Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Reading archive 2016-12-21

Never Normalize: Why Trump’s Presidency Is Illegitimate And How To Respond

My President Was Black - "'And so I’m careful not to attribute any particular resistance or slight or opposition to race. But what I do believe is that if somebody didn’t have a problem with their daddy being employed by the federal government, and didn’t have a problem with the Tennessee Valley Authority electrifying certain communities, and didn’t have a problem with the interstate highway system being built, and didn’t have a problem with the GI Bill, and didn’t have a problem with the [Federal Housing Administration] subsidizing the suburbanization of America, and that all helped you build wealth and create a middle class—and then suddenly as soon as African Americans or Latinos are interested in availing themselves of those same mechanisms as ladders into the middle class, you now have a violent opposition to them—then I think you at least have to ask yourself the question of how consistent you are, and what’s different, and what’s changed.'"

What Their Reactions to Monday's Attacks Reveal About Trump and Obama: Two sets of statements tell radically different stories about who was being attacked, and why.

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