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i get it (Original Post) bluestarone Sep 2017 OP
Yes, Lunabell Sep 2017 #1
From "The First White President" cyclonefence Sep 2017 #2
absolutley bluestarone Sep 2017 #3

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
2. From "The First White President"
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 08:32 PM
Sep 2017

For Trump, it almost seems that the fact of Obama, the fact of a black president, insulted him personally. The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011. But the bloody heirloom ensures the last laugh. Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own. And this too is whiteness. “Race is an idea, not a fact,” the historian Nell Irvin Painter has written, and essential to the construct of a “white race” is the idea of not being a n*gger. Before Barack Obama, n*ggers could be manufactured out of Sister Souljahs, Willie Hortons, and Dusky Sallys. But Donald Trump arrived in the wake of something more potent—an entire n*gger presidency with n*gger health care, n*gger climate accords, and n*gger justice reform, all of which could be targeted for destruction or redemption, thus reifying the idea of being white. Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

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