I'm on an email list with a bunch of connected Dems who never fail to impress, and we're all discussing #Trump's disastrous #NABJ appearance.
One of the Black contributors, an author and activist who's been published in major news outlets covering racial issues, civil rights, health care reform, and the economy, coined this, and I told him I'm stealing it:
"Unmitigated caucasity."
@GottaLaff I'm not sure it was a disaster at all. He wanted to 1. grab headlines for fueling them-vs-us racial conflict, 2. excite his base by showing how brazenly racist he's willing to be (à la asking April Ryan if the Congressional Black Caucus were friends of hers—deliberately open racism), 3. make it look like PoC with any power or influence will use it to abuse white men, 4. portray journalists as fake.
He may have accomplished exactly what he intended.
Would add that what he succeeded in doing was to get the corporate media to oblige by framing his racist remarks as a 'challenge for Harris.' This has the effect of normalizing his appalling overt racism and laying the groundwork for more overt racism as a campaign tactic.
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