The United States has passed down the bloody heirloom that indicates that whiteness is the superior and ideal standard for an American. It gave America’s white founders a privilege that to this day continues to allow whites to prevail over all other races. The bloody heirloom is introduced in the article, “The foundation of Donald Trump’s Presidency is the Negation of Barack Obama’s Legacy” by author and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates. In his article, he argues that Trump won the 2016 presidential election solely because of the fact that he explicitly embraced the power of the white supremacy and racism. On the other hand, journalist and playwright George Packer refutes this idea. In his article, “Hillary Clinton …show more content…
Coates exposes Trump’s disgusting sexual comments directed at his daughter: But more telling, Trump is also the first president to have publicly affirmed that his daughter is a “piece of ass.” This statement reinforces the idea that President Trump is being given white privilege because it is very important to recognize that no other president would have still been kept in office after publicly sexually harassing their daughter, especially not Obama. Trump has no form of decency and no filter and he still is permitted to run and represent the United States, this being an obvious exhibition of white supremacy. Not only has Trump spoken about his daughter in this inappropriate manner, but additionally he has: “...mocked the disabled, withstood multiple accusations of sexual violence (all of which he has denied), fired and FBI director, set his minions to mislead the public about his possible collusion with foreign power, then bragged about the same obstruction to representatives of that same foreign power” (Coates). Coates thus affirms that Trump has had at least six severe slips in his presidency and during his campaign, one that could have possibly given him time in jail. It is clear that this man is unfit to be in office, yet he still is the president because of his skin color and the fact that he is explicitly a white …show more content…
Coates plainly asserts that income was not a huge factor: “Trump’s white support was not determined by income. According to Edison Research, Trump won whites making less than $50,000 by 2 points. Whites making $50,000 to $999,999 by 28 points, and whites making $100,000 or more by 14 points” These statistics illustrate that race was a weightier influence that income or class because the majority of whites in all levels of income, not just the working class were voting for Trump. Thus, Trump’s racist views were accepted by all whites. Coates makes the case that in every demographic or location Trump won over the white population: “Trump won white women (9+) and white men (31+). He won white people with college degrees (3+) and white people without them (37+). He won whites ages 18-29 (4+), 30-44 (17+), 45-64 (28+), and 65 and older (19+). Trump won whites in midwestern Illinois (11+), whites in mid-Atlantic New Jersey (12+), and whites in the Sunbelt's New Mexico (5+).” Trump appealed to whites in every spectrum from gender, education, age to location. He even won over white women after his constant inappropriate sexist comments. Being white is correlated with voting for Trump, therefore it cannot be argued that Trump solely appealed to the white working class because the statistics confirm he appealed to all whites. Nevertheless, Packer argues