By January 2016 I had made peace with the idea of a President Donald Trump. It was a strange statement for a black woman, a sociologist, a professor. I would go on to consult for Bernie Sanders’ campaign in the primary. I had written an essay for a mainstream anthology about Hillary Rodham Clinton’sRead More “Finding Hope in a Loveless Place”
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Racism With No Racists: The President Trump Conundrum
President-elect Donald Trump ran on a fundamentally racist platform. President-elect Donald Trump promulgated the idea that Mexicans are rapists, blacks are trapped in inner cities, Muslims are terrorists and that America could only be great “again” by becoming what it was in the 1950s when all manner of de facto and de rigeur racism wasRead More “Racism With No Racists: The President Trump Conundrum”