Amira Rose Davis

Pennsylvania State University

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Amira Rose Davis is assistant professor of history and women's, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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Trump and black athletes

While white personalities knock Trump, he seems to go out of his way to attack black athletes.

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