believe in all kinds of positive ways, but i do think that when you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses that people have been going through, it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear. some of it justified, just misdirected. i think somebody like mr. trump is taking advantage of that. there are some people that are just stone cold racist, we know that. but there are a lot of people also who feel, and are to some degree or another, feel like they are on the losing end of the stick. there are a lot of people who rose to the bait, i would say, the encouragement of the kind of pr mastery of trump. trump made it into an us and them in black and white. there was no question that he had a self-consciousness of a past to whipping up resentment. and, on was a black president. toward the end of obama s presidency, i received an invitation to what was billed as a celebration of black music at the white house. there was bel biv
besides bradley cooper, everybody was black. it was at the end of obama s presidency, and people know it is the end. you can tell what kind of night this is. that was not john philip sousa right there. this is our final musical evening as president and first lady. i know. it s going be all right. it became very clear that this was on the one hand, a recognition of the african american contributions to american musical culture. give it up, ladies and gentlemen for de la sol! but in another sense, it was really a punctuation for what the obama s had represented in the united states for the previous eight years.