In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama said the President – elect Donald Trump was anti-hope. Unlike her husband, the first lady argued that Donald Trump didn't give Americans hope. She could not have been more wrong. Donald Trump does inspire hope. His populist movement was fueled by hope. His successful election was fueled by hope. This hope fueled the founding of America. It is the hope that in America so-called white people will find a paradise for individual achievement, freedom and ownership. Donald Trump appealed to this hope, but he didn't create it. This hope inspired the creation of chattel slavery, manufactured the civil war, sapped the strength of Reconstruction, created the black codes, sharecropping, Jim Crow,
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I think no. Unfortunately, many conservative, liberal, wealthy, poor, black and white Americans think yes. The facts of racism exist. Most Americans agree. However, how the facts of racism should be handled, discovered, interpreted and analyzed are often a cause of confusion and disagreement. This confusion is created for a few reasons. First, few appreciate the truth that there are different frameworks for handling these facts. Second, fewer acknowledge the great difficulty in finding an adequate framework that is not overly tainted with the residue of racism as a powerful and evolving force in history. The attempt to find a framework to appropriately handle the facts of racism causes disagreement as well. There is often a lack of racial balance and power equity between the individuals and institutions that are trying to find the most appropriate framework to explain racism. So, what does this have to do with Donald Trump and hope in America? Well, actually a lot. It turns out the race problem, sometimes called the Negro problem, has been studied by white and black thought leaders for a long
I think no. Unfortunately, many conservative, liberal, wealthy, poor, black and white Americans think yes. The facts of racism exist. Most Americans agree. However, how the facts of racism should be handled, discovered, interpreted and analyzed are often a cause of confusion and disagreement. This confusion is created for a few reasons. First, few appreciate the truth that there are different frameworks for handling these facts. Second, fewer acknowledge the great difficulty in finding an adequate framework that is not overly tainted with the residue of racism as a powerful and evolving force in history. The attempt to find a framework to appropriately handle the facts of racism causes disagreement as well. There is often a lack of racial balance and power equity between the individuals and institutions that are trying to find the most appropriate framework to explain racism. So, what does this have to do with Donald Trump and hope in America? Well, actually a lot. It turns out the race problem, sometimes called the Negro problem, has been studied by white and black thought leaders for a long