Everyone should read this devastating article by @tanehisicoates https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=twb …
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Especially important, I think, is this paragraph about how Trump has shown the effectiveness of "whiteness as an overt political tactic."pic.twitter.com/ObgCZ0Iljs
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We would not have Charlottesville, we would not have the Alt-Right as it currently exists without Trump.
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Trump exposed as an illusion the idea that white supremacist politics is over.
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The article is pretty hopeless in that it doesn't describe any solutions to the problem. But I think a couple can be inferred.
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my main problem with Coates is his tendency to describe injustice as an inescapable force rather than an addressable issue
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yeah I agree. He sometimes seems to verge on doomsaying.
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Replying to @ContraPoints @JonkJahnson
Just listened to an NPR interview with him, he basically said he doesn't see any solutions
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