Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States, whose rhetoric and policies Kendi uses as examples of racism. However, Kendi notes that Trump’s ideas and policies are so overtly racist that many people criticize them in the hopes of seeming antiracist, while continuing to hold racist ideas and support racist policies.
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Donald Trump Character Timeline in How to Be an Antiracist
The timeline below shows where the character Donald Trump appears in How to Be an Antiracist. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Racist Introduction
...leads blaming people, not policy, for racial inequities. Kendi believes that this is what Donald Trump was doing when he said that Black people are lazy and that Latinx immigrants were...
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Chapter 1: Definitions
...law, which targeted people of color, prevented 200,000 people from casting ballots in 2016. (Donald Trump won the state by just 22,748 votes.)
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Chapter 5: Ethnicity
...through 1965. At the time that Kendi was writing How to be an Antiracist, Donald Trump’s administration was trying to return to this older policy, based the racist idea that being...
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Chapter 11: Black
...like Ken Blackwell, the Ohio official who helped suppress Black votes for the Bush and Trump campaigns. The powerless defense also claims that Black people are “not racist,” which is impossible—according...
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