Ta-Henisi Coates "My President was Black"

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8. I've already mentioned "The Case for Reparations." Here's another:

"Fear of a Black President" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Here's an excerpt that I'm sure virtually no Trump supporter would accept as reality:

Confronted by the thoroughly racialized backlash to Obama’s presidency, a stranger to American politics might conclude that Obama provoked the response by relentlessly pushing an agenda of radical racial reform. Hardly. Daniel Gillion, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies race and politics, examined the Public Papers of the Presidents, a compilation of nearly all public presidential utterances—­proclamations, news-conference remarks, executive orders—and found that in his first two years as president, Obama talked less about race than any other Democratic president since 1961.

An interview of Mr. Coates that I also highly recommend: http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/ta-nehisi-coates-list-of-13-recommended-books.html