Under-Reported? White Terrorism in America

The following terror attacks were covered by news outlets. What has been missing is a broad recognition of patterns in these events. They’re often portrayed as “extremist” attacks, which is true—but what is under-reported is the white separatist/ white supremacy identity and attachments of these cold-bolded killers. Also under-reported is how racialist attitudes fuel the rage of these killers. Here’s a quick and incomplete list.

Timothy McVeigh, white supremacist. McVeigh killed 168 people when he blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

James Von Brunn, white supremacist and Holocaust denier, open fired at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., in 2010, killing an African-American security guard.

Jared Loughner, killer of six people when he tried to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011. He is a fan of far right talk show host, Alex Jones.

Wade Michael Page, white supremacist used a semiautomatic weapon to murder six people during an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on Aug. 5, 2012.

Eric Rudolph, the Centennial Olympic Park bomber (July 27, 1996), whose bombing killed Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others.

Dylan Roof, mass murderer and white supremacist convicted of perpetrating the June 17, 2015, Charleston church shooting. During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans.

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, Hitler-saluting teenagers who used Hitler’s birthday to kill 12 students and one teacher and injure another 21 students on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado.

Neo-Nazi Benjamin Nathaniel Smith kills black basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong and a Korean graduate student and wounds nine other non-white victims in a three-day shooting spree in Urbana and Evanston, Illinois.

Frazier Glenn Miller, a 73-year-old with a long history of KKK activity, kills three people in the area of a Jewish community center and Jewish community in Overland Park, Kansas on April 13, 2014.

Richard Andrew Poplawski, a frequent poster on the white supremacist Stormfront website who apparently believes a national "gun ban" is imminent, kills three Pittsburgh police officers on April 4, 2009.