"Unlike Lincoln, the better angels of our nature, he appealed to our worst demons and got elected."
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/youre-answering-your-own-question-michael-eric-dyson-shuts-down-cnn-host-for-downplaying-racism/
Georgetown Sociology Professor Michael Eric Dyson connected the dots for CNN on Wednesday between racism in America and Donald Trumps 2016 election victory.
During an appearance on CNNs New Day, Dyson explained that Barack Obamas presidency provoked a kind of racial animus that we havent seen explicitly expressed in America for quite a while.
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Your faith in the American citizenry is pretty high, Dyson shot back. They overlooked what? The fact that Donald Trump for two years with lethal intensity continued to assault a sitting president as quote illegitimate and, now thin-skinned as he is, cant even take John Lewis saying that you may be illegitimate.
I dont think people overlooked that, he continued. I think he ginned up the racial animus, I think he appealed to the worst instincts in our nature. Unlike Lincoln the better angels of our nature he appealed to the worst demons on our collective enterprise of thinking about American citizenship and democracy. And as a result of that, got elected.
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The Republicans are no longer the party of Lincoln. They are the party of Trump now.