Rich and White and Male

Persons who are rich and white and male often think they are God's blessing to the world, but not as the world's worst oppressors.  Just as many whites are blind to their racism, so many males are blind to their sexism, and many rich are blind to their oppression to the poor.  The Letter to the Editor column in the December Atlantic magazine known as "The Conversation: Responses and Reverberations," has a lengthy discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates' provocative article "The First White President."  Coates' article is summarized with this sentence:  "In October, Ta-Nehisi Coates argued that Donald Trump's presidency is predicated nearly entirely on white supremacy and the negation of a black president."  In other words, an anti-black, anti-Obama presidency.

James Bach wrote, I agree; now what should I do?  My reply is: first fully repent, then fully restitute, then repair/rebuild oppressed communities for the rest of your life.

George Packer wrote:  "When you construct an entire teleology on one cause---even a cause as powerful and abiding as white racism---you face the temptation to leave out anything that complicates the thesis.  So Coates minimizes sexism. . . . "

Stuart Rojstaczer writes:  "The Trump supporters I encountered [Stuart was canvassing for Clinton in Nevada] were not only white but financially secure.  They were definitely going to vote, and their motivation was almost always a sense that American wasn't the same anymore---a ka it wasn't as white as it used to be.  Coates doesn't discuss another major issue: While the rise of Trump was due to racism, the fall of Clinton was due to misogyny.  Just like Trump is America's first white president, he's also America's first male president."

So also Trump is America's first rich president.  The deadly and demonic trinity---rich and white and male.