Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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• That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Trump
  • President