The Trump era proves America never passed through its racial reckoning moment.

Evidence

Trump and his supporters have shattered any illusion that we might have passed through the moment. Some thirty years after Baldwin’s death we are still wrestling with the fact that so many Americans continue to hold the view that ours is a white nation. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 134

Categorization

• XREF: This is the reader’s central thesis-in-action: late Baldwin’s ‘we have not passed through’ is vindicated by contemporary reality.