Obama didn't create Trump, the people who hate Obama did. (Headline)

[JustAnotherGen]

2. So true!

The ascension of Donald Trump, with his hate-filled rhetoric and Birther past, may reveal an ugly side to politics that the Republicans have long tried to keep hidden, but it was always there, and now it has a singular candidate as its face. But the twisted logic by some that "Obama created Trump" is a reflection of the same "Obama derangement syndrome" thinking seen in the anger over white Marines holding umbrellas in the rain for the first black president. It doesn't hold up.


Obama didn't create Trump. Hatred of Obama did.


In America, the boomerang of black advancement routinely includes a white backlash. Obama's presidency is no exception. Trump's front-runner status is irrevocably part of the historic obstruction and backlash against President Obama, whose election was an immeasurable advancement for African-American aspirations. His very appearance in the corridors of power is enormous.


But this same appearance has inflamed the minds and rhetoric of those who want to "take their country back." And take back from whom? They have some very particular people in mind. Though racial backlash is rarely discussed in mainstream media, a look at U.S. history reveals that there have always been specific repercussions to black progress.