Brittney Cooper

can be powerful, can be at the top of the heap, and that your daughters will have these kind of men to marry. Like, it's very heteronormative. I mean, I ain't even thinking about queer folks at all. But it is literally to secure property, money, and power for white boys and teach them how to rule the world so that then they can just continue to reproduce themselves.

That's their emotional investment in it. Then, so when this masculinity, this violent masculinity that Rebecca's talking about, I love Jesus, right, and I hate D.E.I.,

That's their emotional investment in it. Then, so when this masculinity, this violent masculinity that Rebecca's talking about, I love Jesus, right, and I hate D.E.I.,

That's their emotional investment in it. Then, so when this masculinity, this violent masculinity that Rebecca's talking about, I love Jesus, right, and I hate D.E.I.,

What that converges in for white women is, and in order for you not to be a failure to the race and not to be a failure as a woman, your job is to secure a set of conditions for your sons to be ascendant and for your daughters to just reproduce that ascendancy over and over again from generation to generation, right?

What that converges in for white women is, and in order for you not to be a failure to the race and not to be a failure as a woman, your job is to secure a set of conditions for your sons to be ascendant and for your daughters to just reproduce that ascendancy over and over again from generation to generation, right?

What that converges in for white women is, and in order for you not to be a failure to the race and not to be a failure as a woman, your job is to secure a set of conditions for your sons to be ascendant and for your daughters to just reproduce that ascendancy over and over again from generation to generation, right?

So that is the world that they're trying to get back to is a world where white ascendancy was guaranteed and their fight over the 50s and 60s is a fight about that. And so the thing that I also then came to around this is that does devastate me. And I think this is the best way to say it.

So that is the world that they're trying to get back to is a world where white ascendancy was guaranteed and their fight over the 50s and 60s is a fight about that. And so the thing that I also then came to around this is that does devastate me. And I think this is the best way to say it.

So that is the world that they're trying to get back to is a world where white ascendancy was guaranteed and their fight over the 50s and 60s is a fight about that. And so the thing that I also then came to around this is that does devastate me. And I think this is the best way to say it.

I wrote this essay this morning at the Substack I run with my feminist collective, with the Crunk Feminist Collective. And I said, oh, the 20th century project is dead. That's what these in their desire to resuscitate the 50s and 60s. These folks are saying we want to resuscitate the great American century.

I wrote this essay this morning at the Substack I run with my feminist collective, with the Crunk Feminist Collective. And I said, oh, the 20th century project is dead. That's what these in their desire to resuscitate the 50s and 60s. These folks are saying we want to resuscitate the great American century.

I wrote this essay this morning at the Substack I run with my feminist collective, with the Crunk Feminist Collective. And I said, oh, the 20th century project is dead. That's what these in their desire to resuscitate the 50s and 60s. These folks are saying we want to resuscitate the great American century.

But what they have actually done is killed the things that were solidly good about the 20th century. Right. All of the civil rights legislation that we get in these people literally with the swipe of a pen and a rogue Supreme Court, they have literally killed it. Their plan is. was to kill the project of the 20th century in this quarter century into the 21st century.

But what they have actually done is killed the things that were solidly good about the 20th century. Right. All of the civil rights legislation that we get in these people literally with the swipe of a pen and a rogue Supreme Court, they have literally killed it. Their plan is. was to kill the project of the 20th century in this quarter century into the 21st century.

But what they have actually done is killed the things that were solidly good about the 20th century. Right. All of the civil rights legislation that we get in these people literally with the swipe of a pen and a rogue Supreme Court, they have literally killed it. Their plan is. was to kill the project of the 20th century in this quarter century into the 21st century.

And for young people listening, you know how y'all are always like, you know, because the 1900s, right, which takes me out every time they say it, right? Young people talk about the 1900s like we talk about the 1800s, right? That's right. And so these people are like the 1900s, you know, when y'all used to do all this kind of stuff, these folks have come along to kill the 1900s. Right.

And for young people listening, you know how y'all are always like, you know, because the 1900s, right, which takes me out every time they say it, right? Young people talk about the 1900s like we talk about the 1800s, right? That's right. And so these people are like the 1900s, you know, when y'all used to do all this kind of stuff, these folks have come along to kill the 1900s. Right.

And for young people listening, you know how y'all are always like, you know, because the 1900s, right, which takes me out every time they say it, right? Young people talk about the 1900s like we talk about the 1800s, right? That's right. And so these people are like the 1900s, you know, when y'all used to do all this kind of stuff, these folks have come along to kill the 1900s. Right.

And to say that all of the things that actually made America that won the American century, it wasn't just that we were a world superpower and a military superpower after World War II. It was also that when we then had the upheavals of civil rights and black power,