Posted on 09/07/2017 9:34:03 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. 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.
His political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
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Didn’t they mean White “SUPREMACIST” president?
I would have voted for Trump if he were black or a women.
I must really be screwed up?
Racists are people who are obsessed with the concept of race. like TaTa.
Every Democrat president prior to Jimmy Carter was a “white” president who said things about blacks that were a Hell of a lot worse than anything that Trump is alleged to have said.
Wow. Leftist like this sh!t. They wallow in it. It is who the Left are.
What scares me is that it is all about race now. We are told by the left that we should resent that person over there because he or she has a different skin color. Absolutely horrible and it has destroyed decades of advancement. People don’t trust each other anymore — thank you Democrats!
BTW, the Left do this to make themselves feel superior and to troll for votes. It is called identity politics and it is pure evil.
And to think that this guy is regarded as our leading black intellectual.
I would have voted for Trump if he were black or a women.
I must really be screwed up?
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You’re not as screwed up as me. I would have voted for Trump if, among other things, he had been a 1/4 black, 1/4 Asian, 1/4 gay, left handed and a vegan member of PETA.
Prior to and including, right? Never mind Clinton, in spite of that absurd “first black president” moniker he somehow garnered.
Mega Barf Alert is not really necessary unless one failes to recognize the author.
TA-NEHISI COATES
Nuff Said.
the stupidity and hatred of Leftist/Democrat thought is astonishing
But if he was any of those, would he have run as a Republican?
One thing for sure, this guy ain’t the first black dumb-ass. Not by a longshot.
How could all them ####### and ***** and none of the aboves have elected such a racist !??
To some, calling someone "White" and "Supremacist" is redundant.
I'm in for $20!
Got to keep the racial strife/divisions going or else he’ll be out of a job.
I needed a Level III Decontamination Protocol after reading the entirety of that screed.
Yes “black people built America”. Whites had nothing to do with it
And just what are ‘black people” DOING to America now, TaTa?
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