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Posted: 2016-11-12T15:57:18Z | Updated: 2017-01-16T15:04:05Z Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What It Means To Be Black During A Trump Administration | HuffPost

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What It Means To Be Black During A Trump Administration

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What It Means To Be Black During A Trump Administration
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Nicholas M. Butler, the Nobel Prize-winning American philosopher, once said that optimism is the foundation of courage. Today, African Americans will have to dig pretty deep to find that foundation because there’s not much optimism in sight. Yes, we’re all supposed to come together after an election, let bygones be bygones, and march forward unified as neither Democrats nor Republicans but patriotic Americans celebrating the triumph of the democratic process. But it’s difficult to link arms when the home of the free embraces the leadership of a racist.

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