To Black Athletes, Donald Trump Is Playing the Dozens
This Time, the Age-Old Game of Exchanging Insults Will Have No Winner
President Donald Trump did not say, “Yo’ mama!” in front of a partisan Huntsville, Alabama audience. But he might as well have because that is what athletes heard directed at them.
Perhaps without even realizing it, the president had engaged in an age-old tradition of playing the dozens, the term for an African American game involving the exchange of insults before an audience. Or did he just think he’s playing the politics of distraction-as-usual, and playing to his base?
Whether he knew it or not, the bully, Trump, went after one …
