Trump, GOP Use White Resentment to Con Working-Class Voters

Manny Otiko
4 min readMar 18, 2019
Photo by Gage Skidmore.

It seems after watching an angry white man walk into a New Zealand mosque and slaughter 50 men, women and children, the mainstream media has finally figured out that white domestic terrorists are a major threat.

People of color have known this for a while. Several months after the Columbine school shooting, Chris Rock joked that when two young white men got onto…

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Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.