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Donald Trump’s Necrophilic Relationship With Dead Black Male Icons

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Dr Stacey Patton
Feb 18, 2026
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Y’all wanna see how tribute language can be propaganda? Here’s the formula: Praise → Self-defense → Self-insertion → Historical rewrite.

And the reason this formula works is simple — it relies on the one audience that can never push back. Because once someone is dead, the story stops belonging to them — and starts belonging to whoever is bold enough to …

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