Trump’s De Jure Racism Provides Cover For Liberals And Democrats
Last week, following President Trump’s re-tweet of a video meme that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, the U.S. exercised a national conniption that saw even members of the Republican Party, including Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), calling out the president’s racism and demanding the he take the social media post down and apologize. To be clear, the outrage was and is certainly warranted as depicting Black people as monkeys and apes is a centuries-old racist trope with the ultimate aim of dehumanization and placeism as it pertains to the positional status of Black people in the larger hierarchy of racial capitalism.