We should have seen Trump coming | Ta-Nehisi Coates Read moreHalifu Osumare, director of African American and African Studies at the University of California, says: “Ta-Nehisi Coates has done his homework, including much self-reflection. In his epilogue, Coates writes: “To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic, but the very core of his power. Even so, Coates was swept up in the euphoria with millions of others in 2008 when the US elected its first black president. “It’s not like most working-class people voted for Donald Trump; they did not,” Coates says. You’re the first black president and you’ve got to represent a community, then speak to a larger country at the same time.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2017 08:26 UTC