Can Black People Be Friends With Trump Voters?
Thinking beyond ourselves
A good friend of mine travels a lot for work. She sells software in the automotive dealer space and covers part of the company’s southern region.
She lives in Chicago but has to travel to Dallas, Houston, Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa and a few other cities.
She loves her job, but one thing I recall her telling me about a year into Trump’s first presidency is the insane increase in ugly stares and racist comments she had to endure.
In airports. On airplanes. In restaurants and hotels. It was all noticeably more prevalent than before 45.
To be fair, it didn’t all start with Trump.
Alicia, we’ll just call her for privacy purposes, is a 5-foot-10, attractive Black female.
Like women of all backgrounds and skin tones, she has to listen to comments about her appearance from men quite frequently. Some of those comments over the years have included racial insults as well.
We all know Trump didn’t invent racism.
But after Trump, she noticed a tenfold+ increase in the number of bold white men who decided it was OK to direct ugly, racist insults her way.
