“Foxes and wolves belong to the same family—I think it’s called canine. And the difference is that the wolf when he shows you his teeth, you know that he’s your enemy; and the fox, when he shows you his teeth, he appears to be smiling. But no matter which of them you go with, you end up in the dog house“
Malcolm X
As the dust finally settles on the US election there has been a collective sigh of relief that Joe Biden emerged victorious from the wreckage. Trump was the most openly racist president in recent history, embracing White nationalists, calling for violence against protesters for racial justice, and caging Brown children at the border. None of this should have come as a surprise from the man who sought the death penalty for innocent Black teenagers in the infamous Central Park 5 case and spearheaded the campaign to prove Obama was really born in Kenya. No matter how many rappers were crazy and rich enough to drink the Kool-Aid, Trump is a vicious racist, what Malcolm would have called the ‘bloody jawed wolf’, who tries to terrorize you with his snarl.
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