Black, Brown and extremist: Across the far-right spectrum, people of color play a more visible role

Washington Post

By Hannah Allam and Razzan Nakhlawi
A stun grenade is fired around supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (Evelyn Hockstein/for The Washington Post)

Brandon Rapolla is not who springs to mind as the face of the far-right.

Rapolla’s brown skin, a reflection of his multiracial ancestry, is at odds with images of White guys in self-styled militias wearing camouflage in the woods. The militia stereotype is so entrenched, Rapolla said, that airline ticket agents have refused to believe him when he gives them a heads-up that he’s on a domestic terrorism watch list

Publish : 2021-05-17 14:28:00

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