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kpete

(72,028 posts) Thu Sep 7, 2017, 02:56 PM Sep 2017

Mic drop. 'The First White President' - Ta-Nehisi Coates. (some explicit language may offend)

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

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Mic drop. 'The First White President' - Ta-Nehisi Coates. (some explicit language may offend) (Original Post) kpete Sep 2017 OP

Recommended. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #1

It will be interesting to see GaryCnf Sep 2017 #2

Coates will find no quarrel here maxsolomon Sep 2017 #3

Great Article Billy Jingo Sep 2017 #4

guillaumeb

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Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Sep 7, 2017, 03:01 PM

Sep 2017

From the article:

The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011.

Anyone who viewed the incident can see how angry Trump looked as he was made the object of the joke. And for an insecure man like Trump, being laughed at is the ultimate in unforgivable behavior.