Never Enough, by Michael D'Antonio: on Civil Rights

OpEd: "bigotry" was more like racial insensitivity

In his public life in the 1970s, Trump had exhibited what might be called insensitivity rather than bigotry. None of his earlier comments and actions compared with his attacks on Obama as he questioned the president's admission to Harvard and Colombia and repeatedly demanded proof of his birth in Hawaii, even after the proper record had been made public. For his part, Trump insisted that he was just asking questions about an issue that was, in his mind, unresolved. This shred-of-doubt strategy required Trump to ignore a reliable record and insult the president, but he was not alone as he flailed away. The election and reelection of America's first black president caused some on the right to become so unhinged that Source: Never Enough by M. D'Antonio, p.292 Sep 22, 2015

Well-educated blacks have advantage over whites

Trump favored a stubbornly anti-intellectual type of common sense that played to the grievances of the kind of white men represented by the TV character Archie Bunker, who, like Trump, came from Queens and offered his opinions with chin-jutting pride.

Donald displayed his inner Archie in 1989 when he told a TV interviewer, "a well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I've said, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black because I believe they have an actual advantage." In the universe of "well-educated black" men, some HAD gained from affirmative action programs, but only the most superficial view of the landscape would lead someone to agree with Trump. On the same TV program, filmmaker Spike Lee called Trump's statement "garbage" because it reeked of racial ignorance. But it sounded like tell-it-like-it-is honesty to many.

Source: Never Enough, by Michael D'Antonio, p.193 Sep 22, 2015

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