The One Color the White House Sees Clearly
<span>Treating whiteness as a yardstick for normalcy isn’t the same as being blind to color.</span>
In some ways, President Donald Trump refuses to follow any of the established rules, like avoiding open racism. In others, he is perfectly derivative—for example, when called on his racist remarks, the president reverted to one of the most tired cliches in the book:
Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
