Using the full power of the federal government, President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience.
“He’s very much in opposition to a lot of what has happened in terms of race over the last couple of generations,” said Chris Myers Asch, a historian and the author of the book “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in Our Nation’s Capital.”
To be clear, his objection is to the idea that people who don’t have skin as white as his shouldn’t be able to have a good job, buy or rent whatever home they can afford, or even vote.