Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that people in the United States believed the Constitution is a ruling document.
However, he says there’s “an idea underneath it” that this country must “always be a white nation.”
Glaude said, “We could talk about the empire of right. We could talk about U.S. relation to the Philippines, to Cuba. We could talk about the moment in which Teddy Roosevelt imagines a certain kind of white Anglo-Saxonism that defines U.S. foreign policy. I’m talking about the end of the 19th and 20th century. So there is this sense in which Donald Trump is harkening back to a period where the United States imagined itself as an imperial kind of force, kind of informed by its democratic principles, an ironic and contradictory sort of position.”
He continued, “And it’s also the case, I want to say this,…
