This episode of The Dig is sponsored by our Patreon supporters and by Oxford University Press,

which publishes a lot of excellent work, including books by guests on the show, like Corey Robbins,

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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

We've now had a black president, and for two terms.

Black mayors had one office in big cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, D.C., Atlanta, San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia years earlier.

There are black CEOs and top-tier black pundits. A black man on the Supreme Court has long been amongst its most conservative members.

But putting black faces in high places, scholar Kiena Yamada Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority, it has actually harmed them by legitimating an individualistic, meritocratic narrative that blames poor black people's condition on their own personal failings.

Now, Donald Trump, who ran the most brazenly racist major party presidential campaign in memory,

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