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6. Structural and Systemic Significance

  • Greene’s rhetoric echoes the long U.S. history of anti-Blackness, antisemitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and misogynoir.

  • Her attacks on Black women legislators follow a historical pattern of punishing Black women’s leadership.

  • Her continued presence in Congress reveals the limits of accountability for bigotry in U.S. political institutions.

 

 

 Vernellia R. Randall, Professor Emerita of Law, University of Dayton School of Law. This article was drafted with the assistance of ChatGPT, an AI language model. All content has been reviewed and edited by Vernellia Randall to ensure accuracy and coherence.