The problem was, in fact, what he said. He's gaffe prone and Trump said something worse, fine––that's to be expected. What's more disturbing is this acceptance of the idea that an ethnic identity *must be wed* to a specific politics. What other ethnic group is policed like this? https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1263871146258100229

We all want Trump out of office. But I suspect that even after his eventual removal, many, many people will still be insisting on (or willing to accept) the idea that there really is a certain politics and set of views to hold or else #YouAintBlack.

I’m also amazed that commentators like Jemele Hill don’t see how this is the exact same logic many Trump-voting whites employ, wedding their politics to an ethnic identity at any cost.

You can’t hold on to political “blackness” and advocate an end to political “whiteness”