Foiled ‘race war’ plot highlights the brewing extremism in Arizona – By Ja’han Jones (MSNBC) / June 14, 2024
Authorities claim to have foiled a mass shooting, intended to ignite a race war, that was allegedly being planned in a part of the state long known for violent extremism.
Growing up as a native Arizonan, my folks often spoke about how the state and its capital, Phoenix, were a microcosm of America.
“Phoenix is the future,” I was told.
Their point was that many of the cultural clashes that featured prominently in Arizona politics reflected the clashes taking place on the national level — immigration, climate change, housing, public vs. private education, school curricula and so on. It’s a point writer George Packer essentially made for The Atlantic in his recent article about Phoenix, aptly titled “The Most American City.”
I thought about Packer’s article and my parents’ outlook about Arizona on Wednesday, when federal officials announced they’d arrested Mark Prieto, a white man in Prescott, Arizona, who was allegedly plotting a mass shooting he believed would ignite a race war.
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