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W ith efforts to take down Obamacare and decisions to cancel DACA , it’s no secret that 45 is trying to take down anything productive from the Obama administration. But no one has considered how whiteness and the dismantling of Black excellence plays into this. In a compelling piece for The Atlantic , journalist and cultural critic Ta-Nehisi Coates illustrated precisely how (and why) Donald Trump is creating his legacy by negating everything that Obama stood for. “For Trump, it almost seems that the fact of Obama, the fact of a black president, insulted him personally ,” he writes. “ Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own. And this too is whiteness .” You can check out the piece at The Atlantic here . SOURCE: The Atlantic SEE ALSO: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between The World And Me’ Comes To The Apollo Stage Ta-Nehisi Coates Stirs Debate With Treatise On The Black Family In The Age Of Mass Incarceration [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3598354″ overlay=”true”]
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New Piece Lays Out Precisely Why Trump Is Destroying Obama’s Legacy
