"There is a different, unsettling feel to this Black History Month. This is, of course, a result of the inescapable awareness of what is happening south of the border, "

Tell me Mr Thorne, what is happening south of the border that upsets you so? That fact that Trump is POTUS? Do you think the status of blacks or pockets of racism in America were improved under Obama? Trump is correct when he addressed black Americans with the statement "what have you got to lose"?