The First White President - Masterfully Written Article In The Atlantic By Ta-Nehisi Coates

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16. Not impressed. The article's hook, "First White President," is not much more than that.

This author is vastly overstating racist reaction, huge as it was, by presenting it as essentially the only factor in Rump's election and completely ignores all the other resentments and fears for the future that lead trumpsters to rebel against their party's leadership, also huge.

It might be helpful to know that most of my deep-South neighbors despise and condemn the kind of white supremacists we saw in Charlotte. Those influences are of course not new here, and they've been rejecting them for a very long time. I won't say they, like most white people, are not comfortable with institutionalized white advantages and strongly prefer that not change entirely, but their fondness is for what they have always known. Conservatives, especially, don't embrace change, any change, if they can avoid it, and most of the fear and anxiety are about galloping change.

The trumpsters should be despised for their despicable deed, but their rebellion is not all about black, the malignant white supremacists should be chased back to the sewers they've been emboldened to emerge from, and as for the rest of us, we're still the nation that elected Obama in the first place