Vanessa Carmichael, writing for the Huffington Post, is claiming that “white conservatives” will “seize on anything” that will support the “white supremacy” that rules the United States.

In her article “About That Racist Email Your Grandmother Got…,” Carmichael complains about her “soon-to-be grandmother-in-law,” who saw an interview on Sean Hannity in which a black woman criticized “the Black Lives Matter movement for highlighting police brutality while basically ignoring black-on-black crime.”

Carmichael dismisses that assertion, and instead says that, sometimes, “liberal black people” don’t want to talk about their problems because they don’t trust white people: “liberal black people might talk about their concern more openly and fervently if they felt they could trust white people to end racial injustice and police brutality.”

And part of the reason for that is because “white conservatives will seize on anything to maintain the status quo, which enshrines white supremacy.”

It’s logical, in a way, for racist conservatives to do this, Carmichael continues. “Scapegoats are

convenient and work is hard enough,” she writes. “It’s great to not have to deal with your race when applying for a job or working at the office. It’s great to not have to worry about your race when a cop pulls you over.”

She continues, “It is in the interest of white conservatives to avoid fair competition by preserving these privileges, and that is the primary reason why Fox News will continue to pander to them by talking about black-on-black crime rather than police brutality.”

“It is in the interest of white conservatives to avoid fair competition by preserving these privileges, and that is the primary reason why Fox News will continue to pander to them by talking about black-on-black crime rather than police brutality,” Carmichael argues.

White people have work to do, Carmichael concludes. “Conservatives have just as much work to do in changing the straight white male hegemony in our institutions, media, and corporations,” she writes.