Our First Nigger-President: Trumpian Politics and the Curious Fate of White People

Following the philosophical tradition of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this rhizoanalysis of Donald Trump, white people, and the word nigger, further develops post-structural approaches to understanding race in America. Written in a so-called age of political experimentation—currently known as Trumpian politics, the author unfolds a method of cultural agronomy by examining the stolons and rhizomes of racism in America and deculming stems of whiteness that made a President Donald Trump possible to exist. “Since Donald Trump was [elected] to serve as the 45th president of the United States of America, black people have carried out our everyday lives with a profound understanding of how he is able to do the things that he does, say the things that he says, and continues to get away with it. The reason why so many black people have this profound understanding of how a nigger-president could exist, is because we have been called nigger for so long, and with each occurrence, each incident, we have gained a greater insight into why nigger is necessary for white people in the first place. In other words, as black people, we know that we are not nigger. And we know this, not because of some grand gesture from white people to dismantle the American racial hierarchy that positions black people at the bottom, but because we have never been duped to believe that we are the problem.” In this time of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has come upon the world an apodictic shift in the zeitgeist of racism in America, in which the so-called Negro Problem of these postmodern times is proving to be America’s only solution. Gone are the days in which white people can continue to be passive observers in the nigger galleries of racial injustice in America. Now is the time for white people to opt for pluralism over individuality, empathy over apathy, and most important, humanness over whiteness. An analysis of Trumpian politics that lays bare the contradictions of what a president of the United States is and how one comes to function in ways that is a loss to every American. Read more