Part I
A question a lot of people ask around the question of the role race and racism played in Trump’s election is, “How can you say Americans are concerned with race when they elected Obama?” I know the long answer is in the data presented in your book, but what’s the simple response to that?
Cornell Belcher
They didn’t. That’s the thing here. The majority of whites did not elect Obama, and that’s the wolf at the door. The vast majority of whites did not support President Obama and President Obama won back-to-back majorities, and that caused the realization of their power waning. Mitt Romney ran up a higher score among white voters than Ronald Reagan, when Reagan had a landslide in 1984.
It's kind of scary isn't it, when you've always been able to jump around and celebrate symbols of a racist past (Confederate Flags), never apologizing for the grounds on which it stands?
Even scarier, you're now noticing that you're losing the power of majority to someone that might just be a jackass about it. Just like the jackass you've been.
That would be scary.
Maybe it's time for all of us to stop hanging on to this racist crap and get on with getting along.