Trump’s Racial Time Machine
In the time he made his case to the people we came to learn that he believes “the” African-Americans live in hell — linguistically defining us as a monolithic block of existential misery worthy of pity and more police. We learned that racial paranoia can be expressed openly by whites and left unchallenged; that nonwhite voters left unmonitored would “steal” the election; that the powerful can grab women by the genitals without remorse; that finding every way he could to avoid paying taxes and betting on a housing crisis was just called “business.”
.. Trump secured a mere 8 percent of the black vote.
.. Baldwin wrote to his nephew in 1962, “[Whites] are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.”