<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: How Trump Forced an Anti-Racist Reckoning

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.

Read the piece.

One question, answered: How will we be able to see one another safely this winter?