US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: Slate Magazine
Author: Dahlia Lithwick
27 Sep 2017
The ugliest line in Trump’s NFL attack.
Donald Trump’s frothing critique of Colin Kaepernick and the players, coaches, and teammates who have come to his side has garnered many revelatory reactions. Some of these responses tell us more about ourselves as Americans than do Trump’s initial description of any athlete who chooses to protest systemic racism and police brutality as being a “son of a bitch.”