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Anti-Racism Educator Explains How Trump Appeals To Whites By 'Othering Other People'

Anti-racism educator Tim Wise explained on Sunday how presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump used "racialized scapegoating" to appeal to white voters while "othering other people." "If the only reason for Trump's support was economic anxiety then people of color should be flocking to Trump," Wise told CNN's Brian Stelter. "Because black folks, for instance, are twice as likely to be out of work as white folks, three times as likely to be poor, have 1/15 the net worth, nine years less life expectancy in large part due to economic inequality." "There's a link between the kind of economic anxiety that white folks are feeling and this larger political or racial anxiety," he said. Wise likened Trump's rhetoric to Southerners who say that "the Civil War wasn't about slavery, it's about states rights." "Yeah, but the right you were fighting for was the right to own people," he noted.

 

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