ABSTRACT
This chapter illuminates the social conditions that have been erected in the decades leading up to the Barack Obama era which have allowed both internal and external white supremacist ideology to be materially realized. The ongoing Obama era, which began with the election of the nation's first black president in 2008, was once imagined as being a period that would be defined by a post-racial consciousness. Conservative politicians in the West have labored consistently to model national citizenship off of an imagined whiteness that defined itself largely in contrast to the cultural norms of society's racial minorities. Ronald Reagan's Hollywood-like construction of the welfare queen placed black women's bodies at the center of public policy for several political cycles. A major goal of the black-on-black crime narrative is to paint a picture where violence is isolated to pathological, black criminal psychopaths in a manner that harkens back to classical school explanations of crime.
