Donald Trump was already in the classroom when Brown vs. Board of Education desegregated schools in 1954. He was about 30 before women were able to obtain their own credit cards, in his 40s before a Black man led a Fortune 500 company, and in his 60s before the election of President Obama.
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LZ Granderson
LZ Granderson writes about culture, politics, sports and navigating life in America.
Trump is among the eldest of the baby boomers, born in 1946.
By 2030, every person from his generation will officially be a senior citizen. That’s more than 70 million Americans who lived through the civil rights movement and women’s liberation and witnessed the last vestiges of Jim Crow die off. That’s also more than 70 million eligible for Medicare and Social Security.
These two data points might appear unrelated, but in their own ways they are driving Trump’s supporters: Many don’t…
