President Obama and President-elect Trump shake hands following a meeting in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obamacare saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of black people, but Obama never mentioned that fact—his rhetoric throughout his presidency was always more “race-neutral” than not. And the Obama years also saw the resurgence of white supremacy. Kai Wright asks whether there’s a connection.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Plus: Amy Wilentz comments on Michelle Obama’s White House years—her passion and eloquence in the face of Donald Trump, and also how big food and agribusiness defeated her campaign against childhood obesity.
And Harold Meyerson examines what Democratic control of California has achieved this year, and explains the forces that have made Republicans powerless in state politics.
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