America's New Hateful Normal!

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]He caused inflation. As sure as you're sitting there, the fact is that his big kill on the black people is the millions of people that he's allowed to come in through the border. They're taking black jobs. Now, a lot of the journalists in this room are black. I will tell you that coming coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs. You had the vest.

[00:00:27]>> What exactly is a black job, sir? A black job is anybody that has a job.

[00:00:31]That's what it is. Anybody that has a job.

[00:00:34]>> And they're taking they're taking the employment away from black people. These people are coming into our country and they're taking black jobs and Hispanic jobs.

[00:00:44]>> When some people heard this idiotic rhetoric during the campaign, they heard dementia. They heard ignorance. They heard politics. I didn't. I heard a racial hierarchy being reinforced in real time. and return to the glory days of the Confederacy. Believe me when I say that Confederate nostalgia is one of the biggest trends in America today. I'm Jenny Gage and this is Life Take Two. Hi everybody. Thanks for watching. I know there's tons of great stuff out there on YouTube. I'm always grateful when you stop on one of my videos. There was a little window of time in American history after the civil rights movement when the clan and other such groups were on the fringe in the shadows that ended when Donald Trump put his hand on that Bible on inauguration day. Here we are now, Memorial Day 2026. Happy Memorial Day everybody. And America no longer has a fringe white supremacist problem.

[00:01:43]White supremacy is our new normal. And before anybody clicks away thinking this is just another crazy Jenny liberal rant, let me be very clear. I'm not talking about this topic as somebody outside the movement just trying to understand it and throwing stones at it from a distance. I'm speaking as somebody who lived inside this ideology for decades. On my desk here, I still keep my little Dixie flag South Carolina pin that I wore as a brooch everywhere I went along with other insignia on my vehicle and on my front porch, etc. to signal white pride to the other white supremacists in my community. And this was not that far in my past. I was a white supremacist for over 44 years. And I do everything that I can to kind of translate that ideology for everybody else so that you understand it. I was born and raised in environments where preserving American tradition quietly meant preserving white cultural dominance. Period. End of story. And I knew exactly what it meant. where Christianity, nationalism, patriarchy, and racial anxiety, those are two words strung together that you really need to listen to. Racial anxiety were constantly blended together until they became almost impossible to separate.

[00:03:10]Like when you take bananas and cherries and yogurt and spinach and put it in a blender and turn it into a smoothie and then how do you separate that banana out of there ever again? It's a smoothie.

[00:03:21]For me, religion and patriotism and just like America itself was so deeply blended up with racism that there was no getting that banana back out of there.

[00:03:32]And here's what I've learned since leaving all this. White supremacy in America rarely shows up wearing a white hood and carrying a torch. It arrives dressed as common sense, as the truth, heritage, patriotism, polite society, civilization, law and order, and more than anything, as fear that somebody else is going to take everything away from you. And increasingly, it's becoming normalized through just everyday stuff that we're exposed to all the time. jokes, algorithms, memes, books, podcasts, politicians, influencers, churches, and media influencers who understand exactly how to spark that racial resentment without always saying the quiet part out loud.

[00:04:11]Although more and more they are saying that quiet part out in the open and everybody's fine with it. If you haven't seen this guy, Chud the Builder, he's I think one of the most despicable people on social media to date. He's famous for his racist live streams. And earlier this month, he was live streaming a racist live stream from a restaurant in Nashville, completely comfortable, just sitting there surrounded by other people who just want to eat their food. And that's our new normal. Our new normal in America is a social media person sitting in a restaurant live streaming racial stuff. When the restaurant staff asked him to leave, he then started shouting a bunch of racial slurs as he was being removed. He left the restaurant without paying for hundreds of dollars worth of food that he had already eaten. And then at the courthouse later this month, it ended up in firearms being shot and him being in prison on like a $1.5 million bail. And for me, I'm personally less concerned about this one guy live streaming these horrible episodes than I am the millions of people listening to him and commenting. I just want to talk honestly today about how big this problem is, what the normalization looks like, how it spreads, why so many Americans struggle to recognize that this is even happening, that it's even a problem, and what we who are not okay with it need to do to stop it. Uh, first let me tell you how white supremacy spreads, how we got where we are. Have you heard of ambiguous images? I want to give you a couple examples. You look at it one way, it's an old hag. You look at it the other way and it's this pretty lady.

[00:05:48]This one is a duck one way or it's a rabbit. This one makes my eyes hurt.

[00:05:53]It's two faces or a vase. There are two ways to look at race.

[00:05:59]And both ways think they're right. The deep belief in the rightness of white supremacy is what keeps it alive. As a white supremacist, I only saw the old hag, the duck, the faces. I could not even imagine that there was anything else in the picture. I'll tell you this about my former friends, neighbors, and loved ones who are white supremacist.

