Tag: Donald Trump

  • Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President? Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau on Raising Children of Color in Trump’s America Writers Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau conducted this conversation via email during the week before the election, at night after getting their kids to bed. Emily Raboteau: Mira, Lit Hub has invited us…

  • Life in Trump’s America: A mixed-race educator in the rural South speaks The Daily Dot 2016-11-18 Courtney Parker West Photo via Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC-BY-SA) Photo via dolgachov / GettyImages | Remix by Jason Reed This is the first in a series of essays on what lives look like in post-election America. One woman…

  • Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory? New Statesman 2016-11-09 Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor A narrative that attributes Trump’s triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing media. As it became clear that Donald Trump had won Pennsylvania, putting the presidency in the grasp of those tiny hands,…

  • What must it feel like to be President Obama today? Salon 2016-11-10 Sophia Tesfaye Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama and Donald Trump meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the White House Thursday While at least a quarter of the country…

  • How do you become “white” in America? The Correspondent September 2016 Sarah Kendzior, Flyover Country Correspondent An immigrant family looks out over the New York skyline as they arrive in the U.S. from Germany aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam. Photo by Getty Trump has retweeted white supremacist groups and has the backing of the Ku…

  • The “Birther” Movement: Whites Defining Black Racism Review 2016-09-18 Dr. Terence Fitzgerald, Clinical Associate Professor University of Southern California Hallelujah I say, Hallelujah! Did you hear the news? Did ya? After sending a team of investigators to Hawaii, drawing the attention of the national and international media, and leading an almost six year charge of…

  • Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-09-24 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Director of the Langston Hughes Center University of Kansas Newspaper editor and former slave T. Thomas Fortune formed the National Afro-American League, heralded as the first major…

  • Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship Borowitz Report The New Yorker 2016-09-16 Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling this “the greatest day of my life,” a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship. “The issue of whether or not I…

  • Unwinding a Lie: Donald Trump and ‘Birtherism’ The New York Times 2016-09-16 Michael Barbaro It was not true in 2011, when Donald J. Trump mischievously began to question President Obama’s birthplace aloud in television interviews. “I’m starting to think that he was not born here,” he said at the time. It was not true in…

  • Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It The New York Times 2016-09-16 Maggie Haberman Alan Rapperport Donald J. Trump publicly retreated from his “birther” campaign on Friday, tersely acknowledging that President Obama was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy…