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ihaveaquestion

(2,420 posts)
Fri Sep 8, 2017, 06:39 PM Sep 2017

The First White President -Ta-Nehisi Coates

Long, but a very good read. Also includes an audio link...

The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s 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, Trump’s 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 America’s 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 Trump—a 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 OP
This is a must read. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1
some would suffer thru a black MAN but a woman of any sort? no way nt msongs Sep 2017 #2
Sobering read. I read it yesterday and forgot to post about it. sinkingfeeling Sep 2017 #3
Absolutely must read article. Coates is spot on. Big K&R nt riderinthestorm Sep 2017 #4
The best analysis so far of what happened in this election. nt Nonhlanhla Sep 2017 #5
A brilliant writer and thinker. scarletlib Sep 2017 #6
K&R caraher Sep 2017 #7

scarletlib

(3,400 posts)
6. A brilliant writer and thinker.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 09:28 AM
Sep 2017

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.

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