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December 13, 2016 07:12 am PST
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama's blackness, America's white supremacy, and Trump's victory
Ta-Nehisi Coates's 17,000-word history of the Obama presidency in the Atlantic is called "My President Was Black," but it's about the very special kind of blackness that Obama embodied -- not because whites saw the biracial politician differently, but because Obama's extraordinarily supportive white family and unique boyhood in Hawai'i spared him the racial trauma visited on other young black people in America. (more…)
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