"When President Trump argued that attempts by activists to remove Confederate statues was a struggle to 'take away our culture,' it was clear the 'our' excluded large numbers of Americans. It was a noted contrast to Barack Obama's remarks at the opening of the Museum of African American History and Culture: '…African American history is not somehow separate from our larger American story, it's not the underside of the American story.' President Trump’s proud ignorance of American history needs a response—but African Americans have wrestled continuously with this problem, as they remind the nation of its darkest historical moments. "
Robert Greene II at Current Affairs discusses "Black Memory in the Age of Trump."
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