprising, you have not been paying attention. The very existence of free people of African descent in the US has, as WEB Du Bois famously laid out, made whites view Black people as “a problem“, and imminent danger to white society. White society has responded to this problem of their own design through racist laws, racist violence and efforts to send black people “back” to Africa. In the generations since emancipation alongside “go back to Africa”, black people continue to be told they were out of place in openly hostile ways: “We don’t like your kind around here“, and more passive aggressive questioning like, “You must be new here?”, “Do you have a permit?“, “Do you live in this building?” and so on. Trump’s attacks and calls to send these women “back” must be placed within this history.
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