To black Americans, Trump behaves like a classic Southerner — and we feel erased
By Erin Aubry Kaplan
Talk about whiplash. During the brief era of Donald Trump, black people have been living in trepidation and silent outrage, grappling with the meaning of a man who took office largely on the promise to nullify or reverse whatever America’s first black president, Barack Obama, had accomplished — good, bad or indifferent.
Seeing our historical gains dissolve at the whim of white rage is all too familiar for black folks, which is not to say that the last two months haven’t been a shock. That Trump is not just another white politician but one who is spectacularly unqualified to be president makes the setback that much more racially charged, and ominous.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaplan-trump-as-a-southern-man-20170309-story.html
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