Letters: ‘The Inherent Nature of White Supremacy Demands We Be Exemplary’
Readers debate the meaning of the Obamas’ “going high.”
Sometimes I Wish the Obamas Wouldn’t ‘Go High’
After the Obamas shook hands with the Trumps at George H. W. Bush’s funeral earlier this month, Jemele Hill analyzed the implications of the phrase Michelle Obama coined in 2016: When they go low, we go high. “I sometimes wonder,” Hill wrote, “if the people who often cite that quote have a full understanding of the emotional toll it takes on people of color to have to constantly absolve the racism directed at them.”
Jemele Hill’s column on the Obama family’s class in dealing with Donald Trump at former President George H. W. Bush’s funeral is, and will remain, a
