Whitelash
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White-lash is a play of words on the term backlash, with CNN commentator Van Jones arguing it was racist white Americans that revolted against the Democratic Party and voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
President-elect Trump‘s unexpected victory on 8 November 2016 was summed up as “whitelash” by the CNN commentator, who argued that racism played in the election’s outcome:
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“This was a white-lash. This was a white-lash against a changing country, it was a white-lash against a black president, in part, and that’s the part where the pain comes.”[1] |
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