Not really. He was the laughing stock everywhere. You’re confusing media prominence for acceptance.
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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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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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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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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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That proximity is where we differ I guess. The ability to insert, to be humored even if for a few mins, at that scale, consistently for decades, mean closer to in than out for me. Part of the story, just in volatile fashion. Now, he’s done, of course
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That may be a bias of yours being involved in dance/music/fashion. In LA/music/Hollywood, being part of the optics is basically almost everything. But in most fields it literally doesn’t matter. To the point that true insiders often view it as an annoying distraction/burden.
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Most things that matter in politics, finance, tech, science, academia happens in private back rooms where people only invite people they want to hear from. By the time it makes it to public view, the power-play part is already over and a chore.
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If you’re not invited to those conversations you’re not in. If you muscle your way in through blackmail or threats or bribes, the conversation retreats from that room and you get theater put on for your benefit.
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This was happening to Trump *in the oval office*. The innermost sanctum turned into yet another lobby. This is why he and his base believe in a deep state. The deep state is both real and not. It’s not an organized conspiracy of child traffickers. It’s simply emergent gatekeeping
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