Dressed in orange prison garb, Payton Gendron is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 10 Black people in Buffalo, N.Y. Derek Gee/Buffalo News/Pool via Xinhua

Today’s white working‑class young men who turn to racist violence are part of a long, sad American history

Throughout US history, racist attacks against racial minorities were committed by white men grappling with their masculinity and social status.

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