Why didn't we riot? : A black man in Trumpland / Issac J. Bailey.

Introduction: Trumpland -- White comfort more important than Black life -- The uncomfortable truth about Black men and violence -- The truth about Black people and the American dream -- The banality of White supremacy in Trumpland -- The Christian Knights and the Ku Klux Klan -- The sensible paranoia of Black people in Trumpland -- Black voters and White voters -- The never-ending quest to comfort White people in Trumpland -- Guilty even if proven innocent -- Now for the excuses.

"An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In A Black Man in Trumpland, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private life, which included an eighteen-year stint as a member of a mostly white Evangelical Christian church. This book speaks to and for the millions of black and brown people throughout the United States who were effectively pushed back to the back of the bus in the Trump era by a media that prioritized the concerns and feelings of the white working class and an administration that made white supremacists giddy, and explains why the country's fate in 2020 and beyond is largely in their hands. It will be an invaluable resource for the everyday reader, as well as political analysts, college professors and students, and political consultants and political campaigns vying for high office"-- Provided by publisher.