Be clear: Trump’s comments about the impact of Barack’s performance on “generations” of blacks gaining opportunity (or the Presidency!) is the most insidious perpetuation of racism and inferior stereotyping witnessed since the 1920s.
Its parallels are speeches from SC senators Tillman and Smith, (“Pitchfork Ben” [who said: ‘We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be equal to the white man,”] and Cotton Ed”), who I have quoted before.
See “A Transparent Racism In The Senate:” and the speech “Their Own Hotheadedness”: Senator Benjamin R.”Pitchfork Ben” Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks. These were wide open views!
Trump’s racism is only second to his insufferable arrogance! Really? For “Generations?” All judged the same–by one?
This isn’t a stereotype: it’s a curse and pox upon the blood of Americans, solely due to the judgment of a performance related to skin color!
The judge of a performance related to skin color: Trump doesn’t feel that way about “white American presidents.” Bad or poor performances are okay. But for blacks (one) his personal review is to banish Obama and all others (“never”) again for decades, a century, centuries?–I am thinking millennia.
Trump, a Republican who revels in “cheerleading” personal freedom, is dealing with “us” as a group: the antitheses of freedom and of a society celebrating personal responsibility as a pathway to progress.
My post simply nails the embedded and destructive racism in Trump’s recent statement as an alert about the war on civil liberties. For Americans Republicans (Trump, and others, too!) have placed in groups: Blacks, immigrants, workers, public employees, the elderly, women, youth have seen attempts to marginalize rights at local and federal levels.
My post is an adjunct to David Brooks Times column. Separate (he never discusses race), but connected to an important view of Trump: what he says on race and where it fits in.
Black History 360* 
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool… Shun him. #Trump
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