#insurrection

#insurrection

Two years ago, in January 2023, Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips walked into Brazil's congress building, its presidential palace, and its supreme court, and saw what looked like the scene of a natural disaster'. Shattered glass everywhere, furniture thrown all over the place, graffiti on the walls', he remembers the destruction left by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, convinced Brazil's far-right president had been cheated of election victory, who stormed Brazil's most iconic democratic institutions.

Jacobs provides a poignant description of the widespread fear experienced by the White community post-Turner’s Rebellion, illustrating how this terror manifested in violent reprisals against Black individuals.