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Former President Donald Trump meant something very specific — and dark — when he praised Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), a prominent Black Republican, at a recent Pennsylvania rally by saying, “That one is smart. You have smart ones and then you have some that aren’t quite so good,” wrote Chauncey DeVega for an analysis in Salon published Friday. This sort of language is “quite familiar” to Black Americans, wrote DeVega about the speech, which Trump gave on Saturday. “It is a version of such white racist language and logic as ‘you are not like the other ones’ or ‘you are so articulate.’ “The underl…

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