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AMBER RANDALL
Civil Rights Reporter
3:16 PM 09/07/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/coates-trump-presidency-is-a-negation-of-having-a-black-president/The argument that President Donald Trump won the White House because of an angry white working class is a theory used to cover up the real reason he was elected, Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote Thursday.
Coates explained that pundits’ and journalists’ attempts to explain Trump’s election as symbolic of white working class anger only serves to allow white people to ignore the racism and bigotry prevalent in America, in an excerpt of his upcoming book “We Were Eight Years In Power.”
“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,” Coates wrote. “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.”
