Mr. Coates is an excellent writer, and I admire his work. He had an excellent series in The Atlantic on his efforts to learn French  a few years ago.

But he's missing the point here imo. "the through-line for Donald Trump's election is those folks that identify as white". And the reason these folks identify as white is because they are constantly being reminded they are white and shamed for being white. It is a vicious circle.

Obama temporarily broke that vicious cycle, unfortunately all the other Democratic SJWs keep it going.

As for "Americans will have equality only "when dopey black people get into Harvard because their chair-endowing grandfathers went there." , that only points out this is more a class issue than a race issue. White chair-endowing grandfathers are a minuscule proportion of white people, but the elite is obsessed with getting into those few elite institutions as the be-all and end-all of life. That has nothing to do with most people's lives, or racism.