The C.O.W.S. w/ Anna Blatto: Payton S. Gendron and the History of White Terrorism in Buffalo

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Monday, June 6th 8:00PM Eastern/ 6:00PM Pacific

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Anna Blatto. A graduate of the University of Buffalo with degrees in Sociology and Urban and Public Policy, Blatto is a part-time research associate for Partnership for the Public Good (PPG). Blatto is a White Woman. While in college, Blatto authored the 2018 report: A City Divided: A Brief History of Segregation in Buffalo. The report details a long deliberate, effort on the part of people classified as White to mistreat and subjugate black residents of west New York. This information helps explain the region where Payton Gendron hunted and killed ten black people at an east Buffalo Tops grocery store. We’ll discuss the reasons why black people in Buffalo were victims of White Terrorism decades before Gendron was born. We’ll be sure to ask Blatto what she knows about the previous White Terrorist to target black people at an east Buffalo Tops grocer, Joseph G. Christopher. Blatto used a few silos worth of metaphors to describe White Supremacy – including how it becomes “harry” contemplating punishments for Whites abuse of non-white people. Blatto also had the audacity to discuss “affirmative action” as if she, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Hillary Clinton and other White Women aren’t the greatest beneficiaries of so called Affirmative Action “handouts.” And she had the nerve to accuse Gus of not discussing her 2018 report within the context of the May 2022 east Buffalo massacre.