The monkey went for the meat and trapped his self.
Trump may have found his self in a similar situation by gloating over the state of the current economy. An interesting stat to take note of is that the national deficit has not seen any significant reduction even in the midst of a 10 year “growth” period. This so called “growth” period took place during extremely low interest rates.
MLK’s stomping grounds was the Auburn-Boulevard-Edgewood area of Atlanta. This was a thriving black middle-class area in the 60s. If you go there now, for the most part you see mass poverty amongst the black people in that area. And for the portions that are not impoverished, they are being aggressively gentrified. This could not have been the vision for Black America that MLK saw
The reason this race is one to watch is because we are seeing this trend play out all over America. If Mary Norwood wins this election, it would be the first white mayor of Atlanta since Sam Massell which was almost 50 years ago.