Obama memoir: 'Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House'
Obama memoir: 'Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House' prompted Trump success
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/525649-obama-memoir-americans-spooked-by-a-black-man-in-the-white-house-prompted
Former President Obama wrote in a new memoir that he believes his presidency unearthed a racist underbelly within the American electorate that contributed to President Trump's political success.
"It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted," Obama writes in the book titled "A Promised Land," according to CNN. "Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started pedaling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety."
While Obama was in office, Trump was one of the preeminent promoters of the so-called birther movement, a conspiracy alleging that Obama was born in Kenya and embraced by some members of the Republican Party and in conservative media at the time.
At various points during his first term in office, Trump has been accused by critics of using intentionally divisive rhetoric on race, claiming there were "very fine people on both sides" of a 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Virginia and referring to some Mexicans as "rapists and murders" the day he announced his candidacy for president.
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Trolling us with your choice of words.
God I miss him..
Before spellcheck?
There is NO excuse!
I'm glad other people share my linguistic precision. 
OK, I admit it. I'm a grammar Nazi on the down-low. 
Early 1990s, I think.
I am constantly battling my phone, which defaults to 'we'll' when I mean 'well.'
Big Pecan fan, by the way! 
Opera and nuts.
about opera except the story lines are super dramatic, themes are universal, voices are magnificent, stagecraft and orchestras are huge, and the famous ones have "catchy" tunes.
Is that about right? 
Wait a second, I just made some neural connections...
opera... nuts...avatars...
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