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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe First White President -Ta-Nehisi Coates
Long, but a very good read. Also includes an audio link...
The foundation of Donald Trumps presidency is the negation of Barack Obamas legacy.
IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trumps predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness-
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Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above Americas founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trumpa president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.
IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trumps predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness-
<snip>
Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above Americas founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trumpa president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=twb
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The First White President -Ta-Nehisi Coates (Original Post)
ihaveaquestion
Sep 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)1. This is a must read.
msongs
(67,502 posts)2. some would suffer thru a black MAN but a woman of any sort? no way nt
sinkingfeeling
(51,498 posts)3. Sobering read. I read it yesterday and forgot to post about it.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)4. Absolutely must read article. Coates is spot on. Big K&R nt
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)5. The best analysis so far of what happened in this election. nt
scarletlib
(3,419 posts)6. A brilliant writer and thinker.
A truth teller. This article is spot on. I don't know of any one else who could say this as well as Mr. Coates.
caraher
(6,279 posts)7. K&R
Far more important than all the buzz about Clinton's book and the Sanders campaign