Marc Lamont Hill: Trump Twitter Fight with LaVar Ball ‘Unpresidential’ with ‘Racial Undertone’

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HILL: “It feels like a racial dog whistle. The entire time there’s an undertone of, 'You should be grateful to me,' you know, 'These uppity black people.' And this isn’t just because of LaVar Ball, it starts with the NFL where he talks about these highly paid athletes who should be grateful to be in the NFL. This discourse keeps recurring and it seems to be directed largely at black people. Let me be clear, Donald Trump is an equal opportunity jerk when it comes to celebrities. I mean, he goes after Meryl Streep, he goes after everybody. But when it comes to athletes in particular, there's a sense of 'You should be grateful.' This is narcissistic, this is arrogant, this is bizarrely unprofessional and unpresidential, but there is also racial undertone to this that's really disturbing."