Professor: The Election Was REALLY About RACISM Against Barack Obama
December 15, 2016| by Robert Gehl
Time Magazine is now contending that the reason Donald Trump won is because Americans are racist and wanted to vote against Barack Obama. Here’s Professor Leon Botstein (They’re always professors, aren’t they?):
What post-Trump white America has expressed by endorsing Trump’s campaign to “Make America Great Again” is not merely anger against elites in general but targeted resentment against the recent history of success by Americans of color. The racism in this year’s election was not about an older stereotype of the Willie Horton-type, but directed against Barack Obama. It is precisely the parity in the achievements of black Americans, those who have become CEOs, scholars, scientists, artists, doctors, lawyers and politicians—and now even president—that has fueled the resurgence of intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Trump voters: You didn’t vote for Barack Obama because you couldn’t stand to see a black man be successful and that means you don’t want a white woman to be successful … but many of you voted for Barack Obama in the first place and … oh … what nonsense.
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/professor-the-election-was-really-about-racism-against-barack-obama
