Jonathan Capehart thinks Latinos and blacks voting for Trump want to be white

Back during the 2016 campaign, I wondered what liberals would do when President Trump started making meaningful gestures toward minority voters. Of course, I should have known that they’d call him racist for it. What I didn’t anticipate was liberals effectively calling the minority voters who support the president a bunch of Uncle Toms.

That’s what liberal Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart did in a column on Monday, warning Democrats that Trump “is making a serious play for African American and Latino votes.”

Capehart wrote that “white supremacy” remains “potent” because whites in power are at times willing to bestow “whiteness upon those once excluded in order to maintain majority numbers.” He then faulted the “willingness of the once-excluded to accept the invitation to join the fold.” To add intellectual heft to that stunning statement, Capehart quoted George Mason University Professor Justin Gest, who said that “In exchange for their marginal promotion” in society, Latinos may “defer to the constructed racial hierarchy that once subordinated them.”

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