Matchee, a Cree man, was later reported to have bragged that "the white man fears the Indian and so will the black man".
The last vestiges of the white male power structure still cherish the dream of social dominance, and a society where women, as well as the poor, racial minorities, and the LGBT community are fully empowered is one where white men fear they'll have to struggle to find space and a voice.
Dunlap and McCright reference Yale University's Dan Kahan, who researched the so-called "white male effect" in a study finding that white men fear various risks less than women and minorities.
If they dined or swam or danced together, southern white men feared, they were on a slippery slope towards sleeping together.
There was a time, the theory goes, when a dark-skinned Brazilian could not even touch a white man without fear of retribution or punishment.
Grandpa spent his life passing as a white man in fear of the same bigotry undergone by his immediate ancestors.
She suggests that in doing this type of work, she and others have been transformed into "folk demons" by a community of mostly young, mostly white men who fear progressivism in technology and politics alike – a community for whom the phrase "social justice" is pejorative.
A deep understanding of the danger that institutional racism poses to people of color does not preclude Gay's ability to love white men, and fear them, and love them some more.
With a president who is so willing to be so unapologetically noxious, and who made an entire campaign appealing to the entitlement of disaffected white men who fear their stranglehold on power slipping (and the angry white women who know and love them), allegations of affairs, sexual harassment, and even sexual assault weren't all that shocking.
Moreover crime is low and even this white man had no fear walking around on a recent visit to Accra.
