"What's Past is Prologue..."
“...It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself...In Trump, white supremacists see one of their own. Only grudgingly did Trump denounce the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, one of its former grand wizards—and after the clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Duke in turn praised Trump’s contentious claim that “both sides” were responsible for the violence.
To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. The repercussions are striking: Trump is the first president to have served in no public capacity before ascending to his perch. But more telling, Trump is also the first president to have publicly affirmed that his daughter is a “piece of ass.” The mind seizes trying to imagine a black man extolling the virtues of sexual assault on tape (“When you’re a star, they let you do it”), fending off multiple accusations of such assaults, immersed in multiple lawsuits for allegedly fraudulent business dealings, exhorting his followers to violence, and then strolling into the White House. But that is the point of white supremacy—to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification. Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible…Before Barack Obama, niggers could be manufactured out of Sister Souljahs, Willie Hortons, and Dusky Sallys. But Donald Trump arrived in the wake of something more potent—an entire nigger presidency with nigger health care, nigger climate accords, and nigger justice reform, all of which could be targeted for destruction or redemption, thus reifying the idea of being white. Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president…”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President” The Atlantic, September 7, 2017
The First White President
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 2017 Issue
The Atlantic
[Published on September 7, 2017]:
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.
Audio version of Ta-Nehisi Coates' article for The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...
AUDIO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1yAkN44Sghttps://www.youtube.com/embed/qk1yAkN44Sg
All,
Raging white house white supremacists get caught as always in a BIG LIE and typically double/triple down and LIE SOME MORE in vile “defense" of their first series of LIES. This is yet another brazen example from the Orwellian demon chamber run by the bilious billionaire sociopath in charge of what the word PATHOLOGICAL truly means…Stay tuned because as bad as it is it’s only GUARANTEED to get far worse. Probably by the very next time the hopelessly infantile Daddy Tee TWEETS again (which should be any…minute…now)….
Kofi
