{UAH} How Trump forced an anti-racist reckoning

Caroline Mimbs Nyce Senior associate editor

Donald Trump inadvertently forced a racial reckoning in America, Ibram X. Kendi writes in our latest cover story.

When Donald Trump became the president of the United States, Americans could no longer deny the racism in their country, argues Ibram X. Kendi, a contributing writer and a preeminent thinker on anti-racism.

"Just as the 1850s paved the way for the revolution against slavery, Trump's presidency has paved the way for a revolution against racism," he writes in our latest cover story, which is worth reading in full.

Here are three major takeaways from Ibram's piece (as explained by him):

Trump revealed the country's prejudices anew.

He has held up a mirror to American society, and it has reflected back a grotesque image that many people had until now refused to see: an image not just of the racism still coursing through the country, but also of the reflex to deny that reality.

And in doing so, he inadvertently helped power an anti-racist revolution.

The America that denied its racism through the Obama years has struggled to deny its racism through the Trump years. … It has become harder, in the Trump years, to blame Black people for racial inequity and injustice.

What happens next is up to Americans.

Now that Trump has pushed a critical mass of Americans to a point where they can no longer explain away the nation's sins, the question is what those Americans will do about it.

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