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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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Replying to @vgr
Yes and prior to that, despite still not being palatable or revered in an awe like way, he was net even at worse, rubbing shoulders w/ Clinton’s, Oprah, Epstein and the like — the “elite”, if you will. Obama era is the inflection point
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Replying to @MikeWamungu
Hmm. Not sure. Running shoulders is not a sign of acceptance. Trump is a prop. A picture with him is not a sign of equality. More like a picture with Mickey mouse at Disney. He’s a common type: inserts himself into the optics of narratives without being in the stories.
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Almost any prominent public figure of 198–2015 would have said sure yes to a trump photo request. But he wouldn’t have been called by anyone for advice on anything. Literally nobody he wasn’t paying ever gave a shit about his opinions except theatrically on The Apprentice.
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