TNCoates—First White POTUS—Foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the rejection of Barack Obama

[FreedMind]

Mr. Coates does not disappoint.

Makes me want to read between the world and me again.

 

[Gravity]

You cant debate so you try your hardest to insult. Doesnt work.

You can't debate with a liar. You're telling a bold faced lie.

 

[thekingsmen]

You can't debate with a liar. You're telling a bold faced lie.

Calling yourself a liar speaks for itself. I normally don't debate children on this site.

Can you show me where I was lying? Title of Article states "Trump is first "white" POTUS" as if it explains that the first one to exhibit White Supremacy.

 

[Nomad1]

That was a good read.

 

[Red Shield]

That was a good read

Trump moved racism from the euphemistic and plausibly deniable to the overt and freely claimed. This presented the country’s thinking class with a dilemma. Hillary Clinton simply could not be correct when she asserted that a large group of Americans was endorsing a candidate because of bigotry. The implications—that systemic bigotry is still central to our politics; that the country is susceptible to such bigotry; that the salt-of-the-earth Americans whom we lionize in our culture and politics are not so different from those same Americans who grin back at us in lynching photos; that Calhoun’s aim of a pan-Caucasian embrace between workers and capitalists still endures—were just too dark.

 

[JLova]

I don't either. They can never relate to it. Not even so called "allies." Rachel Dolezal, who otherwise championed black issues, could not even understand the privilege she wielded in being able to do so and could neither fathom why she received backlash in the way that she did. At some point there is a cognitive dissonance.

It is a waste of time...and now you have a growing group who feel like they are being shamed for being white. That they are now the oppressed. It's hilarious really.

 

[Remote]

The focus on one subsector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is a kind of theater at work in which Trump’s presidency is pawned off as a product of the white working class as opposed to a product of an entire whiteness that includes the very authors doing the pawning. The motive is clear: escapism. To accept that the bloody heirloom remains potent even now, some five decades after Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on a Memphis balcony—even after a black president; indeed, strengthened by the fact of that black president—is to accept that racism remains, as it has since 1776, at the heart of this country’s political life. The idea of acceptance frustrates the left. The left would much rather have a discussion about class struggles, which might entice the white working masses, instead of about the racist struggles that those same masses have historically been the agents and beneficiaries of. Moreover, to accept that whiteness brought us Donald Trump is to accept whiteness as an existential danger to the country and the world.

Heat.


I lean to the left on most issues but this is something that needs addressing.

 

[AV Dicey]

I'm also curious as to this point. What else is he scared to talk about? He pretty much said that white people are the enemy of humanity. And the Atlantic published that shyt. How much more ballsy can you get?

he was saying the same shyt early in the Obama era when everyone was still on some kumbaya shyt.
the man is prescient to say the least and his Obama takedown which basically amounted to him getting the most epic of nikka wake up calls is the most succinct Obama criticism I've heard.
Young black guy writing some pretty insightful shyt that receives mainstream acceptance is one of the good things that came out of the Obama era.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

If you can name a better contemporary writer on racism then I'm all ears. I'm not saying he's Baldwin but he's the closest one in this era imo.

I always felt that as good as Baldwin was, he never grasped that him being gay was responsible for like 60% of his appeal

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Heat.


I lean to the left on most issues but this is something that needs addressing.

See this is why I tell people that that hardcore socialism talk is not going to fix anything.

It all comes back to race.

Theres stories of black people who went to russia during the communist years hoping that they'd like it more...nope. They were just pawns in the system to antagonized the West. Opinion | When the Harlem Renaissance Went to Communist Moscow

This society really has the best system to get things popping financially.

Its clearly not perfect, but dudes trying to make this all about class will never address the root of the issue.

People like socialism until black people get involved then its right back to where we started.

 

[DonRe]

shyt almost brought tears to my eyes when he states (paraphrasing) How excuses for poor minorities doing poorly in schools is looked down upon yet our government doesn't jail corps who were directly responsible for the economic meltdown.

I mean this is some powerful amazing writing. I learn so much reading his essays.

 

[DonRe]

He won it for "Between The World And Me" not for We Were Eight Years In Power....and it's not out yet...comes out 10/3....I managed to get my hands on a Advance Copy Last Week However...Book is flames

I would get the book but my only gripe is his lack of criticism of Barack. I can't really ride reading a book that slurps Obama to much. Not becuase Barack is bad or whatever but critical analysis is what I am looking for.

Tell me this book is not what I think it is.

 

[AV Dicey]

Are you sure about that?

the man in in his infinite wisdom bought that 'rising tide lifts all boats' shtick...not nikkas boats tho
which was Coates raison d' etre during the Obama era
the factual counter argument is that the push back never outlasts the progress aka MLK's the arc of the moral universe...Coates doesn't even concede that point
he's a coli militant who should be celebrated in here

 

[LexLuthor]

I would get the book but my only gripe is his lack of criticism of Barack. I can't really ride reading a book that slurps Obama to much. Not becuase Barack is bad or whatever but critical analysis is what I am looking for.

Tell me this book is not what I think it is.

Nah. The trump article is the epilogue. Everybody gets the clip pretty much.

 

[bewitched]

This was such a great profound article probably the only piece of commentary that exposes the essence of how Trump came to power, that was all rooted in racial aminosity white people held against black people who were the reason Obama became president. It had very little to do with the changing economic structure that is stifling the middle working class because I firmly believe that Trumps base does not think that he can bring all the lost jobs overseas back but they rally behind the notion of whites can once again be the Supreme race if Trump manages to deport all immigrants and marginalize blacks.