[00:06:22]They deeply believe that the picture they're looking at is real and that they're 100% right. For me personally in my former life and many who are still in this movement today, I learned it all at church and at home. The two places where you have the most trust in what you're learning. I was taught Genesis in a way that laid out racism and that human hierarchy. White God and white Jesus made white Adam and white Eve. Even the artwork that I was taught from the time I was a toddler in church showed this blonde Eve. She looked just like me. I related to it Dunn. And this cleancut, obviously very white Adam. Genesis taught me that Cain killed Abel and was then cursed with dark skin. So, he was no longer enlightened, civilized, or loved by God. And his descendants were just like him. They were cursed and stupid. That's what I was taught at church. I was taught from childhood that white people were smarter, better, more advanced, genetically superior, more holy. And then the things I learned at church were reinforced around the dinner table. My whole family saw the picture of the old hag and they thought they were right and they taught me to see the picture of the old hag. I want to play for you a little bit of a video from a woman here on YouTube. I'm not going to link this video in the description because I don't want to drive any more traffic to her channel, but she has a massive following that grows by the day. I've watched her for a long time. It alarms me how many people are following her and just how out in the open they are. And no matter how many times people complain about her channel, it's still up. I cannot believe the things that I see in some of her comments. So here's that video. We have lost our version of the American aristocracy. After the Civil War and during the Civil War, the American planter aristocracy was destroyed. When you think of our version of an empire of something beautiful, the beautiful things we have, I think of the plantations, the Annabellum houses, the order that everything was in. You had wealthy gentry, which is people who ruled over the land and they tilled the land and it was an agriculturalbased civilization at the time. And you had surfs. You had the poor people who worked on and around the plantations.

[00:08:40]other people work on the plantations and seem to be able to keep out of trouble marvelously well. Well, that was all destroyed. So, when you have a good Christian upper class, upper aristocracy, American elites, American royalty, they are setting the standard. They are creating beautiful things. They are beautifying their society. People work for them.

[00:09:07]They are helped by them. It's like an organism and it all works together.

[00:09:11]We've lost our birthright. We've lost what was ours. Here's some comments on her channel from a couple weeks ago.

[00:09:18]Now, these comments are about black people. That's the topic. I hope I don't have to say that these comments are going to be horrible and that I do not agree with or support these at all. And they may be hard for you to hear. We was everywhere but school. Insects are everywhere.

[00:09:37]They build nothing and destroy everything. Their average IQ is below room temperature. I really do believe they were kicked off another planet.

[00:09:48]Honestly, these are some of the mild ones. There are a lot worse comments and I just am not going to read those on my channel. This is a Facebook post from my hometown just a week ago. The Arizona Science Center launched a bad bunny visual experience. I personally was really excited to see this and may pay the money to go see it when I get a chance here in the next couple weeks.

[00:10:09]Here's what they say about it. The immersive experience features Bad Bunny's music paired with stunning visuals inspired by Puerto Rico surrounding guests in a full dome projection experience. I was so excited to see this. It's just so beautiful that this exists. Then I hit the comments.

[00:10:25]Quote, I can't help thinking Governor Hobbs is behind this. It's a hard no.

[00:10:31]Thumbs down. This white woman, when I clicked onto her profile, was kind of surprising to me. She's all smiles and cowboy boots on her page. Happy Earth Day. She talks about beauty over 40.

[00:10:43]This guy says, "All the people who look like they go to Bad Bunny concerts were utilizing firearms illegally, etc. So, good job destroying the downtown vibe."

[00:10:52]His Facebook page kind of cracked me up.

[00:10:54]It says, "Control yourself. Alter your thinking. delete negativity. He has kids and cactus and all kinds of just really cute looking stuff on his page. Pictures of himself on the river, quote, "Enjoying the beautiful." This guy who just commented with this gag me theme. He's at the gym. He looks like this really nice guy. This dude says he's a photographer and he says, "Why get a 360°ree view of a floating garbage dump?" I think for me personally, after leaving white supremacy myself and the Mormon church and deconstructing everything about MAGA, leaving my community, etc., which that process began in 2018, I found myself for just this little window of time in an America that was very different. And then Donald Trump comes into office and this is around us 24/7. Now, the experts debate exactly how much Donald Trump caused that shift versus how much he revealed what already existed, but the data is really clear on one thing. Since 2016, America has seen dramatic increases in hate crimes, white nationalist propaganda, extremist organizing, and openly radicalized political rhetoric.

[00:12:05]This is now just our norm. And Trump has made this mainstream in so many ways.

[00:12:09]Obviously, the black jobs comment, the comment about the immigrants, eating the dogs, eating the cats, uh building an entire administration out of hateful white supremacist people who have white supremacist books and white supremacist platforms like Steven Miller comes to mind. Pete Hegsath comes to mind.

[00:12:29]Obviously, Trump has put an end to that little window of somewhat healthy race relations being our normal in America.

[00:12:37]Here's just a tiny bit of Trump era related data. White supremacist propaganda and organizing has surged.

[00:12:46]The Anti-Defamation League documented record highs in white supremacist propaganda incidents in recent years with just under 8,000 incidents in 2023 alone. The Southern Poverty Law Center has also tracked large numbers of hate and extremist groups nationwide, reporting over,300 registered hate and anti-government extremist groups in 2024 alone. And far-right race related extremist violence has increased exponentially.

