You truly believe this?
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Replying to @MikeWamungu @vgr
I guess how important circles is defined is critical here. How are you defining that?
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Replying to @MikeWamungu @vgr
Because Trump was beloved, in every important circle for decades, including pop culture so I’m confused as to what you mean
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Replying to @MikeWamungu
Not really. He was the laughing stock everywhere. You’re confusing media prominence for acceptance.
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Replying to @vgr
Pre-Obama, do you think you had more access/acceptance in rooms than he did?
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Replying to @MikeWamungu
Obama’s experience is not quite comparable to mine. Black America has a unique relationship to white-centric inner circles because it historically helped define them via opposition. In many cases, Black America has its own “shadow inner circles” that for eg I could never enter.
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Replying to @vgr
Pre-Obama is a time marker in the Trump reception arc here. “he” is Trump. I.e you vs. Trump, insider/outsider, pre ‘07, ‘08
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Replying to @MikeWamungu
There was a basic “put the uppity black back in his place” aspect to Trump’s whole arc of course, from birther controversy onwards. In a way he has no identity 9f his own. He’s simply the anti-Obama in every way.
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But if you want a sense of what circles Obama is in that Trump is not, just see Obama’s stand-up routine on Trump in 2011. I’ve been roasted myself a couple of times. This was not an affectionate insider roast but a casting-out as an outsider pariahhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA …
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