[00:13:18]Researchers at Center for Strategic and International Studies reported that far-right extremist attacks increased sharply beginning in coincidentally the year 2016. That's the Trump effect. A 2023 review in Current Opinion and Psychology concluded that Trump's political rise appeared to increase openly expressed prejudice among supporters toward racial and religious minorities. Here's what scares me the most about this rise in white supremacy.

[00:13:50]I'm just scared that people don't understand how deep it is. It scares me that people who aren't and never were white supremacists don't understand how deeply the white supremacists believe in what they believe in. I simply could not see the picture of the rabbit. No matter how hard I stared at it, I just couldn't see it. I'll put the link of my Substack article in the description. It's entitled I was a white supremacist. In this, I sat down one day and I tried to think back to what was the very first moment in my life, like in toddlerhood and elementary school. When was the first time that I remember as myself thinking and feeling racist thoughts? And I wrote this article on that topic. And what I can't lay out in an article like it would take an entire book is all of the education, all of the reinforcement of that education. And then the lack of education that also went into my white supremacy. I just didn't understand basic genetics. I didn't understand the human genome project and how they've pinpointed exactly where the human race began and how we migrated around the world. I didn't understand things like privilege. I didn't understand just actual history, the history of civilizations outside of Genesis and the Bible and the Book of Mormon. To me, that was my history. When I began to learn about ancient civilizations that were non-European, non-whites, that were longer than 6 or 7,000 years ago, which is when my church taught me the Earth began, it absolutely blew me away. There was a whole area of knowledge that I had literally just never been taught. Even in more recent history, not just ancient history, I had never been taught basic economic policies, how that capitalism and that capitalistic privilege impacts communities right here in the United States today. So when I watched stuff like Hurricane Katrina, I saw that through the filter of everything that I'd been taught at church. Well, these people are evil. These people are cursed. Obviously, they're not protected by God. And they're not smart enough to do anything to get themselves out of this situation. There was no part of me that saw how that multi-generational poverty, lack of resources, lack of education, and lack of support leads to situations where people find themselves in literally the perfect storm. And it both bothers and scares me when I hear people talk about the obvious rise in the normalization of white supremacy and just dismiss it as these people are uneducated, these people are ignorant, these people, you know, they're just hateful when it's so much more complex than that. And if we don't understand the problem, we can never ever fight the problem. I think the most important thing that I can tell you as somebody who was once inside this movement is that I believed the reality of everything that I'd been taught 100%.

[00:16:44]And people who believe in something deeply will act on that belief. So how do we stop it? First, we vote them the hell out of office. And we focus on the next generation. That's what everybody on the right is doing. They're focusing on educating their youngsters in their ideology. We need to focus on the next generation. That's when this is going to stop. And I'll tell you what, we're not going to solve this by just pretending it doesn't exist or pretending they're all ignorant. We solve it by telling the truth about how it spreads, how it hides, how it recruits, and how regular people, including people like me, can walk away from it. This is learned, which means it can be unlearned. I was raised in this. I believed it, and I escaped it. We stop it by teaching the next generation critical thinking and giving them opportunities to build multithnic communities and relationships. There's a black woman in my hometown who literally started a group to do just that. It's absolutely beautiful. I don't know all the answers.

[00:17:48]I hope that you have some answers and ideas, too. But I know that it can be done and it has been done. Daryl Davis did it. He's nicknamed the clan whisperer. Highly recommend that you look him up, dig into some of the things that he did. He spent decades befriending members of the KKK, and he successfully convinced many to leave the clan. He's this black blues boogie musician who started asking clan members this question when he was really young.

[00:18:21]He would ask, "How can you hate me when you don't even know me?" The question basically became his life's work. Former clansmen literally gave him their robes and hoods after leaving the organization. He reportedly collected dozens of them. He was here in Phoenix here a month ago speaking. I wasn't able to go hear him. Some of my friends talked about it. It was an absolute inspiration. One of the wildest parts of his story is he became friends with really high ranking clan leaders, including an Imperial wizard named Roger Kelly. Through his friendship with Daryl, Kelly later left the clan and he gave Davis his robe. Now, I realize it's not always safe for minority communities to do stuff like what Daryl Davis did.

[00:19:05]When you're being targeted and you're vulnerable, it may not be a safe time for you to attempt anything like that.

[00:19:11]And that's why right now those of us who do see the problem need to fight harder than ever to protect our minority friends, family, and neighbors around us in ways that we maybe have never done before in our lives. That's why I'm making this video, why I donate to the ACLU, why I help support two minority unhoused individuals. It's on us to figure out how to solve this and to do all we can to resist this until this is no longer our normal. This is not the country that we want to pass on to our children at all. It's scary out there and I don't even think that most people realize how big the problem is because they aren't watching the white supremacist pages like I am and they don't have white supremacists still on their lives that are like popping up on their Facebook feeds and things like that. I do. It's a big problem. Um, thanks for watching everybody. I'll be hanging out in the comments to see what solutions you might have. Have a great Memorial Day. Bye, everybody.